On the Great Seal
In 1782, Sam Adams created the third Congress and appointed a design artist, William Barton of Philadelphia, to bring a proposal for the national seal.[3] For the reverse, Barton suggested a thirteen-layered pyramid underneath the Eye of Providence. The mottos which Barton chose to accompany the design were Deo Favente ("with God's favor", or more literally, "with God favoring") and Perennis ("Everlasting"). The pyramid and Perennis motto had come from a $50 Continental currency bill designed by Francis Hopkinson.[4] (The note can be seen here, and the pyramid portion here.)
Barton's Design with
Deo Favente and
Perennis.
Barton explained that the motto alluded to the Eye of Providence: "Deo favente which alludes to the Eye in the Arms, meant for the Eye of Providence."[5] In western art, God is traditionally represented by the Eye of Providence, which principally symbolizes God's omniscience.
When designing the final version of the Great Seal, Charles Thomson (a former Latin teacher) kept the pyramid and eye for the reverse side but replaced the two mottos, using Annuit Cœptis instead of Deo Favente (and Novus Ordo Seclorum instead of Perennis). When he provided his official explanation of the meaning of this motto, he wrote:
The Eye over it [the pyramid] and the motto Annuit Cœptis allude to the many signal interpositions of providence in favor of the American cause.[6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annuit_c%C5%93ptis
What this shows is that our culture is just as much Greco-Roman in secular organization as it is Judeo-"Christific" in theology. Yet it is mixed with commonness of native-American/far-eastern orientalism/African-tribalism plus whatever-other-kind of "clay" that is predicted in Daniel 2:42-43 as the end-times composite of mixed, unblendable cultures that will eventually be superseded.
North America is not a "melting-pot" of cultures, but rather a trash-heap of the odds and ends of them all, not moldable, but generally organized along the lines of a democratic republic trending slowly toward mobocracy with the end being anarchy (which we are seeing plenty of now).
I believe anything truly Christian will be removed, and what is "left behind" will be reorganized by the global "catholic" principle (which is the operative concept of most North-American denominalizationalism) led by the Antichrist with his chief priest of Rome leading the takeover of the mid-East. And what is then still "united states" will be in the forefront with its technology and monetizing system.
Is Francis a forerunner to this?
Maybe.
Will revived orthodoxy figure into it?
Probably.
Will true Christians be involved?
No, they won't even be around anywhere on the Earth.
But the dollar will, necessary for buying and selling goods and influence.
