Sunday, November 19, 2017

Let's talk about Thanksgiving, three words are food, football and oppression?

Let's talk about Thanksgiving, the three words are food, football and oppression? That is what Thanksgiving means to many Americans today.
Seattle Public Schools made a big wave when they said about Thanksgiving, "As a time of mourning and a bitter time of 500 years of betray."
This narrative describes the pilgrims as people that ran-away from being picked on to people that picked on the Indians that lived in the United States at time. That narrative describes the pilgrims depraved the Indians of their lives and land.
This is wrong on every account. Firstly, the pilgrims didn't flea from Europe for religious persecution because they were living in Holland for over 10 years there. Holland was nice to the pilgrims.
The pilgrims adults were afraid that their children would be influenced by the culture of Holland that worshiped materials.
In the year of 1620, they were not running from oppression but they wanted a better culture.
Their mission was for holiness, the idea of fulfilling a fateful mission to build an ideal Christian commonwealth.
They were going to build this commonwealth in 1620 on a island called Manhattan. The issue was the weather so they were blown into a place called Massachusetts.
The pilgrims viewed their voyage as an a demonstrative of Providential Power. They thought this because a scout team on a little boat was picked by a wave and placed on the shore safely.
The land was a great place where no one lived there, a cleared land, a lot of corn and fresh water.
The pilgrims didn't mistreat the Indians but wanted to pay the Indians for the corn that they used but they could not find any Indians to pay.
The Indians there were dying out because of an disease that was killing them before the pilgrims land there.
I will fast forward this history. There were one Indian that was from there and he helped the pilgrims to survive their new place.
The Indian name was called Squanto, he spoke English and he had accepted Jesus in his heart.
He was living at that land before but a heartless Spanish man kidnapped Squanto and took him back to Spain.
He was freed after four years because of monks then he went to England then he went back to his homeland to find that his friend were dead.
Squanto helped the pilgrims get corn and a good trade deal with the most important Indian's chief.
William Bradford called Squanto this, "A special instrument sent of God for their good."
The first Thanksgiving celebration took three days and this was a copy cat of the Jewish feast called the feast of Tabernacle. 
Ninety hungry Indians joined the fifty-three surviving Indians for a feast.
The Englishmen provided corn, fish and turkey. The Indians brought five recently killed deer.
The sport of choice was not football but shooting. The Englishmen and Indians had a love of shooting games.
The pilgrims never built Plymouth as an major colonial. Massachusetts Bay were growing so fast, the people of Plymouth moved to Massachusetts Bay in 1691.
What the pilgrims did was to put this in the mind of the future generation.
They believed the unshakeable confidence that Jesus protected them.
Not to grant special privileges but to impose special responsibility. They saw themselves as instruments and not authors of a mysterious master plan.   
The pilgrims knew that a person can gain more by being thankful instead of guilt.

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