‘The “sign” is not primarily an external symbol in the sky, but a convergence of conditions: widespread departure from truth, substitution of ultimate values, performative spirituality, and systems built on those distortions. In that framework, the “eagle” represents the moment when consequences that were long in motion finally become visible and unavoidable.’ — ChatGPT
“Widespread departure from truth.” Unfortunately, in today’s world, the very institutions designed to promote and uphold truth are setting it aside in favour of blasphemous fabrication. It is not new. It goes back to early centuries AD. It goes back to destruction of the Jerusalem temple. That in turn goes back to a reaction against the workings of God. When God sent His Son into the world, He did so in holiness and truth. Yet since that time, men have sought to distort that truth, with false claims. Some do so by claiming that Jesus called himself the Most High God, in blasphemy. This was in hatred of him, leading to his crucifixion. But God raised him from the dead. Others do so by claiming Jesus actually is God. They do so in pulpits, charging congregations for the so-called service. But Jesus never claimed this, nor ever called himself the Most High God. Son of God, yes. But the Son as the one set apart for the Most High God, by the Most High God, and sent into the world. A son in this sense, and therefore divine in this sense. Not the Most High God Himself. Believers in him who hold to his teachings pray to the Father in heaven, confessing that it is this Father whose is the kingdom forever and ever, Amen. This is an acknowledgment prayed over and over that it is the Father who is uniquely the Most High God, and who gives all power to His Son, Jesus Christ. Yet, the sins continue in the house, and thus the eagle continues overhead as sign of it.
