Is this just a coincidence?

In October 2025, President Trump proposed an enormous arch to be built in Washington DC for the 250th Independence Day celebration. The proposed design has a winged woman atop the arch flanked by two eagles. She is holding a torch in her right hand, and a shield in the left hand.

Last month, President Trump began seriously promoting this arch to be built. Below is a recent picture of a model of the arch (minus Trump’s name as in the above drawing).

Below is a closeup showing the details of the winged woman holding the torch in the right hand and shield in the left hand, flanked by eagles. The woman with the torch is obviously modeled after the Statue of Liberty, which welcomes to the USA those being persecuted, promising them liberty. The shield is a symbol of defensive protection on many US icons. But the wings given to her are entirely new.

The red X on map below shows the proposed site of this arch in the roundabout entrance to Arlington National Cemetery, which is also the west entrance to Arlington Memorial bridge, directly across the Potomac River from the Lincoln Memorial.

At the entrances to Arlington Cemetery are several statues of eagles, and several other eagle statues and reliefs, and many other depictions on tombstones throughout the cemetery, including a large bronze eagle atop the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The picture below is facing east across the bridge spanning Potomac River from the roundabout. The Lincoln Memorial is in the background. Note the two eagles.

The image below faces west across the roundabout proposed arch site into Arlington Cemetery.

Upon entering the cemetery, one is greeted by two more similar statues of eagles.

It is hard to deny the apparent coincidence between Trump’s proposed monument and the following Scriptures:

Luke 17:26-37 (LGV) 26 And just as occurred in the days of Noah, like this it will be also in the days of the Son of Man. 27 They were eating, they were drinking, they were giving in marriage until the day Noah entered the ark. And the flood came and destroyed them all. 28 Likewise, just as it happened in the days of Lot, they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building. 29 Yet in the day in which Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from the sky and destroyed them all. 30 It will be the same on the day the Son of Man is being revealed. 31 In that day, whoever will be on the housetop and his supplies within his house, he should not come down to collect them. And the one in the field, do not turn back to what is behind, 32 remembering Lot’s wife! 33 The one seeking to keep his soul will lose it. But the one losing it will preserve it alive. 34 I tell you, on this night two will be on one bed, the one will be received near and the other will be rejected. 35 There will be two [women] at the same place grinding meal, the one will be received near and the other will be rejected.” 37 And responding they said to Him, “Where Master?” So He said to them, “Where the body [may be], there also the eagles will gather together.”

Matthew’s account substitutes the word “corpse” where Luke has “body,” so clearly dead body is the sense.

Revelation 12:1-17 (LGV) And a great sign appeared in the sky – a woman, having been clothed with the sun, and the moon beneath her feet, and on her head a wreath of twelve stars. 2 And being with child, she cried out, travailing and laboring to give birth. 3 And another sign appeared in the sky, and look, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven crowns. 4 And his tail drags a third of the stars of the sky, and threw them to the ground. And the dragon was standing before the woman who was about to give birth, that when she should bear her child he might devour [it]. 5 And she gave birth to a male Son who is about to shepherd all the nations with a rod of iron. And her child was taken up to God and His throne. 6 And the woman escaped into the wilderness where she has a place there having been prepared from God (so that they may be nourishing her there) a thousand two hundred sixty days. 7 And there was war in the sky. Michael and his messengers fought the dragon, and the dragon fought and his messengers. 8 And they did not prevail, nor was any more room found for them in the sky. 9 And the great dragon was thrown down, the original snake called the Slanderer and the Adversary, the one deceiving the whole world. He was cast down to the ground, and his messengers were cast down with him. 10 And I heard a great voice in the sky saying; “Finally! Salvation and power and the Kingdom of our God and the authority of His Anointed has come because the Accuser of our comrades, the one accusing them before our God day and night, has been thrown down 11 and they were victorious over him through the blood of the Lamb, and through the word of their witness, and they did not love their lives until death. 12 Therefore rejoice, skies, and those dwelling in them. Alas! to the inhabitants of the land and the sea, because the Slanderer has come down to you having great anger, having known that he has a brief time.” 13 And when the dragon saw that he was thrown down to the ground, he pursued the woman who gave birth to the male [child]. 14 And two wings of a great eagle were given to the woman, so that she might fly to the wilderness to her place, where she is nourished there a time, times, and half a time from before the snake. 15 And the snake projected a current of water from his mouth after the woman that he might sweep her away with the current. 16 And the land rescued the woman. And the land opened its mouth and swallowed the current the dragon projected from its mouth. 17 And the dragon was enraged against the woman, and departed to battle with the remnants of her seed, of those who are keeping the commandments of God and holding the testimony about Jesus.

This prophecy was intended to invoke the following passage which refers to the exodus from Egypt.

Exodus 19:4 (NKJV) 4 `You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to Myself.

So what do you think? Is all of this just coincidence? Am I imagining connections were there are none? I know that confirmation bias is a real thing, so I want to hold such things as possibilities that deserve our notice, rather than claiming that such is the proper interpretation of the above Scriptures. Only time will tell.

Incidentally, the Greek words for “corpse” in Jesus’ statement (Matt. 24:28) is πτῶμα (ptOma), very similar pronunciation as the Potomac River. I know the etymology of the name of the river is uncertain, probably of Indian origin. Yet the Greek word for “river” is also similar, ποταμὸς (potamos), as was the location where John wrote Revelation, Πάτμος (Patmos). These are almost certainly just coincidences.