We must remove every sin and every pagan blot on our garments to prepare for the marriage of the Lamb.
The traditions of the Protestants including Puritans and Anglicans came mainly from Roman
Catholicism, the Roman Catholic church is the ancient Babylonian Mysteries traditions were adopted from paganism.
Sunday, Easter and even Thanksgiving are VERY ANCIENT PAGAN HOLY DAYS.The web site article link above in his quote has this to say:
The Primitive Fertility Religions have been portrayed through "cute" stories which effectively HID the VILE, HIDEOUS MEANING behind them. This WORSHIP during the day of "Thanksgiving" is emphatically the Ancient Fertility Rites merely veneered with the so called "respectability" of Christianity! The fact remains, that it is still the Ancient Fertility Worship.
"But," you say, "Weren't our Pilgrim Father's righteous?" The Pilgrims only served YHVH as far as they would. Definitely, the Pilgrims worshipped on Sunday and they definitely did not keep the Holy Feast Days as ordained in Leviticus 23. They did not keep the clean and unclean food laws as listed in Leviticus 11 and Deut. 14. As the Pilgrims studied the Bibles they had, they would have read of the Sabbath, Holy Feast Days and about the clean and unclean food laws for themselves. I ask you now, "Why did they not obey God by doing what he commanded in Ex 20, Lev. 11 & 23 and Deut. 14?"
Like so many Christian churches and denominations today, the Pilgrims wanted to do it their way and not YHVH's way. Is it any wonder then, that the Pilgrims would be just as deceived as the churches and assemblies of today--chasing after Baptized Paganism? However, there has always been an advocate for the TRUTH through out all ages, not all our early fathers were deceived. As for me and my house we shall serve YHVH, says Joshua the successor of Moses. Can we say that with conviction?
May our Father in Heaven have great mercy on us as we continue to study the origins of these holidays which have sought to usurp the authority, praise and worship of our Heavenly Father, Creator of the Heavens and the Earth, Revelation 14:7.
I don't know anyone that worships a fertility god when they celebrate Thanksgiving. One gets the impression from these mentally disturbed people that everyone is dancing around a maypole with garlands of corn, wheat and stuffing in our hair, dressed in our Puritan costumes. Many people, inside and outside of Armstrongism, regard the Church of God as a "joyless" belief system. How true that is!
Apostle Malm then goes on to equate Thanksgiving with sacrificing virgins:
Actually the harvest feast was well known by these Indians and was a tradition practiced throughout the new world, as well as the old by the pagans. Thanksgiving is a universal pagan tradition descended and spread from Babel worldwide. Some of whom paid homage for the harvest BY SACRIFICING YOUNG VIRGINS.
I find it disgusting that Apostle Malm is also trying to stop us from sacrificing virgins on Thanksgiving day! How perverse is that! Whats wrong with a young nubile virgin covered in fruit, berries and some whipped cream on the dining room table? Sure the kiddies might need to leave the room when she is sacrificed, but come on! Allow us to have some fun! We can't do Christmas, Easter or Halloween, so at least let us have ONE day for some merriment!
Of course all of this has to be blamed on those damn pagans from England. The Druids and Celts had an influence upon the Puritans who naturally brought over those beliefs to the new country.
"In England the 'Harvest Home' has been observed continuously for centuries. The custom was to select a harvest queen for this holiday. She was decorated with the grain of their fields and the fruit of their trees. On Thanksgiving Day she was paraded through the streets in a carriage drawn by white horses. This was a remnant of the Roman ceremonies in honor of Ceres...the Pilgrims brought the "Harvest in" to Massachusetts.' (Little, Brown in many cases their origin and their significance is shrouded in mists of antiquity. The American Thanksgiving Day is usually ascribed to the Massachusetts colony of pilgrims, who, in gratitude for their first harvest on American soil, devoted the day of December 13, 1621 to praise and rejoicing. [Actually ran 3 days]
Even you lost Israelites in Canada don't get off easy with Apostle Malm. You are celebrating nothing more than Catholic filth when you keep Canadian Thanksgiving Day.
The history of Thanksgiving in Canada can be traced back to the 1578 voyage of Martin Frobisher from England in search of the Northwest Passage. In this, his third, voyage to the Frobisher Bay area of Baffin Island in the present Canadian Territory of Nunavut, it was also the intention to start a small settlement and his fleet of 15 ships were so fitted out with men, materials and provisions for this purpose. However, the loss of one of his ships through contact with ice along with much of the building material was to prevent him from doing so.
The expedition was plagued by ice and freak storms which at times had scattered the fleet and on finding each other again at their anchorage in Frobisher Bay, "..Mayster Wolfall, [ Robert Wolfall ] a learned man, appointed by her Majesties Councell to be their minister and preacher, made unto them a godly sermon, exhorting them especially to be thankefull to God for their strange and miraculous deliverance in those so dangerous places,...". They celebrated Communio,n the Anglican service comparable to the Catholic Eucharist, and "The celebration of divine mystery was the first sign, scale, and confirmation of Christ's name, death and passion ever known in all these quarters.
The first two Thanksgivings in the present day United States [Another was an Anglican service in Canada]were actually Catholic. The Pilgrims can only claim a third one, a correction I suggest should be made in school history books.Apostle Malm also wants Americans to know that the original Thanksgiving was NOT celebrated by the Puritans in New England, but was done first by the Spanish explorers. Leave it to the illegal aliens to cause us more misery!
The first Thanksgivings in the US were celebrated by Spanish explorers, not pilgrims. It is Florida that today proudly claims the first Thanksgiving, with a feast and celebration between the Spanish and Timucuan Indians on September 8, 1565, 56 years before the Mayflower landed at Plymouth in 1621. Therefore, St. Augustine - and not Jamestown - is the first permanent European settlement and oldest city in North America. Another correction for many history books.
The "SECOND" Thanksgiving in the US, the subject of this article, was in Texas. On January 26, 1598, a Spanish expedition set out from Mexico with the aim of founding a new kingdom. Three months later, after a long, dangerous trek forging a new trail northward, the now famous "El Camino Real "[The Royal Road], it crossed the Rio Grande and set up camp south of present day El Paso, Texas. On April 30, a Mass of thanksgiving was said, and the valiant leader of the expedition. Don Juan de O~nate, took formal possession of the new land, called New Mexico, in the name of the Heavenly Lord, God Almighty, and the earthly lord King Philip II.
Then, after the Mass, the Franciscan priests blessed the food on tables abundant with fish, ducks and geese, and the 600-strong expedition of soldiers and colonists feasted. The celebration ended with a play enacting scenes of the native Indians hearing the first words of the Catholic Faith and receiving the Sacrament of Baptism.
Thanksgiving is a truly Catholic celebration because even before the Pilgrim Thanksgiving celebration on U.S. soil in 1621, on April 30, 1598, in Texas, Don Juan de O~nate had already declared officially a "Day of Thanksgiving," commemorated with the holy sacrifice of the Mass.
In regards to all this silliness the apostle writes:
"...I HAVE A MORAL OBLIGATION TO CRY ALOUD AND HELP THE FAITHFUL VIRGIN TO REMOVE ALL BLEMISHES."
"...virgin...?" Apostle Malm gets to play with the virgins and we can't?" No wonder his wife left him.
I guess stamping out idiotic religiosity is not a priority.
