In today’s society where some people are frantically trying to erase America’s history, the signers of the Declaration of Independence, a document which maintained that the thirteen American states were free of British rule, clearly revealed their faith and sacrifice to ensure that this nation was founded upon Judeo-Christian principles and religious freedom.
At a time when slavery was accepted and practiced in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and throughout the world, there arose a movement against it in colonial America. One of the great intellects of our day, Dr. Thomas Sowell, who happens to be Black, has written of this, saying:
The dream of a national cathedral had its roots in the earliest days of our nation. In 1791, President George Washington commissioned architect Pierre L’Enfant to plan the nation’s capital. As part of that plan, they imagined a “great church for national purposes.”
In his latest and wildly popular book, The Oracle: The Jubilean Mysteries Unveiled, an instant New York Times’ bestseller, Jonathan Cahn draws from current events, history and the Old Testament to draw out modern-day prophecies about the nation of Israel.
Researchers from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the Israel Antiquities Authority and Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, believe they have discovered the Philistine town of Ziklag, immortalized in the biblical narrative.
This invocation was written by Jared Laskey and Jim Jenkins to be prayed by Pastor David Foote, M.Div., M.A., at a 9/11 Remembrance Ceremony in Norfolk, Virginia. David is the senior pastor of Family Bible Church in Virginia Beach, Virginia:
