America – “The ___________”
– How the early settlers and
our Founding Fathers
saw America…

After the Pattern of _____
As America’s forerunners embraced the God of the Bible – they identified with the people of the Bible and the covenant at Sinai.

They saw themselves as…
-- A literal ___________of the Biblical drama of the Hebrew Nation.
-- The children of Israel; America was their ________ _____…the pact of Plymouth Rock was _____ ________.
-- A people chosen to build their new commonwealth in the Covenant entered into at _____.

The Pilgrim’s celebrations of ___________ came from the Old Testament Feast of Tabernacles.

The earliest legislation of the New England colonies was influenced by the ______ Scriptures.

America’s first colleges; Harvard, Yale, Princeton established to train ministers of _____ _____.

The ____ ____ of the United States had the motto, “Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.”

The Nation and Its ____…

God ruled through His ____, with no earthly king above His Word and therefore above Him.

Fifteen thousand pieces of late-eighteenth-century American political literature found that the ____ was cited far more than any other writing.

Andrew Jackson – The Word of God is “the rock on which our Republic rests.”
Abraham Lincoln – Made numerous positive references to God and the Bible throughout his presidency and spoke of the judgment of God upon the nation.
Harry Truman – Noted, “The fundamental basis for this nation’s laws was given to Moses on the Mount.”

As America sought to fulfill this vision of a “city on a hill” and a “light to the nations”…

-- By the end of the 18th century it had won independence from ________
-- By the close of the 19th century the U.S. spanned an entire continent – Atlantic ==> Pacific
-- In the 20th Century the U.S. became the most powerful nation – economically/militarily

-- The _____ – The warnings of America’s forerunners and a former president…”milestones”

-- America’s historic churches embrace radical skepticism - doubt the Bible as God’s Word
-- 1963 The U.S. Supreme Court banned public prayer in school ==> God out of public life
-- As respect for God’s Word declined, so did American culture…
-- 1973 U.S. Supreme court decreed “abortion on demand” to be the law of the land…
-- What happened to ancient ______ is now happening in America…
-- Without __________, revival and restoration, America risks a similar fate…_________