Constitution Day 2023

In recognition and celebration of Constitution Day, September 17, 2023.

For a long time now there has been an orchestrated effort by many to remake Americas history. This attempt seems intentional with the purpose of removing all spiritual foundations to completely eliminate the deeply held idea by many that this is “One Nation Under God.”

To correct this, “We the People” must again become familiar with the foundational truths this nation was founded upon. It is expedient that we learn these truths to ensure our path for the future. If we do not remind ourselves where we came from as a nation, we will not know where we are headed. Here are a few Scriptures that can be applied to the United States of America and the path that was meant for Her to follow:

Proverbs 22:28 (NKJV): Do not remove the ancient landmark Which your fathers have set.

Psalm 11:3 (NKJV): If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?

Isaiah 58:12 (NKJV): Those from among you Shall build the old waste places; You shall raise up the foundations of many generations; And you shall be called the Repairer of the Breach, The Restorer of ^[a]Streets to Dwell In.

Proverbs 3:5-6 (NKJV): Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your path.

Psalm 119:105 (NKJV): Your Word is a lamp to my feet And a light to my path.

Psalm 33:12 (NKJV): Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord…

Proverbs 29:2 (NKJV): When the righteous ^[a]are in authority, the people rejoice;
But when a wicked man rules, the people groan.

One of the first truths we must acknowledge is that America is a Christian nation! Real history emphatically affirms this. We see this in the Biblical truths used as mission statements in every original colonial charter. Our forefathers considered the language of these charters like covenants. They believed these original charters declared that every person in the colony, and their right to exist, to establish their own laws and forms of government came directly from God. This is clearly evident in the language of the Mayflower Compact written by the Pilgrims in 1620 at Plymouth Rock.

As Americans struggled with the rightful basis in which to establish a new nation and declare independence, it was Patrick Henry and others who used the language in the original charters to argue for it! Thomas Jefferson went even farther by declaring America had the lawful right to separate from England based on “The Laws of Nature,” understood to be God’s will revealed in nature, “and of Nature’s God,” which is God’s will revealed in the Bible. These Christian principles are the bedrock that birthed this nation.

Jefferson’s draft was far from being done. In the second paragraph of the Declaration, he declares that we “are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” This is Bible covenant language used to describe the facts our Founders already knew. This God-Covenant given to all nations through Creation (Genesis 1:26-28; 9:1,7) with mankind’s God-given rights of Life, Liberty, and Property is the foundation upon which the mission statement or purpose for America stands!

On July 4, 1776, America embraced a new charter that declared to the whole world that we have been endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights. These rights for all humanity are defined in the Adamic/Noahic Covenants. However, for any of these rights to be truly lived out and enjoyed by everyone, they require protection. This is the main purpose for human government, and it is why constitutions or bylaws are drafted to protect declared mission statements of nations.

After the war it became apparent that America was about to fail under the weak government bylaws that made up the Articles of Confederation. To secure and protect the mission statement of this nation stated in the Declaration of Independence it would now require a much stronger constitution.

The Constitutional Convention of 1787, which met in a little room in Philadelphia, took months of process with extensive heated rhetoric and much debate to hammer out and draft a new set of bylaws with a Bill of Rights. The postscript of this new Constitution reads: “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 and of the Independence of the United States of America the Twelfth.”

This reference to the “Twelfth” birth date of America’s independence was not used carelessly. Our Founders believed that to try and interpret the bylaws of this new Constitution without the originating mission statement (the Declaration) was useless. When the Constitution was ratified, it was clear that these new bylaws rested on the Declaration. Without the Declaration of Independence to uphold the Constitution of the United States makes no sense.

This is demonstrated in the Constitution’s preamble that states: “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” The Constitution’s preamble gives a great summary of the principles that are rooted in the Declaration of Independence. The main purpose of America’s Constitution is to secure and defend the rights of every person that are outlined in the Declaration.