What Is Juneteenth, and Should Christians Celebrate It?
Core Christianity
Aaron Simon
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🗓️ 19 June 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Episode 1252 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions.
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1. Can I tell my Lutheran friends that their infant baptism isn't valid?
2. Can I pursue a Christian music career without making it about me?
3. Is it possible for someone to put a curse on a Christian?
4. What happens to unbelievers when they die?
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| 0:00.0 | What is Juneteenth, and should Christians celebrate it? That's just one of the questions we'll be |
| 0:11.3 | answering on today's edition of Core Christianity. Well, hi, this is Bill Meyer, along with |
| 0:16.3 | Pastor Adriel Sanchez, and this is the radio program where we answer your questions about the Bible and the Christian life every day. |
| 0:23.6 | Here's our phone number. It's 8333-the-core. You can feel free to leave us a voicemail at that number. |
| 0:29.3 | Again, 833-843-243-2673. You can also post your question on one of our social media sites, and you can email us your |
| 0:38.0 | question anytime at Questions at Core Christianity.com. Well, today is Juneteenth. It's a federal |
| 0:46.0 | holiday, and perhaps your company gave you the day off. And Adriel, can give us a little |
| 0:50.9 | background on what Juneteenth is all about? |
| 0:58.0 | Yeah, I just, you know, open this up. |
| 1:00.3 | This is from the Smithsonian website. |
| 1:05.4 | I think a helpful, just a couple paragraphs, description of what's being celebrated. |
| 1:13.2 | On Freedom's Eve, or the Eve of January 1st, 1863, the first watch night services took place. |
| 1:18.2 | On that night, enslaved and free African Americans gathered in churches and private homes all across the country awaiting news that the Emancipation Proclamation had taken effect. |
| 1:23.6 | At the stroke of midnight, prayers were answered as all enslaved people in Confederate states were declared legally free. |
| 1:30.2 | Union soldiers, many of whom were black, marched onto plantations and across cities in the South, |
| 1:35.3 | reading copies of the Emancipation Proclamation, spreading the news of freedom in Confederate states. |
| 1:40.8 | Only through the 13th Amendment did emancipation end slavery throughout the United States. |
| 1:45.2 | But not everyone in Confederate territory would immediately be free. |
| 1:48.2 | Even though the Emancipation Proclamation was made effective in 1863, it could not be implemented |
| 1:53.0 | in places still under Confederate control. As a result, in the western most Confederate state of Texas |
| 1:59.1 | enslaved people would not be free until much later. |
| 2:02.6 | Freedom finally came on June 19, 1865, when some 2,000 Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas. |
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