“There were many Americans in the Revolutionary era who believed that they, like the children of Israel, were oppressed by their colonial rulers, and they looked to God for deliverance from the tyranny of their pharaoh, George III.” ChildrenIsraelTyrannyErasRevolutionaryRulersOppressedDeliverancePharaohs Author:Daniel L Dreisbach
“Just as the children of Israel were directed by God to depart from the land of their oppression with its tyrannical monarch, cross a great sea, and establish a new nation, so, too, the children of Great Britain were led by God to leave the land of their religious oppression, cross a great ocean, inhabit a promised land, and, eventually, resist a "tyrannical" George III and create a new nation in "God's American Israel."” ChildrenNationsReligiousSeaLandOceanCrossesIsraelOppressionBritainMonarchsGreat BritainPromised Land Author:Daniel L Dreisbach