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The Revelation Genesis Link E-Mail Series:
1-The Trinity of God

2 - God Belongs Everywhere-Thanksgiving Proclamation

3-God's Word Provides Proof: Each Day of Creation a Literal Ordinary Day

4-God's Word Provides Proof: Genealogies Show Creation of Adam Happened 6,000 Years Ago

5-Creation: For God's Glory, To Display His Character and His Attributes

Christmas Project
Letter 1-The Celebration of Christmas: A Full Blown Pagan Celebration

Letter 2-The Celebration of Christmas: First Four of Ten Commandments Broken-Part 1

Letter 2-Part 2

Letter 2-Part 3

Letter 3-The Celebration of Christmas:Looking Toward the Future

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God's Glory
INDEX TO LETTERS

The Revelation Genesis Link
 E-Mail Series from Gariel Ministries
November 18, 2006

Issue # 2
Subject Area – A Day of Thanksgiving
by Dorothy von Lehe

God Belongs Everywhere
A Thanksgiving Proclamation

Thanksgiving Day is upon us.  In today’s America, we are assaulted with the idea that there is to be separation of church and state.  In fact, the promoters of this idea tell us this is what our founding fathers called for.  This is a lie.  First, let’s look at a Thanksgiving Proclamation from 1789 from the pen of George Washington.  We can clearly see that our early fathers knew full well that Almighty God belongs and needs to be welcomed everywhere.  It is only our one, true God who is worthy of all praise and thanksgiving.

 Thanksgiving Proclamation from George Washington:

A National Thanksgiving

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 and 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 of November 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; that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation; for the signal and manifold mercies and the favor, able interpositions of His providence in the course and conclusion of the late war; for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty which we have since enjoyed; for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national one now lately instituted; for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and, in general, for all the great and various favors which He has been pleased to confer upon us. And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations, and beseech Him to pardon our national and other transgressions; to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually; to render our National Government a blessing to all the people by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed; to protect and guide all sovereigns and nations (especially such as have shown kindness to us), and to bless them with good governments, peace, and concord; to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among them and us; and, generally, to grant unto all mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as He alone knows to be best.

--Given under my hand, at the city of New York, the 3rd day of October,

A.D. 1789, G. Washington 

The above proclamation truly states the opposite of what is being forced upon our citizenry today.  The forced phrase there must be “separation of church and state” seems to have permeated the United States. There are those who push upon us the idea that our founding fathers in the Constitution’s Bill of Rights call for separation of church and state.  This is false.  Instead, our founding fathers wanted to insure that a national church would not be set up as had been done in England.  Our founders wanted to make sure there would be no restrictions placed on exercising our CHRISTIAN faith in the one and only Almighty God.   

“Congress Shall Pass No Law” 

The following is quoted from The Ten Offenses written by Pat Robertson:

James Madison of Virginia, who studied theology at Princeton University under the great minister statesman John Witherspoon, along with fellow Virginian George Mason, was asked to draft ten amendments to the Constitution in a fashion not unlike the Ten Commandments of Moses.  These amendments, later known as the Bill of Rights, began with the First Amendment, which says, 

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…”  

Clearly, the First Amendment was a restriction on Congress, NOT the states or any individual or group of individuals.

Several of the states had established churches that were similar to the Church of England.  Virginia had just struggled free from the oppression of an established church where non-Anglicans experienced mild persecution.  All of the colonists were familiar with the persecution and bloodshed resulting from overly zealous secular governments using coercion to force a state religion on their citizens.

After numerous attempts to draft language prohibiting the establishment of a national church, Madison wrote, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.”  He clearly meant a state church where ministers draw salaries from the government, bishops serve in the legislature, and people are taxed and otherwise burdened to support the established church’s buildings, employees, and activities.

So the First Amendment prohibits the national Congress from establishing a national religion, sponsored and funded by the national government or from ”prohibiting the free exercise thereof…” Clearly, the national government (and its agencies) is not allowed to hinder, fine, imprison, or unduly restrict citizens in their expression of religion.  There is no debate here regarding the prohibition.  But this in no way undermines the fact that Christianity was by design part of the very fabric of the new federal government.  And we should note that it was this new government, established on Christian principles, not on humanistic ideals, that created unprecedented freedoms for all religious faiths. 

Our one, true Almighty God belongs and is needed to be welcomed everywhere; in our government, in our schools, in our workplaces, in our homes and in every aspect of our lives each and every day. 

Consider how we have dishonored and offended Almighty God by bowing down to today’s humanistic dictates instead of standing steadfast and strong in our loving God and supporting His will and principles that He so lovingly gave to us for our own good, for our betterment and for true peace that can only be found in Him. 

“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!     Isaiah 5: 20-21 (KJV)

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