Have prophets long ago prophesied of this hour?

California Senator Diane Feinstein's press release states

"A New Birth of Freedom" commemorates the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth. The words come from the Gettysburg address, and express Lincoln's hope that the sacrifice of those who died to preserve the nation shall lead to "a new birth of freedom" for our nation.

The inaugural theme, which was selected by Senator Feinstein and the members of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, will be woven through the inaugural ceremonies. The theme is traditionally linked to a major anniversary, and in her announcement Senator Feinstein spoke of the appropriateness of the chosen theme to our present day circumstances, particularly in light of the historic election of Senator Barack Obama.

In addition to Senator Feinstein, the members of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies include: Senator Bob Bennett, Ranking Member of the Senate Rules Committee; Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid; Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi; House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer; and House Republican Leader John Boehner.

"At a time when our country faces major challenges at home and abroad, it is appropriate to revisit the words of President Lincoln, who strived to bring the nation together by appealing to 'the better angels of our nature'," Senator Feinstein said. "It is especially fitting to celebrate the words of Lincoln as we prepare to inaugurate the first African-American president of the United States."

"On January 20, as President-elect Obama takes the oath of office, he will look across the National Mall toward the Lincoln Memorial, where the sixteenth president's immortal words are inscribed. Although some inaugural traditions have changed since Lincoln's time, the swearing-in ceremony continues to symbolize the ideals of renewal, continuity, and unity that he so often expressed."

Hinge-Point of History

It was all foretold

Barack H. Obama :: son of destiny

The inauguration, in front of the Capitol Building, was emceed by Senator Diane Feinstein. The official prayer was offered by Reverend Rick Warren, as follows.

Almighty God, our father, everything we see and everything we can't see exists because of you alone. It all comes from you, it all belongs to you. It all exists for your glory. History is your story.

The Scripture tells us Hear, oh Israel, the Lord is our God; the Lord is one. And you are the compassionate and merciful one. And you are loving to everyone you have made.

Now today we rejoice not only in America's peaceful transfer of power for the 44th time. We celebrate a hinge-point of history with the inauguration of our first African-American president of the United States.

We are so grateful to live in this land, a land of unequaled possibility, where the son of an African immigrant can rise to the highest level of our leadership.

And we know today that Dr. King and a great cloud of witnesses are shouting in Heaven.

Give to our new president, Barack Obama, the wisdom to lead us with humility, the courage to lead us with integrity, the compassion to lead us with generosity. Bless and protect him, his family, Vice President Biden, the Cabinet, and every one of our freely elected leaders.

Help us, oh God, to remember that we are Americans, united not by race or religion or blood, but to our commitment to freedom and justice for all.

When we focus on ourselves, when we fight each other, when we forget you, forgive us. When we presume that our greatness and our prosperity is ours alone, forgive us. When we fail to treat our fellow human beings and all the Earth with the respect that they deserve, forgive us.

And as we face these difficult days ahead, may we have a new birth of clarity in our aims, responsibility in our actions, humility in our approaches, and civility in our attitudes, even when we differ.

Help us to share, to serve and to seek the common good of all.

May all people of good will today join together to work for a more just, a more healthy and a more prosperous nation and a peaceful planet. And may we never forget that one day all nations and all people will stand accountable before you.

We now commit our new president and his wife, Michelle, and his daughters, Malia and Sasha, into your loving care.

I humbly ask this in the name of the one who changed my life, Yeshua, Isa, Jesus, Jesus (hay-SOOS), who taught us to pray, Our Father who art in heaven hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on Earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever.

(Amen)

Isn't it interesting that standing out head and shoulders above the crowd, America's exceptional leaders appearing from time to time have almost without exception been great idealists, men of moral stature, liberals (in the best sense of the word). We think of Lincoln, but also Jefferson and Jackson, the two Roosevelts, et al. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr declared: "Every great crisis has produced a leader adequate to the occasion from the ranks of those who believe vigorously and seriously in liberty, democracy and the common man." Obama, like America herself, seems to be Chosen by Destiny - sent by God

A Return to Greatness

Renewing the American Spirit through times of trial

Barack Obama and the Bible : Has his legendary story been foretold?
Written in the Stars : destiny or free will, kids need heroes like Obama
Barack Obama, Son of Destiny : legitimate hero worship vs messianic yearnings
Predestined America : "exceptionalism" or truly chosen by God?
Manchild in the Promised Land : Obama and the wheels of continuity
The American Moses : Martin Luther King, Jr (Let My People Go!)
We Are Praying For You, President Bush (is authority divine ordained?)
Were you there when they crucified my Lord: arabesque to the Lamb slain
Faith-based outreach-uplift :: achievment, impact (but also) controversy

Lift Every Voice and Sing

Prophecy fulfilled

Following President Obama's Inaugural Address, the benediction was given by Rev. Joseph Lowery, one of the pillars of Ameerica's historic Civil Rights Movement:

God of our weary years, God of our silent tears, thou, who has brought us thus far along the way, thou, who has by thy might led us into the light, keep us forever in the path we pray, lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met thee, lest our hearts drunk with the wine of the world, we forget thee.

Shadowed beneath thy hand, may we forever stand true to thee, oh God, and true to our native land. [source: Lift every voice and sing]

We truly give thanks for the glorious experience we've shared this day.

We pray now, oh Lord, for your blessing upon thy servant Barack Obama, the 44th president of these United States, his family and his administration.

He has come to this high office at a low moment in the national, and indeed the global, fiscal climate. But because we know you got the whole world in your hands, we pray for not only our nation, but for the community of nations.

Our faith does not shrink though pressed by the flood of mortal ills.

For we know that, Lord, you are able and you're willing to work through faithful leadership to restore stability, mend our brokenness, heal our wounds, and deliver us from the exploitation of the poor, of the least of these, and from favoritism toward the rich, the elite of these.

We thank you for the empowering of thy servant, our 44th president, to inspire our nation to believe that yes we can work together to achieve a more perfect union.

And while we have sown the seeds of greed -- the wind of greed and corruption, and even as we reap the whirlwind of social and economic disruption, we seek forgiveness and we come in a spirit of unity and solidarity to commit our support to our president by our willingness to make sacrifices, to respect your creation, to turn to each other and not on each other.

And now, Lord, in the complex arena of human relations, help us to make choices on the side of love, not hate; on the side of inclusion, not exclusion; tolerance, not intolerance.

And as we leave this mountain top, help us to hold on to the spirit of fellowship and the oneness of our family. Let us take that power back to our homes, our workplaces, our churches, our temples, our mosques, or wherever we seek your will.

Bless President Barack, First Lady Michelle. Look over our little angelic Sasha and Malia.

We go now to walk together as children, pledging that we won't get weary in the difficult days ahead. We know you will not leave us alone.

With your hands of power and your heart of love, help us then, now, Lord, to work for that day when nations shall not lift up sword against nation, when tanks will be beaten into tractors, when every man and every woman shall sit under his or her own vine and fig tree and none shall be afraid, when justice will roll down like waters and righteousness as a mighty stream.

Lord, in the memory of all the saints who from their labors rest, and in the joy of a new beginning, we ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get in back, when brown can stick around ... when yellow will be mellow ... when the red man can get ahead, man; and when white will embrace what is right. That all those who do justice and love mercy say Amen.

The world needs love : mlk

kanye west
Jesus Walks

On the shoulders of giants: Martin Luther King, Lincoln, the Founders, Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Frederick Douglass, William Jennings Bryan.

Never forget that this is America, the land where dreams come true.

Ronald Reagan Message to the Congress of Racial Equality
on the Observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day 16 January 1986

A forgotten prediction's uncanny fulfillment
Brazilian writer Monteiro Lobato wrote a story about a black American politician, Jim Roy, who (in this fictionalized account) was elected 88^th president of the United States. His rival was a blond female politician, whom he defeated. See Barack Obama's rise foretold

Beyond the uncanny prophecies foretold with a near miraculous accuracy, one could include the more common sense predictions of such perceptive sages as Thomas Jefferson, who said "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever. Commerce between master and slave is despotism. Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free."

Jefferson said that like nature, history is cyclic, circular, and with the turn of the revolution (or wheel), those on bottom would be on top. Those now on top would one day be on bottom. In other words. Take care. KARMA at work. "The measure you mete out ....

Notice: "Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but He [first] reveals His secret unto His servants the prophets." (Amos 3:7).

Obama in TORAH CODE - by world-renowned kabbalist Rabbi M. Glazerson and Prof. R. Haralick

Prophecies Not in the Bible : the power latent in man

MDCCLXXVI Annuit Coeptis, what the numbers tell us : uncanny links from long ago ...

The Piri Reis enigma (the map as we have it)   preserved in the Smithsonian Institution

African Spiritual Wealth - uncanny accuracy of the Blyden hypothesis

The Obama Clan (Luo tribe) - paternal forbears of American president (many seventh day adventists)

Our "Mother" Africa - exactly where is the biblical Garden of Eden (Pishon and Gihon may be the Blue Nile and the White Nile)
"And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone. And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia. And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates."

Is Old Time Faith Coming Back In Style?
While his style is decidedly low-key, never pushy, Obama has elevated religion to a place of honor and importance. Far from the sort of obnoxious portrayal of religion we are often exposed to, Obama has his own unique way, understated and I think stylish, by which he highlights how central faith may be in people's (and nations') lives.

US News and World Report says,
"Faith is playing a larger role in the Obama White House than during any other president's tenure."

For whole article

interracial nation

thanks to getreligion.org/?p=2502

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Pray for Our Nation's Leaders:

2 Chronicles 7:14

If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves,
and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then
will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

presidentialprayerteam.net

Where Two or More Gather Together In My Name

We are Stronger Working Together ~ Praying Together

Let's Pray For Our Leaders, Our Armed Services, Our President

UK "Daily Squib" goes public with Nostradamus prophecies

According to Professor Eugene Randell, Deputy Director of the Smithsonian Institution, which holds some very rare Nostradamus manuscripts, there are some Nostradamus quatrains referring to Barack Obama. Nostradamus was a 16th century soothsayer. Randell says, "We have the only existing fourth edition of Nostradamus' book Les Propheties (The Prophecies). There were thought to be only three editions published in 1558, this new edition is from 1559 and includes 20 more quatrains which have never been revealed before -- that is, until now." Nostradamus has been credited with predicting numerous events in world history, from the Great Fire of London, the rise of Napoleon I of France, the French Revolution and Adolf Hitler, to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. The professor told the Daily Squib that it is well known that some of the quatrains are open to interpretation however what he has translated from the previously unreleased manuscript will certainly "ruffle a few feathers". 243 The great empire will be torn from limb, The all-powerful one for more than four hundred years: Great power given to the dark one from slaves come, The Aryana will not be satisfied thereby. Mother Shipton: an eagle's nest in lion's mouth

Amos 3: 7

Surely the Lord God does nothing, unless He
reveals His secret to His servants the prophets.

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A man of respectfulness

Thank the Jews
David Klinghoffer notes

For Americans, no less than for Europeans, the blessings of Christianity are clear. Our land was initially settled by Puritan Christians. As for the Founding Fathers, many were Deists but none were atheists, and they spoke and wrote passionately about the role of the biblical God in inspiring the birth of their nation. Today, the United States is the most enthusiastically Christian country on earth and the most tolerant and good-hearted in history. [Thank the Jews]

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America's Prophet : Moses

Our Real Founding Father
(Bruce Feiler)

The pilgrims quoted his story. Franklin and Jefferson proposed he appear on the U.S. seal. Washington and Lincoln were called his incarnations. The Statue of Liberty and Superman were molded in his image. Martin Luther King, Jr., invoked him the night before he died. Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama cited him as inspiration. For four hundred years, one figure inspired more Americans than any other. His name is
Moses

Barack Obama accepts Nobel Peace Prize

President Obama's Nobel Prize. Has Europe discovered what America historically has showed the world? That Black IS Beautiful President Obama in his acceptance speech was gracious as he always is. His language was both lofty and dignified. But in his own way it seemed he was gently teasing the Europeans for the ironies implicit in the bestowal of the prestigeous award on him, at that time. America is, after all, a nation at war. From our perspective (and the President's), we have every right and duty to defend ourselves against the state of seige which terrorists would subject us to. And President Obama reiterated his famous line drawn in the sand. Make no mistake. Al Qaeda can have peace, thank you. JUST UNCLENCH YOUR FISTS. We will extend a hand of friendship, but the terrorists of the world must unclench their fists, and abjure their violence. (Iran, we hope you are listening, too.)

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Webster: Robert Shepherd, offers this view in August 2011:

I happen to think that Democrats like Barack Obama as well as Oprah, and a substantial number of others, particularly with a black church heritage, are right to try to lead us back to the gospel roots in this country. Why should the Republicans be the only ones to invoke biblical backing for themselves. It was a moral message that Dr. King used when he called on his followers, for one brief shining moment, to be BETTER than America, and thereby he ultimately called America back to her highest ideals, without in any way disparaging the great principle of religious freedom. We each must look inside for the deeper wellsprings of our spirituality, and seek again within the ethics of the ancient paths.
  [See the importance of a faith to live by]

We are our brothers' keeper

No man is an island, entire of itself;
every man is a piece of the continent,
a part of the main. [John Donne]

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LEST WE FORGET

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he who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare and he who has   one   enemy will meet him   everywhere.

The greatness of Napoleon, Caesar or Washington is only moonlight by the sun of Lincoln. His example is universal and will last thousands of years . . . . He is bigger than his country -- bigger than all the Presidents together . . . and as a great character he will live as long as the world lasts. [Leo Tolstoy] See Lincoln of Illinois

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