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Welcome to 6640, the ministry outreach of Koinania House and Koinnea Institute.

Today's Bible teacher is Chuck Missler, connecting the Bible to your life and the world around you.

In today's study, Chuck completes his teaching on the first Thanksgiving.

It's interesting that that was probably not the first Thanksgiving.

That's the traditional one from the Plymouth colony in 1620.

Actually, a half a century before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth in 1621, a small colony of French Huguenots established a settlement in near present-day Jacksonville, Florida.

On June 30 of 1564, their leader, René de Londanier, recorded that, quote,

We sang a Psalm of Thanksgiving unto God, beseeching him that it would please him to continue his accustomed goodness toward us, close quote.

Also in 1610, after a hard winter called The Starving Time, the colonists at Jamestown called for a time of Thanksgiving.

This was after the original company, 409 colonists were reduced to 60 survivors.

The colonists prayed for help that finally arrived by a ship filled with food and supplies from England,

and they held a prayer service to give thanks.

None of these Thanksgiving celebrations were originally

commemorated yearly. Any annual commemoration of thanks came nine years later in another part of

Virginia. On December 4th of 1619, 38 colonists landed a place they called Berkeley 100, which is in

Virginia. We ordained, read an instruction in the charter, quote, that the day of our ship's arrival in the land of Virginia shall be yearly and perpetually kept holy as a day of Thanksgiving to Almighty God.

And of course, none of these four announcements I've just gone through was an official national

proclamation because no nation existed at that time.

But they do support the claim that the celebrations were religious.

All these obviously are clearly religious days.

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