The final Independence day

The final Independence Day

Something like thirty centuries ago a man named Moses, anyone ever heard of him, fought for his people’s independence from the Egyptian government that was placing hardships on his people. You know, killing new born male babies and forcing slaves to build more and more buildings, cities and pyramids with less and less material that they had to provide themselves! If you aren’t familiar with the story rent or buy the great movie The Ten Commandments. (Or just read the book of Exodus, right behind Genesis, in your bible, assuming you know where you put it last!) Moses was aroused to action by God, you know, a guy some Americans believe is some mythical figure in the sky, to free his nation, the people of Israel. How many mythical figures do you know that can persuade million of slaves to follow them through the dessert to a promised land? Well there have been false prophets arise over the years but where are their followers three thousand years later?

And we celebrate yearly that day of independence, first as the Passover, the night when the angel of God passed over Egypt, killing its firstborn child, calf, colt, kitten, puppy, piglet at the same time passing over Israel protectively sparing every living thing. Then latter, a few millennia ago as Easter, the day God in the persona of Christ died on a cross for our freedom from the tyranny of Satan, the prince of the power of the air, the prince of darkness. You know, that other mythical figure that has enslaved us with drugs, delusions, and addictions, making us build more and more webs of entanglement with less and less resources. People at the start of these events set a day aside yearly to remember what God has done for them and us. People who witnessed the actual events and passed the stories, not fables, down to us, people who didn’t believe God was a mythical figure because they saw him in action, felt his breath on their necks, touched his wounds!

Fast forward to the American Revolution where several men heard the call of God. Our God given rights to freedom were once again being slowly removed by another country that was binding us with the yoke of slavery. During the American Revolution the battle cry was, “No King but King Jesus!” and the biggest campaigns for enlistment in the army were done in the pulpits. Preacher after preacher preached “there is a time to preach and a time to fight.” Pastor John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg preached such a sermon; pulled off his clerical robes to reveal his revolutionary army officer uniform and marched off to join General Washington. It’s not a crime for Christians to fight for freedom, the banner of Christ and Old Glory can wave together in harmony!

People could be recruited for the fight for freedom in church because our founding fathers attended it regularly. In fact in 1665 the New York legislature ordered that a church be built in each parish capable of holding 200 people. Our nation was built on Christian principles, the bible was the text book of school children and after the revolution Congress opened (and still does) with the prayers of a paid chaplain. On May 1, 1789 Reverend William Linn was the first paid minister to the House of Representatives, earning a salary of $500 from the federal treasury. How our fathers interpretated separation of church and state eludes me, but somehow they still expected this nation to have God as its ruler, it’s King. Warren Earl Burger, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from 1969 to 1986 said, “The men who wrote the first amendment religion clause did not view paid legislative chaplains and opening prayers as a violation of that amendment…the practice of opening sessions with prayer has continued without interruption ever since that early session of Congress.”

Our fight for independence was guided by God and God was very much a supporter of our independence as he was very often consulted by those who died for our independence; by educated men who feared and revered God and his principles, men who ran our country. George Washington was frequently seen on his knees (no, not by me!) praying for God’s guidance and many presidents since quoted God or referred to God in their speeches without shame or apology, in this country on public airwaves or in print for all to hear or read. When presidents are inaugurated they place their hands on a favorite bible verse for crying out loud, because they believe in the word of God and if they don’t, well God help them! Are we to believe our country was founded by a group of delusional men who died for a mythical figure and encouraged hundreds of young men and women to die by their sides! Was our country’s freedom won on a hoax! I think not, but then again, I’ve been accused of being delusional because I believe in God!

“Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers,” John Jay, first Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

Now we are fighting another war for freedom. The freedom to be Christians on Christian soil! Crosses are removed or stolen from public places and hidden, the Ten Commandments are prohibited to be displayed, (mostly because so many Americans violate every one of them daily), prayers aren’t allowed at public functions, we can’t use the word Christmas in December, and on and on the list goes.

It won’t be long now before the argument of whether God is a mythical figure will be resolved. A final war will be fought one day (it will be pretty one-sided actually) and the losers will lose big time! That mythical being will reveal himself to the atheist, agnostic, Satanist, wiccan, and all others who have enjoyed the freedom to be wrong bought for them by the blood of Judeo/Christian martyrs centuries ago, and the battle cry, “No King but King Jesus” will be realized. I can’t wait to be there to see the enlightened faces of those misinformed Americans who are trying so hard to remove God from this land as I cry, “No King but King Jesus! No King but King Jesus! No King but King Jesus!” On that day the shoe will be on the other foot as we see who gets removed from the land! Then they will get to meet that other mythical creature, Satan, now reduced to their level of torment and anguish, and wonder how they let him deceive them! So sorry, so sad, too bad! But hey, Congratulations, now you won’t have to put up with God and his symbols any more.

Gen 1:27
Exodus
John 12:31
Rom 2:12-16
Gal. 5:1
Eph. 2:2
Rev. 1: 7
Revelation 11:15
Rev 20:14-15