1. The Banner of The Cross

2. Definition of Banner, Ensign, Standard
The English word “banner” is from banderia, Low Latin, meaning a banner (compare bandum, Latin, which meant first a “band,” an organized military troop, and then a “flag”). It has come to mean a flag, or standard, carried at the head of a military band or body, to indicate the line of march, or the rallying point, and it is now applied, in its more extended significance, to royal, national, or ecclesiastical “banners” also. We find it applied sometimes to a streamer on the end of a lance, such as is used by the Arab sheik today. ISBE

3. Definition of Banner, Ensign, Standard
A flag; also a sail; by implication a flagstaff; generally a signal; figuratively a token: - banner, pole, sail, (en-) sign, standard. Strong’s
Something lifted up, standard, signal, signal pole, ensign, banner, sign, sail. 1a) standard (as rallying point), signal; 1b) standard (pole); 1c) ensign, signal. Brown – Driver – Briggs
It refers more specifically to a rallying point for the people. It marks the center of attraction on which people pin their hopes. Zondervan

4. The Concept of Banner, Flag, Rallying Point In History

5. Banners, Ensigns In Scriptures:
Numbers 1:52; 2:2-3
Genesis 9:12-13 (a signal (literally or figuratively), as a flag, beacon, monument)
Psalm 20:5
Psalm 60:4
Song of Solomon 2:4
Isaiah 13:2

6. The Messiah, Our Ensign, Banner
Isaiah 62:10-12
Isaiah 11:10 & 12
Romans 15:12
John 3:14
John 12:32-33

7. What Our Banner Means To Us
God Loves Us, He Cares
A Royal Banner - King
Salvation Open To All
Encouragement
Suffer Wrongfully - Forgiving
Fight Good Fight of Faith
Unity – Oneness
Common Goal - Heaven

8. Have You Come To Jesus Hear the Gospel of Christ, Acts 18:8
Believe in Jesus Christ, Acts 16:31
Repent and Turn to God, Acts 17:30
Confess Jesus as Lord, Rom.10:9-10
Be Baptized, Ac.22:16
Be Thou Faithful Unto Death, Rev.2:10
If Err: Repent and Pray God Acts 8:22