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00:04 [dramatic music] 00:13 [dramatic music continues] 00:22 [dramatic music continues] 00:27 [dramatic music continues] 00:34 [adventurous music] 00:45 - It is the 20th of January, 1649, 00:48 and it's a trial unlike any other in the history of England. 00:52 Charles I is being tried for treason 00:55 and Oliver Cromwell and his men have handpicked 68 judges. 00:59 Now, the king is defiant. 01:00 He refuses to believe 01:02 that a monarch can actually be tried by his subjects 01:04 and he demands to know by what authority they're doing this. 01:08 Charles believes, you see, in the divine right of kings, 01:11 a long standing idea 01:13 that kings receive their authority directly from God. 01:17 To Charles' way of thinking, a rebellion against the crown, 01:20 well, that's a rebellion against heaven itself. 01:23 To suggest that a king might be guilty 01:25 of treason seems ludicrous to him, 01:27 because while the very definition of treason 01:29 is to betray the nation 01:31 and the king is the embodiment of the nation. 01:34 So whatever Charles wants, well that's ordained by God. 01:37 So he insists that he will only answer 01:40 to the charge of treason 01:41 if the court can prove they have the right to try him. 01:44 And at one point, he reaches out and pokes a court official 01:47 with his cane and the top of the cane falls off. 01:51 Now, never in his life has Charles 01:53 ever had to pick something off the floor 01:55 because well, that's what servants are for. 01:58 But on this day, nobody moves, 02:00 and that's when Charles realizes he is no longer a king, 02:04 but a mere man. 02:05 And the object resting on the floor is a dark omen 02:08 of what's going to happen next. 02:10 On the 25th of January, 02:12 Charles is convicted and sentenced to death by beheading. 02:17 [dramatic suspenseful music] 02:25 [dramatic suspenseful music continues] 02:32 He was executed right here, 02:34 outside the Banqueting House in Westminster. 02:37 Now, there was nothing special about the executioner. 02:40 The people who were here tell us 02:41 his head came off with a single blow, 02:44 which means that the sentence was carried out 02:46 by an executioner who had performed 02:48 an awful lot of them on mere commoners. 02:52 The severed head was hoisted high above the crowd, 02:54 the executioner shouting, "Behold, the head of a traitor." 02:58 [dramatic suspenseful music] 03:02 Now, it's not the kind of story 03:03 most people would read their kids at bedtime, 03:06 but it is one of the most important moments 03:07 in European history. 03:09 Another one of the threads we have to pick up 03:11 if we're going to understand how America was born. 03:15 At that moment, when the common people tried 03:18 and executed a king, 03:19 a new idea was taking root very quickly, 03:22 the universal rule of law where even a monarch had to obey. 03:28 It was of course kind of a violent way to make a point, 03:30 and Cromwell did make a lot of mistakes after that, 03:33 including, well just dismissing parliament 03:35 when he didn't like their opinion. 03:37 But the point had been made, the tide was turning in Europe 03:40 and people were starting to question absolutely everything 03:43 including 1,000 years of social organization. 03:47 And the most thoughtful, 03:48 the most influential of these people 03:50 started to move away from swords and spears 03:52 and instead they adopted the power of the pen. 03:57 [dramatic bright music] 04:04 [dramatic bright music continues] 04:12 The Church of England, of course, 04:13 was founded on a sticky personal problem 04:16 that Henry VIII had. 04:17 He wanted an heir, and his wife was barren, 04:20 so he wanted an annulment. 04:22 The Pope wouldn't give him one. 04:25 Then he noticed that a lot of the German princes 04:27 were shaking off the authority of the Pope, 04:28 and he thought, you know what, I could do that too. 04:31 I could become the head of a new independent church. 04:34 [dramatic music] 04:36 Now, when England formally broke with Rome 04:38 the hopes of a lot of people probably started running high 04:41 because, hey, maybe like some of the people 04:43 over on the continent, 04:44 they could finally be free to worship God 04:46 according to the dictates of conscience. 04:48 Maybe they could be free to answer directly to God 04:51 and not through a state prescribed religion. 04:55 That's not at all what happened. 04:56 By the 1600s, people began to realize 04:59 that they had exchanged one form 05:00 of religious tyranny for another. 05:03 The new Church of England 05:04 was not just one more religious option, 05:06 it became compulsory. 05:10 By 1593, there was a law known as the Conventicle Act 05:13 forbidding any religious gathering of more than five people 05:17 outside of an officially sanctioned parish church. 05:20 So essentially a home church could land you in jail. 05:25 After the English monarchy was restored in 1660, 05:28 they passed another law, the Act of Uniformity, 05:31 which said that all clergy had to be ordained 05:34 by the Anglican bishop 05:36 and all church services had to be conducted 05:38 according to the Book of Common Prayer. 05:41 There was no room for creativity 05:43 and no room for differences of opinion. 05:46 [dramatic suspenseful music] 05:49 So the 1600s proved to be anything 05:51 but a time of religious liberty. 05:53 In fact, in some ways, things might've even gotten worse. 05:57 You had all these groups popping up, 05:58 people known as non-conformists, 06:00 and they're just the people who wanna worship God 06:03 the way their own conscience told them to. 06:06 People like the Barrowists who believed you didn't 06:08 need the sanction of the state to worship God 06:10 however you wanted. 06:12 People like the Fifth Monarchists, 06:13 who had studied the four kingdoms of Daniel 06:16 and decided the next world empire 06:18 was going to be the kingdom of Christ. 06:21 And people like the Levelers and the Puritans 06:23 and the Quakers and the Sabbath-keepers, 06:26 none of them were allowed to worship freely. 06:29 [dramatic music] 06:32 Most people have heard of John Bunyan, 06:34 the man who wrote that great classic "Pilgrim's Progress." 06:37 What some people don't realize is that he wrote it 06:39 while sitting in prison for his faith. 06:42 In 1661, he was convicted of breaking the Conventicle Act, 06:45 which forbid worshiping or preaching in private. 06:49 So what they did with Bunyan is said, 06:51 "look if you agree to stop preaching, 06:54 you'll just spend three months in prison, 06:56 otherwise, you're gonna have to stay here." 06:58 Bunyan chose to stay. 06:59 His faith was that important to him. 07:02 He was in the Bedford County Jail for 12 years. 07:06 [dramatic music] 07:07 So when a lot of people realized 07:09 that they were never going to be free, 07:11 some of them took up arms to change the country, 07:13 like Oliver Cromwell. 07:15 But some of them decided to leave 07:18 and they came here to the Netherlands 07:19 which was the freest republic in Western Europe at the time. 07:23 Here, people with different religious opinions 07:26 somehow managed to live side by side 07:28 without killing each other. 07:30 They were experimenting with a novel concept, 07:32 religious liberty, and it was working. 07:36 The Dutch were really onto something 07:37 and they found themselves taking all sorts 07:39 of religious refugees. 07:41 During the 1600s, this was the place to be. 07:45 [dramatic music] 07:50 The non-conformists or dissenters, 07:52 as they were sometimes called, 07:54 were coming here from England. 07:56 The Huguenots were fleeing religious persecution in France. 08:00 And maybe most importantly, 08:02 the Jews were coming from Spain 08:04 to get away from the wrath of the Inquisition. 08:08 [dramatic music] 08:13 [dramatic music continues] 08:16 Now, let's take a bird's eye view 08:18 of this for a moment 08:20 because this is one of the most important moments 08:22 in the birth of America. 08:23 These dissenters coming from England were Protestant 08:26 and they believed that the best model 08:28 for the Christian life was found 08:30 not in cannon law or in long held tradition, 08:33 but in the pages of the Bible. 08:35 Most of the educated dissenters could read Latin, 08:38 because that was the current language of learning. 08:41 But very few of them could read the Bible 08:43 in the original languages. 08:45 So here in the Netherlands, 08:46 there was this entire Jewish community who could teach them. 08:50 Suddenly they were reading the Old Testament in Hebrew 08:53 and they had access to some very old commentaries. 08:57 And in the midst of their studies, 08:59 they stumbled into that story we looked at last time 09:02 about Israel asking Samuel for a king. 09:05 The dissenters' jaws were on the floor. 09:07 Was it possible, that this was the reason 09:10 they were still having trouble with human kings to this day? 09:13 And was it possible if they had already thrown 09:16 off the political shackles of a powerful bishop, 09:19 that they could also dispense with having a king? 09:23 This became one of the biggest debates of the 17th century. 09:26 What could you do if you had a nation 09:28 that didn't have a king? 09:30 I mean, clearly God had been angry 09:32 when Israel asked for a monarch, 09:34 and the world had been struggling 09:35 under human empires ever since. 09:37 So what if the dissenters reversed that decision? 09:41 What if they created a new situation where 09:43 people could be directly answerable to God 09:47 the way they had been prior to the incident with Samuel? 09:50 Now, I know this likely did not come 09:52 up in your history classes in high school, 09:54 but do not underestimate how important this was. 09:58 Here were people who dreamed of a new republic 10:01 that didn't have a king. 10:03 To you and me, that just seems like old news. 10:05 But in the 1600s, that was revolutionary. 10:08 And I use the word revolutionary quite deliberately. 10:13 The very ancient Israelites these people discovered 10:15 lived in a republic instead of a monarchy. 10:18 And when you go back and read their deliberations 10:21 you'll find some of them referring 10:22 to the government of Israel as the Hebrew republic. 10:26 And then they dug even deeper 10:29 and they stumbled onto Deuteronomy 17 10:32 where God actually predicted that Israel was one day 10:35 going to ask for a king. 10:37 And in that event, if that's what they insisted on 10:41 God provided some very strict guidelines, 10:44 a safety rail if you will, 10:45 to prevent things from getting out of control. 10:48 Now, this is a passage that does bear reading at length 10:51 because what we find here are some of the key concepts 10:55 that gave birth to the American republic. 10:57 I'll start reading in verse 14. 11:00 "When you come to the land 11:02 which the Lord your God is giving you 11:03 and possess it and dwell in it 11:05 and say, I will set a king over me 11:08 like all the nations that are around me 11:10 you shall surely set a king over you 11:12 whom the Lord your God chooses." 11:14 In other words, 11:15 they were supposed to follow God's guidelines. 11:18 "One from among your brethren, 11:20 you shall set his king over you. 11:22 You may not set a foreigner over you 11:24 who is not your brother." 11:26 So the king had to be native born. 11:29 "But he shall not multiply horses for himself 11:32 nor cause the people to return to Egypt to multiply horses. 11:35 For the Lord has said to you, 11:36 you shall not return that way again." 11:39 In other words, the king would not be permitted 11:42 to return his people to bondage, 11:43 if he thought it meant prosperity. 11:46 "Neither shall he multiply wives for himself, 11:48 lest his heart turn away, 11:50 nor shall he greatly multiply silver and gold for himself." 11:53 So there were checks and balances, if you will, 11:57 in an effort to stem corruption. 12:00 Now comes the most important part, verse 18. 12:03 "Also it shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom 12:06 that he shall write for himself 12:08 a copy of this law in a book 12:11 from the one before the priest, the Levites. 12:13 And it shall be with him, 12:15 and he shall read it all the days of his life 12:17 that he may learn to fear the Lord has God 12:19 and be careful to observe all the words of this law 12:22 and these statutes, 12:24 that his heart may not be lifted above his brethren, 12:27 that he may not turn aside from the commandment 12:29 to the right hand or to the left, 12:31 and that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, 12:33 he and his children in the midst of Israel." 12:38 So we had the absolute rule of law, 12:41 a nation where the king had to live 12:43 by the same laws as his subjects. 12:46 Now, this passage sparked a great deal of controversy 12:50 because it raised some important questions. 12:52 Had God actually wanted a king for Israel 12:55 or was a king just plan B in case everything went haywire? 12:59 Did the existence of a king make God angry 13:01 or was a king God's plan all along? 13:05 One thing was clear, 13:07 if we're going to have to live with human government, 13:09 there are some forms of government 13:11 that are much better than others, 13:13 and this was one of those. 13:16 So what we have in the 17th century is a broad group 13:19 of diligent Bible scholars who become absolutely convinced 13:22 that what the Israelites had in the very beginning 13:25 was a republic and these ideas that the top executives 13:30 should be native born, that you had to prevent corruption, 13:33 and that everybody should live by the very same law, 13:36 including the top executive. 13:39 Well, oddly enough, those same ideas made their way 13:42 into the American Constitution, 13:44 because the founders of the American republic 13:46 were students themselves 13:48 and they had been reading the works 13:50 of the English dissenters. 13:52 They'd read John Locke, 13:53 who'd been forced to hide in the Netherlands 13:55 when he was accused of plotting to kill the king. 13:58 Today, Locke is widely regarded 14:00 as one of the architects of our liberty. 14:02 And while hiding in the Netherlands, 14:04 he wrote a letter concerning toleration, 14:06 which made powerful arguments suggesting 14:09 that the proper sphere of government was civil matters 14:13 and the proper sphere of the church spiritual matters. 14:18 - [John Locke Voiceover] The only business of the church 14:20 is the salvation of souls 14:23 and it no way concerns the commonwealth or any member of it, 14:28 that this or the other ceremony be there made use of. 14:32 Neither the use nor the omission of any ceremonies 14:36 in those religious assemblies does either advantage 14:40 or prejudice the life, liberty, or estate of any man. 14:48 - The founding fathers had also read 14:49 the works of John Milton, 14:50 the famous poet who argued for the rule 14:53 of law and the consent of the governed. 14:57 - [John Milton Voiceover] It follows, lastly, 14:58 that since the king or magistrate holds his authority 15:00 of the people, both originally and naturally 15:03 for their good in the first place, and not his own, 15:06 then may the people 15:08 as often as they shall judge it for the best, 15:11 either choose him or reject him, retain him, or depose him, 15:15 though no tyrant merely by the liberty 15:18 and right of freeborn men to be governed as seems best. 15:24 - These were powerful ideas, 15:26 and today we find those same ideas 15:29 in the American Constitution. 15:30 It was an idea whose time had come. 15:34 [dramatic music] 15:43 Some of these ideas also made their way 15:45 on board the famous Mayflower, 15:47 a ship that carried Puritans to the New World, 15:50 Puritans who have been hiding here 15:52 in the city of Leiden in the Netherlands, 15:54 like many others were. 15:56 Today we call them the Pilgrims, 15:58 a name that captures the essence of who they were, 16:01 deeply religious people looking for something better 16:04 from the hand of God. 16:05 Here in the Netherlands, they found religious liberty, 16:08 the freedom to worship, but over time, they became concerned 16:12 that their children were growing up more Dutch than English. 16:16 And because the Netherlands were an important center 16:18 of world commerce at the time, they were also worried 16:21 that their children might become rather worldly. 16:23 So, they decided to do what so many others have 16:26 done ever since, get a new start in a brand new world. 16:31 [adventurous music] 16:38 [adventurous music continues] 16:46 [adventurous music continues] 16:49 Now, what they intended to do was settle 16:51 in a relatively established area near the mouth 16:53 of the Hudson River, but the wind mysteriously 16:56 blew them off course, and they ended up here in Plymouth, 16:59 an area that had already been somewhat developed 17:02 by the Patuxet Indians. 17:04 But the Patuxets had been wiped out by a devastating plague 17:07 before they arrived 17:08 and the few remaining survivors had already left. 17:12 So the pilgrims found an agreeable piece of land 17:15 that had already been cleared, 17:17 and more importantly they found stores of corn 17:20 that had been buried in the ground, 17:22 and that was enough to help them 17:24 survive their first brutal winter in the New World. 17:27 [dramatic music] 17:31 It's really an incredible story, so incredible in fact, 17:35 that the Pilgrims themselves became convinced, 17:38 like Columbus, that God had sent them here. 17:41 There were just too many coincidences 17:43 to believe anything else. 17:45 Take for example the story of Squanto. 17:49 Now, his real name was Tisquantum 17:52 but apparently they found that too hard to pronounce, 17:54 so they shortened it to Squanto. 17:57 It turns out that Squanto had been kidnapped, 18:00 not once but twice by Englishman 18:02 who had taken him captive to Europe. 18:05 He was eventually liberated by some Spanish monks 18:07 and made his way back to the New World 18:10 only to find out that his people 18:12 had been wiped out by plague. 18:14 It was a horrible series of events t 18:16 hat was perpetrated by some really bad people. 18:20 But like Joseph of the Bible, 18:21 who was sold into slavery and ended up saving God's people, 18:25 Squanto ended up saving the Pilgrims. 18:28 Not only did they discover a local resident 18:31 who happened to speak English, 18:33 but they also found a man who could teach them 18:35 how to survive in their new home. 18:38 From Squanto, they learned how to raise corn 18:40 and mine the riches of the local rivers for food, 18:44 and they also negotiated peace with the Wampanoag Tribe, 18:48 a peace that lasted 50 years. 18:51 Now, here's the interesting part of this story. 18:54 Because of his time in Europe 18:55 and because of his time with the Spanish monks 18:57 who liberated him, 18:59 Squanto had already been exposed to Christianity 19:02 and he'd adopted some of it, but his ideas were Catholic 19:06 and the Pilgrims were rather staunch Protestants. 19:09 In some parts of the old world 19:10 this might have been a problem, 19:11 but the pilgrims had already been living in the Netherlands 19:14 where religious toleration was popular 19:17 and now they were building a new existence 19:19 in the New World, 19:21 where eventually the various sects of Christianity 19:24 would be able to coexist peacefully. 19:27 Not that the pilgrims always got it right, 19:29 because in the beginning they were really only interested 19:32 in religious liberty for themselves. 19:34 Turns out that centuries old religious habits 19:37 can be very hard to shake 19:38 and we have some horrible examples 19:40 of religious intolerance that took place 19:42 in decidedly Puritan communities. 19:45 As other Puritans joined these brave souls 19:48 who'd come on the Mayflower, 19:50 Plymouth was eventually overshadowed 19:51 by the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 19:54 a place they all hoped would become a shining example 19:57 of good Puritan government. 19:59 But in spite of the grief that they'd experienced 20:01 in the old world, it was still a theocracy, 20:04 a new state that still had an official religion. 20:09 [dramatic music] 20:16 [dramatic music continues] 20:21 So when people with different opinions showed up, 20:23 like the Quakers, there was trouble. 20:26 At first, they simply banished these people from the colony. 20:29 They even fined ships' captains 20:31 who brought Quakers over from England. 20:33 Eventually things escalated 20:35 and they began confiscating property, 20:37 cutting off ears or boring holes 20:40 in Quaker's tongues to keep them from speaking. 20:43 Eventually, they even used the death penalty, 20:46 the most famous case, of course, being that of Mary Dyer 20:49 who was hanged here on Boston Common in 1660 20:53 for the simple crime of coming to town. 20:55 The previous year they had already walked her up 20:57 to the scaffold 20:59 and put the noose around her neck as a warning. 21:02 [dramatic suspenseful music] 21:06 So no, they really didn't get it perfect. 21:09 But for that matter, 21:10 you and I don't always get it perfect either 21:12 because even though we now live in this free republic 21:15 we still sometimes struggle 21:17 with the idea that people should actually be 21:19 free to believe whatever they want, say whatever they want, 21:23 to the point where now some points of view 21:25 are being forcibly removed from the public arena. 21:28 But still, in spite of our fallen humanity, 21:31 here we are with a constitution that guarantees 21:34 a lot of things that you and I now take for granted. 21:37 But back in the 17th century, 21:39 when these ideas were first taking root, 21:41 they were nothing but a dream, 21:43 a dream that was cherished by people 21:45 who had seen something better 21:47 in the pages of the Bible. 21:49 And some of those early settlers were much faster 21:52 than others to put those new ideas into practice. 21:56 Take Roger Williams, for example, a man who was expelled 21:59 from the Massachusetts Bay Colony 22:01 and went on to found the colony of Rhode Island, 22:04 where the separation of church and state became reality. 22:08 And William Penn, the devoted Quaker, 22:10 who had been locked up in the Tower of London 22:12 for his beliefs, but then went on to create 22:15 the colony of Pennsylvania, 22:17 where people were free to exercise their faith, 22:20 including a very interesting settlement at Ephrata, 22:24 that decided they would keep the seventh day 22:26 Sabbath instead of Sunday. 22:28 [dramatic music] 22:31 So it might've taken time 22:33 and we might've been slow to learn, 22:35 but things moved much faster here 22:37 than they did over in Europe. 22:39 In fact, compared to the pace of the old world, 22:41 which was still beleaguered by centuries old power struggles 22:45 and hindered by complicated political considerations, 22:49 these new ideas were taking root at an astonishing pace. 22:53 As Victor Hugo once put it, "there is nothing as powerful 22:56 as an idea whose time has come" 22:59 and when you see all the things that had to happen 23:02 to make this republic possible, 23:04 well, you've gotta wonder 23:06 if somebody wasn't driving the process. 23:10 [bright music] 23:17 [bright music continues] 23:25 [bright music continues] 23:30 Today it's become popular to suggest 23:32 that the reason we have religious freedom 23:34 is because of the Enlightenment. 23:36 The way some people tell the story, 23:38 the world had been steeped in religious superstition 23:40 for a very long time, and then the light of reason 23:43 overthrew the superstition and finally set us free. 23:47 Now, to be sure, the founders 23:48 of the American republic did consult 23:50 with the ancient Greek philosophers, 23:52 and they did tap into the Enlightenment, 23:55 which was a good thing 23:56 because they did manage to mine the very best ideas. 24:00 But to suggest that America was born chiefly 24:02 from secularism, that's just not true. 24:05 The ideas that made this republic were born 24:07 in the hearts of Christians, 24:09 Christians who were open enough to study the classics 24:11 but still Christians. 24:13 Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Bunyan, Milton, 24:17 and countless others drew their inspiration from the Bible, 24:20 and then we drew our inspiration from them. 24:23 [dramatic music] 24:25 What occurred in the United States happened 24:27 because Christians finally recognized in the wake 24:29 of the Reformation that something had gone horribly wrong 24:33 when we married church and state. 24:36 They recognized that Jesus had never suggested 24:38 any such thing 24:39 and they set themselves to the task 24:41 of undoing the damage we caused. 24:44 In the words of Jesus, 24:45 "The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them 24:49 and those who exercise authority 24:51 over them are called benefactors. 24:53 But not so among you; 24:55 on the contrary, he who is greatest 24:57 among you let him be as the younger 25:00 and he who governs as he who serves. 25:03 For who is greater, 25:04 he who sits at the table, or he who serves? 25:06 Is it not he who sits at the table? 25:09 Yet I am among you as the One who serves. 25:13 [dramatic music] 25:20 [dramatic music continues] 25:26 We finally recognized that Jesus never seized 25:29 the reigns of power in order to make his point. 25:32 We shouldn't be doing it either. 25:34 The Kingdom of God is built on love, not force. 25:37 That's the very thing that we were trying to 25:39 set straight here in America. 25:41 Now, here's the thing that you've really gotta wonder. 25:44 If all of those other big empires from 25:45 Babylon to Rome and beyond 25:47 if they're all in Bible prophecy, 25:49 what about the most powerful, 25:51 wealthiest nation in the history of the world? 25:53 Shouldn't we be able to find America in prophecy too? 25:57 You might be surprised at what we find, 26:00 and you might really be surprised 26:01 at what the Bible says comes next. 26:04 [dramatic music] 26:13 [dramatic music] 26:21 [dramatic music continues] 26:30 [dramatic music continues] 26:37 [dramatic suspenseful music] 26:39 - [Announcer] This has been a broadcast 26:41 of the Voice of Prophecy. 26:43 To learn more about how you can get a DVD copy 26:46 of "Final Empire" for yourself, 26:48 please visit FinalEmpireDVD.com 26:51 or call toll free [844] 822-2943. 26:57 [dramatic suspenseful music] 27:07 [dramatic suspenseful music continues] 27:16 [dramatic suspenseful music continues] 27:25 [dramatic suspenseful music continues] 27:31 [upbeat music] 27:32 - [Host] Here at The Voice of Prophecy, 27:34 we're committed to creating top quality programming 27:36 for the whole 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