1. An eagle’s nest is used for many years; through the years the eagle may enlarge the nest up to six feet high and five feet wide. The White Eagle, the Lord Jesus, shares His nest, which is on a rocky ledge on a mountain height, with those who are learning to fly with Him in Spirit. Spiritually, His nest represents a place of rest, quietness, and intimacy with Him (Ps. 31:20; 63:7; 91:1-2, 4, 9, 14). This is a place where one learns to trust Him as God’s everything, and so as one’s everything (Col 3:11; John 3:35).

2. The paper doll Christians copy one another by using standardized methods of ministry employed in the church, or they attempt to reproduce the kind of ministry that was effective in the life of a famous minister of the past. They may try to duplicate the conditions that brought revival at another location. This use of patterns and formulas is actually a form of divination (a method of obtaining results in the spiritual realm without God’s help), which He will not tolerate. Satan will often supply some of his limited power to this occult practice to advance his evil purposes. The false prophets in the Old Testament would repeat each other’s words or pronounce prophecies that God had not given them (Jer. 14:14; 23:30; Ezek. 22:28).

The Pharisees obeyed complicated rules and rituals of behavior, but their reverence for God consisted of tradition learned by rote (Isa. 29:13). The Lord refused to copy both the customs of the Pharisees and the God-inspired fasting of John the Baptist (Luke 5:33). He listened and watched for His Father’s instructions moment by moment (John 5:19-20, 30).

3. This kind of Christian is rare. This disciple “hates his [soul] life [mind, emotions and will] in this world” so that he may have the soul life of Christ forever (John 12:25). He is not at home on Earth (2 Cor. 5:8; Phil 1:23), for he cannot be satisfied by anything in this present world system (1 John 2:15; 17; 5:29). He desires only to feed upon the Lord Jesus as the hand of the Father shares His Son with him by the Spirit (Hos. 11:4; Ps. 78:23-25; John 6:32-35, 57).

Jesus’s food is to please and honor His Father in everything (John 4:32, 34; 8:29). Jesus alone nourishes the Father (Lev. 21:6; Num. 28:2; Ezek. 44:7). As His Son is the true bread and drink (John 6:51, 55) Jesus alone sustains such a Christian. In time, this kind of believer will be perfected into oneness with the Son and the Father so that he is, acts and looks like Jesus who is formed within him (John 17:21, 23; Gal. 4:19; 2 Cor. 4:10-12).

4. The lofty eagle flies alone or with his mate, soaring effortlessly on the thermal currents; he builds his nest as high as possible. He has binocular vision, a symbol of the believer whose spiritual eyes, Christ the great Eagle, has opened (Matt. 13:16-17; Eph. 1:18-19). This Christian is at home in the godly spiritual world (1 Cor. 2:9-10; Phil. 3:20). He “[seeks] the things above, where Christ is,” setting his mind upon the things of God (Col. 3:1-2).
The gift of the Holy Spirit enables the Spirit to bear witness of Christ in the saint (John 15:26), first to God the Father (Acts 2:3-4; 1 Cor. 14:2) and then to others (Acts 2:5, 9-11; 1:8).