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The flag above is for Brazil.
WHAT SCRIPTURES SAY OF FLAGS: Ancient Israel had banners or flags
as shown in the scriptures. Speaking of them, Psalm 20:5 says "We will cry out joyfully because of your salvation,
and in the name of our God we shall lift our banners." Canticles (Song of Solomon) 2:4 says "He brought me into
the house of wine, and his banner over me was love."
Canticles (Song of Solomon) 6:4 says "You are beautiful , O girl companion of mine, like Pleasant City,
comely like Jerusalem, awesome as companies gathered around banners." And Canticles 6:10 which states "Who is this
woman who is looking down like the dawn, beautiful like the full moon, pure like the glowing sun, awesome as companies gathered
around banners?"
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said, it's a fact that the ten tribes and nation of Israel used banners or flags because God had told them to
do so. How so? For example pagan nations often carried into battle small idols on elevated poles representative
of the gods they worshipped. God had told the Israelites they must not use idols (Exodus 20:4), so to represent themselves
and God they instead used banners or flags.
So now you know the rest of the story about what the Bible itself says of flags. Obviously any fanatical, unquestioning and blind allegiance to any human group as with the ultra-nationalism of the Nazis is wrong, but again the Bible itself speaks of flags, ensigns or banners in no negative way but in positive contexts of joy and love. Most people use or salute them to show "respect," not to worship them, any national or governmental system.
So now you know the rest of the story about what the Bible itself says of flags. Obviously any fanatical, unquestioning and blind allegiance to any human group as with the ultra-nationalism of the Nazis is wrong, but again the Bible itself speaks of flags, ensigns or banners in no negative way but in positive contexts of joy and love. Most people use or salute them to show "respect," not to worship them, any national or governmental system.