“The Crows have circled and left Tel Aviv. Cultural Interpretation: Many traditions view unusual bird behavior, especially of black birds like crows or ravens, as dark omens or portents of catastrophe. Some observers linked the videos to biblical narratives (Revelation 19:17) of birds gathering before destruction. Revelation 19:17 “And I saw an angel standing in the sun, who cried in a loud voice to all the birds flying in midair, “Come, gather together for the great supper of God, 18 so that you may eat the flesh of kings, generals, and the mighty, of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all people, free and slave, great and small.”
Mapping the Sky: Roman Augury: Since the regal period of the early kings of Rome (753-509 BCE), Romans believed that the Gods sent messages to humanity that could—and should—be divined by mortals. In Cicero’s treatise on how to translate these missives, a work called De Divinatione, the late Republican orator remarked that while some diviners relied on signs from the internal realm (e.g., dream prognosticators, soothsayers), it was an ars (“skilled discipline”) and science to learn to divine the signs of the heavens as a public priest called an augur (1.12). Cicero was a part of this collegium (“association”) of public priests; experts that worked as professional diviners of the messages sent by the Gods within the plain of the sky.” https://www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2024/10/1/mapping-the-sky-roman-augury-in-the-classroom
Goldhahn, Joakim. “Bird Divinations in the Ancient World.” In Birds in the Bronze Age: A North European Perspective, 53–70. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
11 I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and wages war. 12 His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on him that no one knows but he himself. 13 He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God. 14 The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean. 15 Coming out of his mouth is a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. “He will rule them with an iron scepter.”[a] He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty. 16 On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written:
king of kings and lord of lords.
17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun, who cried in a loud voice to all the birds flying in midair, “Come, gather together for the great supper of God, 18 so that you may eat the flesh of kings, generals, and the mighty, of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all people, free and slave, great and small.”
19 Then I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to wage war against the rider on the horse and his army. 20 But the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who had performed the signs on its behalf. With these signs he had deluded those who had received the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. The two of them were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur. 21 The rest were killed with the sword coming out of the mouth of the rider on the horse, and all the birds gorged themselves on their flesh.