The Glenn Beck Program - Ep 61 ｜ Thanksgiving Is Not Racist & Neither Were the Pilgrims ｜ The Glenn Beck Podcast

00:00:00.000 Late this past summer, you may have heard about something the New York Times got a lot of media attention, called the 1619 Project.

00:00:09.740 It was their way to celebrate the pilgrims while ripping them apart. 0.96

00:00:13.720 It's a very well-funded, far-left effort to reframe and rewrite American history.

00:00:19.540 Specifically, it argues that America's true founding took place in 1619, when the first African slaves arrived in Virginia.

00:00:28.720 I don't think it's a coincidence that the 1619 Project was unleashed just a few short months before a very significant anniversary in 2020.

00:00:39.600 1620.

00:00:40.880 Next year marks the 400th anniversary of the covenant that the pilgrims made when they signed the Mayflower Compact in Plymouth, Mass.

00:00:50.900 We're going to be talking a lot about that covenant in the next year.

00:00:55.320 Anticipating that anniversary, I recently went to Plymouth, where I had three separate conversations that I want to stitch together here for you.

00:01:05.060 The first is from a gentleman called Leo Martin.

00:01:08.280 He's from the Jenny Museum.

00:01:10.200 He is dedicated to preserving Plymouth's history.

00:01:14.140 He is the town's premier guide.

00:01:16.620 He walks visitors through a very distinctive and definitive story of the pilgrims.

00:01:25.120 You'll want to hear from him.

00:01:26.260 Later, I talk with historian David Barton on the meaning of the 1620 covenant.

00:01:32.420 And then with Tim Ballard.

00:01:35.260 Tim Ballard from the Nazarene Fund on the vital and unfinished business of this covenant.

00:01:42.560 America is under attack like never before.

00:01:44.660 There is an unprecedented effort to discredit and change our history to fit a new left-wing progressive agenda.

00:01:54.740 And there is definitely no room for the antiquated covenant with God in the left's new version of American history.

00:02:02.800 Join me in finding out exactly what this covenant is and why it matters for America and for the rest of the world now more than ever.

00:02:14.660 Leo, you live an interesting, difficult life, I think.

00:02:33.860 I do.

00:02:34.560 Yeah.

00:02:35.160 You admit it.

00:02:36.300 I do.

00:02:36.640 I love that.

00:02:37.100 Here we are in Plymouth.

00:02:41.400 Give me quickly the history of this house.

00:02:43.200 Just quickly the history of this house.

00:02:44.220 Well, there's not much history to this house.

00:02:46.480 The pilgrims and the Indians signed a peace treaty where this house is located.

00:02:51.140 And the front yard, there was a little dinner or something.

00:02:54.640 Yeah, a little thing called Thanksgiving.

00:02:56.520 Yeah, the first one.

00:02:57.620 The first one.

00:02:58.600 With the Indians and with the pilgrims. 1.00

00:03:00.640 And that's the significance of our Thanksgiving.

00:03:02.320 Okay.

00:03:03.080 So, and I want to get into it because you're this fantastic historian for this area.

00:03:07.940 But this is the divide of America on steroids, Plymouth.

00:03:20.020 There are those who know what this is and revere it and are really working tirelessly alone to preserve and to put it up in front of people.

00:03:37.880 And there is a great movement to do the exact opposite.

00:03:42.820 I mean, I think if it wasn't for you and some of the other people in the community that these might be condos.

00:03:48.740 It could be.

00:03:50.080 Yeah.

00:03:50.400 Yeah.

00:03:50.840 But fortunately, we do have people here who love the history of our country.

00:03:54.400 Yeah.

00:03:55.800 So, let's start with Thanksgiving weekend.

00:04:03.820 Let's say you're in high school and all you've learned is pilgrims stink on ice. 0.74

00:04:12.640 It was nothing but oppression.

00:04:15.120 They came over here.

00:04:16.400 They oppressed the Indians. 0.95

00:04:17.400 They slaughtered the Indians. 1.00

00:04:19.620 Smallpox blankets, all of that.

00:04:22.220 Tell me who the pilgrims really were.

00:04:26.320 The pilgrims are really people who are a product of the Reformation.

00:04:29.740 And they were, for the first time, reading the Bible.

00:04:34.520 And as they read the Bible, they brought on a biblical worldview.

00:04:39.080 And that's what they brought to our country, a biblical worldview. 0.95

00:04:42.140 So, the Bible, so people know, was not read because most people were ignorant, couldn't read. 0.96

00:04:48.100 Correct. 0.78

00:04:48.480 And the churches over in England and in Europe, they were all controlled by the government.

00:04:54.480 So, they were really, the government was dictating.

00:04:58.600 The head of the Anglican church, which the pilgrims had come from, was the king or queen.

00:05:06.320 Correct.

00:05:06.580 And so, it's a political organ, and I can't imagine going to a church like that, but that's where they came from.

00:05:12.960 Then Tinsdale dies.

00:05:14.700 When does he die?

00:05:17.180 William Tinsdale for the Bible.

00:05:19.260 He's translating the Bible in English in the common tongue.

00:05:22.180 Correct.

00:05:22.480 King James Version of the Bible.

00:05:24.120 I'm not sure when that comes out, but it's around the time of the pilgrims.

00:05:28.240 Right.

00:05:28.440 And the pilgrims used the Geneva Bible. 0.79

00:05:30.840 Right.

00:05:31.640 Developed in Geneva.

00:05:33.460 And the difference between the Geneva Bible and why did that play such a role here?

00:05:40.500 Well, it played such a role here because, again, they were reading the Bible for the first time.

00:05:44.160 What's the unique idea behind the Geneva Bible?

00:05:46.940 It was relatively easy to read because it listed chapter and verse.

00:05:50.700 It was small, sort of.

00:05:53.460 It was inexpensive, and one-third of the Geneva Bible was footnotes.

00:05:58.600 So, it was virtually the first study Bible.

00:06:01.440 And these people could relate to it.

00:06:03.180 Now, imagine, from this time on, before, you have to have someone intercede between you and God, king, bishop, priest.

00:06:10.920 Now, you don't have to do that.

00:06:12.760 Now, you can read the Bible, and you can talk to God yourself.

00:06:15.840 In other words, you can pray.

00:06:17.720 But here's the thing with the pilgrims.

00:06:19.240 They thought God talked back to them.

00:06:21.760 It was a two-way conversation.

00:06:23.680 Which only the kings would have felt that way.

00:06:27.280 Correct.

00:06:27.600 They would have taught that only the priests or the bishops or the kings could hear from God.

00:06:33.640 So, who are you to tell me?

00:06:36.180 Exactly.

00:06:36.560 King James, the divine right of kings.

00:06:41.660 Once somebody starts telling you you're God's representative on earth, eventually you're going to think you're God on earth.

00:06:47.880 Yeah, right.

00:06:48.440 And that's what happened with King James.

00:06:50.280 You're going to pray in England?

00:06:51.840 You're going to pray to me.

00:06:52.720 And they don't want to come here.

00:06:55.600 As we will tell later with David Barton, it's really pretty much certain death for them to come here.

00:07:04.380 Correct.

00:07:04.820 The speed well goes out.

00:07:06.280 And where are they heading on the speed well at first?

00:07:09.060 They're heading on the speed well from Holland back to England to meet the Mayflower and come over. 0.87

00:07:13.860 Okay.

00:07:14.520 That's what the speed well did.

00:07:15.920 Keep in mind the pilgrims owned the speed well.

00:07:18.360 They leased the Mayflower.

00:07:19.660 But they were going someplace else.

00:07:22.400 They weren't coming here.

00:07:23.400 They didn't want to come here.

00:07:24.540 And didn't the mast of the speed well break and have to limp back?

00:07:28.160 Correct.

00:07:29.240 So, well, what actually happened with the speed well is the captain didn't want to come.

00:07:34.240 Right.

00:07:34.820 Yeah, so he put oversized sails on the boat.

00:07:37.080 Okay.

00:07:37.500 So that it would shake the timbers and cause the boat to leak.

00:07:40.760 So the boat leaked twice.

00:07:42.040 So they had to turn back twice.

00:07:43.940 Eventually, the speed well was repaired and it was used for about seven more years.

00:07:47.940 Right.

00:07:48.220 But the captain wanted to bail out on the trip.

00:07:50.520 And when you see, because they just built a new Mayflower here.

00:07:55.040 Yes.

00:07:56.620 I would never get onto that ship.

00:07:59.760 Never.

00:08:00.780 That's insane to get on.

00:08:03.380 It's a lot smaller than you would think it is.

00:08:06.960 That's actual size of the Mayflower?

00:08:09.240 Pretty much, yeah.

00:08:10.260 That's nuts.

00:08:10.780 But it was with 102 passengers, about 30 crew members, and two dogs.

00:08:17.200 Holy cow. 0.89

00:08:18.180 For 66 days.

00:08:19.740 That's insane.

00:08:21.020 Yeah.

00:08:21.380 And so they come over here and they land just across the street, Plymouth Rock.

00:08:26.080 The plank comes down on that rock?

00:08:29.500 Well, what actually happened is the Mayflower stayed offshore about a mile or so, and they

00:08:34.640 came in on a boat called the Charlotte, a 30-foot boat with a mast and a rudder.

00:08:39.380 They came into Plymouth and they stepped on Plymouth Rock off of the Charlotte.

00:08:42.840 But this was not the first land that their feet touched.

00:08:46.500 No, it is not.

00:08:47.240 Where did they first land?

00:08:49.500 Well, they landed on the tip of Cape Cod in Provincetown.

00:08:52.300 If you've ever been to Provincetown, you might notice it's a bit sandy.

00:08:55.600 Mm-hmm.

00:08:56.140 Yeah, not a really great place to build a plantation.

00:08:59.200 So what they did is they put the Charlotte together that they carried on the Mayflower 0.95

00:09:02.740 and they explored Cape Cod for a place to stay.

00:09:05.620 When they found this place, our river, right out here, they stayed here because the river

00:09:11.200 gave them three things they had to have.

00:09:13.100 The first is water power, the second is fertilizer, that river fills with fish, and it is spring

00:09:19.780 fed, so they had fresh drinking water.

00:09:22.860 Keep in mind, fertilizer are herring.

00:09:25.740 Herring live in the ocean, but when they spawn, they spawn up in our pond.

00:09:29.600 So every spring they migrate by the mill, the pilgrims take them out of the river, put 1.00

00:09:33.720 them in the ground, fertilize, and grow the corn.

00:09:36.400 By the way, Glenn, they did go upstream for six weeks this spring.

00:09:39.240 And we had a little over 230,000 fish go up the river.

00:09:44.080 Yeah.

00:09:44.360 Wow.

00:09:44.800 For six weeks, you can't see the bottom of the river.

00:09:46.840 That's amazing.

00:09:47.800 Yeah.

00:09:48.120 So when they come here, first, don't they hit someplace where they hit it on Saturday?

00:09:56.100 And they know they're not going to stay there, but because it's the Sabbath the next day, 0.50

00:10:01.340 where was that?

00:10:02.340 Well, keep in mind, they came in on the Charlotte coming through Plymouth Harbor.

00:10:05.780 Okay.

00:10:06.300 And they got caught in a nice storm.

00:10:08.680 The mass broke on the Charlotte.

00:10:10.240 The rudder broke.

00:10:11.300 They rode the boat up into an island called Clark's Island.

00:10:14.540 You can see it.

00:10:15.240 It's right out here in the harbor.

00:10:16.960 The next day, they repaired the boat.

00:10:18.740 The next day was Sunday, so they had their first church service on Clark's Island on that

00:10:23.240 Sunday on another rock called Pulpit Rock.

00:10:27.960 Pulpit Rock.

00:10:28.840 Correct.

00:10:29.200 If you go down the Cape nowadays, there's almost a pulpit rock in every town because there

00:10:34.740 were no buildings back then, so all the sermons were delivered from a rock, and they became

00:10:38.940 known as pulpit rocks.

00:10:40.820 Now, pulpit rock out on Clark's Island is 30 times the size of Plymouth Rock.

00:10:47.440 Plymouth Rock, I will tell you, it's not a pebble, but it's a little...

00:10:50.820 It's close.

00:10:51.600 Yeah.

00:10:52.040 I mean, I grew up on the West Coast where you have rocks on your beaches, and when you come

00:10:58.740 to it, you're like, hmm, you know, it's not, it's a little, it's like going to, and I live

00:11:04.620 in Texas, so I can say this.

00:11:05.840 You can't, but I can say this.

00:11:07.960 The Alamo, a little disappointing.

00:11:10.420 Yeah.

00:11:10.680 You know, you get there and you're like, huh, that's it, and there's a Popeye's across the

00:11:14.980 street.

00:11:15.240 Let's go have chicken.

00:11:16.240 Yeah.

00:11:17.000 So it's a little different than what you think.

00:11:19.940 It is.

00:11:20.260 When I bring people down there on my tours, I tell them most people come to Plymouth,

00:11:24.420 they are somewhat underwhelmed.

00:11:25.860 Yes, a little underwhelmed.

00:11:26.420 By Plymouth Rock.

00:11:27.320 Yeah, yeah, right.

00:11:28.380 So, but, and people don't even know about, I mean, in this area, they don't even know

00:11:33.320 about pulpit rock.

00:11:34.720 Correct.

00:11:35.440 Yeah.

00:11:35.900 There used to be, I think there was, didn't they used to have a ceremony every year that,

00:11:42.740 I think you were just, weren't you disinvited from that at one point?

00:11:45.880 Oh, well, on occasion, yeah, but also keep in mind, Puppet Rock's difficult to get to.

00:11:53.080 If you go out there on the island and the tide goes out, you stay on the island, you can't

00:11:57.360 get off.

00:11:57.880 Okay.

00:11:58.080 So it's hard to put tours out there too.

00:11:59.800 Right.

00:12:00.220 But it, it's a great, great place, a great location, and I believe we'll be doing hopefully

00:12:05.080 some things out there for the 400.

00:12:07.160 So, the pilgrims come here, they come right, right there off the boat.

00:12:13.960 They, for a while, they live on the Mayflower in the winter.

00:12:17.800 Right.

00:12:18.780 It's cold here, very cold.

00:12:22.120 I can't imagine how many died.

00:12:24.680 How many were left by springtime?

00:12:26.520 Of 102, 51 died, exactly half.

00:12:30.840 So by the spring, we have 51 remaining pilgrims.

00:12:33.880 And how many were young and able-bodied?

00:12:36.100 Well, most of the young and able-bodied survived.

00:12:38.980 The biggest casualties, married women. 1.00

00:12:41.880 Married women. 0.51

00:12:43.940 Married women. 0.51

00:12:45.260 We have a little statue down here on the waterfront called the Pilgrim Mother.

00:12:49.320 That represents the 18 married women. 1.00

00:12:52.540 Again, when the pilgrims came here, they had those two ships, the Speedwell and the Mayflower.

00:12:57.720 The Speedwell leaked twice and had to go back.

00:13:00.860 20 of the original passengers had to stay behind and they left late.

00:13:04.780 When they landed on the tip of Cape Cod, they had run out of food.

00:13:07.600 The men looked around the Cape, found a stash of corn buried in the ground by the Indians and they took it. 1.00

00:13:13.300 They did not steal the corn.

00:13:14.940 They borrowed it.

00:13:15.840 They paid it back later.

00:13:17.520 Had they not taken the corn, they never would have survived.

00:13:20.360 Because you see, by the end of that first winter,

00:13:23.360 they were doling out a quarter pound of cornbread per person per day to survive on.

00:13:28.880 Wow.

00:13:29.320 So as you can well imagine, the mothers took their bread and fed their children.

00:13:34.340 They covered their children with their own bodies to keep them warm. 0.57

00:13:37.140 Of those 18 married women, 14 died the first winter.

00:13:42.060 Only four women left. 0.97

00:13:43.740 Sacrificing themselves for the next generation, knowing if they did not survive, we would not survive. 0.92

00:13:49.420 And written on the back of that statue, it says they brought their families in a sturdy virtue

00:13:55.260 and a living faith in God without which nations perish.

00:14:01.440 That's what we think of our women. 1.00

00:14:07.780 Tell me about the covenant that was made.

00:14:11.160 Because I am convinced, Leo, we've known each other for a long time.

00:14:18.720 And I have been looking, because of my job, I have been looking for ways to teach.

00:14:28.060 I've been looking for ways to restore some of the lost things.

00:14:34.220 And I've been looking for, for the last 20 years, I mean, 20 years ago,

00:14:38.660 I was studying with scholars all around the world, having phone conferences with them,

00:14:45.920 asking them, what does revolution look like?

00:14:49.840 How does it start?

00:14:50.940 How does civil wars start?

00:14:52.440 What are the things?

00:14:53.880 And how do you deprogram that?

00:14:55.760 How do you stop it?

00:14:56.660 And we've gotten to a point now to where it's only God.

00:15:03.280 Only God.

00:15:04.220 There's nothing anymore, I think, that man can do by himself to save us.

00:15:11.200 And as I learn history, I realize we have a choice.

00:15:18.520 And that choice is Plymouth or Jamestown.

00:15:25.700 And Jamestown brought all the bad to America. 1.00

00:15:29.360 Plymouth, you know, there's a reason why they've dismantled all the history of Plymouth

00:15:36.360 and not dismantled the ugliness of Jamestown, because Plymouth has the answer.

00:15:41.540 And it was a covenant.

00:15:43.360 Tell me about the covenant.

00:15:45.900 Well, Glenn, you and I can make a promise to one another.

00:15:48.540 Yes.

00:15:49.460 And then we can easily break it.

00:15:51.620 If you want to make a promise, make a covenant promise unto God.

00:15:56.320 Now, you've got something.

00:15:57.920 And when the pilgrims formed their church in Scrooby, they made a covenant one to another

00:16:03.280 to honor each other under God.

00:16:06.960 Now, Glenn, you didn't have to belong to their church.

00:16:09.720 But if you did, you follow their rules.

00:16:12.580 And you conform to what they're doing.

00:16:14.400 And when I tell people that, they say, well, weren't they legalistic?

00:16:17.180 No.

00:16:17.800 You have to have law.

00:16:19.200 You have to have rule.

00:16:20.560 You have to have an understanding.

00:16:22.260 And a covenant promise unto God is a completely different thing than me telling you,

00:16:26.220 I promise you I'll do something.

00:16:27.920 We're all like-minded.

00:16:29.620 We're all biblically based.

00:16:31.660 So that covenant promise is what grew the plantations through John Robinson, the pastor.

00:16:38.100 What happens when we get to Plymouth?

00:16:40.260 We land in the wrong place.

00:16:41.880 We have no law to be here.

00:16:43.940 We have to write our own law.

00:16:45.520 We made a covenant promise under God to honor one another in a body politic where we all

00:16:53.440 take responsibility for our people, for ourselves, not the king, not the leader.

00:16:58.820 What does this do for us now?

00:17:00.360 William Bradford, the governor, is the same as me, the poor guy, when it comes to the law.

00:17:05.360 If he breaks the same law I do, we both reach the same punishment.

00:17:08.320 Not the king.

00:17:09.940 This eventually becomes America. 0.70

00:17:13.440 Right.

00:17:13.840 But this is the germ.

00:17:15.940 This is the first kernel of corn planted in the world with that concept.

00:17:21.560 Exactly right.

00:17:22.620 And that's why Plymouth is so important.

00:17:24.100 A lot of people glass right by Plymouth.

00:17:27.340 Okay, you know, buckles, turkey, yay.

00:17:30.000 They go right by, but that's not Plymouth.

00:17:32.920 Plymouth started that kernel, started civil government based on a covenant promise.

00:17:39.740 All right.

00:17:40.400 So, so we're very clear.

00:17:43.860 Jamestown came here through religion.

00:17:47.560 Yes.

00:17:48.820 There's a difference between religion and God people.

00:17:54.100 Correct.

00:17:54.940 You know, one of my favorite quotes from Gandhi.

00:17:57.200 I love this Jesus guy.

00:17:59.560 I just don't necessarily like all of his followers.

00:18:03.980 Exactly.

00:18:04.880 Man will disappoint you.

00:18:06.280 It goes wrong.

00:18:07.040 Yeah.

00:18:07.600 Especially when power is involved.

00:18:09.340 Yeah.

00:18:09.800 How did they remain humble?

00:18:13.640 I mean, I guess just the conditions.

00:18:15.340 How did they last and build this?

00:18:19.120 What was the secret?

00:18:20.180 Well, it's simple.

00:18:26.120 The secret was their faith in God and putting God first.

00:18:30.280 I'm going to be honest with you.

00:18:32.240 The 400th coming up and I'm having some anxiety.

00:18:35.600 My wife and I run a museum and we're planning for the 400th and we're helping plan a parade.

00:18:40.840 I'm getting a little uptight.

00:18:42.380 You know why?

00:18:43.840 I think I'm running it.

00:18:46.060 I'm not.

00:18:47.420 God is.

00:18:48.620 And as soon as I put my eyes back on God, then we've got something.

00:18:53.160 Now, we talk a lot about the first Thanksgiving.

00:18:56.680 Did you know we had a second Thanksgiving?

00:18:59.520 Where I have my museum is on a river.

00:19:01.840 One side of the river is where Habermark's village was, the Indian village.

00:19:05.140 On the other side of the river is where the plantation was.

00:19:07.580 Now, the pilgrims went from socialism to capitalism.

00:19:12.780 They changed the world.

00:19:14.300 And after starving to death, they never had a starving day after that, except they had a drought.

00:19:20.660 That drought lasted two months.

00:19:23.340 All their crops wilted.

00:19:25.520 On a Wednesday morning in July, 90 degrees, not a cloud in the sky, Governor Bradford turned to his people and he said,

00:19:31.660 I want to get on our knees and I want to ask God what we've done wrong.

00:19:36.020 And they began to pray.

00:19:37.620 Not a cloud.

00:19:38.740 Noontime, nothing.

00:19:39.740 Two, nothing.

00:19:41.020 Four o'clock, a little cloud right above the plantation.

00:19:44.820 By six o'clock, it began to rain.

00:19:47.520 And I do not mean the kind of rain we're used to here in Plymouth, the nor'easter where everything gets knocked over.

00:19:52.980 But a soft, gentle rain fell on Plymouth Plantation for two weeks.

00:19:58.220 And the crops were saved.

00:19:59.680 Somebody went up to Governor Bradford and said, Governor, what did you talk to God about?

00:20:04.040 What did you pray about?

00:20:06.000 He said, well, you know what?

00:20:07.280 Maybe, just maybe, we were no longer humble.

00:20:11.760 We thought all the success we were having was us.

00:20:15.160 And there was a visitor there when that took place.

00:20:17.560 That visitor's name, Habermock, the Indian chief.

00:20:21.700 Habermock went up to the governor and he said, Governor, I like your God.

00:20:25.920 I just watched him save your crops.

00:20:27.520 And Habermock became a Christian.

00:20:30.880 And that is when he built his village next to the plantation so he could be closer to his Christian friends and his Christian God.

00:20:38.920 There is a difference.

00:20:40.620 And it's a governance from the inside out.

00:20:42.660 A covenant is an if-then proposition.

00:20:53.280 And the pilgrims were driven by their family and raising their family to God and raising them and really just concerning.

00:21:11.920 They had small vision, if you will, instead of the big vision of, hey, let's go over and build a country.

00:21:18.840 They said, let's just, I just want to go and worship God with my family.

00:21:23.640 Correct.

00:21:24.220 So they had this small vision.

00:21:25.660 Too many people right now, I think, are looking for God to save us or a man to save us or a politician to save us.

00:21:46.160 And they think that if we just start to ask God, but that's not what Bradford did.

00:21:52.840 He didn't ask God for rain.

00:21:54.820 He asked God what?

00:21:56.760 What did we do wrong?

00:21:58.240 Right.

00:21:58.920 Where have we gone?

00:22:00.020 We are not humble.

00:22:01.180 How have we not recognized you?

00:22:03.380 Exactly right.

00:22:04.120 And when they do that, and the point is good that it's in the family, the difference between us and Jameson, we came as families.

00:22:11.740 And that family, they learned in the family.

00:22:14.360 Now, imagine you're going to come over here on that ride, on that boat.

00:22:18.340 Can you even imagine that?

00:22:20.080 But the men in that group were making that decision to come here.

00:22:24.600 The children had no decision at all.

00:22:26.780 They had to come.

00:22:28.160 But why did they come?

00:22:29.420 What was that?

00:22:30.260 Because the men had a covenant relationship with God that they would pass that down to the next generation.

00:22:36.680 And that generation had to hold on to that.

00:22:38.860 That was their hope to come here, that they would get that same thing, that their parents, godly parents, were taking care of them in the best way they could.

00:22:52.480 Tell me about the struggle to even do the parade.

00:22:58.600 To talk about this truth here.

00:23:03.260 Tell me what it's like having a museum that will talk about God.

00:23:07.920 It's interesting.

00:23:09.800 Yeah, to say the least.

00:23:11.020 My wife and I do it six days a week.

00:23:13.320 And I actually dress like a pilgrim.

00:23:15.360 I walk around Plymouth dressed like a pilgrim.

00:23:17.120 Everybody knows who I am.

00:23:18.600 Not because I do what I do, because I dress weird.

00:23:20.740 And I'll be honest with you.

00:23:24.820 A lot of people of faith come visit us on TripAdvisor.

00:23:28.840 We have a strong standing on TripAdvisor.

00:23:31.100 And they tell the message that we tell.

00:23:33.660 So we get a lot of Christians in.

00:23:35.060 But we also get some pushback.

00:23:38.260 There's no doubt about it.

00:23:39.680 But people who are not happy with our story.

00:23:42.300 And we do get pushback.

00:23:45.080 But our job is to show people what a wonderful place Plymouth is.

00:23:50.260 That our country was founded on biblical principles here in Plymouth.

00:23:55.360 And for the most part, people appreciate that.

00:23:58.100 There are some people who are in some sort of positions of authority that think we ought not be doing what we do.

00:24:07.160 But that's okay.

00:24:09.040 Pushback's good.

00:24:10.540 Because if we didn't have pushback, we wouldn't be in the game.

00:24:13.780 And we're okay being in the game.

00:24:17.040 Thank you for everything you do.

00:24:18.740 My pleasure.

00:24:20.020 God bless.

00:24:20.720 God bless you.

00:24:21.360 So, David, on this street, this is lot number one.

00:24:27.960 In America.

00:24:28.960 It's unbelievable.

00:24:29.880 It's crazy.

00:24:31.320 And, you know, we know what this house sold for 10 years ago.

00:24:36.860 And it's a crazy house because it's so inexpensive.

00:24:42.080 And yet the first Thanksgiving happened on the front yard.

00:24:46.400 Right here.

00:24:47.440 Right here.

00:24:47.800 And where we're sitting is where they signed the first ever peace treaty between Native Americans and Anklos.

00:24:55.320 The longest lasting peace treaty in American history.

00:24:58.960 And the peace treaty that the Pilgrims didn't break.

00:25:01.680 Pilgrims did not break the treaty.

00:25:03.220 Native Americans broke the treaty.

00:25:04.860 And that was the chief who has this beautiful statue up at the house.

00:25:08.460 Massasoit.

00:25:09.000 Chief Massasoit.

00:25:09.860 Okay.

00:25:10.100 And so they had 50 years of peace.

00:25:13.140 54 years of peace.

00:25:14.080 54 years of peace.

00:25:15.280 And why was it broken?

00:25:17.220 It was broken because Massasoit's grandson, his name was Metacom.

00:25:21.460 He had the English name King Philip.

00:25:23.040 So we call it King Philip's War.

00:25:25.340 He declared war against all whites, all Englishmen, all settlers, and all colonies.

00:25:31.420 Because we were...

00:25:32.100 Not just here.

00:25:33.380 Because...

00:25:33.880 Torturing them or... 0.93

00:25:34.380 Well, Christian missionaries. 0.51

00:25:35.560 He objected to Christian missionaries because he said they're changing our culture.

00:25:40.620 Right.

00:25:40.820 But weren't Christian missionaries... 0.82

00:25:42.100 I mean, Squanto was here.

00:25:43.720 Was a Christian.

00:25:44.700 And he was a Christian.

00:25:45.880 He was a Christian.

00:25:46.580 And so...

00:25:47.240 At least he made that declaration at the end of his life.

00:25:50.420 He asked William Bradford, I want to go to the White Men's Heaven.

00:25:53.160 I want to be with you guys.

00:25:54.260 I want to go.

00:25:54.880 So we assume...

00:25:56.220 So...

00:25:56.860 And they were for 54 years around Christians with the Pilgrims. 0.99

00:26:00.960 Why all of a sudden the trouble?

00:26:02.000 There were 3,600 Christian Indians here in Massachusetts at the time.

00:26:06.420 So they're in trouble because the Christian Indians were saying, you know, you really need 1.00

00:26:11.600 your lifestyle to reflect your belief. 0.90

00:26:14.000 And this thing about torturing your enemies before you kill them and what they would...

00:26:19.640 I've got the accounts out of the books, but they would disembowel them, make you hold

00:26:24.220 your own guts while you're dying. 0.63

00:26:26.360 Wow.

00:26:27.000 That was just what you did to an enemy.

00:26:28.680 That's the culture of the Indians was you really butcher your enemies. 1.00

00:26:34.880 And by the way, when Columbus landed here, as much as we like to blame Columbus for stuff,

00:26:38.960 when Columbus landed in America, academics tell us that between 20 and 40 percent of Native

00:26:43.860 Americans were slaves to other Native Americans. 0.98

00:26:46.100 That's before any Anglo arrives. 1.00

00:26:48.280 So the culture, the Indian culture was one of slavery, one of torture. 1.00

00:26:53.340 The Christian missionary said, you don't need to gut people before you do this.

00:26:56.920 And that's where Philip objected, Metacom.

00:27:00.860 He said, you're changing our culture.

00:27:02.080 We've had this culture for hundreds of years.

00:27:03.840 We don't want our culture changed.

00:27:05.560 And so they launched surprise attacks against all the whites they could find. 0.83

00:27:09.580 They even burned down Roger Williams' home in Rhode Island.

00:27:13.480 And he had been an advocate for Native Americans.

00:27:16.180 He bought all of his land from Native Americans here in Plymouth.

00:27:18.700 But the Plymouth governor said, there's not a square foot of land we own, but what we didn't

00:27:26.220 buy with a deed from the Indians. 0.71

00:27:28.400 So the Indians, the pilgrims kept their word.

00:27:31.340 They had great relations until Metacom says, you guys are messing with our culture.

00:27:35.440 We don't want to lose our culture.

00:27:36.760 We like torturing people.

00:27:38.040 And so that's where the treaty got broken.

00:27:41.120 And that resulted in King Philip's war, which is the highest casualty rate of any war in

00:27:46.960 American history.

00:27:48.100 Over the Civil War.

00:27:48.900 Over the Civil War.

00:27:49.920 Highest percentage of Indians killed, highest percentage of settlers killed by percentage

00:27:55.000 of any war at that point in time, of any war we've ever had.

00:27:59.040 So it was a brutal war, lasted several years.

00:28:01.260 And it ended when other Indians killed Metacom. 0.77

00:28:05.220 It was not the white guys who killed him. 0.78

00:28:07.200 Because when Metacom went after the pilgrims, he also went after all the converted Indians 0.99

00:28:12.360 because he didn't like the Christian culture changing their culture.

00:28:15.360 So he fought Indians just like he fought the pilgrims. 0.96

00:28:19.040 You know, that would be, I mean, in that story, the way you've just told it, that's probably

00:28:26.540 spun as the white man was bad because he was taking the culture, even though it was slavery

00:28:35.160 and torture.

00:28:38.860 So slavery, did it happen with the pilgrims?

00:28:42.000 Did the pilgrims have slaves?

00:28:43.220 I cannot tell you how significant the pilgrims are to so many things we believe today that

00:28:48.900 we didn't know where it came from.

00:28:50.780 One is slavery.

00:28:52.500 Because you have slavery get started in the Jamestown colony. 0.94

00:28:55.820 It starts in Virginia.

00:28:57.660 One of the indentured servants there, a guy named Anthony Johnson.

00:29:01.880 And I don't think most folks know what an indentured servant is today.

00:29:07.040 But, you know, let me just explain it quickly.

00:29:10.400 It's basically I need a job or I need to move over here to America from England.

00:29:18.920 And I go to a wealthy store owner or somebody who needs an employee and say, OK, well, it's

00:29:25.980 going to cost me this amount of money, so I'm going to take that out of your salary.

00:29:29.840 That's right.

00:29:30.500 And you will just live on my farm.

00:29:32.660 I've become my own collateral.

00:29:34.880 I put myself up.

00:29:36.140 If you'll fund me to go to the new world, I'll give you seven years of work.

00:29:39.640 Right.

00:29:39.680 And so that's an indentured, that's not a slave.

00:29:42.200 That's an indentured servant. 0.98

00:29:43.200 That's, I'm paying off a loan.

00:29:44.580 So a black guy named Anthony Johnson came here as an indentured servant, became prosperous,

00:29:49.760 wealthy.

00:29:50.120 He started funding other indentured servants.

00:29:52.440 And one of the indentured servants that came was a black guy. 0.99

00:29:55.180 And Anthony Johnson said, this guy is so worthless, so lazy, I'll never get my money back ever for him. 0.97

00:30:00.420 So he went to court in Virginia and said, I want to own this guy for the rest of his life, 0.97

00:30:04.420 not the seven years, because he's worthless. 0.57

00:30:06.200 It'll take me his whole life to get my money back from him, and I want to own this guy.

00:30:10.200 And the court said, you can own him.

00:30:11.920 And so that's the first occasion of slavery in America.

00:30:14.560 Lifelong bondage and slavery was a black man owning another black man in court in Virginia.

00:30:18.800 But what about the pilgrims here?

00:30:22.620 When the slave ships came to the pilgrims, pilgrims and Puritans both.

00:30:27.300 Massachusetts made up two colonies, the Pilgrim Colony 1620 and the Puritan Colony in 1630.

00:30:32.900 When the slave ships arrived here, they said, oh, no, no, no, no.

00:30:36.960 What they did was they imprisoned the slave owners and they freed all the slaves.

00:30:42.660 And so Massachusetts has always been the first birthplace of abolition in America.

00:30:48.300 This is where all your major abolitionists came from, whether it's John Quincy Adams,

00:30:51.980 whether it's Charles Sumner, whether it was Frederick Douglass,

00:30:55.060 who spoke for the Massachusetts Abolition Society.

00:30:57.500 This is the birthplace of freedom and anti-slavery is Massachusetts.

00:31:02.400 And it came from the pilgrims.

00:31:03.940 And the pilgrims had lots of Bible verses to point to on why this was wrong.

00:31:07.540 So the pilgrims give us this equality position, if you will.

00:31:13.020 And it's up in this New England area that you have your first blacks elected to office way back in 1768.

00:31:18.540 You've got all this equality going.

00:31:19.840 As a matter of fact, black congressmen from Massachusetts in the Civil War said there's never been a time in Massachusetts when blacks could not vote.

00:31:28.400 You know, we know so much about the South and the oppression of the South.

00:31:31.320 We hear little about what happened in this land of the pilgrims.

00:31:34.600 And they really started freedom.

00:31:37.120 They also started economic freedom.

00:31:41.220 They started economic freedom.

00:31:42.540 Two houses up from this house, up this little street, is the, what was it called, the common house?

00:31:49.740 Common house.

00:31:50.320 Common storehouse.

00:31:51.080 Common storehouse.

00:31:51.940 And explain what that was.

00:31:53.280 Because they were socialists.

00:31:54.620 They were socialists.

00:31:55.200 When they first came here.

00:31:56.260 And socialism can be okay, I mean, morally speaking, if it's voluntary.

00:32:02.900 If you and I want to say, hey, let's just share what we've got, okay, we can do that.

00:32:06.740 We can argue that the early Christian church did that in Acts 2, but it was not government coercion.

00:32:11.680 When the government starts putting power to it.

00:32:13.660 Yeah, once somebody puts a gun to your head and says, you will participate.

00:32:16.400 That's right.

00:32:16.620 Then it's.

00:32:17.000 That's different.

00:32:17.620 Totally different.

00:32:18.220 And so what happened was, as a congregation, they came over and they said, we just want to take care of each other.

00:32:23.460 All right, I buy that.

00:32:24.660 You got 55 people out of the same congregation, 102 pilgrims.

00:32:28.540 Let's share together.

00:32:30.300 So what happened was they shared things.

00:32:32.540 They had a common storehouse.

00:32:33.800 But the problem was it took them about two years to find human nature is, because if you look at the picture of the pilgrims hanging in the rotunda at the Capitol, you can go online and see it really easy.

00:32:44.300 You see a bunch of old guys. 1.00

00:32:46.320 You see a bunch of kids, 27 kids.

00:32:49.220 You see a bunch of women. 1.00

00:32:50.880 And you only see six or seven able-bodied guys, maybe in their 30s, maybe in their 20s.

00:32:57.840 And so when sickness hit the pilgrims, because they're sitting out in that harbor inside a ship for months while they're trying to build houses here in December, January, February, and all before the women die.

00:33:08.140 I mean, it's just brutal time.

00:33:09.800 What happens is you get six or seven guys doing the work for 102.

00:33:13.280 And no matter how much work they do, everything they do is shared with everybody else.

00:33:18.300 So they noticed Governor Bradford said, essentially, guys started calling in sick.

00:33:22.500 You know, I'm too sick to go work today.

00:33:25.000 Because he's still going to get his share, whether he works or not.

00:33:27.780 And so they learned from human nature that they needed to break that up.

00:33:34.080 And so in taking the principle from 1 Timothy 5, 8, that if you don't provide for your own household, you're worse than an infidel. 0.98

00:33:40.300 They said, oh, we're providing for everybody else.

00:33:42.520 Let's provide for our own.

00:33:44.240 And so they broke it up and they gave land to everyone because they bought the land from the Indians at the price set by the Indians. 0.78

00:33:50.280 That was part of the great relations they had.

00:33:52.580 And they said, you've got your own land, make it work, make it produce.

00:33:56.040 And you know what?

00:33:57.020 I'm not a good farmer, but I am a good barrel maker.

00:33:59.800 And I'll trade you one of my barrels for three bushels of wheat or whatever.

00:34:05.180 And so this free enterprise system starts going where whatever I'm good at, I can trade with others to get stuff.

00:34:11.300 I need a pair of hinges from the blacksmith.

00:34:13.360 I need a coat from the hunter, whatever it is.

00:34:16.200 And so by 1627, they actually built a trading post here.

00:34:19.960 And that is the first free market system thing that happened in the New World.

00:34:23.820 Because Jamestown Colony was completely socialistic, run by the government.

00:34:27.220 And it was government coercion.

00:34:29.060 They had a voluntary socialism here, but they broke that up pretty quick after only two years.

00:34:34.440 And then by the time you get to 1627, they've actually, they're engaged in business.

00:34:39.780 And they're trading with Indians, and they're trading with other ships that come to the shore and the beach.

00:34:44.720 And so they've got a business going, and they become prosperous.

00:34:47.860 And after those first two years, when they abandoned socialism, they never again had economic wound in Plymouth.

00:34:53.600 They got out all economic wound.

00:34:55.440 Their whole colony turned around.

00:34:56.460 What's the difference between the Pilgrims and the Puritans?

00:35:00.760 They both theologically believed the same thing.

00:35:05.040 They're children of the Reformation, and they were all part of the Church of England.

00:35:09.580 But what happened was the Pilgrims said, you know, that church is so corrupt, we can never reform it.

00:35:17.220 I mean, I can't even imagine.

00:35:18.440 Church of England.

00:35:19.100 And this is why Europe and England are so atheists now.

00:35:23.960 They're still run by the government.

00:35:26.080 Still run by the government.

00:35:26.680 And I cannot imagine paying my tithe or going to a church that was a government church.

00:35:33.460 Well, here's the deal with them is they were reading the Bible.

00:35:37.160 And if you read the Bible from the Christian viewpoint, Christ is head of the Christian church.

00:35:42.040 The pastor of the Pilgrims, John Greenwood, he told Queen Elizabeth, he said, Jesus Christ is head of the church. 0.79

00:35:50.900 She said, you're dead.

00:35:51.880 I'm the head of the church. 0.96

00:35:52.700 She killed him for saying that Christ was head of the church.

00:35:55.600 So here you have the Pilgrims who have just lost their pastor because they believe what the Bible says, that Jesus is head of the church.

00:36:01.180 And Elizabeth said, no, no, no, I'm head of the church.

00:36:03.200 It's always been that way.

00:36:04.540 Whoever the king or queen is is head of the church, which is why they have a state-established church.

00:36:08.860 So that's where – and after she killed the leader, the pilgrim, the pastors, she then passed a law that says if anyone criticizes Her Majesty's ecclesiastical supremacy – in other words, if you say that I'm not the top theologian, whatever, and that I'm not the head, she said you'll be committed to prison without bail.

00:36:31.400 You will never get out of prison again for the rest of your life.

00:36:33.800 If you say I'm not the head of the church – and that's when the pilgrim said, let's go to Holland.

00:36:39.300 And so they went to Holland.

00:36:40.900 And so what they did was they didn't try to stay and reform the church.

00:36:43.660 The Puritans said, no, no, no, we can get control of the church.

00:36:46.160 We can reform these guys.

00:36:47.320 We can get it done.

00:36:48.200 So they were the real persecuted ones.

00:36:50.380 They were persecuted as well.

00:36:52.400 Pilgrims were persecuted but smarter, perhaps. 0.99

00:36:55.220 Smarter.

00:36:55.800 That's right.

00:36:56.340 Because the Puritans decided to come when after – they were making the same points. 0.93

00:37:00.400 But what happened at that time was the king said, I'm tired of you guys criticizing me.

00:37:05.240 So he took 10,000, cut off tongues, chopped off ears, slit noses, say, anything else you want to say? 0.74

00:37:12.120 We think we'll go to America.

00:37:13.940 Took 10,000.

00:37:15.300 There were 10,000 Puritans that fled.

00:37:17.280 Not 10,000 got their noses chopped off. 0.71

00:37:19.040 He chopped off a bunch of them.

00:37:20.460 And that's when the others said, no, let's get out of here.

00:37:23.800 We can't do this.

00:37:24.680 Which ones gave us the Salem witch trials?

00:37:30.560 The Salem witch trials were from the Puritans.

00:37:33.860 And the Salem witch trials are a lot of fun because of how they got started.

00:37:39.100 I mean, now they're a lot of fun.

00:37:41.720 Historically speaking, they're a lot of fun because every history book I have ever seen will cover the witch trials in Salem.

00:37:48.060 And they should.

00:37:48.980 It's 18 months.

00:37:50.200 It was done by the Christian leaders in Salem.

00:37:52.640 There were 27 people put to death in Salem.

00:37:55.500 This shouldn't have happened at all.

00:37:57.920 But the trick is, at the same time the witch trials are going in Salem, they're also going in Europe.

00:38:03.000 500,000 are put to death in Europe.

00:38:05.220 Now, why don't we talk about the 27 in America and not the 500,000 in Europe?

00:38:09.060 Because what America was doing is the same thing everybody else in the world was doing.

00:38:12.000 So why are we singled out?

00:38:13.440 Well, here's the rest of the story.

00:38:15.740 The witch trials came to an end after 18 months instead of after decades like they went in Europe.

00:38:19.960 Because three Christian leaders, the Reverend John Wise, the Reverend Increase Mather, and Bratton, these three guys went to Governor Phipps and said,

00:38:30.980 Phipps, we study the Bible here, and here's what the Bible says about due process rights.

00:38:35.840 You're supposed to be able to confront your accuser, John 8.

00:38:38.100 You're supposed to be able to call witnesses in your half, Proverbs 18.

00:38:41.700 Went through all the verses and said, you're following the English customs.

00:38:45.240 You're not allowing people to confront their witnesses.

00:38:47.280 You're using hearsay testimony.

00:38:49.720 You're everything wrong.

00:38:51.320 And Phipps, Governor Phipps, to his credit, said, you are right.

00:38:54.400 He called in Judge Sewell and said, we've got to stop the trials.

00:38:57.480 So they got the trial stopped.

00:38:59.100 Judge Sewell stood up in church and said, I confess my sin.

00:39:03.040 I've shed innocent blood because I didn't read the scriptures.

00:39:05.640 I didn't know what it said about due process.

00:39:07.860 I confess that I was wrong.

00:39:10.160 The governor then calls for a statewide day of humiliation fasting to seek to avert God's judgment because they shed innocent blood.

00:39:17.820 Those guys weren't guilty.

00:39:19.240 The state then exonerates all of them and pays restitution for all of those that were.

00:39:26.280 Now, that's the rest of the story.

00:39:27.880 I challenge you to find any textbook in America that talks about the witch trials, that talks about how they got stopped,

00:39:33.280 what the rest of the world was doing, or how due process rights came out of that.

00:39:37.880 And restoration.

00:39:38.820 And restoration.

00:39:39.700 Restitution.

00:39:40.640 They have their name back.

00:39:41.380 Yeah, restitution, yeah.

00:39:41.940 All of that.

00:39:42.920 It's just not there.

00:39:46.920 Walking around here, this town is divided.

00:39:53.700 It's kind of polarized, maybe like America is.

00:39:56.380 But it's bizarre because you have it right here.

00:40:01.940 You have it all right here.

00:40:05.300 And the role of the covenant is critical, critical.

00:40:13.880 And history is truly being erased.

00:40:16.980 I mean, we talked about this home.

00:40:18.800 I would pay more than double for this home.

00:40:23.860 More than double.

00:40:25.400 Of market value here.

00:40:26.580 Yeah.

00:40:26.980 That's right.

00:40:27.560 And this should be priceless.

00:40:31.280 It should be.

00:40:31.700 Really priceless.

00:40:33.080 I'm glad it's in private hands.

00:40:34.660 And I'm glad it's in the hands of the couple who bought it because they've dedicated it to Christ.

00:40:39.220 Um, but no one knows that they are, they're walking around all these things and it's just invisible.

00:40:48.900 And in thinking about it, you know, this year with Thanksgiving in the 400th year, we were in Gettysburg yesterday.

00:40:57.600 We bought coins from the 1920s.

00:41:00.620 In fact, 1920, minted.

00:41:02.880 Um, and it has the pilgrim on the front, the Mayflower on the back, didn't know it.

00:41:09.200 The, the columns over Plymouth Rock where we just were right across the street.

00:41:14.780 Did you see the date?

00:41:16.940 1620.

00:41:17.660 No, did you see the date of the columns?

00:41:19.640 1820.

00:41:20.200 Yeah.

00:41:20.800 The 200th anniversary.

00:41:21.920 200th anniversary.

00:41:23.140 Uh, the statue, 1920.

00:41:25.620 Yeah.

00:41:26.020 Um, they were all put here at an anniversary.

00:41:29.680 I, you wouldn't even know it was the 400th anniversary of the pilgrims.

00:41:33.700 You wouldn't know it's the 400th anniversary.

00:41:35.540 And if you ask, if you ask kids today in school, name three good things that we can track to the pilgrims.

00:41:42.300 I bet the answer is who?

00:41:44.260 Track to who?

00:41:45.320 They won't even know who the pilgrims are.

00:41:47.120 I mean, we just, we have no clue that the education system we have of, of every kid being educated goes back to the pilgrims. 0.99

00:41:53.820 How?

00:41:53.920 You know, the pilgrims, as they came out of Europe being persecuted, they said the only reason that the people have let the queen get away with what she's doing is because they can't read and they can't read the Bible.

00:42:06.520 She keeps saying the Bible says and they can't read and they don't know that she's lying to them.

00:42:11.020 But we do.

00:42:11.580 That's George Whitefield.

00:42:12.700 George Whitefield stopped trying to preach to the people in the church.

00:42:17.660 That's right.

00:42:18.020 And he started preaching to the poor and there's a great story of him going out, out into the coal mine areas of England and it's raining and horrible and everybody's muddy and it's, it's, you know, it's every Monty Python movie you've ever seen of what it was like.

00:42:36.080 And Whitefield starts talking about Christ and the birth of Christ and Mary and Joseph and the wise men.

00:42:45.680 And one guy in the back says to probably his son or grandson, I remember my grandmother telling a story like this.

00:42:57.580 Yeah.

00:42:57.920 They didn't have any clue.

00:43:00.460 None of it had been passed down.

00:43:02.480 And people couldn't read and it's a whole lot easier to be a monarch and a tyrant if people can't read because you can tell them what it is.

00:43:09.700 And again, the churches were established to serve the taxpayers.

00:43:14.000 That's right.

00:43:14.260 You didn't, you didn't get a seat in the church unless you paid for it.

00:43:18.540 Paid for it.

00:43:19.020 That's right.

00:43:19.400 So if you weren't a landowner.

00:43:21.160 This is a revenue source for the government.

00:43:22.800 Yeah.

00:43:23.280 That's all it was.

00:43:24.300 That's right.

00:43:24.620 So it was all political and they didn't care.

00:43:29.060 It's almost like Germany. 0.54

00:43:30.760 Play the organ louder so I don't hear the train.

00:43:33.040 Yeah.

00:43:33.360 Sing louder. 1.00

00:43:34.220 The Jews being killed with the Nazis. 1.00

00:43:35.560 Yeah. 0.98

00:43:35.740 Exactly.

00:43:36.340 Sing louder so we don't hear the people who are starving in the streets right outside the window.

00:43:41.560 Yeah.

00:43:41.880 And so the pilgrims said, look, everybody's got to be able to read.

00:43:45.000 So common education goes to the pilgrims. 0.99

00:43:47.480 Civil rights goes to the pilgrims. 0.95

00:43:49.200 Private property, land ownership goes to the pilgrims.

00:43:51.500 Because the king said, it's my land in America.

00:43:53.400 You pilgrims can be there.

00:43:54.320 They said, no, no, it belongs to the Indians.

00:43:55.840 They purchased the land from the Indians.

00:43:57.540 It was one of the first things they did.

00:43:59.200 Treaty, racial civil rights, equality.

00:44:01.260 It goes to the pilgrims.

00:44:02.520 I mean, we can just, the free market system, what we call free market economics.

00:44:06.960 Pilgrims had that 150 years before Adam Smith wrote about it.

00:44:10.380 So there are so many things we tracked to the pilgrims.

00:44:13.100 We just didn't know it came from the pilgrims.

00:44:15.280 Share one last story.

00:44:16.860 The story of a guy who lived his life of really no consequence that came on the Mayflower.

00:44:24.560 There's a house right up the road.

00:44:26.280 It's called the John Howland House.

00:44:28.280 He was one of the 102 passengers on the Mayflower.

00:44:31.240 He's a 21 or 22-year-old kid.

00:44:34.100 Well, not a kid then.

00:44:35.140 He would have been an adult.

00:44:36.140 He was working.

00:44:37.720 But he didn't have a family.

00:44:38.600 The average lifespan back then was about 35.

00:44:40.300 Not for the pilgrims. 0.90

00:44:41.660 Not for the pilgrims. 0.90

00:44:42.360 At the time, the founding fathers signed the Constitution 150 years later.

00:44:46.300 It was 33 years old at that point.

00:44:48.720 So you're talking a brutal life back 150 years before the founding fathers.

00:44:54.840 Wow.

00:44:55.260 So they come across.

00:44:57.080 He is by himself.

00:44:58.120 He doesn't have a family.

00:44:59.480 They attach him to a family.

00:45:01.560 66 days, a ship coming across.

00:45:04.160 I believe very providentially God gave them really rough storms because they're trying to sell to Virginia.

00:45:09.180 They're trying to sell to South.

00:45:09.760 They don't want to come here.

00:45:10.680 They don't want to come here.

00:45:11.600 Do they know about the plague that happened here with the Indians? 1.00

00:45:14.280 No, they did not know about the plague at all.

00:45:15.740 Okay.

00:45:16.120 So there was a, quickly, there was a plague that happened here.

00:45:19.880 Killed almost all of the.

00:45:21.400 Wiped out the whole tribe. 0.98

00:45:22.280 The whole tribe.

00:45:22.700 Except one member.

00:45:23.120 Except one guy.

00:45:23.840 Except one guy.

00:45:24.640 So if they would have landed here.

00:45:26.760 They'd have been butchered. 0.90

00:45:27.720 Butchered. 0.99

00:45:28.140 They'd have been butchered. 0.97

00:45:28.820 Okay.

00:45:29.240 So they're trying to go to Virginia because that's where their charter says they can go to northern parts of Virginia.

00:45:34.080 And the further south they try to turn, the more the wind blows them north.

00:45:37.880 And it's like God's starting to say, no, no, I don't want you in Virginia. 0.87

00:45:40.160 That's a corrupt place.

00:45:41.100 I want you up here to start something new.

00:45:43.380 And so they finally get here after 66 days at sea.

00:45:46.840 But it was rough weather.

00:45:48.200 The weather, the further south they turned that ship, the rougher it got, the weather actually broke the main beam of the ship.

00:45:54.720 Just snapped it.

00:45:55.460 And so that's what holds your ship together and they try to tie it back together and pilgrims use some innovative things to save them.

00:46:01.480 But 66 days and they're below deck most of the time and you're retching and throwing up your guts plus all the exequent and everything else.

00:46:08.700 And you've got 30 crew members and they spent time below deck because it's just too rough up on top.

00:46:13.780 So every once in a while you try to go up and see what the sunlight looks like.

00:46:16.580 And this kid, John Howland, went up on deck and got swept overboard by a wave.

00:46:22.460 Number one, you didn't swim back then.

00:46:24.100 Number two, even if they had known he got swept overboard, they could not have stopped the ship.

00:46:28.860 Number three, if you could have stopped the ship and sailed it back to him and take an hour, he's dead by then.

00:46:33.620 As it turned out, there was a rope trailing along in the water.

00:46:36.560 And he managed to grab that rope, got back up on top side, saved his life.

00:46:40.780 He's an inconsequential guy, we think.

00:46:42.960 There's no big place for him in history.

00:46:44.540 He didn't do anything significant when he got here.

00:46:46.640 He lived.

00:46:47.180 He married Elizabeth Tilly.

00:46:48.240 They had 10 kids.

00:46:49.560 Their kids had kids. 0.98

00:46:50.720 Now, this is a guy that should have died.

00:46:52.640 He didn't.

00:46:53.840 As a result, one million Americans now track themselves to John Howland.

00:47:00.640 They're his descendants.

00:47:02.080 And whether that be A-listers in movies like Humphrey Bogart or whether you want to say the Baldwin brothers in Hollywood or whether you want to take three presidents or whether you want to take star athletes, Joseph Smith, founder of LDS, all these guys go back to John Howland.

00:47:17.380 If that guy had died at sea like he should have, think how different America would be today with one life different.

00:47:25.040 And, you know, I kind of liken that to abortion or anything else.

00:47:28.200 The one life, maybe that was the one life that was going to do something significant.

00:47:32.060 You just never know the value of one life.

00:47:33.980 We were talking earlier today about thinking small.

00:47:41.180 They didn't think big.

00:47:42.840 They weren't over here thinking, we're going to build a nation.

00:47:46.240 Yeah.

00:47:46.600 They just wanted to build a few houses.

00:47:49.020 That's right.

00:47:49.360 And they worried about and paid attention to what they were doing in their life.

00:47:54.520 They wanted to raise their kids in a godly fashion, which they could not do in Secular Hall and they could not do in England. 1.00

00:48:01.040 Their thing was strong families.

00:48:03.260 We want strong families.

00:48:04.740 We want those families to build a community that will be strong.

00:48:08.560 And so the strong families built a strong church, which built a strong civil government, which built a community.

00:48:14.140 Out of this community, it shaped the entire United States.

00:48:17.460 That wasn't their objective.

00:48:18.820 Right.

00:48:19.100 You know, their objective was their family.

00:48:20.420 And Jamestown, which was also a Christian community, but the governmental Christian community, right?

00:48:27.880 They were the ones that were coming in and we got slavery from Jamestown. 0.92

00:48:35.680 We got socialism from Jamestown.

00:48:37.320 Socialism.

00:48:37.940 Yeah.

00:48:38.180 We got government tyranny, hard-fisted rulers not serving the people.

00:48:43.680 And they were thinking big back then.

00:48:45.860 And when they went to Jamestown, they were thinking colonies, we're going to colonize this land.

00:48:51.000 We're going to bring back the riches of the gold and everything else.

00:48:53.860 We'll sacrifice principles to economics.

00:48:55.500 Economics is the most important thing.

00:48:56.860 Right.

00:48:57.260 It's a whole different viewpoint.

00:48:58.780 Right.

00:48:59.080 Whole different viewpoint.

00:48:59.780 So we have to decide, are we Jamestown or are we Plymouth?

00:49:03.980 Mm-hmm.

00:49:05.160 David, thank you.

00:49:06.100 My pleasure, Glenn.

00:49:06.740 So, Tim, you just got back from Leiden, Holland.

00:49:14.120 Yes.

00:49:14.600 Where the pilgrims were.

00:49:15.840 Yes.

00:49:16.400 You got here last night.

00:49:17.620 Yep.

00:49:17.920 How long did it take you?

00:49:19.260 About eight hours.

00:49:20.260 Right.

00:49:20.600 Yep.

00:49:21.180 And no sickness, nobody died on the flight, or a little easier.

00:49:26.520 A little easier.

00:49:27.200 A little easier.

00:49:27.640 Yep.

00:49:27.820 But you went over to find out why they came here.

00:49:32.320 Right.

00:49:32.720 Right.

00:49:32.940 I heard, you know, I read these reports, even from William Bradford and others.

00:49:38.620 It was a beautiful town.

00:49:39.720 We enjoyed commerce.

00:49:41.180 We enjoyed, the congregation grew quite a bit.

00:49:44.780 They had religious freedom.

00:49:46.580 They were quite prominent in the town, and going there and feeling it and seeing it, I

00:49:50.240 didn't want to leave.

00:49:51.180 And I can feel it's a beautiful place.

00:49:53.100 So why did they leave?

00:49:54.740 And I went to ask that question.

00:49:56.800 I tracked down a couple of the historians in the town.

00:49:59.100 There's a tiny little American Pilgrim Museum, believe it or not.

00:50:03.380 It's a tiny little house from, you know, from, you know, the Pilgrim time period. 0.51

00:50:08.500 Did the guy answer the door?

00:50:10.160 Wait, you want to know stuff here?

00:50:11.640 It was crazy.

00:50:12.800 I think no one goes there.

00:50:14.340 And he lit the candles, and he's...

00:50:17.160 It's my time.

00:50:18.980 That's kind of how it was.

00:50:19.820 There's somebody here.

00:50:21.020 Yes.

00:50:21.220 Yeah.

00:50:21.620 And we sat down, and I asked him, why did they leave this town?

00:50:25.940 And he said, look, a lot of them were wealthy.

00:50:29.380 Others struggled, but it was like anywhere else.

00:50:31.920 And he had answers that weren't incorrect, but they weren't satisfying to me at all.

00:50:37.080 He said, you know, there was a potential recession they were heading into, an embargo on some of

00:50:41.720 the wool.

00:50:42.720 They were in textile industry.

00:50:44.700 Spain might be attacking.

00:50:46.260 They didn't know.

00:50:47.160 And that's...

00:50:47.780 So wait, wait, wait.

00:50:48.300 So they left Leiden, where they had a thriving church, 500 members?

00:50:53.860 Yes.

00:50:54.100 Okay, so they leave, they're good, because there might be a recession, and there might

00:50:59.900 be some things, and so they decide to take a trip to where they think they're going is

00:51:04.880 Jamestown, where it ended in cannibalism?

00:51:07.160 That's right.

00:51:08.180 Instead of maybe a recession.

00:51:11.460 Yeah, or maybe a war with Spain, or pretty much a definite war with the Native Americans.

00:51:16.780 Right.

00:51:17.380 Like, you know, a recession versus living in the mud and dying.

00:51:20.840 Right.

00:51:21.060 So I'm just going, I said to them, I don't, I'm not buying it.

00:51:23.900 There has to be something more to why they did this.

00:51:27.940 And the truth is, they held a psalm assembly.

00:51:30.760 You know, they brought these questions to the Lord.

00:51:32.520 You got to be careful, as you know, we talked about this, when you bring a question to the

00:51:35.240 Lord.

00:51:35.880 You know, they said, okay, we're always trying to improve, and so there are these issues.

00:51:39.340 Lord, is there a better way?

00:51:40.980 And there are other places, by the way, if they didn't like it, they could have gone.

00:51:44.660 Other Dutch provinces that were available and open, that they were being offered.

00:51:48.640 So there's other options, and they came out of that psalm assembly, and they said, it's

00:51:52.280 America.

00:51:52.900 We got to go to that place.

00:51:54.860 Okay, so hang on.

00:51:55.760 As I understand this, and I could be wrong, don't they, don't half of them leave in the

00:52:00.720 speed well at first, and then the speed well, the mast is broken, and they have to come

00:52:05.620 back.

00:52:06.360 And it's then that their preacher, who had not gone with the rest of them, called them all

00:52:12.460 together and said, hey, I've been hearing from God, and I got to talk to you.

00:52:15.600 I think we shouldn't be going where we were going to go.

00:52:18.520 I think we should go to America.

00:52:20.240 And that's when a few of them left and said, I'm out.

00:52:24.920 I think I'll go to the recession.

00:52:26.760 But the rest of them said, let's pray on it.

00:52:30.180 And that's when they had the solemn assembly.

00:52:32.140 Is that true?

00:52:33.020 The solemn assembly happened in Holland before they left, and John Robinson, their pastor,

00:52:36.960 he sent them from Holland and sent them on their way.

00:52:40.020 But when the speed well came back, I don't think there were, there was plenty of people

00:52:44.900 that said, I'm out.

00:52:45.780 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:52:46.680 I'm fine.

00:52:47.500 And the number, those who stayed, they're the ones, I think, who more than anyone else

00:52:52.300 truly were converted to the idea that God is sending us here.

00:52:56.400 We have to go here.

00:52:57.400 And the point that really stumped the historian when I asked him this, I said, fine, let's

00:53:01.620 just say that all these reasons you have.

00:53:04.660 America's recession proof because there's nothing there.

00:53:07.520 There's zero infrastructure and people that want to kill us.

00:53:10.940 That's right.

00:53:11.900 But the part that stumped him is when I said, okay, fine, let's just say that's the reason.

00:53:16.140 All these fears in Holland.

00:53:18.880 What about when they get there and they're dying and half of them are dead or dying and

00:53:24.840 the Mayflower is still parked in the harbor and the captain says, hey, guys, this ain't

00:53:30.460 working.

00:53:31.680 Let's go back.

00:53:32.620 Come back because if I leave, I may never come back.

00:53:37.700 And it's possible no one comes back.

00:53:40.280 Let's go.

00:53:42.740 And I'm thinking, okay, now you really can compare America versus how life was in Holland.

00:53:49.860 Right now it's easy to compare.

00:53:51.500 Some of them left their children, their babies even, back in Holland.

00:53:55.400 Okay.

00:53:55.540 William Bradford.

00:53:56.660 If I could leave a few of my teenagers in Holland. 0.99

00:53:59.600 He had a toddler.

00:54:01.080 I mean, I have a toddler.

00:54:01.760 I can't imagine.

00:54:02.320 They left their toddler out there. 0.94

00:54:03.860 William Bradford's wife is already dead.

00:54:05.300 She died.

00:54:05.760 She fell off in the Provincetown Harbor and drowned.

00:54:10.000 All right.

00:54:10.120 So, I mean, you're talking about just brutal things going on.

00:54:12.960 And now the recession doesn't look so bad.

00:54:14.940 And now, right.

00:54:16.100 And guess how many people of the remaining survivors jumped on that Mayflower and said, I'm going

00:54:21.180 back home.

00:54:22.900 Not one.

00:54:23.840 Not one went back.

00:54:27.760 And if someone's going to tell me that there was some other influence other than God and

00:54:32.760 their faith and their knowledge that this is where they needed to be, I'm not buying it.

00:54:37.060 Why is this so difficult to believe?

00:54:40.800 Why is it?

00:54:41.860 There is such an effort.

00:54:45.200 I mean, I know God people who have done crazy stuff and know that it's crazy.

00:54:52.000 They know that it's crazy.

00:54:53.120 They'll say, yeah, I have no reason to do this.

00:54:56.540 I just, I just, I feel God has told me to do this.

00:55:00.160 And you're like, dude, you're going to destroy your life.

00:55:02.440 You're going to lose all your money.

00:55:03.640 I mean, you've done that to me.

00:55:05.740 You've done that to me.

00:55:06.820 You've done that to me.

00:55:07.520 It's like, hey, I want to start this thing.

00:55:09.000 And I'm like, that's insane.

00:55:10.740 It may take down your entire media empire.

00:55:12.700 Want to do it?

00:55:13.480 Yeah.

00:55:13.720 No, it's what the natural man says.

00:55:17.800 But if you are driven by God, you feel that God is pointing you in that direction.

00:55:23.360 And it's never, it's always Plymouth.

00:55:26.840 It's never the Bahamas.

00:55:29.360 It's always like, oh crap, I don't want to do that.

00:55:34.340 Why is it so hard for people to believe that's why they did it?

00:55:39.380 Because there is an absolute adversarial attack on the true story.

00:55:47.540 Why?

00:55:48.240 Because the true story has the solution to all of our problems today.

00:55:52.880 They made the covenant when they got here.

00:55:55.140 That's why they came.

00:55:56.320 They knew God would bless them.

00:55:57.540 They knew what they needed to do biblically to bring those blessings down.

00:56:01.900 The Old Testament law was their law.

00:56:04.380 They called themselves the new Israel.

00:56:05.800 The Puritans did the same when they came 10 years later. 0.99

00:56:08.240 And that was the solution.

00:56:10.240 Build one nation under God and we will be a land flowing with milk and honey and blessings

00:56:15.620 of liberty, protection, prosperity.

00:56:17.620 And then Christ has a home.

00:56:19.860 The kingdom of God can be built.

00:56:21.620 That's what we need today.

00:56:22.920 That's what they knew they needed then.

00:56:24.380 But if we can hide that history by any means possible, then we will lose the solution.

00:56:29.820 And so I truly believe it's an adversarial attack from the dark side and influencing as 0.96

00:56:34.900 many people as possible to destroy this history.

00:56:38.240 Which is the key to our salvation today.

00:56:40.200 And when they're coming over, they read their scriptures.

00:56:46.620 And who was it that says, we will be a byword?

00:56:51.420 We are to build a shining city on the hill.

00:56:54.780 That's John Winthrop.

00:56:55.500 And if we don't, what?

00:56:58.360 If we don't live by how we're supposed to live.

00:57:01.880 We'll be swept from the land.

00:57:03.560 Right.

00:57:03.960 It's not going to work.

00:57:04.960 He does.

00:57:06.120 Once again, he's the Puritan leader that brings the Massachusetts Bay Colony and says the same 0.99

00:57:12.020 covenant.

00:57:12.620 It says this is the ancient Israelite covenant.

00:57:14.940 We obey God.

00:57:16.280 We are obedient and we will prosper.

00:57:17.880 If we don't, we're a byword and we're gone.

00:57:19.720 And it's not, let me get technical, theological here for a second.

00:57:27.100 So I want to make this clear.

00:57:28.120 It's not replacement theology.

00:57:30.560 No, no.

00:57:30.860 It, it, it, it's not that they thought they were the Israelites.

00:57:36.700 This was the same journey, a continuation of God's people, but that didn't make them the

00:57:44.600 Israelites, but they saw this as their journey across the Red Sea.

00:57:51.500 Right.

00:57:52.340 That's right.

00:57:52.920 It was an extension of, of the story of Israel.

00:57:57.040 It's the, the next chapter, the New Testament.

00:57:59.660 The next chapter, exactly.

00:58:02.560 I'm leaving here to go see the monument.

00:58:08.940 And it is hard to get to.

00:58:11.240 It is kind of hidden.

00:58:13.660 You know, there's monuments everywhere here.

00:58:17.340 And this one, I'm so excited because I've heard of, I'd never heard about it growing up.

00:58:22.160 Uh, and I started hearing about it from, from Leo about, oh, 10 years ago, maybe eight years

00:58:31.180 ago.

00:58:32.160 You have been up there several times and it is the secret of America.

00:58:40.140 What does the monument say?

00:58:44.940 What is it?

00:58:46.100 The monument, first of all, say it's probably the most sacred place.

00:58:49.480 Maybe one of the most sacred places, uh, in America, uh, the spirit you will feel there.

00:58:54.840 I promise you, I know what you're going to feel there when you get there.

00:58:58.200 It is a monument to God and covenant and faith.

00:59:01.560 It explains the entire, and you have to have Leo Martin give you the tour, by the way, to

00:59:06.400 pull out all the symbolism.

00:59:09.180 It's, it's, it's who the pilgrims were, morality, law, education.

00:59:13.520 And, and most importantly, the central figure is the figure of faith pointing to heaven with

00:59:21.220 the Bible in hand, that ancient covenant in hand, which is the law that will bring the

00:59:28.100 blessings and the entire, the entirety of the monument is, uh, is that, is that very secret

00:59:36.380 that I'm talking about, the secret that will bring us salvation today.

00:59:39.680 It teaches that entire thing.

00:59:41.220 One of the most fascinating things that Leo Martin taught me, um, was that in 1861, as

00:59:46.560 the civil war is getting underway, Abraham Lincoln wrote a $10 check to help that $10 was no

00:59:53.660 little amount.

00:59:54.240 And in that time out of his own pocket, he knew that monument was being built.

00:59:58.000 He wanted to participate in it because he understood that he was fighting for those pilgrim

01:00:04.280 ideals against Southern ideals born out of Jamestown goals, socialism, slavery versus

01:00:11.060 God covenant faith.

01:00:12.460 And that was one of the things that in the 1860s we were arguing about, 1850s.

01:00:18.700 We, we, we wanted to know, was America's founding town Plymouth or was it Jamestown?

01:00:25.700 Right.

01:00:26.240 And, um, wasn't William Bradford's original works lost to us?

01:00:33.820 Yes.

01:00:34.160 But it wasn't actually lost.

01:00:36.900 Unbelievable story.

01:00:37.880 Okay.

01:00:38.120 Yeah.

01:00:38.420 So William Bradford's of Plymouth plantation.

01:00:40.820 This becomes the kind of seminal, the preeminent kind of, uh, document that tells the story of

01:00:46.980 the, of the pilgrims.

01:00:47.800 He was a diarist and he explained it all beautiful manuscript.

01:00:51.420 It was lost.

01:00:52.440 They believed it was kept in the, in the South, in the old South church tower in Boston, uh,

01:00:57.460 after Bradford had passed on, no one made a copy of it.

01:01:00.100 No one published it and it was believed that when the British came during the American war

01:01:04.640 for independence, that they seized it, took it back to London saying, this is our history.

01:01:08.740 We're taking it back.

01:01:09.520 And it was lost and no one knew what Bradford had written, uh, in that book.

01:01:15.200 Well, in 1950, in 1855, a researcher doing a history on Massachusetts comes across this

01:01:20.800 London published book in a Boston library.

01:01:23.820 And it makes a reference to William Bradford, a direct quote.

01:01:27.680 And it says from manuscript Fulham, England library from manuscript.

01:01:32.680 And he says, could this be that lost manuscript?

01:01:35.240 So he sends the correspondents over across the Atlantic and find some friendly people back there.

01:01:39.580 They confirm, they go to the Fulham library.

01:01:42.120 They pull it out.

01:01:43.140 Oh my gosh, I am holding William Bradford's manuscript right here.

01:01:47.260 The single copy left.

01:01:49.140 And they make a copy of it.

01:01:50.700 They send the copy back to Boston, Little Brown Company publishes it in 1856.

01:01:56.680 And now the world is exposed to what that monument teaches, the covenant on the land

01:02:03.940 through the words of that preeminent governor, William Bradford.

01:02:07.900 And the book is published in 1856 and not a year too soon.

01:02:11.020 It was providential at the timing because four years later, we're diving into civil war.

01:02:15.620 And it's a war of ideas, Jamestown versus Plymouth.

01:02:19.280 And the people of the north got to read that book and understand this is what we're fighting

01:02:24.460 for in the end.

01:02:25.660 We're fighting to bring this covenant back through the liberation of slaves.

01:02:33.980 Which will end on just a sneak on that.

01:02:37.360 I have, I mean, sometimes the Lord just won't leave me alone.

01:02:43.920 Sometimes I think, you know, I'm like, hey, are you around?

01:02:48.220 Other times he won't leave me alone.

01:02:51.100 And one of those times has been in the last year, year and a half on this project.

01:03:00.020 And everything just has kind of fallen into place.

01:03:05.780 All of my friends who happen to be working on seemingly unrelated projects are not unrelated.

01:03:14.260 And we're here in Plymouth because it is the 400th anniversary of the pilgrims and that covenant.

01:03:24.780 And it's that covenant, that small thinking, I will do this, Lord.

01:03:30.160 I will just do these things.

01:03:32.740 And you will bless my life and my family because I do these things.

01:03:39.460 And it's that which bore this nation.

01:03:43.760 And I have felt that we needed to do another restoring event.

01:03:48.260 And as I was thinking in the last few years of what is going to bring us together, you and I became friends.

01:04:00.560 And I think I said this to you at one point.

01:04:03.720 And I don't even know if you believed it, that Tim, slavery, that's the one thing that we can, I take, you know, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

01:04:17.540 We don't have anything that we can agree on.

01:04:20.280 But I know I could go to her and go, hey, what do you say we work against slavery?

01:04:25.060 And anyone who says no, you know, then we know exactly who you are.

01:04:30.720 Everyone would say yes.

01:04:32.900 And then Lincoln, I start doing stuff with the Lincoln Museum and Gettysburg.

01:04:38.060 And I'm like, wow, you know, he never finished that work.

01:04:41.820 We never finished it.

01:04:43.500 And slavery is worse today than it ever was.

01:04:46.380 So we've been talking along with David Barton.

01:04:51.040 And why don't you just lay out a little bit of the idea?

01:04:58.720 Well, it's time to take this hidden secret that was born here in Plymouth and bring it back.

01:05:04.900 The way Washington brought it back, the way Lincoln brought it back.

01:05:08.500 And that is that there is a covenant on this land.

01:05:10.900 And we need to renew that covenant.

01:05:13.240 And this event, restoring the covenant, will be that time.

01:05:18.220 So it's going to happen next summer.

01:05:20.480 We'll give you details soon.

01:05:22.600 But it will happen next summer.

01:05:24.120 And it's going to start here.

01:05:25.240 It's not going to end here.

01:05:26.500 But it will start here.

01:05:27.800 And we will take you through the places where the covenant has been made.

01:05:34.960 Because it's been made that we know of at least three times.

01:05:39.160 That's right.

01:05:39.820 We know that it was made here in Plymouth.

01:05:42.260 We know that it was made in New York City with George Washington on his inauguration day.

01:05:49.200 Right.

01:05:49.680 And we know that it was the game changer of the Civil War with Abraham Lincoln.

01:05:56.220 Yes.

01:05:56.440 I just read a quote yesterday of him in Gettysburg.

01:06:01.640 And he said something along the lines of, I've always known I was a man of God.

01:06:07.860 But until I went to Gettysburg, I did not know that I was a Christian.

01:06:15.400 And it changed him.

01:06:17.100 That's right.

01:06:17.520 And it changed the course of the country.

01:06:20.240 And did you know that when he went to Gettysburg, and few people know this,

01:06:23.760 he sat, before he gave that speech, he sat in downtown Gettysburg with William Seward,

01:06:28.120 knee to knee, and he said, William, we need to reinstitute Thanksgiving as a national holiday.

01:06:34.460 That's where the idea was born.

01:06:35.960 And he said, write the proclamation.

01:06:37.460 We're going to put it out.

01:06:38.880 So it's every year, not just whenever we decide, every year.

01:06:42.460 And if you read the proclamation, Glenn, of Thanksgiving, it is a call to the covenant.

01:06:47.520 He's very clear.

01:06:49.480 What does Thanksgiving mean?

01:06:50.840 It means we serve God and we repent of our sins.

01:06:55.160 That's what he says Thanksgiving is in that proclamation that's released in 1863.

01:06:59.600 I have, since I sobered up in the 90s and started thinking about things, I've never thought that it was a coincidence that in America we have three holidays in a row.

01:07:17.500 And most people look at him and it's like, ah, good, it's, you know, I'm just, it's, it's cookieville for the next, you know, six or eight weeks.

01:07:25.960 Um, and time off and time off and time with the family, but that's really not what it is.

01:07:32.840 These, I've always called them the trilogy of holiday of holidays.

01:07:36.540 The trilogy is Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's.

01:07:39.840 And because we, we know this doesn't work, uh, without all three of them, because most people will concentrate on one holiday or another, and then they'll get to New Year's and they'll make a resolution and it won't work.

01:07:56.440 You'll be done with it.

01:07:57.400 But that's because you haven't worked all three of them together.

01:08:01.580 You haven't taken Thanksgiving and really said, Lord, thank you and become humble enough to be able to see it's not you.

01:08:13.640 And in fact, you've stood in your own way so many times.

01:08:18.100 Our country is standing in the way of success.

01:08:20.480 People are standing in the way of their own success because they think they're less than what they need to be, or they've made too many mistakes and they don't, they're not humble enough to look where the blessings really come from.

01:08:36.960 And when you're in that point, you're on your knees and here comes the baby Jesus who wipes everything clean. 0.90

01:08:46.680 That's when you can start again.

01:08:48.440 But if you're not thankful, humble, and understand why Christ was born, you can't start fresh.

01:09:01.840 That's, I think that's why Thanksgiving is so important.

01:09:07.060 And these three holidays launching into the 400th anniversary of this covenant is so important.

01:09:18.440 Just a reminder, I'd love you to rate and subscribe to the podcast and pass this on to a friend so it can be discovered by other people.

01:09:27.940 All right.

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The Glenn Beck Program - November 30, 2019

Ep 61 ｜ Thanksgiving Is Not Racist & Neither Were the Pilgrims ｜ The Glenn Beck Podcast

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