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15) Ezra's Eagle
The Black Swan Rising Podcast
A fierce eagle with twelve wings and three hidden heads rises from the sea, rules the world, splinters, and falls under judgment. That’s the haunting vision in 2 Esdras 11–12—and it may be the clearest map for understanding modern power, America’s role, and why deception in the last days will feel both irresistible and inevitable. We read the text closely, follow the angel’s own interpretation, and connect the trail of symbols across Daniel 2 and 7 and Revelation 13 and 19 to surface a consistent storyline: a dominant fourth kingdom, iron-strong yet fissured, animated by mystery and conspiracy until its hidden heads move from the shadows into open rule.
I walk you through the timing markers that matter. The second great ruler who outlasts the rest aligns with FDR’s four elections, staking the sequence in real history. From there, “great strivings” and a near-collapse appear, a moment that echoes Joseph Smith’s warning about the Constitution on the brink. The short feathers—abrupt or constrained administrations—flag the midpoint and the entry ramp to an unprecedented transition when three heads “renew many things.” That renewal likely feels like wonder: disclosures that rewrite assumptions, ancient knowledge brought to the surface, narratives that reframe time and law. And that is the trap. Revelation cautions that a blasphemous mouth dazzles the world, wages war for forty-two months, and brands allegiance with power over buying and selling.
We also tackle the question everyone asks: who are the heads? The text itself settles identities by events, not guesses—the great head dies in bed with pain; the others devour and are devoured; the final two are judged alive. Rather than pin names, we track structures: when covert power becomes overt, when pageantry of “renewal” distracts from seizure of control, when the nation totters yet does not fall. The practical charge is simple and hard: cultivate spiritual discernment, strengthen temporal basics, and ground your hope in Christ, not personalities or timelines. If even the elect can be deceived, the antidote is not sharper speculation but a steadier spirit.
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They that seek shall find
