In the days leading up to the gathering of the Esther Call to pray on the Mall in DC in the fall of last year, this vision came to my heart and mind during prayer – a vision of the Lord as an eagle stirring up its nest and taking hold of America. It was a vision born from Deuteronomy chapter 32, verses 11-12 which describes this very scene occurring amongst Israel in the days of Moses: “Like an eagle that stirs up its nest, that flutters over its young, spreading out its wings, catching them, bearing them on its pinions, the Lord alone guided him, no foreign God was with him.” 
And now just like the Israelites during the time of Moses, America is ready to learn how to fly. For too long we have been in love with our slavery, and as the Israelites needed God to stir them up to aspire after liberty, so the Lord is carrying America out of her apathy, complacency, and delivering her from harm. As I recently painted this vision, I asked the Lord what Hebrew word He would use for this deliverance. The one He led me to both surprised and humbled me. The word He gave for his deliverance is the word “natzal.”
Natzal is actually found later in Deuteronomy chapter 32 describing the deliverance which He promises His people. The meaning of the word could not be more rich and precise. Natzal literally means to deliver, rescue or snatch away from danger. In Psalm 51:16 it is used to describe rescuing from transgressions and bloodguilt. In reading this definition I could do nothing but weep because of the mercy of the Lord, that our nation, so steeped in transgression and bloodguilt, should receive such a deliverance. 
Like Ninevah, we have well deserved His wrath, and yet because of the cries of repentance from America, we are now in the grasp of His great mercy. So be encouraged dear bride of Christ in America. Like a mother eagle, whose affection is great toward her young, the Lord has come to stir up and bear us up in an extraordinary rescue (natzal) out of Egypt (bondage) and He will bring us through the desert to the promise land and into our inheritance. 
As Deuteronomy 4:31 states: “For Adonai your God is a merciful God. He will not abandon you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers that He swore to you.”