General Discussion

Hey, just discovered this today while doing some research on Ezra's Eagle and found your article on it. I'm very grateful for how clearly and carefully you've laid all this information out, including references to do our own study.

I did have one thought regarding the two little feathers that are consumed by the eagle simultaneously. Esdras 11:28 states: "And I beheld, and, lo, the two that remained thought also in themselves to reign." Then, in verse 31: "And, behold, the head was turned with them that were with it, and did eat up the two feathers under the wing that would have reigned." You suggest that these two rulers being consumed simultaneously might signify two sides of a civil war or a national divorce. That may be, but there are two phrases in the verses above that make me think of another theory. They are, "thought also in themselves to reign" and "that would have reigned." This makes it sound as though the two feathers might not be rulers at all, but candidates who only hope to rule. I could see these two feathers being the Republican and Democrat parties' presidential nominees, campaigning for the next election after the second feather's term comes to an abrupt end. However, both of them end up being destroyed before the election ever occurs, perhaps while in the same location out on the campaign trail. Just some food for thought.