The Reverend Billy Graham reposes

During his last “crusade,” held in New York City in 2005, Billy Graham, America’s great pastor-evangelist, declared: “I have one message: that Jesus Christ came, he died on a cross, he rose again, and he asked us to repent of our sins and receive Christ by faith as Lord and Savior, and if we do, we have forgiveness of all our sin.”

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Rev. Graham’s Saturn at 28 Leo is conjunct the Fixed Star Regulus on the 6th house cusp showing how much of what he did was a joyful joining of work and play — he really loved his job. He has a preponderance of Squares, showing he enjoyed the challenges of his work, and that encouraged him to put his nose to the grindstone and work all the harder. He has another set of preponderances, this time with conjunctions (they are equal to the squares). This Marc Jones writes is the ability to make an exceptional impact on his fellow man & society in general. He is a locomotive temperament type with his lead planet being Pluto in the 4th house in Cancer (discovered when he was about 13). This suggests when he got the call it was a transformative affair that he joyfully accepted (Pluto conjunct Jupiter). On a societal level, the Reverend Graham saw — it was the depth of the Depression — that he was receiving this message from on High at this time to help turn a depressed and despairing people away from self-indulgence and self-destruction and towards Him who Saves and Shields us from the discouraging perils of life.

On February 21, 2018, Billy Graham passed away. He was 99 years old. In his autobiography, he had written that “the first question I am going to ask when I get to heaven is this: Why me, Lord, why did you choose me, a farm boy from North Carolina, to preach to so many people, . . . and to have a part in what You were doing in the latter half of the twentieth century?” He, like Moses before him, believed that “only God” knew the answer to that question.

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A young Reverend Graham — America’s original tele-evangelist

Billy Graham repeatedly and sincerely gave credit to the Lord for any good that came from his ministry. In his lengthy evangelistic ministry, Graham called upon his audiences to repent of their sins, accept Christ as their Lord and Savior, and be born again. Graham reminded his audiences that everyone has sinned and is going to die some day and answer to a Holy God for those sins.

He urged his audience to get right with God before it was too late. In his crusade — “invitations” he called them, were to bring others like himself to Christ (his son Franklin continues the work).

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    aren’t we all?

Now Billy Graham has passed away, or as he said, “changed my address and gone into the presence of the Lord, ” joining the ranks of the greatest evangelical preachers, along with other great American evangelists like Dwight Lyman Moody, Billy Sunday, Bob Jones, Oral Roberts, and the recently departed, R. C. Sproul.

Rest in peace, Rev. Graham. You served the Lord faithfully and upon reaching heaven’s gates, will undoubtedly His welcoming commendation: “Well done, thou good and faithful servant.”

John D. Woodbridge is research professor of church history and the history of Christian thought at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.

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