THANKSGIVING

Americans commonly trace the Thanksgiving holiday to a 1621 celebration at the Plymouth Plantation, where the Plymouth settlers held a harvest feast after a successful growing season. Autumn or early winter feasts continued sporadically in later years, first as an impromptu religious observance, and later as a civil tradition.

Squanto, a Catholic Native American who resided with the tribe, taught the Pilgrims how to catch eel and grow corn and served as an interpreter for them. had learned English during his enslavement in England. The Wampanoag leader had given food to the colonists during the first winter when supplies brought from England were insufficient.

The Pilgrims celebrated at Plymouth for three days after their first harvest in 1621. The exact time is unknown, but James Baker, then Plimoth Plantation vice president of research, stated in 1996, "The event occurred between Sept. 21 and Nov. 11, 1621

This feast was during the Feast of Tabernacles in the year 1621 Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot) Tishri 15-21, 5382September 30-October 6, 1621 http://www.cgsf.org/dbeattie/calendar/?roman=1621

In the middle of the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln, prompted by a series of editorials written by Sarah Josepha Hale,[1] proclaimed a national Thanksgiving Day, to be celebrated on the final Thursday in November 1863.

Yet, the day was not kept every year until 1941.

On October 6, 1941, both houses of the U.S. Congress passed a joint resolution fixing the traditional last-Thursday date for the holiday beginning in 1942. However, in December of that year the Senate passed an amendment to the resolution that split the difference by requiring that Thanksgiving be observed annually on the fourth Thursday of November, which was sometimes the last Thursday and sometimes (less frequently) the next to last.[34] The amendment also passed the House, and on December 26, 1941, President Roosevelt signed this bill, for the first time making the date of Thanksgiving a matter of federal law and fixing the day as the fourth Thursday of November.[35] However, for several years some states continued to observe the last-Thursday date in years with five November Thursdays (the next such year being 1944), with Texas doing so as late as 1956. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving_(United_States)

NOW the TRUTH is always stranger than the FICTION that the JESUITS make up as propaganda against the PROTESTANT PURITIANS who came to the new world to keep PURE SCRIPTURES and escape ROMAN CATHOLIC CHRISTMASS.

To discover this TRUTH you must KNOW HISTORY and KNOW WHAT HAPPENED prior to the . "According to most popular accounts, in 1605, Captain George Weymouth, who was exploring the coastline for Thomas Arundell and Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, captured Squanto and four others and brought them back to England. Weymouth landed in Plymouth and delivered three of his captives, including Squanto to , governor of the fort at Plymouth. Gorges taught Squanto English so that he might serve as an interpreter on future voyages.[3] Squanto returned to New England in 1614 with an expedition led by Captain . On his way back to Patuxet, Squanto was abducted by Thomas Hunt, one of Smith's lieutenants. Hunt was planning to sell fish, corn, and captured natives in Málaga, Spain. He transported Squanto and a number of other Native Americans to Spain, where he tried to sell them into slavery for £20 a piece. [4] Franciscan friars discovered what Hunt was attempting, so they took Squanto and the other Native Americans to safety. The Friars instructed them in the Catholic faith.[5] Squanto persuaded the friars to let him try to return home. He reached London, where he lived with John Slany, a shipbuilder for whom he worked for a few years. Slany taught Squanto more English. He took Squanto to Cuper's Cove, Newfoundland in 1617.[6] To get to New England, Squanto tried to take part in an expedition to that part of the North American east coast, but Thomas Dermer sent him back to London in 1618 to meet Gorges and ask for permission about the trip to Squanto's homeland.[7]

In 1619, Squanto finally returned to his homeland aboard John Smith's ship, having joined an exploratory expedition along the New England coast, led by Captain Dermer. He soon discovered that the Patuxet, as well as a majority of coastal New England tribes (mostly Wampanoag and Massachusett), had been decimated the previous year by a plague,[8] possibly smallpox." source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squanto

See Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Wriothesley,_3rd_Earl_of_Southampton & Catholic College he attended https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_John's_College,_Cambridge

Now you must DIG for the TRUTH and KNOW what happened in England and Spain to understand what had happened here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_in_Puritan_New_England

"Bruce Colin Daniels writes "Christmas occupied a special place in the ideological religious warfare of Reformation Europe." Most Anabaptists, Quakers, and Congregational and Presbyterian Puritans, he observes, regarded the day as an abomination while Anglicans, Lutherans, the Dutch Reformed and other denominations celebrated the day as did Roman Catholics. When the Church of England promoted the Feast of the Nativity as a major religious holiday, the Puritans attacked it as "residual Papist idolatry".[1] Puritans heaped contempt on Christmas, Daniels writes, calling it 'Foolstide' and suppressing any attempts to celebrate it for several reasons. First, no holy days except the Sabbath were sanctioned in Scripture, second, the most egregious behaviors were exercised in its celebration (Cotton Mather railed against these behaviors), and third, December 25 was ahistorical. The Puritan argued that the selection of the date was an early Christian hijacking of a Roman festival, and to celebrate a December Christmas was to defile oneself by paying homage to a pagan custom.[1] James Howard Barnett notes in The American Christmas (1984) that the Puritan view prevailed in New England for almost two centuries.[2]

.... The Plymouth Pilgrims put their loathing for the day into practice in 1620 when they spent their first Christmas Day in the New World building their first structure in the New World – thus demonstrating their complete contempt for the day.[4]

A year later on December 25, 1621, Governor William Bradford led a work detail into the forest and discovered some recent arrivals among the crew had scruples about working on the day.[1][3] Bradford noted in his history of the colony, :

"On the day called Christmas Day, the Governor called [the settlers] out to work as was usual. However, the most of this new company excused themselves and said it went against their consciences to work on that day. So the Governor told them that if they made it [a] matter of conscience, he would spare them till they were better informed; so he led away the rest and left them."[5]

When the Governor and his crew returned home at noon they discovered those left behind playing stool-ball, pitching the bar, and pursuing other sports.[4] Bradford confiscated their implements, reprimanded them, forbade any further reveling in the streets, and told them their devotion for the day should be confined to their homes.[1]"

Now we look at what happened with the SPAINISH ROMAN CATHOLIC ARMIES who came after Coloumbus in 1492 along with the FIGHT between PROTESTANT REFORMERS in England and we get the FULL TRUTH about WHY the Catholic controled media is attacking THANKSGIVING and attempting to REWRITE HISTORY to favor ROME.

Queen Mary a ROMAN CATHOLIC took on the fight of the ROMAN CHURCH and banished REFORMERS who wanted to stop keeping PAGAN DAYS in ENGLAND and the church of England.

"The Puritans were a group of English Reformed Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to purify the Church of England from all Roman Catholic practices, maintaining that the Church of England was only partially reformed. Puritanism in this sense was founded by some of the returning clergy exiled under Mary I shortly after the accession of Elizabeth I of England in 1558, as an activist movement within the Church of England. "

"Puritans were blocked from changing the established church from within and were severely restricted in England by laws controlling the practice of religion. Their beliefs, however, were transported by the emigration of congregations to the Netherlands (and later to New England) and by evangelical clergy to Ireland (and later to Wales), and were spread into lay society and parts of the educational system, particularly certain colleges of the University of Cambridge. They took on distinctive beliefs about clerical dress and in opposition to the episcopal system, particularly after the 1619 conclusions of the Synod of Dort they were resisted by the English bishops. They largely adopted Sabbatarianism in the 17th century, and were influenced by millennialism.

In alliance with the growing commercial world, the parliamentary opposition to the royal prerogative, and in the late 1630s with the Scottish Presbyterians with whom they had much in common, the Puritans became a major political force in England and came to power as a result of the First English Civil War (1642–46). After the Restoration of 1660 and the 1662 Uniformity Act, almost all Puritan clergy left the Church of England, some becoming nonconformist ministers. The nature of the movement in England changed radically, although it retained its character for a much longer period in New England.

Puritans, by definition, were dissatisfied with the limited extent of the English Reformation, and the Church of England's tolerance of practices which they associated with the Catholic Church. They formed, and identified with, various religious groups advocating greater purity of worship and doctrine, as well as personal and group piety. Puritans adopted a Reformed theology and, in that sense, were Calvinists (as were many of their earlier opponents), but they also took note of radical criticisms of Zwingli in Zurich and Calvin in Geneva. In church polity, some advocated for separation from all other Christians, in favor of autonomous gathered churches. These separatist and independent strands of Puritanism became prominent in the 1640s, when the supporters of a Presbyterian polity in the Westminster Assembly were unable to forge a new English national church.

The term Puritan, never a formally defined sect or religious division within Protestantism, was used rarely to describe people after the turn of the 18th century. Puritan ideals either became incorporated into the Church of England, such as the formal rejection of Roman Catholicism; fell out of favor, such as the beliefs in demonic possession; or were absorbed into the many Protestant sects that emerged in the late 17th and early 18th centuries in the Americas and Britain. The Congregationalist tradition is one such Protestant denomination that claims descent from the Puritan tradition.[3]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puritans

The 7th Day Adventist Church came also from the MILLERITES who were PURITANS. The FIRST PILGIRMS kept the 7th DAY SABBATH. They did not keep CHRISTMAS or other PAGAN days and stated clearly in their doctrine that ONLY BIBLICAL DAYS are HOLY DAYS and that none was more important than the 7th Day Sabbath.

Now MARY the Queen was ALLIED with SPAINISH CATHOLICS who put also a settlement in Jamestown VIRGINIA named such for the VIRGIN QUEEN. The fight between ROME and ENGLAND was over the PAGAN MIXTURE of the PROFANE ROMAN CATHOLIC DAYS VS the BIBLE and TRUTH.

So when the JESUITS wanted to STAIN and DESTROY the RECORD of these truths, they sent in ROMAN CATHOLIC CONVERTS to cause problems and create wars with the PURITANS to attempt to wipe them out.

So for TWO YEARS while the PURITANS STARVED TO DEATH the Roman Catholic Convert," Squanto, a Catholic Patuxet Native American", did NOTHING to help these. IT was only when a PROTESTANT CONVERT helped to avert the ROMAN CATHOLIC WARS with natives that help was given to the aid of the Puritans: "Pocahontas was captured by the English during Anglo-Indian hostilities in 1613, and held for ransom. During her captivity, she converted to Christianity and took the name Rebecca. When the opportunity arose for her to return to her people, she chose to remain with the English. In April 1614, she married tobacco planter John Rolfe, and in January 1615, bore their son, Thomas Rolfe.[5]

In 1616, the Rolfes traveled to London. Pocahontas was presented to English society as an example of the "civilized savage" in hopes of stimulating investment in the Jamestown settlement. She became something of a celebrity, was elegantly fêted, and attended a masque at Whitehall Palace. In 1617, the Rolfes set sail for Virginia, but Pocahontas died at Gravesend of unknown causes. She was buried in a church in Gravesend in the United Kingdom, but the exact location of her grave is unknown.[5]" It has been Suggested that Pocahontas was actually POISONED by the ROMAN JESUIT SPIES who wanted to prevent here PROTESTANT VIEWS from giving aid to the PURITANS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocahontas

THE PURITANS FORBID THE CATHOLIC MASS OF KRIS THE SUN GOD ON DEC. 25TH and therefore the ROMAN SPAINISH and ROMAN ENGLAND agents had to do something to stop the protestant heritics. They also made a FINE of 5 Shillings for anyone keeping the "christmass spirit" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_in_Puritan_New_England They sent CATHOLIC SOLDIERS to ATTACK the NATIVES, kill them, and sold some into slavery in MUSLIM AFRICA and slave markets there.

To spite the effects of diseases, attacks from NATIVE CONVERTS TO ROME, and CATHOLIC ARMIES who plotted against the PROTESTANT PURITANS, Christmass was outlawed in New England and the counter CATHOLIC JAMESTOWN was set at odds with a future fight between CATHOLIC SOUTH and PROTESTANT NORTH in America.

IT was this SAME FIGHT over CATHOLIC PAGANISM and ROMAN PROPAGANDA that caused the American CIVIL WAR. It was not what Jessie Jackson and Lou Farrakhan want you to believe that WHITE SLAVE OWNERS in the SOUTH wanted to keep blacks as slaves, for these BLACK JEWS were from ETHEOPIA where they we captured and kidnapped into SLAVE MARKETS for not converting to MUSLIM ISLAMIC religion by BLACKS and CATHOLICS. IT was a WAR of the DEMOCRATIC CATHOLIC SOUTH VS the PROTESTANT NORTH that had worked for hundreds of years to get SLAVERY BANNED in the United States. Thus the final murderers of LINCOLN were found in the VATICAN and only sent to the USA to be hung no agreement that THIS TRUTH OF HISTORY OF HOW THE POPE MURDERED LINCOLN would NOT be TOLD and TAUGHT in schools. Besides BOOTH, there were 6 others who conspired to kill Lincoln who ALL WERE ROMAN CATHOLIC.

SEE " Fifty years in the Church of Rome" by Charles Chiniquy Author: Charles Chiniquy Copyright date: 1884

This is the book that tells the REAL STORY on how JESUITS MURDERED LINCOLN beacuse he prevented them from claiming EMBASSY RIGHTS in the UNITED STATES as every Roman Church in America. THEY VOWED TO KILL HIM BECAUSE OF HIS WINNING THE SUPREME COURT CASE AGAINST ROMAN CATHOLIC CLAIMS.

SO THE FAKE TWISTED HISTORY OF THANKSGIVING, THE FIRST PROTESTANT DAY OF THANKS TO YAHUAH GOD, IS OUT THERE NOW TELLING EVEN ON MTV THIS ROMAN CATHOLIC REWRITE OF HISTORY SAYING THE PURITANS WERE MURDERERS AND THAT THEY CELEBRATE MURDER BY A DAY OF THANKS TO THE PROTESTANT AND JEWISH TRUE GOD YAHUAH. Why are they doing this now? Because they want to further infiltrate American opinion with pro-catholic lies to usher in the ANTICHRIST or ANTIMESSIAH of their PAGAN RELIGION of Homosexual Priests and nuns. In FACT the KRIST means SUN in Babylonian, traditions of such as Satan of nicolas, was the day of JUVENELIA when ROMAN PRIESTS would molest children and then give them toys to keep their mouth shut about what was done to them in orgies in rome many years before the modern false pagan day. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB5C37B85407849E4

So the question arises is it LAWFULL by TORAH to keep a day of Thanksgiving?

Lev_22:29 And when ye will offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving unto YAHUAH, offer it at your own will.

Now the Puritians kept the day most likely on the FEAST OF FIRST FRUITS during the SUKKOT as they had come to the new world to avoid keeping Christmass and the pagan days of Roman Catholic creation, they had strong biblical knowledge and would have kept only feasts in accord with scriptures.

We as their offspring, also being called into a PURE form ot TRUE WORSHIP in Spirit and Truth, John 4:23-24 would also a believers in Messiah and Torah want to keep our chosen days of THANKSGIVING in accord with the LAW.

Lev 22:29 And when ye will offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving unto YAUAH, offer it at your own will. Lev 22:30 On the same day it shall be eaten up; ye shall leave none of it until the morrow: I am YAHUAH. Lev 22:31 Therefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do them: I am YAHUAH. Lev 22:32 Neither shall ye profane my holy name; but I will be hallowed among the children of Israel: I am YAHUAH which hallow you, Lev 22:33 That brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am YAHUAH.

So a day of THANKSGIVING is by TORAH LAW offered at YOUR OWN WILL. NOT A SET DAY BUT A DAY YOU CAN SET.

Lev 7:11 And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he shall offer unto YAHUAH. Lev 7:12 If he offer it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mingled with oil, of fine flour, fried. Lev 7:13 Besides the cakes, he shall offer for his offering leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offerings. Lev 7:14 And of it he shall offer one out of the whole oblation for an heave offering unto YAHUAH, and it shall be the priest's that sprinkleth the blood of the peace offerings. Lev 7:15 And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten the same day that it is offered; he shall not leave any of it until the morning. Lev 7:16 But if the sacrifice of his offering be a vow, or a voluntary offering, it shall be eaten the same day that he offereth his sacrifice: and on the morrow also the remainder of it shall be eaten: Lev 7:17 But the remainder of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burnt with fire.

Lev_22:29 And when ye will offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving unto YAHUAH, offer it at your own will.

So in accord with the LAW you may not keep the meal after the THIRD DAY but must BURN IT WITH FIRE.

The concept of GIVING THANKS even at every meal, is not a set day of the THANKSGIVING but is admonished in daily life in the following scriptures:

Psa_26:7 That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works. Psa_50:14 Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High: Psa_69:30 I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving. Psa_95:2 Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms. Psa_100:4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name. Psa_107:22 And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works with rejoicing. Psa_116:17 I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of YAHUAH. Psa_147:7 Sing unto YAHUAH with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God: Isa_51:3 For YAHUAH shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of YAHUAH; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody. Jer_30:19 And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small. Amo_4:5 And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith YAHUAH GOD. Jon_2:9 But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of YAHUAH. 2Co_4:15 For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God. 2Co_9:11 Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God. Php_4:6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. Col_2:7 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. Col_4:2 Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;

Our gratitude toward YAHUAH is and should be a part of our lives every day, but the special DAY we set at OUR WILL to give an OFFERING of THANKSGIVING is by TORAH LAW a sacrifice and meal which we eat.

Some have taken ROMANS 14:5-6 to use for any day and say that by this quote of Paul we can keep any holiday as long as we keep it "Unto the Lord"

Rom 14:5 One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. Rom_14:6 He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto YAHUAH; and he that regardeth not the day, to YAHUAH he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to YAHUAH, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to YAHUAH he eateth not, and giveth God thanks.

BUT the FACT is that PAUL was writting in LONG THESIS of ideas as Peter said, "Hard to understand" because some twisted his words out of context to their own destruction. So WHAT CONTEXT of DAYS was PAUL talking about in Romans 14 ?

Rom 11:16 For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.

The only day listed before this is the FIRSTFRUITS days in context of the GRAFTING INTO ISRAEL of the GENTILE BELIEVERS.

So some kept these DAYS of THANKSGIVING to YAHUAH during the feasts as FIRSTFRUITS offereings as is listed in LEVITICUS 23

These days were during the FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD, FEAST OF WEEKS, and TABERNACLES or SUKKOT.

Each FIRST FRUIT OFFERING was a PRESENTING of the FIRST FRUITS in a WAVE OFFEREING to YAHUAH of THANKS for the blessing of the harvest.

The FIRST was BARLEY during UNLEAVENED BREAD The FIRST of WEEKS was WHEAT the FIRST of TABERNACLES is FRUITS and GRAPES

The idea of BEARING FRUIT during TABERNACLES and then the WINE of GRAPES as in the WINE OF THE WRATH OF YAHUAH is key in our understanding of HOW YAH has given us HIS PLAN with these offerings.

The BARLEY is the SEED OF FAITH in the WORK OF MESSIAH. the WHEAT is US WHO BELIEVE, as the Messiah said the WHEAT is gathered into the barn and the weeds are burned up. The FRUITS of TABERNACLES is those who we gained for the Kingdom of Yah by YAHSHUA MESSIAH and the WINE of the GRAPES of WRATH are those who are JUDGED in TRIBULATION by the VIALS OF WRATH which is a PROMPTING to REPENT or be punished if you do not repent. In Revelation we find that YAH is SPANKING us of mankind to encourage REPENTANCE by pouring out the WINE of HIS WRATH on the earth.

We see John say: "Still men did not repent" of their sins during this time, but no doubt some will repent when they see the WORDS FULFILLED of prophesy.

So the IDEA of THANKSGIVING was in TORAH that we are GREATFUL to YAHUAH GOD for the BLESSINGS of the HARVEST in a day at our own WILL to keep it and some reguard the day and some do not, because it is YOU DAY OF THANKSGIVING according to YOUR WILL.

This is EXACTLY waht PAUL was TALKING ABOUT as a Day which some reguard and others do not. HE WAS NOT TALKING ABOUT PAGAN IDOL WORSHIP DAYS OF GENTILES OR MODERN PAGAN DAYS LIKE CHRISTMASS.

These days are IDOL WORSHIP DAYS which is against the LAW OF TORAH and the words of the PROPHETS.

The Pilgrims knew the scriptures and came to America to avoid keeping the pagan day of CHRISTMASS or the MASS of ROMAN CATHOLIC sun worship day names such for the Babylonian word KRIS which means SUN in English.

When we have a HEBREW PERSPECTIVE of TORAH and TRUTH we can SEARCH OUT THE TRUTH and KNOW what is PAGAN and what is NOT.

So if a NATION sets at their OWN WILL a THANKSGIVING DAY and they KEEP IT BY TORAH as an OFFERING UNTO YAH and not keep the food past the SECOND DAY to EAT, and on the THIRD DAY burn it by fire if any remains, then they are AT THEIR OWN WILL by TORAH keeping a LAWFULL THANKSGIVING to YAHUAH.

Not all who celebrate the day keep it according to TORAH, but those who do are NOT keeping any idols and not keeping any PAGAN WAYS as with those who chase after SATAN CLAUSE on that day in parades and such, who truely KEEP IT as a SACRED THANKS TO YAHUAH, are not doing anything wrong by being thankful for the Harvest as the first THANKSGIVING was in fact on FIRST FRUITS during SUKKOT kept by the Pilgrims during a time when they had blessings that they felt was deserving of THANKS to YAHUAH GOD.

IN FACT until the late 1800's CHRISTMAS was in fact OUTLAWED in Protestant New England https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_in_Puritan_New_England And the PROTESTANT THANKSGIVING was not kept until 1941 after the example of the SABBATH KEEPING PURITANS who even had this FACT of HISTORY COVERED UP by Roman Catholic rewrites about them. They were 7th Day Sabbath keepers who came to America to escape PAGAN ROMANISM. That is the TRUTH and a FACT that gives me pause to GIVE THANKS to YAHUAH that some JEWS and PURITANS came to AMERICA to ESCAPE BEING MURDERED BY THE POPE and ROMANISM.

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