Posted on 09/17/2001 9:17:29 AM PDT by LoneGreenEyeshade
Our National Anthem---the Other Prophetic Verses
The War of 1812 was fiercely raging when Francis Scott Key, a Washington attorney was sent to the British naval command to secure the release of a prisoner when the fleet began to bombard the placements of American fortifications in Baltimore at Fort McHenry. Key had to watch in agony, wondering if his nation could possibly withstand such a barrage.
Though the battle raged through the night, the American defenses stood firm. The sight of the flag still flying over the fort the next morning inspired the young lawyer to pen the immortal words of the Star Spangled Banner, on September 14,1814.
Though the first verse of the anthem is well known, sung at the opening of most political and sporting events, the other verses are almost entirely unknown:
O! say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming:
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,
Oer the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming,
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there:
O! say, does the star-spangled banner still wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore, dimly seen through the mist of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, oer the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam
In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream
'Tis the star-spangled banner, O! long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
And where is the band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a country would leave us no more?
Their blood has washed out their foul footstep's pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave!
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
O! thus be it ever when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the foes desolation;
Blessd with victory and peace, may our heaven-rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
THEN CONQUER WE MUST, FOR OUR CAUSE IT IS JUST
AND THIS BE OUR MOTTO "IN GOD IS OUR TRUST!"
AND THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER IN TRIUMPH SHALL WAVE
O'ER THE LAND OF THE FREE AND THE HOME OF THE BRAVE.
I also like the "TERRIBLE SWIFT SWORD" part of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic!"
Me, too! (On, mercy, I'm not acting very Christianly but that's the way I feel right now.)
LET'S PLOW, A </font color>M E R </fontI C A !!!
LOL,LGE
"There is a tide in the affairs of men. We perceive it now before us. To hesitate is to consent to our own slavery...I would infinitely rather [die] at the hand of the executioner than desert at the crisis the sacred cause of my country."
Amen.
LOL,LGE
I cannot count the times since this tragedy happened, that I wish I was of the age to be accepted to join our Armed Services. There are very few things I would be " willing" to die for and my country is surely one of them, and this is certainly one of "those times".
LOL,LGE
God grant us wisdom.
God grant us wisdom.
"There is a tide in the affairs of men. We perceive it now before us. To hesitate is to consent to our own slavery...I would infinitely rather [die] at the hand of the executioner than desert at the crisis the sacred cause of my country."
Amen and amen.
Dr. Witherspoon was such a great patriot, pastor, and scholar . . . an inspiration to all of us.
God bless us all!
LOL,LGE
However that’s not the end of it. American guerillas never give up, and eventually, divine intervention strengthens their hand, breaking the occupation and bringing victory. These prophecies are all over the internet, you can read them elsewhere. Interestingly, Red Dawn (1984) was supposedly based in part on one of them, which leads some folks to call this coming conflict, the “Red Dawn War”.
Anyway....without further adieu...
STAR SPANGLED BANNER — PROPHECY VERSE
- Inspired by the war prophecies of George Washington, Sarah Hoffman, Chuck Youngbrandt et al.
- Not to be sung publicly til after the war...
Oh say can you see, by the savage red dawn,
The long-prophesied war, and our land’s devastation?
For God’s judgement is just, yet His mercy lives on,
In the remnant preserved, for restoring the nation.
With our government gone, our guerillas fought on
And victory came, when the Lord made them strong
And the star spangled banner, by God’s grace shall wave,
O’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave.
Print it out, save it in your survival stash, just in case....
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