Praying for President Trump and his family this Thanksgiving. - There are a lot of hidden truths Posted: Nov 26th, 2020 - 8:22 am In Reply to: Don't know about the rest of you, but - deplorable former MT
and lessons in the First Thanksgiving and how the pilgrims appreciated God's law. The pilgrims gave thanks to God in a three-day Thanksgiving feast in 1621. They only grew a fraction of the food they needed to survive the coming winter, so the Wampanoag tribe provided much of the food they ate during the first Thanksgiving.
The pilgrims had to learn a lesson about the Bible before God blessed them with abundance.
Something most people do not know about the pilgrims is that they were communalists. The communalist movement was a form of socialism that taught that communities should pool their resources and share their production. But they learned that this did not work (you can read this in William Bradford's diary).
After three years of scarcity, Governor Bradford rectified the situation by abolishing communalism.
Bradford assigned every family a parcel of land. He then told each household that they could keep whatever they produced, or trade it away as they saw fit.
In other words, they worked harder when they could keep what THEY worked for. Why work hard for someone's else's wife or children.
Governor Bradford noted that people now went willing into the field...“the women now went willingly into the fields, and took their little ones with them to plant corn..."
Governor Bradford repented of his role in establishing Plymouth as a commune.
The colonists had to learn that establishing the rule of God on Earth means keeping the Ten Commandments—the basis of all righteous law. This is the true lesson of the first Thanksgiving; a lesson lost on most Americans today, who give little thought to why they have been blessed with such abundance. At a time when the rule of law in America is under constant attack, Americans need to relearn this hidden lesson of the first Thanksgiving.
Reading Bradford’s History of Plymouth Plantation is a great way to learn about the pilgrims’ experience. I highly recommend it.
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