Notes for Book 3 (#10)

Eagles are related to time and time travel multiple times in the bible:

- The Israelites were guided through the desert on eagle's wings (Exodus 19:4), and some of their stuff did not wear out (Deuteronomy 29:5), suggesting that the temporal deterioration did not affect those things.

- Both in the book of Job and in the Gospels, (animalian?) eagles are said to gather where the slain are, suggesting that they can move very quickly, in order to be at the location of any dead person, possibly to take advantage of the death somehow. Like a Santa Claus of folklore, for eagles to be at every slain thing, wouldn't they have to be at many different places at many different times?

- Psalm 103:5. How else could someone's youth be renewed unless it was changed? The Hebrew word translated "renew" can also mean "to repair" or to "restore" but these have the same implication of changing the past, perhaps making an alternate timeline.

- David's eulogy of Saul and Jonathan. Saul's name in Hebrew was spelled exactly like Sheol. His life probably was related to Sheol. Saul and Jonathan were likely living out some of what happened/happens to Death and Hades; both pairs seemed rarely separated. David (and Son of David likely relived/relives the events somewhat of escaping from Sheol) eulogized for them, saying that they were swifter than eagles, suggesting that Sheol had/has some kind of ability to be even "faster" than time travel (of (animalian) eagles). This makes sense if death can kill people even if they travel through time or try to go back and save themselves from death and live longer than the 120 year limit mentioned in Genesis. If an evil person invents a time machine, and tries to use it to cheat death, death would have to find a way to kill them or to be "faster" than that evil time traveler in order to keep that rule of human lifespan being limited to 120 years.

- Eagles are directly related to the passage of time in Job 9:25-26. Yet in these verses, Job seems to speak about days seeming to go more quickly than how they are normally perceived.

Perhaps these verses give insight to spiritual eagles. There are spirits of animals (Ecclesiastes 3:21). So once an eagle dies, its spirit might become disembodied and therefore be a spirit of an eagle. Similarly, what I call animalian eagles (spiritual versions of eagles that can affect human behavior, possibly by being inside of a human heart or engulfed by a human, such as in example of "swallowing a camel" mentioned by Christ in the gospels (and thus also related to Toraic dietary laws)) may allow human perception this ability, in some manner.

In Ezekiel, there was a vision of something that had a face of or like an eagle. Perhaps this was a higher "dimensional" direction, with the face of the man being the direction that humans normally perceive. This is especially since Ezekiel 1:5 records that they had forms like humans, but four faces, one being like an eagle and another being like a man. And they didn't turn, so each face would constantly have been facing the same (higher "dimensional" ?) direction.

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