The Great Celebration

Good evening. Welcome to Voice in the Wilderness. I'm Don Noble of Pureheart

Ministries, and I welcome you today with exceedingly abundantly and overflowing joy. Tomorrow

is fourth of July, so tonight's message is the Great Celebration, and I'm

actually going to be sharing an article written by Bill Fetterer. I talked about

Bill a couple of weeks ago. He's a great Christian historian, and this

man gets facts that nobody has. So I'm excited to share with you what

he has to say about this great day called fourth of July, because the

Declaration of Independence was signed that day. So here we go, and he

starts that the greatest revolution that has ever taken place in the world's history was

the American Revolution, says Ronald Reagan, thirty eight year old King George the

Third ruled the largest empire that planet Earth had ever seen at that time.

The Declaration of Independence, signed July fourth, seventeen seventy six, listed twenty

seven reasons why Americans declared their independence from the King, and so I'm going

to read those. The King George the Third, has made judges dependent on

his will alone. He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent

hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance. He

has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies to subject us

to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitute, tuition, for quartering large bodies of

armed troops among us, for imposing taxes on us without our consent, for

depriving us, in many cases of the benefit of trial by jury, for

establishing an arbitrary government, for altering fundamentally the forms of our governments. George

the third has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns,

and destroyed the lives of our people. He is at this time transporting large

armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation, and tyranny.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on

the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare

is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes, and conditions. Thirty three

year old Thomas Jefferson's original rough draft of the declaration contained a line condemning slavery,

as the King of England was part owner of the Royal African Company,

and he says he has waged cruel war against human nature itself and in the

persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into

slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation, thither

suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce, determining to

keep open a market where men should be bought and sold. Unfortunately, a

few delegates from Southern states objected to this line. Since everyone was in a

panic as the British were invading New York and the city was in flames,

and since the declaration needed to pass unanimously, the line in Jefferson's original draft

condemning slavery was tragically set aside. John Hancock, the thirty nine year old

President of the Continental Congress, signed the declaration first, reportedly saying the price

on my head has just doubled. Next to sign was Secretary Charles Thompson,

age forty seven. Seventy year old Benjamin Franklin said we must hang together,

or most assuredly we shall hang separately. The declaration referred to God, said

the laws of Nature and of Nature's God. And it said all men are

created equal, but they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.

Appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rec atitude of our intentions

and for the support of this declaration. With a firm reliance on the protection

of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes,

and our sacred honor. This was revolutionary, as kings did not believe

everyone was created equal. Oh, they believed that they were created extra special.

Their belief was called the divine right of kings, namely that the Creator

gave rights to the King and dispensed them, and he dispensed them at his

discretion to whoever he wished. The Declaration of Independence bypassed the King, declaring

that the Creator gives rights directly to each individual person. Many of the fifty

six signers sacrifice their prosperity for their posterity, and a couple weeks ago I

talked about that word posterity, which means future generations. So these fifty six

men sacrificed their prosperity, their livelihood, their futures for future generations, and

that's you and I. Of the signers, eleven had their homes destroyed,

five were hunted and captured, seventeen served in the military, and nine died

during the war. Twenty seven year old George Walton signed and at the Battle

of Savannah, was wounded and captured. Signers Edward Rutledge, age twenty seven,

Thomas Hayward Junior, age thirty, and Arthur Middleton, aged thirty four

were made prisoners at the Siege of Charleston. Thirty eight year old signer Thomas

Nelson had his home used as British headquarters during the Siege of Yorktown now Sun

reportedly offered five guineas to the first man to hit his house. Signer Carter

Braxton, age forty, lost his fortune during the war. Forty two year

old signer Thomas McKean wrote that he was hunted like a fox by the enemy,

compelled to remove my family five times in three months. Forty six year

old Richards stocked and signed and was dragged from his bed at night and jailed.

Fifty year old signer Lewis Morris had his home taken and used as a

barracks. Fifty year old signer Abraham Clark had two sons tortured and imprisoned on

the British starving ship Jersey. More Americans died on British starving ships then died

in battle during the Revolution. That is hard to believe. Fifty three year

old signer Reverend John Witherspoon had his son James killed in the Battle of Germantown.

Sixty year old signer Philip Livingston lost several properties to British occupation and died

before the war ended. Sixty three year old signer Francis Lewis found out that

the British plundered his home and carried away his wife, Elizabeth, putting her

in prison. The British wanted to make an example of her, so they

denied her a change of clothes, a bed, and gave her nothing but

the most meager food. She was treated so harshly that she died shortly after

being released. Sixty five year old signer John Hart had he's home looted and

had to remain in hiding, dying before the war ended. Forty one year

old John Adams wrote to his wife Abigail, of the declaration and said this.

He said, I'm apt to believe that it will be cellible rated by

succeeding generations as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated as the

day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought

to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports,

guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the

other, from this time forward, forevermore goofstamp Demoumont, a contemporary of Alexis

to Tookefille, wrote in eighteen thirty five, he said, I have seen

a meeting of the Senate in Washington open with a prayer, And the anniversary

festival of the Declaration of Independence consists in the United States of an entirely religious

ceremony. John Adams continued in his letter to his wife Abigail, and said,

you will think me transported with enthusiasm, But I am not. I

am well aware of the toil and blood and treasure that it will cost us

to maintain this declaration and support and defend these states. Yet through all the

gloom I can see rays of ravishing light and glory. I can see that

the end is more than worth all the means, and that posterity while triumph

in that day's transaction, Even although we should rue it, which I trust

in God, we shall not. When fifty four year old Samuel Adams signed

the Declaration, he said, we have this day restored the sovereign to whom

all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven, and from the

rising to the setting of the sun, let his kingdom come. Thirty four

year old James Wilson signed the Declaration. He later signed the Constitution and was

appointed to Supreme Court by George Washington. James Wilson stated in seventeen eighty seven

he said, after a period of six thousand years since creation, the United

States exhibit to the world the first instance of a nation assembling voluntarily and deciding

that system of government under which they and their posterity should live. Senator Daniel

Webster stated in eighteen o two he said, miracles do not cluster, and

what has happened once in six and years may not happen again. Hold on

to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be

anarchy throughout the world. I want to stop right there, because truer words

were never spoken. We have a regime in Washington. We have a regime

in the White House. They are determined to destroy the Constitution. The DOJ,

the FBI, the CI they are these people are determined to destroy our

constitution. And look what he says. He said, hold onto it,

he said, because if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy

throughout the world. Hello, people, get a grip. John j was

President of the Continental Congress seventeen seventy eight through seventeen seventy nine and later nominated

by George Washington to be the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. John

Jay wrote this in seventeen seventy seven. He said, the Americans are the

first people whom Heaven has favored with an opportunity of choosing the forms of government

under which they should live. All other constitutions have derived their existence from violence

or accidental circumstances. He said, your lives, your liberties, your property

will be at the disposal only of your creator and yourselves. Yale President Ezra

Styles seventeen eighty eight said this. He said, all forms of civil polity

have been tried by mankind except one, and that seems to have been reserved

in providence to be realized. In America. At the time of the revolutionary

warrant, nearly every other country on Earth was ruled by a king. Doctor

pat Robertson wrote in America's Dates with Destiny nineteen eighty six. He sat on

September seventeen, seventeen eighty seven, the day our Constitution was signed. The

absolute monarch Chien Long, Emperor of the Manchu dynasty, reigned supreme over the

people of China. Revolts were put down by ruthless military force. In Japan,

the shogun warriors of the corrupt Tokugawa Chamberlain Tanuma Atsikutsu exercised corrupt and totalitarian

authority over the Japanese. In India, Warren Hastings, the British governor of

Bengal, had successfully defeated the influence of the fragmented Mogul dynasties that ruled India

since sixteen hundred. Catherine the Second was the enlightened despot of all the Russias.

Joseph the Second was the Emperor of Austria, Bohemia and Hungary for almost

half a century. Frederick the Great had ruled Prussia, and Louis the sixteenth

sat uneasily on his throne in France just years away from revolution, a bloody

experiment in democracy and the new tyranny of Napoleon Bonaparte. A kind of constitutional

government had been created in the Netherlands in fifteen seventy seventy nine by the Protestant

Union of Utrech, but that constitution was really a loose federation of the northern

provinces provinces for a defense against Catholic Spain. What was happening in America had

no real precedent, even as far back as the City States of Greece.

The only real president was established thousands of years before by the tribes of Israel

in the Covenant with God and with each other. Ooh, isn't that a

good piece of information? President Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt stated in nineteen o three.

He said, in no other place, and at no other time, has

the experiment of government of the people, by the people for the people been

tried on so vast a scale as here in our own country. And I

say amen. President Calvin Coolidge stated in nineteen twenty four. The history of

government on this earth has been almost entirely rule of force, held in the

hands of a few. Under our constitution, America committed itself to power in

the hands of the people. And I might say that that doesn't seem to

be the case today in this land. Under the regime that is ruling in

the White House. A king has subjects who are subjected to his will.

The word citizen is Greek, and it means a co ruler, a co

regent, a co king. America's founders, for all their faults, gave

a present to all future citizens. Namely, each person gets to be king

of their own life, and all citizens together are the co kings of the

country. So we receive a present. We received an incredible present, but

it is being ripped to shreds as we speak. A republic where the people

are king ruling through representatives. America is a republic where we the people get

to rule ourselves. I wish that were so. I wish that were so.

When someone protests the flag, what are they effectively saying is that they

no longer want to be king. They want someone else to rule their life.

President Ford stated in Rock Hill South Carolina, October nineteenth, nineteen seventy

four. He said, what they don't tell us when they propose all these

benefits that they are going to give you from our government, is that a

government big enough to give us everything we want is a government big enough to

take from us every thing we have. Oh my goodness, let me repeat

that so you hear it again. President Ford said this in nineteen seventy four.

He said, a government big enough to give us everything we want is

a government big enough to take from us everything we have. Ronald Reagan opened

the Ashbrook Center in Ashelin a High nineteen eighty three. He said this from

their own harsh experience with intrusive, overbearing government, the Founding Fathers made a

great breakthrough in political understanding. They understood that it is the excesses of government,

the will to power of one man over another, that has been a

principal source of injustice and human suffering through the ages. Reagan continued, the

Founding Fathers understood that only by making government the servant, not the master,

only by positing sovereignty in the people and not the state, can we hope

to protect freedom. In seventeen seventy six, the source of government excess was

the crown's abuse of power and its attempt to suffocate the colonists with its overbearing

demands. In our own day, the danger of too much state power has

taken a subtler, but no less dangerous form. True words, John Adams

wrote in his notes on a dissertation on Canon and Feudal Law in seventeen sixty

five, that's a long time ago, folks, He said, I always

consider the settlement of America as the opening of a grand scheme and design in

Providence for the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.

Do you understand what he's saying there? He sang that he saw that having

America become America was just the beginning of freeing people all over the world.

In other words, we're the city on the hill. We are the one

who has brought freedom and life to other nations. John Jay noted in seventeen

seventy seven he said, this glorious revolution distinguished by so many marks of the

divine favor and interposition, and I may say miraculous that when future ages shall

read its history, they will be tempted to consider a great part of it

as fabulous. The many remarkable events by which our wants have been supplied and

our enemies repelled, are such strong and striking proofs of the interposition of Heaven,

that our having been hitherto delivered from the threatened bondage of Britain, aught

like the emancipation of the Jews from Egyptian servitude. Franklin Roosevelt stated in nineteen

thirty nine. He said, rulers increased their power over the common men.

The seamen they sent to find gold found instead the way of escape for the

common man from those rulers. What they found over the western horizon was not

the silken jewels of Cathay, but mankind's second chance, a chance to create

a new world after he had almost spoiled an old one. The Almighty seems

purposely to have withheld that second chance until the time when men would most need

and appreciate liberty. Ronald Reagan stated in nineteen sixty one, in this country

of ours took place the greatest revolution that has ever taken place in the world

history. In the world's history, every other revolution simply exchanged one set a

ruler's for another. Here, for the first time, in all the thousands

of years of man's relation to man, the Founding Fathers established the idea that

you and I had within ourselves the God given right and ability to determine our

own destiny. Donald Trump stated at July third, twenty twenty, each of

you lives in the most magnificent country in the world. In the history of

the world. Our founders launched not only a revolution in government, but a

revolution in the pursuit of justice, equality, liberty, and prosperity. No

nation has done more to advance the human condition than the United States of America,

and no people have done more to promote human progress than the citizens of

our great nation. It was all made possible by the courage of fifty six

patriots who gathered in Philadelphia two hundred and forty four years ago and now today

would be two hundred and forty seven years ago, and signed the Declaration of

Independence. They enshrined a divine truth that changed the world forever when they said

all men are created equal. Our founders boldly declared that we are all endowed

with the same divine rights given to us by our creator in Heaven, and

that which God has given us, we will allow no one ever to take

away. Ever, he continued, and yet there is a growing danger that

threatens every blessing our ancestors fought so hard for, struggled they bled to secure.

Our nation is witnessing a merciless campaign to wipe out our history, defame

our heroes, erase our values, and indoctrinate our children. Angry mobs are

trying to tear down statues of our founders, deface our most sacred memorials,

and leash a wave of violent crime in our cities. Many of these people

have no idea why they are doing this, but some know exactly what they

are doing. One of their political weapons is cancel culture, driving people from

their jobs, shaming dissenters, and demanding total submission from anyone who disagrees.

This is the very definition of totalitarianism, and it is completely alien, completely

alien to our culture and our values, and it absolutely has no place in

the United States of America. And he said, we will expose this dangerous

movement, protect our nation's children and this racial radical assault, and preserve our

beloved American way of life in our schools, our newsrooms, even our corporate

bedrooms. There is a new far left fascism that demands absolute allegiance. If

you don't speak its language, perform its rituals, recite its mantras, and

follow its commandments, then you will be censored, banished, blacklisted, persecuted,

and punished. Make no mistake, This left wing cultural revolution is designed

to overthrow the American Revolution. And so will I will just conclude here because

his comments went on and on and on, wonderful comments, and so we

want to preserve our nation, ladies and gentlemen, we must get on our

knees and pray. We have one chance, one more chance, and that's

coming up in November twenty twenty four. But don't wait till November of twenty

twenty four. Start praying now. Well. Happy fourth of July, enjoy

your day, be safe, love your family. This is Don Noble.

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