Twelve score and 10 years ago, “our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”

When our 16th president, Abraham Lincoln, delivered his famous speech on the Gettysburg battlefield on November 19, 1863, he was harkening back to the Declaration of Independence.

A score is 20 years. Lincoln said, “Four score and seven years ago.” Subtract 87 from 1863, and it takes us back to 1776. The very thing we now celebrate 250 years of, the Declaration of Independence.

The Gettysburg Address is easily one of the top ten speeches in American history. It is informed by the Bible, as we will see. So also was the Declaration of Independence, which mentions God four times. 

We celebrate our national birth certificate on July 4, 2026, because 250 years ago, 56 men in Philadelphia, representing three million back home, made a voice-vote to approve the final wording of the Declaration of Independence. Only later did they all sign it.

During the Civil War, the nation was tested. It could easily have perished. It could have easily split into many nations, not just two. Once the division became permanent, it could have easily been divided up further.

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