Thanksgiving Day  

Is it clean?

SYNCRETISM RUNS DEEP

THANKSGIVING DAY - National Day Of Thanks For Ending The Civil War
Remembering the presidential proclamation in 1865 as a nation is not adding to Torah, but giving thanks for a specific blessing. If you see a miracle in your life, or ask Yahuah for some favor and He gives it to you, are you adding to Torah because you remember to give Him thanks? Thanksgiving is not about pilgrims, it's a national response of gratitude to Yahuah for ending the Civil War. Most school teachers have it wrong.

  The civil war between 1860 and 1865 between the southern states and the federal government (northern states) is the original reason for the observance known today as “Thanksgiving Day.”

A Presidential Proclamation was made in October 1865 by Lincoln’s successor, Andrew Johnson. His proclamation established the national observance of this secular day, but academia has promoted the idea that the Pilgrims were somehow responsible for it. The pilgrims who came to this continent were thankful, but they did not establish this nation, only a settlement.

They observed the festivals of Yahuah, not national holidays for a nation that had not yet been established.

   The blending-together of two unrelated things is called syncretism. 

History is being taught incorrectly, because merging one thing with another is a way of re-writing historical events.

Merging things together is sometimes done with closely related observances. A prime example is the fertility festival of the Earth Mother, Ishtar, with the resurrection of Yahusha (First-fruits). The name Easter is derived from Ishtar, and the eggs and rabbits are all about fertility, not Yahusha presenting Himself before the Throne of Yahuah as the First-fruits from the dead human hair wholesale.

  The Pilgrims were a pious people who were looking for a new life away from religious persecution. They had a great deal in common with the Quakers (Society of Friends) that developed later in the 17th century. 

Both sects promoted a separation from the pagan influences that still remained in Protestantism.

  Being comprised of many persecuted refuges, the early colonies outlawed formerly pagan observances like Christmas. Like them, there are people today trying to live according to Yahuah’s Word. Secularism revises history all the time. School students have been led to believe that Pilgrims were somehow involved in developing today’s Thanksgiving Day.

There are Pilgrim heritage groups that enthusiastically promote the idea that our modern T-Day is a Pilgrim invention, and they claim the roots of Thanksgiving Day are derived from their experiences at Plymouth in 1621.

  This secular national observance of Thanksgiving Day is not commanded by Yahuah, so it can be ignored, or participated in if one would care to.  Hanukkah (Yahukanon / John 10:22) can also be ignored, or observed. 

It is also a national secular observance; thanks is offered to Yahuah for His part in rescuing the nation of Israel from the Greek culture that was attempting to wipe-out Torah observance.  Hanukkah is not a replacement festival invented to take the place of the Pagan observance of Saturnalia/Christmas, nor is Thanksgiving Day a replacement for anything else. 

  Hanukkah is a time for giving thanks to Yahuah for the over-throw of Antiochus Epiphanes, and the re-dedication of the Temple in Yerushalayim. Similar to the way Hanukkah developed, Abraham Lincoln suggested a day of national thanksgiving to Yahuah for ending the civil war.

If we remember the day for the right reason, it is “clean”.  Alternately, if we ignore the day, no one should criticize us for that decision.  It's only a man-made national day of thanksgiving, so if a person chooses not to observe the day, then they don't have to give thanks  -  nor confess the sins of our nation  -  which is all it was instituted for.

We should realize Paul is speaking of fasting, but it can apply to whatever we may be inclined to judge one another about:

   Below is the proclamation made by the US president for the observance of Thanksgiving Day, with the reason given.

(The common error of using the term “GOD” is part of it, which may send some people running from it, screaming in terror as they go.  Once that error is corrected, a thinking person can easily see it is directed toward the Creator of the Universe, not a demon or false deity).

This is not a translation, so we can trust these words to be exactly as written by the US president.

(October 28, 1865):

A PROCLAMATION by the President of the United States of America:

“Whereas it has pleased Almighty God (Note: more accurately, Yahuah) during the year which is now coming to an end to relieve our beloved country from the fearful scourge of civil war and to permit us to secure the blessings of peace, unity, and harmony, with a great enlargement of civil liberty; and

Whereas our Heavenly Father has also during the year graciously averted from us the calamities of foreign war, pestilence, and famine, while our granaries are full of the fruits of an abundant season; and

Whereas righteousness exalteth a nation, while sin is a reproach to any people:  Now, therefore, be it known that I, Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, do hereby recommend to the people thereof that they do set apart and observe the first Thursday of December next as a day of national thanksgiving to the Creator of the Universe for these great deliverances and blessings.  (Note: date was changed during the early 20^th century) And I do further recommend that on that occasion the whole people make confession of our national sins against His infinite goodness, and with one heart and one mind implore the divine guidance in the ways of national virtue and holiness.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.   Done at the city of Washington, this 28th day of October, A.D. 1865, and of the Independence of the United States of America the ninetieth.”

- ANDREW JOHNSON

  No Indians, or Pilgrims, are mentioned in the above proclamation.  The Pilgrims and native Americans are simply not involved. 

Many teachers attempt to insinuate that this secular observance is some form of “apostasy” in rebellion against Yahuah, as if it is related to Sukkoth.

It is not replacing anything, and is not a harvest festival of any kind. To merge it with anything else is syncretism. Thanksgiving Day is not Sukkoth, no matter who may say so.  It also is an admission of national sins, which we as a nation desperately need to confess every day, if not once a year.

  A brother sent this additional information concerning an earlier proclamation made by Abraham Lincoln, further illustrating that there has been a conspiracy to blend former patterns together (syncretism), but it also indicates that there was a foreign threat of some major degree, since it was mentioned in BOTH the proclamations.  From Lincoln's letters, it seems clear that this threat was due to a conspiracy launched by the Jesuits at a meeting in Europe (explained in detail in the book SECRET TERRORISTS - also research the Gunpowder Plot). 

Lincoln expresses that the enemy "is of our own household."

The Catholic/Jesuit conspiracy was eventually successful in assassinating Lincoln.  Lincoln's letters reveal that he knew they were after him.

Our Creator's protection from "unfriendly designs from abroad" is but one reason Lincoln gives for being thankful.