'Flying' in the Bible
Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying,So a curse without cause does not alight.
“Do not rejoice, O Philistia, all of you,Because the rod that struck you is broken;For from the serpent’s root a viper will come out,And its fruit will be a flying serpent.
The oracle concerning the beasts of the Negev.Through a land of distress and anguish,From where come lioness and lion, viper and flying serpent,They carry their riches on the backs of young donkeysAnd their treasures on camels’ humps,To a people who cannot profit them;
Like flying birds so the Lord of hosts will protect Jerusalem.He will protect and deliver it;He will pass over and rescue it.
Then I lifted up my eyes again and looked, and behold, there was a flying scroll.
And he said to me, “What do you see?” And I answered, “I see a flying scroll; its length is twenty cubits and its width ten cubits.”
The first creature was like a lion, and the second creature like a calf, and the third creature had a face like that of a man, and the fourth creature was like a flying eagle.
Then I looked, and I heard an eagle flying in midheaven, saying with a loud voice, “Woe, woe, woe to those who dwell on the earth, because of the remaining blasts of the trumpet of the three angels who are about to sound!”
And I saw another angel flying in midheaven, having an eternal gospel to preach to those who live on the earth, and to every nation and tribe and tongue and people;