U.S. Constitution Acknowledges God!
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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