Jehovah Stirring Up Our Nest (Deuteronomy 32:11-12) by Rev. Martyn McGeown
I. Disturbing Reality
II. Gracious Purpose
III. Exclusive Trust
This video includes the congregational prayer, some Psalm singing, as well as the sermon, etc.
Scripture Reading: Deuteronomy 32:1-43
Psalms: 84:1-3; 91:1-4
C. F. Keil and F. Delitzsch: “Under the figure of an eagle, which teaches its young to fly, and in doing so protects them from injury with watchful affection, Moses describes the care with which the Lord came to the relief of his people in their helplessness, and assisted them to develop their strength. This figure no doubt refers more especially to the protection and assistance of God experienced by Israel in its journey through the Arabian desert, but it must not be restricted to this. It embraces both the deliverance of Israel out of Egypt by the outstretched arm of the Lord, as we may see from a comparison with Ex. 19:4, where the Lord is said to have brought his people out of Egypt on eagles’ wings, and also the introduction into Canaan, where the Lord drove the Canaanites out from before them and destroyed them … [The eagle] soars over her young, namely, in order that, when they were attempting to fly, if any were in danger of falling through exhaustion, it might take them at once upon its powerful wings, and preserve them from harm” (The Pentateuch, vol. 3, p. 472).
Jamieson, Fausset and Brown: “This beautiful and expressive metaphor is founded on the extraordinary care and attachment which the female eagle cherishes for her young. When her newly fledged progeny are sufficiently advanced to soar in their native element, she, in their first attempts at flying, supports them on the tip of her wing, encouraging, directing, and aiding their feeble efforts to longer and sublimer flights. So did God take the most tender and powerful care of His chosen people; He carried them out of Egypt and led them through all the horrors of the wilderness to the promised inheritance” (Commentary on the Whole Bible, p. 164).