Being Thankful Everyday-All Year Round

Being Thankful Everyday—All Year Round On this one day of the year that we call
Thanksgiving, society enjoins us to be thankful for physical and fiscal things—no
one mentions the spiritual anymore. No one mentions the divine gifts our Creator
has given us. The world-system wants us to be thankful for what we have today—
without remembering the hardships, persecutions, and horrors our ancestors went
through in the past.I don't particularly like having one day set aside to be
thankful, because it's as if we can go about the rest of the year taking
everything we have for granted.

But nevertheless, it's a great time for us to get together and enjoy our friends
and relations. For perhaps we can provide them with a tad of cheer, or help build
their faith a bit. Either way it's an opportunity for faithful believers to help
others—mentally and spiritually. The Scriptures enjoin us to be thankful during
every prayer and at all times—but always for spiritual things (Phil. 4.6). Surely
we should thank the Lord before asking Him for something.Truly, grace and faith
are wonderful gifts.

The future life we hope for with Christ is also a great gift—the greatest! The
mental peace we have because of our Lord’s actions at the Cross and our trust in
Them is something that surpasses all secular intelligence. How could we go on
without that peace? That peace is what God grants us when we pray (Phil. 4.7).I
thank God for all of these!In both a physical sense and a spiritual one, we indeed
have it made compared to our ancestors. That we can be thankful for, for sure.We
don’t think about it very often, but our ancestors lived in times when
Christianity was against the law—the penalty being death, oftentimes by torture.
All the Divine Couriers were murdered in the most horrendous ways. Herod the
antiChristian chopped John the Baptizer's head off and ordered the murder of an
entire generation of White male babies.

The Apostle Paul tells us that the anti-Christians whipped him with thirty-nine
lashes five different times. He was beaten with a rod three times, and stoned
once. While traveling to proclaim Christ, he was shipwrecked three times, and
spent a night and a day drifting in the sea. He was robbed and also persecuted by
every Adamic race. Fake Christians betrayed him, and he was often naked and cold
and hungry. Besides all of these problems, he had to concern himself with his
charge over several newly founded Assemblies. (II Korinthians 11.24-28)

When Paul wrote his powerful Letter to the Divine Assembly at Philippi, Greece, he
was in prison seven-hundred miles away at Rome. Nevertheless, he urged the
Philippians not to concern themselves with his flesh—but to rejoice in his
persecution because it was for Christ and that even if he was martyred it would be
to the benefit of their faith. He also urged them to rejoice if he was martyred.
(Phil. 2.17-18) Paul reminded the unruly Korinthians of the troubles he and the
other Divine Couriers were going through—for their benefit:11. Until the present
time we indeed hunger, and thirst, and remain poorly clothed, and are beaten
continually, and wander homeless, and labor—working with our own hands!12. Being
continually cursed by you, we bless! Being continually persecuted by you, we
support!Being continually defamed by you, we praise! 13. We have been made like
filth for the world—waste wiped off by all until now! (I Kor. 4.11-13)Before he
finished his ministry, Paul had been put in prison twice in Rome, once in
Jerusalem, once in Kaesarea, and Nero finally had him beheaded at Rome—all for
proclaiming Christ as God and Savior.Imagine what Christ Himself went through:
beaten, cursed, spat upon, made to carry His Own Cross, nailed to that Cross, then
hung up and left to die.

The Roman Emperor Nero killed hundreds of thousands of Christians—by feeding them
to lions, beheading them, or by his favorite method: hanging them on posts and
setting them on fire while they were still alive. Paul’s famous student, Timothy,
whom he left in charge of the Divine Assemblies he had founded, was castrated,
hung upside down on a cross, set afire, then dragged through the streets for a
show—to set fear in other Christians.Moreover, I think we often forget that even
in the last Century it’s not always been safe (or easy) being a believer in
Christ.

Bolsheviks took over Russia in 1917, they immediately outlawed Christianity and
began burning Churches and killing priests and believers. By the time Lenin died
seven years later, they had killed twenty-five million. Stalin took over and
continued the slaughter until he had murdered another twenty million before WWII
began. For forty-five years after WWII both Bibles and Christianity were illegal
behind the Soviet Bloc that Stalin built. Millions more died because of their
Christian faith.For the last one

Many of the early Christians fled the Middle-East and Southern Europe to live in
safer places to the North. They often lived in communes—for protection—and so that
they could be in union with one another. They would have priests who were
responsible for studying and holding religious services. One such commune existed
upon the coast of Ireland between 300 and 400 A.D. The people lived in rock huts.
Each day they had to get up early and spend the whole day going about the land
foraging for food. They were serious about their faith, though, and had a priest
there to carry out services and teach them at the end of the day.
Also, many had to live in caves and in underground catacombs.

The following quotation is from the diary of their priest: I am tired and hungry,
and it is cold. There was very little light for study today, and the text was
difficult. I feel as though I have accomplished little, but I must keep
going.General George Washington and his troops starved and froze during the
winters of their war to free themselves from British tyranny—the troops went
without pay and without seeing their families for years.

White settlers from the time the Vikings landed in the Americas about the time of
Christ have had to fight off vicious attacks by Indians (aside from the Five
Civilized Tribes who were friendly and helpful). Several tribes are known
cannibals, and others went mad after first seeing a White woman—and attacked
traveling wagon trains for the purpose of kidnaping them.White Europeans have been
at the bore’s end of attacks by the Huns, the Mongols, and the Turkish-Moors for
fifteen-hundred years. The Huns enslaved Whites in large parts of Eastern and
Southern Europe.

The Mongols threw dead bodies infected with the Bubonic Plague that they had
brought from Asia into White forts and caused a plague that killed twenty million
Whites in the 1300s. They also enslaved Southern Russia for over a hundred years,
as well as other parts of Europe. The Moorish-Turks enslaved Greece for four-
hundred years, and they held Italy captive several times—each time demanding their
most beautiful women as tribute.
Pirate ships invaded all of Southern Europe in the most vicious raids, and they
took millions of captives back to Africa over a thousand years of invasions. There
they went immediately into slavery, or if they were pretty enough into a Sheik’s
harem. Many of the men were enslaved in galley ships where they remained chained
until they died, and then they were tossed into the sea and forgotten.

By the formal end of the "War Against the South" in 1865 (that War continues
against the South today in subtler ways), many Southern soldiers were wearing
clothes that had rotted off of them to the point that nothing was left but
tattered rags sewn together. They went home to burned down homes and entire cities
demolished and oftentimes whole families murdered or scattered. Thousands of
family names that had been in America for over two-hundred years were wiped out
forever.

In the South, practically every Southerner’s ancestors worked in cotton mills

sixteen hours a day six days a week—only to be paid in mill script that could only
be spent at the Mill Store. In the planned commodity panic of 1907, Southern
farmers starved because their crops were essentially worthless on the markets.
Families broke up. Some moved into southern cities and went to work slaving in the
cotton mills. Others went west where they found themselves locked out of many
states. The same happened to Midwesterners in the 1930s, when so many flooded into
the Promise Land of California—only to find that the locals detested them and
wanted them stopped from entering the state. The police thus arrested them and
sent them back East—away from California.

In the planned commodity panic of 1907, Southern farmers

starved because their crops were essentially worthless on the markets. Families
broke up. Some moved into southern cities and went to work slaving in the cotton
mills. Others went west where they found themselves locked out of many states. The
same happened to Midwesterners in the 1930s, when so many flooded into the Promise
Land of California—only to find that the locals detested them and wanted them
stopped from entering the state. The police thus arrested them and sent them back
East—away from California.

Indeed, we have a lot to be thankful for both in the physical realm and the
spiritual. Society tells us that we ought to be thankful to the government for its
beneficence and kindness toward us—for protecting us and providing us with a
nation. But I thank only our God for all His blessings and all His gifts to us—and
that, compared to our ancestors—we today have it made.

For these things I am thankful to Him everyday—all year round.And today, yes, I’m
in a special state of thankfulness, as we all should be: God Bless!