2 Esdras 11:7: “And I beheld, and, lo, the eagle rose upon her talons,” [Claws] “and spake to her feathers, saying,”

2 Esdras 11:8: “Watch” [Rule] “not all at once: sleep" [Rest] "every one” [Each feather] “in his own place and watch" [Rule] "by course:” At the appointed time to rule.

2 Esdras 11:9: “But let the heads” [The Three Heads] “be preserved for the last.”

2 Esdras 11:10: “And I beheld, and, lo, the voice went not out of her heads, but from the midst” [Middle] “of her” [The Eagle’s] “body.”

2 Esdras 12:23: “In his” [The Eagle/Roman Empire’s] “last days shall the most High raise up three kingdoms, and renew many things therein, and they” [The Three Heads] “shall have the dominion” [Ruler ship] “of the earth,”

2 Esdras 12:24: “And of those that dwell therein, with much oppression, above all those” [Feathers/Kings] “that were before them: therefore are they called the heads of the eagle.”