November 26, 2009: Pilgrims’ Bible-based Feast of Thanksgiving

The history of the separatist, English Pilgrims is reviewed.  Their flight to the religiously tolerant town of Leyden in the Dutch Reformed Netherlands is a testimony to their obedience to the Word of God.  The wonderful deliverance of Leyden in 1574 is recounted, remembering Prince William “the Silent” of Orange I, later assassinated by the Jesuits.  The arrival of the Pilgrims at Cape Cod bearing the Geneva Bible, Squanto—the civilized, English-speaking native whom God used to save the little band, William Bradford’s The Mayflower Compact established in 1620 “for the Glory of God and the Advancement of the Christian Faith,” the first Thanksgiving in 1621, the failure of Protestant “communism” by 1623, and the Pilgrims’ 50-year peace with the natives is remembered.  This glorious history is unique in the annals of world history and is a tribute to White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, Reformation Bible-based Western Civilization that would take the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ to the ends of the earth.