The Banner of The Cross

Definition of Banner, Ensign, Standard

• The English word “banner” is from banderia, Low Latin, meaning a banner (compare bandum, Latin, which meant first a “band,” an organized military troop, and then a “flag”). It has come to mean a flag, or standard, carried at the head of a military band or body, to indicate the line of march, or the rallying point, and it is now applied, in its more extended significance, to royal, national, or ecclesiastical “banners” also. We find it applied sometimes to a streamer on the end of a lance, such as is used by the Arab sheik today. ISBE

Definition of Banner, Ensign, Standard

• A flag; also a sail; by implication a flagstaff; generally a signal; figuratively a token: - banner, pole, sail, (en-) sign, standard. Strong’s

• Something lifted up, standard, signal, signal pole, ensign, banner, sign, sail. 1a) standard (as rallying point), signal; 1b) standard (pole); 1c) ensign, signal. Brown – Driver – Briggs

• It refers more specifically to a rallying point for the people. It marks the center of attraction on which people pin their hopes. Zondervan

The Concept of Banner, Flag, Rallying Point In History

Banners, Ensigns In Scriptures:

• Numbers 1:52; 2:2-3• Genesis 9:12-13 (a signal (literally or

figuratively), as a flag, beacon, monument)• Psalm 20:5• Psalm 60:4• Song of Solomon 2:4• Isaiah 13:2

The Messiah, Our Ensign, Banner

• Isaiah 62:10-12• Isaiah 11:10 & 12• Romans 15:12• John 3:14• John 12:32-33

What Our Banner Means To Us• God Loves Us, He Cares• A Royal Banner - King• Salvation Open To All• Encouragement• Suffer Wrongfully - Forgiving• Fight Good Fight of Faith• Unity – Oneness• Common Goal - Heaven

Have You Come To Jesus1. Hear the Gospel of Christ, Acts 18:8

2. Believe in Jesus Christ, Acts 16:31

3. Repent and Turn to God, Acts 17:30

4. Confess Jesus as Lord, Rom.10:9-10

5. Be Baptized, Ac.22:16

---------------------------------- Be Thou Faithful Unto Death, Rev.2:10 If Err: Repent and Pray God Acts 8:22