Elias Boudinot

You know, I, I, I, I was, I read this wonderful recent book.

Oh, actually it came out in 2018, but I read it for the first time recently by Professor Samuel Goldman, who wrote a wonderful book on, on, on Christian Zionism And one of the characters from, from the founding era that he writes a lot about is a man by the name of Elias Boudinot, and he was the founder of the American Bible Society.

He actually was briefly president of the Continental Congress during the Revolutionary War.

And Elias Boudinot felt that America had been providentially called together as a nation, the colonies uniting, much like David united the tribes of Israel millennia prior to that.

Elias Boudinot felt that America was coming into existence as a nation for the purpose, as a vehicle, to bring the children of Israel back home to the land.

Which is also, by the way, a, a, a recurring theme of many 17th century era Puritan sermons, uh, given in, in, in Boston and throughout Massachusetts.

So th- this, this has been a, a, a core, core theme of American history.

Were they neutral toward religion as we're told? No, the fact is 52 of the 55 men who attended the Constitutional Convention were Orthodox Christians.

In fact, two of our founders, Elias Boudinot and John Jay, who happened to go on to be the first Chief Justice of our Supreme Court, went on to become the leaders of the American Bible Society.

They wanted to distribute the Bible to as many people as possible, and they believed that the message of the Bible could transform lives and set the nation on a proper moral course.

Yes, it is true that two of our founders were deists, not Christians.

And, and when, when sometimes they call the great compromise of the house and Senate and apportionment, the Connecticut compromise, and it's because Sherman was the one who brokered that.

So, and he, he's extremely influential among the founders and, But also writes books of, you know, Christian devotion and Elias Boudinot, you know, who was also similarly significant.

I mean, he even writes books about prophecy and stuff.

Yeah.