Second Inaugural Address

[Craig Hipkins]

Mark,

I believe that he is attempting to tell people that it is now time to move on from a way of life that had become imbedded in a culture. He is merely using God as the instrument of justification. In other words, change is coming. God may have had a reason for it in the past, but now that time has past and a renaissance of sorts has come.
This is my interpretation. I hope I have not confused you as I have confused myself!

Craig