Isaiah
13:2 - Lift up a banner on the high mountain, Raise your
voice to them; Wave your hand, that they may enter the gates
of the nobles.
Isaiah
30:17 - One thousand shall flee at the threat of one, At
the threat of five you shall flee, Till you are left as
a pole on top of a mountain And as a banner on a hill.
2.
Banners bestow honor and love
Psalm
60:4-5 - You have given a banner to those who fear You,
That it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah. That
Your beloved may be delivered, save with Your right hand,
and hear me.
Song
of Songs 2:4 - He brought me to the banqueting house, and
his banner over me was love.
3.
Banners tell people who you represent
Numbers
1:52 - The children of Israel shall pitch their tents, everyone
by his own camp, everyone by his own standard (banner),
according to their armies.
Numbers
2:2 - Everyone of the children of Israel shall camp by his
own standard (banner), beside the emblems of his father's
house; they shall camp some distance from the tabernacle
of meeting.
Numbers
10:14 - The standard (banner) of the camp of the children
of Judah set out first according to their armies; over their
army was Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
4.
Banners signal of attract attention
Isaiah
62:10-12 - Go through, Go through the gates! Prepare the
way for the people; Build up, Build up the highway! Take
out the stones, Lift up a banner for the peoples! Indeed
the Lord has proclaimed To the end of the world: "Say
to the daughter of Zion, 'Surely your salvation is coming;
Behold, His reward is with Him, And His work before Him.'"
And they shall call them The Holy People, The Redeemed of
the Lord; And you shall be called Sought Out, A City Not
Forsaken.
Jeremiah
51:12 - Set up the standard (banner) on the walls of Babylon;
Make the guard strong, Set up the watchmen, Prepare the
ambushes. For the Lord has both devised and done What He
spoke against the inhabitants of Babylon.
Jeremiah
4:5-6 - Declare in Judah and proclaim in Jerusalem, and
say: "Blow the trumpet in the land; Cry, 'Gather together,'
And say, 'Assemble yourselves, And let us go into the fortified
cities.' Set up the standard (banner) toward Zion. Take
refuge! Do not delay! For I will bring disaster from the
north, And great destruction."
Psalm
65:8 - They also who dwell in the fathest parts are afraid
of your signs (flags); You make the outgoings of the morning
and evening rejoice.
5.
Banners herald an event
Isaiah
18:3 - All inhabitants of the world and dwellers of the
earth: when he lifts up a banner on the mountains, you see
it; and when he blows a trumpet, you hear it.
Isaiah
49:22 - Thus says the Lord God: "Behold, I will lift
my hand in an oath to the nations, And set up My standard
(banner) for the peoples; They shall bring your sons in
their arms, And your daughters shall be carried on their
shoulders."
Jeremiah
50:2 - "Declare among the nations, Proclaim, and set
up a standard (banner); Proclaim -- do not conceal it --
Say, 'Bablyson is taken, Bel is shamed. Merodach is broken
in pieces; Her idols are humiliated, Her images are broken
in pieces.'
Jeremiah
51:12 - Set up the standard (banner) on the walls of Babylon;
Make the guard strong, Set up the watchmen, Prepare the
ambushes. For the Lord has both devised and done What He
spoke against the inhabitants of Babylon.
6.
Banners unify the company - directing warfare and praise
Isaiah
13:2 - Lift up a banner on the high mountain, Raise your
voice to them; Wave your hand, that they may enter the gates
of the nobles.
7.
Banners show victories won
Psalm
20:5-9 - We will rejoice in your salvation, And in the name
of our God we will set up our banners! May the Lord fulfill
all your petitions. Now I know that the Lord saves His anointed;
He will answer him from His holy heaven With the saving
strength of His right hand. Some trust in chariots, and
some in horses; But we will remember the name of the Lord
our God. They have bowed down and fallen; But we have risen
and stand upright. Save, Lord! May the King answer us when
we call.
Song
of Songs 6:4 - O my love, you are as beautiful as Tirzah,
lovely as Jerusalem, awesome as an army with banners!
Song
of Songs 6:10 - Who is she who looks forth as the morning,
fair as the moon, clear as the sun, awesome as an army with
banners?
8.
Banners are a demonstration of God's presence lifted in
our midst
Exodus
17:15 - And Moses built an alter and called its name, The-Lord-Is-My-Banner.
9.
Banners can be a rallying point of healing
Isaiah
11:10-11 - "And in that day there shall be a Root of
Jesse, Who shall stand as a banner to the people; For the
Gentiles shall seek Him, And His resting place shall be
glorious." It shall come to pass in that day that the
Lord shall set His hand again the second time to recover
the remnant of His people who are left, from Assyria and
Egypt, from Pathros and Cush, from Elam and Shinar, from
Hamath and the islands of the sea.
Numbers
21:8-9 - Then the Lord said to Moses, "Make a fiery
serpent, and set it on a pole; and it shall be that everyone
who is bitten, when he looks at it, shall live." So
Moses made a bronze serpent, and put it on a pole; and so
it was, if a serpent had bitten anyone, when he looked at
the bronze serpent, he lived.
John
3:14-15 - And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness,
even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes
in Him should not perish but have eternal life.
John
12:32 - And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw
all peoples to Myself.
10.
Banners put the enemy to flight
Isaiah
59:19 - So shall they fear The name of the Lord from the
west, And His glory from the rising of the sun; When the
enemy comes in like a flood, The Spirit of the Lord will
lift up a standard (banner) against him.
Isaiah
31:8-9 - "Then Assyria shall fall by a sword not of
man, And a sword not of mankind shall devour him. But he
shall flee from the sword, And his young men shall become
forced labor. He shall cross over to his stronghold for
fear, And his princes shall be afraid of the banner,"
says the Lord, Whose fire is in Zion And whose furnace is
in Jerusalem.
Psalm
60:4-5 - You have given a banner to those who fear You,
that it may be displayed beacuse of the truth. Selah. That
your beloved may be delivered, save with your right hand,
and hear me.
11.
Banners mark the safe path to follow
Jeremiah
4:6 - Set up the standard (banner) toward Zion. Take refuge!
Do not delay! For I will bring disaster from the north,
And great destruction.
Jeremiah
50:2 - "Declare among the nations, Proclaim, and set
up a standard (banner); Proclaim -- do not conceal it --
Say, 'Bablyson is taken, Bel is shamed. Merodach is broken
in pieces; Her idols are humiliated, Her images are broken
in pieces.'
Jeremiah
51:12 - Set up the standard (banner) on the walls of Babylon;
Make the guard strong, Set up the watchmen, Prepare the
ambushes. For the Lord has both devised and done What He
spoke against the inhabitants of Babylon.
Jeremiah
51:27 - Set up a banner in the land, Blow the trumpet among
the nations! Prepare the nations against her, Call the kingdoms
together against her: Arafat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint
a general against her; Cause the horses to come up like
the bristling locusts.
12.
Banners minister to and celebrate the Lord
Psalm
20:5 - We will rejoice in your salvation, And in the name
of our God we will set up our banners! May the Lord fulfill
all your petitions.
Zechariah
9:9-16 - "Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout,
O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King is coming to
you; He is just and having salvation, Lowly and riding on
a donkey, A colt, the foal of a donkey. I will cut off the
chariot from Ephraim and the horse from Jerusalem; The battle
bow shall be cut off. He shall speak peace to the nations;
His dominion shall be 'from sea to sea, And from the River
to the ends of the earth.' As for you also, Because of the
blood of your covenant, I will set your prisoners free from
the waterless pit. Return to the stronghold, You prisoners
of hope. Even today I declare That I will restore double
to you. For I have bent Judah, My bow, Fitted the bow with
Ephraim, And raised up your sons, O Zion, Against your sons,
O Greece, And made you like the sword of a mighty man."
Then the Lord will be seen over them, And His arrow will
go forth like lightning. The Lord God will blow the trumpet,
And go with whirlwinds from the south. The Lord of hosts
will defend them; They shall devour and subdue with slingstones.
They shall drink and roar as if with wine; They shall be
filled with blood like basins, Like the corners of the altar.
The Lord their God will save them in that day, As the flock
of His people. For they shall be like the jewels of a crown,
Lifted like a banner over His land."
*All
scriptures are taken from the New King James Translation