Glenn Beck's Restoring Honor Rally & American Obedience to God
By Jared Law -- Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
Glenn Beck's 8.28: Restoring Honor Rally and the leadup thereto, including America's Divine Destiny, Glenn Beck's program the night before at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, which is available on Glenn Beck's Insider Extreme, along with many 8.28-related video clips (and Beck University, which includes Faith 101, 102, 103; Hope 101, 102, 103, and Charity 101, 102, & 103, in addition to many history lesson-video clips), constitute the greatest assortment of exhortations to do the right thing, to turn to God, to be righteous, outside of any official church function or event, that I have ever witnessed, not to mention a great honoring of America's military heroes. It is a cultural masterpiece, reminding us of the role that Christianity played in the founding of this nation, while at the same time, applying the principles embodied in Natural Law and Nature's God to our current state of affairs in 21st Century America.
The United States of America is the greatest nation on Earth, and no rational, unbiased observer can effectively dispute this fact. We have contributed more to mankind's liberty, to human comfort and actual progress, than any other nation on Earth. Obviously, credit for this goes to God, since HE blessed us with such an inspired form of government as that outlined in The Constitution of the United States of America. God is the One who embedded the Principles of Freedom which are enshrined in the Constitution of the United States of America therein. True, our Founding Fathers share the credit, since they obeyed God, and did what they were inspired to do, but it all goes back to God.
But back to America; I agree with all who argue that Glenn Beck has been inspired by God; he has, by listening to the still, small voice of the Holy Spirit, organized something that the enemies of freedom, embodied and otherwise, simply cannot dismiss, nor can they criticize it, not without condemning themselves as being in open rebellion against God and The United States of America.
Now, after having a few days to ponder what Glenn Beck has accomplished, with Providential Aid, I have come to the conclusion that the Restoring Honor rally an absolute miracle (in this day and age, what Glenn Beck was able to pull off, both in terms of our attendance, the program, the symbolic/historic location and the symbolic/historic date, was unquestionably a miracle). However, it was short-lived if the only thing that happens was a good time had by all, some tears shed, the spirit felt, and a great sigh of relief that we're restoring America.
We MUST continue to work at self-control (self-government), we must continue to become a more truthful nation, we must continue to be more honest with ourselves and our families, our friends, neighbors, and other peers. We must be loyal to our oaths, and more true to our covenants. We must pray more, and for those of us not praying, we must begin to pray multiple times a day. Never eat without blessing your meal, even if it's at Wendy's, In-N-Out, Ruth's Chris, or a local Mexican or Chinese restaurant. Don't be afraid to pray, even in public.
We must do our best to attend our church, if we have one, and if we don't have one, find one. If we attend a church, pay a full tithe. If we don't find one. When you pray at home, with or without your family, pray on your knees. Humble yourselves before your creator. Turn to God, America! If we fail to do so, we will fail to qualify for the Providential Aid we so desperately need!
Remember, we must act as if it all depends on us, and pray as if it all depends on God!
And if we can make the Restoring Honor rally the BEGINNING of a real, deep, broad, complete Third Great American Awakening, then we will have God on our side, and we will have won the battle, on the way to doing our part to win the war. Let's be on God's side; He's on ours if we will let him in!
Now some of you (very few of you, based upon what I've seen so far on our network) don't believe in God. Some of you tolerate us religious folk, and you just don't understand why we choose to believe in a God we cannot see. The answer is Faith. Faith is:
Heb. 11: 1
1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
What that means is that faith is something we hope for, that we cannot see evidence for. In other words, faith is a choice. It's as simple as choosing to believe that you are more than the product of evolution, more than a descendant of apes and an evolutionary accident, and that there is life after death, and that God does, in fact, exist, and he created the heavens and the Earth, and that you he created your spirit body, and there's more to life than mere accumulation of money and power.
It also means that our Heavenly Father loves us, just as all good Fathers here on Earth do, and that he expects us to do good, he wants us to be happy, and that his commandments are more than a bunch of aphorisms; we will actually be judged based upon how we live our lives, how we strive to keep His commandments, and if we choose to repent and ask to be forgiven our sins, so we can be clean at the Judgment Bar of God after this life.
And since he wants us to be happy, it stands to reason he wants us to be free. It means the Constitution of the United States of America is an inspired document, and it was meant for the protection of ALL MANKIND. Meaning that it was created not only for us, but for all, if their country will, as a nation, choose to adopt a written constitution something like ours, to guarantee their freedoms, as ours are guaranteed.
Our Founding Fathers knew, also, that only a righteous people can be governed by such a Constitution. In fact, John Adams said, on October 11, 1798, that:
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
And so it is.
The more a nation's people refuse to govern themselves (self control), the more need they have of tyrannical constraints. That is why it is best if we are a moral and a religious people; if we have the constraints that religion and morality place upon us, the Constitution is perfect. If not, more laws, regulations, etc. are required to preserve the rights of potential victims, but then the liberty of all is constrained. Eventually that leads us to where we are now. We never would have allowed ourselves to get in it so deep had we been a more righteous nation before now.
Thank the Lord Almighty for repentance! Now if only...if only every American who had heard of the 8.28 Rally would hold this sacred: Restoring Honor Starts With Me!
May America Turn Back to God, and may God Continue to Bless The United States of America!
Jared Law is the founder of The 9.12 Project Network, located at http://www.the912project.us/
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Monday, August 30, 2010
CNSNews.com -- The Real Glenn Beck Restoring Honor Rally!
CNSNews.com
Tell the Truth and Turn to God, Glenn Beck Tells Hundreds of Thousands at His Restoring Honor Rally
Monday, August 30, 2010
By Susan Jones, Senior Editor
The crowd attending the "Restoring Honor" rally, organized by Glenn Beck, is seen from the top of the Washington Monument on Saturday, Aug. 28, 2010. In the foreground is the National World War II Memorial.(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Washington (CNSNews.com) – Americans may disagree on their politics, and that’s okay, Glenn Beck told a crowd numbering in the hundreds of thousands on Saturday. But for the sake of the nation, Americans must agree on their values and principles.
Change for the better begins in each one of us, Beck said, as he urged Americans to turn to God – just as the Founding Fathers did. Your country needs you, he said.
Under warm, sunny skies, Americans from across the country trooped to the National Mall for Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally.
From the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, the crowd rolled back to the World War II Memorial, and beyond that to the sloping lawn of the Washington Monument. Trying to reach the Mall from all sides, some people were too far away to clearly hear what was being said.
Near the end of the rally, a U.S. Park Police helicopter made several loops around the Mall, prompting Beck to joke that the crowd must be huge since the chopper was violating restricted air space to count it.
Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally filled up the National Mall on Saturday, Aug. 28, 2010. (Photo by Penny Starr/CNSNews.com)
The crowd, as large as it was, was quiet and respectful. There was some flag-waving, but there were few, if any, signs visible on the Mall – in keeping with Beck’s request not to politicize the rally. Some people wore T-shirts with political messages, but many more people wore clothing with no message at all.
This was not a tea party event. Unlike the Al Sharpton rally, which took place Saturday afternoon at a nearby location, people did not come to the Mall to vent their frustration. Many at the Restoring Honor rally seemed to be seeking inspiration.
This was the kind of gathering where the frequent mentions of God, far from causing offense, drew applause.
Sarah Palin spoke as the mother of an Iraq war veteran at Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally on the National Mall on Saturday, Aug. 28, 2010. (Photo by Penny Starr/CNSNews.com)
With its theme of faith, hope and charity, the rally resembled an old-fashioned religious revival. And certainly the message was one of reviving a nation in turmoil.
Beginning around 10 a.m. with Sarah Palin’s call to honor the troops who defend us, the rally continued with various speakers handing out medals to three unsung heroes who exemplify the kind of faith, hope and charity that inspired the rally.
The Rev. C.L. Jackson of Houston, the longtime pastor of the Pleasant Grove Missionary Baptist Church in Houston, was honored for his faith; St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Albert Pujols, introduced by team manager Tony La Russa, was honored for inspiring hope through his family foundation that helps children with Down Syndrome; and billionaire philanthropist Jon M. Huntsman Sr. of Utah was honored for his charitable work in funding cancer research.
While Beck honored three living heroes at his rally, he also invoked patriots long dead.
Glenn Beck speaks the "Restoring Honor" rally in front of the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday, Aug. 28, 2010. (Photo by Penny Starr/CNSNews.com)
He recited Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address to make the point that what is said at the Restoring Honor rally matters little, if it produces no action afterward on the part of those listening. (“If people awaken and turn around and see that we have lost our way, and they do something about it in their own lives, not through politics but in their own lives, then it's an important day. Otherwise, it was just a nice day out in the sunshine,” Beck told Fox News Sunday after the rally.)
Beck talked about George Washington’s many personal sacrifices for the good of the country. He also expressed the hope that somewhere in the crowd there is another George Washington: “He may be 8 years old,” Beck said, but “this is the moment that he dedicates his life, that he sees giants around him.”
Beck also talked about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s message that the content of one’s character should count more than skin color. Of all the patriots he invoked, Beck said he could relate the most to Martin Luther King – “probably because we haven’t carved him in marble yet.”
The crowd applauded after one of the several large screens set up on the Mall showed clips of MLK making his “I Have a Dream” speech exactly 47 years ago – at that same place.
Interviewed after the rally, Beck told Fox News Sunday the message he tried to convey was to “be your highest self” and to “stand for those things that are right.”
“I think every American has a role in saving this country,” Beck told Fox News’s Chris Wallace. “Whether you're Democrat, Republican, independent, it doesn't matter. We all know the country's in trouble. We may disagree on how to solve it, but we all know the country's in trouble.”
Beck, responding to a question, said the size of the crowd at his rally sends two messages to politicians: First, “a good number of people are not happy with the direction we're going,” he said.
And second – “We want the truth. Americans just want the truth. And that's why I said [at the rally], demand the truth from yourself first before you demand it from someone else.”
Tell the Truth and Turn to God, Glenn Beck Tells Hundreds of Thousands at His Restoring Honor Rally
Monday, August 30, 2010
The crowd attending the "Restoring Honor" rally, organized by Glenn Beck, is seen from the top of the Washington Monument on Saturday, Aug. 28, 2010. In the foreground is the National World War II Memorial.(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Washington (CNSNews.com) – Americans may disagree on their politics, and that’s okay, Glenn Beck told a crowd numbering in the hundreds of thousands on Saturday. But for the sake of the nation, Americans must agree on their values and principles.
Change for the better begins in each one of us, Beck said, as he urged Americans to turn to God – just as the Founding Fathers did. Your country needs you, he said.
Under warm, sunny skies, Americans from across the country trooped to the National Mall for Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally.
From the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, the crowd rolled back to the World War II Memorial, and beyond that to the sloping lawn of the Washington Monument. Trying to reach the Mall from all sides, some people were too far away to clearly hear what was being said.
Near the end of the rally, a U.S. Park Police helicopter made several loops around the Mall, prompting Beck to joke that the crowd must be huge since the chopper was violating restricted air space to count it.
Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally filled up the National Mall on Saturday, Aug. 28, 2010. (Photo by Penny Starr/CNSNews.com)
The crowd, as large as it was, was quiet and respectful. There was some flag-waving, but there were few, if any, signs visible on the Mall – in keeping with Beck’s request not to politicize the rally. Some people wore T-shirts with political messages, but many more people wore clothing with no message at all.
This was not a tea party event. Unlike the Al Sharpton rally, which took place Saturday afternoon at a nearby location, people did not come to the Mall to vent their frustration. Many at the Restoring Honor rally seemed to be seeking inspiration.
This was the kind of gathering where the frequent mentions of God, far from causing offense, drew applause.
Sarah Palin spoke as the mother of an Iraq war veteran at Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally on the National Mall on Saturday, Aug. 28, 2010. (Photo by Penny Starr/CNSNews.com)
With its theme of faith, hope and charity, the rally resembled an old-fashioned religious revival. And certainly the message was one of reviving a nation in turmoil.
Beginning around 10 a.m. with Sarah Palin’s call to honor the troops who defend us, the rally continued with various speakers handing out medals to three unsung heroes who exemplify the kind of faith, hope and charity that inspired the rally.
The Rev. C.L. Jackson of Houston, the longtime pastor of the Pleasant Grove Missionary Baptist Church in Houston, was honored for his faith; St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Albert Pujols, introduced by team manager Tony La Russa, was honored for inspiring hope through his family foundation that helps children with Down Syndrome; and billionaire philanthropist Jon M. Huntsman Sr. of Utah was honored for his charitable work in funding cancer research.
While Beck honored three living heroes at his rally, he also invoked patriots long dead.
Glenn Beck speaks the "Restoring Honor" rally in front of the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday, Aug. 28, 2010. (Photo by Penny Starr/CNSNews.com)
He recited Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address to make the point that what is said at the Restoring Honor rally matters little, if it produces no action afterward on the part of those listening. (“If people awaken and turn around and see that we have lost our way, and they do something about it in their own lives, not through politics but in their own lives, then it's an important day. Otherwise, it was just a nice day out in the sunshine,” Beck told Fox News Sunday after the rally.)
Beck talked about George Washington’s many personal sacrifices for the good of the country. He also expressed the hope that somewhere in the crowd there is another George Washington: “He may be 8 years old,” Beck said, but “this is the moment that he dedicates his life, that he sees giants around him.”
Beck also talked about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s message that the content of one’s character should count more than skin color. Of all the patriots he invoked, Beck said he could relate the most to Martin Luther King – “probably because we haven’t carved him in marble yet.”
The crowd applauded after one of the several large screens set up on the Mall showed clips of MLK making his “I Have a Dream” speech exactly 47 years ago – at that same place.
Interviewed after the rally, Beck told Fox News Sunday the message he tried to convey was to “be your highest self” and to “stand for those things that are right.”
“I think every American has a role in saving this country,” Beck told Fox News’s Chris Wallace. “Whether you're Democrat, Republican, independent, it doesn't matter. We all know the country's in trouble. We may disagree on how to solve it, but we all know the country's in trouble.”
Beck, responding to a question, said the size of the crowd at his rally sends two messages to politicians: First, “a good number of people are not happy with the direction we're going,” he said.
And second – “We want the truth. Americans just want the truth. And that's why I said [at the rally], demand the truth from yourself first before you demand it from someone else.”
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