A City Of Refuge

 

 

A Thanksgiving Prayer

     
It was in the year of 1608 that a group of Christian "Separatist" left their church in England. It had been nearly one hundred years since the start of the Reformation in Europe and the Church of England was reluctant to shed the grave cloths of Roman Catholicism. These Pilgrims fled their native England in a quest to live far from Rome and and near to God. They knew they had to flee from any Church that would not separate from all vestiges of pagan Catholicism. The English throne and its relatively newly minted Anglican Church was infiltrated by the Catholic Jesuits who began to persecute  these separatist.  In 1620, after a stay in Holland, they set sail on their Pilgrim journey to the shores of New England.

They arrived at the tip of Cape Cod and having full assurance of God’s leading, they named their location Provincetown. In search of a more fertile location they traversed westward to what we now call the Plymouth Plantation. The pilgrim's had been ill prepared for their first harsh winter, however by the following year God choose to prosper His people with much abundance. In that fall of 1621, these brave separatist gave thanks to All Mighty God and laid the spiritual foundation for a new nation. 

Father, it is with utmost gravity, we seek Your mercy on our land. Our Nation has departed from the great convictions of your pilgrims and we ask that You would strengthen what remains. By Your Sovereign will prepare us to stand firm on your Word alone. May our Churches repent of their ecumenical embrace of the very Antichrist seated in Rome. May they turn from their love of the fantastical doctrine of Jesuit Futurism which is now bearing the fruit of global conflict and death. May your people turn from these heretical teachings and escape the strong delusions seeded at the hands of the Roman Catholic Church.

We thank you Father, for you have shown us mercy and have continue to provide all our needs in Christ Jesus. We thank You for those who have labored in prayer and in financial support of the Berean Beacon.


Happy Thanksgiving,
Greg Bentley