President James Polk's 'Sacred Scripture'

In Sacred Scripture, the book of Joshua was an account of invasion and rewarded promise by God to His set-apart people to inhabit Canaan, the Holy Land. The twelve tribes of Israel reached the Jordon River with a Divine charge to move forward into Canaan, God’s land. This became Israel’s manifest destiny. Almost three thousand years later, America acted likewise in response to God’s gift of freedom under the leadership of President James Polk and his military confidant Andrew Jackson. Thus began the American westward movement, both toward the Southwest and Northwest, to take over God’s land in the New World up to the Pacific Ocean. As well, this was the American manifest destiny that was driven by a national, spiritual fervor, which neither …show more content…
No one will be able to stand their ground against you as long as you live. For I will be with you, as I was with Moses. I will not fail you or abandon you.

In America, it was President James Polk, a deeply religious Christian, who led God’s manifest destiny in the middle of the 19th century AD. It was he who politically transformed and doubled the landscape of America. James Polk and his wife, Sarah, were staunch bible-reading Presbyterians who honored the Sabbath above politics. Polk was raised on the frontier in Columbus, Tennessee just south of Nashville. As a young boy he suffered a serious urinary, aliment and remained childless. Polk frequently referred to God when making difficult political decisions. One of his closest friends was Andrew Jackson who helped him spark the manifest destiny theme that became Polk’s signature accomplishment. James Polk died a month after …show more content…
Sarah, his wife, lived as a widow on their Hermitage plantation in Nashville TN for 42 more years. As a ardent “manifest destiny” proponent, President Polk, who occupied the White House for only one term from 1845-1849, added Texas to the Union, diplomatically outfoxed the British and Russians out of the Oregon territory, and gained California as well as most of the Southwest during the Mexican War. These annexations of the West awakened the travel urge for thousands of settlers to relocate by way of the Oregon and Santa Fe Trails, extending from Independence, Missouri to the Columbia River in Oregon, and south toward New Mexico. To this day, it remains an historic enigma that President Polk is considered one of the most underrated Presidents in American