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Funny thing about lying.  It never wins.  

The level of lying going on in this country and around the world is breathtaking.  There is so much lying that attempting to navigate through a day given all the confusion is a frustrating and depressing exercise.

Lying has been the modus operandi from the beginning of time.  Lie number one.  You do not have to acknowledge that there is a God greater than you, you can be your own God.  That lie has never left us and is still the foundational lie that leads to all of the other lies.  

It seems that the lying has reached epic levels in the last hundred years.   Lies are meant to establish control.  Lies are given to deceive and gain advantage 

and always the end’s justify the means.  

But time does not end.  Therefore any lie will eventually be exposed and truth will win. Not only does lying deceive and confuse, it also carries grave consequences.  Just look at the current condition of this country.

Imagine if this coming fall, five men who claim to be women, enroll at the UCLA and try out for the women’s basketball team.  They were all high school All Americans.  The NCAA, which has approved and endorsed the practice of men competing as women, will proceed to dominate and win the Women’s NCAA championship.

Hunter Biden’s laptop is Russian Disinformation. Hunter Biden never met the woman with whom he bore a child. 

The Coronavirus will kill millions worldwide. 

Man is influencing weather patterns that will destroy the planet. 

The United States is a systematically racist country and all white males are supremacists. The NBA and NFL are shining examples. 

This country is so racist, that we must open the borders to allow anyone and everyone to enter.

Vladimir Putin declared at a rally with required attendance, that Russia is attacking Ukraine, to emancipate the Ukrainians from their tyrannical leaders.

USA Today named a man as the woman of the year.

Gas prices and inflation are Vladimir Putins fault.

Tony Faucci is an expert.

Leftism cannot, does not, and never will speak truth.  The whole ideology is based on the original lie that man can control his destiny.

Lies cannot stand alone.  Therefore an ever increasing number of lies must be created to cover the first lie and to perpetuate change to meet the needs of the liars.   It’s unending and it only succeeds when the liars are in a position of power where the lies can be managed.  When the liars lose power, truth is spoken and it stands alone.  It is why leftists, Marxists, Progressives, Democrats will do anything and everything (ends justifies the means) in order to possess the power to lie.  

The truth is brief and it is powerful.  There doesn’t have to be new truth.  Truth rules the day.  The world is burning.  Russian, China, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Syria, Cuba, and more are all liars.   They are all aligning against truth.  What truth?  The truth that there is a God.  That God created the world.  Man is sinful.  Man is disobedient in his heart.  Man cannot rescue himself from eternal damnation.  The World system, man’s sinful nature, and satan are trying to eliminate truth.  Eliminate Israel and the Christian World.  The lies are the means to attempt to destroy truth.

Great thing about the truth of God.  It will never lose.  Jesus said, I am the way the truth and the life.  Eternal life goes through me.  Try all you wish to lie a way to control.  It will never happen.  It is discouraging and frustrating to live in a world of lies.  It hinders hope.  Take heart.  Hold on to the truth with all you have.  You will never lose.

When you look at the current state of the world from a Biblical perspective it is about good versus evil.  The media, the political elites, the average man on the street fail to recognize what has been spoken of for millenniums.

The focus on Russia/Ukraine, China, and the United States is deflecting the truth of the global war that is coming to Israel. From a Biblical Worldview, the evil pawns in the war are easy to identify.  Leading off, Vladimir Putin is boldly demonstrating  his evil intentions to the world in Ukraine.   Intended as a simple invasion in just two weeks it has escalated to a slaughter of innocent men, women, and children.  What other than an evil heart and mind would care little for the sanctity of human life with no just cause?

China and Xi Jinping are advancing evil rapidly.  The Chinese support and approval of the Russian aggression creates the largest lethal coalition in the history of the world.  The Chinese human rights record, at least what we know of it, is evil similar to Hitler’s Germany. Two super powers, close to commanding and controlling the world are driven by evil. Evil influenced and controlled by a satanic spiritual being.  Throw in the North Koreans, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, and Syria and evil has the upper hand worldwide.

Player number three.  The Democratic Party of the United States. In the last 20 years the political elites have systematically maneuvered to deconstruct and degrade the economic and military future of America. Combined with the cultural meltdown, evil has laid the groundwork to weaken all aspects of this once great country.  The Russian invasion is highlighting the weaknesses and we are witnessing in real time the collapse.  The Democrat party is shepherding this along with the ruse that they are all for democracy. The current elite handling of Afghanistan, inflation, and the collapse of the energy market plays right into the hands of evil. In partnership with evil corporate moguls and their numerous policies and ideology the pathway to destroying the American system is clear and plays right into the hands of evil.

For evil, it is about eliminating the United States as the U.S. has been for 200 years the roadblock for evil’s agenda.  For a hundred years, evil used men and ideas to destroy the culture of America by aligning it with the godless world of secularism.  It has weakened the foundation of this once great country and ushered in the chaos that is exploding daily in evil ideas and causes.  In just a few weeks, Putin’s invasion is exposing the weakness of this nations soul.  The country is divided and weak.  The Ukrainian invasion is an exercise in determining how Europe and The United States respond to economic and military chaos.  For Putin the Ukraine is the first step. The Chinese will join the Russians to see the fall of America.  The Democrats are just wiling fools in the evil march toward the elimination of mankind and God.

This is the end game of evil.  At some point soon, when the evil alliance believes the United States is no longer a threat, they will shift their focus to Israel.  This is an economic and  military worldwide objective to erase the two societies that hold on to the truth of a God that is above all men.  In order for evil to reign on earth it must remove the Creator God and all followers.  Evil is clearly using the pawns and the objective is clear.  There is no return to the past.  

In the midst of this crumbling, hopeless, and dying future stands the light.  It is not the midterm elections.  It is not any political party worldwide.  It is not the lie that man is basically good and  can perfect all of this madness with good intentions.  The light is shining from the cross of Christ.  It always has been, it always will.  Jesus spoke often of his return.  God spoke clearly that Israel will never be destroyed.  

Psalm 121 resonates now more than it did for the Hebrews five thousand years ago.  Do not look to the mountains for help. Do not look to the politicians for hope. Do not look to yourself for hope.   Our help and strength comes from God who made heaven and earth.  He won’t let you stumble, he won’t fall asleep.  He is right at your side to protect you.  He guards you when you leave and when you return.  He guards you now, He guards you always.  Never lose hope.

She doesn’t care about my moods…good…or bad

She doesn’t care about my Religion…

She doesn’t are about my politics…

She doesn’t care about my broken past…

She doesn’t care about my hair…

She doesn’t care about my opinions…

Oh…to be so free…

This is a reprint from Archbishop Carlo Vigano that is really worth reading.

Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano byWorldTribune Staff, December 21, 2021

Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, who served as the Vatican’s Apostolic Nuncio to the United States from October 2011 to April 2016, has issued a Christmas letter to the United States in which he describes what he considers to be a “global coup” in the handling of the Covid pandemic and the ongoing threat of globalism.

Archbishop Vigano’s letter:

DEAR AMERICAN PEOPLE, DEAR FRIENDS,

For two years now, a global coup has been carried out all over the world, planned for some time by an elite group of conspirators enslaved to the interests of international high finance. This coup was made possible by an emergency pandemic that is based on the premise of a virus that has a mortality rate almost analogous to that of any other seasonal flu virus, on the delegitimization and prohibition of effective treatments, and on the distribution of an experimental gene serum which is obviously ineffective, and which also clearly carries with it the danger of serious and even lethal side effects. We all know how much the mainstream media has contributed to supporting the insane pandemic narrative, the interests that are at stake, and the goals of these groups of power: reducing the world population, making those who survive chronically ill, and imposing forms of control that violate the fundamental rights and natural liberties of citizens. And yet, two years after this grotesque farce started, which has claimed more victims than a war and destroyed the social fabric, national economies, and the very foundations of the rule of law, nothing has changed in the policies of Nations and their response to the so-called pandemic.

Last year, when many still had not yet understood the gravity of the looming threat, I was among the first to denounce this coup, and I was promptly singled out as a conspiracy theorist. Today more and more people are opening their eyes and beginning to understand that the emergency pandemic and the”ecological emergency” are part of a criminal plan hatched by the World Economic Forum, the UN, the WHO, and a galaxy of organizations and foundations that are ideologically characterized as clearly anti-human and — this needs to be said clearly — anti-Christian.

Related: ‘Everything the elite wanted to do, they have done’: Archbishop Vigano on the ‘global reset’ and what to do, September 3, 2021

One of the elements that unequivocally confirms the criminal nature of the Great Reset is the perfect synchrony with which all the different Nations are acting, demonstrating the existence of a single script under a single direction. And it is disconcerting to see how the lack of treatment, the deliberately wrong treatments that have been given in order to cause more deaths, the decision to impose lock downs and masks, the conspiratorial silence about the adverse effects of the so-called “vaccines” that are in fact gene serums, and the continuous repetition of culpable errors have all been possible thanks to the complicity of those who govern and the institutions. Political and religious leaders, representatives of the people, scientists and doctors, journalists and those who work in the media have literally betrayed their people, their laws, their Constitutions, and the most basic ethical principles.

The electoral fraud of the 2020 presidential election against President Trump has shown itself to be organic to this global operation, because in order to impose illegitimate restrictions in violation of the principles of law it was necessary to be able to make use of an American President who would support the psycho-pandemic and support its narrative. The Democratic Party, part of the deep state, is carrying out its task as an accomplice of the system, just as the deep church finds in Bergoglio its own propagandist. The recent rulings of the Supreme Court and the autonomous action of some American states — where the vaccination obligation has been declared unconstitutional — give us hope that this criminal plan can collapse and that those responsible will be identified and tried: both in America as well as in the whole world.

How was it possible to arrive at such a betrayal? How have we come to be considered enemies by those who govern us, not in support of the common good, but rather to feed a hellish machine of death and slavery?

The answer is now clear: throughout the world, in the name of a perverted concept of freedom, we have progressively erased God from society and laws.We have denied that there is an eternal and transcendent principle, valid for all men of all times, to which the laws of States must conform. We have replaced this absolute principle with the arbitrariness of individuals, with the principle that everyone is his own legislator. In the name of this insane freedom — which is license and libertinage — we have allowed the Law of God and the law of nature to be violated, legitimizing the killing of children in the womb, even up to the very moment of birth; the killing of the sick and the elderly in hospital wards; the destruction of the natural family and of Marriage; we have recognized rights to vice and sin, putting the deviations of individuals before the good of society. In short, we have subverted the entire moral order that constitutes the indispensable basis of the laws and social life of a people. Already in the fourth century B.C., Plato wrote these things in his last work the Laws and identified the cause of the Athenian political crisis precisely in the breaking of the divine order — the cosmos — between these eternal principles and human laws.

These natural moral principles of the Greco-Roman world found their fulfillment in Christianity, which built Western civilization by giving them a supernatural impetus. Christianity is the strongest defense against injustice, the strongest garrison against the oppression of the powerful over the weak, the violent over the peaceful, and the wicked over the good, because Christian morality makes each of us accountable to God and our neighbor for our actions, both as citizens and as rulers. The Son of God, whose Birth we will celebrate in a few days, became Incarnate in time and in history in order to heal an ancient wound, and to restore by Grace the order broken by disobedience. His social Kingship was the generating principle of the ordo Christianus that for two centuries now has been fiercely fought against by Freemasonry: because the Revolution it promotes is chaos; it is disorder; it is infernal rebellion against the divine order so as to impose Satan’s tyranny.

Now, as we see what is happening around us, we understand how mendacious were the promises of progress and freedom made by those who destroyed Christian society, and how deceptive was the prospect of a new Tower of Babel, built not only without regard for God but even in direct opposition to Him. The infernal challenge of the Enemy is repeated over the centuries unchanged, but it is doomed to inexorable failure. Behind this millennial conspiracy, the adversary is always the same, and the only thing that changes are the particular individuals who cooperate with him.

Dear American brothers and sisters! Dear Patriots! this is a crucial moment for the future of the United States of America and of the whole of humanity. But the pandemic emergency, the farce of global warming and the green economy, and the economic crisis deliberately induced by the Great Reset with the complicity of the deep state, are all only the consequence of a much more serious problem, and it is essential to understand it in depth if we want to defeat it. This problem is essentially moral; indeed, it is religious. We must put God back in the first place not only in our personal lives, but also in the life of our society. We must restore to Our Lord Jesus Christ the Crown that the Revolution has torn from Him, and in order for this to happen a true and profound conversion of individuals and of society is necessary. For it is absolutely impossible to hope for the end of this global tyranny if we continue to remove from the Kingdom of Christ the nations that belong to Him and must belong to Him. For this reason, the movement to overturn Roe v. Wade also acquires a very important meaning, since respect for the sacredness of unborn life must be sanctioned by positive law if it is to be a mirror of the Eternal Law.

You are animated by a yearning for justice, and this is a legitimate and good desire. “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,” says the Lord (Mt 5:6). But this Justice must be based on the awareness that this is a spiritual battle in which it is necessary to take sides without equivocation and without compromise, holding transcendent and eternal references that even the pagan philosophers glimpsed, and that have found fulfillment in the Revelation of the Son of God, the Divine Master.

My appeal for an Anti-Globalist Alliance — which I renew today — aims precisely to constitute a movement of moral and spiritual rebirth which will inspire the civil, social and political action of those who do not want to be enslaved as slaves to the New World Order. A movement that at the national and local level will be able to find a way to oppose the Great Reset and that coordinates the denunciation of the coup that is currently in progress. Because in the awareness of who our adversary is and what his aims and purposes are, we can disrupt the criminal action he intends to pursue and force him to retreat. In this, the opposition to the pandemic farce and the vaccination obligation must be determined and courageous on the part of each of you.

Yours must therefore be a work of truth, bringing to light the lies and deceptions of the New World Order and their anti-human and anti christic matrix. And in this it is mainly the laity and all people of good will — each in the professional and civil role he holds — who must coordinate and organize together to make a firm but peaceful resistance, so as not to legitimize its violent repression by those who today hold power.

Be proud of your identity as American patriots and of the Faith that must animate your life. Do not allow anyone to make you feel inferior just because you love your homeland, because you are honest at work, because you want to protect your family and raise your children with healthy values, because you respect the elderly, because you protect life from conception to its natural end. Do not be intimidated or seduced by those who propagate a dystopian world in which a faceless power imposes on you contempt for the Law of God, presents sin and vice as licit and desirable, despises righteousness and Morality, destroys the natural family and promotes the worst perversions, plans the death of defenseless and weak creatures, and exploits humanity for its own profit or to preserve power.

Be worthy heirs of the great Archbishop Fulton Sheen, and do not follow those of your Pastors who have betrayed the mandate they have received from Our Lord, who impose iniquitous orders on you or who remain silent before the evidence of an unheard of crime against God and humanity.

May this Holy Christmas illuminate your minds and inflame your hearts before the Infant King who lays in the manger. And just as the choirs of the Angels and the homage of the Magi united with the simple adoration of the Shepherds, so also today your commitment to the moral rebirth of the United States of America –one Nation under God — will have the blessing of Our Lord and will gather those who govern you around you. Amen.

May God bless you, and may God bless the United States of America.

+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop, 18 December 2021

It’s about Evil’s Desire to destroy the Glory God.  

Name one thing evil has ever done to better this world. There is no desire to return this county to its founding.  There is no desire to identify the truth of what made this country exceptional.  There will be no attempt to promote ideas or programs that will bring peace and cooperation.  It is and always has been for evil the mission of division, chaos, and hatred around the world.  It is now on display here in America because evil can not wait any longer.  In this country, Trump was a lightning rod.  For Satan, there can be no more delay. If the country and the world is to be overtaken, it must be soon, time is running out.

Evil senses it.   Satan has been preparing the world for destruction from the fall and there must be an urgency in the heavenly realms that the return of the Savior is imminent.  Why else the acceleration of evil’s agenda.  Evil has come too far to allow man to return to any ideas of the past.  Kindness, generosity, compassion, humility, have been the roadblock of destruction since the beginning of time. Now time is running out and the race is on to destroy the glory of God at breakneck speed.

Evil’s only weapon is lying.  Lie after lie after lie.  To what end?  Evil must eliminate truth.  But there are not enough lies to ever replace truth. Truth wins every single time.  In this country anger, and hatred are accelerating for fear that truth cannot be stamped out.  No matter what insane idea, ideology, behavior evil promotes around the world, the light keeps shining. Truth, the little ember that just won’t go out, keeps restarting the fire.  

It’s not about Trump, it’s not about Biden, it’s about Jesus.  Evil is bringing hell out into the open for all to see.  In this celestial war humans are just residual damage.  Evil doesn’t care about the well being of man.  Men are just weak mortals whose demise and destruction are just consequences of war.  For evil, promoting the fear of death drives all the lies.  The lie that nothing exists beyond the present reality motivates poor humans to do anything to hang onto life. Why else in the world are we wearing masks?

Is this the beginning of the end?  Could be.  Will the world ever move to kindness, compassion, humility, love and sacrifice for others?  No.  Evil is well aware that love, compassion, kindness, grace, mercy, happiness is all and only in the man of the cross.  It must destroy any idea or remnant of the man from Galilee. The world system is deteriorating quickly.  The next election is not the answer.  Eliminating CRT is not the answer.  Saving the climate is not the answer.  Changing man’s biological design is not the answer. Evil is on the march and is bringing hell with it.  The King said, that He is the only way, the truth, and the life and evil knows He is coming soon.

Whoever is behind the progressive, leftist, Marxist ideology appears to have lost their patience with the progress of the movement.  Could it be George Soros?  He is 91 years old and death is imminent.  Everyone knows he leads a band of evil cronies with billions of dollars.  The cult has been using the Marxist ideology of the dialectic confident that with time they would gain control of the academic institutions and change the thinking of the masses.  They have been at it for 80 years and they have won that battle.  America’s institutions are totally Marxist leftists.

In recent years the Soros army has been infiltrating the justice system again with a slow methodical takeover of the inside.  Known better as the deep state, it continues to systematically hijack  control and influence over the justice and law enforcement cultures of the country.   Examples; the Soros instilled Attorney Generals;  Fox in Chicago, Gascon in Los Angeles, Krasner in Philadelphia and dozens of others in key cities.  These gestapo leaders have eager subordinates all in lock step and funded by the Soros machine. The allegiance goes to the top as Attorney General Merritt Garland demonstrated with his latest attack on parents desiring to use the first amendment to confront the entrenched minions on school boards across the country.

Soros is so filled with hate he wants to see this dream of a new Totalitarian America before he faces his maker.  His ideology doesn’t provide for a maker so maybe the little voice inside him that he can’t escape is getting louder and louder as the end nears.  Adding fire to his hatred is that he sees his beloved Hungary turning into the new America.  

What about the Clintons? Do they still have any influence on policy making? Bill may be on the verge of dementia.  Hillary just a year or so from a walker is still cackling about her place in the revolution.  But her time is running out like Soros. The only way for her to rise to any level of power would have to be by force. It’s pretty clear any influence in the movement would be just a conciliatory acknowledgment by those with the real power as a respectful payback for her and Bill’s contribution to the cause.

Indeed Soros is still a commanding presence in the movement. How about Obama?  In his first inaugural address he stated boldly that this election was about the fundamental transformation of America.  Obama, himself, a product of the indoctrination machine uses the dialectic model to put in place ideas and polices that are not popular with the majority, but just quite radical enough shift the foundation and lay the groundwork for future change.  Border policies, energy policies, health care policies, tax policies, all methodically set in place took all eight years to gain hold and develop momentum.  The surrender of the middle class, the violence in the streets from racial discord, the rise of a small group of wealthy Totalitarian sympathizers  are all coming home to roost.

Everything was going according to plan with the transformation until the dreaded Donal Trump threw a huge wrench into the machine. Trump exposed the inner and outer workings of the leftist movement and the deep state to the light.  Many of the roaches ran for cover, most hid behind the corporate state media, but all worked in coordination to eliminate the Trump threat to the empire.  The question remains, did Trump do significant enough damage to thwart the revolution, or was he just a bump in the road, a pause in the dialectic? 

Enter Joe Biden.  It is clear to anyone that understands human nature and behavior that Joe Biden is not running the revolution. He is clearly in declining health and literal puppet for those making the calls.  He does not have nor understand Marxist ideology.  He is an old school democrat liberal politician.  He understands the methods and practices of lying, and the ends justices the means but he is much better at the ins and outs of using political corruption to his personal benefit.  He is in no way up to the task of leading and or coordinating an insurrection against the status quo.  Given that Trump slowed the progress, and given that Soros and the Clinton’s are aging out in influence and power.  It seems clear that Obama is calling the shots in the present administration. 

The entire movement is in lock step with each other. Just listen to the press releases, the news reporting and academic and cultural allies.  They are all identical, literally word for word. .  Soros, the corporate Big Techs, the state media mimic each other daily with coordinated, identical, and directed talking points.  The congress at this point is irrelevant.  The democrats are in lock step so they can be reelected and hold power.  The Republicans are spineless and make statements they know carry no weight but assure their reelection as well.  The Democratic governors show their allegiance by attempting to enforce mandate policies that demonstrate nothing but the desire to maintain control over their constituents. It surfaced this week that Mark Zuckerberg poured billions into corrupting the election process across the country. The examples are endless and thrust upon us daily.  The speed at which the transformation is being imposed is breathtaking and alarming

If you were a conspiracy theorist, you would connect all the dots and identify all the players as part of a centralized effort to eliminate the current state and replace it with…what?  Well, it appears to be Totalitarianism, but they would never voice that directly because until now, they understood that the majority of the country is not ready for that…yet. Trump agitated and threatened the left’s progress and thus have abandoned the practice of slowly and methodically gaining power waiting for the right moment to pounce.  The Obama agenda is being accelerated seemingly in fear that this may be their last or only shot at gaining the upper hand.  The old school Marxists would move gradually knowing that time is the key to change.  But look what’s happening.  The Southern Border is completely open with no attempt whatsoever to slow down or stop the illegal immigration begun by Obama.  Countless physical evidence is documented daily on live broadcasts and Obama, Biden and the left deny it is happening.  Lying about what is in plain sight to everyone.  Lie after lie after lie with no conscience whatsoever.

Gas prices have increased 45% over a year ago.  An intentional move by the left to burden small business and create chaos in the economy. Biden as the puppeteer eliminated all the gains made by the energy sector that led us out of energy dependence and cleared the way for a very bright future that would also include the development of new technologies concurrently.  

Inflation will sky rocketing.  Trade is stalling with ships and trains sitting in ports as the supply chains grind to a halt.  Violence is erupting in every major city as the left seeks to eliminate law enforcement.  Long standing cultural norms eclipse common sense with insane ideas of gender and the desperate desire to hold onto abortion as a right at any time during pregnancy.  The list goes on with the latest power grab being a completely insane use of perceived pandemic to change the balance of power away from people to the state.  99% recovery rate is all one needs to know that this is a manufactured crisis designed to  elevate authority and the takeover by Totalitarians. 

On the Foreign Policy front, Obama and Susan Rice once again have abandoned Israel, are working to reinsert Iran as a power player, treat China as a competitor instead of the enemy, and demonstrate disdain for the military.  General Mark Goering Milley exposed that the military is loyal to the master plan for redefining and transforming the Armed Forces. The total failure in Afghanistan was not an accident.  

Obama, Soros, The Clintons, the Corporate Left, State sponsored Media, Big Tech, Academia, the allies in state governments, and the hundreds maybe thousands in the Deep State have all been given their marching orders.  It’s go time.  There is just a two year window to finish the job.  It’s hyperdrive time, full speed ahead, disregard truth or any evidence of the truth.  This can’t be kept a covert operation anymore, the cat is out of the bag. In just nine months, look at the speed of the transformation.  Look at the destruction already caused and the portent of what is coming. 

The hope is now that Soros, Obama, and all the allies have pulled the trigger too early.  The truth is never defeated.  There is no time limit on truth.   Lying on the other hand requires enormous energy in order to account for the unending effort to manage and control the narrative. But, there is no caution being shown worrying about consequences of lying. It’s a new lie everyday.  It is tiresome for those that know truth, it must be even more exhausting for those that work to keep the deception going.

With the acceleration of the leftists in the open and a no turning back strategy will it be too late for the lovers of freedom and truth to push back enough?  There are signs of uprisings at the peoples level.  School boards are being challenged.  Patriot loving candidates are emerging to replace those in legislative positions.  But that is old school.  That takes time and the left has no desire to use the present system anymore.  They have struck out on the final push to overtake this once great land.

I am in the older generation.  I have seen this develop for sixty years now.  I pray God grants his followers protection in the coming days.  I pray the followers of the Lord and King seize on these moments to embrace and proclaim the truth.  The truth will never fail, will never change, and will never disappoint. Leftism is evil.  Evil desires to destroy the glory of God.  Man is sinful and deserves death.  Our Lord is returning soon.  Speak the truth everyday no matter the cost.

“Jesus said, I am the way the truth and the life.  No man may come to the father except through me…

One day, every knee will bow, and every tongue will confess that Jesus is the Christ to the glory of God.”  

It will never change, it is our hope, come quickly Lord Jesus

It seems to me that the Taliban, Isis, Isis K, Al Qaeda, the Iranians, Chinese, Russians, and even MS-13 all understand American Civics and Government better than 80 million people in the United States.

Today our soldiers were attacked and 13 died as the incompetence of the ruling class of this country is demonstrated to the entire world. Why?  Why now?  Why not last year or three years ago, or five years ago?  It’s simple.  The haters of America understand the American political system and recognize that they can easily have the upper hand on the world stage. Today.

Joe Biden is beholden to the Chinese government. He is cognitively diminished and portrays to the world weakness and a lack of passion and loyalty. Allies around the world will lose all faith in him and thereby the United States and a friend and protector.

The greater danger is that all the terrorist groups and enemies of America understand the place they have the United States in today and for the next three years.  They know the political system and that the country is stuck with this man for 3 and a half more years.  They know that if Joe Biden is removed, Kamala Harris, is the replacement.  They know if Kamala Harris is replaced, Nancy Pelosi takes over.  The window of opportunity to take advantage of the United States and diminish its power and standing in the world is right now and they will not hesitate to make it happen.  Who wouldn’t.  It is clear that Joe Biden has no desire to support and protect this country.  I live in Arizona, and we are already feeling the effect of a totally open border.  We are just two hours from the open southern door to any terrorist that just wants to walk in or already has.

In just 8 months the Democratic party has opened the door to the demise of this country at the hands of the Chinese.  I have observed for several years now, that this is not about America.  This is about Israel.  This is about removing the threat of God and Jews and Christians.  Once America is eliminated as a world power, the atheists, pagans, and heathens will turn on Israel to eliminate any perceived enemy of man and his desire to control the world.  

Believing this country can return to teaching and training its young for the long game is over.  There will be no return to building and nurturing children to be the foundation of the future for the years to come.  It is about the here and now.  I believe God has given this country over to a depraved mind and wrath is beginning to rain down.  Is there anyone that believes America will or can return to the nation of our founders? Without God’s hands keeping evil away, collapse is near.  

Is there any hope?  

     “I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction. For the time is here when they will not endure sound doctrine;but wanting to have their ears tickled, thy will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, and will turn away their ears from the truth, and will turn aside to myths.  But YOU, be sober in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.”  2 Timothy 4:1-5

Hold onto the TRUTH.

“The first great fact which emerges from our civilization is that today everything becomes “means”. There is no longer an “end”; we do not know whither we are going. We have forgotten our collective ends, and we possess great means; we set huge machines in motion in order to arrive nowhere. Jaques Ellul

I began my calling to education in 1977, almost fifty years ago.  The modern secondary Christian Education movement surged in the early 70s.  It blossomed as a strategic response to the 50 plus years of secular humanism thrust upon the country by progressivism in the academic world, liberalism in the religious world, and abandonment of Judeo Christian values in the culture.  The straw breaker was Madelynn Murray O’hare’s campaign to eliminate prayer from the public schools. Her influence was successful in 1963. 

I started out in a pioneer school that was just five years old at the time.  Like most in the movement, it was about families that wanted an alternative to the coming secular wave.  Families. Intact, two parent families.  Committed life long couples determined to raise their children to be obedient followers of God for a lifetime.  Seeing the secular public schools as a threat, parents desired schooling  to come along side them and hold the line, and fill the gap they could not during the week nor could Sunday School once a week.

I remember fondly when speaking with other Christian Educators sharing this adventure there  was a  common statement about the schools we served. “The school is a family.”  Not, it seems like a family, or we hope it’s like a family.  It is in truth, a family.  The early schools were small, many in the basements of supportive churches.  Likewise faculties and staff were small.  Teachers taught their discipline and in addition pitched in whenever and wherever needed to keep the daily operations running.  

The growth was rapid and it needed to be.  The competition from the secular academic world, the breakdown of the family, and the accelerated deterioration of the culture created a competitive environment and market for Christian Schools.  It became clear that for a Christian School to survive the institution would need to mirror all the opportunities available at the local public plan in addition to the “religious” facet that was eliminated from public education. must provide all the facets of the public school in addition to the “religious” component . As still today,  that meant capital.  Tuition rates grew steadily during the decades and smaller less equipped Christian schools fell by the wayside while those that had either church or community demographics to support them grew. Through the years the Christian School moment has earned the respect and credibility of the educational community and is some cases even antagonism for its accomplishments. In 2021 many Christian schools are on par or superior to  public education in all areas.  

On now near 50 years I can look back and see from where we have come.  There are strong Christian Schools that are celebrating thirty to sixty year anniversaries.  Many schools have earned respect and recognition for the accomplishments and value of their systems.  It is noteworthy and the influence on thousands of students and families is indeed significant and eternal in impact. 

What will the next 50 years of Christian Education look like?  There are significant challenges ahead.  Economics has always been a key to longevity.  In the beginning money was needed to  acquire and or establish  facilities.    The money spent on plants and structure most often limited the pool for salaries. From the beginning, the common theme recited often was you didn’t enter Christian Education to become rich.  It was a calling and sacrifice would require a servant’s heart.  And most important, you were not there to replace the family, you were there to be a resource for parents. It has always been the responsibility of parents to raise their children, while educators had the great honor to be the parent’s assistants.

The new challenges come after 50 years of further cultural deterioration.  Economics limits Christian Education to those that can afford it in communities of means and or affluence.  Government intrusion is threatening to eliminate economic means that have fueled enrollment the last 20 years.  Leftist ideology is encroaching through government edicts to effect curriculum development that must meet state standards.   

For me, by far the biggest challenge will be for Christian Education to stay attached to the vine.  Moored to it’s founding distinctiveness of valuing the gospel of Jesus as the number one priority in all facets.  This challenge will be critical and the most challenging as the breakdown of the family cross culture including the church community is driving the this country toward collapse.  I don’t hear “our school is really a family” these days.  The number of divorced and blended families in the Christian Community is similar to the culture at large.  The distinctiveness of a school that’s sole purpose was to assist families in raising obedient Christ followers has defaulted to creating equity in school academics and culture to maintain credibility and competition in the community.

For Christian Education to stay on the vine Christian Schools must be intentional in maintaining or returning to the initial mission of the movement.  The importance and value of the intact family must be preached and preached daily from K-12 despite how uncomfortable it may be for the community. The Theology of Gender should be front and center curriculum from K-12 more than ever with the breakdown of the family and casual acceptance of divorce. Christian Education was never to be a replacement for the nuclear family. The present culture has moved from training obedience for a lifelong pursuit of holiness to allowing feelings in the moment to dictate perceived happiness. Only the family unit can model a long obedience in the right direction.

As Paul said in 2 Timothy, “Perilous Times will come”. They are here.  Christian Education is needed now more than ever.  It must be first and foremost about reinforcing the design of God for the family.  Intact stable families grounded in the truth of the gospel of Jesus is the hope for now and the future. 

The Chinese are chipping away.  Afghanistan is now in the Chinese sphere of influence.  With every stroke they are sculpting the future of the ultimate desire.  They have been waiting for 100 years for the obstacles in the way to be patiently and systematically removed. The United States the largest mountain to conquer is collapsing in front of the entire world.  Once neutered by its own self destruction the Chinese will move to capture the final prize, Israel.

Two thousand years ago came the following prediction:

     “Realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.  For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, overs of pleasure rather than lovers of God; holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; and avoid such men as these.  

     For among then are those who enter uno households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led  by various impulses, always learning and never able to come to th knowledge of the truth.”

The collapse of American society and influence in the world fulfills this prophecy directly.  It may be just a short time for America to fall, not to the hands of other nations, but by the intentional elimination of God.  It has  been coming for over 100 years and is now moving in hyper speed.  Now the doors are opening to the Chinese, Iranians, Russians, and all the Muslim world to taking out Israel.  On a side note, earthquakes, volcanoes, world wide pestilences, wars and rumors of wars are all accelerating around the globe.  The signs are all around us.

Brother Paul also predicted how followers of the true King will need to respond in these perilous times:

     “I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His Kingdom; preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction.  For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance with their own desires; and will turn away their ears from the truth, and will turn aside to myths.  But you, be sober in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry…in the future there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge will award to me on that day; not only to me, but also to all who have loved His appearing.”

“For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sward, and piercing as far as the division of should an spirit, of both points and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.”

How does the greatest female gymnast on the planet that has spent everyday for fifteen years sacrificing, committing, surrendering normal life just walk away from the pinnacle of achievement?  After standing on the stage in 2016 as the greatest ever in the sport why did Simone Biles casually step away from the same glory this time?

The analysis is all over the place.  On the one hand, she is a sell out, a coward, a traitor to her teammates and country.  How could she do this.  She is clearly just a selfish narcissistic product of the I-Phone Generation.  She deserves to be shamed and guilted for her cowardice.

On the other hand, the defenders are calling for some slack as mental struggle and or illness is a real thing and her mental well being is paramount over any other consideration.  She stated herself that the stress at this level of competition took the fun of competing away so for her own sanity, she needed to step back and allow her teammates the freedom to pursue their goals and dreams. She sad is so casually.

There is another angle here.  It was all over Simone’s face after her faltering scores on the vault and bars.  The pressure isn’t any greater this time than four years ago.  In fact, without fans in the stands the pressure is less than 2016.  And yet, in a moment, without any warning, no injury, no physical symptoms, she quits.  No emotional despair, no visual signs of mental fatigue or trauma, just done. As if the decision is not that important and will not carry any meaning.

The look on Simone Biles face looking at her less than champion scores was the fear of losing.  Elite athletes of her caliber and record of success don’t walk away casually from the he opportunity to be on the throne again.  She knows the thrill of standing on the podium as the best of the best.  No pressure, no excuse in the world would keep someone from chasing that feeling and reality.  But at age 24, Simone is facing the one challenge she does not appear to be able to conquer.  Fear.  The fear of losing.  The fear of not being quite good enough.  The fear that the world will no longer see her as the best.  The fear that someone else will take her place at the top.  The fear of being seen as a loser.

Self-doubt, the sense of having no value is THE most powerful enemy to anyones soul.  It is just on display more in the world of elite athletics.  It is very difficult to accept that Simone Biles just walked away because of the pressure.  Her scores made it clear for her that her failures would cause the team to have to settle for a silver medal.  It would be better that the blame not fall on her for the team’s loss because of her failure to deliver on her expected performances. That’s a real and logical feeling for her and anyone in her position. Ironically, her withdrawal accomplished the same result.

The fear of losing, the destruction of self doubt, the deep feeling of having no value is more powerful in all of us than we admit.  It is what leads a Simone Biles to purposely self sabotage her life to avoid the pain of believing she will never be enough  She invested too much time, sacrificed too much of life, experienced too much success and notoriety to just walk away now.  At the depth of her soul there is a wrestling match with the fear of failure.  It is a horrible experience and one we all face every day.

This will pass.  The fall out will be momentary and analysis will be all over.  For Simone, the battle will go on long after athletics.  I hope she begins to confront her fear and next time pushes through without the worry of what others will think if she doesn’t just quite measure up.  Then the champion in her will be on the podium for life.