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"THE BLACK ROBE REGIMENT
***A PORTRAIT IN MINIATURE***
REVEREND PETER MUHLENBERG"

"It was Sunday morning early in the year 1776. In the church where Pastor Muhlenberg preached, it was a regular service for his congregation, but a quite different affair for Muhlenberg himself. Muhlenberg's text for the day was Ecclesiastes 3 where it explains,
'To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven; a time to be born, and a time to die, a time to plant, and a time to pluck what is planted...'"

"Coming to the end of his sermon, Peter Muhlenberg turned to his congregation and said,
'In the language of the holy writ, there was a time for all things, a time to preach and a time to pray, but those times have passed away.'
As those assembled looked on, Pastor Muhlenberg declared,
'There is a time to fight, and that time is now coming!'
Muhlenberg then proceeded to remove his robes revealing, to the shock of his congregation, a military uniform."
"Marching to the back of the church he declared,
'Who among you is with me?'
On that day 300 men from his church stood up and joined Peter Muhlenberg. They eventually became the 8th Virginia Brigade fighting for liberty."
"Frederick Muhlenberg, Peter's brother, was against Peter's level of involvement in the war. Peter responded to Frederick writing,
'I am a Clergyman it is true, but I am a member of the Society as well as the poorest Layman, and my Liberty is as dear to me as any man, shall I then sit still and enjoy myself at Home when the best Blood of the Covenant is spilling? ...So far am I from thinking that I act wrong, I am convinced it is my duty to do so and duly I owe to God and my country."

Peter Muhlenberg, Pastor & Patriot. by Josh Pittman
********************************************************************************************************The above is one story of one pastor who chose the path of Liberty and Freedom...
and that Liberty and Freedom has been graciously bestowed by our Heavenly Father to each of us.
It has been freely offered, freely sacrificed for by Christ Jesus, and it is the duty of each of us to acknowledge that precious gift and to not give it away lightly.
There were hundreds of such men and women during that awful epoch of our American History who chose the path that Pastor Muhlenberg took.
There were many such brave souls who opted to sacrifice all for God, Family, and Country during that period of the Birth of our Nation and during other such battles as these, before and after this Revolution.
It was and is the birth pains of an Empire that the founders of this Nation and those who descended after bear.
Our Nation is not so very old....it has not been long since it was first conceived and birthed.
Indeed, we are still being birthed...but now in a very different way.
What is being birthed is not what the Creator envisioned or created, nor what our forefathers and mothers hoped to realize.
It is not at all what they bled and died for.
Each of us have inherited in some form the genetic material of these people who came seeking Liberty and Justice;
these people who bore up under severe hardships from their countries of origin,
despotic rule that came in the form of societal structure....religious, political, familial, educational.
The pastors of that day, and their congregations, were living out of what had come over 100 years prior...
where religion and politics were woven into the same fabric.
There was no separation between the two spheres.
This Revolution against Britain would culminate in a totally different awareness and way of life than had ever been lived on this planet;
and may never be seen again in the present state of things.
What remained was a hope and a promise....a Republic.
And this Republic was created out of the awareness
that the people who then inhabited this country were a moral and upright people;
people who were fashioned from 2000 years of formation out of the womb of salvation that only Christ Jesus can offer.
A people who were honed by thousands of years before Christ walked the Earth by way of the Israelites
who had been scattered and dispersed many times in their history.
These folks who now inhabited this New Jerusalem (this New Eden that Christopher Columbus saw),
were living out what they saw as a life and a country that was fashioned entirely by their Creator.
The Constitution (Part 1--the Declaration of Independence, and part 2), was and is a covenant between the people of America and their Heavenly Father.
It was written for a Christian people....who are fully able to internally govern themselves.
Thus, the meaning of a Republic that was inspired by God's Word
and spells out the mission of God's children and Christ's ambassadors on Earth.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Extended News
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Pastors, Join the Black Regiment!
By David Alan Black

If there is a decay of conscience, the pulpit is responsible for it.
If the public press lacks moral discernment, the pulpit is responsible for it.
If the church is degenerate and worldly, the pulpit is responsible for it.
If the world loses its interest in Christianity, the pulpit is responsible for it.
If Satan rules in our halls of legislation, the pulpit is responsible for it.
If our politics become so corrupt
that the very foundations of our government are ready to fall away,
the pulpit is responsible for it. ~ Rev. Charles Finney

Why does it seem that Americans are the only people on earth who are blind to the truth and ignorant of their history? Wherever you look, we can see the vision of freedom that once deluged our shores being swept away. We have to wonder how much longer our American Republic can survive.
Our government has become a great candy machine spewing out an endless stream of treats to lucky people, and we have to pay the bill for it! I’m talking about trillions of our hard-earned wages every single year, and the government’s appetite just keeps growing and growing, getting bigger and bigger and bigger.
What we need in this nation of ours is a political revolution, just like the one we had in 1776. Above all, I believe we need pastors and other Christian leaders who are willing to stand up to our current batch of spoiled secular bureaucrats, pastors who read and understand such great patriots as Noah Webster, who in his History of the United States wrote:
Almost all the civil liberty now enjoyed in the world owes its origin to the principles of the Christian religion….
The religion which has introduced civil liberty is the religion of Christ and His apostles,
which enjoins humility, piety, and benevolence;
which acknowledges in every person a brother or sister and a citizen with equal rights.
This is genuine Christianity,
and to this we owe our free constitution of government.

We need pastors who reject the lie

that our national ideals stem from the influence of the French Enlightenment
rather than from the Bible and Christianity,
pastors who, with John Wingate Thornton, understand that
“To the Pulpit, the Puritan Pulpit, we owe the moral force which won our independence.”
We need pastors who realize that our independence today stems from one thing and one thing only:
from the biblical concept
that all men are created in the image of God,
and because of this all men are entitled to equal treatment and unalienable rights.

In short, we need pastors who are willing to join today’s “Black Regiment.”
The Black Regiment was a group of clergy who were fierce opponents of British tyranny
and a driving force in the decision of the colonies to seek independence. King George had provoked many of these men to leave England by demanding that they submit to licensing by the crown.
He called them the Black Regiment because of the black robes they wore when preaching.
These men of God staunchly opposed the divine right of kings.
Their cry was,
“Restore the crown rights of King Jesus!”
Many of them wrote impassioned pleas for freedom, and some even joined the Continental Army.
When George Washington asked Lutheran pastor John Muhlenberg to raise a regiment of volunteers, Muhlenberg gladly agreed.
Before marching off to join Washington’s army, he delivered a powerful sermon from Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 that concluded with these words:
The Bible tells us there is a time for all things
and there is a time to preach and a time to pray
but the time for me to preach has passed away,
and there is a time to fight,
and that time has come now.
Now is the time to fight!
Call for recruits! Sound the drums!

Then Muhlenberg took off his clerical robe to reveal the uniform of a Virginia Colonel.
Grabbing his musket from behind the pulpit, he donned his Colonel’s hat and marched off to war.
Pastor friend, will you join this patriotic host?
Are you willing to say,
“I will fight for the truth.
I will be beholden to no one (whether a Democrat, Republican, or Other) except Jesus.
I will stand up to the despots
who are seeking to enslave us all
by sending our children to their deaths as they build their New World Order
and as they tax us into poverty.
I will seek to bind our politicians with the chains of the Constitution.
And I will do this for the glory of God and the advancement of Christian liberty.”
Yes, the dues are high (radical obedience),
but your treasure in heaven will more than amply repay.
May God give you the courage to join today!

And my I ... as the poster ... add this ...

And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee,
the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee,
and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations,
whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee,
And shalt return unto the LORD thy God,
and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day,
thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul;
That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee,
and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee.
If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven,
from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee,
and from thence will he fetch thee:
And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed,
and thou shalt possess it;
and He will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers.
And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed,
to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul,
that thou mayest live.
And the LORD thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies,
and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee.
And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the LORD,
and do all his commandments which I command thee this day.
And the LORD thy God will make thee plenteous
in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body,
and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land,
for good:
for the LORD will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers:
If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God,
to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law,
and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.
For this commandment which I command thee this day,
it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off.
It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say,
Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?
Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say,
Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?
But the word is very nigh unto thee,
in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
See, I have set before thee this day
life and good,
and death and evil;
In that I command thee this day
to love the LORD thy God,
to walk in his ways,
and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments,
that thou mayest live and multiply:
and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear,
but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;
I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish,
and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land,
whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it.
I call heaven and earth to record this day against you,
that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing:
therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
That thou mayest love the LORD thy God,
and that thou mayest obey his voice,
and that thou mayest cleave unto him:
for he is thy life, and the length of thy days:
that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers,
to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

240 Men and Women of the Cloth Assembled in Stage at 8/28 Representing thousands of American Clergy Who Have Joined the New Black Robe Regiment