Miraculous Resurrection

Origins of the First Christian Fellowship of Eternal Sovereignty

By Daniel McGavin Hansen, Sovereign

In the vast stretches of Nevada’s deserts and mountains where droughts may last weeks, months or years at a time, the earth can turn dull in color and appear desolate and void of life. The land can look tortured as it is often scorched and baked by unrelenting barrages from the elements. But, baptized by moisture from heaven to mix with the sun the seeds of the earth spring forth with treasures of life that have lain dormant or hidden awaiting a miraculous resurrection. Billions of flowers blossom in splendor to splash the mountains and valleys with colors to rival and even, if possible, to exceed the rainbow with multiple hues and seemingly unending varieties of colors: reds and pinks, blues and lavenders, whites, greens, yellows, oranges and rusts to please the heart, gladden the eye, and tantalize the senses.

The desert flowers are like Lazarus of Biblical acclaim (St. John 11), apparently dead in the tomb but coming forth to new life at the beckoning of the Master of Life, Jesus the Christ. The Origin of the flowers was not the reemergence of Life at the time of rain. Generations of the cycle of life provided an undeniable chain of continuity that resurrected and redisplayed the history of the earth into spectacularly visible current events.

Similarly, The First Christian Fellowship of Eternal Sovereignty is not an isolated or newly discovered religion. Our roots go deep into the history and firmament of the earth. Keeping the indomitable spirit of Freedom and Sovereignty alive have been brief periods of thunder and lightning and war that have baptized the earth with the purest blood of the generations of mankind to nurture the roots of liberty that they may endure generations of neglect, ingratitude and tyranny to reemerge at the behest of Freemen inspired by the gospel of Christ to reestablish their dominance over the weeds of ignorance, fear, cupidity, treachery, moral apathy and slavish devotion to the false gods of comfort and security.

Ponder, Dear Reader, the words of Lord Acton:

It was from America that the plain ideas that men ought to mind their own business, and that the nation is responsible for the acts of State—ideas long locked in the breasts of solitary thinkers and hidden among Latin folios, burst forth like a conqueror upon the world they were destined to transform, under the title of the Rights of Man.

Trace our origin to Alexander Hamilton who declared in 1802:

In my opinion, the present constitution is the standard to which we are to cling. Under its banner bona fide must we combat our political foes, rejecting all changes but through the channel itself provided for amendments. By these general views of the subject have my reflections been guided.

I now offer you the outline of the plan they have suggested. Let an association be formed to be denominated ’The Christian Constitutional Society,’ its object to be first: The support of the Christian religion. second: The support of the United States.

CONSIDER:

After each of the delegates had signed the Declaration of Independence Samuel Adams declared:

We have this day restored the Sovereign to Whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and from the rising to the setting of the sun, let His kingdom come.
Jonathan Turmbull a Crown-appointed Governor wrote back to England:

If you ask an American, who is his master? He will tell you he has none, nor any governor but Jesus Christ.
The Committees of Correspondence sounded the cry across the Colonies:

NO King but KING JESUS
The men of Marlborough, Massachusetts unanimously declared in 1773:

Death is more eligible than slavery, a free-born people are not required by the religion of Jesus Christ to submit to tyranny, but may make use of such power as God has given them to recover and support their laws and liberties...

These men of Marlborough implored,

the Ruler above the skies, that He would make bare His arm in defense of His Church and people, and let Israel go.

What is the origin of our Sovereign Religion?

James Madison wrote in 1785:

Religion [is] the basis and Foundation of Government.

Mr. Meacham of the House Committee on the Judiciary reported to the Congress of the United States of America March 27, 1854:

Down to the Revolution... It was deemed peculiarly proper that the RELIGION of LIBERTY should be upheld by a free people.

In the mouths of two or more Witnesses shall all things be established. II Cor. 13 vs I.

Witness 1: Patrick Henry Boldly Declared

It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.

Witness 2: Christocrat

Benjamin Rush was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and a principle promoter of the American Sunday School Union. He also served as the Surgeon General of the Continental Army, helped to write the Pennsylvania Constitution and was the treasurer of the U.S. Mint.

In 1798, after the adoption of the Constitution, Benjamin Rush declared:

The only foundation for... a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments.

Benjamin Rush described himself:

I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.

Witness 3: Christian Soldier

Lewis Cass was an American soldier, lawyer, politician and diplomat. After serving in the War of 1812, he became the Governor-General of the Territory of Michigan, where he made treaties with the Indians, organized townships and built roads. He was a United States Senator, Secretary of State under President James Buchanan and the Democratic Candidate for the Presidency in 1848. Lewis Cass stated:

Independent of its connection with human destiny hereafter, the fate of republican government is indissolubly bound up with the fate of the Christian religion, and a people who reject its holy faith will find themselves the slaves of their own evil passions and of arbitrary power.

Witness 4: Communist Spy

(Jay David) Whittaker Chambers was an American journalist who had formerly been a Communist agent, but recanted and defected to the West. He stated:

Freedom is a need of the soul, and nothing else. It is in striving toward God that the soul strives continually after a condition of freedom. God alone is the inciter and guarantor of freedom. He is the only guarantor. External freedom is only an aspect of interior freedom. Political freedom, as the Western world has known it, is only a political reading of the Bible. Religion and freedom are indivisible. Without freedom the soul dies. Without the soul there is no justification for freedom.

Witness 5: Journalistic Report

According to North American Review 1867:

The American government and the Constitution is the most precious possession which the world holds, or which the future can inherit. This is true-true because the American system is the political expression of Christian ideas.

Witness 6: Judicial Testimony

Samuel Chase was appointed a Justice on the United States Supreme Court by George Washington, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the Chief Justice of the State of Maryland. In the case of Runkel v. Vinemiller, 1799, Justice Chase gave the courts opinion:

Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people. By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty.

Witness 7: Webster’s Dictionary

Noah Webster, author of our American dictionary, defines our origin:

Lastly, our ancestors established their system of government on morality and religious sentiment. Moral habits, they believed, cannot safely be trusted on any other foundation than religious principle, nor any government be secure which is not supported by moral habits.

Witness 8: Presidential Pronouncement

James Madison recorded the debates of the Constitutional Convention and addressed the Convention himself more than 161 times. He is revered as the “Chief Architect of the Constitution.” He was a member of the first United Sates Congress; authored the Bill of Rights; served as U. S. Secretary of State in President Jefferson’s cabinet facilitating the Louisiana Purchase of 1803; served as 4th President of the United States from 1809-1817. Madison wrote:

We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.

Witness 9: Historian’s Assessment

Alexis de Tocqueville was a famous French statesman, historian and social philosopher. His two-part work, which was published in 1835 and 1840, was entitled Democracy in America. He observed:

Upon my arrival in the United States the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention; and the longer I stayed here, the more I perceived the great political consequences resulting from this new state of things.

In France I had almost always seen the spirit of religion and the spirit of freedom marching in opposite directions, But in America I found they were intimately united and that they reigned in common over the same country.

Witness 10: Biblical Revelation

Revelation 12:7 - 17:

And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world; he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! For the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child, And to the woman was given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent. And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth, And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ...

And so we see, dear reader, the hand of God in the history of man and the Religion of Eternal Sovereignty. The current blossom of The First Christian Fellowship of Eternal Sovereignty is rooted in a blood nourished epic that is indeed as the great I AM, without beginning or end; claiming origin in one eternal round of conflict with the forces of evil in a war of will and majesty that grants meaning and purpose to the otherwise mundane and vain existence of man; to provide him the exalting, ennobling and challenging contests inherited by man from the throne of God. Long Live Freedom and Honor for such are the fruits and origins of the religion of Eternal Sovereignty.

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