thetrumpet--2020-02-12--What Is Your Child Learning in Public School?

Educators know if they can shape the next generation , they can reshape society .
People are beginning to wake up to what has happened to American education .
But they are waking up a couple generations too late .
For most of American history , schoolchildren learned reading , writing and arithmetic .
They studied history , especially their own history , for several hours every week .
They obeyed their teachers , and their teacher graded them based on their performance .
They were rewarded for good behavior , punished for bad behavior , and taught the difference @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the Bible .
They were taught that opportunity included accountability .
They pledged allegiance to the flag .
For a schoolchild of the 1950s and before , reading this description of American school life would be about as surprising as a paragraph about the sky being blue and the grass being green .
But in 2020 , it sounds like a description of another world .
School entrances had no metal detectors ; school hallways had no drug-sniffing dogs ; students did not hit teachers ; teachers did not get romantically involved @ @ @ @ @ @ @ prepubescent children about “ alternative ” sexual behaviors .
Boys competed against other boys .
Girls competed against other girls .
Boys used one bathroom ; girls used another .
In recent generations , American education has drastically changed .
At first , it seemed it had just weakened .
Academic performance declined , quality of instruction declined , behavior declined , the overall quality of high school graduates declined .
Americans reacted with a collective shrug of the shoulders , a shaking of the head , and a That ’ s a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ than they knew .
Now the decline has become a dive—a dive that is being propelled downward , not just by gravity but by an ideological agenda .
Jump from the 1950 classroom to the 2020 classroom : Students whose clothes smell like marijuana , knives and guns in backpacks , sex under the bleachers , scorn from students , bruises on teachers , pride for debauchery , hatred for standards , and so much more .
Forget about knowing multiplication tables , who James Madison was , or how supply and demand @ @ @ @ @ @ @ unrestrained human nature .
But even there , you have to ask , what happened to the restraints ?
And weren ’ t some of those restraints good ?
The authority of the traditional American school is being replaced by a new authority—with restraints of its own .
Passé are virtues like patriotism , responsibility , honesty , courtesy , obedience , chastity and reverence .
The new virtues are environmental consciousness , multiculturalism , opposition to patriarchy and white privilege , anti-colonialism , forced economic equality and transgender advocacy .
‘ How @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ Does your child go to school in Seattle ?
If so , he or she is under the authority of a school system that has partially implemented a new rubric for K-12 teachers that stuffs as many references to advocacy , agency , appropriation , disenfranchisement , empowerment , exploitation , feelings , identity , liberation , oppression , origins , power , resistance , validation and “ people of color ” as possible into three pages .
What subject does this “ ethnic studies framework ” govern ?
This policy compels @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been and continues to be used to oppress and marginalize people and communities of color ” and that “ technology and/or science have been and continue to be used to oppress and marginalize people and communities of color.
” Students will “ identify the inherent inequities of the standardized testing system used to oppress and marginalize people and communities of color.
” They will learn “ the ways in which individuals and groups define mathematical knowledge so as to see ‘ Western ’ mathematics as the only legitimate expression of mathematical identity and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ use this “ to disenfranchise people and communities of color.
” You might think your child is going to math class to learn fractions , long division , sines , cosines and tangents , but instead he or she will be asking , “ How important is it to be right ?
What is right ?
Says who ?
” “ Who gets to say if an answer is right ?
” “ Where does power and oppression show up in our math experiences ?
” “ Who holds power in a mathematical @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and name oppressive mathematical practices in my experience ?
” “ Can I advocate against oppressive mathematical practices ?
” In New York City , the nation ’ s largest school system of 1,800 schools , Mayor Bill de Blasio ’ s task force is calling for students to no longer be evaluated by their attendance , character and knowledge as revealed in auditions , attendance records , interviews and standardized tests .
It is attempting to phase out gifted-and-talented programs .
In Los Angeles , the Compton Unified School District and others @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it requires applicants to take standardized tests ( the sat or act ) .
The plaintiffs say this violates their civil rights and illegally discriminates against students who are disabled , low-income , multilingual or “ of color.
” These are just a few examples of the radicalization of public-school curricula in America and many other nations .
Educators are teaching the next generation leftist views that depict the West , especially America , as oppressive , hate-filled and genocidal .
They are exalting wealth redistribution and socialism while condemning free markets .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ activists .
They are teaching radical views about sexuality , normalizing transgenderism , gender fluidity and sexual experimentation .
These educators realize something that too many others have taken for granted : The minds of children are worth fighting for .
Leftists are using education to shape the next generation into tomorrow ’ s activists and radicals .
They recognize that implanting these politicized social concepts into young minds will reshape society .
While the Seattle example has only been partially implemented , “ Deep Equity ” is a curriculum already being used @ @ @ @ @ @ @ America locales like West Des Moines , Iowa , and Chandler , Arizona .
A California for-profit education company called Corwin developed this curriculum , which teaches that America exists as a hierarchy of oppressions .
Students are learning to categorize white people into “ white identity orientations.
” “ Fundamentalist white identity ” consists of denial , ignorance and supremacy ; “ integrationist white identity ” consists of awareness/curiosity , guilt and paternalism/compliance ; and “ transformationist white identity ” consists in part of “ systemic power shift.
” They are learning @ @ @ @ @ @ @ person , you will follow the steps of the “ White Allies Action Agenda , ” which include “ acknowledge the reality of white racial privilege ” and “ use your privilege to work for racial and social justice.
” Corwin-educated students are instructed to “ explicitly reject and resist any attempts by anyone in our school district or in the larger community ” —such as parents—who reject its racial doctrine .
Meanwhile , last November was “ Native American Heritage Month ” at Portland Public Schools , Oregon ’ s largest school @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Thanksgiving Day and read from A Young People ’ s History of the United States , a book that characterizes all natives as generous and saintly and all settlers from Europe as greedy and violent .
Christopher Columbus , for example , was “ hungry for money , ” so “ as soon as he arrived in the islands , he seized some Arawaks by force so that he could get information from them ” to answer “ Where is the gold ?
” This was “ the start of the history of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was a history of conquest , slavery and death.
” This book aims to tell “ the story of the discovery of America from the point of view of the Arawaks ” and the story of the Constitution “ from the point of view of the slaves , ” and so on .
Eighth graders read , “ The tragedy of Columbus and the Arawaks happened over and over again .
Spanish conquerors Herman Cortés and Francisco Pizarro destroyed the Aztecs of Mexico and the Incas of South America .
When English settlers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the same thing to the Indians they met.
” One resource the school district recommends for celebrating Native American Heritage Month is a video produced by Teen Vogue in which the director has arranged six angry-looking Native American teenage girls behind a table with a traditional Thanksgiving meal .
They inform student viewers , “ The true story behind Thanksgiving was , after every killing of a whole village , these European settlers celebrated it , and called it Thanksgiving.
” It says those who keep Thanksgiving “ are actually celebrating the deaths @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that were lost.
” They end by saying , “ Happy Thanksgiving , America , ” and flipping over the Thanksgiving table .
Thousands of young students went to their family ’ s Thanksgiving dinner this year after being instructed that it is a celebration of genocide .
I ’ m sure the people behind this curriculum would be quite pleased if those young teens ended up lecturing their parents about genocide , war crimes and cultural appropriation .
They might not be too disappointed if the kids flipped the table .
How @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in America , this is the one that focuses on a positive virtue , on an important aspect of healthy thinking : thanksgiving—being grateful for your blessings .
What a vivid illustration of the toxicity of the leftist agenda that it is being twisted into an excuse to hate your country and to view your God-given blessings as evidence of racist oppression .
American schoolchildren are also learning “ climate literacy.
” According to a 2016 Portland Public Schools resolution , all schools must “ develop and implement curriculum that addresses climate change @ @ @ @ @ @ @ abandon the use of any adopted text material that is found to express doubt about the severity of the climate crisis or its root in human activities.
” It teaches children that entire economies must be redefined , that the fossil-fuel era must end , and that they must be activists and leaders for social justice and environmental justice .
What is “ social justice ” ?
Facing the Future , an education group , defines it as “ the movement towards eliminating oppression and ultimately achieving equality in the distribution of goods @ @ @ @ @ @ @ society.
” If you think this is just about economics or even race , you are wrong .
Activists , agents of the government , and businesses for profit are teaching young American students “ activism , ” “ collectivism , ” “ equality in the distribution of goods and wealth ” and “ resistance.
” This is how you teach a generation socialism and communism .
In many ways , the trend in education leans pro-socialist , anti-free market .
Educators are eliminating competition , awarding trophies for participation rather than winning @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of performance reviews .
Curricula are replacing hard sciences and mathematics with social studies .
Little wonder that a 2018 Gallup poll showed that a majority of 18-to-29-year-olds have a positive view of socialism versus capitalism : 55 percent to 45 percent .
The love for socialism is matched by—and depends entirely on—historical illiteracy .
History is taught less and less , and when it is , it is of the “ Thanksgiving celebrates genocide ” type , demonizing Western civilization .
A November 6 Telegraph article referred to a recent poll of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
“ It found that 28 percent had never heard of Stalin , almost half had never heard of Lenin , and an astonishing 70 percent had never heard of Mao Tse Tung , whose regime was responsible for more deaths through murder and famine than any other in the 20th century.
” Such ignorance is a tragedy .
Those invaluable lessons of history were written at staggering cost , and we are casting them aside .
An uneducated generation is now rushing to repeat history ’ s bloodiest errors .
Teaching at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Kentucky called the Nehemiah Institute conducts an annual test of high school students to identify their beliefs regarding politics , economics , education , religion and social issues—and whether they agree with the Bible .
This test determines which of four categories students ’ worldviews fit : biblical theism , moderate Christian , secular humanism or socialism .
The test in 2015 showed that , in the words of Dayspring Christian Academy , “ 90 percent of students from Christian homes attending public schools score in a range that indicates that their views @ @ @ @ @ @ @ secularism.
” In other words , the teaching at schools is more powerful than the teaching at home .
How critical is the education of our children !
These leftist educators are taking it seriously .
Proverbs 22:6 states , “ Train up a child in the way he should go : and when he is old , he will not depart from it.
” This is what God tells parents : We have a duty to train them , while young , in the way they should go to prepare them for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ applying this principle for perverse ends .
They know that if they can implant radical concepts into young minds , they will retain them for life and thus refashion society .
If we are to train our children in the way they should go , we must know that way .
Far too many parents do not , and are thus allowing educators to move in and fill young minds with error .
Over and again in the Bible , God tells us to remember : Remember history , remember your heritage , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ways .
And a crucial means of doing that , He emphasizes , is for parents to teach their children , and grandparents to teach their grandchildren .
God told Moses to instruct people , “ Gather me the people together , and I will make them hear my words , that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth , and that they may teach their children ” ( Deuteronomy 4:10 ; see also chapter 6:1-7 ) .
He emphasized that fathers are to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ know how to be fathers , so they can teach their sons .
God created us to live for 30 to 40 years after our childbearing years .
He wants three or four generations to be alive at one time .
He wants children to have grandparents and even great-grandparents—because He wants continuity .
He wants the past to live .
What happens if we fail ?
Then that way will be forgotten !
That knowledge will die out .
In fact , it will perish in a single generation .
In our @ @ @ @ @ @ @ your free copy ) is a section titled “ Parents Are Teachers , ” which states , “ A child must be taught how to live .
When God created the human family , He intended that parents be the child ’ s first teachers .
… Be prepared to educate your child from the moment he or she is born .
Don ’ t wait for a schoolteacher to educate your child .
You should view all schoolteachers as your assistants , not as your child ’ s primary educators.
” Deuteronomy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Moses speaks directly to the remnant of the generation who experienced firsthand deliverance from Egyptian slavery .
He tells them that the only way their children will remember that history is if they teach it , and says that cherishing and preserving that history was necessary for national survival !
It is almost painful to read , knowing what later happened to the nation of Israel .
The period of the judges and of the kings that followed were marked by recurring spiritual failure—in large part because parents failed to fulfill their responsibility @ @ @ @ @ @ @ welds individual families into a single nation under God .
It ensures national stability .
Had Israel ’ s parents diligently followed this command , the nation would have maintained a significant hedge against departing from God ’ s way .
The importance of spiritual education to national survival isn ’ t a deep spiritual concept ; it is common sense .
At one time , Americans seemed to understand it .
One of America ’ s founders , Benjamin Rush , signer of the Declaration of Independence , wrote a publication , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Bible as a Schoolbook , which stated , “ Before I state my arguments in favor of teaching children to read by means of the Bible , I shall assume the … following propositions : 1 ) That Christianity is the only true and perfect religion , and that in proportion as mankind adopt its principles and obey its precepts , they will be wise and happy .
2 ) That a better knowledge of this religion is to be acquired by reading the Bible than in any other way .
3 ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to man in his present state than any other book in the world.
” This was common thinking at the time of America ’ s founding .
Samuel Adams , considered the father of the American Revolution , said , “ Let divines and philosophers , statesmen and patriots , unite their endeavors to renovate the age , by impressing the minds of men with the importance of educating their little boys and girls—of inculcating in the minds of youth the fear and love of the deity and universal philanthropy ; and in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ love of their country—of instructing them in the art of self-government , without which they never can act a wise part in the government of societies , great or small ; in short , of leading them in the study and practice of the exalted virtues of the Christian system ….
” The founding generation was grounded in biblical principles , and they expected these to be the bedrock of education .
Clearly , much has changed .
Schools have banished Bible education in favor of entirely humanist , secular thinking .
They @ @ @ @ @ @ @ altogether .
Sadly , it isn ’ t just political indoctrination that educators are forcing on our children .
An nbc affiliate in Austin , Texas , reported on Oct. 28 , 2019 , “ Austin Independent School District ’ s board unanimously approved a controversial new sex-education curriculum .
The curriculum spans grades three through eight .
Under the new curriculum , for the first time , the district will teach students about gender identity and sexual orientation .
The lessons will also help kids identify an adult they can trust ; @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they get pregnant , and seventh graders would learn how to use a condom.
” I have a son in seventh grade—12 years old—and he attends school at Imperial Academy , the K-12 school on the Herbert W. Armstrong College campus , where the Trumpet is produced .
He is going to school and learning science , math , English , history , literature and music .
He and his classmates don ’ t have depraved educators forcing such filth on them .
And as a result , they are learning , receiving @ @ @ @ @ @ @ childhood !
They ’ re not even thinking about sexual orientation and sexual experimentation .
They ’ re thinking about their science projects , their studies , their music practice—things that 12-year-olds should be thinking about !
This is something I regularly thank God for .
Very few parents have the opportunity to give their children such an education .
Many parents pretty well have to send their children to public school , and must then continually face these battles .
Another story that emerged in October was a series of videos posted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Sex-ed School and featured on the Shaftesbury Kids YouTube channel .
What are the videos about ?
This is how the channel describes it : “ Sex-ed School is a fun new web series for kids to get real info from experts and discover all the answers they want to know now .
A series that explores the birds and the bees with ease in today ’ s digital landscape .
Sex-ed School is a safe place where kids can talk openly and honestly about sexuality , the body and healthy relationships !
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Shaw Rocket Fund , Canada ’ s largest private investor dedicated to Canadian children ’ s media .
What do children learn in this “ safe place ” ?
Transgenderism , gender expression , sexual orientation , and many other topics I won ’ t even mention .
In these clips with positive music , cartoonish-but-graphic graphics , chipper instructors speak to classrooms full of bright-eyed 12-to-14-year-olds .
In one video , the teachers invite a special guest to speak to the children : a woman , covered in tattoos , with short-cropped @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at her feet .
She explains that she was a “ drag king ” and then had surgery and takes testosterone to lower her voice , answers children ’ s questions about taking hormones and whether she has “ male or female parts , ” holds an activity encouraging them to think as though they ’ re the opposite sex , and encourages them to be “ allies.
” This goes well beyond simply not teaching the precepts of the Bible , or of morality , like Benjamin Rush and Samuel Adams said @ @ @ @ @ @ @ teaching the opposite of the Bible—and in rank defiance of the Bible !
These educators aren ’ t simply disrespecting the beliefs of any families of these children who believe in the Bible : They are willfully , actively attacking those beliefs , and the God-given authority of those children ’ s parents !
They are training up children in the way that they think those kids should go !
In November , the school board of District 211 in Illinois voted to allow biological males into the female locker room at Palatine @ @ @ @ @ @ @ students should be “ treated and supported in a manner consistent with their gender identity.
” The “ rights ” of one confused boy trump the rights of all the girls in that school to privacy , the right to changing clothes in a locker room with no boys present .
A video of a young woman on the swim team at the high school who was present at the decision showed her crying .
These board members and educators don ’ t care about her beliefs , or her privacy , or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ zealously forcing their radical views on this student and on the public .
PJ Media reported on Nov. 8 , 2019 , “ Last year in Canada , a first grade teacher told a 6-year-old girl that ‘ there is no such thing as girls and boys ’ and that ‘ girls are not real and boys are not real.
’ According to the girl ’ s parents , this caused their daughter a great deal of distress and amounted to discrimination against her .
When the parents complained , the teacher defended @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the teacher as well .
The parents moved their daughter to a different school.
” That is the way modern education is trending : If you don ’ t like your 6-year-old being indoctrinated in liberal sexual orthodoxy , you have to move .
These people are aggressive .
And we as parents had better be aggressive in carrying out our responsibility as educators , or our children will be steamrolled .
Just as society is being .
Civilization is a fragile thing .
As Will Durant noted in The Story of Civilization @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by forces external and internal : natural disaster , disease epidemic , financial exhaustion , mental decay , moral decay , leadership decay , decline in family , class wars , revolutions .
These are some of the ways in which a civilization may die , he wrote : “ For civilization is not something inborn or imperishable ; it must be acquired anew by every generation , and any serious interruption in its financing or its transmission may bring it to an end.
” Civilization must be acquired anew by every generation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that is “ education , which may be defined as the technique of transmitting civilization.
” That is what education is : the passing on of civilization from one generation to the next .
And that education , of course , can be true—or false .
These evils that the devil has shoehorned into our educational system will destroy civilization in a single generation !
Satan is creating a generation with no grounding in reality , no moral compass , no understanding of right and wrong , no history , no memory .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Take seriously your God-given responsibility to be your child ’ s educator .
Know what he or she is being taught in school—and take whatever steps are necessary to defend them .
Actively train him in the way you know he should go .
Your child is worth fighting for !

Educators know if they can shape the next generation, they can reshape society.
People are beginning to wake up to what has happened to American education. But they are waking up a couple generations too late.
For most of American history, schoolchildren learned reading, writing and arithmetic. They studied history, especially their own history, for several hours every week. They obeyed their teachers, and their teacher graded them based on their performance. They were rewarded for good behavior, punished for bad behavior, and taught the difference based on a tradition that traced back to the Bible. They were taught that opportunity included accountability. They pledged allegiance to the flag.
For a schoolchild of the 1950s and before, reading this description of American school life would be about as surprising as a paragraph about the sky being blue and the grass being green. But in 2020, it sounds like a description of another world.
School entrances had no metal detectors; school hallways had no drug-sniffing dogs; students did not hit teachers; teachers did not get romantically involved with students. Textbooks did not teach prepubescent children about “alternative” sexual behaviors. Boys competed against other boys. Girls competed against other girls. Boys used one bathroom; girls used another.
In recent generations, American education has drastically changed. At first, it seemed it had just weakened. Academic performance declined, quality of instruction declined, behavior declined, the overall quality of high school graduates declined. Americans reacted with a collective shrug of the shoulders, a shaking of the head, and a That’s a shame.
And it was. More than they knew. Now the decline has become a dive—a dive that is being propelled downward, not just by gravity but by an ideological agenda.
The Agenda
Jump from the 1950 classroom to the 2020 classroom: Students whose clothes smell like marijuana, knives and guns in backpacks, sex under the bleachers, scorn from students, bruises on teachers, pride for debauchery, hatred for standards, and so much more. Forget about knowing multiplication tables, who James Madison was, or how supply and demand work.
Much of this comes from unrestrained human nature. But even there, you have to ask, what happened to the restraints? And weren’t some of those restraints good? The authority of the traditional American school is being replaced by a new authority—with restraints of its own.
Passé are virtues like patriotism, responsibility, honesty, courtesy, obedience, chastity and reverence. The new virtues are environmental consciousness, multiculturalism, opposition to patriarchy and white privilege, anti-colonialism, forced economic equality and transgender advocacy.
‘How Important Is It to Be Right?’
Does your child go to school in Seattle? If so, he or she is under the authority of a school system that has partially implemented a new rubric for K-12 teachers that stuffs as many references to advocacy, agency, appropriation, disenfranchisement, empowerment, exploitation, feelings, identity, liberation, oppression, origins, power, resistance, validation and “people of color” as possible into three pages. What subject does this “ethnic studies framework” govern?
Math.
This policy compels instructors to teach that “math has been and continues to be used to oppress and marginalize people and communities of color” and that “technology and/or science have been and continue to be used to oppress and marginalize people and communities of color.” Students will “identify the inherent inequities of the standardized testing system used to oppress and marginalize people and communities of color.” They will learn “the ways in which individuals and groups define mathematical knowledge so as to see ‘Western’ mathematics as the only legitimate expression of mathematical identity and intelligence,” and how white people use this “to disenfranchise people and communities of color.”
Julia Goddard/Trumpet
You might think your child is going to math class to learn fractions, long division, sines, cosines and tangents, but instead he or she will be asking, “How important is it to be right? What is right? Says who?” “Who gets to say if an answer is right?” “Where does power and oppression show up in our math experiences?” “Who holds power in a mathematical classroom?” “Can I recognize and name oppressive mathematical practices in my experience?” “Can I advocate against oppressive mathematical practices?”
Apparently standardized tests violate civil rights and illegally discriminate against students who are disabled, low-income, multilingual or “of color.”
In New York City, the nation’s largest school system of 1,800 schools, Mayor Bill de Blasio’s task force is calling for students to no longer be evaluated by their attendance, character and knowledge as revealed in auditions, attendance records, interviews and standardized tests. It is attempting to phase out gifted-and-talented programs. In Los Angeles, the Compton Unified School District and others are suing the University of California because it requires applicants to take standardized tests (the sat or act). The plaintiffs say this violates their civil rights and illegally discriminates against students who are disabled, low-income, multilingual or “of color.”
These are just a few examples of the radicalization of public-school curricula in America and many other nations. Educators are teaching the next generation leftist views that depict the West, especially America, as oppressive, hate-filled and genocidal. They are exalting wealth redistribution and socialism while condemning free markets. They are encouraging students to become environmental activists. They are teaching radical views about sexuality, normalizing transgenderism, gender fluidity and sexual experimentation.
These educators realize something that too many others have taken for granted: The minds of children are worth fighting for. Leftists are using education to shape the next generation into tomorrow’s activists and radicals. They recognize that implanting these politicized social concepts into young minds will reshape society.
Teach Children to Hate Thanksgiving
While the Seattle example has only been partially implemented, “Deep Equity” is a curriculum already being used in school districts across the country—even Middle America locales like West Des Moines, Iowa, and Chandler, Arizona. A California for-profit education company called Corwin developed this curriculum, which teaches that America exists as a hierarchy of oppressions. Students are learning to categorize white people into “white identity orientations.” “Fundamentalist white identity” consists of denial, ignorance and supremacy; “integrationist white identity” consists of awareness/curiosity, guilt and paternalism/compliance; and “transformationist white identity” consists in part of “systemic power shift.” They are learning that if you are a good white person, you will follow the steps of the “White Allies Action Agenda,” which include “acknowledge the reality of white racial privilege” and “use your privilege to work for racial and social justice.”
Corwin-educated students are instructed to “explicitly reject and resist any attempts by anyone in our school district or in the larger community”—such as parents—who reject its racial doctrine.
Meanwhile, last November was “Native American Heritage Month” at Portland Public Schools, Oregon’s largest school district. Students were taught to attack Thanksgiving Day and read from A Young People’s History of the United States, a book that characterizes all natives as generous and saintly and all settlers from Europe as greedy and violent. Christopher Columbus, for example, was “hungry for money,” so “as soon as he arrived in the islands, he seized some Arawaks by force so that he could get information from them” to answer “Where is the gold?” This was “the start of the history of the Europeans in the Americas. It was a history of conquest, slavery and death.” This book aims to tell “the story of the discovery of America from the point of view of the Arawaks” and the story of the Constitution “from the point of view of the slaves,” and so on.
Eighth graders read, “The tragedy of Columbus and the Arawaks happened over and over again. Spanish conquerors Herman Cortés and Francisco Pizarro destroyed the Aztecs of Mexico and the Incas of South America. When English settlers reached Virginia and Massachusetts, they did the same thing to the Indians they met.”
Julia Goddard/Trumpet
One resource the school district recommends for celebrating Native American Heritage Month is a video produced by Teen Vogue in which the director has arranged six angry-looking Native American teenage girls behind a table with a traditional Thanksgiving meal. They inform student viewers, “The true story behind Thanksgiving was, after every killing of a whole village, these European settlers celebrated it, and called it Thanksgiving.” It says those who keep Thanksgiving “are actually celebrating the deaths of many people, and many tribes that were lost.” They end by saying, “Happy Thanksgiving, America,” and flipping over the Thanksgiving table.
“The true story behind Thanksgiving was, after every killing of a whole village, these European settlers celebrated it, and called it Thanksgiving.”
Thousands of young students went to their family’s Thanksgiving dinner this year after being instructed that it is a celebration of genocide. I’m sure the people behind this curriculum would be quite pleased if those young teens ended up lecturing their parents about genocide, war crimes and cultural appropriation. They might not be too disappointed if the kids flipped the table.
How pernicious. Of all the holidays celebrated in America, this is the one that focuses on a positive virtue, on an important aspect of healthy thinking: thanksgiving—being grateful for your blessings. What a vivid illustration of the toxicity of the leftist agenda that it is being twisted into an excuse to hate your country and to view your God-given blessings as evidence of racist oppression.
Teach Children Activism
American schoolchildren are also learning “climate literacy.” According to a 2016 Portland Public Schools resolution, all schools must “develop and implement curriculum that addresses climate change and climate justice” and must “abandon the use of any adopted text material that is found to express doubt about the severity of the climate crisis or its root in human activities.” It teaches children that entire economies must be redefined, that the fossil-fuel era must end, and that they must be activists and leaders for social justice and environmental justice.
What is “social justice”? Facing the Future, an education group, defines it as “the movement towards eliminating oppression and ultimately achieving equality in the distribution of goods and wealth among all groups in a society.”
If you think this is just about economics or even race, you are wrong. Activists, agents of the government, and businesses for profit are teaching young American students “activism,” “collectivism,” “equality in the distribution of goods and wealth” and “resistance.” This is how you teach a generation socialism and communism.
In many ways, the trend in education leans pro-socialist, anti-free market. Educators are eliminating competition, awarding trophies for participation rather than winning, and rejecting letter grades in favor of performance reviews. Curricula are replacing hard sciences and mathematics with social studies.
Julia Goddard/Trumpet
Little wonder that a 2018 Gallup poll showed that a majority of 18-to-29-year-olds have a positive view of socialism versus capitalism: 55 percent to 45 percent.
Young American students are taught “activism,” “collectivism,” “equality in the distribution of goods and wealth” and “resistance.” This is how you teach a generation socialism.
The love for socialism is matched by—and depends entirely on—historical illiteracy. History is taught less and less, and when it is, it is of the “Thanksgiving celebrates genocide” type, demonizing Western civilization.
A November 6 Telegraph article referred to a recent poll of 16-to-24-year-olds in the UK conducted by Survation. “It found that 28 percent had never heard of Stalin, almost half had never heard of Lenin, and an astonishing 70 percent had never heard of Mao Tse Tung, whose regime was responsible for more deaths through murder and famine than any other in the 20th century.”
Such ignorance is a tragedy. Those invaluable lessons of history were written at staggering cost, and we are casting them aside. An uneducated generation is now rushing to repeat history’s bloodiest errors.
Teaching at Home Vs. at School
A group in Kentucky called the Nehemiah Institute conducts an annual test of high school students to identify their beliefs regarding politics, economics, education, religion and social issues—and whether they agree with the Bible. This test determines which of four categories students’ worldviews fit: biblical theism, moderate Christian, secular humanism or socialism. The test in 2015 showed that, in the words of Dayspring Christian Academy, “90 percent of students from Christian homes attending public schools score in a range that indicates that their views are firmly grounded in basic tenets of secularism.”
In other words, the teaching at schools is more powerful than the teaching at home.
How critical is the education of our children! These leftist educators are taking it seriously. Proverbs 22:6 states, “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” This is what God tells parents: We have a duty to train them, while young, in the way they should go to prepare them for success in life. These educators are applying this principle for perverse ends. They know that if they can implant radical concepts into young minds, they will retain them for life and thus refashion society.
If we are to train our children in the way they should go, we must know that way. Far too many parents do not, and are thus allowing educators to move in and fill young minds with error.
Over and again in the Bible, God tells us to remember: Remember history, remember your heritage, remember the truth, remember the old ways. And a crucial means of doing that, He emphasizes, is for parents to teach their children, and grandparents to teach their grandchildren.
God told Moses to instruct people, “Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children” (Deuteronomy 4:10; see also chapter 6:1-7). He emphasized that fathers are to teach their sons well enough that they know how to be fathers, so they can teach their sons.
God created us to live for 30 to 40 years after our childbearing years. He wants three or four generations to be alive at one time. He wants children to have grandparents and even great-grandparents—because He wants continuity. He wants the past to live.
What happens if we fail? Then that way will be forgotten! That knowledge will die out. In fact, it will perish in a single generation.
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In our book Child Rearing With Vision (request your free copy) is a section titled “Parents Are Teachers,” which states, “A child must be taught how to live. When God created the human family, He intended that parents be the child’s first teachers. … Be prepared to educate your child from the moment he or she is born. Don’t wait for a schoolteacher to educate your child. You should view all schoolteachers as your assistants, not as your child’s primary educators.”
“90 percent of students from Christian homes attending public schools score in a range that indicates that their views are firmly grounded in basic tenets of secularism.” Dayspring Christian Academy
Deuteronomy 11 is an extraordinary passage, where Moses speaks directly to the remnant of the generation who experienced firsthand deliverance from Egyptian slavery. He tells them that the only way their children will remember that history is if they teach it, and says that cherishing and preserving that history was necessary for national survival!
It is almost painful to read, knowing what later happened to the nation of Israel. The period of the judges and of the kings that followed were marked by recurring spiritual failure—in large part because parents failed to fulfill their responsibility as educators.
Obedience to this command welds individual families into a single nation under God. It ensures national stability. Had Israel’s parents diligently followed this command, the nation would have maintained a significant hedge against departing from God’s way.
The importance of spiritual education to national survival isn’t a deep spiritual concept; it is common sense. At one time, Americans seemed to understand it.
One of America’s founders, Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration of Independence, wrote a publication, A Defense of the Use of the Bible as a Schoolbook, which stated, “Before I state my arguments in favor of teaching children to read by means of the Bible, I shall assume the … following propositions: 1) That Christianity is the only true and perfect religion, and that in proportion as mankind adopt its principles and obey its precepts, they will be wise and happy. 2) That a better knowledge of this religion is to be acquired by reading the Bible than in any other way. 3) That the Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.” This was common thinking at the time of America’s founding.
Samuel Adams, considered the father of the American Revolution, said, “Let divines and philosophers, statesmen and patriots, unite their endeavors to renovate the age, by impressing the minds of men with the importance of educating their little boys and girls—of inculcating in the minds of youth the fear and love of the deity and universal philanthropy; and in subordination to these great principles, the love of their country—of instructing them in the art of self-government, without which they never can act a wise part in the government of societies, great or small; in short, of leading them in the study and practice of the exalted virtues of the Christian system ….”
The founding generation was grounded in biblical principles, and they expected these to be the bedrock of education.
Sex Indoctrination
Clearly, much has changed. Schools have banished Bible education in favor of entirely humanist, secular thinking. They have expelled moral instruction and evicted God altogether.
Sadly, it isn’t just political indoctrination that educators are forcing on our children.
An nbc affiliate in Austin, Texas, reported on Oct. 28, 2019, “Austin Independent School District’s board unanimously approved a controversial new sex-education curriculum. The curriculum spans grades three through eight. Under the new curriculum, for the first time, the district will teach students about gender identity and sexual orientation. The lessons will also help kids identify an adult they can trust; plus talk to them about options if they get pregnant, and seventh graders would learn how to use a condom.”
I have a son in seventh grade—12 years old—and he attends school at Imperial Academy, the K-12 school on the Herbert W. Armstrong College campus, where the Trumpet is produced. He is going to school and learning science, math, English, history, literature and music. He and his classmates don’t have depraved educators forcing such filth on them. And as a result, they are learning, receiving real education, and still enjoying their childhood! They’re not even thinking about sexual orientation and sexual experimentation. They’re thinking about their science projects, their studies, their music practice—things that 12-year-olds should be thinking about!
This is something I regularly thank God for. Very few parents have the opportunity to give their children such an education. Many parents pretty well have to send their children to public school, and must then continually face these battles.
Another story that emerged in October was a series of videos posted on YouTube by Canada-based sex education group Sex-ed School and featured on the Shaftesbury Kids YouTube channel. What are the videos about? This is how the channel describes it: “Sex-ed School is a fun new web series for kids to get real info from experts and discover all the answers they want to know now. A series that explores the birds and the bees with ease in today’s digital landscape. Sex-ed School is a safe place where kids can talk openly and honestly about sexuality, the body and healthy relationships!” Funding comes in part from the Shaw Rocket Fund, Canada’s largest private investor dedicated to Canadian children’s media.
What do children learn in this “safe place”? Transgenderism, gender expression, sexual orientation, and many other topics I won’t even mention. In these clips with positive music, cartoonish-but-graphic graphics, chipper instructors speak to classrooms full of bright-eyed 12-to-14-year-olds. In one video, the teachers invite a special guest to speak to the children: a woman, covered in tattoos, with short-cropped purple hair, speaking to the children at her feet. She explains that she was a “drag king” and then had surgery and takes testosterone to lower her voice, answers children’s questions about taking hormones and whether she has “male or female parts,” holds an activity encouraging them to think as though they’re the opposite sex, and encourages them to be “allies.”
This goes well beyond simply not teaching the precepts of the Bible, or of morality, like Benjamin Rush and Samuel Adams said was foundational to education. This is teaching the opposite of the Bible—and in rank defiance of the Bible! These educators aren’t simply disrespecting the beliefs of any families of these children who believe in the Bible: They are willfully, actively attacking those beliefs, and the God-given authority of those children’s parents!
They are training up children in the way that they think those kids should go!
In November, the school board of District 211 in Illinois voted to allow biological males into the female locker room at Palatine High School. They argued that all students should be “treated and supported in a manner consistent with their gender identity.” The “rights” of one confused boy trump the rights of all the girls in that school to privacy, the right to changing clothes in a locker room with no boys present. A video of a young woman on the swim team at the high school who was present at the decision showed her crying. These board members and educators don’t care about her beliefs, or her privacy, or anyone else’s. They are zealously forcing their radical views on this student and on the public.
PJ Media reported on Nov. 8, 2019, “Last year in Canada, a first grade teacher told a 6-year-old girl that ‘there is no such thing as girls and boys’ and that ‘girls are not real and boys are not real.’ According to the girl’s parents, this caused their daughter a great deal of distress and amounted to discrimination against her. When the parents complained, the teacher defended her actions, and the principal defended the teacher as well. The parents moved their daughter to a different school.”
That is the way modern education is trending: If you don’t like your 6-year-old being indoctrinated in liberal sexual orthodoxy, you have to move.
These people are aggressive. And we as parents had better be aggressive in carrying out our responsibility as educators, or our children will be steamrolled. Just as society is being.
Transmitting Civilization
Civilization is a fragile thing. As Will Durant noted in The Story of Civilization, it is easily subject to destruction by forces external and internal: natural disaster, disease epidemic, financial exhaustion, mental decay, moral decay, leadership decay, decline in family, class wars, revolutions. These are some of the ways in which a civilization may die, he wrote: “For civilization is not something inborn or imperishable; it must be acquired anew by every generation, and any serious interruption in its financing or its transmission may bring it to an end.”
Civilization must be acquired anew by every generation. And the main factor in doing that is “education, which may be defined as the technique of transmitting civilization.” That is what education is: the passing on of civilization from one generation to the next.
And that education, of course, can be true—or false.
These evils that the devil has shoehorned into our educational system will destroy civilization in a single generation! Satan is creating a generation with no grounding in reality, no moral compass, no understanding of right and wrong, no history, no memory. And civilization itself is in peril.
Take seriously your God-given responsibility to be your child’s educator. Know what he or she is being taught in school—and take whatever steps are necessary to defend them. Actively train him in the way you know he should go. Your child is worth fighting for!


thetrumpet--2020-02-12--Asia Overwhelmed by Four “Plagues”

Asia Overwhelmed by Four “Plagues”

As Germany struggles to navigate some of its biggest challenges in its postwar history , it is essentially leaderless .
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has already announced she will not stand in another election—meaning she ’ ll be out of her job by the end of next year .
Today , her chosen successor quit .
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer became the leader of Merkel ’ s Christian Democratic Union ( cdu ) in December 2018 .
As leader of Germany ’ s most popular political party , she was the most likely candidate for Germany ’ s next chancellor .
Until @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the political earthquake that struck Germany last week .
Last Wednesday , for the first time in Germany ’ s postwar history , a far-right party played a role in forming a government in Germany .
Merkel ’ s cdu worked with the far-right Alternative für Deutschland ( AfD ) to elect a candidate from a third , moderately right-wing party , in the state of Thuringia .
After that taboo was broken , it ’ s no longer just the Trumpet warning about the parallels with the rise of the Nazis .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ power in 1930 .
The dam is cracking in exactly the same place it did before .
The backlash was immediate .
Ms. Merkel was very critical of her own party ’ s role in the debacle .
The newly elected state premier resigned after about a day in office .
But the taboo still stands broken .
Kramp-Karrenbauer ’ s career was damaged beyond repair .
And Germany now stands leaderless .
Kramp-Karrenbauer came under attack for not stopping the deal with the far right .
She was party leader—had she lost @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was also accused of not speaking out forcefully enough against the AfD .
Germans were already disappointed with her tenure in office .
And so , today , she announced that she would not stand as a candidate for Germany ’ s chancellor , and that she would resign as party leader—to be replaced in the summer .
Germany is in crisis .
Its future as a democracy is in doubt .
As Spiegel Online wrote on Friday , the events of last week were “ a sign of the gradual decay of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ scenario appears to have been averted.
” “ Every new attrition chips away at our democratic system , ” it wrote .
“ To stop this , what happened in Thuringia must be seen as a warning shot , a harbinger.
” This is not the only storm looming on Germany ’ s horizon .
The migrant crisis has created tensions that still haven ’ t be solved—and it could break out with each new crisis in the Middle East .
Germany ’ s manufacturing sector is suffering its largest decline in orders @ @ @ @ @ @ @ economy could easily tilt into recession .
All of Europe has not yet solved the problems exposed by the 2008 financial crisis .
Another financial crisis would be a storm of hurricane-force proportions .
Who can Germans look to to guide them through the storms ?
Germany ’ s largest party has no leader and is not planning to have a leader until the summer .
Germans aren ’ t particularly enthusiastic about any of the candidates .
The nation ’ s main left-wing party doesn ’ t have a leader—it has two @ @ @ @ @ @ @ neither of whom are particularly prominent .
I don ’ t think there ’ s any time in recent history where Germans have been more worried about their political situation .
And at the same time , I can ’ t think of any time in recent German history where there has been a bigger leadership vacuum .
Germans aren ’ t used to this kind of instability .
Since World War ii , Germany has had nine chancellors .
Comparatively , Britain has had 16 prime ministers , and Italy has had @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was developing in 2016 , theTrumpet.com managing editor Brad Macdonald wrote : “ This is a potentially dangerous scenario .
Politics abhors a vacuum .
The greater the number and intensity of the crises , the stronger the desire for someone with real solutions .
This is exactly the scenario that facilitated the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party.
” Anyone familiar with the Trumpet ’ s message will recognize the situation we ’ re in right now .
One of the biggest predictions we ’ ve made—based on Bible prophecy—is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The Bible forecasts this strongman .
And it has a lot of specifics about how he will come to power .
Daniel 11:21 tells us to watch for the arrival of “ a vile person , to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom : but he shall come in peaceably , and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
” The Jamieson , Fausset and Brown Commentary writes about this verse that “ the nation shall not , by a public act , confer the kingdom on him , but he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ flattering.
’ ” He doesn ’ t come to power in a normal election process .
With Germans desperate for a strong leader , and none on the horizon , circumstances are almost perfect for someone to come into power in an unorthodox way .
What happens if there ’ s some kind of crisis between now and summer , and Ms. Merkel is forced to step down ?
Germany ’ s top two leaders are both lame ducks .
Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry showed just how many specifics the Bible @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the cover article for the January issue of the Trumpet magazine .
He explained that this strongman “ will somehow manipulate the political system to effectively hijack Germany and , by extension , Europe.
” “ Knowing that such political intrigue will occur makes the bureaucratic turmoil in Berlin important to watch , ” he wrote .
“ The government is shaky , the need for strong leadership is clear—but the path to achieve it is unknown .
This prophesied leader may well exploit this frustration and confusion by rallying a coalition behind @ @ @ @ @ @ @ … Look at the public resentment and anger in Germany and Europe .
The opportunity is growing ripe for someone to take power by flatteries !
” The events of last week show that opportunity is riper than ever .
Germany has the potential to be a major , even a military , power .
“ For now , though , the nation lacks a leader willing ” to take the steps necessary , wrote Mr .
Flurry .
“ This will change overnight when a strongman gets control !
Germany ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , dramatic as it was , will not even compare to what is coming !
” This strongman could come to power very fast , and he will change your world .
You need to understand what the Bible says about him .
If you ’ ve not done so already , please read Mr.
Flurry ’ s January cover article : “ Is KT zu Guttenberg About to Come to Power ?
” It will give you the biblical truth you need to understand events in Germany .
More importantly , it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to your own life .

Parts of the world are in a panic due to the rapid proliferation of four different diseases across Asia: the Wuhan coronavirus, bird flu, African swine fever and swine flu.
Figures related to the Wuhan coronavirus continue to soar. As of Monday afternoon, the official death count stood at over 1,000, with more than 40,000 infected. An initial quarantine of 11 million people has now been expanded to include over 50 million people. The flu-like symptoms make the Wuhan coronavirus difficult to identify, further complicated by the fact that the infected generally do not exhibit symptoms right away. Resultantly, it has spread to at least 27 other countries, with the first non-Chinese deaths reported in Hong Kong and the Philippines. Several nations, including Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan and the United States, have changed their border policies to deny entry to anyone who has been in the most heavily infected regions.
Meanwhile, about two thirds of China’s swine herd has been lost in recent months due to African swine fever. The disease has no cure and no vaccine, and once one pig has been infected, the entire herd has to be killed to prevent spreading. Prior to its outbreak in 2018, about half of the world’s pigs lived in China. Now, pork prices are soaring as herds in Cambodia, North Korea and Vietnam have been similarly devastated.
African swine fever in China has farmers putting their animals in high-security farms as a precaution #非洲豬瘟 pic.twitter.com/XVBZIsuzgw — Bloomberg Quicktake (@Quicktake) April 14, 2019
While the African swine fever cannot be transmitted to humans, its similarly rapidly spreading counterpart, the H5N1 bird flu, can. According to the Daily Mail, “China has reportedly seen an outbreak of a ‘highly pathogenic’ strain of H5N1 bird flu which has already killed 4,500 chickens.” It has forced Chinese authorities to cull over 17,000 chickens. According to the World Health Organization, human cases of H5N1 avian influenza are uncommon, but when they do occur, “the mortality rate is about 60 percent.” The coronavirus by comparison, has a mortality rate of just 2.1 percent.
On top of all this, Asia is also suffering an outbreak of the H1N1 swine flu. It has already spread to 100,000 people in Taiwan, which saw 13 infected people die in the space of a week, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. One woman died despite having been vaccinated.
Many claim these diseases result solely from poor food safety measures. The Washington Post writes that such epidemics are the result of urbanization—large populations being densely packed in cities. Indeed, such living situations made fertile conditions for the bubonic plague, which decimated a third of Europe’s population in the 1300s. Four cases of a deadlier strain, the pneumonic plague, were even reported in China at the end of last year.
But there is a deeper cause for the proliferation of these deadly diseases, and prophecy says they are only going to get worse.
In the book of Revelation, the Apostle John was inspired to write about what would take place before the return of Jesus Christ. Chapter 6 contains a prophecy of what are commonly called the “four horsemen of the apocalypse,” representing religious deception, war, famine and the fourth, which rides “a pale horse” (Revelation 6:8).
In our booklet The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry and coauthor Wayne Turgeon wrote:
Pale is translated from the Greek chloros, which we would normally take to mean the color of chlorophyll, the property that gives plants their healthy green appearance. When used biblically, however, chloros means the sickly pale green color of sickness and disease. Other biblical translations describe the pale horse as an ash-colored horse, a horse sickly green, a horse sickly pale and an ashy pale horse. … Worldwide disease epidemics are mentioned in the same context with the other horsemen in Revelation 6:1-8 and in the three Gospel accounts of Matthew, Mark and Luke, because they are successive. Multiple millions of people will perish from sickness and disease if they survive the ravaging effects of nuclear bombardment and subsequent starvation.
The diseases in Asia are a harbinger of the worldwide devastation soon coming on Earth. These diseases may not be the very pandemics that will decimate global populations, but prophecy tells us that such diseases are on the horizon.
The only way to be spared from these disasters is to turn to God. He promises to provide a way of escape to those who keep His commandments (Revelation 12:13-17). To learn more about these coming disasters and the only sure way of escape, request your free copy of The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.


thetrumpet--2020-02-12--Europe Strengthens Sahel Coalition

Europe Strengthens Sahel Coalition

( From left ) Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki , Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed cut the ribbon during the inauguration of the Tibebe Ghion Specialized Hospital in Bahir Dar , northern Ethiopia , on Nov. 10 , 2018 .
The ‘ Cushitic Alliance ’ and the Horn of Africa in prophecy The leaders of Ethiopia , Eritrea and Somalia met in Asmara , Eritrea , on January 27 to discuss increasing cooperation and regional integration in the Horn of Africa .
This new “ Cushitic Alliance , ” as it has been called , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ realization of a united , radical Islamic Horn of Africa .
The meeting last month was the third time Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed , Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki and Somali President Mohamed Farmajo had met in the last year .
The three leaders began by reaffirming their commitments to the Tripartite Agreement .
The alliance signed in September 2018 stated : The fledgling alliance also adopted a new Joint Plan of Action for 2020 .
According to Eritrean Information Minister Yemane Meskel , the plan will focus “ on two main and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and security , as well as promoting economic and social development.
” He continued , “ They also agreed to bolster efforts for effective regional cooperation.
” A later dispatch said the three leaders would focus on development and building infrastructure .
On the security front , the leaders formulated a strategy to combat common threats , such as terrorism , arms and human trafficking , and drug smuggling , according to AllAfrica .
The EastAfrican said that these efforts are leading “ to some sort of Horn of Africa coalition , ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” At the Helm of the Horn Spearheading the regional integration project , Abiy has been the biggest proponent of the unification of the Horn of Africa .
Ever since he took control of the leadership of Ethiopia , he has worked diligently to reestablish the Ethiopian Navy , which it decommissioned in 1993 after it lost its coastline to Eritrea .
When Abiy announced his plan to bring back the Navy , he emphasized that a robust maritime force is required for having a united Horn of Africa .
According to AllAfrica @ @ @ @ @ @ @ integrate , “ both economically and politically , with its neighbors around the region , including Eritrea , Djibouti , Somalia and others.
” Ethiopia is a massive economy in the region and it needs access to the sea to become an international trading giant .
According to the Daily Nation , “ For Ethiopia , a friendly leader in Jubaland [ southern province of Somalia ] will provide an unhindered access to the five Somalia ’ s Indian Ocean ports agreed with Farmajo : Kismayo , Balawe , Basasso , Barbera and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Ethiopia has been making close relations with Eritrea to regain its port access there as well .
“ [ N ] ow that Eritrea and Ethiopia are together , ” said Macharia Munene , a professor of history and international relations at United States International University Africa , “ [ t ] hey can form a strong economic bloc.
” Ethiopia is Africa ’ s second-most populous nation , with a population of more than 105 million people .
It is the key player at the helm of East Africa .
Where Ethiopia @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Africa follows .
In The King of the South , Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry writes , “ Whoever heavily influences or controls Ethiopia will undoubtedly also control the small areas of Eritrea and Djibouti on the Red Sea coastline.
” You could also add Somalia to that list .
Right now , Ethiopia is pushing for the unification of the Horn of Africa—an objective that has seen a large degree of success over the past two years .
However , Ethiopia is also facing what could become “ violent and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by ethnic divides , these elections could cause the nation to split down the middle , following ethnic , language and religious composition .
A prophecy in Daniel 11 describes the rise of an end-time Middle Eastern power called “ the king of the south.
” Verse 40 says that this power will have a very pushy foreign policy and eventually it will “ push ” at Europe .
In The King of the South ( free upon request ) , Mr .
Flurry proves that radical Islamic extremism , led by Iran @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Verse 43 says , “ the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
” The Soncino commentary defines “ at his steps ” as either “ joining his army or placing themselves at his beck and call.
” The Gesenius ’ Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon says it should read “ in his company.
” Ethiopia will be closely allied with Iran !
Mr .
Flurry continues in The King of the South : “ These areas [ Djibouti and Eritrea ] only recently became independent of Ethiopia .
Also , I believe @ @ @ @ @ @ @ areas are included as a part of Ethiopia.
” Eritrea is a part of Ethiopia .
Analysts are now saying that “ Eritrea and Ethiopia are together.
” The word Ethiopia is translated from the Hebrew name Cushi .
Anciently , the kingdom of Cush was centered in Ethiopia .
Today , the Cushitic language is indigenous only to the Horn of Africa and a pocket along the Red Sea coast in Sudan .
It is a commonly accepted fact that a large majority of the people in Eritrea , Ethiopia and Somalia @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the Cushitic region is almost wholly Islamic .
Ethiopia is where this divide between west and east , Cushitic and non-Cushitic , Muslim and non-Muslim meets .
The Somali and Oromeia , which are two of the largest provinces and ethnic groups in Ethiopia , are both of Cushitic language and origin and are predominantly Muslim .
However , the eastern provinces , primarily Tigray and Amhara , are both of non-Cushitic origin and are predominantly Christian .
It is this ethnic and religious divide down the center of Ethiopia that makes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dangerous .
Ethiopia ’ s Christian-Muslim divide is an ongoing issue .
On December 24 , Al Jazeera reported that several thousand Muslims across Ethiopia protested the burning of four mosques in the Christian-dominated Amhara region .
Meanwhile , in Amhara , thousands are protesting the ill treatment of Christian students in Muslim areas of Oromeia .
This conflict is expected to worsen leading up to the May 2020 election as ethnic and religious conflict takes center stage .
As a result , Ethiopia is in danger of collapse .
Such a scenario @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Iran , an opportunity to hijack the nation ’ s politics and gain control of the nation .
Once radical Islam controls Ethiopia , it is prophesied that the Cushitic Muslim Horn of Africa would follow Ethiopia and fall under the control of Iran .
Somalia is struggling to fight off the al-Shabaab terrorist group in its territory , one Iran has previously worked with .
Sudan and Egypt have also been historic targets of Iran .
Ethiopia is also in Iran ’ s sights .
Mr .
Flurry writes , “ You @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Ethiopia to make a severe and rapid turn into the radical Islamic camp.
” As Eritrea , Ethiopia and Somalia continue to strengthen their “ Cushitic Alliance , ” this Bible prophecy becomes more and more of a reality .
For more information , request your free copy of The King of the South , by Gerald Flurry .

Africa’s most war-torn region is about to receive more European soldiers. French President Emmanuel Macron met with the leaders of Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso and Chad on February 3 in Pau, France, to discuss and implement a new legal framework for their mission in the troubled Sahel region.
The “Coalition for the Sahel” will bring 600 more French soldiers to the region. Originally, Macron planned to send only 220, but he revised the number a short time later. French General François Lecointre told Le Monde that this establishes “permanent action on the ground, 24 hours a day and seven days a week.”
This coalition exists for the same purpose but has expanded legal and military powers. It swallows up all previous and future missions under the name of the “Coalition for the Sahel.” The G5 Sahel force, France’s Operation Barkhane, and a special forces group planned for the future are all included under the umbrella of the new coalition.
Besides increased military presence, the new mandate expands the distance coalition forces will be allowed to travel inside the borders of neighboring countries. This has been increased from 50 kilometers (31 miles) to 100 kilometers (62 miles), giving greater scope to forces tasked with eliminating the terrorists.
The meeting between Macron and Sahel leaders came only one day after terrorists of the Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims, an al-Qaeda affiliate, killed at least 20 police officers in Mali. Increasing attacks in the Sahel region over 2019 have shown Macron that the Sahel needs to be dealt with more powerfully.
France will continue increasing its power throughout North Africa to counter Islamic extremism. Eventually, France will not be the only nation involved. More European nations, especially Germany, are going to get involved in directly confronting radical Islam. Much European power is already in the region.
“Northern Africa is turning into a battleground with enormously important prophetic implications,” wrote Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry in the April 2013 Trumpet issue. “Germany has great power in Africa—even military power—that few people are paying attention to. Germany is not about to give that power up, certainly not without a fight.”
Since 2013, terrorism has grown exponentially in the Sahel. Europe’s involvement has also grown significantly.
Sahel nations are gateways to Libya and Algeria, where oil fields are vulnerable unless the volatile Sahel extremists are contained. Stopping the spread of terrorism here protects Europe’s energy interests and its domestic security.
Europe will not stop at confronting extremists in the Sahel. Bible prophecy shows that a much larger clash between Europe and radical Islam is coming. A clash that will take the battle to the head of the terrorist snake.
Watch the proliferation of radical Islam in the Sahel, and watch Europe get more involved. Mr. Flurry wrote:
The reason this is so significant is that these two powers are prophesied to clash in the end time. Daniel 11:40 speaks of a war between “the king of the south,” which we can prove to be Iran and radical Islam, and “the king of the north,” which we know to be Germany leading a group of nations.
Daniel 11:40 states, “And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.” The king of the north is a German-led European superpower. It will clash with Iran, the world’s largest state sponsor of Islamic terrorism. This verse describes a “whirlwind” attack on Iran and radical Islam. It will radically alter the balance of power in the Middle East, and eventually, the entire world.
Terrorism in the Sahel region is one way Iran pushes at Europe. Your Bible says that Europe will soon enter an all-out war against radical Islam led by Iran.
How will these events change your world, and what comes next for Europe’s war on terror? Read The King of the South, by Gerald Flurry, to learn more.


thetrumpet--2020-02-11--Germany Urges Europe to Ban Hezbollah from Lebanon

After months of political deadlock , Lebanon formed a new government on January 22 , with Hezbollah playing an instrumental part .
According to Imad Salamey , professor of political science at the Lebanese American University , Hezbollah was a “ major architect ” of this deal .
Afterward , influential German members of the European Parliament said they would back a European Union ban on Hezbollah .
German Member of Parliament David McAllister said they would “ try to draft something that finds sufficient support ” within the Parliament to pass a resolution .
In December , the German @ @ @ @ @ @ @ its government to ban both Hezbollah ’ s military and political wings from operating within Germany .
Now it is pushing Europe , which has designated the military wing as a terrorist group , to ban them from within Europe .
The presence of the Iran-backed Hezbollah movement has drawn mass protests and civil unrest in Lebanon .
The new cabinet has been called a “ one color ” government aligned to Hezbollah .
The Iranian presence in Lebanon has led to a withdrawal of Western funding and financing in recent years , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ new government .
Lebanon ’ s economic woes have resulted in its currency , the lira , losing about a third of its value against the dollar .
A shortage of foreign exchange has caused banks to prevent many from withdrawing their savings , with withdrawals being capped at a few hundred dollars a week .
It is this economic turmoil that has driven the civil unrest in the country .
This is the challenge facing the new government , one that Professor Salamey does not think it will be able to solve @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ] his requires , among other matters , attracting Arab and Western financial support that has been withdrawn due to growing Hezbollah political influence in the country.
” As a result , this will probably “ expedite the country ’ s economic collapse and political chaos.
” Because Hezbollah ’ s political wing is not deemed a terrorist organization by the EU it has operational freedom within Europe .
It has been able to raise funds and recruit members within the European heartland .
Banning it would allow the EU to freeze its @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it is currently under massive financial pressure in Lebanon , Hezbollah ’ s ability to freely operate in Europe allows access to the funds it needs to support itself , not only in Lebanon but also in Syria and as part of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps .
As a result , U.S. ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell urged the EU to follow in Germany ’ s footsteps and designate all of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization .
Grenell wrote for Politico , “ Hezbollah is under enormous financial pressure .
… But @ @ @ @ @ @ @ coercive influence over Lebanon ’ s financial sector , and its operational freedom within the European Union , allow it access to the revenue it needs to weather the storm of sanctions .
… If the EU wants to take a stand against the Assad regime ’ s violence in Syria and the export of that violence and instability to Europe , it should follow the German parliament ’ s lead and designate all of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization.
” Bible prophecy indicates that Hezbollah may ultimately be expunged from Lebanon .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ at least be detached from Iran .
Whether or not it is this sequence of events that accomplishes that remains to be seen .
But as Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry wrote in “ How the Syrian Crisis Will End , ” a prophecy in Psalm 83 speaks of “ a multi-nation Middle Eastern confederation that will ally with Germany.
” The prophecy states : “ For they have consulted together with one consent : they are confederate against thee : The tabernacles of Edom , and the Ishmaelites ; of Moab @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and Ammon , and Amalek ; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre ; Assur also is joined with them : they have holpen the children of Lot .
Selah ” ( Psalm 83:5-8 ) .
Mr .
Flurry explained that this coalition of nations has never before come together , meaning this is a future alliance .
He explained that “ Gebal ” is an ancient name for modern-day Lebanon : Gebal , modern-day Lebanon , is home today to the Iranian terrorist puppet Hezbollah .
We can expect it to also @ @ @ @ @ @ @ naval ships just off the coast of Lebanon .
Why should it be so concerned about what ’ s happening in that part of the world ?
It is all part of Germany ’ s global strategy .
This prophecy also reveals that the Philistines are with the inhabitants of Tyre .
Get a map and you will see that Tyre is in southern Lebanon , the stronghold of the Hezbollah terrorists .
Their alliance with Iran is about to be broken , and Germany will be the main cause .
Germany is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Hezbollah .
This could help reduce Iran ’ s influence in the country and set Lebanon on course to ally with Germany .
Prophecy makes clear that Germany will be at the head of a European superpower in the end time ( for a detailed explanation , request our free booklet Germany and the Holy Roman Empire ) .
This German-led Europe will ally with certain Middle Eastern nations—including Lebanon—to achieve its goals in the Middle East .
“ Moderate ” Arab nations , such as Kuwait , the United Arab Emirates @ @ @ @ @ @ @ already drawing closer to Germany through bilateral relations , arms exports and national security .
These are the rumblings of Bible prophecy on the verge of being fulfilled .
We need to closely watch what happens in the Middle East , as well as Europe ’ s involvement in it all .
To better understand the end-time prophecies regarding the Middle East and Europe , request your free copy of The King of the South , by Gerald Flurry .

After months of political deadlock, Lebanon formed a new government on January 22, with Hezbollah playing an instrumental part. According to Imad Salamey, professor of political science at the Lebanese American University, Hezbollah was a “major architect” of this deal.
Afterward, influential German members of the European Parliament said they would back a European Union ban on Hezbollah. German Member of Parliament David McAllister said they would “try to draft something that finds sufficient support” within the Parliament to pass a resolution.
In December, the German parliament approved a resolution that called on its government to ban both Hezbollah’s military and political wings from operating within Germany. Now it is pushing Europe, which has designated the military wing as a terrorist group, to ban them from within Europe.
The presence of the Iran-backed Hezbollah movement has drawn mass protests and civil unrest in Lebanon. The new cabinet has been called a “one color” government aligned to Hezbollah.
The Iranian presence in Lebanon has led to a withdrawal of Western funding and financing in recent years, a phenomenon unlikely to change with this new government. Lebanon’s economic woes have resulted in its currency, the lira, losing about a third of its value against the dollar. A shortage of foreign exchange has caused banks to prevent many from withdrawing their savings, with withdrawals being capped at a few hundred dollars a week.
It is this economic turmoil that has driven the civil unrest in the country. This is the challenge facing the new government, one that Professor Salamey does not think it will be able to solve. He said, “[T]his requires, among other matters, attracting Arab and Western financial support that has been withdrawn due to growing Hezbollah political influence in the country.” As a result, this will probably “expedite the country’s economic collapse and political chaos.”
Because Hezbollah’s political wing is not deemed a terrorist organization by the EU it has operational freedom within Europe. It has been able to raise funds and recruit members within the European heartland. Banning it would allow the EU to freeze its assets and funds in Europe.
Although it is currently under massive financial pressure in Lebanon, Hezbollah’s ability to freely operate in Europe allows access to the funds it needs to support itself, not only in Lebanon but also in Syria and as part of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. As a result, U.S. ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell urged the EU to follow in Germany’s footsteps and designate all of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization.
Grenell wrote for Politico, “Hezbollah is under enormous financial pressure. … But in the meantime, Hezbollah’s coercive influence over Lebanon’s financial sector, and its operational freedom within the European Union, allow it access to the revenue it needs to weather the storm of sanctions. … If the EU wants to take a stand against the Assad regime’s violence in Syria and the export of that violence and instability to Europe, it should follow the German parliament’s lead and designate all of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization.”
Bible prophecy indicates that Hezbollah may ultimately be expunged from Lebanon. If not, the terrorist group will at least be detached from Iran. Whether or not it is this sequence of events that accomplishes that remains to be seen. But as Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry wrote in “How the Syrian Crisis Will End,” a prophecy in Psalm 83 speaks of “a multi-nation Middle Eastern confederation that will ally with Germany.”
The prophecy states: “For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee: The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes; Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre; Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah” (Psalm 83:5-8).
Mr. Flurry explained that this coalition of nations has never before come together, meaning this is a future alliance. He explained that “Gebal” is an ancient name for modern-day Lebanon:
Gebal, modern-day Lebanon, is home today to the Iranian terrorist puppet Hezbollah. We can expect it to also switch allegiance! Even now Germany has naval ships just off the coast of Lebanon. Why should it be so concerned about what’s happening in that part of the world? It is all part of Germany’s global strategy. This prophecy also reveals that the Philistines are with the inhabitants of Tyre. Get a map and you will see that Tyre is in southern Lebanon, the stronghold of the Hezbollah terrorists. Their alliance with Iran is about to be broken, and Germany will be the main cause.
Germany is beginning to urge Europe to ban all of Hezbollah. This could help reduce Iran’s influence in the country and set Lebanon on course to ally with Germany. Prophecy makes clear that Germany will be at the head of a European superpower in the end time (for a detailed explanation, request our free booklet Germany and the Holy Roman Empire). This German-led Europe will ally with certain Middle Eastern nations—including Lebanon—to achieve its goals in the Middle East.
“Moderate” Arab nations, such as Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, are already drawing closer to Germany through bilateral relations, arms exports and national security. These are the rumblings of Bible prophecy on the verge of being fulfilled.
We need to closely watch what happens in the Middle East, as well as Europe’s involvement in it all. To better understand the end-time prophecies regarding the Middle East and Europe, request your free copy of The King of the South, by Gerald Flurry.


thetrumpet--2020-02-11--Watch World Events in Relation to Bible Prophecy

Sinn Fein , the political wing of the terrorist Irish Republican Army , made stunning gains over the weekend in Ireland ’ s general election .
Sinn Fein is now just one seat behind the leading party .
This is part of a trend that ’ s occurring across Europe : Radical groups that used to be fringe parties are making massive gains in elections .
While it ’ s still not clear who is leading in the Democratic Party primaries , one thing is for sure : President Donald Trump ’ s popularity is surging .
In New Hampshire @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Meanwhile , President Trump , who is uncontested in the primary and has no reason to campaign there , visited earlier this week and drew crowds in the tens of thousands .
We ’ re not even two months in the new year and already dozens of events have occurred that are prophetically significant !
In today ’ s Bible study segment , I review the list of these prophetic events and remind listeners about Jesus Christ ’ s instruction to watch and pray so that we might be ready for His @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Radio Show on Apple Podcasts , Google Play or by RSS

Watch World Events in Relation to Bible Prophecy
Ireland Election (7 minutes)
Sinn Fein, the political wing of the terrorist Irish Republican Army, made stunning gains over the weekend in Ireland’s general election. Sinn Fein is now just one seat behind the leading party. This is part of a trend that’s occurring across Europe: Radical groups that used to be fringe parties are making massive gains in elections.
New Hampshire Primary (10 minutes)
While it’s still not clear who is leading in the Democratic Party primaries, one thing is for sure: President Donald Trump’s popularity is surging. In New Hampshire, Democrats are struggling to build crowds. Meanwhile, President Trump, who is uncontested in the primary and has no reason to campaign there, visited earlier this week and drew crowds in the tens of thousands.
Bible Study: Watch and Pray (30 minutes)
We’re not even two months in the new year and already dozens of events have occurred that are prophetically significant! In today’s Bible study segment, I review the list of these prophetic events and remind listeners about Jesus Christ’s instruction to watch and pray so that we might be ready for His return!
E-mails From Listeners (10 minutes)