(OPINION) An incredible thing happened during the inauguration of Donald Trump on January 20th.
As the entire world watched, the U.S. Naval Academy Glee Club performed a stirring rendition of the Battle Hymn of the Republic. To me, it was one of the most memorable moments of the entire day.
But what most people don’t realize is that the song repeatedly references the Book of Revelation and the second coming of Jesus Christ. I don’t think that it was an accident that this specific song was performed at Donald Trump’s inauguration at this specific moment in human history.
This was a reminder to all of us that the great battle between good and evil that has been going on for centuries is reaching a grand crescendo, and it was also a reminder to all of us that we really are living in the end times.
This is one of our most loved patriotic songs, but most people have no idea where the lyrics came from…
In November 1861, a woman named Julia Ward Howe and her husband visited Washington, D.C. While there, Howe, a published poet, heard Union troops belting out a well-known marching song called “John Brown’s Body,” after the famous abolitionist, John Brown.
A preacher standing with Howe encouraged her to write new lyrics to the tune “I replied that I had often wished to do so,” Howe later wrote.
Julia Ward Howe went to bed that night, and she said that the next morning the lyrics “were arranging themselves in my brain”…
I… awoke the next morning in the gray of the early dawn, and to my astonishment found that the wished-for lines were arranging themselves in my brain.
I lay quite still until the last verse had completed itself in my thoughts, then hastily arose, saying to myself, I shall lose this if I don’t write it down immediately.
I… began to scrawl the lines almost without looking…. Having completed this, I lay down again and fell asleep, but not before feeling that something of importance had happened to me.” READ MORE
