DEAR JOHN AND DOVES :  Today is November 26 2013 and yesterday I was impressed to write down some things about the first Thanksgiving. 

 

THANKSGIVING

 

Mayflower and the arrival of the Pilgrims

 

The captain of the ship MAYFLOWER was CHRISTopher Jones.  The Captain of our ship is CHRIST Jesus.  The pilgrims arrived in the winter of 1620.  They left the old world of repression, oppression and persecution in search of a new world.  The new comers were called Pilgrims.  They were bringing freedom of religion to the new world. 

 

MAYFLOWER

 

The Mayflower has pink or white flowers of five petals.  Five is the number of GRACE.   We are saved by GRACE.   It is a low creeping plant of the heath family.  Also called arbutus, mayflower.  a creeping eastern North American plant, Epigaea repens, of the heath family, having leathery, oval leaves and terminal clusters of fragrant pink or white flowers.

 

Historians do not definitively know the exact day and date but it is universally agreed that Gov. William Bradford declared a day of thanksgiving after the successful harvest in the fall of 1621. 

 

The numbers 1621 add up to if you separate the 1s from the 6 and the 2 to the number 28.  We celebrate Thanksgiving this year on the 28th. (1 + 1  = 2  6 + 2 = 8   (28)

 

In early autumn of 1621, the 53 surviving Pilgrims celebrated their successful harvest, as was the English custom. During this time, "many of the Indians coming... amongst the rest their great king Massasoit, with some ninety men."   If you put a 1 in front of the number 53 you have the number of fishes caught in the gospels.  153 being the number denoting the end of the Pisces age.  The end of the church age.  Number (1) denoting the first generation of the pilgrims in the new land.

 

 That 1621 celebration is remembered as the "First Thanksgiving in Plymouth."

 

 The Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians shared an autumn harvest feast together. It is now acknowledged as one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations in the colonies.  The evidence is from a letter dated December 11/12, 1621 where Edward Winslow described:
  "Our corn [i.e. wheat] did prove well, and God be praised, we had a good increase of Indian corn, and our barley indifferent good, but our peas not worth the gathering, for we feared they were too late sown. They came up very well, and blossomed, but the sun parched them in the blossom. Our harvest being gotten in, our governor sent four men on fowling, that so we might after a special manner rejoice together after we had gathered the fruit of our labors. They four in one day killed as much fowl as, with a little help beside, served the company almost a week. At which time, amongst other recreations, we exercised our arms, many of the Indians coming amongst us, and among the rest their greatest king Massasoit, with some ninety men, whom for three days we entertained and feasted, and they went out and killed five deer, which they brought to the plantation and bestowed on our governor, and upon the captain and others. And although it be not always so plentiful as it was at this time with us, yet by the goodness of God, we are so far from want that we often wish you partakers of our plenty."

 

 Some believe the First Thanksgiving was held in mid-October but most believe it was sometime in November.   This year 11-28.  The number 11 means disorder/judgement and the number 28 is the biblical number ETERNAL LIFE ! 

 

Could this event in history be a type of our rapture to heaven.  They travelled by boat as in the story of Noah.  Few people made the trip across the ocean.  Is this a type of the church the Bride of Christ being a remnant of people crossing the great divide between us and heaven as pilgrims going to a new land?

 

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Blessings to all Doves

Cheryl