Will we Proclaim the truth even when lies are more popular?

 

Do you sometimes feel like you’re swimming upstream when you’re trying to go the right way … and so many are going the wrong way?

“Speak the truth to each other, and render true and sound judgment in your courts” Zech. 8:16

“Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason toward my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings.”  

Patrick Henry

If liberty has any genuine meaning in our age of deception, it certainly carries the right to tell people the truth – even when they’ve been conditioned by their trusted teachers to think they don’t want to hear it.

“The LORD is my helper; I will not fear; What can man do to me?” Heb 13:6

Never before in our lifetimes, have we been so obviously confronted by what appeared to be such a threat of ultimate loss of freedom, that even the most optimistic Pollyanna had to concede that we were all at a crossroads of choice.  The question was, “would we choose to bow to God or bow to men who deny their Creator?”  Which choice will you make next time? 

“That the generation to come might know them… and declare them to their children.” Ps 78:6

 Think of that purpose… for your own life… right now.

 Starting with the horribly misguided public mandates of the “covid plandemic,” thinking people all over the world have been forced to consider choices that most of us never dreamed would be faced so universally in the modern world.  It comes down to this.  The Creator and Savior of the entire world is empowering countless, humble influencers in our world today to be courageous spokesmen for the Great I AM.  Like Moses, after 40 lonely years herding sheep in the wilderness of Midian which is now Arabia, we should rightly feel humbled and inadequate to speak… especially when God is charging us to go be His ambassador.  “Let my people go” was the message then.  It hasn’t changed much, has it?

“we are not ignorant of his [Satan’s] devices.” 2 Cor 2:11

The kingdom of darkness has been aggressively using deceit and fear to intimidate the human family ever since Adam and Eve’s expulsion from the Garden of Eden. The long-awaited promise of the entrance of Jesus, the Creator and Messiah, into human history changed the dynamics of the battle. But the warfare of darkness verses light, of deception verses truth, and of bondage verses deliverance is as sharply in focus today as it ever was.

“If the LORD is God, follow Him; but if Baal, follow him.” 1 Ki 18:21

In the light of what has been called the greatest deceptive manipulation of the entire planet’s human population in all of history, Bible-believing Christians, like never before, need to personally take stock of who they will bow to and trust as their provider of peace and safety.  Will it be their Creator and Savior?  Or will it be the historically fabled golden image of their human government?  The contrasting line in the sand could not be more clear.

“I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment.” Phil 1:9

The challenge that perplexes all too many well-meaning believers is, “how should we take our stand for righteousness and trust in God?” And that’s where it gets down to really knowing how to apply the “truth that will set us free.”

Two anchors for today’s teacher of truth

There are two foundational anchors I’ve often tied to when engaging others in my discussions.

First: Hosea 4:6, “My people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge.”  It doesn’t really matter what is the current conflict or chaos going on around us. The root cause is always the confusion produced by ignorance of the truth, coupled with people’s stubborn resistance to receiving the gift of the love of the truth.

And that brings us to the second anchor of Biblical principle.

2 Thes. 5:21, “Prove (or test) all things.. hold fast that which is good.”

Never be afraid to ask probing questions of those who are confused by deceptive schemes of the devil.  “Where did you get that idea?” “What facts do you have to support your beliefs?” “Are you open to considering another viewpoint?”

Remember what Jesus said.  He doesn’t want you wasting time casting your pearls before pigs.  If they aren’t receptive to your testimony and willing to entertain a continuing discussion, then shake the dust off your feet and go find someone who is hungry to receive the truth you’ve discovered.

“…through knowledge the righteous will be delivered.”  Prov. 11:9

If you are listening to this… Even years after the most cunning global deception of 2020, the principles of how to process what we will all have had to learn, at least in some part, are timeless.

For anyone whose spiritual eyes are open to the discerning insights of Godly logic and historic retrospect, the epic capitulation to falsehood during the Great Scamdemic – of virtually the entire human population of modern nations – could not be more breathtaking.  The questions touch every area of our modern living.

It’s all included.  Our food supply, our economic provision, our basic human rights to assemble, to speak, and to worship; our civic responsibilities; our trust in our society’s educators, or health professionals, or sources of information about current events; What’s true?  Who can you believe?  What are our fundamental spiritual convictions that set our standard for what actions we should take?

“..these things happened …as an example, but … written … for our instruction.” 1 Co 10:11

For perspective, try to put your mind in the context of living as a citizen of Germany in 1939.  America is still recovering from the greatest economic depression in their history lasting a full 10 years. Germany is also gaining a renewed sense of national pride after suffering humiliating losses through the greatest world war ever endured.. supposedly the war to end all wars.  Ordinary German citizens seemed to turn a deaf ear to the deceptive anti-God arrogance of the rising anti-Christ of their generation.  Remember, the Bible clearly states that there have been many anti-Christs who carried out the corrupt deadly agenda of the god of this age… the one who is at constant war with the God who owns all the cattle on a thousand hills, the One to Whom the whole earth belongs along with all the fullness it contains.  Try to keep that perspective.  The Creator of the universe has not lost His control. The self-destructive pattern of human society is following exactly what God predicted they would in His Word, just like has happened in past societies.

many convincing proofs  Acts 1:3

Before looking at just how we should obey the Bible in honoring the Lord on our day of sabbath rest, it would be wise for all of us to see some natural understanding that our Creator, made evidently clear about the fallen creation we all live in. 

What you could miss by neglecting God’s word as a better medical opinion

Did you know that the medical establishment of George Washington’s day deliberately used a deeply flawed intervention that killed our first president? How did they do such a thing? They didn’t pay attention to God’s Word, the Bible.  It’s true.  Today, most would agree that the life-blood of our physical being is seen in the complex chemistry and physiology in our bodies we call our bloodstream, our cardio vascular system, and the vitally needed cells we call hemoglobin and macrophages (white blood cells).  The very life of our physical being is absolutely dependent on the adequate supply and circulation of our blood (see Leviticus 17:11). If too much blood is lost from our veins, we die.  The doctors of medicine in 1799 held the false belief that “blood-letting” was the solution to a severe common cold, which is a type of what is today called a “corona virus.” When President Washington’s cold took a turn for the worse at age 67, the doctors who had already drained nearly a quart of his so-called “bad blood” decided dangerously to drain out even more, which literally killed him. Do you think that could be an example of “my people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge?”

When you hear the word “quarantine” what comes to your mind?  If you know some of the miraculous insights of the laws God gave to Moses in the Torah, you’re likely very aware that quarantine was God’s sensible direction for separating sick people from healthy ones, to prevent the spread of infectious disease, right?

Question.  Why would sensible people submit to an unprecedented overnight ruling by government bureaucrats worldwide to quarantine HEALTHY people and dictate that all children and most nonessential working adults stay home and not even go outside without face-coverings? They had no scientific support for that intervention. There’s no therapeutic benefit in it.  What would be better? Besides advising people to take good hygiene measures seriously, like frequent hand washing and bolstering good sanitation practices in public places, why didn’t we hear frequent public service announcements urging everyone to stop doing the things that lower our immune response (like consuming refined sugar maybe?), and start supplementing our nutrition with plenty of vitamins A, C, and D and zinc? Those are proven and widely prescribed therapies by trusted health professionals. Why didn’t we hear about that?

Another thing for perspective.  What have modern governments been notably effective at using to control their populations and convince them to do things that normal common-sense people would otherwise reject without even thinking about it?  As a former president’s chief of staff infamously posited, “never let a crisis go to waste.”  Few things produce stampeding fear in the herd of humanity more than the public promotion of the fear that everyone could lose their health and die if they don’t separate themselves from one another.  They can even be persuaded that it’s an act of goodness to report their neighbor to public employees if they are seen gathering with too many other people.

Nobody gets excited because millions of people get sick every year and tens of thousands of people die of the annual new (or novel) flu bug that goes around regularly.  Yet now, you’d think we were living in the dark ages, fearing the black death because someone might breathe on us.

Anybody with a little horse sense can learn that viruses, like bacterial infections, can cause people with weak immune systems to come down with a bad case of flu symptoms. By the way, the word “virus” came from the ancient Latin word meaning POISON.  We’ve seen cycles over recent decades of Spanish flu, swine flu, bird flu and all kinds of contagious infections that 99% of the population survive, and are stronger afterwards.  So, knowing that less than one third of one percent of those known to contract the infection were dying, why all the bluster and fear-mongering to generate public policies that were actually producing more susceptibility to all kinds of other health problems like lowered immunity, social and mental health issues, criminal behavior, and epidemic suicide from job losses and endless anxieties?

Marxist, socialist, and globalist radicals may think they control the world with their anti-God, anti-liberty, and anti-life agenda. But could it be that God sovereignly used the  chaotic crisis to cause lost people to seek Him and His own people to repent of their rebellious pride, apathy and unrighteousness?

Let’s keep God’s perspective to guide our thoughts and actions. Remember the second Psalm and realize that the rise of darkness in our own time is not going to succeed beyond its God-determined limits. What does it say in the 2nd Psalm?

1 Why do the nations rage, ​​And the people plot a vain thing?

2 ​​The kings of the earth set themselves, ​​And the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD and against His Anointed, saying,

3 ​​“Let us break Their bonds in pieces ​​And cast away Their cords from us.”​

4 ​​He who sits in the heavens shall laugh; ​​The Lord shall hold them in derision.

If you’ve not yet taken time to learn the rest of today’s stories that are not being heard on the so-called “main stream” media outlets, be encouraged and refreshed by heeding Jesus’ words… to “be careful what you listen to” and “how you hear.”  Turn off the main stream TV news. Discover alternative, truth-telling, voices… Ones that don’t depend on corporate support from mega-stockholder companies with globalist, politically motivated agendas. The Internet is a providential gift for those who learn to use it wisely. Find thoughtful, truthful sources you can respect for their integrity, their faithfulness to honesty and respect for Biblical authority as much as possible.  It doesn’t have to all be under a Christian label.  Look for content from trustworthy medical professionals who are willing to serve their patients rather than push the agendas of profiteering drug companies known as Big Pharma. It will take some discernment. Some of the best I’ve heard are featured guests on programs produced by a weekly podcast health freedom news channel called The Highwire.   I will list some recommended sources I’ve discovered in the notes for today’s show on our ReclaimYourLegacy.com website. Look for them below.

And another important heads up.  Don’t fall for the leftist controlled so-called “fact-checkers” like Snopes, Wikipedia and the heavily censored social media platforms like Facebook and YouTube. Stop using Google for a search engine. They heavily skew your searches by leftist bias and they censor excellent research that isn’t submitted to the globalist, anti-truth narrative. Use others like Brave.  I expect to see major shifts of truth-loving patriots away from popular platforms that are heavily censored by the big Tech corporations. 

Now, let’s briefly consider “Who is the Lord of the Sabbath?”

So now, what about the question regarding who is the authority – The LORD – of God’s sabbath?

Most Americans saw how leftist bureaucrats, elected leaders and media celebrities shamelessly abused their influence to accomplish what they’ve been trying to do for decades. The fabricated crisis of a feared epidemic gave them presumed power they previously lacked: To restrict the normal activities of Christian churches all over America!

Is it ever right to forbid the church to gather for corporate worship and fellowship on the Lord’s Day… or on any day for that matter? But when have we ever seen nearly 100% unity in the church universal?  The seemingly unanimous decision to stop assembling together must have been solidly backed by Scripture, right?

Is the Word of God unclear about God’s call to His church to gather together?

“Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. 24 And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, 25 not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.”   (Hebrews 10:23-25)

Romans chapter 13 is commonly raised in support of obeying governing authorities. Why? Because “there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore, whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgement.” It’s clear that God doesn’t want his people rioting in resistance to that which God has appointed to keep order in society.  But what is God’s order for His established civic governors? The next verses tell us.

“For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God’s wrath on the wrongdoer.”

Are governing authorities delegated by God to determine what is good and what is wrong? The underlying assumption here is that the government is correctly distinguishing right and wrong in accordance with what God would deem to be right and wrong.

So, what if the government is approving that which God has deemed to be evil, or is condemning or punishing that which God has deemed to be good?  What then? Are we still to submit? The answer is obviously, no.

Peter’s response in Acts 5:11-42 is notable: “We must obey God rather than men.” (verse 29)

The primary principle that must always be upheld is clear: No government has the authority to command what God has forbidden, nor does any government have the authority to forbid what God has commanded. Whenever this primary principle is violated, the Christian is not obligated to submit; indeed, the Christian is obligated to respectfully resist.

So how can gathering together in faith to worship God on His day, regardless of the circumstances, ever be deemed morally wrong?  Would the government ever have the right to use the sword against us, to execute capital punishment towards those churches who chose to “sin” by continuing to congregate and worship God? Would we be considered evildoers in the eyes of Christ because we refused to stop worshipping Him on what we respect as His day, as He has COMMANDED US TO DO?!  If that happened, would the government be acting as the avenging servant of God by carrying out God’s wrath on the wrongdoer?

Christ’s church may obviously be challenged by the perplexing ways to cope when forced to go underground, but let’s be clear. No government can forbid what God has commanded, period. No exceptions can ever violate this fundamental axiom of biblical faithfulness.

Is the human leadership of the church permitted to forbid something that God has commanded, or to command something that God has forbidden? If so, what Scriptures would justify this? Certainly not Romans 13.  Christian assemblies must hold their leaders accountable to obey God’s word, and find ways to adjust to circumstances, just as underground assemblies of God’s people have had to do for generations in many countries.

The early church is strongly urged in the letter to the Hebrews to continue gathering because it was through gathering together that they would be encouraged to hold fast the confession of their hope without wavering. In other words, it was by gathering together that they would be heartened to stand fast in the day of affliction. Yet, in our day of affliction, we have instead opted to refrain from gathering together. And that has resulted in many, within the church, becoming disheartened.  The Bible plainly states that one of the best ways to love our brethren is by regularly gathering together …as well as to honor the Lord’s Sabbath Day of rest! By gathering together, we can stir each other to love and do good works, as well as encourage each other in the midst of affliction, even if you want to argue about which day to do it.

The Bible has much to say about God’s Sabbath… beginning with His day of rest in the Genesis account of creation. When we apply it to corporate worship in the body of Christ’s redeemed and transformed children, the priority of the Lord’s Sabbath is very compelling.

Even our nation’s president recognized the sacredness of having the church gather for the celebration of Passover and Easter.  In the face of the 2020 pandemic media panic, our president lamented that his medical advisors were making it seem like he had no option but to insist that citizens stay home on Passover Sunday 2020.  Sadly, only a few brave groups of Christians in nations around the world took a stand to assemble after several weeks of forced lockdown. By not speaking up or offering any resistance whatsoever, most of our Lord’s 21st century church only emboldened governments to abuse their powers to the extreme.  Hopefully, if the challenge is ever raised again, more thoughtful church leaders will know how to peacefully and respectfully LEAD their congregations to turn down any government’s order to stay home on the day they respect as the Lord’s Sabbath.

God is raising up a generation of warriors like Joshua and Caleb… like the thousands of early church martyrs… and like Luther and Tyndale.  Using God’s spiritual weapons of warfare to destroy the works of the devil, brave and obedient Christian soldiers will reclaim the victory that Jesus died for.  They will boldly prevail against the gates of hell that deceive and intimidate God’s fearful sheep who prevent Christ’s Ekklesia from bringing glory to their Lord through his victory that overcomes the power of the evil one. 

As Jesus said, “Let both the wheat and the weeds grow together until the harvest. At that time, I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn.”

Suggested sources:

www.TheHighwire.com

https://rumble.com/c/TheHighWire

https://thetenpennyreport.com/

Education without virtue ruins its home culture with seeds of inevitable destruction

a painting of children sitting at desks in a classroom with books on the table

America is now facing a crisis of educational insanity that is literally threatening the survival of the nation itself. Before the ‘mountain’ of education was overtaken by bureaucrats of the federal government, Americans grew up with a high-quality education. It was either delivered at home or at locally run community or private schools supported by parents, philanthropists, and churches.

I’ve drawn much of today’s Reclaiming Your Legacy episode from my friend, Alex Newman, editor-in-chief for the New American Magazine. He’s a leading advocate for private and home-based education, and he has written many publications, including one that deserves your consideration to get bulk copies to send to friends. It’s called Rescuing Our Children. You can download a free pdf copy, at this link… perfect for sharing with others about this vital issue:

https://thenewamerican.com/rescuing-our-children-special-report-pdf-download/

In 1955 Rudolph Flesch wrote his best-selling book, “Why Johnny Can’t Read.”  He said, “The teaching of reading — all over the United States, in all the schools, and in all the textbooks — is totally wrong and flies in the face of all logic and common sense.”  How could the abandonment of intensive phonics (teaching reading on the basis of sounds) in favor of the “whole word” method (as if each word was a whole symbol) not cause the deterioration in reading skills that followed?  

In 1981, Flesch wrote a sequel to his classic, entitled Why Johnny Still Can’t Read. President Ronald Reagan’s National Commission on Excellence in Education wrote: “The educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a Nation and a people.”

They explained it this way: “If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.”

Since then, it’s gotten much, much worse. And a growing number of Americans have come to realize that far too many Johnnies not only do not know how to read — or write — with any degree of proficiency, but also are handicapped in terms of their ability to add and subtract, or even to apply their minds and think critically.

Where We Came From

For the first two centuries of America’s existence, almost everyone could read and ‘cipher’ (do basic math)… and they did it without ANY public schools, as they’re known in our time.  The institutionalized indoctrination centers of today were unthinkable to early Americans. Past generations of Americans had high value for the education of their children — much more than Americans of today. What was the difference? A lot! But rather than handing over their children to the state to be “educated” by the state, and for the goals of the state, almost all education then was handled by families, religious organizations, tutors, community-run and private schools. And it was done within a free and open market mentality, without top-down controls from a faraway bureaucracy.

Did you know that Philadelphia, by 1776, had become second, only to London, as the chief

city in the British Empire? Dr. Robert Peterson, in an excellent overview of colonial education published by the Foundation for Economic Education, explained that Quaker schools often allowed poor Quaker and non-Quaker children to attend without paying fees. “The Scottish Presbyterians, the Moravians, the Lutherans, and Anglicans all had their own schools. In addition to these church-related schools, private schoolmasters, [who were] entrepreneurs in their own right, established hundreds of schools. Historical records, which are by no means complete, reveal that over one hundred and twenty-five private schoolmasters advertised their services in Philadelphia newspapers between 1740 and 1776. Instruction was offered in Latin, Greek, mathematics, surveying, navigation, accounting, bookkeeping, science, English, and contemporary foreign languages.”

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Early education, then, was typically a family affair. The widespread circulation of simple, but highly effective reading primers, such as the New England Primer and the Blue-Backed Speller helped a great deal.

New England Primer 1762

From the solid foundation developed at home, young literate citizens could easily continue their own education if they desired, using libraries. These were typically funded and run by churches early on, and later, via membership fees and private donations. Early Americans could also join “mutual improvement societies” to further their own education.

It was an incredibly successful and effective non-system. In 1831, Frenchman Alexis de Toqueville, after traveling across America and studying it, commented on the education of the time in the northern regions.

“In New England, every citizen receives the elementary notions of human knowledge; he is moreover taught the doctrines and the evidences of his religion, the history of his country, and the leading features of its Constitution,” de Toqueville explained. “In the States of Connecticut and Massachusetts, it is extremely rare to find a man imperfectly acquainted with all these things, and a person wholly ignorant of them is a sort of phenomenon.”

Consider that the products of this laissez-faire education produced the freest and wealthiest society in human history.

Founding Father and prolific inventor Benjamin Franklin, widely regarded as a genius among geniuses, was taught to read by his father before going on to study writing and arithmetic at a private school. Thomas Jefferson, meanwhile, studied Latin and Greek under a tutor, and later attended a classical academy run by a reverend.

Among the leading lights of American history, many were educated primarily at home, including President George Washington, widely regarded as the father of America. President John Quincy Adams never attended a formal school until he went to Harvard, which was a fervently Christian university then, in his early teens. And except for one year of formal schooling, Abraham Lincoln received virtually all of his education in his home. James Madison was taught to read and write at home before going to spend a few years at a private academy and then college.

The Founding Fathers were certainly learned and accomplished men, but their educational backgrounds were by no means unique. Even among everyday Americans, literacy was widespread. Founding Father John Adams noted in 1765 that “a native of America who cannot read or write is as rare an appearance as a comet or an earthquake.”

According to National Education in the United States of America by DuPont Nemours, published in 1812, literacy was practically universal back then. He found that “Most young Americans … can read, write and cipher. Not more than four in a thousand are unable to write legibly – even neatly,”. Many other sources support his findings. And consider that today, government studies show almost half of Americans are either illiterate or so close to illiterate that they might as well be lumped in with them.

It wasn’t just basic reading skills that were universal before institutionalized government “schooling” took over.  Early Americans could think and comprehend, too. As The New American’s editor-in-Chief, Gary Benoit, explained in a 1997 piece, headlined “Before the Public Schools,” the Federalist Papers published in the late 1780s provide ample evidence of the high literacy and phenomenal education that was ubiquitous in those times. In fact, those newspaper columns about the newly drafted U.S. Constitution were aimed at the common American man — the farmer, the merchant, the laborer. Today, many college graduates struggle to understand those documents — and many would undoubtedly struggle even if the documents were presented in modernized English.

Aside from being a non-government education, the classical education of the Founders, and many of their contemporaries, was much different than what passes for schooling today. The three schools that trained more of America’s Founders than any others were Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. Interestingly, though, all of them were actually founded to train ministers of the Gospel. The Bible was central to all the education provided at each of those universities.

With the Bible at the heart of schooling, early Americans understood the role of government to be a simple one: protect from evildoers the God-given rights to life, liberty, and property. And they understood the role of education as coming to know God and the scriptures, gaining knowledge about creation, learning what was needed for a productive life, and learning to live right by God. As John Milton famously put it, “The end of learning is to repair the ruin of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him.” Such views were dominant back then, when Americans were far more educated.

Government Becomes the “Educator”

Officially, the history of “government” laws about education began with the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1647. Their very first public act on education and schooling was called: the Old Deluder Satan Act.  The preamble to the law said…

“It being one chief project of the old deluder Satan to keep men from the knowledge of the Scripture …, to the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers, in church and commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors … it is therefore ordered … [to] appoint One, within their town, to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read, whose wages shall be paid, either by the parents or masters of such children or by the inhabitants in general.”

The primary purpose of the Puritan era schools, was to ensure a knowledge of the Bible. But their schools were hardly the institutionalized government propaganda centers of today. Even in Boston in the late 1600s, there were only one or two “public” schools, and virtually all students starting there already knew how to read. Many knew more than just reading, having learned much from their families at home.

It’s worth noting that the Puritans in Massachusetts were an anomaly in America regarding government laws touching education. The experience of the other Colonies showed clearly that a law mandating reading instruction in larger towns wasn’t needed at all. In fact, Americans were so zealous for education, they didn’t need government to provide it for them in order to obtain it.

The first giant step away from traditional, classical, Christian education toward socialistic and humanistic indoctrination and the dumbing down of education… began under Horace Mann. In 1837, in Massachusetts, Horace Mann was appointed as the first-ever “Education Secretary” of an American state. And as a unitarian who rejected the Bible as the inspired and inerrant Word of God, Mann had big ideas about reforming the highly successful educational system that existed at the time.

Mann went to Prussia in 1843 and was very impressed with what came to be known as the Prussian Model. It was essentially the first systematic effort by a Western government to seize total control over education. Under that European model, government schooling became compulsory. Statism and unquestioning obedience to government was instilled in all children. Indeed, teachers were themselves trained by the state, ensuring that the teachers taught what the state wanted. And unlike in America, children were segregated based on age.

One of Mann’s key goals for the education system he imported from Prussia, was to “equalize the conditions of men.” This was a socialistic view, believing that everyone would be more equal if everyone received the same education. This approach, which manifests itself today in the form of Common Core, achieves mediocrity, not excellence. As much as politically possible in his day, Mann worked to ensure that religious instruction was purged from education, too. While it was done under the guise of combating sectarianism among the different Christian denominations, the real goal was to remove the Bible, which until that time had been an inseparable part of America society and its education. Mann was so passionate about institutionalized government schooling based on the Prussian model that he traveled across the country promoting it. By the mid-1800s, compulsory attendance laws and government schools were popping up across the northern United States. After Massachusetts, New York and Connecticut joined in the movement. By 1900, despite major resistance from some segments of the populations and many parents, dozens of states had imposed similar Prussian-style systems with compulsory attendance laws.

John Dewey Picks Up the Baton

After Mann came the notable humanist, John Dewey. An anti-Christian socialist, Dewey was fanatical in his zeal to reform humanity to fit his atheistic, collectivist vision. After visiting Lenin’s Soviet Russia, he returned to write openly of the mass-murdering regime, praising its creation of a “collectivist mentality” through education and propaganda.

He wrote: “The only form of enduring social organization that’s now possible is one in which the new forces of productivity are cooperatively controlled.”

“Organized social planning … is now the sole method of social action by which liberalism can realize its professed aims.” Dewey frequently pointed to an 1888 novel, Looking Backward, by Edward Bellamy. It envisioned a communist America with no private property in the year 2000. Bellamy’s radical vision, animated Dewey and his supporters in their quest to re-shape America by re-shaping its children by re-shaping their education.

Dewey’s radical beliefs are well defined in the 1933 Humanist Manifesto, whichhehelped develop. It’s a complete rejection of freedom and the Creator.  It’s also a rejection of the unalienable rights given to individuals by their Creator, as written in the Declaration of Independence.

“FIRST: Religious humanists regard the universe as self-existing and not created.”  Dewey and his fellow signers of that document shamelessly denied the very first sentence of the Bible. It was a frontal assault on the very foundation of Christianity, Western civilization, America, morality, and individual liberty.

Forty years after Dewey’s original Humanist Manifesto, his comrades were even bolder. In Humanist Manifesto II, they openly called for one world government. “We deplore the division of humankind on nationalistic grounds,” the document declares. “We have reached a turning point in human history where the best option is to transcend the limits of national sovereignty and to move toward the building of a world community in which all sectors of the human family can participate. Thus, we look to the development of a system of world law and a world order based upon transnational federal government.”

The original Humanist Manifesto also attacked free enterprise. Arguing for collectivization of the means of production, they insisted,

“The humanists are firmly convinced that existing … profit-motivated society has shown itself to be inadequate and that a radical change in methods, controls, and motives must be instituted.  The goal of humanism is a free and universal society in which people voluntarily and intelligently cooperate for the common good.”

Curiously, Dewey and all his 30+ co-signers acknowledged their beliefs were essentially religious. Darwinian evolution was at the heart of their new religion. Without a Creator, there can be no God-given rights. And without God-given rights, there can be no objective reason for protecting individual rights at all, much less for limiting the power and scope of government.

Like so many socialists, Dewey saw education as the key to change society. In his book Democracy and Education, Dewey argued that education is “the process through which the needed transformation may be accomplished.” With millions from the Rockefeller dynasty, Dewey and his allies had all they needed.

However, they knew that if parents or teachers understood what was happening, they’d rebel. So, Dewey argued in his essay, The Primary Education Fetich (sic), that deception and stealth would be required. “Change must come gradually,” Dewey wrote. “To force it unduly would compromise its final success by favoring a violent reaction.”

In their ultimately successful plan to hijack and weaponize government schools, those lunatics used many strategies, to quietly take over the most important teaching colleges – especially the University of Chicago and Teachers College at Columbia University — so future educators were trained to do their bidding. Rockefeller’s funding paid for an “experimental school” to test and refine their ideas.

One of the most diabolical aspects of the Dewey scheme was the resurrection of the discredited “whole word” reading method first pioneered by Mann in the 1840s. Like ‘tares’ their reading primers were planted in schools throughout America, leading to a national illiteracy crisis that persists to this day, with “sight words” still mandated by “Common Core” starting in kindergarten. That’s a big part of why almost two-thirds of high-school seniors today are not even proficient in reading.

Ramping Up Federal Control: Common Core and ESSA

With the success of Dewey and his allies indoctrinating generations of Americans through public schools, it was time for the rogue federal government to formalize it all. In 1962, the Supreme Court unlawfully banned prayer in school. Prior to that, states like New York, had officially encouraged students to begin their school day with the simple prayer:

 “Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon Thee, and we beg Thy blessings upon us, our parents, our teachers and our country. Amen.”

But the Supreme Court, apparently unwilling to read the plain text of the First Amendment, prohibiting Congress from establishing a religion or prohibiting the “free exercise thereof,” ruled prayer illegal. In 1963, Chief Justice Earl Warren led the increasingly bold high Court to ban Bible reading in school. Justice Potter Stewart was one member of the court who understood what was happening. As the only dissenting voice in the Abington v. Schempp case banning Bible reading, Stewart slammed the ruling, writing: “It led not to true neutrality with respect to religion, but to the establishment of a religion of secularism.”  And that’s exactly what it did. Dewey’s dictatorial humanist religion is now the official state religion…  mandated to be fed to all children in all government schools, at taxpayer expense. Let that sink in.

Data compiled by the Nehemiah Institute shows the overwhelming majority of public-school children from Christian homes will leave their church and end up with a secular worldview.

Two years after banning Bible reading in schools, the government ditched the Constitution’s constraints on its power as Congress formally began seizing control of public education. In 1965, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act was passed, opening the floodgates of federal funding.

Less than 15 years later, Congress and Jimmy Carter unleashed the U.S. Department of Education on America. It didn’t take long for the feds to demand more control, so the Obama administration finally came out and openly nationalized education standards using Common Core. Now, education is being globalized, with the United Nations and the U.S. Department of Education leading the way.

Alex Newman, concludes his astute essay, writing that… by the time the federal government began openly hijacking control of education from the states and local communities, America had already undergone a fundamental transformation via education. Norman Dodd, who led an investigation by Congress’ Select Committee to Investigate Tax-Exempt Foundations and Comparable Organizations, explained that entities like the Rockefeller Foundation,

which funded Dewey and others, had orchestrated drastic changes that were so serious they constituted a “revolution.” However, this “could not have occurred peacefully, or with the consent of the majority, unless education in the U.S. had been prepared in advance to endorse it.”

In a few centuries, America went from being the best-educated society in all human history — a moral and intellectual superpower — to being a dumbed-down, ignorant, and increasingly immoral nation on the brink of destruction. But it was not by accident. In fact, it was all a deliberate plan, as Alex Newman and Dr. Blumenfeld showed in Crimes of the Educators: How Utopians Are Using Government Schools to Destroy America’s Children. This incredible transformation was brought about by seizing control of education and weaponizing it. The only viable solution to this catastrophic problem is to deliberately neutralize that weapon by protecting America’s children from it and restoring true education.

We might not all see the possibility of restoring God-honoring education for the whole country. We might not even have the faith to believe we can honestly pray for that. But as I read my Bible with spiritual eyes, it’s clear that our God has a sizeable record of turning impossible situations around. The demonic enemies of righteousness and the kingdom of God may seem to have the upper hand in our world for now, but isn’t that just the very kind of environment in which God raised up David to slay Goliath and Esther to defeat the plans of evil Haman?

We’re not all called to be a Moses or a Daniel or a Nehemiah, but we are His workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them (Eph 2:10). And He has written all these accounts of His intervention in the lives of His called-out people of the past for our instruction that through perseverance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we can have hope (Ro. 15:4).

We can’t do everything there is to do, but I can do all things through Him Who strengthens me for what I’m called to do! (Phil. 4:13). Listening to His Holy Spirit for guidance, let’s not forget to use whatever abilities and resources He puts in our trust to enlighten others with His transforming word.

Visit ReclaimingYourLegacy.com to see all the notes and the links for today’s show, and while there, I invite you to help us as you’re able. It’s my blessing to share this message with you today, and I trust it equips you to bring light to others.  

Bonus Segment

Dr. Everett Piper wrote an article for the American Renewal Project (October 11, 2023) on how Higher education in the U.S. has lost its moral boundaries.  He said:

“It may be a surprise to the elites in the media, but American higher education, from its inception in the 1600s until the end of the 19th century, operated within the context of a Christian ethos. The guiding philosophy was to propagate knowledge and to prepare upright leadership within a Christian society.”

He spoke about the formal educational institutions as the “ACADEMY”… saying:

The academy’s mission at that time was to promote moral development and civic responsibility. Theoretically and ideally, higher education was considered critical in maintaining our country’s moral order.”

Did you get that?  The mission of ‘higher education’ in previous generations was all about preserving MORAL ORDER in society.  He continued, saying:

“Seven of the eight Ivy League institutions were founded in like manner. Dartmouth’s purpose was to ‘Christianize’ the American Indian tribes, and its motto, even to this day, is Vox clamantis in deserto: ‘The voice of one crying in the wilderness’. The University of Pennsylvania’s motto was Leges Sine Moribus Vanae: ‘Laws without morals are useless’.”

There’s no doubt that the lofty goals of America’s Founders’ included Christian community, Biblical teaching, and moral education.  We all know where that came from. Proverbs 1:7 is worth repeating often in today’s ‘Christian communities.’ 

“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.”

Five centuries before Solomon wrote those words, what did Moses tell God’s people… those who survived the Exodus out of Egypt and 40 years of camping out in the desert, just before their 7-year mission to displace the irredeemably wicked Canaanites?

Quoting from Deut 6:2, Moses told the Israelites vital instructions needed for their very survival… “that you may fear the LORD your God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you, you and your son and your grandson, all the days of your life, and (so) that your days may be prolonged.”

Then comes the transgenerational assignment to parents in Deut. 6:5-9: “You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart.”

We grew up memorizing certain important things “by heart,” right? That’s what it means to keep God’s words “in your heart.”

You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.”

As young parents we meditated on this passage much… and we thought of good ways to apply the next part…

“You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.

The Amplified Bible puts it this way: “And you shall bind them as a sign on your hand (forearm), and they shall be used as bands (frontals, frontlets) on your forehead.”

This is the Word of the Living God he’s talking about. His laws… His precepts… His principles… His wise insights… His directions for the everyday life use of your hands and your head.  It’s not hard to see the implications of that, is it? And then, Moses writes…

“You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.”

Even as a young adult believer, before I was married, I discovered the refreshing strength of posting Scripture verses on the bathroom mirror and the walls of the house. Posting the promises of God is an especially encouraging practice when going through difficult times. But even seeing the Ten Commandments – and reading them – is a great reminder of what will keep us from the sin-filled distractions of a dark and confusing world.

Students reciting the Pledge of Allegiance while saluting the U.S. flag (1899).

Today’s generation can hardly imagine what it was like in schools of our nation’s past. Before the dawning of the “age of Aquarius” and the secular plundering of public education, American society once considered it normal to focus on the development of the inner man and personal integrity. Morality in culture was highly esteemed, along with an intense pursuit of Scriptural wisdom.  Early American educational prioritized those concepts.  At its core, education held the premise that virtue is absolutely essential to freedom.

We don’t inherit spiritual wisdom. It’s not written into our DNA. It must be acquired from people who value spiritual wisdom.

 “Prize her,” urged Solomon to his sons in Proverbs 4:8, “and she will exalt you. Indeed, if you embrace her, she will honor you.” Proverbs 8:15 informs us that exalting spiritual wisdom, along with its virtues of knowledge, shrewdness, discretion, counsel, and resourcefulness, equips “kings to reign and rulers to decree justice.

Unfortunately, in modern America this is no longer the case. Our entire educational enterprise has, in the light of Scripture, “cast off all sensible restraint.”  Not only have moral boundaries been thrown to the wind, common sense, discussion of natural law, and even intellectual sanity seem to have disappeared from many typical academic classrooms.

The idea that biological boys would be allowed to compete against girls at state track and swimming events was utterly impossible a decade or two ago. Now, the federal Washington DC education bureaucrats boast in their liberation to mandate such madness. They publicly give pompous precedence to the sinister staples of cultural Marxism, including embittering America’s youth with Critical Race Theory, hailing homosexual and gender dysphoria, fomenting race division, and instilling into children hate of America and for each other.

If anyone takes a good look at the current condition of most public education in America, they’ll discover that the huge influence of the National Education Association (the NEA) is driven by an unbelievably malicious quest to implant savage values into the nation’s future by corrupting its youth. That process has been likened to the legendary strategy known as the “Trojan Horse” of ancient Greece. Now, a “Trojan horse” has come to mean any trick or hoax that causes a vulnerable unwary target to invite an enemy into a securely protected stronghold like your home or community. In computing, a trojan horse (or simply trojan) is a kind of malware that misleads users as to its true intent by disguising itself as a normal program.

It’s not hard for most morally centered adults to see the obvious result. The morally corrupted “spirit” of religious secularism took possession of the now idolatrous institution of “education” and brought with it “seven spirits more vile and wicked than itself” (Luke 11:26).  How else can you describe public education that defines sexual perversions, too disgusting for me to mention on this broadcast being taught to 13 and 14-year-olds as equal to saying ‘I like you?’

At what point is enough enough?

American people, as a society, are daily at a crossroads of deciding their future.  And it starts with each of us. Will we strive to apply God’s wisdom along with knowledge, discernment, and compassion… to every policy-making decision? That’s what will be required if we honestly expect to sustain freedom for our children and grandchildren. The opposition will always continue its intensity. Only those who learn from the failure of American Christians over the last 100 years can prevail. They shirked their responsibility and ignored Christ’s assignment found in Matthew 18:19-20, “Make disciples of all nations… teaching them to observe all that I commanded you.”

References

Higher education in the U.S. has lost its moral boundaries. By Dr. Everett Piper in American Renewal Project Newsletter OCTOBER 11, 2023 as published in: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/oct/14/what-happens-in-israel-will-not-stay-in-israel/

Using Public “Education,” Godless Elitists Transformed Americans’ Worldview by Alex Newman in  The New American  https://www.brighteon.com/47519dca-407a-47ae-aa5b-bd82efcf1358

The fundamental transformation taking place in the United States is the direct result of the radical changes in Americans’ worldview brought about by godless elitists using government schools, explained The New American magazine’s Alex Newman in this episode of Behind The Deep State. For centuries, Americans possessed a biblical worldview. In other words, they saw the world and life through the lens of the Bible. However, when communists such as John Dewey teamed up with super-capitalists like the Rockefeller dynasty to brainwash and dumb down Americans using government “education,” that all changed.

From Educational Excellence to Mediocrity by Alex Newman in Rescuing Our Children  from The New American Magazine ; download free pdf at: https://thenewamerican.com/rescuing-our-children-special-report-pdf-download/

A Free society Requires a Righteous People who appoint Righteous Accountable Leaders

Would you agree that the People of American society are able to be the effective core of our civil government, only when we participate in the process of informing, educating, and training our families and fellow citizens to live as the true “We the People?”  But for us as Christians, that raises an even more basic premise. How can we be ‘salt and light’ to civil society, if we are not actively asserting our role in filling our assignments in the body of our Messiah’s Ekklesia?  And by using that word – “Ekklesia” – I’m not talking here about just attending ‘church’ on Sunday.  Yes, it’s true that the Greek word “Ekklesia” is translated in English Bibles as the word church. But we all know that most people think of “church” as the building we go to… or the name of the event we attend on Sundays.  Oh yes, they might think of “church” as the institution of our denomination with all its hierarchy and programs.  But these are not what Jesus said He would “build” when He commended His disciple Peter for the declaration that Jesus is “the Messiah (or Christ), the Son of the living God” (Matt 16:16). 

The “Ekklesia” that Jesus deliberately said HE would build was to be HIS version of a pattern that was well-known in Roman culture of the first century. Caesar, king of Rome, had a system that was well defined 2,000 years ago. After conquering neighboring territories, how did the Empire establish the authority of Roman policies and cultural shaping in new communities? 

In studying the subject, I discovered that ambassadors from Rome would find trusted elders in every locality. Those elders would be trained how Roman society works. They would be assigned to indoctrinate or inculcate Roman customs into the fellow citizens of their own local community. They would function as “an assembly” or “congregation” of local people. And that is exactly the meaning of the word “Ekklesia” – “assembly” or “congregation.”  It was a process of a kind of evangelization and discipleship training on a secular level. They would teach their “assemblies” of people to live like Romans… adopt Roman customs… know and be responsible for following Roman laws. Nothing less than complete transformation was expected of these groups of local assembly leaders …and they were corporately referred to, in the Greek language, as “Ekklesia.” 

Jesus didn’t say “I will build my Synagogue.”  He didn’t say He would build His “religion.” And He didn’t announce to Peter that He was going to build His “temple” or “cathedral” on the man named Peter.  He clearly had something else in mind when He spoke those memorable words… and it wasn’t any of the things that most of us in modern times associate with the word “church.”

Let’s unpack the vital synergy of that assertion.

John Adams, America’s first vice president, serving with President George Washington, has famously been quoted for proclaiming that… “Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

We would be fair to observe that to the culture of his day in the late 1700s and early 1800s, in English speaking culture, he was asserting the focus of his statement held godly and righteous people to be responsible for the preservation of our constitutional, republican form of governance.  Knowing the nearly unanimous Christian disposition of the signers of our Declaration of Independence, and how the American constitution was crafted upon the principles of the Holy Bible, is it not clear that our current situation stands almost completely devoid of the…

…Two primary pillars that supported our Republic? 

  1. It takes Christ-honoring voters,
  2. …electing God-fearing representatives.

And both must actively demonstrate their sincere desire to reflect the truth of the Almighty Creator in every aspect of their social order. Without those pillars, you have no means to support our constitutional structure.

If we claim to be followers of the light of truth, but don’t take appropriate actions to inform and defend those around us from the dangers of enemies seeking our destruction, does a righteous judge (Almighty God) hold us accountable for not doing good when we had the opportunity?

This raises the Biblical “watchman” principle of Ezekiel 33. But it takes the concept of being a watchman to a much higher level of responsibility.  You could say that the assignment of being a watchman or a sentry is a civic or military duty.  But at the same time, this passage in Ezekiel leaves no doubt that such a duty for our fellow countryman is a spiritual expectation as well.

Ezekiel heard the word of the LORD that came to him, saying,

“Son of man, speak to the sons of your people and say to them, ‘If I bring a sword upon a land, and the people of the land take one man from among them and make him their watchman, and he sees the sword coming upon the land and blows on the trumpet and warns the people, then he who hears the sound of the trumpet and does not take warning, and a sword comes and takes him away, his blood will be on his own head. ‘He heard the sound of the trumpet but did not take warning; his blood will be on himself. But had he taken warning, he would have delivered his life. ‘But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet and the people are not warned, and a sword comes and takes a person from them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood I will require from the watchman’s hand.’ “Now as for you, son of man, I have appointed you a watchman for the house of Israel; so, you will hear a message from My mouth and give them warning from Me. “When I say to the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you will surely die,’ and you do not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require from your hand. “But if you on your part warn a wicked man to turn from his way and he does not turn from his way, he will die in his iniquity, but you have delivered your life.” Ezekiel 33:2-9.

For Righteousness to regain dominant influence in America, or any society, ‘we the people’ must assertively refresh the spirit that ignited the founders to declare a new nation would be free by declaring their independence from tyrants.

 Just as that premise became the catalyst to fuel the American Revolution, can we really believe that a similar revitalization of Christian society can happen with any less commitment? Should not ‘We the people,’ as representatives of a civil society, also assert ourselves as a body of ‘we the people’ as members of Messiah’s Ekklesia?  How can compromised leadership, on the level of civil government, result from anything less than compromised leadership on the level of Ekklesia government?

And if we take the attitude that we’re somehow exempt from actively influencing and serving our civic community by at least voting, if not serving in active duties, it’s no wonder that many of us who think we are following Jesus, somehow expect professional career people to do all the work of ministry in places we call church.

God’s Word reminds us often to “do good.”

Prov 31:9 “Open your mouth, judge righteously,”

Psalm 34:14 “Turn away from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.”

Psalm 37:27 “Turn away from evil and do good; so shall you dwell forever.”

Isaiah 1:17 “learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow’s cause.”

Eccl 3:12 “I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live;”

1Peter 3:11 “let him turn away from evil and do good; let him seek peace and pursue it.”

Jeremiah 4:22 ““For my people are foolish; they know me not; they are stupid children; they have no understanding. They are ‘wise’—in doing evil! But how to do good they know not.”

Galatians 6:10 “So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.”

James 4:17 “So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.”

We’ve all noticed that the devastating global events of the years following the bio-weapon attack on humanity called ‘Covid-19’ have produced an historic result.  It’s perhaps the most notable awakening in history.  No one denies it now, that the pervasiveness of evil literally controls nearly every aspect of the many systems that govern our modern lives. The governments of all western nations have exposed to their citizens how thoroughly corrupted they are. Their complete subservience to global corporations has devastated public trust. People are fed up. The vast majority are now wise to the disgraceful behavior of politicians who have no moral compass or concern for the safety of humanity. Meanwhile, at least half of the population in America has not only awakened to the total depravity of mainstream media, they have also begun to lose trust in every institution that’s governed by university-educated, immoral, Bible-rejecting haters of anyone who’s not part of their modern aristocracy.

To understand better just how desperately corrupted is our U.S. system of justice, including many policy-makers in the DOJ, FBI, the courts and their related agencies, just consider the plight of cattle rancher, Ammon Bundy. 

 His 5-minute recap of what his family has gone through to defend his constitutional civil rights as a businessman and land owner in these united states is appalling. Listen to his testimony in the bonus segment of today’s broadcast at Reclaim Your Legacy.com, where you’ll search for the title “A Free Society Requires a righteous people…” at: https://youtu.be/J1rJogfCJdM?si=NSQcVU98WXR0V-ep

Most Christian leaders in institutional churches today do not take the time to publicly stand up for righteousness and regularly exhort their parishioners to be even minimally informed on matters of this kind.  If they did, they would be sufficiently equipped to teach their children how to maintain a society governed by the precepts of the fear of God. We cannot expect that condition to change unless we urge our leaders to be informed and to live by clear Biblical principles.

Can it be possible that God is stirring the pot… disturbing the apathetic complacency of many of His children… challenging them to do the uncomfortable tasks of discipling a new generation of world-changers?

10 Requirements for Turning America around

February 22, 2024 – Give Him 15  https://www.givehim15.com/post/february-22-2024

Pastor Dutch Sheets shared a profound message on his daily “Give Him 15” podcast.

Larry Tomczak was born again during the Jesus Movement of the 60s and 70s. He and I would certainly picture the mavericks of that era who were “rounded-up” and led to “independence.” (See yesterday’s post here to read The “Mavericks” Are Coming.) In a recent article, Larry speaks of his dream of a transformed America, and the 10 requirements for turning our nation around. Here are Larry’s 10 points and explanations:

  1. “Reconsecrate ourselves to the Great Commission given us by Jesus. The Pilgrims prioritized this in the original Mayflower Compact – to proclaim the ‘gospel of the kingdom’ (not some ‘He Gets Us’ distortion!) to see lives transformed, not merely affirmed, by the power of the living God.
  2. “Renounce and reject complacency. This has brought about the decline and demise of civilizations throughout history. We must repent and return to the values that made us great in the first place, refusing to succumb to the seduction of affluence and leisure entertainment as substitutes for hard work. 
  3. “Cast off D.E.I. (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) mandates. These criteria for our institutions are inherently racist, giving people preferences and positions that should belong to achievers applying themselves to merit advancement. Our nation affords ‘equal opportunity for all’ who are willing and able to work for it!
  4. “Replace destructive Marxist, Globalist elements. These have poisoned our government, schools, media, and corporate boardrooms. In their places, we must put leaders of integrity and conviction, mirroring those of our truly great and revered statesmen and stateswomen. Though they, like all of us, had flaws, they deserve honor because of their overall character and achievements.
  5. “Put an end to propaganda and promotion of unbiblical socialism. We must return to a Constitutional Republic that has undergirded us successfully for close to 250 years – longer than any nation in world history. Anti-American activists are entitled to their opinions, but I agree with former Prime Minister of England, Margaret Thatcher, who said: ‘The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people’s money.’(1) Check out our unsustainable $34 trillion debt!
  6. “Accept the sacred responsibility to expose and eradicate tyranny. We must replace oppressive government in all its forms and contend for freedom. Let us take seriously the warning of President Ronald Reagan: ‘Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling them what it was once like in America when men were free.’(2) 
    1. Note… do you find many older saints already beginning to reflect that forecast?
  7. Pastors once again must arise to the urgency of the hour. Just as in colonial America, they must courageously lead the way to embrace the directive of Jesus to be ‘salt’ (holding back decay), accept the responsibility to equip their congregations with relevant truth, and refuse to be silent in our current cultural battle. May they heed the sobering words of pastor/martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who stood against Nazism in a similar situation. ‘Silence in the face of evil is evil itself. God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak, is to speak. Not to act, is to act.’(3) We must reject fear of man and follow in the footsteps of Billy Graham, who stood openly against segregation, Apartheid, same-sex ‘marriage,’ and nuclear expansion, telling us, ‘Courage is contagious!’
    1. Note… though many across the country might be discouraged because of the cowardice displayed by their church leaders during the plandemic, it’s encouraging to see how that very lack of godly leadership is causing a new remnant to arise… even to start new congregations… new Ekklesias that are earnestly seeking to embrace the virtues of our Pilgrim forefathers.
  8. “Unapologetically affirm man/woman marriage and the nuclear family. ‘One man and one woman’ is the explicit design for this sacred institution recognized worldwide and honored for thousands of years as the divinely ordained foundation of a stable society. Biology and science have recognized male (XY chromosomes) and female (XX chromosomes) genders throughout history, so we’ll simply stay the course and stay safe from ‘Woke’ moral insanity and societal instability.
    1. Note… inherently, this axiom for reclaiming the legacy of principle ideals that American was founded upon… rests solidly on the indestructible foundation of the truth of the Genesis Record of Creation and the Flood. The inerrancy of Scripture and the truth of Biblical Creation must be fundamental to the principle scientific demand to “test ALL things, and hold fast what is TRUE.” The truth can be established because of the primary revelation of Romans 1:20 which proclaims that everything God made clearly shows his invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature – so all men are without excuse.
  9. “Sound the alarm and stop the massive invasion of law-breaking foreigners into America. Millions of cartel-driven illegal aliens are disregarding our established immigration laws to unlawfully secure healthcare, food, housing, education, costly benefits and privileges at taxpayer expense. THIS MUST STOP IMMEDIATELY BY EXECUTIVE ORDER (not by Congressional debate). America represents 4% of the world’s population, and we cannot allow this unprecedented and unmitigated disaster to bring about our country’s collapse!
    1. Note… this cornerstone of national sovereignty and existence is championed by rational humans, no matter what is their political or religious persuasion. If you’re part of a Christian congregation that does not embrace this, you must ask yourself what good reason do you have not to change that status or find a new congregation that firmly and publicly endorses that position?
  10. “Expose as demagoguery the leftist tactic of regularly dismissing valid opinions and perspectives as ‘destroying democracy,’ ‘racist,’ and ‘authoritarian tyranny.’ Traditional conservatives, Christians, pro-lifers, and patriotic Americans are slandered as ‘right-wing extremists,’ while government agencies are weaponized to run roughshod over basic civil liberties, censor free speech, violate the Constitution, and use Soviet-style kangaroo courts to indict political opponents (so they can’t run for office). These agencies and tactics represent America’s real threats and must be exposed! 

If enough of us who love America stand in solidarity with these 10 points, we can trust God to successfully bring His people through the conflicts ahead.  Every flawed and corrupted institution of man or works of carnal wisdom that CAN be shaken… WILL be shaken.  But many Scriptures confirm with Psalm 37:18-20… “The LORD knows the days of the blameless and their inheritance will be forever. They will not be ashamed in the time of evil; and in the days of famine, they will have abundance. But the wicked will perish… they vanish – like smoke they vanish away.”

 Freedom-loving, patriotic, traditional Americans are still the majority. And though we may not control the levers of power, there’s still hope if we repent, pray, meditate in His promises and proclaim His Word as we act courageously to turn America around.

I implore you to watch the new documentary movie, ‘Letter to the American Church,’ inspired by author Eric Metaxis; and do everything to be sure your pastor shows it to your congregation on a Sunday!

Search online for it now at lettertotheamericanchurch.com and get engaged today.”

Pray with me:

Father, thank You for seasoned and bold leaders like Dutch Sheets, Larry Tomczak, and Eric Metaxis. Bless their families and ministries with great favor, health, and provision. Use them greatly as they labor to see America transformed; we share their dreams and agree with the needed changes they lay before us.

We ask for a reconsecration in the church to the Great Commissions given in Mark 16 and Matthew 28, proclaiming the gospel of the Kingdom. We renounce complacency and laziness, and ask for an awakening of passion. Give us Your heart for the lost, for truth, and for justice.

We pray against all forms of racism and mistreatment. A true revival that changes millions of hearts will include a revival of compassionate and sacrificial love. Give us this. Break the influence of Marxism, socialism, globalism, wokism, and other anti-biblical philosophies invading our nation. Awaken the “mavericks” to the insanity of these dogmas.

Transform our government. Remove those who desire to weaken us. Help us close our borders and minimize the damage. Break the back of the wicked forces energizing this evil. Expose the evil distortion of truth, law, and justice in America.

And awaken the church. Forgive us for not being salt and light to our nation. Convict leaders of their silence regarding truths in Your Word. Break the fear of man off them and help them find their voices. Motivate them to be the watchmen You have called them to be, and to sound the alarm. We ask all of this in the name of Jesus. Amen.


The spirit that prompted President Abraham Lincoln’s famous wartime address aptly describes the spirit prompting today’s watchmen to make a solemn declaration of commitment.  As he said, “we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

Indeed… a new birth of freedom can only arise from the hearts of today’s patriots who are willing to boldly declare their reliance on Almighty God to awaken and restore the gift of freedom in this generation.  That’s why, every chance we have, we should boldly make…

Our decree:

“We declare that a great awakening is coming to the church of America, and to America itself.”

Thanks to Dutch Sheets for the content from his post that was contributed by Larry Tomczak. You can find out more about Larry at LarryTomczak.com.

Bonus Segment

Now, let’s listen to the testimony of rancher, Amon Bundy. If you know anyone who doubts the fact that our government has long been rogue, remember that God’s prophet says “MY people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.” (Hosea 4:6). Perhaps this knowledge will turn them from continuing their blinded path to destruction. This is the link to Ammon Bundy’s report: https://youtu.be/J1rJogfCJdM?si=NSQcVU98WXR0V-ep

To learn about the “Baby Cyrus” case that Ammon Bundy refers to in his recording, you can access the webpage that has been made by my friend, Diego, who is the grandfather of Baby Cyrus. Go to: https://freedomman.ws/cyrus/story/

This takes you directly to the 90-minute presentation given by Diego Rodriguez (Baby Cyrus’s grandfather) on May 10th, 2023, about Government Subsidized Child Trafficking.  It not only describes the entire Baby Cyrus Story, but explains the reasons WHY Baby Cyrus was kidnapped in the first place. This EYE-OPENING video presentation can change your paradigm completely and can save you and or a loved family member from every suffering the pain and anguish of having your child kidnapped by CPS! (The presentation begins at the 4:10 mark, if you’d like to skip the introduction.)

Our Warfare Has Intensified as Millions Suffer loss and Discover Why

When millions of people in countries all over the entire world are dying unexpectedly and prematurely, while millions more are being handicapped for life, you can understand why practically all your friends and neighbors are wondering how to explain these tragedies to their children.

How does the Bible direct Gods children to respond to injustice and intentional harm done by todays pharaohs?

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How can God’s People be a Calming Influence in a Society filled with Fear? #361

There are lots of things I’ve learned, as I grew into adulthood and fatherhood.  One that sticks out to me seems to be missed by a lot of people who have not learned yet how to avoid being dominated by fear.  The present crisis in our world really seems to accent this fact.  Simply stated it’s this: “what we don’t understand, we tend to fear.” It’s pretty common, isn’t it?  If you don’t understand how to use a dangerous tool – like a knife or a gun – it’s perfectly natural to keep your distance from that tool because of an indescribable fear.  Once you learn how to use the potentially dangerous tool correctly, you still maintain a healthy respect for the tool, but you don’t have a psychotic fear of it anymore.

When surrounded by uncertain circumstances, fear is a predictable, universal behavior for every age group and in every era of human history. Power-hungry leaders have capitalized on this fact since Nimrod after the Great Flood. Let’s not be ignorant of that fact. Without a firm reliance on the Divine Providence of Almighty God, career government people have endless ways to deceive clueless people into believing their welfare depends on government. They literally make government into an idol.

There are lots of conditions that can produce fear, but when you have confidence in one who gives you peace and security, then fear vanishes. Think of a baby in its mother’s arms. Think of any situation where protection and victory overcame instability and destruction. We could talk about Biblical and historical examples for hours.  Adam feared the result of his rebellion when he was thrown out of the Garden of Eden. Noah feared the unknown outcome of the aftermath of God’s judgement of the Flood when God closed him into the ark with his family. Abraham had every reason to fear the unknown as he struck out for a destination only God knew, when he decided to follow the living God. You could build an exciting story of overcoming fear around dozens of Bible characters and a host of heroes of faith like we read about in Hebrews 11.  The unmistakable resolution for every one of them was the answer we must all lean personally into for ourselves, freshly discovered in Proverbs 3:5-6.

“Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.”

This Demands Commitment to our own Personal Journey.

How are we, as God’s children, to respond to fearful conditions?

Well, a good start is to identify yourself as a soldier like Joshua leading the children of Israel into Canaan over 3,400 years ago.

God’s messenger appeared before His chosen commanding officer, Joshua, saying: “Haven’t I commanded you: be strong and courageous? Do not be afraid or discouraged, (WHY?) for the I AM – the sovereign Creator God, the Yeshua-Savior of the whole world, the LORD – your God, is with you wherever you go.” Those are the words that Joshua, the seasoned warrior and general of Israel’s army of over half-a-million-armed men, actually heard in his hearing at that great crossroads of the history of the world.

Whether or not you believe that we, today, are at a crossroads in the history of our world, it seems increasingly clear that practically every thinking person on earth today senses that recent events have changed the way we will look at things in our world forever.

And let’s not forget Jesus’s promise to His disciples, that applies to us, if we are truly in Him – that is, a genuine member of His spiritual, twice-born family:

“When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth (John 16:13).”

…and also

“.. be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you (Hebrews 13:5).”

And keep pondering the promise of John 14:27 because Jesus sent His Holy Spirit to remain with us always,

“Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”

But let’s remember something. Joshua and the two million or so descendants of Abraham’s grandson, Jacob – whom God renamed Israel – had spent their whole lives growing up in the wilderness. They, watched all their parents perish in the isolated desert – all because those parents let their understandable fear of giants prevent them from conquering the fruitful land that God promised.  During that 40 years, they experienced the daily miraculous provision by God for all their daily needs; their water, their daily bread (called “what is it?” – Manna), their clothing and shoes, their laws for social order and resolution of conflicts; virtually everything they needed to survive. They spent their entire lives (some up to four decades) learning how to practice obedient, disciplined living. They were constantly aware of their dependency on the living God they knew, for one of His powerful attributes, as Jehovah Jireh – my provider.

Their knowledge of God’s providential faithfulness prepared them for trusting Him to do what they couldn’t do in the challenges that lay ahead of them.

The foundational basis of faith – that overcomes the temptation to fear – is knowledge coupled with understanding. Knowledge, by itself is just the facts. It’s not enough.

“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge (Prov 1:7).” 

But what’s required to grow in knowledge – especially the knowledge of God?

You must have a humble spirit. You must set aside your natural human arrogance. You must determine in your mind and your heart to have a holy and respectful reverence to your Creator and Savior.  When we awaken to the fact that we’ve been trapped by our own sinful nature to think we’re a self-sufficient somebody when, in fact, we are a created being dependent on our sustaining Creator, then we can receive God’s insights, his discernment, his direction and his peace, no matter what happens around us or even to us.

“Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on Thee because he trusts in Thee (Isaiah 26:3).”

Read Proverbs chapter two.  We’re told (Prov 2:3-6)

“yea, if you cry after knowledge, and lift up your voice for understanding; If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hid treasures; Then you shall understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God. For the LORD gives wisdom: out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.”

This is not a magical chant.  It takes dedicated time and effort.  It’s not like you’re conjuring up a magic genie out of Aladdin’s lamp. The life of following God in the reality of a wilderness or in the crisis of conquering a land full of fear-stirring giants, demands the disciplined obedience to face and overcome fear by growing in knowledge and understanding.

And, by the way, that’s why Jesus’ disciples can be encouraged by the apostle Paul’s prayer (in Philippians 1:9) :

“…that your love may abound yet more and more in all knowledge and in all discernment (which is insight and understanding); so that you may approve things that are excellent; that you may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ.”

Are you a listening reader – a reader who spends time searching the Scriptures for insight and wisdom?  Are you being careful not to waste time listening to proven dispensaries of deception (like the MSM)? Are you investing your life in discovering the truth about the world and the times that you’re living in?  Then you are no doubt troubled by the tragic ignorance in our culture today.  It’s no surprise that the great spheres of influence in society are rotting in confusion and corruption.

Daniel’s prophecy about the time of the end (Daniel 12:4), when he was told that many people will travel to and fro and knowledge would increase… it helps us understand some things. But there’s a paradox. While modern humans have more knowledge at their fingertips than any humans in the history of the world, it’s clear that the vast masses of people are abysmally swimming in a sea of delusion and lost in willful ignorance. They don’t know history. They don’t know logic. Even Christians are at an historic low in their knowledge of God’s Word, the Bible. Most people you pass on the streets, especially those from a lifetime of public education, don’t even seem to know common horse-sense.

Proverbs 15:14 tells us:

“The heart of him that hath understanding seeks knowledge: but the mouth of fools feeds on foolishness.” 

Does that tell you something?  Is effort required to seek knowledge over pleasure and entertainment? Did it say that the search begins with “a heart of understanding?”  How do you get that?  Do you think it depends on parents and mentors and the encouragement to press in to finding the treasures that lazy people will never discover?

It’s no wonder that whole societies world-wide today seem to have lost their senses.  It’s like they have no ability to discern what’s true, what’s right, what’s sensible.

And I wonder about many Christians who seem to have forgotten that God has providentially guided history (Read Acts 17:26). The American Republic is built on the wisdom of the Bible.  It literally transformed the whole world with the idea that government is instituted by God, not by kings. Government’s purpose is to protect the unalienable human liberties of men who are created with equal value among all mankind.  They are different from animals. They were designed by their Creator to defend the helpless. They are assigned to promote virtue and the honor of the Savior of all mankind. 

The advancement of the Western world is a miracle – nothing less. It happened because the transforming power of the Word of God through the gospel of Jesus Christ was brought to the nations of the whole planet. It started with Europe, but flourished under American ideals.  God orchestrated that, even despite the evil excesses of some wicked people and disturbingly twisted cultural traditions and superstitions.

So, how are we to assess and adjust our lives in respect to the constantly changing messages of fear that are promoted by the society around us? Fear of engineered disease, fear of economic collapse, fear of social instability, fear of lack of food and supplies.

Our perspective will inevitably be guided by our beliefs about many things. And if we don’t have a confident anchor for those beliefs in the truth, we will be constantly tossed about like waves of the sea.

There are Three basic truths we must settle in our hearts

We must devote our lives to reinforcing these by gaining understanding from God’s word.

First is Our purpose.  That purpose is anchored in our Creator’s empowering revelation of the absolute historical truths of Biblical creation, man’s fall, the Flood, and Christ’s redemption. If we don’t teach our children to discover the many infallible proofs of these basic facts, who will?

Second is our mission. Jesus validated the pattern of Scripture by assigning His disciples to disciple all the nations in all the teaching that Jesus taught… The commission to raise up a nation of priests who can personally approach their Creator in times of need. It’s confirmed by the timeless insights and wisdom of all Scripture to equip His people with the truth needed to navigate every challenge encountered in a fallen world. This is a lifetime assignment. It’s a full-time job that must be deliberately planned for while trusting God for our daily bread through the works of our hands.

Third is our hope.  If we lose track of the fact that our risen Lord promised to return to this earth at a planned day and time in the future, we can easily become discouraged when we encounter the expected troubles of life. Sometimes it can look like we are fast approaching the fulfillment of that prophetic timetable, but that should only stimulate us to boldly use our time wisely to witness to others about the great treasure that we’ve discovered by God’s grace.

So, now that the public has been totally confused and disillusioned by the so-called experts who have made painfully wrong decisions for our nations and states that have produced massively greater damage to our families and futures than a mere flu epidemic ever could, what are we to do?

Besides praying fervently and daily for God’s intervention, peace and mercy, we’ve got to stop playing the game of life like foolish children. Each of us needs to take Biblical wisdom seriously. Give up wasting time on foolish, non-productive distractions. Stop destructive habits. No matter your age, start learning healthy, life-saving choices. Teach them to your kids. Find friends, even new friends, who can engage with you to think constructively and critically. Make transformation your goal. Forget about trying to please everybody and giving in to dishonorable thoughts.  Focus on the life stories of virtuous people. Learn how to overcome challenges that make you dependent on corrupt systems of men rather than on God.

 With the Internet now days, there are many sources of good information to strengthen your decision to do what is in your own best interests.

Remember the Scripture in 1 Thessalonians 5:21

“Prove all things…” Put everything to the test.

Check out the list of helpful online sources on the transcript of this program at ReclaimYourLegacy.com.

By now, most people have discovered the complete fallacy of the society-wide CONTROL MEASURES forced on us during the Great Scamdemic of 2020 and beyond.

As we learned, the futility of wearing facemasks except when you’re eating, was a complete sham to prove how easily the public could be controlled by authoritarians.

We all know now that if you just ask any doctor why they wear a facemask in an operating room… It’s so they don’t let droplets of their saliva onto the exposed tissues of the patient they’re working on.  We know that viruses are far tinier than bacteria and are not contagiously spread through the air anyway.  When your dirty fingers touch your eyes or inside your nose… that’s where the germs and organisms gain entrance to your immune-compromised body.  And if your system is weakened by a lousy diet filled with fake foods and poisonous sugars, your infection is imminent, especially if you’re deficient in vitamins A, C and D and certain minerals like zinc. And most of us are deficient.

It’s hard to believe how fast our society was changed by the Great Scam of 2020.  One of the most profound impacts, besides the abridgment of Constitutional rights, was the ridiculous wearing of facemasks by the ignorant “sheeple” population, who actually thought they could die if they didn’t wear one.

Sure, some didn’t think they’d actually die.  They were just brainwashed to think it prevented them from getting so sick that they might potentially die. It was fear mongering at its finest.

The truth of the matter is that facemasks actually caused more harm than good. And this is actually well known. There’s only one reason they were continually hyped as necessary to function in society — psychological warfare.

They created a cloud of distress in our communities. The bizarre sight of the entire population, walking around with mask-covered faces, “socially distancing” from each other, usually with heads hung low, spread a general feeling of gloom, magnifying FEAR and anxiety in every uninformed citizen.

And that’s the whole point—keep the populace FEARFUL – keep them ignorant – and the global experiment was a success. They’re under the control of the tyrants who effectively used the media to make them believe the big lie.

Interestingly enough, Dr. Anthony Fauci even stated that people didn’t need to be wearing them. And then the World Health Organization stated the same thing. In both instances, they both changed their tune—and you can speculate about WHY they did. But the point is obvious. The so called “experts” don’t know what’s true or right… and they shouldn’t be trusted.

So, what are the 3 common sense Reasons Not to Wear a Facemask?

Reason #1 – Facemasks Can Cause Hypercapnia

Hypercapnia is a condition that can be caused by rebreathing your own exhaled carbon dioxide      [which happens when you wear a mask continually.

Think about the normal breathing process…you breathe in oxygen and you breath out carbon dioxide. But facemasks impede the normal breathing process and cause you to inhale excessive carbon dioxide instead of oxygen.]  Hypercapnia is the result, and it is basically]    … That means you don’t get enough oxygen because you’re inhaling too much CO2.

Excessive CO2 in your blood increases PH levels, causing all sorts of problems like:

  • Confusion
  • Coma
  • Depression or paranoia
  • Hyperventilation or excessive breathing
  • Irregular heartbeat or arrhythmia
  • Loss of consciousness
  • Muscle twitching
  • Panic attacks

I never realized that all those kinds of effects – side effects? – could happen just from wearing a mask because you’re breathing in too much carbon dioxide and not getting enough oxygen.

#2. Facemasks actually increase your chance of getting any contagious disease.

That’s right. It sounds counterintuitive due to propaganda, but it is true—and for obvious reasons when you think about it. Wearing a facemask increases the frequency of touching your face. That’s what spreads more germs around. Face masks, if they were dependable air filters, would be helpful only if you wore it a short time, and never touched your face except to take it off. That’s the exact opposite of what people naturally do.

#3. Facemasks cause psychological trauma

This is the whole point of making everybody wear them in the first place. As long as everyone is doing it, they’ll be forced into stress and feeling scared, worried, and even depressed. That’s classic social manipulation – a perpetual state of fear … just the way tyrants keep people controlled. The “Great Scam of 2020” proved the society was fully groomed by generations of propaganda to keep the masses under control through fear.

Whether you like it or not, empirical evidence demonstrates that use or rejection of a facemask during times of public intimidation, indicates your worldview and the ease with which you can be controlled. Therefore, to call mask wearers “sheeple” really is a fitting description. Just remember Isaiah 55:9

“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.”

My friends, if you’re hearing God’s Spirit and sensing your calling to seek Him wholeheartedly, don’t wait another day or even another hour.  Today, really is your time.  Not just a teachable moment. It’s a transformative crossroads. Read the whole gospel of John, but especially chapters 14, 15, and 16 right now. The Holy Spirit will communicate to you.  You’ll know God’s voice if you truly follow Him. And if you’re already following Him, ask Him to show you who you can help to discover Him to be more real in their life.  Count on Him to do it.

See: The True Difference Between Knowledge and Understanding – about Destin Sandlin’s backwards bicycle: 

http://www.willpowered.co/learn/knowledge-understanding

Knowledge does not equal understanding. Just because you know that your fears are not warranted, that something is “bad for you,” or that a strategy will lead to success, doesn’t mean that you truly understand these things. In order to understand, you need to summon the willpower to literally re-wire your brain. You need to deliberately engage with others, learn to enjoy things that are “good for you,” and implement new good habits and strategies in your everyday life. Then prepare yourself for the long journey from knowledge to understanding.

Pro 2:6 “For the LORD gives wisdom; From His mouth come knowledge and understanding;”

Pro 15:14 “The heart of him who has understanding seeks knowledge,
But the mouth of fools feeds on foolishness.”

Today, I concur with Paul in his declaration to believers in Col 1:9 …that  “…we … do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;”

Additional Facemask Resources are found on the transcript of this discussion on our website at ReclaimYourLegacy.com

Good scientific input weekly from reputable researchers on modern health freedom issues can be found at the YouTube channel or the home website for The Highwire https://thehighwire.com/

Dealing with Enemies of God

When Christians are targets of war, they must anticipate dealing with enemies of God.

On Monday, March 27, 2023, an angry and hate-filled woman who believed she was a man, carried out a deadly attack on the staff and students of a conservative Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee.  She murdered three nine-year-old children and three staff members. It was a deliberate act of terror against Christian children by a terribly unstable person. She succumbed to the self-destructive ideology of the transgender dysphoria that has been exalted by much of our deranged society. In the pioneer days of our nation’s past, such an act would be publicly acknowledged by all righteous, law-abiding, citizens… as the work of demonically inspired savages.

Christians are called to respond to tragedy with compassion, empathy, and love, but what happens when that tragedy is being celebrated by the mainstream media, the culture, our own government, and perhaps… even some of our own churches, friends, and family?

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God-orchestrated courage produced the Declaration of Independence – it is producing New Awakening

People all over the world are rediscovering many of the realities of the long chain of events that precipitated the unanimous declaration of some of the bravest honorable men who ever lived.

When those 56 very somber leaders of the American colonists gathered together in Philadelphia to sign the document they had crafted, the extreme hardship of revolution that they faced could only have been sustained because of the deep conviction and confidence they had in their Creator whom they often referred to as “Providence.” 

Over the course of their relatively young lives, their experience of dependency on their Creator reflected the profound knowledge that they had of the Bible and the principles of the God who is “at work in you, both to will and to do of His good pleasure.” They intimately relied on the Sovereign of the Universe who “works all things according to the counsel of His own will (Eph 1:11),” and “works all things together for good to those who love God and …are called according to His purpose (Ro 8:28).”

As we review the preamble to that declaration, perhaps we can refresh our own need to make a renewed declaration of commitment to God’s purposes in the unfolding story of God’s development of this generation’s determination – determination to be a people – indeed, a family and community – whose God is the Lord.

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The Lies We Must Battle with Modern Day Mind Control

In today’s upside-down world it has become more obvious, even to people with relatively low levels of common sense, that we all need spiritual discernment to sort through society’s battle field, filled with land mines of deception.

As a young adult believer, I remember discovering some shocking truths in the Bible. The only reason they were shocking is because I somehow grew up assuming the older good people around me operated according to what’s true. After all, who but the depraved scoundrels of the world could possibly believe in lies?

This was the point where God’s Spirit made one Bible verse particularly impactful on how I began to think about things. It’s a familiar passage in Romans 12.

In verse 3 God’s Spirit reminds us to…

“be transformed by the renewing of our minds” as we refuse to be ‘conformed’ by the thinking of this age in which we live. Romans 12:2

This command from God requires two actions from us. The first is to “Be not conformed” to the common patterns of the thinking of this age. The second is to “BE transformed” by a process that requires my voluntary changes of how I think – that’s “the renewing of our minds.”

Think about that.  And then, think about how many of the people in our age – our generation… our world… just seem to let all the crafty and persuasive advertising shape their minds to think in certain ways.

The fact of the matter is that we’re all being controlled to some extent by subtle and not-so-subtle influences.  And fortunately, because of all the dreadful awakening that has been happening across the world at the tragic cost of millions of lives, it has become much more apparent that very evil people have been using corrupted governments and businesses to manipulate what we think about practically everything.

Mind controllers have been cleverly working for generations to get us all to believe the kinds of lies that can ultimately bring about our own destruction. Why does this happen? The Bible tells us…

“My people are destroyed for a lack of …knowledge…” Hosea 4:6

Let’s face it… the enemy of your soul wants you ignorant, confused, and blaming all your troubles on things beyond your control.  But we can control what we listen to… what we think about… what we choose to give our attention, admiration, and affinity to.

Another shocking Bible reality that I discovered early on, is the fact that our personal struggles… as well as the struggles of humanity as a whole… are not just with natural and superficial man-made causes.  There is actually a much more sinister dimension behind all those struggles. That’s why the Bible tells us…

“We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.” Ephesians 6:12.

And that’s why God cares enough about us to give us commands like…

            “Test all things. Hold fast what is good.” 1 Thes 5:21

Thoughtful mature adults have many reasons now to believe that a relatively small, not-so-hidden society of “elitists” have actually been systematically building for many generations, what they like to call “the New World Order.” The periodic gatherings of many of these ‘elites’ include their lavish social and formal interactions with what they call ‘The World Economic Forum,’ meeting in Davos, Switzerland, among others like the “Bohemian Grove” in California. Their elitist society operates under rules, established by their tiny minority of extremely wealthy people. They believe they alone possess superior qualifications for controlling the welfare of humanity for what they like to call “the greater good.”

They really envision a future with a small, centrally controlled population. They’ve blatantly predicted it must happen by the year 2030. They fully intend to have a world with a single government, a single economy, a single currency, a single language, a single education system, a single healthcare system, and a single religion. The docile citizens of their new world will be trained to worship the Earth and the ruling elite. As you already know, they’ve already achieved a great part of their goals through modern entertainment media. How many millions of people, especially in the industrialized West, mindlessly swoon in worship at the feet of ‘personality cults’ in both the world of movies and music, and the world of sports? The elites absolutely love this kind of ‘idolatry.’ As long as the masses of people’s minds are not paying attention to God’s Word and things that bring honor to Jesus, The Messiah, they really don’t care which of their idols gets the glory.

Today, it’s not just national TV news shows telling us the way things are… it’s every institutionalized information source in our society. It’s our public education system; it’s our “legacy” media like newspapers, T.V., and radio; it’s our mainstream movies, music, and video games; And it’s especially our “deep-state-” driven government. There’s more misinformation and outright lies being communicated than there is truth. If it weren’t for the recent emergence of independent media and citizen journalists, we would all be forced into a zombie-like state like communist China or North Korea.

Can you believe that the lies and disinformation being planted into American minds are enhanced as we consume the standard American diet? And what I mean by that also includes fluoridated water, psycho-active pharmaceutical drugs, statin drugs, vaccines and lots more. We allow ourselves to be exposed to immune system-suppressing substances – like glyphosate-laden food (That’s ‘RoundUP’ weed killer), genetically modified food (GMOs), and food containing antibiotics, preservatives, pesticides, and additives we can’t even pronounce. What happens when we throw in excitotoxins and endocrine-disrupting chemicals? You know… all the junk found in flavor enhancers, artificial fragrances, and chemicals from plastic packaging materials. Experts in toxicology have widely published that all those things create a long-term epidemic of bodily imbalance, weariness, apathy, confusion and disorientation.

In the beginning, these effects may be subtle. Over time – the more we’re exposed to them – they profoundly affect our ability to think clearly. Once the human brain is compromised by the combination of all these elements, people become highly susceptible to believing all manner of lies. Current-day mind control programs constantly bombard Americans with hundreds of lies to steer every aspect of our lives. It all creates a worldview that matches the beliefs of faceless anti-humans who are quite literally programming our minds. And I’m not even talking yet about the looming unknowns of A.I. (‘artificial intelligence’).

These mind-controlling influences rule every aspect of our society. Our minds and our bodies are under constant attack. That’s how we can become virtual slaves to that certain group of people we can simply identify as the “ruling elite.” As modern slaves, we’re compelled, convinced, and sometimes coerced into obeying the ruling elite whether we know it or not. We submit to their plans because it’s their plans that are constantly promoted by multi-national corporations, government agencies, and even religious institutions, which brazenly claim to have our “best interests” at heart.

What is The Grand Vision of Mind Controllers?

The ruling elite and their mind-controlling puppets are determined to program all of us to think only in authorized patterns. That’s so we don’t honestly question why things are happening. We’re conditioned to accept “official” news reports and just “go with the flow.” Just look around you. How many compliant zombies do you see, walking around, nodding their masked heads, and doing what they’re told, even when their actions are in direct conflict with biblical teaching?

The New World Order that they truly intend to create, would be a Godless society. In their world, the values of eugenics and genetic engineering would be used to create generations of humans who are perfectly suited for the work assigned to them. The natural nuclear family is eliminated. That’s too distracting from their grand social plan. Children in their universe belong to the state. They popularize one-liners, like “it takes a village” to raise a child. So, they turn education into indoctrination and make it “free.” Only state institutions can really do the bidding of the ruling elite in the society they envision.

The belief that human life is a gift from God that should be cherished and preserved, is incompatible with the ideologies of eugenics. The so-called science of Eugenics aims to put all human life under the authority of a superior class of people who are completely devoted to the authority of the state.

This is ‘Secularism.’  It completely leaves the Biblical God out of society – replacing Him with THE ALMIGHTY STATE. Once society believes their lies and accepts the worldview of the ruling elite, then it will be easy for them to manipulate all their submissive ‘sheeple’ to fulfill their goals. The combined effect of believing their lies and obeying their commands is to create a compliant population – glad to participate in centralized government control of every aspect of life.

So, what are the Lies We Must Battle?

There are definite steps that we can take to preserve our freedoms and protect ourselves and our family. But first we must acknowledge the battle, know the enemy’s tactics, and develop a clear devotion to The Commander of our souls – the LORD, Jesus – the Messiah.

Like the apostle Paul wrote in Ephesians 4… let all true disciples of Jesus emphatically concur…

“… that you must no longer walk (behave) as the (unregenerate) Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity.” Ephesians 4:17-19

Do you think very many of the Christian young people in the places you might frequent are ever coached on these kinds of things?

Let’s list some of the most prominent lies being emphasized in today’s society. Hundreds could be mentioned, so we will touch on some of those that are receiving the most attention from mind controllers.

You might actually still believe some of these lies yourself. But don’t feel bad if you do. Simply consider this as an opportunity and challenge to “test all things” and engage in the process of renewing your mind by readjusting your thinking.

There are many lies on this list that many of us might have believed twenty years ago. That’s mostly because we never took the time to investigate whether our beliefs were supported by truth or simply by the opinions of other people. It’s a shock to our system, but sometimes the opinions of friends, family, school teachers, the news media, and even pastors and other religious leaders, are built into the anti-Christ belief system and worldview being pushed by the mind control agenda.

As you hear me list these commonly believed lies, you may want to dig a bit further to link to more information  … accessible through the links in the notes for today’s show at ReclaimYourLegacy.com. When you’re at the website, just use the internal search icon to find today’s title – The Lies We Must Battle. You’ll connect right to the written notes with all those links.

Here’s Lie Number 1: “The Earth is a product of evolution; God did not create life; and He does not sustain life on the Earth.”

The elitists Goal?: Worship mother earth and science, control the evolutionary process through genetic engineering; essentially replace the Creator God in the mind of the masses with anything that can fill the emptiness that’s left in the human shells of walking dead men.

Consequence: Force people to live in high density city-oriented developments, where people do not own cars and cannot travel outside their communities unless approved by the government. All healthcare and cures need to be approved by the government. See The Limits of Science & the medical paradigm by Dr. David Stewart, author of The Chemistry of Essential Oils at this link: More Info.

Here’s Lie #2, “All food is safe to eat and equally nutritious. Eat all things in moderation.”

Their Goal?  Everyone must eat highly processed GMO food that is full of toxic ingredients, like preservatives, flavor enhancers, pesticides, and herbicides such as glyphosate. Remember that “GMO” means genetically modified organism. Just because they say it’s safe… are you really confident that changing God’s elementary design of created things is always in your best interest?

The Consequence is the sad reality that everyone will eventually experience diminished health, chronic illness, and brain dysfunction. It’s already happening. Just look at the facts researched for the videos at the links here: More info#1 and More Info#2.

Here’s Lie #3, easily appreciated by those living in big cities: “The municipal water is safe to drink.”

It’s hard to believe the Goal: Whether intentional or not, the reality is that little has been done to prevent everyone from drinking public water that is known to contain some combination of fluoride, chlorine, lead, pesticide residues, and pharmaceutical drug residues.

The Consequence as this continues is inevitable: Everyone will be docile, be learning impaired, and be exposed to daily doses of carcinogens and dozens of pharmaceutical drugs that are not removed by water treatment plants.

See the facts on Dr. David Kennedy’s documentary film “Fluoridegate — An American Tragedy.” It exposes the sordid truth about water fluoridation that has nothing to do with promoting dental health at this link and multiple reports here: More Info.

Lie #4 has become virtual reality for the majority of Americans: “It’s normal to be sick, to feel depressed, and to be weak.”

Like every evil enemy’s Goal: Every adversary of theirs should be afflicted with some form of mental and/or physical chronic illness that will last a lifetime.

The Consequence for this one is alarmingly pervasive: Everyone will consume multiple prescription drugs every day for the rest of their lives, and be controlled by the corporatocracy of the conventional healthcare system that arguably rules the world right now.

More Info: Is Mandatory Poor Health the New Requirement for All Americans? 

Lie #5 has been thankfully shifting because of the 2020 Covid Scamdemic, namely: “The only form of health care that is safe and effective is conventional allopathic medicine.”

The globalist eugenics Goal of course is clear: Everyone must participate in the conventional medical care system and use all the drugs and other treatments that state-certified doctors recommend, especially all poison-filled ‘vaccines’ and the drugs prescribed by psychiatrists.

Consequence: We are to continue supporting the highly dysfunctional and most expensive medical care system in the world, where symptoms are treated and illnesses rarely cured, while abandoning all forms of alternative approaches, which actually might cure disease.

Learn about America’s medical Apartheid at this link: More Info and more at Living Sick and Dying Young in Rich America

Lie #6 is finally beginning to fall into disfavor with sane-minded thinkers: “Vaccines are completely safe and absolutely necessary to protect the world from plagues of illness.”

How successful has been their Goal?: All children must receive massive sets of vaccinations from birth; and the pattern of multiple vaccinations should extend through the teenage years. Adult vaccinations should be given annually throughout adult life until we die.

The proven Consequence is tragic beyond words: Everyone will have suppressed immune systems; they’ll all be injected with high levels of aluminum, mercury, polysorbate 80, and viral contaminates all of which are associated with Alzheimer’s, autism, and numerous chronic diseases.

Thanks to weekly reports from The Highwire and many other organizations providing abundant reporting like Children’s Health Defense, the word is getting out and the tide of public opinion is being forced to see the realities behind this horrible distortion of true science. See the link at: More Info.

Lie #7 is being exposed for its foolishness but is still more tragically prevalent than most of us know: “The rights and preferences of children, as determined by the state, are more important than the rights of their parents.”

The Goal: State agencies should oversee the raising of every child; force parents to obey the state; and freely remove children from their homes whenever they see fit.

The Consequence wouldn’t be the first time in history: Parents will not be able to teach their children about God; nor can they discipline them when they sin, or help them develop gender appropriate behaviors.  As American government has grown ever larger in response to society’s expectations that the state should be the protector of all children, Americans have discovered these good intentions have created a system that is becoming more and more intrusive, demanding and corrupt. Parents’ protests, state hearings and local media attention are gradually bringing the public’s attention to a Child Protective Services (CPS) system that has the power to forcibly remove children from their parent’s care – and do it without any of the civil rights and protections ALL American citizens are guaranteed.

You’ve got to see the stark reality at this link: More Info.

Lie #8 is now one of the biggest yarns ever told: “Everything that we are told by our government and the media is true.”

Goal: Everyone should believe what they are officially told, without questioning the truthfulness of the message.

Consequence: People will lose the ability to examine the facts and draw independent conclusions.

This one is crumbling down as even the MSM reports its own failure to overcome their widespread loss of credibility among the general public. That distrust is making it more believable that Truth will eventually overcome all the lies in this list. But it certainly requires more truthtellers to actively participate in the warfare to win the hearts and minds of young people.

Lie #9 is one you’ve heard for years: “There are no moral absolutes, no sins, and no hell.”

The elitist’s Goal is inevitable: Government should set standards of behavior according to what the ruling elite think is best for the greater good of society. Truth is relative, since everybody thinks they can have ‘their own truth.’

Consequence: Absolute laws based on Biblical standards of God will be abolished.

Is the Way You Think About God Healthy? See His truth at this link: More Info.

Lie #10: “The greater good is always more important than the wellbeing of the individual.”

Goal: Take away independent decision making and depend on central decisions made by the state.

Consequence: The state may take lives and property, whenever it determines that such actions are for the greater good.

Defending the Religious Exemption to Vaccination by Barbara Loe Fisher of the National Vaccine Information Center gives a thorough argument against this lie at this link: More Info.

Lie #11: “The state is our refuge and will be our savior whenever there is a crisis.”

Goal: People should turn to the state instead of turning to God during times of difficulty.

Consequence: The natural relationship between God and His adopted sons and daughters will be replaced by the authority of government.

See Don’t Put Your Trust in Human Government! At this link: More Info.

Lie #12: “It is a sign of insanity to believe in the gospel of Jesus Christ and to have faith in the God of the Bible.

Goal: Turn the belief in Jesus, and the desire to live according to the inspired words of God as written in the Bible into a mental illness.

Consequence: Permit involuntary confinement of those who follow Jesus, and permit forced drugging with mind altering psychoactive pharmaceutical drugs.

More Info.

Lie #13: “There is no such thing as mind control programs.”

Goal: Make people think that anyone who believes in the existence of mind control programs is mentally deficient, paranoid, or a delusional conspiracy theorist.

Consequence: Those who speak against the mind control agenda will lose jobs, lose their children, and may end up institutionalized or in prison. Execution may be the ultimate response to those who will not surrender their minds and their bodies.

The Mind Control Agenda

Now remember, all of these lies on the agenda of the mind-controlling elites in our world, help illustrate the reason and urgency for the Ekklesia of our Creator – true followers of Jesus Christ – to take seriously our mission assignment.

Don’t be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. (Romans 12:21)

Don’t fear what man can do to us, when fearing only God is what empowers Christ’s overcomer, His obedient, holy nation of God’s own people. Psalm 56:11 and Heb 13:6

As Peter wrote, “that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light” (1 Peter 2:9). That means expose the darkness of enemy lies and shine the truth of God’s light on the people of the generation that is overwhelmed by that darkness.

Bathing your soul in God’s truth is more vital now that ever.

Trust in the Lord and do good. Psalm 37:3

He is the Lord of hosts. It’s Jesus who is “the living one” who died but now is “alive forevermore,” … And He has “the keys of Death and Hades” (Revelation 1:18). His angel armies are about to be released as His warrior priests unite in spiritual battle with one another to bind on earth what has already been bound in heaven, and loose what has been loosed by Christ’s resurrection authority. Matt 16:19 and Matt 18:18

The followers of Jesus threaten the ruling elite and their plan for a New World Order, because we have the Holy Spirit. We have God given discernment and can see through their schemes.

We also have the written Word of God, the Bible, which clearly condemns everything they are trying to do. In short, we are the greatest danger to the advancement of the New World Order and those who are trying to program everyone to be godless slaves of the ruling elite.

What can we do to Resist the Mind Control Activities of Our Age?

The first step is to realize that we must be active.

“Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” (James 4:7)

Passivity only leads where the comforts and pleasures of our time are temporary until the ruling elites’ power seems final. But God’s destiny is their defeat by His kingdom. That’s why God’s saints must stand firm in the power of His Word and prayer. Persecution may come for a time, but the LORD of angelic hosts will deliver His people as His enemies meet with His overwhelming indignation.

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As in the time of Moses and the time of Queen Esther, when God’s people feared their seemingly imminent annihilation, the globalist plans of the ruling elite naturally cause fear, but we must not yield our souls to their mind-control. In the will and power of God, we must not fear what they might threaten to do to our bodies.

“Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.” (Matthew 10:28)

They may threaten our lives, but if we are truly disciples of Jesus, abiding in His word, then we must always remember that God is greater than those who persecute us.

“You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.” (1 John 4:4)

So, whatever you do on a daily basis, make sure you’ve truly made it your highest priority to personally abide closely to the heart of your Master. Let Jesus guide your thoughts and plans, as you obey Him in all His Word commands, and let His peace rule over any anxiety your heart might be tempted to fear.

Make your own declaration with King David’s psalm (Ps 27:1-14).

“1 The LORD is my light and my salvation; ​​Whom shall I fear? ​​The LORD is the strength of my life; ​​Of whom shall I be afraid?

2 ​​When the wicked came against me ​​To eat up my flesh, ​​My enemies and foes, ​​They stumbled and fell.

3 ​​Though an army may encamp against me, ​​My heart shall not fear; ​​Though war may rise against me, ​​In this I will be confident.​

4 ​​One thing I have desired of the LORD, ​​That will I seek: ​​That I may dwell in the house of the LORD ​​All the days of my life, ​​To behold the beauty of the LORD, ​​And to inquire in His temple.

5 ​​For in the time of trouble ​​He shall hide me in His pavilion; ​​In the secret place of His tabernacle ​​He shall hide me; ​​He shall set me high upon a rock.

​6 ​​And now my head shall be lifted up above my enemies all around me; ​​Therefore I will offer sacrifices of joy in His tabernacle; ​​I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the LORD. ​

7 ​​Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice! ​​Have mercy also upon me, and answer me.

8 ​​When You said, “Seek My face,” ​​My heart said to You, “Your face, LORD, I will seek.”

9 ​​Do not hide Your face from me; ​​Do not turn Your servant away in anger; ​​You have been my help; ​​Do not leave me nor forsake me, ​​O God of my salvation.

10 ​​When my father and my mother forsake me, ​​Then the LORD will take care of me.

​11 ​​Teach me Your way, O LORD, ​​And lead me in a smooth path, because of my enemies.

12 ​​Do not deliver me to the will of my adversaries; ​​For false witnesses have risen against me, ​​And such as breathe out violence.

13 ​​I would have lost heart, unless I had believed ​​That I would see the goodness of the LORD ​​In the land of the living.

​14 ​​Wait on the LORD; ​​Be of good courage, ​​And He shall strengthen your heart; ​​Wait, I say, on the LORD!

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Colossians 2:8 says:

“See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.”

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