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Surely out of all the pagan holy-days, the American thanksgiving is ok to keep right? After all, it was started by the Indians & the Pilgrims all sitting down at one big table, ready to feast with fork and knife in hand singing Kumbayah my LORD or something? Right? Well lets do (just) a little digging on the subject and find out when and where it really started from, and if we as Yis-raw-Ail should have anything to do with it or not.
DID HWHY PUNISH YIS-RAW-AIL FOR CONTINUING IN THE SINS OF YAW-ROEB-AWM? {1stMeh-lekh-eem [1stKings] 15:29-30} 29 And it came to pass, when he reigned, that he smote all the house of Yaw-roeb-awm; he left not to Yaw-roeb-awm any offspring that breathed, until he had destroyed him, HWHY according to the saying of HWHY, which He spoke by His servant Akh-ee-yaw the Shee-lo-nite: 30 Because of The Sins of Yaw-roeb-awm which he sinned, and E which he made Yis-raw-Ail sin, by his provocation by which he provoked HWHY Ailo-heem of Yis-raw-Ail to anger. {1stMeh-lekh-eem [1stKings] 14:15-16} 15 For HWHY shall smite Yis-raw-Ail, as a reed is shaken in the water, and He shall root up Yis-raw-Ail out of this good land, which He gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking HWHY to anger. 16 And He shall give Yis-raw-Ail up because of The Sins of Yaw-roeb-awm, who did sin, and who made Yis-raw-Ail to sin.
Why would you want to continue to do something that is one of the reasons that HWHY "...root[ed] up Yis-raw-Ail out of this good land..." and then "... scatter[ed] them beyond the river..."? The continuance of The Sins of Yaw-roeb-awm is one of the reasons that HWHY Scattered the northern 10 Tribes of Yis-raw-Ail in the 1stPlace. If we want HWHY favor (again), don't you think we need to stop partaking in The Sins of Yaw-roeb-awm?
BUT WASN'T THE REAL SIN OF YAW-ROEB-AWM: THE WORSHIP OF BAH-AL? ANSWER: YES & NO! {2ndMeh-lekh-eem [2ndKings] 3:2-3} 2 And he worked evil in the sight of HWHY; but not like his father, and like his mother: for he put away the image of Bah-al that his father had made. 3 Nevertheless he cleaved to The Sins of Yaw-roeb-awm the son of Neb-awt, who made Yis-raw-Ail to sin; he departed not from them.
Even though Yeh-ho-rawm son of Akh-awb put away the image of Bah-al, it states that he still cleaved to The Sins of Yaw-roeb-awm. The Sins of Yaw-roeb-awm was creating a man made appointed time/ feast day. It was a feast that HWHY did not ordain, and the observance and traditions that go along with this man made feast day, had led Yis-raw-Ail astray from the love of and obedience to HWHY.
BUT IF WE KEEP THE TRUE SUKKOT, THERE ISNT ANYTHING WRONG WITH KEEPING THANKSGIVING ALSO, IS THERE? Ok, lets use Equal Weights and Measures: If you keep Pesach/Passover, Chag Matzoth, Shavuot, Sukkoth, Chanukah/Feast of Lights (not the paganized version) etc. If you keep all of HWHY Appointed Feasts, would you say it would be ok to also keep:(January 1st) new-year day, Valentine-day, Easter, Halloween, and of course christ-mass (a Mass originally created to celebrate the death of christ Tammuz)? Whats that? You wouldnt keep those days because they are all pagan days of worship. Well, then why do you believe that thanksgiving day is any different? There are many, many, other Scriptures which speak of Yis-raw-Ail continuing in The Sins of Yaw-roeb-awm. And being chastened by HWHY because of it. As stated before in 1stMeh-lekh-eem Chapter 14, this is one of the reasons that HWHY Scattered The Northern Ten Tribes in the first place. Thanksgiving day was originally instituted by Yaw-roeb-awm, and was held in observance (idol worship) to a pagan deity (Bah-al), just like all the other pagan holy-days. It transpired down through the generations unto The worship of Zeus as well as many other pagan deities. We, as Yis-raw-Ail, need to learn that we do not have any business associating with anything that had come form idol worship. HWHY has His Appointed Days which He Commands us to keep. We dont need any of the feast days from pagan religions, no matter whatever form theyve evolved into.
We should stop trying to come up with excuses on why we should want to keep thanksgiving, which was but only one of The Sin of Yaw-roeb-awm. Put HWHY First BEFORE ALL! If you must eat turkey only once a year as a family dinner then do it at a Proper Feast Time such as during the True Fall Harvest Feast within the 7 days of Sukkoth during the 7th Month. Or perhaps during any one of the other of HWHY HWHY Appointed Times/Feast Days. Keep in mind that you should never use a pagan holy-day as an excuse to eat this clean bird. Nor should you limit eating this clean bird to only once a year! Eat turkey anytime of the year! And again if you want to make something special about eating a turkey dinner then eat it within one of the Appointed Feasts of HWHY'. HWHY' Shalom, awmane [Strong Hebrew lexicon: #543].