The First Thanksgiving | Rapp Report Daily 0186 | Striving for Eternity

The Origins of Thanksgiving in Plymouth

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Well, it's Thanksgiving week, y 'all, and we are going to be discussing, well, the holiday known as Thanksgiving this week. What I want to do this year, next year, I want to look at the different scripture verses, possibly.

But this year, I want to talk about the actual holiday, Thanksgiving, how it came about. There's a lot, especially for us as Christians, that we can learn from the historical roots of Thanksgiving. Now, in September 1620, there was a small ship called the Mayflower that left Plymouth, England.

It was carrying 102 passengers, and it was on its way to Virginia. Now, by the way, they didn't have Google Maps back then, and so they ended up in Massachusetts, quite a ways off. They ended up landing at Massachusetts, where they ended up establishing a colony.

That was a rough winter, and many of them were not ready for the hardships of Massachusetts, not realizing what the weather would be like and how to properly plant and care for the land. They ended up having about 57 of those 102 passengers pass away in the first year.

Picture the hardship of that. Half the people were gone in one year. And they ended up having an Indian tribe that helped them to learn how to cultivate the land. And in such, on November 22nd, Thursday, 1621, you have the first Thanksgiving that was celebrated.

It was pilgrims who wanted to honor God and thank the Indians that helped them.

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