It Is Written

Gettysburg And The Universal Battle

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01:30 ♪[Theme music]♪
01:40 ♪[Theme music]♪
01:50 ♪[Guitar music]♪
01:51 >>John Bradshaw: This is Gettysburg, Pennsylvania,
01:54 known the world over for the battle of Gettysburg
01:57 and President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg address.
02:01 In 1863, it was a town with a population of 2,400 people.
02:07 And in 1863 the Civil War was two years old.
02:12 The American Civil War went from 1861 to 1865.
02:16 The Confederacy was made up of 11 different states:
02:20 Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi,
02:25 Alabama, Georgia, Florida, the Carolinas,
02:30 Virginia, and Tennessee.
02:32 While 25 states, depending on how you count,
02:35 made up the Union.
02:37 There were more than three million soldiers
02:39 involved in the Civil War:
02:41 two and a half million on the side of the Union,
02:43 one-point-two million on the side of the Confederacy.
02:46 It was a massive, massive war.
02:51 And what took place right here in Gettysburg
02:55 was the turning point for the entire American Civil War.
03:00 Academics and historians have been discussing
03:02 the battle of Gettysburg and the Civil War
03:04 since both of them were ended.
03:07 But what took place here at Gettysburg
03:09 goes way beyond academics and history.
03:11 The truth is, there are some very important spiritual lessons
03:16 that can be learned here,
03:18 lessons that help us understand the great spiritual battle
03:23 that all of us are involved in.
03:27 This patch of earth right here is known as Cemetery Ridge.
03:31 Cemetery Ridge was the site of a very, very significant battle.
03:37 It was known as Pickett's Charge.
03:39 And Gettysburg was the high-water mark
03:41 for the Confederacy.
03:42 This was the furthest into Union territory
03:44 that the Confederacy ever got.
03:46 If you look at a map, we're well north here of Washington, D.C.
03:50 In fact, the battle of Gettysburg was the only battle
03:53 that took place north of the Mason-Dixon Line.
03:56 Pickett's Charge occurred on the last day
04:00 of the battle of Gettysburg.
04:02 It was July 3, 1863.
04:07 ♪[Piccolo music]♪
04:08 Major General George Pickett
04:10 was one of three Confederate generals who led the assault.
04:14 General Robert E. Lee ordered the attack against
04:16 Major General George G. Mead's Union
04:18 positions along this ridge.
04:21 General Lee was determined to take down the Union army,
04:25 especially after attacks on both of their flanks
04:27 had failed in the previous days.
04:30 But the Union soldiers were ready.
04:34 Thousands of Union soldiers aimed 122 cannon or cannons
04:38 into that field right there.
04:41 The Confederacy matched them with 152 cannon of their own.
04:45 And at one o'clock in the afternoon,
04:48 the fighting began.
04:50 Those 274 cannon began firing simultaneously.
04:55 It is said that the resulting cacophony was so loud
05:00 that the noise could be heard 84 miles away in Washington, D.C.
05:04 Someone once said that this was most likely the loudest manmade
05:08 noise ever made, in the history of the world up to that time.
05:13 And Pickett's Charge, was only beginning.
05:21 [Cannons firing, guns firing]
05:23 Once the Confederates who were out there thought
05:27 that the Union lines back here had been softened up,
05:30 twelve and a half thousand of their soldiers
05:32 began to march across that open space from there to here.
05:36 It's a stretch of one mile;
05:39 yet they were only able to make it three-quarters of the way
05:42 before they had to head back.
05:44 They walked across this open space,
05:47 right into a blizzard of heavy cannon fire.
05:50 In fact, in three-quarters of an hour,
05:52 the Confederacy lost more than 50 percent of their men.
05:57 Some of the Confederates were able to breach
05:59 this low stone wall that shielded the Union defenders,
06:01 but they weren't able to maintain their position,
06:03 and they were forced to retreat.
06:07 Years later when he was asked
06:08 why his charge at Gettysburg failed,
06:11 General Pickett replied by saying,
06:15 “I've always thought the Yankees had something to do with it.”
06:19 There are many debates as to why this battle here
06:21 actually even took place at all.
06:23 Some say the objective was to gain control of the copse
06:25 of trees over there behind me.
06:28 Others say the object was to get to Zeigler's Grove
06:31 over there on Cemetery Hill.
06:33 Perhaps we'll never know.
06:34 Other questions are asked as well,
06:37 questions such as,
06:39 why did the Civil War itself even take place?
06:42 Was it a question of states' rights?
06:44 Was it about federal tariffs?
06:46 Was it labor laws and slavery?
06:49 Maybe we'll never know.
06:50 Even the name “Civil War” has been questioned and disputed
06:54 down through the years.
06:56 Well, I've got a question for you:
06:58 whose side was God on in the Civil War?
07:02 The Bible does help us understand that,
07:05 and the answer may surprise you.
07:07 And what about the original civil war that took place long
07:10 before Gettysburg was even thought of?
07:13 We'll talk about that in just a moment.
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08:50 [Gunshots]
08:52 [Marching drums]
08:54 >>John: The American Civil War, the North against the South.
08:58 I'm in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the site of the battle
09:01 of Gettysburg during the American Civil War,
09:04 and I'm here right now in a place
09:06 that is known as Devil's Den.
09:10 It saw a lot of action on July 2, 1863.
09:13 It changed hands a couple of times,
09:15 but by the end of the day it was a Confederate stronghold.
09:19 A lot of people died here.
09:22 Just over there is an area that's known
09:24 as the Slaughter Pen.
09:27 I'll leave it to you to figure out why it was called
09:30 the Slaughter Pen.
09:32 More than 700,000 soldiers died during the American Civil War.
09:38 America had more casualties, lost more soldiers
09:40 in that one great conflict, than in all wars from
09:46 the Revolutionary War to the Vietnam War combined.
09:51 The reason is quite obvious.
09:53 That's because during the American Civil War,
09:55 everybody who died, was an American.
09:59 And, you know, with so much bloodshed,
10:02 people have asked from time to time,
10:05 whose side was God on?
10:07 Now, don't worry.
10:09 I'm not going to get into any sticky political territory.
10:11 Instead, I'm going to get into the Bible.
10:14 This reminded me of a Bible story you read about
10:17 in the book of Joshua.
10:18 God's people had been, uh, brought out of the wilderness
10:22 and into the Promised Land, finally,
10:24 after 40 years of wandering.
10:27 But, now that they come to the Promised Land,
10:28 they find that the Promised Land is filled with the enemy.
10:31 So God commands them to consecrate themselves,
10:35 and He leads them down to the walls of the city of Jericho.
10:39 And as they're marching down to the walls
10:41 surrounding the city of Jericho,
10:43 something really strange takes place.
10:47 Joshua 5:13:
10:48 “And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho,
10:52 that he lifted his eyes and looked,
10:54 and behold, a man stood opposite him
10:58 with a sword drawn in his hand.
11:00 And Joshua went to him and said to him,
11:03 “Are you for us or for our adversaries?”
11:08 Now, think about this.
11:09 Joshua was very close to God,
11:11 and just a couple of chapters before this took place,
11:14 God had said this to Joshua:
11:15 “This day I will begin to exalt you in the sight of all Israel,
11:20 that they may know that, as I was with Moses,
11:23 so I'm with you.”
11:26 Now, Joshua likely knew that the being in the road
11:28 was a divine being.
11:30 Joshua was well acquainted with God.
11:33 You know that Joshua was with the Israelites
11:35 when they left Egypt on their way to the Promised Land.
11:38 Joshua had wandered through the wilderness for four decades
11:42 with the children of Israel, and he had seen God work.
11:45 Think about what he saw.
11:46 He was a witness when God sent the ten plagues in Egypt.
11:50 He saw what God did there.
11:52 He was there when God split the Red Sea wide open
11:55 so the Israelites could evacuate Egypt.
11:57 Joshua saw what God had done.
12:00 While on the wilderness wanderings,
12:02 Joshua ate the manna that God had sent,
12:05 the manna that carpeted the ground.
12:06 Joshua gathered that up with his bare hands and ate it himself,
12:10 knowing that this blessing had come from God.
12:13 He saw the pillar of fire by night
12:14 and the pillar of cloud by day.
12:17 He was acquainted with God.
12:19 He says to this being, “Whose side are you on?
12:22 Are you with us, or are you with our enemy?”
12:25 And he got a very surprising answer.
12:28 I mean, I would expect that a divine being,
12:32 a heavenly being, would say plainly and simply,
12:35 “I'm on your side.
12:37 I'm with the children of Israel.”
12:39 You certainly wouldn't expect him to say,
12:41 “I'm with your enemies.”
12:43 What did God say?
12:44 Did God say, “Joshua, I'm with you.
12:47 You're my man, and I'm with you and my people?”
12:51 God didn't say that at all.
12:53 Here's what God said.
12:55 God said, “Neither.
12:56 I'm with neither of you.”
13:00 Here's what the Bible says, Joshua 5:14:
13:04 “'Neither,' he replied,
13:05 ‘but as commander of the army of the Lord I have now come.”
13:09 Then Joshua fell facedown to the ground in reverence,
13:12 and asked him,
13:14 ‘What message does my Lord have for his servant?'”
13:18 Now, this is Joshua we're talking about,
13:20 the one who was chosen by God to lead God's people.
13:23 If God was going to be on anybody's side at all,
13:25 you'd think that he'd be on Joshua's side.
13:27 So what was going on here?
13:29 Had Joshua done something wrong?
13:30 Had God's people slid into apostasy again?
13:34 Well, no, as a matter of fact,
13:35 they had recently reconsecrated themselves to God,
13:38 and they built an altar.
13:40 You've got to look at the big picture.
13:41 There's a big picture to view when considering this passage.
13:44 A couple of things to consider, and one of them is this:
13:48 God is on His own side.
13:51 God is committed to His mission of saving all men and women,
13:55 redeeming the world and bringing them to Himself through Jesus.
14:00 That's what God is all about.
14:02 John 3 and verse 16 says,
14:04 “For God so loved the world,
14:05 that He gave His only begotten Son,
14:07 that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish,
14:10 but have everlasting life.”
14:12 And it says in Ephesians 1, verses 11 and 12,
14:16 “In Him also we have obtained an inheritance,
14:19 being predestined according to the purpose of Him
14:22 who works all things according to the counsel of His will,
14:25 that we who first trusted in Christ
14:28 should be to the praise of His glory.”
14:31 Abraham Lincoln recognized this,
14:32 and that's why he included these words in his writings:
14:36 In “Meditations on the Divine Will,” Lincoln wrote,
14:40 “The will of God prevails,
14:42 In great contests each party claims to act in accordance
14:46 with the will of God.
14:47 Both may be, and one must be wrong.
14:52 God cannot be for, and against the same thing at the same time.
14:56 In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's
15:00 purpose is somewhat different from the purpose
15:02 of either party, and yet the human instrumentalities,
15:05 working just as they do,
15:07 are of the best adaptation to effect this.”
15:10 He went on to say in the second inaugural address,
15:13 “Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God,
15:16 and each invokes His aid against the other.
15:18 It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's
15:24 assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat
15:26 of other men's faces, but let us judge not,
15:29 that we be not judged.
15:31 The prayers of both could not be answered.
15:34 That of neither has been answered fully.
15:36 The Almighty has His own purposes.
15:39 ‘Woe unto the world because of offenses,
15:42 for it must needs be that offenses come,
15:45 but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.'”
15:48 That isn't to suggest that God was indifferent
15:50 to the battle of Gettysburg.
15:51 Far from it.
15:53 God's always on the side of truth and justice and liberty.
15:57 God's on the side of lifting men and women up,
15:59 of ennobling people,
16:00 and giving them the opportunity to live whole lives.
16:03 But whereas we see the small-picture,
16:07 Gettysburg, Bull Run, Manassas- God sees the big picture.
16:12 And it's when we look beyond Gettysburg
16:16 and we see the big picture,
16:18 that we see the war behind all wars,
16:20 we see the original civil war.
16:23 We see the universal battle that all of us are involved in.
16:28 I'll be back with more in just a moment.
16:32 ♪[Music]♪
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17:13 >>John: Thanks for joining me.
17:14 A man was surfing when he saw a fish,
17:16 a snapper, struggling on the surface of the water.
17:20 Seems the fish might have been injured by a small shark.
17:23 He wondered if he could possibly catch the fish,
17:25 but he didn't have any fishing equipment.
17:26 All he had was his bare hands,
17:28 and how do you catch a fish, with just your bare hands?
17:31 Well, just then the fish began swimming in his direction
17:34 and swam right across the front of his surfboard.
17:37 Now, the man wasn't going to miss an opportunity like this.
17:40 He grabbed the fish,
17:41 tied it to his surfboard with his ankle rope,
17:43 and paddled to shore with his prize 22-pound snapper,
17:47 caught with his bare hands, in tow.
17:50 He said, “That's the only time
17:51 that's going to happen in my life,”
17:52 which is, I'm sure 100 percent correct.
17:56 There are a number of remarkable stories in the Bible about fish.
18:00 One day after Peter had been discussing the temple tax
18:02 with some religious leaders, Jesus asked him to catch a fish.
18:06 He said, “...go to the sea, cast in a hook,
18:09 and take the fish that comes up first.
18:11 And when you have opened its mouth,
18:12 you will find a piece of money;
18:14 take that and give it to them for Me and you.”
18:17 That's Matthew 17:27.
18:19 Can you imagine how Peter felt when he caught that fish,
18:21 looked in its mouth, and found a coin,
18:24 just as Jesus had said.
18:26 Peter was a fisherman, but he'd never experienced that before.
18:30 It was a miracle, and it demonstrated to Peter,
18:32 and to you and me,
18:34 just who Jesus is and just what He's able to do.
18:37 Jesus still works miracles.
18:39 Sometimes they're spectacular, out of the ordinary;
18:41 other times, they're everyday miracles.
18:43 Our daily bread, the next beat of your heart,
18:45 a sunrise or a sunset.
18:48 Don't miss the miracles, the big miracles or the small miracles,
18:53 that God works for you.
18:55 Look around.
18:56 You'll see they happen every day.
18:59 I'm John Bradshaw for It Is Written.
19:01 Let's live today by every word.
19:03 ♪[Music]♪
19:09 [Sound of crickets]
19:12 >>John: This is Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
19:15 It's an almost sacred place:
19:17 the site of the battle of Gettysburg.
19:20 During the battle of Gettysburg,
19:21 both the Union side and the Confederate side
19:23 suffered about the same amount of casualties:
19:25 about 23,000 per side.
19:29 Now, there were 3,000 deaths suffered by the Union,
19:31 a little more than 3,000, and a little less than 5,000 deaths
19:35 suffered by the Confederacy.
19:38 The Civil War often even split families,
19:41 split communities.
19:43 It wasn't uncommon to have a brother on one side,
19:46 be it Union or Confederate,
19:47 fighting against his own literal blood brother on the other side.
19:52 Before he became the president,
19:54 Abraham Lincoln described the United States
19:56 as a house divided,
19:58 using words that came straight from the lips of Jesus,
20:01 words Lincoln borrowed from the gospels.
20:04 Abraham Lincoln understood this concept
20:07 from firsthand experience.
20:09 His own brother-in-law was a Confederate general
20:13 who lost his life shortly after Gettysburg
20:16 at the battle of Chickamauga,
20:17 just outside of Chattanooga, Tennessee.
20:21 What about a conflict that not only divided communities,
20:26 or divided the nation,
20:27 but what about a conflict that would divide Heaven?
20:30 Seems hard to imagine, doesn't it?
20:33 But doesn't it also seem hard to imagine,
20:35 thinking back, Americans taking up arms against Americans
20:40 and fighting to the death?
20:41 It just seems so unlikely.
20:44 Even the leaders, many of them on the Confederate side,
20:46 the Union side, some of them were friends.
20:48 Many of them were educated together
20:50 at the same military schools.
20:53 Seems hard to fathom now.
20:54 But, just as hard to fathom as that is, is this concept
20:59 of a war that divides Heaven, a conflict that divides Heaven.
21:02 And here's what the Bible says about that
21:05 in Revelation chapter 12, from verse 7; it says,
21:08 “And there was war in heaven:
21:10 Michael and his angels fought against the dragon;
21:13 and the dragon fought and his angels,
21:15 and prevailed not;
21:16 neither was their place found any more in heaven.”
21:20 There was a conflict so dramatic that a third of the angels
21:25 were evicted from heaven.
21:27 And why in the world would that take place?
21:30 Well, to find out that,
21:31 we look in the book of Isaiah and chapter 14:
21:36 “How are you fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!
21:40 How were you cut down to the ground,
21:42 you who weakened the nations!
21:44 For you have said in your heart:
21:45 ‘I will ascend into heaven,
21:48 I will exalt my throne above the stars of God;
21:52 I will also sit on the mount of the congregation
21:55 on the farthest sides of the north;
21:57 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds,
22:00 I will be like the Most High.'”
22:06 For reasons that I don't think we can adequately comprehend,
22:10 Satan decided that he wanted to sit in God's place.
22:13 Actually, Lucifer, before he was Satan,
22:15 had these ideas that he would sit in God's place.
22:18 He wanted to receive the honor that only God was due.
22:21 He wanted to receive the homage that God was getting.
22:25 Simply put, Satan wanted to receive worship.
22:30 He wasn't able to get that worship in Heaven,
22:32 and so he was cast down here to the Earth.
22:34 But before he was cast down to the Earth,
22:36 Satan went on a campaign in Heaven,
22:39 like a, like a good politician, to win,
22:42 to win the angels of Heaven, as many as he could,
22:44 over to his side.
22:47 Now, there are times that it really makes me wonder
22:50 why even a single angel would have entertained
22:54 Lucifer's chicanery in Heaven.
22:57 Lucifer had to be campaigning and complaining about God.
23:00 Why would even one perfect angel in Heaven listen?
23:03 It just doesn't make sense.
23:05 But perhaps, perhaps there was something mysterious about sin,
23:10 something that wasn't very well understood,
23:12 that caused the angels to stop and consider and listen,
23:15 and given Lucifer a little more of their time
23:17 than they otherwise would have.
23:19 And perhaps, think about this,
23:21 perhaps Lucifer was just a good campaigner.
23:24 Perhaps he knew how to speak and phrase and frame things
23:27 in such a way that certain of the angels said,
23:30 well, maybe he's got a point.
23:32 I mean, let's think about this: we think of Nazi Germany.
23:36 There were multiplied thousands of Germans
23:38 who listened to Adolf Hitler with rapt attention.
23:42 They were swept along in the hysteria that he generated.
23:46 We say, how in the world could that have happened?
23:47 But many people living today look back and say,
23:50 “I understand only too well how that could have happened.”
23:52 Perhaps it was a little bit like that with Satan.
23:55 Thousands died here at Gettysburg.
23:57 The many cemeteries mark the final resting place
24:02 of many of them.
24:04 It was in November of 1863 that President Lincoln
24:06 came here to Gettysburg, and he delivered,
24:08 at the dedication of the Soldiers National Cemetery,
24:13 the Gettysburg address.
24:15 Now, what's interesting is that many people don't realize that
24:17 Abraham Lincoln wasn't even the featured speaker that day.
24:21 The one who gave the keynote speech
24:23 was a man named Edward Everett.
24:25 Everett had been the Secretary of State for the United States.
24:28 He'd been the Governor of the state of Massachusetts.
24:31 Everett had been the president of Harvard University,
24:33 and he was a renowned orator.
24:35 When he spoke that day,
24:36 his speech lasted more than two hours.
24:40 But today, there's virtually nobody who remembers
24:44 anything that Edward Everett said.
24:47 By contrast, Abraham Lincoln came and spoke.
24:50 The Gettysburg Address lasted just a little more
24:52 than two minutes, and it's made up of ten sentences.
24:57 And it was in the Gettysburg Address that Abraham Lincoln
25:02 said these words:
25:05 “It is rather for us to be here dedicated
25:07 to the great task remaining before us-
25:11 that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that
25:16 cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.”
25:22 ♪[Music]♪
25:25 In looking forward to the last great conflict
25:27 soon to come to this world,
25:28 perhaps we can look back and think of those
25:31 who gave everything to advance the cause of Christ,
25:34 the cause of truth, the cause of the Bible.
25:37 Perhaps we can think back to that original rebellion,
25:40 that original civil war, the one that took place in Heaven.
25:44 And we can remember,
25:45 that when the universe was split in two,
25:48 Jesus did everything He could to bring it back together.
25:52 When Jesus had rebels on His hands,
25:55 Jesus willing came to the battlefield called Earth
25:58 and gave His life,
26:00 so that the rebels might have life.
26:02 Jesus died for you, friend,
26:04 so that in place of rebellion,
26:06 you could be in harmony with Him.
26:08 In place of guilt,
26:09 you could experience forgiveness.
26:11 In place of shame, you could have no shame.
26:14 In place of tyranny, there would be liberty.
26:17 In place of sin, Jesus would give you salvation.
26:22 Would you accept that from Jesus today?
26:26 Jesus, who crossed that,
26:28 who crossed that vast field between Heaven and Earth,
26:31 and came down here,
26:34 and gave His life, dying on the battlefield,
26:38 so that we need not remain on the battlefield,
26:41 but that we can enjoy everlasting life
26:43 in the presence of Jesus.
26:45 Would you like that, friend?
26:47 Would you choose that and accept that today from Him?
26:50 Let me pray for you.
26:51 Our Father in Heaven,
26:52 we thank You today for Jesus,
26:54 the Freedom Giver.
26:55 We thank You for Jesus,
26:57 the Liberator.
26:57 We thank You for Jesus,
26:59 who when He had a group of rebels on His hands,
27:02 came to this Earth to give life in the place of death.
27:07 Father, we accept that today.
27:09 I pray for everyone hearing the sound of my voice and saying,
27:12 “Yes, I will choose freedom in Jesus.
27:15 I will choose life in Jesus.”
27:17 Thank You for giving Him life in the place of death,
27:21 and freedom in the place of slavery,
27:23 and joy in the place of sorrow,
27:26 and everlasting life that will measure with the life of God.
27:30 We thank You for that today,
27:32 and we pray in Jesus' name,
27:35 Amen.
27:38 ♪[Music]♪
27:48 ♪[Music]♪
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29:03 Look forward to seeing you again next time.
29:05 Until then, remember:
29:07 “It is written:
29:08 ‘Man shall not live by bread alone,
29:10 but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.'”
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