you must more and more choose to make your stand and be separate from the defilement of America not from America not from ministering to America not from touching America not from praying for America but from the defilement of America soon most of you uh and most Americans will be celebrating Thanksgiving what is the origin of Thanksgiving it begins of course with the pilgrims they didn’t start out as the pilgrims they were called the separatist the Church of England had broken from Rome but maintained many traditions and a movement had risen to
separate from the church of England so they called themselves the separatists those of the separatists who would be later known as the pilgrims established a congregation in ning Hampshire England members included some people who become very famous William Bradford was there in that congregation William Brewster was there some were punished some were imprisoned because of that they decided to leave England and go to Holland but life in Holland was also very challenging they were there for about 12 years finally
decided to leave the old world Al together and let’s go to the new The Colony the new land establish a farming Village in the north part of the colony of Virginia at that time Virginia uh stretched from Jamestown in the South to basically New York City uh in the north and so they came they decided they’d settle around at the northern part they boarded two ships one had to turn back the other the Mayflower would complete the journey they arrived in the new land on November 11th winds had forced them North they ended up on Cape Cod they
signed or they agreed to a covenant called the Mayflower Compact they would do this all for the glory of God about one month later they arrived at Plymouth Harbor they began building the town of Plymouth 4 months later they established communication with the native peoples and entered into a treaty with with them in the Autumn of 1621 they celebrated their first harvest in a 3-day celebration giving thanks to God with 90 Native Americans that would later be called Thanksgiving 2021 is the 400th anniversary of that celebration now
