“Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness;
Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” (Isaiah 5:20).

This article is in no way meant to depress or bring a sense of hopelessness to the body of Christ. My hope is that the readers will begin to understand that we have arrived at this point in history because God ordained it. Satan is at work to corrupt the minds and hearts of our children.

We must be on our knees daily for our children, the media, our government, educational institutions; and all other mediums which affect our children.

Systematic and well-thought-out plan

None of this happened by chance. It is well thought out and has been systematically implemented in our children’s schools. Common Core was introduced in 2009 (during the reign of Obama), and now we are seeing the results. All we have to do is to look at millennials and see that which they are willing to fight for – SOCIALISM.

44% of young people in the millennial category are all in for socialism. They are anti-capitalists and anti U.S. Constitution. I believe that the greater percentage of these young people do not truly understand “socialism,” nor do they know that most socialistic countries have morphed into full-blown communism.

They have been fed a steady diet of anti-capitalism, globalism, anti-Christian propaganda and a host of other un-American – pro-socialist dogma.

It used to be more of a concern on our college campuses. We knew all about the predominance of Leftist professors lying in wait to pounce upon the Christian students – to belittle them in front of their peers. It happened in our family, and I’ve heard stories from readers that they experienced this with their own children.

It is devastating.

But now, with Common Core Standards having been implemented in most of our schools – K-12th grade since 2009, the wolves (professors) on college campuses have a much less challenging mission. Many of their students from Christian homes have already been brainwashed and turned from their faith. This is NOT happenstance, brethren. This is a systematic plan which has unfortunately been quite successful. It is diabolical.

Common Core AKA Commie Core

I wrote a piece on Common Core back in 2015. We had noticed that our very bright grandson was suddenly struggling in school.

Some excerpts from that article:

The globalists at the UN have been very busy, openly plotting to impose what many call the “World Core Curriculum” and, at the same time, eugenicists are working to drastically reduce the world’s population. Don’t you find it interesting that these globalists, and their plans for our world, are not exposed by the National news media?

I think it’s time for those of us who do care about these NWO initiatives to state the truth – that the people who report the news are TOLD what to say. They are given the narrative, and commanded to stick to it.

We hear people say that George Soros controls the news. That is not hearsay – it’s TRUTH! The billionaires DO control what is divulged to the public. The useful idiots are there to do the bidding for those who own them. If you are not using the Internet, and credible Conservative websites to get the REAL news — you are deluded.

COMMON CORE WAS PUT IN PLACE FOR KIDS TO FAIL

That’s a pretty strong statement, right? I will prove this to be true.

On January 22 of this year, the Washington Post ran a story on a teacher who is finally speaking out about Common Core. Jennifer Rickert is a 6th grade teacher of 22 years in NY State. She has had it with the curriculum, and she is speaking her mind. She may very well pay a high price for doing so. I have the utmost respect for this woman.

Top Teacher is Right – Common Core is Wrong  <click to watch

The title of the article in the Washington Post is:

TEACHER: “COMMON CORE TEST SET KIDS UP TO FAIL”

“Clearly, this is a set-up for the kids to fail. As students learn, they make sense out of new information through schema. Schemata are cognitive frameworks to which they can add to, or modify, as they learn new information. One could compare the requirement for children to understand these passages to expecting them to master algebra before establishing number sense; there is no foundation to build knowledge upon.

“Over the last few years, I have seen many parents cry about their child’s New York State test scores, and I have seen students cry because they can’t complete the tests. I began to question the validity of the assessments as they became more and more daunting for my students, but I believed that if I continued to incorporate the Common Core Learning Standards and provide the highest quality instruction, my students would be evaluated fairly. During this period, I kept the faith in our great state of New York and our educational leaders, hoping that there would be a fair resolution for the children.

“Optimistically, I thought that if I remained professional, continuing to comply with the mandates, eventually things would change. So, I remained quiet. Today, I am a broken woman.”  source  

Remember brethren – this is from the Washington Post! Even THEY get it!

100-Year-Old Math Teacher Slams Common Core  <click to watch

Distancing Parents and Children

“A recent study found that the Common Core model of education results in parents who are less engaged in their kids’ education and express more negative attitudes about schools and government. Does it need to be noted that kids desperately need their pre-existing, natural bond with their parents to get a good start in life, and anything that attacks this is bad for both the kids and society?”

“UN, Obama, and Gates Are Globalizing Education Via Common Core”

“For over a year now, Americans have been up in arms over the Obama administration’s unconstitutional efforts to bribe and bludgeon state governments into surrendering control over K-12 education through the controversial so-called “Common Core” national standards — and the outrage is still growing. A peek beneath the surface, however, reveals that the nationalization of American schools is actually just one component of a much broader global agenda being pushed by the Obama administration, the United Nations, Bill Gates, and others: the globalization of education.”

In fact, just this week, an invitation-only conference hosted by former Florida Governor and pro-Common Core ringleader Jeb Bush entitled “Globalization of Higher Education” took place in Texas. Among the attendees: Hillary Clinton, U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, former World Bank President Robert Zoellick, UNESCO officials, university presidents, and more. While higher education appears to be the next target of reformers, the globalization of K-12 schooling is on the verge of completion — at least if the American people do not rise up and stop it.”  source

Watch what happens to a parent who asks too many questions:

Watch what happens to man who questions Common Core  <click to watch

Woman destroys Common Core in Three Minutes  <click to watch

Common Core Fail: US Students now ranked 40th in World for Math, 24th in Reading, 25th in Science

More from my article from 2015:

MOLDING THE CHILDREN OF AMERICA TO BE GLOBALISTS

You see, Common Core is all about molding and re-shaping the children of America to be “obedient globalists.” The rights and interests of the individual are pushed aside, and the students are being indoctrinated and brainwashed to believe that they must only consider themselves part of the greater good.

We know that this “greater good” is the coming New World Order. Global warming and Green energy are merely a means to an end. The “end” here refers to the sustainable world order – a world where the population is controlled (under 500 million) and the minds of the people are also controlled by the coming One-World Government.

This is why faith in God is in direct conflict with Agenda 21 and Common Core Initiative. Why would a government which plans to control the people want to compete with a belief in, and allegiance to God? That is why all communist governments demand that their people be atheists. They want complete CONTROL over the masses.

“To prepare humanity for their vision, however, requires a new form of “education,” globalists admit. UNESCO calls it “Education for Sustainable Development.”

On its website, UNESCO, the self-styled global education agency, actually boasts of its plans. “The UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014) seeks to mobilize the educational resources of the world to help create a more sustainable future,” the UN outfit explains.

“Many paths to sustainability… exist and are mentioned in the 40 chapters of Agenda 21, the official document of the 1992 Earth Summit. Education is one of these paths. Education alone cannot achieve a more sustainable future; however, without education and learning for sustainable development, we will not be able to reach that goal.” Before the term “sustainability” was in vogue, the late UN Deputy Secretary General Robert Muller, the architect of UNESCO’s “World Core Curriculum,” also offered some insight into the purpose of UN-led, globalized pseudo-education.

The goals: “Assisting the child in becoming an integrated individual who can deal with personal experience while seeing himself as a part of ‘the greater whole.”

From wyliberty.org

Ideology of the Common Core

For a long time, Americans have perceived that student achievement levels have been falling behind those of other nations and that we need to do something about this. One effort to bring about improvement, led by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers, resulted in the creation of the Common Core Standards in 2009. Wyoming has joined 44 other states in adopting the standards, which are set to be implemented by 2014.

While it remains questionable whether or not the Common Core will actually achieve the goal of improving education performance, and whether or not it’s part of an effort to nationalize education, there is another aspect to consider: Beneath the debated aspects over federalism and effectiveness, the Common Core is a weapon of ideology. The writers of the Common Core have an opportunity to shape the way of thinking of a generation of Americans. An analysis of the English standards show the framers have chosen to use this chance to indoctrinate students with a very leftist ideology.

The Common Core is not meant to produce individuals willing to take initiative and innovate in the model of our successes over more than 200 years. Instead, it is designed to produce a graduate who is more willing to fit into a collectivist model. It teaches a heavily revisionist history in which America’s past consists of almost nothing but slavery, segregation, and other forms of racial oppression. These distortions impede the maintenance of a free and democratic America.

Read rest of article here

Brethren, as Christians we see the implications of the systematic indoctrination of our children to Marxist/Socialist thinking. It goes without saying that there is no room for the Christian faith in this indoctrination. It is quite the opposite. The children are taught that Christianity is a stumbling block for the NWO to come to fruition. The children must only focus on the bigger picture: Globalism.

We must pray like we have never prayed. But we also must understand that the Lord has allowed all of this to happen, and nothing surprises Him. We are in the last of the last days, and we know how this story ends.

I am still praying for unbelieving friends and family. But the closer we get to the end, the harder the hearts become of the Lost.

But God is able to do anything He wishes to do!

How Can I Be Saved?

Shalom b’Yeshua

MARANATHA!

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I thought about writing this piece, but then just left it in drafts. I figured that most people understand about socialism. But then I felt that it might be a good resource for people who have grown children who are “feeling the Bern” and are all in for Bernie Sanders and his socialism.

Sanders is just the kind of person who Benjamin Franklin was thinking of when he answered a woman as he came out of the Constitutional Convention. She asked him what kind of government we had.

He answered her:  “A Republic, if you can keep it.”

I believe that most of us have read Franklin’s statement above.

But today I found the speech Benjamin Franklin made at the Constitutional Convention. Being 81 years old at the time of the convention, he had another member read it.

Here is a part of the speech:

“In these sentiments, Sir, I agree to this Constitution with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a general Government necessary for us, and there is no form of Government but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered, and believe farther that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in Despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of any other.

“I doubt too whether any other Convention we can obtain, may be able to make a better Constitution. For when you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men, all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. From such an assembly can a perfect production be expected?

“It therefore astonishes me, Sir, to find this system approaching so near to perfection as it does; and I think it will astonish our enemies, who are waiting with confidence to hear that our councils are confounded like those of the Builders of Babel; and that our States are on the point of separation, only to meet hereafter for the purpose of cutting one another’s throats. Thus I consent, Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure, that it is not the best.” (emphasis added)

I must say that I was astounded at the wisdom and foresight of Franklin as he articulated his thoughts in this speech. I also have a new appreciation for his well-known words to the woman as he emerged from the Constitutional Convention. Benjamin Franklin knew much about the heart of man and the evils that lurk within.

Franklin had people such as Bernie Sanders in mind when expressing his fears that America’s government would be administered for a number of years, but eventually end in despotism.

Bernie Sanders would argue that socialism is not an authoritarian government (despotic), but Sanders is no fool. He knows history, and he knows that socialism as he and others perceive it has never worked. It invariably evolves into communism. Many would say, “But look at the Nordic countries – it works there!” That will be addressed further on in this piece.

I hope that many of my readers will print this article out and give it to members of their families who are feeling the “Bern.”

From foxnews.com

5 things Bernie Sanders doesn’t want you to know about socialism

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., announced the official launch of his 2020 presidential campaign on Tuesday, and within just 24 hours, he managed to raise a whopping $6 million. Although Sanders joins a crowded field of contenders, many analysts say the 77-year-old Sanders is the frontrunner to be the Democrats’ choice to challenge President Trump.

Sanders, who nearly defeated Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination in 2016, is a self-described socialist who has been peddling destructive collectivist policies for decades—everything from single-payer health care to punitive taxes and radical climate-change agreements. Make no mistake about it; Sanders, who honeymooned in Soviet Russia, wants to fundamentally alter American society and impose a Socialist agenda on tens of millions of Americans who want the federal government to stay out of their homes and businesses.

Sanders is undoubtedly hoping that his candidacy will benefit from the recent rise of socialism in the United States. According to a February Fox News poll, one-quarter of U.S. voters have a favorable view of socialism, and the number is even higher for millennials. Similarly, a 2018 Gallup survey found 57 percent of Democrats support socialism, while only 47 percent said they have a favorable view of capitalism.

Although the popularity of socialism has clearly increased in recent years, it’s largely because most Americans don’t understand what socialism is or its long history of failure around the world. It’s up to those of us who support individual liberty and free markets to tell our friends, neighbors, children, and grandchildren the truth about the dangers of socialism. Below are five facts to help you spread the word.

1. Socialism has never worked.

One of the most damning evidences against socialism is that despite the fact numerous countries around the world have attempted to create societies in which many, most, or all industries are collectively owned and managed, those countries have never prospered.

The ultimate goal of socialism, according to Karl Marx and his followers, is to create a society in which all people share wealth equally. But whenever socialism has been attempted, it has always resulted in tyranny.

The reason for this is simple: In order for a society to collectively share wealth, a ruling class first has to be established that will take wealth away from those who have it. That necessitates giving significant power to a centralized authority, the government. Once government has this power, it’s reluctant to give it up, resulting in the sort of oppression we see today in Cuba, North Korea, and Venezuela.

2. Tens of millions have died at the hands of Socialist and Communist parties.

Because regimes attempting to create socialist utopias inevitably turn to violence, socialism and communism have caused more death and destruction than any other political or religious ideology in the past century.

In research I conducted, relying on numerous scholarly studies, of 12 countries led by socialist or communist parties over the past 100 years—including parties in China, Cuba, North Korea, and the Soviet Union—I found there have been more than 167 million people who have been killed, murdered, or exiled in the pursuit of socialism. It would take roughly 56,000 terrorist events as deadly as the tragic attack by radical Islamic terrorists on September 11, 2001, to match the misery caused by socialists and communists.

3. Scandinavian countries do not have socialist economies.

For many years, American socialists have misled the public about Scandinavian countries like Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. Sanders and others, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., routinely refer to these nations as “socialist,” even though the evidence clearly shows they are not.

The world needs more wealth, not wealth redistribution, and history has proven repeatedly that you don’t create wealth by stealing it from some to give it to others.

For example, in the Heritage Foundation’s 2019 Index of Economic Freedom, Denmark’s economy ranked 14th, only two spots behind the United States. And in several categories—including “business freedom,” “monetary freedom,” and “property rights”—Denmark’s economy ranked much higher than America’s.

It’s true Denmark, Norway, and Sweden have some large social welfare programs and high individual tax rates, but they also have very little debt, few regulations, and require all people in society, not just the wealthy, to pay a hefty tax burden. Further, the corporate tax rates in all three of these Nordic countries is only slightly higher than the current U.S. rate of 21 percent and much lower than the American corporate tax rate prior to the passage of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

Perhaps most importantly, Scandinavians are not better off than most Americans. They pay much higher tax rates; earn, on average, lower salaries; and pay significantly more for housing and basic goods and services.

4. Taxing the wealthy won’t pay for Bernie’s socialist plans.

Socialists like Sanders say that they can pay for their massive, multi-trillion-dollar programs by raising taxes on the wealthiest earners, but research shows this claim is false.

The Tax Foundation recently studied the potential revenues that would be gained by imposing a 70 percent tax rate on income above $10 million—a proposal backed by Ocasio-Cortez—and found that it would raise, at most, $291 billion over 10 years. That’s not enough revenue to cover even 10 percent of the estimated cost of Sanders’ “Medicare for All” health care proposal, which the Mercatus Center says would require $32 trillion in its first decade.

5. We need a wealthier world, not wealth redistribution.

Socialists like Bernie Sanders focus nearly all of their time talking about redistributing wealth, but what they never tell you is that research shows that even if the world’s wealth were totally redistributed, it would result in all people being relatively poor.

According to a 2018 report by Credit Suisse, “one of the world’s leading banks,” the total wealth of all the world’s households is about $317 trillion. If we were to divide that wealth among all adults, it would only leave about $63,000 per person—and that includes the value of the person’s car, home, land, and all possessions. In other words, everyone would be poor by American standards.

It’s evident from these figures that the world needs more wealth, not wealth redistribution, and history has proven repeatedly that you don’t create wealth by stealing it from some to give it to others.

The only way to help the world’s impoverished is to enact policies that promote innovation and enhance quality of life for all people. Thanks to relatively free markets and capitalism, that’s been occurring over the past 200 years at breakneck speed. The last thing we need is a socialist like Bernie Sanders getting in the way. source

However Bernie Sanders spins it, socialism is the LAST thing our country needs.

I pray that this article will help the reader in the months to come. As of right now, Bernie appears to be the front-runner to challenge President Trump in the 2020 Elections.

We must continue to pray for our leaders and for the people in America. God’s will be done.

He knows what has to happen to fulfill Bible prophecy.

How Can I Be Saved?

Shalom b’Yeshua

MARANATHA!

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