Who were the Pilgrims | Rapp Report Daily 0187 | Striving for Eternity
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- Welcome to The Rapid Pull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.
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- This is a ministry of striving for eternity. When we think about Thanksgiving, we think of pilgrims with people with these funny hats that dressed very differently.
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- And we all refer to them as pilgrims and often don't think who they were. Well, they were Puritans, primarily.
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- Puritans were people who wanted to live a pure life before Christ. And they, in England, were chased out.
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- Because there was battles going on between the English who wanted the Roman Catholic Church to rule and the
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- Reformers who wanted the Bible to rule. And so what you end up seeing is that there was a battle going on that forced, under Bloody Mary, many pilgrims or Puritans to flee
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- England or die. Many did go to their death and many fled.
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- Many of which fled to the New World. And as they came to the New World, having to have to deal with a lot of difficulties that we don't often think about in our day and age where we can go to a grocery store and just get whatever we need.
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- The reality was that they didn't have that. They had to go to a land where no one had lived before.
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- There were no houses. They ended up having to build more cemeteries than huts.
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- They put more coffins than huts. In other words, that first year they buried more people than they had for living houses.
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- And so that's a thing to think about, these Puritans and what they did to come to America fleeing
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- Christian persecution from the Roman Catholics in England. This podcast is part of the
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