Thanks?
11/22/07 - 5th Day - After Breakfast. First real cold front of the year blew in yesterday, and we woke up to temps outside near freezing. Liviu and I worked on the root cellar all day yesterday, and around mid-afternoon my father and mother arrived with Danielle and the children from our old house in Smyer. They had a trailer-load of stored food and other supplies brought from the old house and our storage. It was well I had expanded the storage capacity in the root cellar to hold it all. After we unloaded and stored everything, my sister arrived from Houston and we all went to Coleman to eat supper.
Today is the world's Thanksgiving, though it was once one of the MANY days of giving thanks offered by the Puritan and Pilgrim fathers. Days of fasting, sorrow, repentance, and thanksgiving, were common in the colonies - and were offered willingly and according to the due notice of the providence of God. The Puritans were constantly observing the hand of God, and any event or occasion (drought, disaster, rain, plenty, accident, etc.) was seen as the work of God and a message for His people. For these reasons, the elders and governors often called for days of fasting, sorrow, repentance, and thanksgiving. The Thanksgiving we see today, was the remnant of a day to remind people of what was called The First Thanksgiving - not because it was the first in number, but because it was the first celebrated in the New World by that particular people. It was the first of many, sometimes several a month - and some times there would be numerous days of fasting and repentance in only a few months, if it was the opinion of the elders that God's hand was against them. This is what makes the modern "Thanksgiving" really a ludicrous and ridiculous act. The World gives thanks to one another, and to the nameless, faceless, "god" of their age - and that they do ONCE a year at this time, not in remembrance of acts of miraculous providence done during that year, but in order to maintain thankfulness for the endless plodding of time wherein they are allowed to remember tradition (past Thanksgivings) and not even the truth of the purpose and reasons for the First Thanksgiving. Neither are the people encouraged to recognize and observe the providence of God, or to repent and sorrow when He moves against their nation in punishment (as He evidently is doing); nor are they taught to give thanks for His longsuffering and mercy towards them, in that He does not destroy them with the breath from His mouth for their false ways, idolatries, murders, and crimes. Anyway, most of them might even pray today, and will have "god" n their lips if not in their hearts, and they will not see that their days are few and that their destruction is nigh. Anyway, enough of a rant.
I would like to say though, and you ought to mark it down in order to remind me of this prognostication if it turns out that I am wrong - but the next time this "holiday" rolls around, we are very likely to be in a very different state and condition, and if things continue on in the manner in which it appears they are moving, a year from now will find "Amerika" in a far different condition than it is in today.
The true people of God ought to wake up and look around them, and take this time to remember the Providence of God and His living, powerful, and active hand in judgment against the world. It may be that He might hide us from His wrath, protect us from evil, make us invisible to our enemies, and use us for His glory.
We give thanks to Him, through His Son Jesus Christ, and by the power of His Spirit. May the Lord protect us.
Amen,
Michael Bunker
Today is the world's Thanksgiving, though it was once one of the MANY days of giving thanks offered by the Puritan and Pilgrim fathers. Days of fasting, sorrow, repentance, and thanksgiving, were common in the colonies - and were offered willingly and according to the due notice of the providence of God. The Puritans were constantly observing the hand of God, and any event or occasion (drought, disaster, rain, plenty, accident, etc.) was seen as the work of God and a message for His people. For these reasons, the elders and governors often called for days of fasting, sorrow, repentance, and thanksgiving. The Thanksgiving we see today, was the remnant of a day to remind people of what was called The First Thanksgiving - not because it was the first in number, but because it was the first celebrated in the New World by that particular people. It was the first of many, sometimes several a month - and some times there would be numerous days of fasting and repentance in only a few months, if it was the opinion of the elders that God's hand was against them. This is what makes the modern "Thanksgiving" really a ludicrous and ridiculous act. The World gives thanks to one another, and to the nameless, faceless, "god" of their age - and that they do ONCE a year at this time, not in remembrance of acts of miraculous providence done during that year, but in order to maintain thankfulness for the endless plodding of time wherein they are allowed to remember tradition (past Thanksgivings) and not even the truth of the purpose and reasons for the First Thanksgiving. Neither are the people encouraged to recognize and observe the providence of God, or to repent and sorrow when He moves against their nation in punishment (as He evidently is doing); nor are they taught to give thanks for His longsuffering and mercy towards them, in that He does not destroy them with the breath from His mouth for their false ways, idolatries, murders, and crimes. Anyway, most of them might even pray today, and will have "god" n their lips if not in their hearts, and they will not see that their days are few and that their destruction is nigh. Anyway, enough of a rant.
I would like to say though, and you ought to mark it down in order to remind me of this prognostication if it turns out that I am wrong - but the next time this "holiday" rolls around, we are very likely to be in a very different state and condition, and if things continue on in the manner in which it appears they are moving, a year from now will find "Amerika" in a far different condition than it is in today.
The true people of God ought to wake up and look around them, and take this time to remember the Providence of God and His living, powerful, and active hand in judgment against the world. It may be that He might hide us from His wrath, protect us from evil, make us invisible to our enemies, and use us for His glory.
We give thanks to Him, through His Son Jesus Christ, and by the power of His Spirit. May the Lord protect us.
Amen,
Michael Bunker
posted by Michael Bunker at 11/22/2007 05:40:00 AM
2 Comments:
As to your last comment. Just maybe God is establishing safe havens that he will bless and protect not just for those he inspiring with the commission , but in order for them to feed and clothe those who might be driven there as they flee the storm. And that please God will include members of our own families who are seperate from us in so many ways.
Mr. Michael Bunker,
You have amazed me again with your articulate skill of relating the truth in a way so many are unable to. Your words this day are very edifying and a strong word for those with the knowledge of God and his workings. This writing is definitely a call to those with ears to ear and eyes to see. And as I know some of those without access to the internet, I ask that this article be posted in a way as to allow it to be copied, pasted and shared. And if I can do that from your Process Driven Life page and just don't realize it because I haven't tried it yet, please forgive me. It is just that the immediate want of my heart is to share this with some that I care for and have love for.
I praise God yet again for the gifts in which he has bestowed upon you as well as your willingness to minister those gifts to his own.
Exaltations to the Almighty for his everlasting Son and indwelling Holy Spirit!
believer
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