Thanksgiving may have Rapture Relevance

Pilgrims developed this holiday as a “copy” of the Jewish fall feast of Tabernacles

It is to give thanks to Almighty God for the Harvest. Harvest relates to the Rapture.

It is the last holiday before Winter sets in. Winter is a picture of death. C.S. Lewis in Narnia used winter and the White Witch (Satan) to describe the rule without Aslan (Jesus – Lion of Judah).

It is 2520 days from November 22nd 2007 – the 7th day of the Feast of Tabernacles 2014. If Tabernacles is the end of the 7 year tribulation and the 2nd coming of Jesus Christ to usher in the Millennium. Then November 22nd may have some relevance and happens to be Thanksgiving this year.

22 is the separation/division number. Revelation 22 is the end of scripture. Lamentations is filled with 11 & 22 (see www.tony4yhwh.com under prophetic for more info).

The Pilgrims did not hold a true Thanksgiving until 1623, when it followed a drought, prayers for rain, and a subsequent rain shower. Irregular Thanksgivings continued after favorable events and days of fasting after unfavorable ones. In the Plymouth tradition, a thanksgiving day was a church observance, rather than a feast day. The South – our “Bible Belt” is experiencing drought right now and is praying for rain.

This past year we moved past the 400 year anniversary of Jamestown. 400 years was the length of time predicted for Israel to leave Egypt.

387 years since the Mayflower compact. The gemetria for 387 in according to the BibleWheel is foreboding: http://www.biblewheel.com/GR/GR_387.asp This comes at a time when LOST and the dividing of Jerusalem seem to be close to a reality.

The First National Proclamation of Thanksgiving was given by the Continental Congress in 1777. 777 would be YHWH’s number. Thanksgiving is indeed important to Him.

I can’t speak for YHWH’s strategy, but I can think about it, wonder & speculate a bit. Think of the impact of a Thanksgiving rapture and the subsequent harvests/impact on family that will be gathered together this day. On a day that all should have truly had thankful and humble hearts towards God, but only God can know the true condition.

· As President, on October 3rd 1789, George Washington stated the following proclamation and created the first Thanksgiving Day designated by the national government of the United States of America:
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Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor, and whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me "to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.
Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November (this is a Watch date as well!!!) next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be.
Lincoln and the Civil War
In the middle of the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln, prompted by a series of editorials written by Sarah Josepha Hale,[2] proclaimed a national Thanksgiving Day, to be celebrated on the final Thursday in November 1863:
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The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequalled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defence, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle, or the ship; the axe had enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years, with large increase of freedom.
No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy.
It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and voice by the whole American people. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to his tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility and Union.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the independence of the United States the eighty-eighth."
Proclamation of President Abraham Lincoln, 3 October 1863.
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Since 1863, Thanksgiving has been observed annually in the United States.
1863 to 2007 is 144 years!!! – this is truly a significant number. Isn’t it interesting that George Washington and Abraham Lincoln both had the most profound impact on Thanksgiving.

Biblewheel on 144: God’s elect, 144,000

http://www.biblewheel.com/GR/GR_144.asp

I am sure there is a wealth of more information. I believe its worthwhile to be looking at November 22nd – 27th in regards to this information.

I will be sending more, but for now this will get us thinking…

Blessings,

Tony