Vultures and Prophecy

By: Sherri B.

When you are interested in prophecy, you know the big ones - Israel becoming a nation in one day, Armies from the North (Russia) will attack Israel, the world embracing one religion, to name a few. But what always catches my eyes are the little, more unknown passages that are fulfilled without any big fare. 

Mentioned twice in the Bible, in regards to the final wars in Revelation 19 and Ezekiel 39, God speaks to the birds.

"Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and with a loud voice he called to all the birds that fly directly overhead, "Come, gather for the great supper of God, to eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave,[a] both small and great.” Revelation 19:17-18

Griffon vulture or Eurasian griffon, Gyps fulvus, an Old World vulture

Ezekiel 39 repeats this, "As for you, son of man, thus says the Lord God: Speak to the birds of every sort and to all beasts of the field, ‘Assemble and come, gather from all around to the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you, a great sacrificial feast on the mountains of Israel, and you shall eat flesh and drink blood. You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth—of rams, of lambs, and of he-goats, of bulls, all of them fat beasts of Bashan. And you shall eat fat till you are filled, and drink blood till you are drunk, at the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you.”

Knowing these scriptures, when I came across an article online a few years ago, it peaked my interested in all things, vultures. The article mentioned how Israel has set up a bird sanctuary to help build the vulture population, as they were unprotected and almost extinct. At the time, it was one of the only articles on this effort to save the vultures. Now, a quick google search of ‘vultures’ and ‘Israel’ brings up pages of articles about the effort to save vultures; the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel, Israel Nature and Parks authority, and the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo to name a few.

Vultures and buzzards and other birds of prey are back from near extinction - when the Jews left the land during the Diaspora, the land wasted away. With no trees or crops, the bird population disappeared. Now that Israel is back, and the Jew have developed the desert, the vultures are back too - with help of the efforts listed above.

Is this a sign of the time? I believe it is! Things are slowly heating up, the stage is being set. This is just one more piece of the puzzle that must be in place before the war of Armageddon. During the terrible years of Apartheid in South Africa, it was a known fact that vultures were so full from eating corpses, they couldn’t even fly up to the trees. We will see vultures unable to fly again, fat from feeding on the armies of the Anti-Christ.