Posted on 07/04/2019 5:30:31 PM PDT by Kaslin
On the same day that the Declaration of Independence became official, a telling event further reveals that our founders understood well the “ancient principles” upon which our republic must be built. On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress appointed a committee -- consisting of Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and John Adams -- to design an official seal for the United States. Adams proposed an image of Hercules contemplating the persuasions of Virtue and Sloth.
Franklin proposed a biblical theme:
Moses standing on the Shore, and extending his Hand over the Sea, thereby causing the same to overwhelm Pharaoh who is sitting in an open Chariot, a Crown on his Head and a Sword in his hand. Rays from a Pillar of Fire in the Clouds reaching to Moses, to express that he acts by Command of the Deity. Motto: Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God.
Nineteenth Century Artistic Rendition of Franklin’s Proposed Design for the U.S. Seal
Likewise, Jefferson preferred a biblical theme. According to a letter from John Adams to his wife Abigail, Jefferson proposed:
The Children of Israel in the Wilderness, led by a Cloud by day, and a Pillar of Fire by night, and on the other Side Hengist and Horsa, the Saxon Chiefs, from whom We claim the Honour of being descended and whose Political Principles and Form of Government We have assumed.
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Indeed, and a sizable set of early Americans knew how to read, write, and speak in Greek and other ancient languages! Most especially our founders.
A prior FR thread worth visiting:
HOW COLONIAL CHURCH SERMONS LAID THE GROUNDWORK FOR THE REVOLUTION
Some highlights:
“In this drama...constitutional rights and political liberties were of secondary importance in the revolt against England. Of prime importance was the issue of spiritual destiny.”
``There is a religious continuity in American history through the Revolution, and it’s important to know that. We exaggerate the religion of the 17th-century Puritans today, and devalue the religion of the Revolution. The uprising was not just about taxes and land.’’
``In revolutionary New England...ministers continued to monopolize public communications, and the terms they most often employed to justify resistance and to instill hope emanated from the Scriptures and from New England’s enduring identity as an embattled people of the Word who were commissioned to uphold a sacred and exclusive covenant between themselves and God.’’
If the Revolution ``began in the minds of the people,’’ as founder John Adams put it, then those minds were imbued with a complex understanding of biblical history and metaphor, and of the struggle of oppressed peoples for liberty, these scholars say.
Further, the colonial ministers - the grass-roots leaders of the Revolution, according to Stout - closely identified the events leading to 1776 with the ongoing drama of God’s church and the fulfillment of a mission going back to the declaration of Puritan founder William Bradford: ``We are the Lord’s free people.’’
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3758715/posts
As I emailed a friend today, MAVA. Virtuous.
On July 4, 1837, in a speech delivered in the town of Newburyport, Massachusetts, John Quincy Adams, son of John Adams, and the sixth U.S. President, proclaimed,
Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the World, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day? Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior? Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer’s mission upon earth?
Witnessing the events of the Revolution as a boy, and no doubt hearing from his father of the raucous debates that gave us the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, and then going on to serve his country in many various capacities, John Quincy Adams saw that Christmas and Independence Day were fundamentally linked.
Christmas in July. Makes sense. Unexpected. The Founding Fathers (the wise men) were certainly tapped in to the upper worlds, so somebody really ought to run the math on that.
The Twelve Days of Christmas, also known as Twelvetide, is a festive Christian season celebrating the Nativity of Jesus. In most Western ecclesiastical traditions, "Christmas Day" is considered the "First Day of Christmas" and the Twelve Days are 25 December – 5 January, inclusive.
Definition of epiphany
1 capitalized : January 6 observed as a church festival in commemoration of the coming of the Magi as the first manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles or in the Eastern Church in commemoration of the baptism of Christ
2 : an appearance or manifestation especially of a divine being
3a(1) : a usually sudden manifestation or perception of the essential nature or meaning of something
(2) : an intuitive grasp of reality through something (such as an event) usually simple and striking
(3) : an illuminating discovery, realization, or disclosure
b : a revealing scene or moment
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John Quincy Adams saw that Christmas and Independence Day were fundamentally linked.
Thus,
25 December - 5 January converts to 4 July - 15 July, and
6 January Epiphany converts to 16 July
I suppose it doesn't get any brighter than that epiphany-wise, because July 16th was the birthday of the Atomic Age, the day of the first atomic bomb test in 1945 when the Trinity was nuked. A baptism by fire so to speak.
Also on that day in 1969, Apollo 11 launched to the Moon. So there's the dove (Columbia = "dove"). The 50th anniversary is almost upon us. People are counting the days.
These Adams men, where do you find them?
David Stockman is a never Trumper turncoat snake....going all the way back to when he backstabbed Reagan.
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