U.S. Constitution Acknowledges God!
Taken
From http://www.mofirst.org/
We live in a time when a government agency or
public school
is very likely to face a constitutional challenge
if it
acknowledges God, so you might be surprised to
find out that
The
United States Constitution itself acknowledges
God.
In fact, the constitution doesn't simply make
an
ambiguous reference to a generic "supreme
being”
It
honors Jesus Christ Himself,
and submits the nation it defined to Him!
“Where?”, you ask, “I've read
the entire constitution
and never noticed it.”
It's there in unabridged copies and we'll take
a look at it,
but first a quick lesson in reckoning time.
Practically every civilization has reckoned time
relative
to the the king in power during the referenced
period.
The Bible is replete with examples:
“...in the fourth year of Solomon's reign
over Israel,
in the month of Ziv which is the second month,
that he began to build the house of the Lord.”
(1Kings 6:1)
“Then work on the house of God in Jerusalem
ceased,
and it was stopped until the second year of the
reign of Darius king of Persia.” (Ezra 4:24)
This practice continues even today in many parts
of the world.
Until the post WWII Japanese constitution,
the emperor was considered a sovereign, divine
ruler.
Although Emperor Hirohito was prompted by MacArthor
to
renounce that status, the practice of reckoning
time
by the current monarch continues.
For instance, the year 2005 is officially year
17 of the
Heisei Era of the Emperor Akihito. Until 2002,
the Japanese Patent Office still used this system.
It was no different right before the founding
of the United States.
The 1774 “Declarations and Resolves”
by the Continental Congress complained of long
running
injustices from the mother country since
“thirty-fifth year of the reign of King
Henry the Eighth”.
By April 19, 1775, however, the jaded colonists
were distancing themselves from the current monarch,
King George -
that was the day of the “shot heard 'round
the world”
in Lexington, Massachusetts.
In the town square that morning the King's Major
Pitcairn
was being faced down by about 70 colonists.
He shouted,
"Disperse, ye villains Lay down your arms
in the name of
George the Sovereign King of England".
He was met with the response
"We
recognize No Sovereign but God"
and "No King but Jesus".
The clarion call of the Revolution became
“No
King but Jesus!”
The forthcoming Declaration of Independence hammered
this point home by making it clear that man's
rights did not
come from an earthly king, but that they were
"Endowed by their Creator"
with certain unalienable Rights” and that
“That to secure these rights, Governments
are instituted
among Men, deriving their just powers from the
Consent
of the Governed.
The
Founders did not claim to be totally free
from a king just free from an earthly king!
It was no coincidence that twelve years later
the document
that defined the new relationship between
the states and defined the role of their general
government
would culminate with an acknowledgment that
Jesus
was their King!
Article
VII, known as the “subscription
clause”,
says the drafting of the Constitution was
“done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent
of the
States present the Seventeenth Day of September
in the
Year of our Lord
one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven”.
In other words, 1787 years into Christ's
Reign
(since His birth) the Constitution was drafted.
(Note: The Articles of Confederation, which preceded
the Constitution, used the same terms.)
Some will claim that “that's just the way
people talked
in those days”. They are right, in part,
because it was more socially acceptable to honor
God
back then, but a look at other documents
from that era proves that spelling out “the
year of our Lord”
was not routine. Virginia's constitution,
for instance, fixed it's inception “on Monday
the sixth day of May,
one thousand seven hundred and seventy six”.
How
can anyone who understands American
history claim that it is unconstitutional for
the
state to acknowledge God when that same
Constitution declares His Son King of the Land!
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