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The Southern Cross

No doubt this is a controversial symbol? Perhaps the very sight of it appalls you. But what does this flag represent: slavery, hatred, oppression, or faith, courage, and liberty? Are you aware of the controversy behind this symbol?

Friend, did you know that not one (1)slave was every transported to these shores of America under that banner? As a matter of fact, a form of this symbol actually flew as Negroes slaves were being imported to this continent.

Although we have since learned how all of America was conquered - blacks and whites alike - and were subjugated following that awful war of Northern Aggression. It was a martial law initiative. The ensign for the presence of martial law is a gold fringed flag.

America was torn asunder during those war years (1861-1864). While many Americans continue to have a sentimental longing for their history with its past symbols, here is an indication of what America has become.

Notice first, that this flag is flying upside down. That happens to be an international sign that a nation is in distress. Is there really any argument that America is in dire trouble? Next, we see how faded, tattered, and torn that symbol is. Rather than being the land of the free and the home of the brave, America has lost her former glory. In fact, due to her national crimes, such as the sin of murdering the pre-born babies while in their mother's womb with the approval of the legal establishment, this federal government has set itself at odds with Almighty God. On top of that vile, cruel, vicious crime of infant killing, America has added the reprehensible sin of sodomy to its growing list of national crimes thus making them ripe for the judgment of God. The following picture graphically depicts what truly awaits all of the unrepentant in this once wonderful nation.

"The wicked shall be turned into hell, [and] all the nations that forget God." Psalms 9:17

Friend, it is a wicked federal government that sanctions the sodomite lifestyle, and slaughters unborn babies for nearly thirty years in America. This same federal government invaded the Christian south destroying their culture, with its ethnic cleansing policies.

"When you speak of the South," writes Michael Andrew Grissom in his book Southern By The Grace of God, "You are speaking of a country, a time, a place ...."

As we have stated, the Southern Cross, also known as Saint Andrew's Cross, is a controversial banner. That is because of an aggravated ignorance fostered in the government schools, financed by stolen dollars, via the property tax scheme.

Saint Andrew's Cross

The infamous political thinker behind the systematized work of communism, Karl Marx predicted,"Take away a nation's heritage and they are, more easily persuaded." Our glorious Christian heritage in America is being frittered away, as we become lethargic. If we fail to transmit the facts about our nation's legacy to our children, then in the words of Tacitus who wrote of those who frivolously existed under the Roman Empire:"We cannot be said to have lived, but rather to have crawled in silence, the young towards the decrepitude of age and the old to dishonorable graves."

Saint Andrew's Cross, the Southern Cross, or the Confederate Battle Flag is a symbol of faith, courage, and liberty. This controversial flag has deep roots in faith. Andrew, one of Jesus' disciples, preached in Asiatic nations and was eventually crucified upside down in Patrae, Greece circa 69 AD. For three days Andrew, who was about 90 years old at the time, hung on the cross, and continued preaching to his captors. When at last their hearts were melted because they believed what he was preaching they took Andrew down, however, he expired.

Andrew died a Christian martyr and became a patron saint of both Russia and Scotland. Peter the Great, the czar of Russia, years later incorporated the Cross of Saint Andrew's into his nation's national flag in 1669. In addition to being a standard of faith, the Battle flag is also an ensign of courage, and a symbol of hope for liberty. Did you know that that very banner flew atop the Berlin wall as it was being taken down?

If this controversial emblem has a history of Christian courage, hope, and liberty, then why was it adopted by the Confederates states of America? Is not a racist sign, an indication of slavery, and oppression? The answer is No! The emigrants from Scotland carried with them their faith and religious heritage. So significant was the faith of these people that migrated to the south that even those uneducated had a means to attest of their faith. They pledged themselves with and signed legal documents by means of an "X," Andrew's Cross.

During the battle of the of First Manassas on July 21, 1861 General Gustave Toutant Beauregard reported that the "Stars and Bars," the Confederate national flag, was unable to be distinguished from the Federal flag, the "Stars and Stripes," which had been the only standard that flew when Negro slaves were brought to these shores of America. Therefore, the Saint Andrew's cross was adopted as the flag to fly in the battle for states rights.

The Battle flag is not a sign of slavery, because it was the Stars and Stripes, not the Southern Cross, that carried Negro slaves to this country. The Battle flag is not a symbol of racism or hatred, because more racism and hatred has been sponsored under the Stars and Stripes, than was the glorious Cross of Andrew. Finally, the Battle flag is not a sign of oppression, because it has served as an international flag of liberty for hundreds of years.

The raging controversy over the Battle flag, know also as the Southern Cross or the Cross of Andrew, is due to the growing ignorance of Americans, regarding our nation's Christian heritage. The Battle flag is an ensign of faith, courage, and liberty. It is a believer's banner. Hence, an attack upon the Confederate flag is an attack upon the glorious Christian history of America.