Declaration of Independence
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America in the Bible by Chapter & Verse (Answers)
United States by symbols, events, interactions with countries and/or major historic events on Jewish major or minor holy days.
Multiple Choice: Genesis 7, Exodus 32, 34, Leviticus 23, Numbers 13, Deuteronomy 29, 2 Kings 25, Esther 7, 9, Ezekiel 38, Daniel 2, 7, 9, 12, Joel 3, Haggai 2, Zechariah 8, Matthew 24-25, Revelation 6, 8-13, 16, 17
() Number of chapters. Many events include Jewish holy days.
l American Independence Day and Constitution Day are on Jewish Holy Days (3).
Exodus 32, 34, Zechariah 8: Dates
On July 2, 1776, the Second Continental Congress votes for independence but on Thursday,
July 4, 1776 (17th of
Tammuz), they adopt the Declaration of Independence. The United States was born on the day of the
Golden Calf.
It came to pass, as soon as [Moses] came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount (
Exodus 32:19).
Thus says the Lord of hosts; The fast of the fourth month [Golden Calf], fast of the fifth [Kadesh Barnea], fast of the seventh [Atonement], and fast of the tenth [Babylon siege of Jerusalem], shall be to the house of Judah joy, gladness and cheerful feasts; therefore love truth and peace (
Zechariah 8:19).
The Constitution was adopted on Monday,
September 17, 1787 (5th of
Tishri,
Teshuvah/Days of Awe). On June 21, 1788, New Hampshire was ninth to approve, which is the minimum to ratify the Constitution. Rhode Island was the last state to approve on May 29, 1790.
Teshuvah is forty days of repentance (1st of
Elul-10th of
Tishri). As Moses is on Mt. Sinai, so each year the people repent to prepare for the high holy days of
Trumpets and
Atonement.
The Lord said unto Moses, Hew two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which you broke. And he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments (
Exodus 34:1, 28).
l The United States is an eagle born from a lion (5).
Exodus 32, Daniel 2, 7, Revelation 6, 13: Symbol, Event, Date
The national symbol of the United States is an
eagle. The eagle was born and torn from a lion on
July 4, 1776 (17th of
Tammuz). This is a black
horse war. The mouth of the lion is English. The lion (United Kingdom), bear (Russia), leopard (Germany) merge to form the 10 horned
Tribulation Beast.
It came to pass, as soon as [Moses] came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount (
Exodus 32:19).
His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay. You saw the feet and toes, part of potters' clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as you saw the iron mixed with miry clay. As the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken. In in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed.... (
Daniel 2:33, 41-42, 44).
The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld till the wings were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it (
Daniel 7:4).
When he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a [denarius], and three measures of barley for a [denarius]; and see you hurt not the oil and the wine (
Revelation 6:5-6).
The beast which I saw was like a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority (
Revelation 13:2).
l Mark Twain travels to Jerusalem and writes that the Holy Land is desolate (3).
Exodus 34, Leviticus 23, Deuteronomy 29: Event, Dates
In 1867, American author, Mark Twain, takes a trip to Europe and the Middle East and writes a daily travel letters for two newspapers compiled in
The Innocents Abroad. He arrives in
Jerusalem in the Ottoman Empire on
September 23 (23rd of
Elul, 9/11/
Teshuvah) and leaves on
September 30 (
Trumpets, 1st of
Tishri). He says the holy land is desolate. Then God brings His people back to the Promised Land (
Deuteronomy 30:1-3).
[Moses] was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments (
Exodus 34:28).
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall you have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation. You shall do no work: but you shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord (
Leviticus 23:24-25).
So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the Lord hath laid upon it; And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath: Even all nations shall say, Wherefore has the Lord done this unto this land? what means the heat of this great anger? Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt: (
Deuteronomy 29:22, 23, 24-25).