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795. Thanksgiving: Did you know this was all about God? USA History · Faith by annm2705

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I'm once again interrupting the flow of the Bible study on the
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book of Jeremiah because of something relevant in our day
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today. So this week of the recording
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that I'm doing, America will be celebrating Thanksgiving.
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And I don't know if you were like me, but what I recalled
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from being a child and what, you know, child drawings and so
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forth is that we had the, you know, the Pilgrims and the
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American Indians celebrating a meal together.
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And it was peace and unity. And that's kind of what I've
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always thought of in my mind about Thanksgiving.
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It was, you know, just that peace came upon these the the
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people and they were celebrating together.
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However, this recently I happened to listen to AI Guess,
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a sermon by Jonathan Cahn on YouTube.
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I just listened to those things listen most of the time rather
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than watch. But I was listening to this and
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all of a sudden he drew a correlation between the Feast of
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Tabernacles or Sukkot and Thanksgiving.
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And I thought, wow, this is the first time that I've ever heard,
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you know, that I, I didn't have that correlation before.
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And, and I do know that the Feast of Tabernacles, it
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commemorates the 40 years of the Israelites wandering in the
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wilderness, and it represents God's protection, provision, and
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faithfulness. And it's also a celebration of
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the harvest and God's presence among his people.
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And that's both historically and and symbolized by Jesus, who is
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God with us. For Christians, it further
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symbolizes the indwelling of the Holy Spirit and future
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restoration of God's Kingdom. So this was something that God
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commanded. And what's even interesting too
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is that there were three different festivals that God
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said to the Israelites that I always want you to remember.
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One of them was Passover. The next was the Feast of First
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Fruits or the Feast of Weeks, and then after that was the
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Feast of Tabernacles. There were three different ones
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that they were to remember all the time.
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And they do have prophetic significance because things were
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fulfilled on those feast days. And people today are thinking,
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you know, the Feast of Tabernacles is going to be the
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final fulfillment of prophecy. When Jesus returns, a lot of
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people think he will return at that point just because God.
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The way God has done this so far, like Passover was the whole
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story of Passover was very symbolic of Jesus.
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Jesus died on Passover and was resurrected, so he fulfilled
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that prophecy that was basically given.
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It was a literal event though Passover really, you know it did
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happen, but it was pointing to Jesus.
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Then there is the Feast of Weeks or the Feast of First Fruits,
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and the feast of weeks is like 50 days after.
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And that happened to be Pentecost, A Shavuot.
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And that happened to be when the Holy Spirit came to the
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disciples, the apostles of Jesus after he had died in died and
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resurrected and then the Holy Spirit came upon them.
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And so that was another Jewish feast day that had something
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special happen on it. And also the Feast of First
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Fruits, Jesus was considered the first fruit of his resurrection.
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So there's a lot of symbology in literal events.
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Now the Feast of Tabernacles is another one of those which God
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wanted everyone to remember. And so actually there's another
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one. Rosh Hashanah is another date or
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another festival that is remembered, and that's another
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one. That's the Feast of Trumpets
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where a lot of people think Jesus will return.
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So I got I misspoke on that. It wasn't the Feast of
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Tabernacles, but the Feast of Trumpets.
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The Feast of Tabernacles comes after the feast of trumpets, but
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that is a celebration and and I believe that this feast of
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Tabernacles is going to be everyone celebrating after Jesus
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returns in his Kingdom. And because this said in the
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Bible, it says that all nations who choose not to go to
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Jerusalem to celebrate this Feast of Tabernacles will not
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have rain. So God will.
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I mean, that's, that's what it says.
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That's a consequence of not going to celebrate the Feast of
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Tabernacles in Jerusalem. So this is really interesting.
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This is like in our future. It's not right now.
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And but all of this, you know, just understanding the feast and
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the things that God put into the Bible and taught people all
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along so that they would see these things fulfilled and they
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would then understand the significance these events had
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and why God wanted everyone to do this.
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So anyway, Long story short, hopefully is I was listening to
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this, this video and it was talking about how it was talking
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about the similarities between the Feast of Tabernacles and
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America's Thanksgiving. And so then I decided, well, I,
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I wanted to like look into this more because I never really drew
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that connection, nor did I really have God as the forefront
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of Thanksgiving. It was more or less like, you
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know, ultimately, yes, it would be thanking God because God
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makes everything possible for us.
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God provides for everything and but I didn't realize, and maybe
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it's my ignorance of American history, but I didn't realize
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that the whole purpose of Thanksgiving was to thank God
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for all of this. Like does everybody realize
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that? Was I the only one who is
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ignorant that this day of Thanksgiving is thanking God,
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thanking the creator God, the one true almighty God?
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And this goes back to the foundation of our country.
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And if we the, the, there were many different events that
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happened because I was looking this up.
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And so there were groups of people who were celebrating and
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I think there was some celebration of this from Europe
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that was brought over. There were the Puritans, there
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were the Pilgrims, there was the Native Americans who all had
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some sort of thankfulness for the harvest.
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So that's essentially like everybody had that commonality.
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But when we look into our founders and we look into, I
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think there was a general directive that Washington gave,
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but then on there was a Thanksgiving proclamation on
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October 3rd, 1789 by President Washington.
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And this is very significant to the people living in the United
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States because this tells us, shows us why Thanksgiving
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initially was proclaimed to all the nations and then after
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Washington does, 74 years later, Abraham Lincoln made it a
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national holiday. So I'm going to read both of
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these proclamations that were made, the first by George
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Washington. And there is so much in here
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that relates to what the Bible says.
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So let's get started. This is a Thanksgiving
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Proclamation, October 3rd, 1789, by the President of the United
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States of America. A proclamation.
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Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the
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Providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful
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for His benefits, and humbly implore His protection and
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favor. And WHEREAS both Houses of
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Congress have by their joint committee requested me in
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quotations to recommend to the people of the United States a
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day of public Thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by
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acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of
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Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity
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peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and
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happiness. So in that very first paragraph,
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it states this is acknowledging God.
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We all need to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits.
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So all of our benefits that we get are from God and to humbly
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and humbly to implore His protection and favour.
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Our founding fathers had the protection of God in
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establishing this country. And I believe that we too, at
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this time, at this day in 2025 and forevermore on Thanksgiving,
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we should do these same things that Washington, the president
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of the United States, our first president, said for, you know,
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to give praise and thanks to the Lord to improve his protection
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and favor. Do we not need that in our world
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today? Do we not need that as the
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United States today? Now, just as ever, we need God
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and so this was a public Thanksgiving and prayer to be
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observed with grateful hearts. And the purpose or the reason is
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because of the many signal favors of Almighty God that gave
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us the an opportunity to peaceably establish a form of
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government for safety and happiness.
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All thanks is going to God in this paragraph.
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Now I'm going to read the second paragraph now.
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Therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday, the 26th day of
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November next, to be devoted by the people of those great States
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to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the
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beneficent Author of all that, all the good that was, that is,
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or that will be. That we may then all unite in
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rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind
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care and protection of the people of this country previous
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to their becoming a Nation. For the signal and manifold
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mercies, and the favorable interpositions of His
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Providence, which we experienced in the course and conclusion of
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the late war. For the great degree of
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tranquility, Union, and plenty which we have since enjoyed.
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For the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been
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enabled to establish constitutions of government, for
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our safety and happiness, and particularly the National 11 is
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capitalized, the National one now lately instituted.
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For the civil and religious liberty with which we are
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blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing
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useful knowledge. And in general, for all the
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great and various favors which he hath been pleased to confer
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upon us. So that's one long sentence and
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there is a lot in there. First of all, it's devoted that
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the people he's claiming making a proclamation that the people
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of these states to be devoted by the people of the states to the
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service of that great and glorious being.
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That is saying he's devoting like all of us of the United
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States to the service of that great and glorious being.
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Being is capitalized God so that we are of service to God.
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This is something that our founding Father stated this
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proclamation of Thanksgiving and he recognizes that he is the
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author of everything that's good that is today and or that will
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be and then he's asking that we all unite in rendering unto him
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our sincere and humble thanks. We all are united to thank God
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and we're thanking Him for His care and His protection of the
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people of this country and for His mercies and all the things
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that they experienced during this process.
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And His Providence, His superiority, his, you know, he
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is in control over everything which was experienced by our
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founding fathers and particularly it says, and
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particularly the national one. Now lately instituted, it sounds
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to me and I don't know if I'm interpreting this correctly, but
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it see it seems to me that there was a turning towards God at
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this point. Now lately instituted that God
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was being recognized for all these things, these successes.
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And then it goes on to say about religious liberty or freedom
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which we are blessed and all the favors that God has done.
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So this is a a praise to God for everything God did to with with
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our founding fathers in this country.
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It continues on in the third paragraph.
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And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our
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prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of the
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nations, and beseech him to pardon our national and other
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transgressions. To enable us all, whether in
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public or private stations, to perform our several and relative
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duties, and punctually to render our national government a
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blessing to all the people, by constantly being a government of
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wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully
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executed and obeyed. To protect and guide all
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sovereigns and nations, especially such as have shown
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kindness unto us, and to bless them with good government,
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peace, and concord. To promote the knowledge and
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practice of true religion and virtue, and increase of science
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among them and us, and generally to grant unto all mankind such a
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degree of temporal prosperity as he alone knows to be best given
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under my hand, at the city of New York, the third day of
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October, in the year of our Lord 1789.
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And this was President Washington.
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And so that third paragraph, he is, he is saying that he wants
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everyone to unite in a humble offering and prayer and
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supplications to God and acknowledging that God is the
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ruler of all nations and to beseech him to pardon our
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national and other transgressions.
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He's recognizing that there are sins among the nation.
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It's not everybody is perfect. This is saying, you know, that
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he's pardoning our national and other transgressions to enable
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us all to perform duties and one and the duties, I guess to
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render our national government a blessing to all people.
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And this is, he says, how we would be a blessing to all
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people by constantly being a government of wise, just and
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constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and
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obeyed to protect and guide our all sevens and nations, to bless
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them to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion
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and virtue. So there's a lot in here about
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focused on God and focused on thanking him and recognizing
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that he is the one who has blessed us as a nation.
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He is the one that's behind him. It's through the faith that
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people had, our founding fathers, the faith that they had
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in God that enabled us to live in this blessed country that we
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have. And over time, it, this ties
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into the book of Jeremiah, because if you recall, the last
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several chapters that Jeremiah had said was that all of these
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bad things were coming on Israel on the actually it was Judah
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because they had forgotten God. You know, they may have said
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with their lips talked about God, but it wasn't in their
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hearts. They had turned away from God.
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They were getting into the Pagan, paganism cultural
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traditions. They were, you know, blending
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with that. They were forgetting God.
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They were ignoring his commands. And there were many times in the
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Bible, and I don't know which book, but it's a lot of
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different books, I believe, where God just said, you know,
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I'm done with your sacrifices. I don't want any more of your
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sacrifices. I want you to rule justly.
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I want you to take care of the widows and the orphans.
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And he went through all of these lists of what he wanted people
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to do, the rulers, those who were.
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In charge of the law that he he was he was done with the
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sacrifices. He didn't want people to say I'm
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sorry, here's, you know, my sacrifice for this.
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He's like, I don't want that. I just want you guys to do it
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the right way first. And that's very much, when I
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read this, what Washington said, very much what God was telling
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Israel to do it all along, constantly being a government of
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wise, just and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully
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executed and obeyed to protect and guide all sovereigns and
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nations. And this is, you know, this, it
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does tie into Israel in a sense, simply because history repeats
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itself. Look at what God has done,
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comparatively speaking, with the United States of America, the
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blessings that He had bestowed upon America and that our
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founding fathers glorified Him, honored Him, praised Him, and
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thanked Him for all they recognized that He was behind
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it, that God is behind all of this.
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And today in our world, we are drawing further and further.
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It does feel like we have a little bit of a revitalization,
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A revival happening in the in America today.
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But in, you know, there is a little bit that is sensed by me
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that I see. And this is a really good thing.
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And I hope that it continues because it doesn't bode well for
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nations that turn away from God. They turn themselves over to
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slavery typically and destruction.
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And that's a consequence of decisions by people.
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But if we can all make a decision to be a servant to God,
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to just like Washington said that to the service of that
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great and glorious being, he's talking about God.
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If we can all commit to that, we can turn things around.
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We are just like we are experiencing right now what
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Israel or Judah, both Israel and Judah experienced back in the BC
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era. Those things that they
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experienced are like history repeats itself and history
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repeats itself because people don't learn from the past.
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And so if we could all remember and start turning our thoughts
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and our prayers to God, if this Thanksgiving everyone could
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recognize God, maybe search for this document.
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I it was in the Washington Papers, the Let's see Founders
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Online National Archives Thanksgiving Proclamation, 3
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October 1789. If you want to search that under
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founders.archives.gov. That's where I I got this from
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Washington. And maybe it's time for us to
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read this on Thanksgiving and to, to remind ourselves why we
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are doing this, what we are thankful for, who we are
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thanking. So then Lincoln about 74 years
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later, on the same date, this is October 3rd, 1863, he made a
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proclamation. He's the one who made it into a
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national holiday. So I'm going to read what he
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says, which has much of the same sentiment as Washington did.
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So here is his proclamation by the President of the United
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States of America, a proclamation.
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The year that is drawing toward toward its close has been filled
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with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies.
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To these bounties which are so constantly enjoyed that we are
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prone to forget the source from which they come.
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Others have been added. Let's see others.
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Yeah, others have been added which are of so extraordinary a
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nature that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften the heart
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which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful provenance
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of Almighty God. Again, Lincoln is acknowledging
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God. He is saying we have so much to
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be grateful for. We have so many things,
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provisions from God. And because we have such great
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provision from God, we, we, you know, get to the point where we
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just rely on ourselves. We think we've done it all.
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We don't recognize that God gave it to us.
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God gave us everything good that we have.
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And we are prone to forget the source.
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This is what he says, quote, we are prone to forget the source
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from which they come. And when you think about it, and
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he's saying this is like such an extraordinary a nature that it
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has to soften your heart. When you look at all of the good
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things that God has done, it has to soften your heart.
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And our heart is habitually insensible to the ever watchful
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Providence of Almighty God. God is always watching, God is
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always providing and we get to a point where it it's, we take it
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for granted. That's what happens.
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We take things for granted, and we don't thank God that He has
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given us all the blessings that we have, Lincoln continues in
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his second paragraph. In the midst of a civil war of
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unequaled magnitude and severity, which is sometimes
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seemed to foreign States to invite and provoke their
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aggressions, peace has been preserved with all nations,
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order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and
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obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in
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the theater of military conflict.
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While that theater has been greatly contracted by the
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advancing armies and navies of the Union, needful diversions of
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wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to
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the National Defense, have not arrested the plow, the shuttle,
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or the ship. The axe has enlarged the borders
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of our settlements and the mines as well.
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And the mines as well of iron and coal as of the precious
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metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore.
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So there's an abundance happening.
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Then, he continues. Population has steadily
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increased. So that's almost like, you know,
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God said basically he said go and increase, increase and
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multiply. That's what he told Adam and Eve
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in the beginning that we were to, they were to, you know, go
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ahead and have a lot of kids. So population has steadily
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increased during this time that Abraham Lincoln was saying this,
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notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the
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siege and the battlefield, and the country rejoicing in the
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consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted
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to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom.
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Again, God is all about freedom, liberty and freedom, and it's no
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surprise that God was behind our founding fathers in granting
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this to those people of faith who started our country.
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Now this next thing is another, the next paragraph that Abraham
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Lincoln wrote. No human counsel hath devised,
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nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things.
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They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while
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dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless
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remembered mercy. This is a significant thing
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because Abraham Lincoln is saying there's no human counsel
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or any person who made these great things happen.
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They are gracious gifts of the most high God who while dealing
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with us in anger for our sins. So there are consequences to
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sins and that's what you know, war is a consequence of sin.
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But it's saying but nevertheless, he remembered
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mercy like God is merciful. And it could have been because
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of the faith of the founding fathers that there were those
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faithful ones who apparently were remembering God.
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And we're praying. And we're probably behind the
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turn of events that resulted in freedom because there was ugly
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sin that was entered the world. And that as soon as people turn
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to God, there is always that temptation to sin and there's
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always the enemy that wants to corrupt that goodness of God,
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that faith towards God. And even in our, you know,
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forefathers, they had these same things.
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They were dealing with the enemy, the spiritual enemy of
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God, who incites people to do sinful things.
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And so God deals with everyone for sins, but he also is
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merciful. God was the same way back in the
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Bible when Abraham nephew Lot was living in Sodom and Gomorrah
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and the sins of Sodom and Gomorrah had reached the heavens
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and there was either an angelic being, well there were two
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angels and perhaps it was Jesus. They call it a Christophany
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where he was actually present. It seemed from the conversation
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that was had with Abraham and Sarah that I think it was
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probably Jesus that actually visited with two angels before
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the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.
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Anyway, it it was the prayer of Abraham who was faithful to God
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and prayed for his nephew Lot. So God remembered, it said in in
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the Bible that God remembered Abraham's prayers.
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He was a righteous man. He remembered his prayers and he
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spared Lot from the destruction. So prayers of righteous people
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are powerful. So I would imagine that because
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God doesn't change and history repeats, that there were some
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prayers of faithful ones that were making our country advance
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in doing the will of God in abolishing slavery.
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And so anyway, continuing on what Abraham Lincoln said, it
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has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly,
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reverently, and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart
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and one voice by the whole American people.
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He wanted unity here, he continues.
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I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the
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United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are
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sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last
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Thursday of November next as a day of Thanksgiving and praise
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to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens.
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So right here he says the last Thursday of November is a day of
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Thanksgiving and praise to God our Father.
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That's what Thanksgiving is about.
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It's not just thanking for the food we have, it is thanking for
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the food we had. But it's praising our God, it's
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remembering God. And do we remember God on this
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day? Do are we like our forefathers?
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Did we know that our forefathers said these things?
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It continues on, and I recommend to them that while offering up
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the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular
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deliverances and blessings, they do also with humble penitence
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for our national perverseness and disobedience.
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Commend to His tender care all those who have become widows,
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orphans, mourners, or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife
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in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore
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the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds
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of the nation, and to restore it as soon as may be consistent
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with the Divine purpose. Purposes to the full enjoyment
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of peace, harmony, tranquility, and union.
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In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused
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the seal of the United States to be affixed.
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Done at the City of Washington this third day of October in the
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year of the Lord 1863, and of the Independence of the United
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States, the 88th Abraham Lincoln and by the president, William H
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Seward, Secretary of State. And that concludes Abraham
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Lincoln's. But that last paragraph that he
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said he was looking for, he was acknowledging the acknowledging
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and wanting, desiring one heart and one voice by the whole
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American people. We need to remember what the
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Bible says about this. A house divided cannot stand.
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That's what Jesus said. A Kingdom divided cannot stand,
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so a nation divided cannot stand.
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We really need to be in unity and and get back to God.
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Seek God individually and let you know.
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Ask God to guide us. Ask God for the Holy Spirit to
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be present. Acknowledge Jesus and thank God
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for what Jesus did that he sent his only son to die on the cross
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for us and that Jesus resurrected and he is living
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today and that he intercedes for us with the Father and he made
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it possible for us to be in God's Kingdom.
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And if we believe that and we turn to God and say we want to
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get rid of our sin, we're tired of our sinful life, we want to
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get rid of that and we ask God and we and we're sincere about
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that God will give us the Holy Spirit and that will happen over
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time. It's that instantaneous.
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But little by little, God works with us and begins to change us
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to be more like what I believe is what he created us to be
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until, you know, that's what he desired for us to be until we
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our ancestors succumb to sin. And then we, you know, had that
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as a part of us says that's what we go for.
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That's what we desire. That's what that's where we
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naturally, if we just go by what we naturally desire, it's sinful
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things. So we need the Holy Spirit of
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God to change that direction. And if we try to do it on our
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own, we'll we're foolish. Just like, you know, Lincoln was
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observing. He said no human counsel hath
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devised, nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great
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things. Well, that's the same in our in
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ourselves. When we change, it's not by us.
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If we change by us, it might be temporary, but if we go change
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by God, that's something entirely different.
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And God can do the impossible. And so then he, he wants to set
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apart this day and observe the last day.
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We're supposed to be giving Thanksgiving and praise to God.
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And then he also asked, he's also penitent in this, he said.
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And also with humble penitence for our national perverseness
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and disobedience. So all of there were, you know,
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it's a consequence of sin. Again, like forgive us God for
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our sinfulness. Forgive our nation for our
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sinfulness and please, as he's saying here, provide care for
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those who became widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers
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due to this civil strife that we had as a country and that today,
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you know, we do have this civil unrest.
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And we don't really want to get into what historically has
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happened. We really want, I think this
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would be a prayer that everyone can say, for Thanksgiving for
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our nation, to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it
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as soon as may be consistent with the divine purposes, to the
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full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility, and union.
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Again, this is saying, you know this.
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These are the things we want God and we want to be consistent
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with divine purposes. So God will, God's will does
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prevail, but in accordance with the timing of God's will, we
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pray for the wounds of the nation to be healed and for the
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nation to be restored. That would be a wonderful prayer
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if we all said that prayer on Thanksgiving.
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I hope you join me and I hope many other people will do this.
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And if you are in agreement with this, please share this with
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other people and please share this with others to, you know,
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find these documents, read Abraham's proclamation for
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Thanksgiving in Washington's and maybe read it at your family
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dinner. Recognize the tradition.
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Maybe, you know, share this with others.
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So and then just we all need to stay in the word.
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And so I'm going to go back to the book of Jeremiah, but I just
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thought that after finding this out, I thought it was really
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important to share this about America, about Thanksgiving, and
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most importantly, about God.