The English word patriot comes from the Latin word ‘patriota’ which means fellow countryman and comes from the Greek word ‘patrios’ which means ‘of one’s father’ which traces back further to the Hebrew word פטר ‘pater’ speaking of giving birth. Patriots are ‘brethren’ who come forth from the same ‘father.’ As seen in a previous tidbitclick here, the Father of the Patriots of the United States is YHWH.
The patriots believed they were the vine planted in the wilderness spoken of by the Prophet Isaiah.
Isa 5:1 Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
Isa 5:2 And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
Isa 5:3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.
Isa 5:4 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?
Isa 5:5 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
Isa 5:6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
Isa 5:7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
Mat 21:33 Hear another parable: There was a certain man, a house master, who planted a vineyard and placed a hedge around it; and he dug a winepress in it, and built a tower. And he rented it to vinedressers and left the country.Isa. 5:1, 2
Mat 21:34 And when the season of the fruits came, he sent his slaves to the vinedressers to receive his fruits.
Mat 21:35 And the vinedressers, taking his slaves, they beat this one, and they killed one, and they stoned another.
Mat 21:36 Again he sent other slaves, more than the first. And they did the same to them.
Mat 21:37 And at last he sent his son to them, saying, They will respect my son.
Mat 21:38 But seeing the son, the vinedressers said among themselves, This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and possess his inheritance.
Mat 21:39 And taking him, they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.
Mat 21:40 Therefore, when the lord of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those vinedressers?
Mat 21:41 They said to Him, Bad men! He will miserably destroy them, and he will rent out the vineyard to other vinedressers who will give to him the fruits in their seasons.
Mat 21:42 Jesus said to them, Did you never read in the Scriptures, “A Stone which the builders rejected, this One became the Head of the Corner? This was from the Lord, and it is a wonder in our eyes?”Psalm 118:22, 23
Mat 21:43 Because of this I say to you, The kingdom of God will be taken from you, and it will be given to a nation producing the fruits of it.
This is the role that America was/is to fulfill. No single nation has spread the Gospel more than the USA/America. The problem is that when believers fled from Europe to escape religious persecution, there was also those from the side of darkness that came along with them to escape that same religious intolerance. There has always been this power struggle in this country between those who wish to worship YHWH according to the dictates of their hearts versus those who hate Him and wish to bring about a new world of antichristclick here.
In Hebrew the word for father (which is the source of the word Patriot) is a picture of a vine.
Joh 15:1 I am the True Vine, and My Father is the Vinedresser.
Joh 15:2 Every branch in Me not bearing fruit, He takes it away; and each one bearing fruit, He prunes, so that it may bear more fruit.
Joh 15:3 You are already pruned because of the Word which I have spoken to you.
Joh 15:4 Remain in Me, and I in you. As the branch is not able to bear fruit of itself, unless it remain in the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in Me.
Joh 15:5 I am the Vine; you are the branches. The one abiding in Me, and I in him, this one bears much fruit, because apart from Me you are not able to execute, nothing.
Joh 15:6 Unless one remains in Me, he is cast out as the branch and is dried up; and they gather and throw them into a fire, and they are burned.
Joh 15:7 If you remain in Me, and My Words remain in you, whatever you desire you will ask, and it shall happen to you.
Joh 15:8 In this My Father is glorified, that you should bear much fruit; and you will be disciples to Me.
Joh 15:9 As the Father loved Me, I also loved you; continue in My love.
Joh 15:10 If you keep My commandments you will continue in My love, as I have kept My Father’s commandments and continue in His love.
The Pillar, which is another form of אב is linked to the Root
Isa 6:13 But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance{H4678matstsebeth a monumental stone; also the stock of a tree: – pillar, substance.} is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed(Gal 3:16) shall be the substance(H4678 ROOT) thereof.
Rom 11:16 Now if the firstfruit is holy, so also the lump. And if the root is holy, so also the branches.
See Olive Tree studyGen 13:8 And Abram said to Lot, Please let there be no strife between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are men, brothers.
Rom 12:10 in brotherly love to one another, loving fervently, having gone before one another in honor;
1Th 4:9 Now as to brotherly love, you have no need for me to write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.
1Pe 2:17 honor all, love the brotherhood, fear God, honor the king.
Patriotism is brotherly love, designed to bring people together.
Psa 133:1 A Song of Ascents. Of David. Behold! How good and how pleasant is the living of brothers, even in unity.
Biblically, unity comes through the Wordclick here. In the natural, unity amongst patriots/countryman is through the Constitution. The Greek word for brotherly love is φιλαδελφία ‘philadelphia.’ Is it any surprise that the Constitution was written in Philadelphia?
The Bible and the Constitution of the United States of America – Verna Hall pg 11
“He (Jesus Christ) gives them (disciples) a bond of union, – by which they should always be linked to Him and to each other in the principle of love…It is instructive that the charatcteristic mark of Christianity should thus be asserted by its Founder to consist, not in any formulary or sings, but in the love which asserts the brotherhood of man. The apologists of the first century delighted in appealing to the strking fact of the common love of Cristians, which was a new thing in the history of mankind; and while the Chruch has somtimes forgotten the characteristic, the world never has. By their love for each other, for mankind, and for God, is it known or denied that men who call themselves Christians are really Christ’s disciples.”
This was the same love that the Patriots who founded the United States based their idealogy upon.
John Quincy Adams wrote “The God in whose name they spoke had taught them, in the revelation of the Gospel, that the only way in which man can discharge his duty to Him is by loving his neighbor as himself, and doing with him as he would be done by; respecting his rights while enjoying his own, and applying all his emacipated powers of body and mind to self-improvement and the improvement of his race.” {The Bible and the Constitution of the United States of America – Verna Hall pg 19}
John Witherspoon in his Fast Day Sermon of May 17, 1776 wrote
“Upon the whole, I beseech you to make wise improvement of the present threatening aspect of public affairs and to remember that your duty God, to your country, to your families, and to yourselves is the same. True religion is nothing else but and inward temper and outward conduct suited to your state and circumstance in Providence at any time. And as peace with God and conformity to Him, adds to the sweeness of created comforts while we possess them, so in times of difficulty and tiral, it is in the man of piety and inward principle that we may expect to find the uncorrupted patriot, the useful citizen, and the invincible soldier, – God grant that in America true religion and civil liberty may be inseperable, and the unjust attempts to destroy the one, may in the issue tend to the support and establishment of both.” {The Bible and the Constitution of the United States of America – Verna Hall pg 22}
Links:
Daily Tidbits 1/12/12 – Freedom
Shadows of Messiah – The Declaration of Independence
Shadows of Messiah – The Constitution
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