Not For Pagans

Gary Smith

Registered
(Titled "Not For Pagans" in this post because those that are being destroyed and do not understand "...our ancient enemy" as Martin Luther put it, brought them and their fathers into the darkness of becoming today's pagans and their personal glory of declaring and they don't even know it.)

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SALVATION FOR CONFEDERATES AND YANKEES
(or Historical Evidence of Israel)

"...an eighth and eternal day, consecrated by the Resurrection of Christ... There we shall rest and see, see and love, love and praise." --St. Augustine, City of God, Book 22, Chapter 30

by Gary R. Smith

The twelve s
x-pointed stars first came to light on flags of the South: the 57th Georgia, 9th Mississippi and 1st Florida. These were Braxton Bragg's Battle Flags of 1862. They showed up again: a 1995 postage st
amp
featuring a uniformed Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, a photograph of Gen. Lee's ove
rcoat as sewn by the ladies of Maryland, an Arkansas belt plate and an 1860 deck of playing cards. Then came the discovery of other Confederates who wore and/or appeared in photographs and drawings with the star(s) of six points: Col. John S. Mosby, Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, Gen. Leonidas Polk, Gen. Patrick L. Cleburne, Col. John Haskell, Col. John Henry Winder and Gen. Arnold Elzey to name only a few. A friend of mine and great-great-grandson of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston assured me that "...they were not Jewish" but admitted curiosity about the star's presence.
Another star can be found on the Army of the United States, Eighth Corps Battle Flag of 1862. It seemed more curious than other fla
gs because it had a large, white six-pointed star and red "8" in the center. Now, the six-pointed star shined on both the North and South.

The last common circulation coin to have th
e star was
the U.S. silver dollar of 1921. However, the most prominent six-pointed star on any coin was a thr
ee-cent piece issued from 1851 to 1873. The silver coin featured a large six-pointed star overlaid with United States shield. Its total mintage came to 42,728,340 coins--enough coinage for any common citizen to notice its star!

An associate put me onto the idea that eight was a salvation number. To my surprise there seemed to be an odd connection: Abraham circumcised Isaac on the eighth day (Acts 7:8), eight souls were saved aboard Noah's ark (1 Pet. 3:20), Noah was the eighth person saved (2 Pet. 2:5), there are eight attributes of a Christian (2 Pet. 5:1-7), there are eight appointments (1 Cor. 12:27), the body of Christ gathered on the "eighth" day of the week
(Acts 20:7), on the cross there was "...from the sixth hour...darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour..." (Matt. 27:45) and "...about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud vo
ice, saying Eli, E
li, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" (Matt. 27:46). Man was created on th
e sixth day (Gen. 1:27) and six is his Bible number. Christ completed the eighth hour on the cross of salvation as stated "...unto the ninth hour..." Old Testament references to eight are: Exod. 22:30, Lev. 9:1, 12:3, 14:!
10, 14:23, 22:27, 23:36, 23:39, 25:22, Num. 29:29, 29:35 and 1 Kings 8:66.
After purchase of a guide for U.S. coins, the next step was to locate six-pointed stars on all American coins. Some stars were fat and some were thinly six-pointed. One 1795 silver dollar had on its reverse an eagle with clouds ("...a canopy" of Isa. 4:5) stretching from wingtip to wingtip. The wings and clouds encircle thirteen six-poi
nted stars. On the first page of this pamphlet is a copy of the Great Seal and at the top of the Seal is another encircling. Both the coin and Great Seal seem to coincide with the Scriptures o
f Deut. 32:10-12: "J
acob is the allotment of His inheritance...He encircled him, He cared for him...Like an eagle that stirs up its nest, That hovers over its yo
ung, He spread His wings and caught them. He carried them on His pinions. The Lord alone guided him, And there was no foreign god with him." The original Great Seal of 1782 had thirteen six-pointed stars in the pattern of a large six-pointed one. Other Scriptures about the Great Seal are!
found in: Exod. 19:4, Deut. 32:42-43 and 33:29.

The next breakthrough came from a children's coloring book on American flags. I was grateful for the drawings and information among the pages to be colored.

A second design (1782) for a crest of the United States of America shows Liberty with a crown of light rays (Isa. 62:
1-3) and eight-pointed stars and a sash of six-pointed ones. She and George Washington hold between them a shield (Eph. 6:16) with eight-pointed stars. Also, hanging over Washington's
head is a U.S.A. flag with a circl
e of thirteen six-pointed stars.

We are told Washington's Coat of Arms had stars and stripes to account for the Stars and Stripes. Intere
sting was the discovery that George Washington favored six-pointed stars. Unofficial flags had four-, five- and eight-pointed stars. Five-pointed ones are most often shown in fictitious paintings made from thirty to fifty years after the Revolution. My favorite contradiction is in the painting of Washington crossing the Delaware in Winter 1776. He is standing in a small boat on the way to the Battle of Trenton, N.J. As children we were taught that his standing was an entirely made up scenario. We did not realize how true the admission really was. At the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts is a painting of Washington at the Bat
tle of Trenton (by C. W. Peale, 1779). In the more recent painting of Washington going to battle, the stars on his flag are five-pointed while the three-year-old artwork shows them in a
circle and all having six points!


The real point is, with exception of the Navy's eight-pointed ones, all official United States flags and emblems once had six-pointed stars. Ho
wever, it takes countless hours of discovery and research to track down evidence to the fact.
As far back as I can go, there is a painting titled, The Knightly Brotherhood of the Holy Land in Haarlem (1527-1530) and on one of its many shields appears three six-pointed stars in stick-like fashion. Sixteenth-century Cologne is shown in another work with three large stars, representing the Trinity, shining light down upon the German city. These three stars are fat, intermediate and thin in the design of their rays. An older image of the King James Palace's clock face shows a fat six-pointed star. Sometime in the Mid
dle Ages a six-pointed star of thin rays could be seen in the Isles. Some call the latter an "English star."

The stick-like, fat, intermediate and thin six
-pointed stars are all represented in stars of the
American Revolution. Just in case you're wondering about the Betsy Ross flag, here is some excerpted text: "...brought a sketch of a flag to her Philadelphi
a upholstery shop in June1776. Washington supposedly asked her to make a copy of it for the nation that was about to declare its independence. She suggested a few changes, such as the use of a five-pointed star rather than a six-pointed one, and sewed the flag in her back parlor." Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia,1998.

That Betsy Ross suggested changes in the flag design of 1776 is one thing but examples do not support that her advice was approved or heeded by Washington: see the 1779 painting of the Battle of Trenton (1776), Great Seal (1782), Presidential inaugural buttons (1789),
U.S.A. coins (1795-1921) and tribute paintings and drawings to George Washington (1798).

What do all these stars add up to? How do the numbers six and eight fit into the
symbolism of our country's Founding Fathers? And how
about that U.S. Army, Eighth Corps Battle Flag (1862) with the large, white six-pointed star and red "8" in the center?

A man by the name of C. Latham Sholes (a state senat
or and editor of several news-papers in Wisconsin) invented the first practical typewriter in 1867. In the next century an agreement was made by manufacturers placing the stick-like asterisk (*) with the number eight key. Yes, it's one of the country's historic relics from the past. The asterisk really is a star after all! You may as well call it a representation of Scripture and salvation on the keyboard.

Over the years, inventors have knocked the accepted and popular key arrangement as slower than their own but all newcomers have failed in the marketpl
ace. Would these new-comers have selected the eight/six asterisk on their new keyboards?

Presently, we have that special combination though change is on the
way. Microsoft has created new computer operating systems with
the eight/five asterisk and become the latest player in overcoming this unique Christian relic. It seems those with the old eight/six asterisk key no longer match Windows 98 (First Edition), Wi
ndows CE or Windows 2000 Professional. Is this star so important that they’d change only one of two symbols on a single key? Is the five-pointed star to become another Microsoft recognized trademark? Unlikely--but there is another possibility. One through 13 keys with symbols parallel chapters in Genesis on the common keyboard, which might mean a very real Star Wars. (*see end of article).

WHAT WERE THE FOUNDERS THINKING? MANIFEST DESTINY

The 19th-century political and philosophical belief that it was America's divinely assigned mission to expand west
ward across the North American continent and to establish democratic and Protestant ideals was known as Manifest1 Destiny. John O'Sullivan, a journalist, coined the p
hrase in a(n) 1845 newspaper editorial about the annexation of Texas, in
which he spoke of America's "manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our multiplying millions." The roots of the concept, however, can be
traced to American and European writers of the colonial period and even earlier who professed the belief that the supplanting of the pagan practices of native peoples in the West was no less than an ordination from God. Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia, 1998. (Manifest. 1 to make clear or evident; show plainly; reveal; envince.)

SCRIPTURAL EVIDENCE

Genesis 17:8-9 - And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.

Genesis 26:4 - And I will make th
y seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all thes
e countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed...

Genesis 28:14 - And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east,
and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

Deuteronomy 28:1 - And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth...

Deuteronomy 28:9-10 - The Lord shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy G
od, and walk in his ways. And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the Lord; and they shall be afraid of thee.

2 S
amuel 7:10 - Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them,
that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; neither shall the children of wicked-ness afflict them any more, as beforetime...

Isaiah 27: 6 - He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root:
Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.

Isaiah 60:12 - For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.
MORE HISTORICAL EVIDENCE

"KING JAMES VI, King James VI of Scotland and James I of England, 1566-1625. King James commissioned the King James Bible, claimed that the Lord had made him King over Israel; the gold coin of his day, bearing his head was called the 'Jacobus' [Jacob/Israel] and James had th
e reverse inscribed in Latin the prophecy of Ezekiel 37:22, 'I will make of them one nation.'" (From God's Covenant People by Evangelist Ted R
. Weiland)

Gary Smith

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*NON
-MS KEYBOARD LAYOUT PARALLELS BOOK OF GENESIS
(Typewriter Number Keys/Symbols)

1 / ! - Genesis 1:1 - In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. God creates all!

2 / @ - Genesis 2:22 - And the rib, which the Lord God had
taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. Two at harmony with God.

3 / # - Genesis 3:1 - Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? Enters number three, the serpent, into mankind's perfect relationship with God.

4 / $ - Genesis 4:10-11 - And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother'
s blood crieth unto me from the ground. And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy han
d... Four: Adam, Eve, Cain, Abel and the price of murder.

5 / % - Genesis 5:32 - And Noah
was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth. All the generations of Adam up to Noah. Only a small percent were spared the judgement of a punishing flood.

6 / ^ - Genesis 6:14 - Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark,
and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. Noah's ark and God's roof shelters the chosen. Six is man's Bible number and he was created on the sixth day. See Genesis 1:27 and Matthew 27:45.

7 / & - Genesis 7:1 - And the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation. God's/Noah's ark is a type of Christ and the number seven is God's Bible number. See Ge
nesis 2:3.

8 / * - Genesis 8:15-16 - And God spake unto Noah, saying, Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons&#3
9; wives with thee. 1 Peter 3:20 - Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited
in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. 2 Peter 2:5 - And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly..., and in Matthew 27:46, Chri
st completed the eighth hour on the cross as "...unto the ninth hour..." Man's Bible number is six and salvation eight.

9 / ( - Genesis 9:1 - First chapter verse: And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. Beginning of Noah's generations of earthly habitation.

0 / ) - Genesis 10:32 - Last chapter verse: These are the families of the sons of Noah, aft
er their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood. Includes all up to present generations.


_ / - - Chapter 11 - Looking at the actual key will help you to see.

+ / = - Chap
ter 12 - " " " "

| / \ - Chapter 13 - " " " "
(This key is now sometimes found below the Backspace key instead of the usual left side of a smaller Backspace.)

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Gods Plan Of Salvation

For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God... (Romans 3:23)

For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Romans 6:23)

But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:8)

...Sirs, what must I do to be sa
ved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved... (Acts 16:30-31)

But as many as received him, to them g
ave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name... (John 1:12)

Then Peter said unto them
, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. (Acts 2:38)

Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls. (Acts 2:41)

In Luke 18:13, the sinner prayed: "God be merciful to me a sinner."

Just p
ray: Oh, God, I know I am a sinner. I believe Jesus was my substitute when He died on the Cross. I believe His shed blood, death, burial and resurrection were for me.
 
CassidyBattleFlag.jpg


Braxton Bragg's Battle Flags of 1862

Ref: THE SOUTHERN CROSS IN THE WEST
Ref: Evolution of the Battle Flag of the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry
Ref: Welcome to Flags Of The Confederacy
Ref: The stars were 6 pointed, which is heraldicly c
rrect, as opposed to the Americanization of 5 pointed stars.
 
Re: Links to Volumes of Flag History Not Good.

"...was written for the exhibition at the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, Virginia. Many thanks to Greg Biggs for sharing it...these flags were bordered in either pink or yellow silk and the stars were 6 pointed, which is heraldicly correct, as opposed to the Americanization of 5 pointed stars."

I can assure you that the Braxton Bragg flag never had a yellow border and you must be showing a flag of Nathan B. Forrest's. This is exactly why you cannot trust current pieces written to provide volumous amounts of misleading information--take the South's War for Independence as an example.

As I am a current heraldry
buff with coat of arms of my own, the six-pointed star is greatly resisted in the field of heraldry and renamed a mullet. After renaming this star, heraldrists then want to put a hole in the middle and tel
l yo
u this is a spur rowel. You can find grea
t examples of six-pointed stars throughout heraldry with many of those stars being reduced to five points centuries ago beginning with the French.

The very reason for the St. Andrew's cross having stars is that George Washington, the mascot of the South (see Great Seal), had a headquarters flag with thirteen six-pointed stars in order of 3-2-3-2-3 (top to bottom) which formed in its design a the Union Jack seen in the first Conteniental flag. Cut out the St. Andrews stars from Washington's headquarters design and you have the only pattern that can be cut from any U.S. flag design (see Hopkinson's) and fit the Saint Andrew's Battle flag.

I hope this helps.

King regards,

Gary Smith
 
Yes, I have noticed the Sheriff's badge has six-points. I'm sure that this comes from George Washington's creation of the Federal Marshall's office in 1789 and many local badges including the local Sheriff's follows that pattern.

I am aware of a book that reports the Gospel story foretold by constellations with the birth of a "Sun-god" for mankind. If you are a Christian then you may be familiar with what we're about to share and if not, you may think it folly and beyond understanding. I have a sense that you are a Christian.

Don't we all know that the scoffers and disbelievers as well as those (without knowledge) want to discredit the only true
od and use the above to discredit Christianity? One innately knows that if there is a Truth, those who do not share in those promises want to hide that from those to whom it belongs. And that is what we ha
ve
going on in the world today. Christ spoke in parables t
o those who understood them so that the anti-Christs of the day would not understand. Those that belong to Him figure it out. I'll share some of what has come to light in my own study and know it will bless you as myself continuously.

If a thing is true then it echoes throughout all creation--God would have it that way. So, here I'll start with the numbers six, seven, and eight. This is assuming one has read the article, "Salvation For Confederates And Yankess (or Historical Evidence of Israel). In that the numbers six, seven and eight are explained as having to do with the crucifixion of Christ on the cross and how evidence for such is represented throughout American and European civilisation by way of symbolism.
<
br>Keeping in mind that God rested on the seventh day and taken from the above article, we read: "'...from the sixth hour...darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour...' (Matt. 27:45)
and '.
..about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying Eli, Eli, lama
sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' (Matt. 27:46). Man was created on the sixth day (Gen. 1:27) and six is his Bible number. Christ completed the eighth hour on the cross of salvation as stated '...unto the ninth hour...'"

It is known that pagans and the Germans celebrated with greenery and thus we have our Christmas tree. For centuries after the death of Christ, Germans celebrated the Feast of Adam and Eve on a day in Decemember matching the number of man (six) on the 24th. How? Add the numbers together. The Lord's day falls on the 25th (seven) and a day of salvation or new beginning on the 26th (eight)! The 26th is the first day of the Twelve D
ays of Christmas ending on January 6, being the Eastern Orthodox Christmas Eve! (There are those who do not want you to know that.)

As we know from 1 John 1:5 ...that God is light, and i
n him is no darkne
ss at all. The ancient practice of Sun-worship is that earliest covenant (pre-flood) kno
wledge of God as later Bible representations are an eagle, snake on a staff, the Rock, as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings. These are all symbolisms.

From where comes Easter sunrise service? Did you know that during the winter solstice the sun stays down at it lowest point in the sky for three days and "rises" again Christmas Eve on the 25th? That there really was a St. Nicholas and in about 336A.D. Christmas was placed on the Roman calendar? Did you know that all of the ancient gods were all born on the 25th of December?

Some say that Santa Claus represents God (seven) in that he knows when we are sleeping, knows when we're awake and knows when we've been
bad or good, so be good for goodness' sake. Oh, he is also making a list! (This seems to correspond with the Lamb's Book of Life.) We also find that man was created on the sixth d
ay and given dominion over
the earth. There is an earthly manifestation at winter that holds a number. The snow flake always has si
x points and science reports that the sun's light takes eight minutes to reach us here on earth. It is a yearly pleasure to behold the eight-pointed star of over Bethlehem as that city is where spotless lambs were raised for the sacrifices of Israel.

The next time you're in the Atlanta area you may dial 1+800 with a calling card, but did you know that in the Greek the letters for one Lord add up to 800. Or, how about dialing 1+888 meaning one Jesus. Of course these are toll-free calls. For the local dialing code of 678 and for a price you can call through Southern Bell locally. More interesting if one realises Christ died for all of us locally as well. Could thi
s all be coincidence or the Providence of God with man acting witness to that Truth? I subscribe to the later.

For the unbeliever all the symbolism in the world means absolutely noth
ing. If this writing remain poste
d anywhere, I ask that scoffers and those wishing to tear down our civilisation and culture not write back.
For those who are rediscovering our Israelite past for whom the blessing and end-time promises are made there is great joy in finding these clues. lostbutfound3@juno.com

Kind regards,

Gary Smith
 
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