Rising or Setting Sun?
by John Parker On the back of a $2 bill is a depiction of a room in Independence Hall in Philadelphia where the Second Continental Congress met in summer of 1776 to determine the American colonies' separation from Great Britain and ultimately to draft the Declaration of Independence. George Washington presided over the proceedings, and he sat in a chair in which was a figure of the sun. Near the end of the session, Benjamin
Franklin said that he had been looking at that figure throughout the deliberations, and now he was finally convinced that for the colonies it represented a rising and not a setting sun; he believed now that their cause would prevail. The Christian should have no fear that the Lord he service and His cause would prevail: Revelations 1:5-7, 18: To Him who loved us and washed us from our sings in His own blood, 6 and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
Behold, He is coming with clouds, and every eye will see Him, even they who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. Even so, Amen.
"I am He who lives, and was dead and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen And I have the keys of hades and of Death."
March 21, 1999
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