In this episode of The Joe Rooz Show, Joe dives into a rich discussion on America's Christian heritage and its historical ties to the Bible. With no guest lined up, Joe takes the opportunity to engage directly with listeners, encouraging them to visit the show's website to share their thoughts, questions, and prayer requests. The episode continues a series exploring the spiritual side of the American Revolution, emphasizing the influence of Christianity on the founding fathers and pivotal historical documents like the Declaration of Independence. Joe passionately recounts the sacrifices made by the signers of the Declaration, highlighting their unwavering commitment to liberty and faith.
Joe also shares fascinating stories about the Revolutionary War, including the miraculous events that seemed to favor the American cause, such as the weather aiding strategic retreats and surprise attacks. He discusses the role of prayer and divine intervention in the war, illustrating how faith played a crucial role in the founding of the United States. The episode concludes with a heartfelt prayer for the nation, asking for divine guidance and protection, and a call to listeners to support the show through donations and engagement. Joe's deep appreciation for American history and its Christian roots shines throughout the episode, offering listeners a thought-provoking perspective on the nation's past.
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(00:01:04) Introduction and Setting the Scene
(00:02:40) Bible Study and American History
(00:06:18) The Spiritual Side of the American Revolution
(00:18:04) The Declaration of Independence
(00:29:30) The Battle of Long Island
(00:41:34) Washington's Crossing of the Delaware
(00:57:36) Turning Points in the Revolutionary War
(01:02:38) The Role of Providence in War
(01:15:49) Announcements and Closing Remarks
- Wayne Rankin
- Rosanna Rankin
- Carolina Jimenez
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And we are coming to you live tonight from the Asylum Studios, bringing you the best quality talk radio we could muster without all the bluster. Broadcasting live from the pimple on the backside of Texas. This is The Joe Ruse Show, and you are receiving this transmission at eighteen zero five hours on Sunday, July 2025. 82 degrees right now, here in the studio. 90 something degrees on the outside. Got some pretty nasty weather on the horizon here as well. Well folks, I hope that you had a great weekend so far and I hope, sincerely hope, that you made it out to church today.
It is Sunday, the Lord's day, and that's the day that we need to be in fellowship, especially in fellowship with the Lord. And I hope your pastor brought you a message that just was a real blessing to you, from the word of God that really reached your heart, really reached your soul, maybe you learned something, something maybe you didn't know or maybe forgot. Well, it is Sunday folks, and it is our bible study Sunday. And, I don't know about you, but I was kinda looking forward to, to getting into the studio tonight to do the show here. It's one of those rare studio days we don't have a guest lined up, so it's just us, which is always fun. I enjoy that immensely.
I mean, I love having our guests. It's always exciting to meet and talk to new people, and learn some things, thing or two maybe. But, it's just us, and it's a Sunday. It's a beautiful, beautiful Sunday afternoon. Now, the last couple of weeks, we've been going through, talking about American history in relation to the Bible. We started out talking about politics in the Bible. We start then we went from there. We talked about the Christians Bill of Rights, and then, last Sunday, we started up this series on America's Christian heritage. And, that's what we're gonna be continuing on with tonight. But of course, as always, before we get into the show, I'm gonna ask you to do just a couple of quick things for me. If you would, head over to our website, joeroos.com.
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And, we are we did that earlier today, and we're gonna continue to pray for her as well. And, you know, folks, it's it's it's something that we're supposed to do as believers. We're supposed to bear one another's burdens. And, one of the one of the best ways you can bear someone's burden is to pray for them. And that that's honest truth. God, you you pray for them. It's so important to get that, and to learn that lesson. And it's something that, we talked about today at church bit, not the mat not so much the the subject matter of bearing one another's burden, but prayer. Prayer is very important in the life of a believer. It's very important in the life of a Christian. And, we need to be in communication with the Lord at all times. So, so keep praying, keep talking to the Lord, and, let us know if there's anything that we can pray about for you. Also, don't forget this is a value for value show. And, you know, any any support that you can send over to us in the form of a donation is greatly, greatly appreciated.
You can check out our support page at joeruse.com/support, and you'll see all of those, ways that you could help us out with, your donations. Alright. We'll come on to the rest of it in a little bit, but right now, what I'd like to do is I'd like to continue our series on the spiritual side of the American Revolution, the spiritual side, or the, or or America's Christian heritage. And, it's unfortunately something that's never really taught anymore in public schools. And, actually, not even in a lot of the private schools either. You know, people say, you know, like, a couple of messages about the previous studies, and, you know, people like, where do you get this information from? Well, the the best way to get information about it is to is to go to the historians that were actually writing this history back in the eighteen hundreds.
They were obviously much closer to the events, and they had absolutely no political agenda to to kinda push on it or put a spin on it. You know, George Washington, as as met as well as many of the other founding fathers, are being sanitized at a lot out of a lot of American, modern history books. You know why people don't wanna talk about George? You you want the real reason? Because there's overwhelming evidence of his spirituality. There's overwhelming evidence of what a godly man he really was. Well, you know, you can't have that. Right? That's, oh, no. That's that that's, you know, that's no good at all. That won't work in this atheistic progressive society that we're trying to build here.
And so, you see what we have to do, is is we have to try to do everything that we could possibly do to eliminate a lot of these facts and personalities from that great period of time. Now I've talked about that many times, you know, I and this is no disparaging marks about the the generation that went to war in in, in the nineteen forties during World War two. Nothing about them whatsoever like this, but when people say the greatest generation, I don't think of the folks that went to war in World War two. Great generation, absolutely.
Thousand percent. Million percent. Great generation. Brave generation. But the greatest generation, in in my opinion, the greatest generation was our founding generation. Our founding fathers. That was the greatest generation. Now last week, we talked about Lexington. We talked about Concord. We talked about Bunker Hill and Breed's Hill. And, you know, those are all events that led up to the declaration of independence. And, you know, I I I I guess you could say or I suppose that most Americans, you know, heard about the declaration of independence, but very very few know anything really about it, and very few have ever even read it. And you know something, it really doesn't take very long to read. It's it's really not very long.
In fact, you know, I timed myself, and, you know, and I read it fairly slowly, you know, earlier today, this afternoon, and when I was just kinda going over my notes for tonight, and it took me about six minutes to read it. That's about that's it, you know. And I wasn't even trying to speed read, I just I just kinda went through it. Boom boom boom boom. Well, about that time, 07/04/1776 well, you know, actually, let's kinda rewind that just a little bit. Let's let's just back it up a little bit. In mid June, Thomas Jefferson, at the insistence of John Adams, who was, about eight years his senior, they began to sit down and actually frame the declaration of independence.
He worked at night, he worked during the day, constantly for two weeks, while suffering some intense and and and impossible to deal with migraine headaches during the entire time. But he labored on it, he worked on it, and when you really read that document, it is absolutely a classic. Now, you know, the only book that I believe that God inspired is your King James Bible, The word of God. That's it. That's the only one. But there are a few documents throughout history that you have to think, you know, God must have had his hand on that one. He had to have.
You know, he may not have inspired them in the way that, you know, we think of verbal inspiration of the scripture, but you gotta think, boy man, the Lord must have had some involvement. Must have been really really close to that operation right there. And I think that was the case with the declaration of independence. I also think that was the case with the with the, the constitution of The United States and and and the Magna Carta, and just a few others, you know, that have come down throughout history. You know, Thomas Jefferson said this, I do not think it is any part of my of, my charge to invent new ideas. So that really wasn't his purpose. He wasn't trying to invent anything new. He was just trying to firmly establish what was already put down in black and white.
So the declaration starts this way. Now, if you're not familiar with it, I'm just I'm gonna read to you a little bit of it. Actually, where is it? It's all the way over there out of reach. Let me go get it. Hold on. It's a good thing I decided to wear pants today. I'm kidding, I always wear pants. So I had this for, oh, years. This is, my pocket US Constitution, and and it have has a it has a copy of the Declaration of Independence as well. And, this is what I was reading earlier in in preparation for the show tonight. So let me work my way to it. So in the back here.
Alright. So again, the declaration starts out this way. Now, if you're not familiar with it, again, I'm just gonna read, the first the first few couple of sentences, of it to you. Okay? Here we go. When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's god entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
So when in the course of human events and of course, there are courses of human events. There are, or are there? It be it it goes on to say, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's god entitle them. Well, that makes perfect sense. It makes perfect sense. A decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
Now if we're gonna separate from the political bands of of Great Britain, then, you know, we're obligated to list, the reasons why. That's basically all he's saying. It's incumbent upon us to tell everyone in the world why we're separating. Well, as Congress, the Continental Congress, began to deliberate over that particular document, that parchment, and this and and this theme of separation from Great Britain. There was a great Scottish preacher by the name of John Witherspoon. Now, I I I talked to you somewhat about the president of Harvard and and some of the prayers that he offered during the revolution, and, you know, we've discussed those, last week and the week before.
This guy, Witherspoon, he was the president of Princeton. Alright? It wasn't called Princeton then, it was it was called the College of New Jersey, but today it's Princeton University. But again, I have to emphasize that most of the Ivy League schools were started for the primary purpose of training preachers. Did you know that? The primary person, the primary purses purpose of the Ivy League schools was to train preachers. Now you get philosophers and atheists. Well, doctor John Witherspoon said this, quote, this country was not only ripe for independence, but in danger of becoming rotten for lack of it. Wow.
That's some statement. That's a profound thought right there. Well, the justification for doctor Witherspoon's words became pronounced in Jefferson's writings and the declaration of independence. He went on to say this, we hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal and that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights. Alright. Now this is the second time that he mentioned god. Alright. Did you catch that? This is the second time. The the the god of nature and now by their creator. So in the opinion of the signers of the declaration of independence, who gives rights?
Who gives the rights? Not government. Not government, God. Your rights come from God. And if you allow any human entity, any human entity to assume the role or or or position of giving you your rights, you've caved in, man. You're in trouble. You're in trouble. Only a real and true bible believer comes to the conclusion that rights are granted only by God. Only a bible believer can come to that. So he goes on, certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
So it's the governed who allow the government to protect those rights. That's the job of government. Not to issue them out, it's not to take them away, but to protect them. God given rights. Alright? That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it and institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to affect their safety and happiness. Alright. Now, the the the courageous placing of blame, if if we could say it that way, where it belonged was precisely what Patrick Henry meant when he said, government is a quote, government is a compact between king and people.
Violation of the covenant by either party discharges the other of obligation. Alright. Now what's that? That's just common sense. Right? That's just common sense and legalese. If one party violates the contract, then the other party is no longer obligated to fulfill the contract. That's just basic contract law, and that's what Patrick Henry is giving them. Basic contract law. Well, you know, the Americans really wanted, at that point, they they they simply desired to to go right on living as Englishmen under the blessings of English common law, as prescribed by the British constitution.
You know, they really had no desire for for revolution, but what they were sensing, and observing, and and being victims of was, as they said, usurpations and tyranny. That that was not being put on the English people themselves, but as colonists, they were being subjected to a lot of bad things. A lot of bad things. Jefferson wrote, the history of the present king of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having indirect object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. So so, so she she winds up the indictment with this climactic announcement that these, and this is this is beautiful.
This is absolutely beautiful. Not only is it powerful, but it was poetic and it was beautifully written that these united colonies are and of a right ought to be free and independent states, that they are absolved of all allegiance to the British crown, and this the the and the the last line I just wanna put your attention to that. The last line was no less awe inspiring than the first when he said, and for the support of this declaration with the firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.
And the guys that signed it, they meant it. They meant it. And we'll talk about the price that some of them paid in just a little while. They really meant it. Now, I don't know how many you'd be able to find in Congress today that would sign anything, even remotely close to that, and mean it. They might do it for political expediency, then find some kind of a loophole to get themselves out of it, but I don't think you'd find many that would sign it outright. Well, this was all evolving in the month of June 1776.
Now, this is after Lexington. This is after Concord, Bunker Hill, Breed's Hill, you know, and and things are just kinda rolling along. They're steaming up. They're getting hot. Getting hot. So on the July, Congress began to have formal debate on Richard Henry Lee's resolution that the American states should declare their independence. Well, on that day, actually, interestingly, it it didn't take them months and weeks and years. They took care of business fairly quickly back then. You know, they weren't voting in the dark of the night either. Trust me. Nine of the 13 colonies endorsed the resolution at the initial vote. So the first vote, nine of 13 said, yep. We're in. Let's do it.
Understanding that the final vote would be taken the next day, the session ended with a dispatch from Washington that a British invasion was imminent. Now they expected that, but the word was now coming down that it that was that it was absolutely clear that, you know, what was gonna happen. So on the following day, New York, Delaware, and South Carolina made the break with Britain official. All 13 colonies on the July 2 said, alright. We affirm this declaration of independence. Now on the July 3, 9,000 British soldiers landed on New York's Staten Island. That's where I that's where I lived. And on the July 4, the declaration of independence was formally adopted.
Now that evening, the, you know, the handwritten scribblings defaced with with several corrections were all transported to a printer. Now, I don't know if if you know, but, or if somebody out there remembers, but do you do you remember the name of the printer? You remember the name of the printer? That was a guy by the name of John Dunlap. And for the document's first printing, known as the Dunlop the Dunlop Broadside. Well, congress ordered a beautiful, handsome, endorsed, embossed parchment for them to sign. That work was done by Timothy Matlak.
On the July 8, the declaration was read by Colonel John North in the courtyard of Philadelphia State House. And it and it it's significant that Samuel Adams observed and and, and and here was his observation, quote, the people seem to recognize this resolution as though it was a decree promulgated from heaven. A decree promulgated from heaven. Now with the, returned enemy fleet, they just came into New York Harbor, the British with 430 ships. Folks, 430 ships. 10 times the number they had retreated with earlier. 10 times.
So only a 115 miles away from Congress in Philadelphia, the prospect of heaven's endorsement was really welcome. So it was at that point also that that Ben Franklin allegedly said this, quote, we must be unanimous, there must be no pulling different ways, we must hang together, or most assuredly, we shall hang separately. And so they found a sense of unity. And so the signers, 56 of them in all, and I'm gonna give you a quick summary of the, of of of these 56 men. Five of them were captured by the British and tortured before they died. 12 had their homes ransacked and burned.
Two lost their sons in the war. Two had sons captured. Nine either died from war wounds or from hardships suffered in the war. Carter Braxton of Virginia, who's a wealthy trader, watched his ships being destroyed by the British Navy, and then he died impoverished. Thomas McKean had to keep himself and his family in hiding and almost lost all of his possessions. I shouldn't say almost, he did. He lost all of his possessions. The British then destroyed all the property of Francis Lewis and jailed his wife. She ended up dying a few months later. John Hancock, reported to be the richest man in America, had already proved his commitment by ordering a cannonade on occupied Boston, realizing that most of his commercial property would be destroyed.
That's commitment. Folks, that's commitment. One of the signers in in particular paid a, an extremely high price for his fidelity. He was a farmer and a congressional delegate from New Jersey known as honest John Hart. He was also sympathetic to the plight of the Baptists, having donated a portion of his land to the Baptist church in Hopewell, New Jersey. As such, Hart was prepared to go the second mile for the cause of liberty. With his farm situated on the on the enemy's highway, the document before him loomed as a personal death warrant. And despite the despite his age of nearly 60 years, he signed the declaration of independence only to immediately become an exile for his fellow countrymen.
The approaching army compelled him to leave the bedside of his dying wife and his 13 loving children so as to flee into the forest for safety. He would never see any of them again. His home, mill, crops, all of it destroyed. His children fled into the mountains themselves. His wife died from stress, and for more than a year, this this Baptist patriot lived in the swamps, in the caves. And his most civilized shelter being an outhouse that he shared with a dog. Learning of his wife's homegoing and the destruction of his property, he died from exhaustion and a broken heart.
Folks, those were the kind of people that signed the declaration of independence. It'd be difficult really to find those kinds of people today, wouldn't it? I'm not saying it's impossible, I'm just saying it's difficult. I have some more stories here, but I'm gonna save those for another time about some of these guys. But, meanwhile back in New York, on the July 12, two British officers approached the American camp under a flag of truce, and they had a letter from mister Washington. Well, Colonel Reed of the Continental Army said to the emissary, sir, we have no person in our army with that address, and he sent them back.
So, he refused to accept the dispatch. That's basically what he did. And so they sent another one entitled to George Washington Esquire. They sent it back. This time, Admiral Howe sent a verbal request asking if Washington would be willing to receive his own adjutant general. The commander agreed, and on the July 20, the meeting lasted thirty minutes, and lieutenant colonel James Patterson repeatedly addressing George Washington by the title of excellency. Now the gist of Howe's message was to the colonists was, if you repent, we'll let bygones be bygones, and we'll pardon you.
And Washington said, probably in better terms than I would have said, basically hit the road, eat a brick, you know, nuts. Very famous World War two saying, nuts to you. So now when he came down to Long Island, the the and so now we come down to Long Island with all the events, that leading up to it. The assault finally came on August the twenty second of seventeen seventy six. House generals outflank Washingtons, outnumbered troops, and they were horribly when I tell you they were horribly outnumbered, a a an unimaginable slaughter took place with America losing over a thousand.
Now here's something that very very few history books would even refer to, and and you need to know this. You need to know this because there there's a battle going on in the stratosphere that few people really understand. And only people that that have a a spiritual bent and, you know, and some comprehensions of Ephesians chapter six could even grasp it. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. And, you know, I I know you guys know the know the verses, especially you've been around here for long.
Alright? It it was at this battle at Long Island that how unleashed a new secret weapon. And that new secret weapon was was what? The new secret weapon was known as German mercenaries, Hessians. And they were being paid the equivalent of $36 a month, which in those days was a pretty pretty big sum of money. It's a pretty big pot of money. Alright. Now here's the part you probably don't know. Although George the third, King George the third of England was born in London, Both his father and grandfather had been reared in the heavily Catholic area of Hanover, Germany. The pro Vatican George the third found the Roman Catholic, Friedrich the second of Germany only too happy to help, and sent his murderous Hessians to fight against the American Protestants.
And that's the gist of it right there. You see, let's do away with these Protestants. They're controlling that new country. Now a letter from a British officer describes the butchery of these foreign agents, and he said he said this, and I quote, the Hessians and our brave highlanders gave no quarter, and it was a fine sight to see them dispatch with their bayonets after we had after we had surrendered them so that they could not resist. So basically, after they surrendered and laid down their arms, then the Germans went in and bayoneted all of them. Good Catholic folk. Right?
You see, you don't get that in your average history book today. You don't get that, but that's a fact. But, but Washington observing all of this from the heights above solemnly eulogized, quote, good God, what brave fellows I must lose this day. It broke his heart. It broke his heart. Well, he had no choice. He was in trouble. Being vastly outnumbered, he had to fall back from his makeshift fort in Brooklyn Heights, and they were in danger of being totally surrounded by admiral Howe and his troops. And if and if Howe brought his fleet up, you know, up the Hudson to to to position his fleet to position his fleet behind the Americans, then they could be absolutely annihilated in the crossfire from both directions.
And and then additional problems were, you know, many of the Irish Americans had deserted under pressure from the Catholic priest. Most people don't know this. They won't understand it. But there is lots and lots of history here. Particularly, like I said, if you go back and read the guys that that were writing about this in the eighteen hundreds, they'll tell you, you know, that they'll tell you all that information to some extent that that this was a religious war. And do you know what most wars are? Most wars are religious wars, and this one was really no exception.
No exception. If you would under If you understand what had gone on previous to that in Europe, you know that just about every war that had taken place for hundreds of years was a religious war of one kind or another. So, so how could have undoubtedly annihilated the American army had he chosen to press his advantage at that point? I am just craving water today. But do you know what Washington did? At that particular point, at that particular time? Do you know what he did? I'll tell you what he did. He rallied his officers together, not for a strategy meeting, but for a prayer meeting.
And that's what they did. They went to prayer, and an immediate retreat was ordered despite the inclement weather. Well, the paranoid how? You know, he's thinking, back to Bunker Hill. We told you about that last week, and how so many of his troops, were slaughtered at Bunker Hill. So so he's kinda, you know, he's kinda twiddling his thumbs here a little bit. He he doesn't want a repeat of that that whole mess, and and so the Lord's people are preparing for their own kind of Red Sea miracle here. There was a great historian by the name of Collins wrote this.
And and again, this was written back in the early eighteen hundreds, so it's very, very close to these events. So he said this, quote, the weather made it impossible to transport the army by boat from Long Island. A high northeast wind had been raging there for three days. Nevertheless, Washington and his officers resolved to try the night of August. When the main army started embarking, suddenly at 11PM, the wind died down. The water became very smooth. A gentle breeze sprung up from the south and southwest, which aided the boats in crossing the East River into Manhattan.
The moonlight was very bright, and the ships of the enemy were very close by, but strange as it may seem, the Patriot Army was not discovered as they made their evacuation. It was a momentous task to get 9,000 men across the river, and it was obvious the mission could not be completed before daylight. As daylight approached, a thick sea fog came rolling in and shrouded the British camp. Just think about that. Now, who would question the hand of God in intervening to save the American cause? Nah, it's probably just a coincidence. Right? Don't get too excited about this stuff. You become a nut job.
Well, as the war continued to drag on, the vastly outnumbered continental army saw God intervene with acts of nature time and time again. And I'm not gonna go through all of them, but there are really a lot of interventions there. Finally, after being chased out of New York on September, Harlem Heights on October, and even Fort Washington on the East Bank Of The Hudson River on November, the Lord once again once again did something fairly miraculous. Congress had decreed, at that point, it looked like, you know, they were losing at every stage of of of this thing. I mean, it was it was really bleak. Really, really bleak.
But Congress had decreed, they, they're just totally running out of New York here. Being totally run out of New York. And that's where the British army and navy had really just, you know, congested themselves. So do you know what they ended up doing? Congress decreed a solid day of fasting and prayer, and humiliation to implore divine intervention. And wouldn't that be refreshing to see today? The United States Congress actually, you And and we have people that are screaming about, you know, separation of church and state. Do you do you really think that these guys believe that? I don't think so.
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Start your day with coffee that actually backs what you believe. 1775coffee.com/studio. 1775coffee.com. So by this time, Washington's army was down to only about 3,000 men. That's it. Just 3,000 men, that's less than 10% of the enemy strength. So he's got 3,000 men, they've got about 30 something thousand. But Washington knew and wrote and elaborated to his officers on the idea that man's extremities are God's opportunities. And one biblical reference and story that he utilized to remind him of that is what? You gotta know. It's Gideon.
Gideon. And, let's see. And to, the person asking on Twitch if this is live, yes. This is live. So the one biblical reference, like we said, was Gideon. Now I'm sure you remember that story. They had thousands and the the the the enemy had thousands and God said that that's too many. Put them to the test. Send them home. I said the enemy, no. I'm sorry. Gideon had thousands. God said that's too many. Put them to put them to the test. Send them home. Still too many. Send them home. Now Gideon's finally got down to about 300, and the Lord said, alright. Now I can do something with 300 men because you won't get the glory.
I will. And so the Lord worked a miracle on behalf of Gideon. And what book of the Bible do you find that story in? The book of Judges. Alright. So by this point, Washington crossed the Hudson into New Jersey, and then he crossed the Delaware into Pennsylvania, and the trail of his troops could be easily traced by the blood trail in the snow. Desperate men were slaughtering cattle along the way, not just to eat, but just so they can wrap their feet in the hides. These were really desperate conditions. Desperate conditions. The British were so sure that the war was was over that General Cornwallis put all of his baggage on ship for England.
But what he didn't know was that Washington was headed for some boats himself. At 9PM on Christmas night, Washington made his immortal crossing of the Delaware River. Now, you know, we've all seen pictures of it. Well, not pictures, but paintings. You know, the one Washington standing on the bow of the ship, of the boat, and now of course it's an artist rendition, but nevertheless, you know, it's a good one. I think it's a good one. And, you know, they're they're crossing the Delaware River. Well, where are they going on Christmas night to attack the Hessian Garrison in Trenton, New Jersey? And, so once again, the Lord came through despite the horrible, horrendous weather conditions described by one soldier as fearfully cold and raw.
A loyalist Tory farmer spotted the approaching Americans, and he went running to the Hessian colonel, Johann Rall to inform him of the impending attack. Well, the Germans were celebrating Christmas. They were they were celebrating Christmas so much so to the extent that they were falling down drunk. So he was told that the commandant was too busy playing cards and drinking to be disturbed. So the frustrated Tory scribbled a note on a piece of paper and handed it to Raul's host, one Abraham Hunt, who went to the inebriated colonel and stuck it in his pocket of his vest. When the attack finally came, and the colonel sobered up enough to finally realize what was going on, he looked at the note and he said, too late.
Too late. The battle lasted ninety minutes. Washington's men killed 23 of the enemy and captured over a thousand prisoners while suffering only four wounded of his own troops. Didn't lose one. Didn't lose one. Only four wounded. Well, Trenton and, I have a whole section here that I'm gonna save for a separate lesson on on chaplains. You need you you really need to know about the chaplains. You you do because, the chaplains that were in the continental army were just used of God in such great ways, and, and and you need to know how God used them and and some of the individual stories that, that accompanied those men. But, that's gonna be a whole lesson in and of itself, and and to be honest with you, I I don't know about you, but I find that fascinating.
I find it fascinating, you know, how how how, how God used some people. And they came from a a variety of denominations, you know. About a third of them were Baptists. Some of them were Presbyterians, some of them were Congregationalists, and so on. Now now, of course, when you say those some of those denominational names, you have to understand that, you know, two hundred fifty years ago, they they they were a lot different than they are now. There was a huge difference. Well, that's gonna bring us to Valley Forge, and during the winter at Valley Forge.
And that's all Valley Forge was, a a great, horrible endurance run. And, there was one Baptist preacher that that, I have to mention briefly, and I'll tell you more stories about him another time. But, his name was John Gannell, and, he was the pastor of First Baptist Church of New York City. And he had a special and he had a profound influence on George Washington. Now in his biography, The Life of George Washington, ML Ween shares the, an unforgettable account that that a friend of the general named Potts experienced while walking through the snow at Valley Forge during the awful winter of seventeen seventy seven.
Now this Potts guy is a farmer, and he lives out in in the area, and he's walking out in the snow one night. And, and and here's the quote from m l m l wiens in his biography about George Washington. He says this, quote, treading his way across the venerable grove, he suddenly he heard the sound of a human voice which he advanced and increased on his ear. And at length became the voice of one speaking in much earnest. As he approached the spot with a cautious step, whom should he behold in a dark natural bower of ancient oaks, but the commander in chief of the American armies, on his knees, at prayer?
Motionless with with surprise, friend Potts continued on the place until the general ended his devotions, arose, and with a countenance of angelic serenity, returned to the headquarters. Potts then went home and entered his parlor, called out to his wife, Sarah, my dear Sarah, all is well. All is well. George Washington will yet prevail. When he heard the man pray, he was convinced. Alright? Now that story, of course, has also led to, you know, artist conceptions of a picture that, you know, we've all seen. You know, Washington kneeling in the woods in the snow in prayer, holding onto the reins of his horse. But and that picture was based on that story.
Well, prevail he did. Prevail he did. It wasn't too long, and spring was coming, and, Frenchman show up and, a Frenchman shows up and offers his services. His name was Gilbert Dumontier. Now, I I know that I don't speak French, so I'm hoping that I'm pronouncing it right. But, he was later known as the Marquis de Lafayette. And Lafayette introduced a lot of French troops into the equation. Then another guy came along who was a a Prussian military veteran, and his name was and be thankful you don't have a name like this. Okay? And and, I am gonna mangle it, so forgive me for this one. But his name was Baron Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustine von Steuben.
I think I got it. Okay. I think I got it. I don't know I don't I don't know what they would call him for short, maybe stubby. I don't I don't know. But, you know, he rose to no higher of a rank than major in his old country in their military, but Washington made him a major general. And he became particularly involved in training recruits. He became basically, he became a great drill instructor, great DI, because he knew how to train troops. He knew the drill. He knew what needed to be done. And, in in fact, he he called to a translator, and he and he and he said said, these men won't do what I'm telling them. Come and swear for me.
Well, it was the observation of some that that angels must have been directing the musket balls from the American rifles, testifying to the intense rain of death pouring down upon his men from the from the treetops. You see, America Americans quickly figured out that European style of warfare was just flat out stupid. Just flat out stupid. And you we talked about it last week, you know you know what it was. It's you know, you line up in a straight line, you go out about 50 yards from each other and just start shooting. I mean, that's just dumb. That's dumb.
But that's the way they did it back then. And the Americans figured that out way back at Concord. They said, well, we're not doing that anymore. So now they had snipers in trees. And here's what one British general said, general, Burgoyne. Quote, there was seldom a minute's interval of smoke in any part of our line without officers being taken off by single shot. So, basically, the order of the day was to shoot the officers. Shoot the officers. Take out leadership. Pointing to a a particular British general, the American commander Dan Morgan said to one of his best shots, quote, that gallant officer is General Frazier. I admire him, but it is necessary that he should die. Do your duty. And moments later, the general lay mortally wounded.
Now, in addition to the French entering into the equation, in addition to other foreigners like like like Germans helping, you know, not Hessian people, but, but people who immigrated to the country earlier, a number of additional recruits showed up, sharpshooting Virginia Rangers, and, Washington was blessed. Washington was blessed with all kinds of recruits from the backwoods of Pennsylvania. Now, remember, these were people that were used to making their lives with a rifle. They knew how to shoot. Now, the British were still shooting for the most part with a rifle that was affectionately known to them as Old Brown Bess.
Now, the Brown Bess, in fact, wasn't a rifle, it was a musket. Alright? There's a difference. Alright? A musket has a smooth bore. Okay? Its accuracy is not really very good, and the further you get away, the less accuracy there is. Now, a rifled gun, hence the name rifle, has rifling in the barrel, and all rifling is are grooves. Alright? Now, at first, when they first started rifling, they they would put the groove straight down the barrel. And, and and and rifling goes back as to the fifteen hundreds in Germany. German immigrants who came to America long before the revolutionary war introduced rifling to American made rifles. And then and then later they learned that, that, that that how to add spiral to the rifling, which then increased accurate accuracy.
Now, some of these guys could shoot a seven inch round target at at 250 yards. Now, in a in a model in a modern muzzleloader, you have this thing called a percussion cap with a charge, and, you know, when you squeeze the trigger, it comes down on the cap and it explodes, it ignites the powder inside the barrel and boom. Alright? It's pretty much like shooting a modern day rifle, you squeeze the trigger, bang, and that's it. And, you know, they're pretty accurate, about a 100 and at about a 150 yards, and and they're usually a 54 caliber or something like that, you know, it's it's a lot of lead, and and they are deadly.
Deadly. But that's not what these guys had. They were totally behind the curve on this deal. They were shooting something that was later known as the old Kentucky rifle, but, before that, essentially, it was it was the same rifle, was known as the Pennsylvania rifle. Alright. Now there's also a flintlock. Now I I fired a flintlock, only a couple of times, but, but the flintlock really messes with your brain. You know, and and here's why. Alright. There there's there's a little pan on the on the top that it's called a flash pan. Alright. You put the powder in the flash pan, and and and of course, you know, you put powder down the barrel, and then you put the wadding down in the ball, and you stuff it down, you know, you stuff it down against against your powder, and then, you know, so when when you squeeze the trigger, this this flint comes against the striker, and, and and and prayerfully, hopefully, a spark flies down into the flash pan, ignites the powder in the flash pan, goes down through a little hole, and ignites the powder in the barrel, and, and there you have it. Now, even though it it doesn't it sounds like a long complicated process, it it's it's really kind of a split second, but there is a delayed reaction, and that that's the problem with it. That's where it messes with your brain.
The delayed reaction is enough to make the brain say, well, it didn't go off, and it and it makes you flinch until you learn to hold through. You have to hold that thing steady. So it takes it it really does take some mental discipline to learn how to shoot one of these things accurately. Now, here's the advantage of the flintlock over the muddle over the muzzle loads loader. Alright? It's distance. So the the advantage of a flintlock over a muzzleloader is distance. Now, you gotta understand that black powder is relatively slow burning compared to modern smokeless powder.
And so, you can you can easily, very easily overload your gun, and it won't do you any good. You could put a whole bunch of powder down there, and most of the power will just blow out the end without ever being ignited. And that's even before the ball is out. So the longer the barrel, the more powder you can put in there that you can actually utilize. So that's why these things had such, you know, these things had a 41 inch barrel. These things were big. And about 80 grains is is what usually works in those things. So they did have a weapon of considerable accuracy that the British didn't.
And so the Lord you know, I believe the Lord's involved in all this stuff. You know, it was the Lord that sent those German immigrants over years and years before and taught the Americans how to build that kind of rifle. And so, they had at their disposal, they they they, they they had them at their disposal. They they practiced with them all their lives, and they were good. They were good at shooting them. And you know, these rifles are heavy. And to hold that thing and hold it there steady, it took some practice, it took talent. Because as long as the barrel is, and as heavy as it is, but but but that's what they were utilizing.
That's what they were using. And, so they they found an advantage, and and and all of a sudden, the advantage began to swing to the Americans. General Burgoyne surrenders his entire army of 5,000 men to Washington and Saratoga on September 1777. Most historians date this American victory as a turning point in the war. Let's see. Yeah. I got time. Just another story or two. Alright. We'll get through it quickly. In 1780, this thing has just been dragging on and on and on. It went through the lulls, you know, went through hills and valleys, you know, and all and all the rest of it. But in 1780, Cornwallis invaded the south part of the colonies with absolute untold unbridled brutality.
They didn't spare age, sex, or infancy. It was brutal. The the command was kill them all. Kill them all. And when a force of volunteers from Virginia, Tennessee, and and both the Carolinas came to the to the rescue on October 7, they learned that a British major by the name of Patrick Ferguson was entrenched on top of South Carolina, South Carolina's Kings Mountain with an army of 1,100 regulars. And here's what Ferguson boasted. You know, be careful what you boast for, captain of the Titanic. Be careful of your boasts. Here's what Ferguson boasted. God almighty himself cannot drive me from this hill.
What a fool, man. What a fool. Those volunteers that came from the backwoods of of Virginia, Tennessee, and the Carolinas just sat way out there with their rifles, just picking them off. Just picking them off. Just picking them off. 220 five British were killed. One hundred and sixty three wounded, and seven hundred sixteen captured. Now the major, of course, you know, he tried to escape on horseback, the big coward, but he was real riddled with lead. The American casual casualties consisted of twenty eight killed and sixty two wounded.
The end was drawing near. And all the time, Washington and his leadership were giving credit to God. With the additional disasters in Cowpens on, January 27, Guilford Courthouse on March, Lord Cornwallis was licking his wounds from Seaport to York from from at the Seaport Of Yorktown. Well, actually your actually, Washington returned to Yorktown with 2,000 continentals and 12,000 Frenchmen. You know, folks, if the Lord is in the thing, he'll provide all the help you need. He will provide all the help you need. I mean, we'll even take help from the French. You know, honestly, though, in reality, you know, folks, the help that the French rendered the American Revolution may have been their brightest hour.
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Do you know what he did? He assembled his officers once again and said, come on. We're going to prayer. Can you imagine? I mean, you wanna talk about a radical. Hey. Really? What a what a radical. He said, we are going to prayer. And sure enough, the Lord answered with unseasonable rain in the middle of an Indian summer, enabling him to position his artillery close to the enemy. At approximately 5PM on October, American soldiers rang ran up their flag, which they called by that time the Star Spangled Banner. And George Washington personally fired the first cannon. Over 3,600 shells and mortar hit the British in the next twenty four hours. Doctor James Thatcher, an American surgeon, testified, all around was thunder and lightning from from our numerous cannons and mortars in the darkness of night provided one of the most sublime and magnificent spectacles which can be imagined.
I have more than once witnessed fragments of the mangled bodies and limbs of British soldiers thrown into the air by bursting by the bursting of our shells. On October '20 I'm sorry, October, a desperate Cornwallis attempted to escape by night across the York River to Gloucester Point. However, Washington's god had other plans, and you know how that goes. Henry Johnson, a famed historian on on the on the Yorktown campaign says this, quote, it is possible that he could have succeeded, but the elements interposed to stop him. At midnight, a storm arose preventing the crossing of all his troops, and at dawn, those who had already crossed returned to their old stations at the works, which were now crumbling away under the point blank firing of the new batteries opened on the Second Parallel.
So by 10AM on the seventeenth, Lord Cornwallis was basically shell shocked. I mean, literally shell shocked. So he requested a twenty four hour truce to discuss surrender and capitulation. Washington said, no. You get two hours. That's all you get, two hours. So basically, what they tried to do is they tried to pull a fast one on them. That's what they were trying to do, but it didn't work. So this was the beginning of the end. Six and a half years after British troops marched into Lexington and Concord, 7,247 bedraggled redcoats followed O'Hare with a disorderly, unsoldially conduct.
Their steps were irregular, and their ranks broken as they as their own band played. Now, when they came into Lexington, do you know what they were pl do you know do you know what they were playing? In mockery and and and in ridicule? They were playing Yankee Doodle Dandy. Remember that one? When they left, do you know what they were playing? The tune was called The World Turned Upside Down. When they were ordered to stack their arms, some threw their weapons down trying to damage them, some hugged them in farewell. But here's the words I looked it up, but here's the words to the tune that they were singing or or the band was playing. I I don't know if they were singing or not. But but these are the these are the words to it. If ponies rode men, and if grass ate cows, and cats should be chased into holes by the mouse, if summer were spring and the other way around, then all the world would be upside down.
That was the song that they were playing. That was the song they were playing. Well, America's commander in chief knew who deserved the credit for all of these extraordinary events. And honestly, I just gave you kind of like a like a brief, you know, tip of the iceberg summary of them, but he knew. He knew. He knew. Thatcher informs us that after Washington's after Washington formally thanked his own men, as well as the French troops, he did something unthinkable, unimaginable, total renegade. He turned everyone's a hint attention heavenward. Having begun his war effort with an official directive to attend divine services, that's how he concluded.
Quote, he closed by ordering that divine service should be performed in the several brigades tomorrow and recommends the troops attend with a serious deportment and with a sensibility of heart, which the recollection of the surprising and particular interposition of providence in our favor claims. Washington basically said, we know who gave us the victory. We know, and we're gonna give him thank for it. We're gonna praise his name for it. Different days, folks. Different mentality. Different thought pattern. Do you know what made the difference?
Do you know what made the difference? The word of God and its influence. Our heavenly father, we wanna thank you. We wanna thank you for this amazing history that so little of us are taught or told about in the modern education system here in this country and abroad. Father, we thank you that you have allowed us to still have access to some of these records that we can pull information from much closer to the actual events that took place that don't have any kind of political spin to it or agenda, but just gives us the truth. Father, we thank you for it.
Father, we thank you for this country. We thank you, Lord, for your interventions to help establish this country. Father, we ask we ask now today that you would once again intervene in the affairs of this country and save it from itself. Father, we thank you for the freedoms that we enjoy, knowing full well that they don't come from man, they don't come from the government itself, they come from you. And it's only government's responsibility to protect those rights that we have, those freedoms, those liberties that we have, that we all too often take advantage of and are negligent of.
So, god, we lift up this country to you today. We ask you to protect it and bless it, draw us back to you as a country. Revive us, Lord, and let us give you all the honor and praise and glory that you so rightly deserve, not only in our founding, but in our in our continuance. And father, we'll thank you for it. In the precious name of our savior, the lord Jesus Christ, we pray. Amen. Alright. Well, what we're gonna do here is we're gonna take a little break, And, when we come back from this break, just, run through a couple of quick announcements. I did tell you yesterday that we had a very important announcements that's coming up. So, don't forget that. That will be made known publicly tomorrow.
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But I think this is the first time since we've been doing this series on America's Christian heritage. Excuse me. That, we don't have any scripture references in the message. You know? Isn't that amazing when you think about it? Right? That's pathetic to be quite frank with you. But, you know, it's just it just didn't work out that way. We had that one passage from, from, Ephesians chapter six that we referenced. But, you know, it it's American history is just an amazing, amazing thing, and I never really had such an appreciation for it until, you know, later on in life. And I'm and and it's just to me, it's really interesting. So just let me know in the comments, or shoot us an email at, [email protected], or just go to our website and send us a message. Let us know if you wanna continue on with this. I don't have any problems doing it. We can probably go 10, maybe 11 Sundays, talking about this stuff. But, let me know what you think. Your comments are greatly appreciated.
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And we are coming to you live tonight from the Asylum Studios, bringing you the best quality talk radio we could muster without all the bluster. Broadcasting live from the pimple on the backside of Texas. This is The Joe Ruse Show, and you are receiving this transmission at eighteen zero five hours on Sunday, July 2025. 82 degrees right now, here in the studio. 90 something degrees on the outside. Got some pretty nasty weather on the horizon here as well. Well folks, I hope that you had a great weekend so far and I hope, sincerely hope, that you made it out to church today.
It is Sunday, the Lord's day, and that's the day that we need to be in fellowship, especially in fellowship with the Lord. And I hope your pastor brought you a message that just was a real blessing to you, from the word of God that really reached your heart, really reached your soul, maybe you learned something, something maybe you didn't know or maybe forgot. Well, it is Sunday folks, and it is our bible study Sunday. And, I don't know about you, but I was kinda looking forward to, to getting into the studio tonight to do the show here. It's one of those rare studio days we don't have a guest lined up, so it's just us, which is always fun. I enjoy that immensely.
I mean, I love having our guests. It's always exciting to meet and talk to new people, and learn some things, thing or two maybe. But, it's just us, and it's a Sunday. It's a beautiful, beautiful Sunday afternoon. Now, the last couple of weeks, we've been going through, talking about American history in relation to the Bible. We started out talking about politics in the Bible. We start then we went from there. We talked about the Christians Bill of Rights, and then, last Sunday, we started up this series on America's Christian heritage. And, that's what we're gonna be continuing on with tonight. But of course, as always, before we get into the show, I'm gonna ask you to do just a couple of quick things for me. If you would, head over to our website, joeroos.com.
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And, we are we did that earlier today, and we're gonna continue to pray for her as well. And, you know, folks, it's it's it's something that we're supposed to do as believers. We're supposed to bear one another's burdens. And, one of the one of the best ways you can bear someone's burden is to pray for them. And that that's honest truth. God, you you pray for them. It's so important to get that, and to learn that lesson. And it's something that, we talked about today at church bit, not the mat not so much the the subject matter of bearing one another's burden, but prayer. Prayer is very important in the life of a believer. It's very important in the life of a Christian. And, we need to be in communication with the Lord at all times. So, so keep praying, keep talking to the Lord, and, let us know if there's anything that we can pray about for you. Also, don't forget this is a value for value show. And, you know, any any support that you can send over to us in the form of a donation is greatly, greatly appreciated.
You can check out our support page at joeruse.com/support, and you'll see all of those, ways that you could help us out with, your donations. Alright. We'll come on to the rest of it in a little bit, but right now, what I'd like to do is I'd like to continue our series on the spiritual side of the American Revolution, the spiritual side, or the, or or America's Christian heritage. And, it's unfortunately something that's never really taught anymore in public schools. And, actually, not even in a lot of the private schools either. You know, people say, you know, like, a couple of messages about the previous studies, and, you know, people like, where do you get this information from? Well, the the best way to get information about it is to is to go to the historians that were actually writing this history back in the eighteen hundreds.
They were obviously much closer to the events, and they had absolutely no political agenda to to kinda push on it or put a spin on it. You know, George Washington, as as met as well as many of the other founding fathers, are being sanitized at a lot out of a lot of American, modern history books. You know why people don't wanna talk about George? You you want the real reason? Because there's overwhelming evidence of his spirituality. There's overwhelming evidence of what a godly man he really was. Well, you know, you can't have that. Right? That's, oh, no. That's that that's, you know, that's no good at all. That won't work in this atheistic progressive society that we're trying to build here.
And so, you see what we have to do, is is we have to try to do everything that we could possibly do to eliminate a lot of these facts and personalities from that great period of time. Now I've talked about that many times, you know, I and this is no disparaging marks about the the generation that went to war in in, in the nineteen forties during World War two. Nothing about them whatsoever like this, but when people say the greatest generation, I don't think of the folks that went to war in World War two. Great generation, absolutely.
Thousand percent. Million percent. Great generation. Brave generation. But the greatest generation, in in my opinion, the greatest generation was our founding generation. Our founding fathers. That was the greatest generation. Now last week, we talked about Lexington. We talked about Concord. We talked about Bunker Hill and Breed's Hill. And, you know, those are all events that led up to the declaration of independence. And, you know, I I I I guess you could say or I suppose that most Americans, you know, heard about the declaration of independence, but very very few know anything really about it, and very few have ever even read it. And you know something, it really doesn't take very long to read. It's it's really not very long.
In fact, you know, I timed myself, and, you know, and I read it fairly slowly, you know, earlier today, this afternoon, and when I was just kinda going over my notes for tonight, and it took me about six minutes to read it. That's about that's it, you know. And I wasn't even trying to speed read, I just I just kinda went through it. Boom boom boom boom. Well, about that time, 07/04/1776 well, you know, actually, let's kinda rewind that just a little bit. Let's let's just back it up a little bit. In mid June, Thomas Jefferson, at the insistence of John Adams, who was, about eight years his senior, they began to sit down and actually frame the declaration of independence.
He worked at night, he worked during the day, constantly for two weeks, while suffering some intense and and and impossible to deal with migraine headaches during the entire time. But he labored on it, he worked on it, and when you really read that document, it is absolutely a classic. Now, you know, the only book that I believe that God inspired is your King James Bible, The word of God. That's it. That's the only one. But there are a few documents throughout history that you have to think, you know, God must have had his hand on that one. He had to have.
You know, he may not have inspired them in the way that, you know, we think of verbal inspiration of the scripture, but you gotta think, boy man, the Lord must have had some involvement. Must have been really really close to that operation right there. And I think that was the case with the declaration of independence. I also think that was the case with the with the, the constitution of The United States and and and the Magna Carta, and just a few others, you know, that have come down throughout history. You know, Thomas Jefferson said this, I do not think it is any part of my of, my charge to invent new ideas. So that really wasn't his purpose. He wasn't trying to invent anything new. He was just trying to firmly establish what was already put down in black and white.
So the declaration starts this way. Now, if you're not familiar with it, I'm just I'm gonna read to you a little bit of it. Actually, where is it? It's all the way over there out of reach. Let me go get it. Hold on. It's a good thing I decided to wear pants today. I'm kidding, I always wear pants. So I had this for, oh, years. This is, my pocket US Constitution, and and it have has a it has a copy of the Declaration of Independence as well. And, this is what I was reading earlier in in preparation for the show tonight. So let me work my way to it. So in the back here.
Alright. So again, the declaration starts out this way. Now, if you're not familiar with it, again, I'm just gonna read, the first the first few couple of sentences, of it to you. Okay? Here we go. When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's god entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
So when in the course of human events and of course, there are courses of human events. There are, or are there? It be it it goes on to say, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's god entitle them. Well, that makes perfect sense. It makes perfect sense. A decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
Now if we're gonna separate from the political bands of of Great Britain, then, you know, we're obligated to list, the reasons why. That's basically all he's saying. It's incumbent upon us to tell everyone in the world why we're separating. Well, as Congress, the Continental Congress, began to deliberate over that particular document, that parchment, and this and and this theme of separation from Great Britain. There was a great Scottish preacher by the name of John Witherspoon. Now, I I I talked to you somewhat about the president of Harvard and and some of the prayers that he offered during the revolution, and, you know, we've discussed those, last week and the week before.
This guy, Witherspoon, he was the president of Princeton. Alright? It wasn't called Princeton then, it was it was called the College of New Jersey, but today it's Princeton University. But again, I have to emphasize that most of the Ivy League schools were started for the primary purpose of training preachers. Did you know that? The primary person, the primary purses purpose of the Ivy League schools was to train preachers. Now you get philosophers and atheists. Well, doctor John Witherspoon said this, quote, this country was not only ripe for independence, but in danger of becoming rotten for lack of it. Wow.
That's some statement. That's a profound thought right there. Well, the justification for doctor Witherspoon's words became pronounced in Jefferson's writings and the declaration of independence. He went on to say this, we hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal and that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights. Alright. Now this is the second time that he mentioned god. Alright. Did you catch that? This is the second time. The the the god of nature and now by their creator. So in the opinion of the signers of the declaration of independence, who gives rights?
Who gives the rights? Not government. Not government, God. Your rights come from God. And if you allow any human entity, any human entity to assume the role or or or position of giving you your rights, you've caved in, man. You're in trouble. You're in trouble. Only a real and true bible believer comes to the conclusion that rights are granted only by God. Only a bible believer can come to that. So he goes on, certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
So it's the governed who allow the government to protect those rights. That's the job of government. Not to issue them out, it's not to take them away, but to protect them. God given rights. Alright? That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it and institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to affect their safety and happiness. Alright. Now, the the the courageous placing of blame, if if we could say it that way, where it belonged was precisely what Patrick Henry meant when he said, government is a quote, government is a compact between king and people.
Violation of the covenant by either party discharges the other of obligation. Alright. Now what's that? That's just common sense. Right? That's just common sense and legalese. If one party violates the contract, then the other party is no longer obligated to fulfill the contract. That's just basic contract law, and that's what Patrick Henry is giving them. Basic contract law. Well, you know, the Americans really wanted, at that point, they they they simply desired to to go right on living as Englishmen under the blessings of English common law, as prescribed by the British constitution.
You know, they really had no desire for for revolution, but what they were sensing, and observing, and and being victims of was, as they said, usurpations and tyranny. That that was not being put on the English people themselves, but as colonists, they were being subjected to a lot of bad things. A lot of bad things. Jefferson wrote, the history of the present king of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having indirect object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. So so, so she she winds up the indictment with this climactic announcement that these, and this is this is beautiful.
This is absolutely beautiful. Not only is it powerful, but it was poetic and it was beautifully written that these united colonies are and of a right ought to be free and independent states, that they are absolved of all allegiance to the British crown, and this the the and the the last line I just wanna put your attention to that. The last line was no less awe inspiring than the first when he said, and for the support of this declaration with the firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.
And the guys that signed it, they meant it. They meant it. And we'll talk about the price that some of them paid in just a little while. They really meant it. Now, I don't know how many you'd be able to find in Congress today that would sign anything, even remotely close to that, and mean it. They might do it for political expediency, then find some kind of a loophole to get themselves out of it, but I don't think you'd find many that would sign it outright. Well, this was all evolving in the month of June 1776.
Now, this is after Lexington. This is after Concord, Bunker Hill, Breed's Hill, you know, and and things are just kinda rolling along. They're steaming up. They're getting hot. Getting hot. So on the July, Congress began to have formal debate on Richard Henry Lee's resolution that the American states should declare their independence. Well, on that day, actually, interestingly, it it didn't take them months and weeks and years. They took care of business fairly quickly back then. You know, they weren't voting in the dark of the night either. Trust me. Nine of the 13 colonies endorsed the resolution at the initial vote. So the first vote, nine of 13 said, yep. We're in. Let's do it.
Understanding that the final vote would be taken the next day, the session ended with a dispatch from Washington that a British invasion was imminent. Now they expected that, but the word was now coming down that it that was that it was absolutely clear that, you know, what was gonna happen. So on the following day, New York, Delaware, and South Carolina made the break with Britain official. All 13 colonies on the July 2 said, alright. We affirm this declaration of independence. Now on the July 3, 9,000 British soldiers landed on New York's Staten Island. That's where I that's where I lived. And on the July 4, the declaration of independence was formally adopted.
Now that evening, the, you know, the handwritten scribblings defaced with with several corrections were all transported to a printer. Now, I don't know if if you know, but, or if somebody out there remembers, but do you do you remember the name of the printer? You remember the name of the printer? That was a guy by the name of John Dunlap. And for the document's first printing, known as the Dunlop the Dunlop Broadside. Well, congress ordered a beautiful, handsome, endorsed, embossed parchment for them to sign. That work was done by Timothy Matlak.
On the July 8, the declaration was read by Colonel John North in the courtyard of Philadelphia State House. And it and it it's significant that Samuel Adams observed and and, and and here was his observation, quote, the people seem to recognize this resolution as though it was a decree promulgated from heaven. A decree promulgated from heaven. Now with the, returned enemy fleet, they just came into New York Harbor, the British with 430 ships. Folks, 430 ships. 10 times the number they had retreated with earlier. 10 times.
So only a 115 miles away from Congress in Philadelphia, the prospect of heaven's endorsement was really welcome. So it was at that point also that that Ben Franklin allegedly said this, quote, we must be unanimous, there must be no pulling different ways, we must hang together, or most assuredly, we shall hang separately. And so they found a sense of unity. And so the signers, 56 of them in all, and I'm gonna give you a quick summary of the, of of of these 56 men. Five of them were captured by the British and tortured before they died. 12 had their homes ransacked and burned.
Two lost their sons in the war. Two had sons captured. Nine either died from war wounds or from hardships suffered in the war. Carter Braxton of Virginia, who's a wealthy trader, watched his ships being destroyed by the British Navy, and then he died impoverished. Thomas McKean had to keep himself and his family in hiding and almost lost all of his possessions. I shouldn't say almost, he did. He lost all of his possessions. The British then destroyed all the property of Francis Lewis and jailed his wife. She ended up dying a few months later. John Hancock, reported to be the richest man in America, had already proved his commitment by ordering a cannonade on occupied Boston, realizing that most of his commercial property would be destroyed.
That's commitment. Folks, that's commitment. One of the signers in in particular paid a, an extremely high price for his fidelity. He was a farmer and a congressional delegate from New Jersey known as honest John Hart. He was also sympathetic to the plight of the Baptists, having donated a portion of his land to the Baptist church in Hopewell, New Jersey. As such, Hart was prepared to go the second mile for the cause of liberty. With his farm situated on the on the enemy's highway, the document before him loomed as a personal death warrant. And despite the despite his age of nearly 60 years, he signed the declaration of independence only to immediately become an exile for his fellow countrymen.
The approaching army compelled him to leave the bedside of his dying wife and his 13 loving children so as to flee into the forest for safety. He would never see any of them again. His home, mill, crops, all of it destroyed. His children fled into the mountains themselves. His wife died from stress, and for more than a year, this this Baptist patriot lived in the swamps, in the caves. And his most civilized shelter being an outhouse that he shared with a dog. Learning of his wife's homegoing and the destruction of his property, he died from exhaustion and a broken heart.
Folks, those were the kind of people that signed the declaration of independence. It'd be difficult really to find those kinds of people today, wouldn't it? I'm not saying it's impossible, I'm just saying it's difficult. I have some more stories here, but I'm gonna save those for another time about some of these guys. But, meanwhile back in New York, on the July 12, two British officers approached the American camp under a flag of truce, and they had a letter from mister Washington. Well, Colonel Reed of the Continental Army said to the emissary, sir, we have no person in our army with that address, and he sent them back.
So, he refused to accept the dispatch. That's basically what he did. And so they sent another one entitled to George Washington Esquire. They sent it back. This time, Admiral Howe sent a verbal request asking if Washington would be willing to receive his own adjutant general. The commander agreed, and on the July 20, the meeting lasted thirty minutes, and lieutenant colonel James Patterson repeatedly addressing George Washington by the title of excellency. Now the gist of Howe's message was to the colonists was, if you repent, we'll let bygones be bygones, and we'll pardon you.
And Washington said, probably in better terms than I would have said, basically hit the road, eat a brick, you know, nuts. Very famous World War two saying, nuts to you. So now when he came down to Long Island, the the and so now we come down to Long Island with all the events, that leading up to it. The assault finally came on August the twenty second of seventeen seventy six. House generals outflank Washingtons, outnumbered troops, and they were horribly when I tell you they were horribly outnumbered, a a an unimaginable slaughter took place with America losing over a thousand.
Now here's something that very very few history books would even refer to, and and you need to know this. You need to know this because there there's a battle going on in the stratosphere that few people really understand. And only people that that have a a spiritual bent and, you know, and some comprehensions of Ephesians chapter six could even grasp it. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. And, you know, I I know you guys know the know the verses, especially you've been around here for long.
Alright? It it was at this battle at Long Island that how unleashed a new secret weapon. And that new secret weapon was was what? The new secret weapon was known as German mercenaries, Hessians. And they were being paid the equivalent of $36 a month, which in those days was a pretty pretty big sum of money. It's a pretty big pot of money. Alright. Now here's the part you probably don't know. Although George the third, King George the third of England was born in London, Both his father and grandfather had been reared in the heavily Catholic area of Hanover, Germany. The pro Vatican George the third found the Roman Catholic, Friedrich the second of Germany only too happy to help, and sent his murderous Hessians to fight against the American Protestants.
And that's the gist of it right there. You see, let's do away with these Protestants. They're controlling that new country. Now a letter from a British officer describes the butchery of these foreign agents, and he said he said this, and I quote, the Hessians and our brave highlanders gave no quarter, and it was a fine sight to see them dispatch with their bayonets after we had after we had surrendered them so that they could not resist. So basically, after they surrendered and laid down their arms, then the Germans went in and bayoneted all of them. Good Catholic folk. Right?
You see, you don't get that in your average history book today. You don't get that, but that's a fact. But, but Washington observing all of this from the heights above solemnly eulogized, quote, good God, what brave fellows I must lose this day. It broke his heart. It broke his heart. Well, he had no choice. He was in trouble. Being vastly outnumbered, he had to fall back from his makeshift fort in Brooklyn Heights, and they were in danger of being totally surrounded by admiral Howe and his troops. And if and if Howe brought his fleet up, you know, up the Hudson to to to position his fleet to position his fleet behind the Americans, then they could be absolutely annihilated in the crossfire from both directions.
And and then additional problems were, you know, many of the Irish Americans had deserted under pressure from the Catholic priest. Most people don't know this. They won't understand it. But there is lots and lots of history here. Particularly, like I said, if you go back and read the guys that that were writing about this in the eighteen hundreds, they'll tell you, you know, that they'll tell you all that information to some extent that that this was a religious war. And do you know what most wars are? Most wars are religious wars, and this one was really no exception.
No exception. If you would under If you understand what had gone on previous to that in Europe, you know that just about every war that had taken place for hundreds of years was a religious war of one kind or another. So, so how could have undoubtedly annihilated the American army had he chosen to press his advantage at that point? I am just craving water today. But do you know what Washington did? At that particular point, at that particular time? Do you know what he did? I'll tell you what he did. He rallied his officers together, not for a strategy meeting, but for a prayer meeting.
And that's what they did. They went to prayer, and an immediate retreat was ordered despite the inclement weather. Well, the paranoid how? You know, he's thinking, back to Bunker Hill. We told you about that last week, and how so many of his troops, were slaughtered at Bunker Hill. So so he's kinda, you know, he's kinda twiddling his thumbs here a little bit. He he doesn't want a repeat of that that whole mess, and and so the Lord's people are preparing for their own kind of Red Sea miracle here. There was a great historian by the name of Collins wrote this.
And and again, this was written back in the early eighteen hundreds, so it's very, very close to these events. So he said this, quote, the weather made it impossible to transport the army by boat from Long Island. A high northeast wind had been raging there for three days. Nevertheless, Washington and his officers resolved to try the night of August. When the main army started embarking, suddenly at 11PM, the wind died down. The water became very smooth. A gentle breeze sprung up from the south and southwest, which aided the boats in crossing the East River into Manhattan.
The moonlight was very bright, and the ships of the enemy were very close by, but strange as it may seem, the Patriot Army was not discovered as they made their evacuation. It was a momentous task to get 9,000 men across the river, and it was obvious the mission could not be completed before daylight. As daylight approached, a thick sea fog came rolling in and shrouded the British camp. Just think about that. Now, who would question the hand of God in intervening to save the American cause? Nah, it's probably just a coincidence. Right? Don't get too excited about this stuff. You become a nut job.
Well, as the war continued to drag on, the vastly outnumbered continental army saw God intervene with acts of nature time and time again. And I'm not gonna go through all of them, but there are really a lot of interventions there. Finally, after being chased out of New York on September, Harlem Heights on October, and even Fort Washington on the East Bank Of The Hudson River on November, the Lord once again once again did something fairly miraculous. Congress had decreed, at that point, it looked like, you know, they were losing at every stage of of of this thing. I mean, it was it was really bleak. Really, really bleak.
But Congress had decreed, they, they're just totally running out of New York here. Being totally run out of New York. And that's where the British army and navy had really just, you know, congested themselves. So do you know what they ended up doing? Congress decreed a solid day of fasting and prayer, and humiliation to implore divine intervention. And wouldn't that be refreshing to see today? The United States Congress actually, you And and we have people that are screaming about, you know, separation of church and state. Do you do you really think that these guys believe that? I don't think so.
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Start your day with coffee that actually backs what you believe. 1775coffee.com/studio. 1775coffee.com. So by this time, Washington's army was down to only about 3,000 men. That's it. Just 3,000 men, that's less than 10% of the enemy strength. So he's got 3,000 men, they've got about 30 something thousand. But Washington knew and wrote and elaborated to his officers on the idea that man's extremities are God's opportunities. And one biblical reference and story that he utilized to remind him of that is what? You gotta know. It's Gideon.
Gideon. And, let's see. And to, the person asking on Twitch if this is live, yes. This is live. So the one biblical reference, like we said, was Gideon. Now I'm sure you remember that story. They had thousands and the the the the enemy had thousands and God said that that's too many. Put them to the test. Send them home. I said the enemy, no. I'm sorry. Gideon had thousands. God said that's too many. Put them to put them to the test. Send them home. Still too many. Send them home. Now Gideon's finally got down to about 300, and the Lord said, alright. Now I can do something with 300 men because you won't get the glory.
I will. And so the Lord worked a miracle on behalf of Gideon. And what book of the Bible do you find that story in? The book of Judges. Alright. So by this point, Washington crossed the Hudson into New Jersey, and then he crossed the Delaware into Pennsylvania, and the trail of his troops could be easily traced by the blood trail in the snow. Desperate men were slaughtering cattle along the way, not just to eat, but just so they can wrap their feet in the hides. These were really desperate conditions. Desperate conditions. The British were so sure that the war was was over that General Cornwallis put all of his baggage on ship for England.
But what he didn't know was that Washington was headed for some boats himself. At 9PM on Christmas night, Washington made his immortal crossing of the Delaware River. Now, you know, we've all seen pictures of it. Well, not pictures, but paintings. You know, the one Washington standing on the bow of the ship, of the boat, and now of course it's an artist rendition, but nevertheless, you know, it's a good one. I think it's a good one. And, you know, they're they're crossing the Delaware River. Well, where are they going on Christmas night to attack the Hessian Garrison in Trenton, New Jersey? And, so once again, the Lord came through despite the horrible, horrendous weather conditions described by one soldier as fearfully cold and raw.
A loyalist Tory farmer spotted the approaching Americans, and he went running to the Hessian colonel, Johann Rall to inform him of the impending attack. Well, the Germans were celebrating Christmas. They were they were celebrating Christmas so much so to the extent that they were falling down drunk. So he was told that the commandant was too busy playing cards and drinking to be disturbed. So the frustrated Tory scribbled a note on a piece of paper and handed it to Raul's host, one Abraham Hunt, who went to the inebriated colonel and stuck it in his pocket of his vest. When the attack finally came, and the colonel sobered up enough to finally realize what was going on, he looked at the note and he said, too late.
Too late. The battle lasted ninety minutes. Washington's men killed 23 of the enemy and captured over a thousand prisoners while suffering only four wounded of his own troops. Didn't lose one. Didn't lose one. Only four wounded. Well, Trenton and, I have a whole section here that I'm gonna save for a separate lesson on on chaplains. You need you you really need to know about the chaplains. You you do because, the chaplains that were in the continental army were just used of God in such great ways, and, and and you need to know how God used them and and some of the individual stories that, that accompanied those men. But, that's gonna be a whole lesson in and of itself, and and to be honest with you, I I don't know about you, but I find that fascinating.
I find it fascinating, you know, how how how, how God used some people. And they came from a a variety of denominations, you know. About a third of them were Baptists. Some of them were Presbyterians, some of them were Congregationalists, and so on. Now now, of course, when you say those some of those denominational names, you have to understand that, you know, two hundred fifty years ago, they they they were a lot different than they are now. There was a huge difference. Well, that's gonna bring us to Valley Forge, and during the winter at Valley Forge.
And that's all Valley Forge was, a a great, horrible endurance run. And, there was one Baptist preacher that that, I have to mention briefly, and I'll tell you more stories about him another time. But, his name was John Gannell, and, he was the pastor of First Baptist Church of New York City. And he had a special and he had a profound influence on George Washington. Now in his biography, The Life of George Washington, ML Ween shares the, an unforgettable account that that a friend of the general named Potts experienced while walking through the snow at Valley Forge during the awful winter of seventeen seventy seven.
Now this Potts guy is a farmer, and he lives out in in the area, and he's walking out in the snow one night. And, and and here's the quote from m l m l wiens in his biography about George Washington. He says this, quote, treading his way across the venerable grove, he suddenly he heard the sound of a human voice which he advanced and increased on his ear. And at length became the voice of one speaking in much earnest. As he approached the spot with a cautious step, whom should he behold in a dark natural bower of ancient oaks, but the commander in chief of the American armies, on his knees, at prayer?
Motionless with with surprise, friend Potts continued on the place until the general ended his devotions, arose, and with a countenance of angelic serenity, returned to the headquarters. Potts then went home and entered his parlor, called out to his wife, Sarah, my dear Sarah, all is well. All is well. George Washington will yet prevail. When he heard the man pray, he was convinced. Alright? Now that story, of course, has also led to, you know, artist conceptions of a picture that, you know, we've all seen. You know, Washington kneeling in the woods in the snow in prayer, holding onto the reins of his horse. But and that picture was based on that story.
Well, prevail he did. Prevail he did. It wasn't too long, and spring was coming, and, Frenchman show up and, a Frenchman shows up and offers his services. His name was Gilbert Dumontier. Now, I I know that I don't speak French, so I'm hoping that I'm pronouncing it right. But, he was later known as the Marquis de Lafayette. And Lafayette introduced a lot of French troops into the equation. Then another guy came along who was a a Prussian military veteran, and his name was and be thankful you don't have a name like this. Okay? And and, I am gonna mangle it, so forgive me for this one. But his name was Baron Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustine von Steuben.
I think I got it. Okay. I think I got it. I don't know I don't I don't know what they would call him for short, maybe stubby. I don't I don't know. But, you know, he rose to no higher of a rank than major in his old country in their military, but Washington made him a major general. And he became particularly involved in training recruits. He became basically, he became a great drill instructor, great DI, because he knew how to train troops. He knew the drill. He knew what needed to be done. And, in in fact, he he called to a translator, and he and he and he said said, these men won't do what I'm telling them. Come and swear for me.
Well, it was the observation of some that that angels must have been directing the musket balls from the American rifles, testifying to the intense rain of death pouring down upon his men from the from the treetops. You see, America Americans quickly figured out that European style of warfare was just flat out stupid. Just flat out stupid. And you we talked about it last week, you know you know what it was. It's you know, you line up in a straight line, you go out about 50 yards from each other and just start shooting. I mean, that's just dumb. That's dumb.
But that's the way they did it back then. And the Americans figured that out way back at Concord. They said, well, we're not doing that anymore. So now they had snipers in trees. And here's what one British general said, general, Burgoyne. Quote, there was seldom a minute's interval of smoke in any part of our line without officers being taken off by single shot. So, basically, the order of the day was to shoot the officers. Shoot the officers. Take out leadership. Pointing to a a particular British general, the American commander Dan Morgan said to one of his best shots, quote, that gallant officer is General Frazier. I admire him, but it is necessary that he should die. Do your duty. And moments later, the general lay mortally wounded.
Now, in addition to the French entering into the equation, in addition to other foreigners like like like Germans helping, you know, not Hessian people, but, but people who immigrated to the country earlier, a number of additional recruits showed up, sharpshooting Virginia Rangers, and, Washington was blessed. Washington was blessed with all kinds of recruits from the backwoods of Pennsylvania. Now, remember, these were people that were used to making their lives with a rifle. They knew how to shoot. Now, the British were still shooting for the most part with a rifle that was affectionately known to them as Old Brown Bess.
Now, the Brown Bess, in fact, wasn't a rifle, it was a musket. Alright? There's a difference. Alright? A musket has a smooth bore. Okay? Its accuracy is not really very good, and the further you get away, the less accuracy there is. Now, a rifled gun, hence the name rifle, has rifling in the barrel, and all rifling is are grooves. Alright? Now, at first, when they first started rifling, they they would put the groove straight down the barrel. And, and and and rifling goes back as to the fifteen hundreds in Germany. German immigrants who came to America long before the revolutionary war introduced rifling to American made rifles. And then and then later they learned that, that, that that how to add spiral to the rifling, which then increased accurate accuracy.
Now, some of these guys could shoot a seven inch round target at at 250 yards. Now, in a in a model in a modern muzzleloader, you have this thing called a percussion cap with a charge, and, you know, when you squeeze the trigger, it comes down on the cap and it explodes, it ignites the powder inside the barrel and boom. Alright? It's pretty much like shooting a modern day rifle, you squeeze the trigger, bang, and that's it. And, you know, they're pretty accurate, about a 100 and at about a 150 yards, and and they're usually a 54 caliber or something like that, you know, it's it's a lot of lead, and and they are deadly.
Deadly. But that's not what these guys had. They were totally behind the curve on this deal. They were shooting something that was later known as the old Kentucky rifle, but, before that, essentially, it was it was the same rifle, was known as the Pennsylvania rifle. Alright. Now there's also a flintlock. Now I I fired a flintlock, only a couple of times, but, but the flintlock really messes with your brain. You know, and and here's why. Alright. There there's there's a little pan on the on the top that it's called a flash pan. Alright. You put the powder in the flash pan, and and and of course, you know, you put powder down the barrel, and then you put the wadding down in the ball, and you stuff it down, you know, you stuff it down against against your powder, and then, you know, so when when you squeeze the trigger, this this flint comes against the striker, and, and and and prayerfully, hopefully, a spark flies down into the flash pan, ignites the powder in the flash pan, goes down through a little hole, and ignites the powder in the barrel, and, and there you have it. Now, even though it it doesn't it sounds like a long complicated process, it it's it's really kind of a split second, but there is a delayed reaction, and that that's the problem with it. That's where it messes with your brain.
The delayed reaction is enough to make the brain say, well, it didn't go off, and it and it makes you flinch until you learn to hold through. You have to hold that thing steady. So it takes it it really does take some mental discipline to learn how to shoot one of these things accurately. Now, here's the advantage of the flintlock over the muddle over the muzzle loads loader. Alright? It's distance. So the the advantage of a flintlock over a muzzleloader is distance. Now, you gotta understand that black powder is relatively slow burning compared to modern smokeless powder.
And so, you can you can easily, very easily overload your gun, and it won't do you any good. You could put a whole bunch of powder down there, and most of the power will just blow out the end without ever being ignited. And that's even before the ball is out. So the longer the barrel, the more powder you can put in there that you can actually utilize. So that's why these things had such, you know, these things had a 41 inch barrel. These things were big. And about 80 grains is is what usually works in those things. So they did have a weapon of considerable accuracy that the British didn't.
And so the Lord you know, I believe the Lord's involved in all this stuff. You know, it was the Lord that sent those German immigrants over years and years before and taught the Americans how to build that kind of rifle. And so, they had at their disposal, they they they, they they had them at their disposal. They they practiced with them all their lives, and they were good. They were good at shooting them. And you know, these rifles are heavy. And to hold that thing and hold it there steady, it took some practice, it took talent. Because as long as the barrel is, and as heavy as it is, but but but that's what they were utilizing.
That's what they were using. And, so they they found an advantage, and and and all of a sudden, the advantage began to swing to the Americans. General Burgoyne surrenders his entire army of 5,000 men to Washington and Saratoga on September 1777. Most historians date this American victory as a turning point in the war. Let's see. Yeah. I got time. Just another story or two. Alright. We'll get through it quickly. In 1780, this thing has just been dragging on and on and on. It went through the lulls, you know, went through hills and valleys, you know, and all and all the rest of it. But in 1780, Cornwallis invaded the south part of the colonies with absolute untold unbridled brutality.
They didn't spare age, sex, or infancy. It was brutal. The the command was kill them all. Kill them all. And when a force of volunteers from Virginia, Tennessee, and and both the Carolinas came to the to the rescue on October 7, they learned that a British major by the name of Patrick Ferguson was entrenched on top of South Carolina, South Carolina's Kings Mountain with an army of 1,100 regulars. And here's what Ferguson boasted. You know, be careful what you boast for, captain of the Titanic. Be careful of your boasts. Here's what Ferguson boasted. God almighty himself cannot drive me from this hill.
What a fool, man. What a fool. Those volunteers that came from the backwoods of of Virginia, Tennessee, and the Carolinas just sat way out there with their rifles, just picking them off. Just picking them off. Just picking them off. 220 five British were killed. One hundred and sixty three wounded, and seven hundred sixteen captured. Now the major, of course, you know, he tried to escape on horseback, the big coward, but he was real riddled with lead. The American casual casualties consisted of twenty eight killed and sixty two wounded.
The end was drawing near. And all the time, Washington and his leadership were giving credit to God. With the additional disasters in Cowpens on, January 27, Guilford Courthouse on March, Lord Cornwallis was licking his wounds from Seaport to York from from at the Seaport Of Yorktown. Well, actually your actually, Washington returned to Yorktown with 2,000 continentals and 12,000 Frenchmen. You know, folks, if the Lord is in the thing, he'll provide all the help you need. He will provide all the help you need. I mean, we'll even take help from the French. You know, honestly, though, in reality, you know, folks, the help that the French rendered the American Revolution may have been their brightest hour.
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Do you know what he did? He assembled his officers once again and said, come on. We're going to prayer. Can you imagine? I mean, you wanna talk about a radical. Hey. Really? What a what a radical. He said, we are going to prayer. And sure enough, the Lord answered with unseasonable rain in the middle of an Indian summer, enabling him to position his artillery close to the enemy. At approximately 5PM on October, American soldiers rang ran up their flag, which they called by that time the Star Spangled Banner. And George Washington personally fired the first cannon. Over 3,600 shells and mortar hit the British in the next twenty four hours. Doctor James Thatcher, an American surgeon, testified, all around was thunder and lightning from from our numerous cannons and mortars in the darkness of night provided one of the most sublime and magnificent spectacles which can be imagined.
I have more than once witnessed fragments of the mangled bodies and limbs of British soldiers thrown into the air by bursting by the bursting of our shells. On October '20 I'm sorry, October, a desperate Cornwallis attempted to escape by night across the York River to Gloucester Point. However, Washington's god had other plans, and you know how that goes. Henry Johnson, a famed historian on on the on the Yorktown campaign says this, quote, it is possible that he could have succeeded, but the elements interposed to stop him. At midnight, a storm arose preventing the crossing of all his troops, and at dawn, those who had already crossed returned to their old stations at the works, which were now crumbling away under the point blank firing of the new batteries opened on the Second Parallel.
So by 10AM on the seventeenth, Lord Cornwallis was basically shell shocked. I mean, literally shell shocked. So he requested a twenty four hour truce to discuss surrender and capitulation. Washington said, no. You get two hours. That's all you get, two hours. So basically, what they tried to do is they tried to pull a fast one on them. That's what they were trying to do, but it didn't work. So this was the beginning of the end. Six and a half years after British troops marched into Lexington and Concord, 7,247 bedraggled redcoats followed O'Hare with a disorderly, unsoldially conduct.
Their steps were irregular, and their ranks broken as they as their own band played. Now, when they came into Lexington, do you know what they were pl do you know do you know what they were playing? In mockery and and and in ridicule? They were playing Yankee Doodle Dandy. Remember that one? When they left, do you know what they were playing? The tune was called The World Turned Upside Down. When they were ordered to stack their arms, some threw their weapons down trying to damage them, some hugged them in farewell. But here's the words I looked it up, but here's the words to the tune that they were singing or or the band was playing. I I don't know if they were singing or not. But but these are the these are the words to it. If ponies rode men, and if grass ate cows, and cats should be chased into holes by the mouse, if summer were spring and the other way around, then all the world would be upside down.
That was the song that they were playing. That was the song they were playing. Well, America's commander in chief knew who deserved the credit for all of these extraordinary events. And honestly, I just gave you kind of like a like a brief, you know, tip of the iceberg summary of them, but he knew. He knew. He knew. Thatcher informs us that after Washington's after Washington formally thanked his own men, as well as the French troops, he did something unthinkable, unimaginable, total renegade. He turned everyone's a hint attention heavenward. Having begun his war effort with an official directive to attend divine services, that's how he concluded.
Quote, he closed by ordering that divine service should be performed in the several brigades tomorrow and recommends the troops attend with a serious deportment and with a sensibility of heart, which the recollection of the surprising and particular interposition of providence in our favor claims. Washington basically said, we know who gave us the victory. We know, and we're gonna give him thank for it. We're gonna praise his name for it. Different days, folks. Different mentality. Different thought pattern. Do you know what made the difference?
Do you know what made the difference? The word of God and its influence. Our heavenly father, we wanna thank you. We wanna thank you for this amazing history that so little of us are taught or told about in the modern education system here in this country and abroad. Father, we thank you that you have allowed us to still have access to some of these records that we can pull information from much closer to the actual events that took place that don't have any kind of political spin to it or agenda, but just gives us the truth. Father, we thank you for it.
Father, we thank you for this country. We thank you, Lord, for your interventions to help establish this country. Father, we ask we ask now today that you would once again intervene in the affairs of this country and save it from itself. Father, we thank you for the freedoms that we enjoy, knowing full well that they don't come from man, they don't come from the government itself, they come from you. And it's only government's responsibility to protect those rights that we have, those freedoms, those liberties that we have, that we all too often take advantage of and are negligent of.
So, god, we lift up this country to you today. We ask you to protect it and bless it, draw us back to you as a country. Revive us, Lord, and let us give you all the honor and praise and glory that you so rightly deserve, not only in our founding, but in our in our continuance. And father, we'll thank you for it. In the precious name of our savior, the lord Jesus Christ, we pray. Amen. Alright. Well, what we're gonna do here is we're gonna take a little break, And, when we come back from this break, just, run through a couple of quick announcements. I did tell you yesterday that we had a very important announcements that's coming up. So, don't forget that. That will be made known publicly tomorrow.
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But I think this is the first time since we've been doing this series on America's Christian heritage. Excuse me. That, we don't have any scripture references in the message. You know? Isn't that amazing when you think about it? Right? That's pathetic to be quite frank with you. But, you know, it's just it just didn't work out that way. We had that one passage from, from, Ephesians chapter six that we referenced. But, you know, it it's American history is just an amazing, amazing thing, and I never really had such an appreciation for it until, you know, later on in life. And I'm and and it's just to me, it's really interesting. So just let me know in the comments, or shoot us an email at, [email protected], or just go to our website and send us a message. Let us know if you wanna continue on with this. I don't have any problems doing it. We can probably go 10, maybe 11 Sundays, talking about this stuff. But, let me know what you think. Your comments are greatly appreciated.
Alright. So just, just wanna just try to get into, some, I guess, announcements. So, we're gonna revive this particular portion of our show. So let's get to some announcements. Alright. There we go. So folks, one of the things that I have not been mentioning few times, you know, when I talk about, you know, doing the shout outs for our producers and so and such. You know, talk about, you know, how to get included in all show notes, they get included in all the emails and everything we send out. We do have an email list, and I would love to see more folks signing up for it. We don't spam you. We're not gonna send you a ton of stuff that you're not really interested in. We're not looking to do that to you. We'd all all we wanna do is just let you know about changes in our schedule, programming announcements, if we have any interesting guests coming up that you need to to know about, or things we wanna direct your attention to.
So if, you head over to our website, you could easily sign up. We have a little pop up that comes up on the on the homepage when you first get to the website. So you could sign up right there, or we have a contact form that you could fill out on the website as well and send that over to us, and we can get you on the, the email list there. It'd be great to start, you know, sending that thing out again, and I kinda, you know, I've been remiss in my duties as as a host to, to do that. So head over to the website, look for the contact form, send it out to us, let us know you wanna be on the mailing list, and we will put it there. Again, like I said, we're not gonna spam you. We're not gonna send you stuff you're not interested in. We're not gonna sell your information. Everything stays secure right here with us, so you don't have to worry about any of that stuff. So just get yourself on the on the email list. Stay in the know. It'll be great to have have more folks involved with that. I mean, we got a pretty decent sized email list. You know, I'm surprised nobody's asked whatever happened, you know, how come we're not sending anything out. But we're gonna start doing that on a more regular basis, so please head over to the website and, jump on the email list. It's it'll be it's a great way for us to communicate with you. Alright. Now, tomorrow night, just wanna remind you that we have, our guest we have two guests tomorrow night. Our first hour guest is David McClellan, and then we have, Ken Good, in the second hour, so make sure you tune in for that.
Also, just wanna tell you if you're in the Eagle Pass area and you're looking for a good church, this is a bible study episode of the show, so we wanna pass this on to you. So if you are in the Eagle Pass area and you are looking for a good King James bible believing and bible teaching church, you need to head over to First Baptist Church of Eagle Pass. The church meets at 664 North Monroe. Sunday school starts at 10AM, worship service at eleven, and then there's a Sunday evening service at 6PM, and then a Wednesday night bible study at 7PM. Now for more information, all you need to do is just head over to the church's Facebook page. Really simple to find it. Just log in to Facebook, search for First Baptist Church of Eagle Pass. There's only one in Eagle Pass, and, you should be able to find us really great information about the church, about, all the things that are being done at the church, especially for our youth, groups. Right now, we have a a group of our, of our young people on the way to Louisiana for, a week of camp, Christian camp at Southland.
And, we have two, two incredible folks at the church that take on this responsibility every year, and they're on their way out there right now. So, so keep them in prayer, if you would. I I know I told them this morning I was probably not gonna keep them in prayer because I'm gonna forget, but I remembered. You see, God does intervene. And I'm not saying that flippantly. I'm not trying to be, you know, obnoxious about it. It's the truth. I really my memory's been like Swiss cheese, like I've been telling you guys. I've been forgetting a lot of stuff lately. So, I remembered this. So pray for them, George and Ruby.
We help we're we're praying that they have a safe drive with the kids from the church and, and, that the kids have a great great experience at Southland. I'm sure they will. They do every year, and this should be no different. Alright. What else we got here? So, I do want to also tell you about some of our sponsors. At the moment, we have one, and, it is my host platform for the audio version of the podcast. And, that is podhome.fm. Now, Pod home, it's a great platform to be on. Pod home is the most modern and easy to use podcast host platform there is. You could use it to publish your episodes, enhance your audio, automatically generate transcripts, chapters, titles, show notes, so much more. They give you a website that you can use at no additional charge.
They have the, they have the player that you can put up on your website. They also and if you actually if you go to my website, joeroos.com, you'll see on the homepage, there's a there's an audio player up there that's from Pod Home, And it works fantastic. It's fully integrated. It's it's a great, great product. And, you could, yeah. And you can actually even broadcast your podcasts live across the podcasting two point o platform compliant, podcast hosting sites. Okay. I know I messed that up, but, but you get everything really in all in one affordable subscription of $15.99 a month. That's $15.99 a month for all of that, and it's like having a complete studio team working for you and with you to get your podcast produced. So go to podhome.fm, try it out for free, and remember, sign up today, you get thirty days free.
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And, you find me there, surprise surprise, Joe Ruse. We try to keep it all uniform, so it's easy for you to find us. Alright. So that's, that's all the social medias that we're on. Make sure you check us out there. Let's see. Let's see. For donations, let's see. Do do you have any donation to make a mention of tonight? Nope. But we will tomorrow for sure. Let's do this. Okay. Well, now if you would like to donate to the show to help us out, we would really appreciate that. Now, you can help us out in one of many, many ways. We have several plans that you that you can work with to, to help contribute to keep this whole thing going. Now, again, as I indicated earlier in the show, we are a value for value show. Now, all that means is that if you are watching and you are receiving anything of value from what we're putting out there, whether it's the bible studies, the crypto talk, whether it's the the health information that we put out, or we'll be putting out, or if it's the political talk commentary that we do, whatever it is that you receive value from from what we're putting out there, we're asking that you return that value to us in the form of a donation. Now, your donation could be a one time donation in any amount. You can do a recurring monthly donation in any amount. Or if you really wanna help us, you can sign up to one of our producer tiers. Alright? And I say that really helps us because it's a set amount. We if somebody signs up for that, we know that that that that that those funds are coming, and we're able to properly budget out what we're doing. So you can get in on the entry level associate producer tier for $17.76 a month. Then you have the producer tier for $18.36 a month. And then we have two executive producer tiers. We have one at $25 a month and one at $50 a month. Now, all of the tiers get the same basic benefit. You get the shout out on every show.
You also get included in all the show notes for the audio and the video show. And then, you also get included in the emails, like I was just mentioning earlier, that we we're gonna have to start resending again. So you get all of that for all of all the tiers get that. And then, at the producer level, at the $25 level, it starts with all of the shout outs and inclusions, and then you get to book a segment with us on the show live so we can hang out and get to know each other and talk a little bit and, you know, kinda talk about the the issue of the day or whatever is on your mind at that particular moment. And, you get a thirty minute segment with us on the show live.
And then at executive producer level two, you get the, the inclusions, you get the show notes, you get the shout outs, you get the, you get the the, the thirty minute segment, and you get t shirts and sticker packs and all that great stuff. So it's, it's a lot of fun to do it too. We've had our executive producer, Wayne, on the show, a couple of times, and, it's been a lot of fun with that. You don't have to take advantage of that feature, but he did. We like that. So pick a tier, and if you, if you have the means to do it and you're able to help us out with that, we appreciate that. We're thankful for it. Alright. Other ways you can help us out, we do take cryptocurrencies. And, if you didn't check out the show from Saturday yesterday, you should check that out.
We talked about, the beginning of, Crypto Week. So need to check that out. You can help us out by donating crypto. We have our Ethereum, Tether, Bitcoin, and I think our Solana, addresses or or or wallet information up there on our website. So you just gotta scan the little barcode thingy and send it on over not barcode, the QR code thingy and send it on over to us. Alright? And, of course, we have a number of folks that are right now streaming sats to us across the modern podcast apps. So what are the modern podcast apps? You've heard me say it a couple of times. The modern podcast apps are apps like fountain.fm and podcast guru and and, truefans.fm.
Some great great platforms where you actually can earn cryptos in the form of Sats or Satoshis, which is like a micro payment of Bitcoin. And through those apps, you could actively donate to the show through boosts, boostograms. You can send a little note along with your with your boost, and you can do all of that through the app. And that is great. We love it. It's a lot of fun. And, we look forward to getting all of those, those micro payments. Those are great. So thank you to everybody that's been, sending us those boosts through the modern podcast apps. Now if you wanna check out some of the modern podcast apps, just head over to modernpodcastapps.com or podcastindex.org, and you'll be able to, see those apps and download. Like I said, I use fountain.fm.
I use podcast guru. There's so many Podverse, there's so many of them out there, that you can choose from. And you will really love each and every one of them. Each one of them has their own little unique thing about them. And, try them out. Try them out. Those are my go tos. Alright. Let's see what else we got. Listener involvement. Alright. So what is that? Something that I had mentioned, not too not too long ago. So if you would like to have your voice heard on the show and you don't necessarily want to, become a donor or anything like that, you could always record something for us. You can record a promo, a bumper, or something.
We'll you let us know what you're interested in. We'll send you a little script that you could read. You send that back to us. And if it's something that we could use, we will be very happy to produce it and add it onto the show, as bumpers or, on breaks or anything like that. So, to do that, just head over to the website or email us at [email protected], and, we'll we'll be in touch with you, and we'll work all that stuff out. Alright. Well, time for our shout outs. Alright. So shout outs to our executive producer, Wayne Rankin. Shout out to our executive producer, Rosanna Rankin. Executive producer, Carolina Jimenez.
Also our producer, anonymous Angela or missus producer, whichever it is at the moment. Sometimes we don't know. Alright. But, but thank you guys for all that you do for us. You guys are amazing. Thank you for the partnership. Thank you for all the work that you do, and, for donating your time, your talent, and your treasure or your treasure. So we greatly, greatly appreciate it. So with, I think with all of that said, I'm thinking that it's gonna be time for us to say good night, and that'll be all for us tonight, folks. Don't forget we will see you tomorrow live right here 7PM central time. We have our guests and then we have a whole week of shows lined up for you. Alright? So again, thank you for taking the time to be with us tonight. Head over to the website, joeroos.com contact section, and listen, make Texas independent again.
Go podcasting. Keep a steady stride, and you know something? Keep talking folks. Good night and goodbye. Bye. Keep smiling until then. Who cares about the clouds if we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
Introduction and Setting the Scene
Bible Study and American History
The Spiritual Side of the American Revolution
The Declaration of Independence
The Battle of Long Island
Washington's Crossing of the Delaware
Turning Points in the Revolutionary War
The Role of Providence in War
Announcements and Closing Remarks
