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Today, we are in The Season Of The Last Generation. The Birth Pains that Christ Jesus spoke about are currently under way, including natural and unnatural disasters. They will be ever increasing. Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold. Social, economic and political turmoil will be ever increasing, causing people's hearts to be weighed down with dissipation, drunkenness and the anxieties of life. An apostasy within the Church of God is currently under way. This will all reach a climax with Satan revealing his Antichrist and requiring that everyone worship him; That every one receive his "mark" in order to buy or sell; The new currency of the New World Order, the New Tower of Babel.

Today, it is critical that those who have a heart for God are aware of what God is doing and speaking today. God is opening up His Word like never before in preparation for The Time Of The END. I exhort you to open up your heart and your eyes to see what He is doing and your ears to hear what God is speaking at this time. My prayer is that we will be able to stand before the Son of Man at His appearing, without fault and with great joy. I encourage you to read David Wilkerson's book, America's Last Call at davidwilkersontoday.blogspot.com. Also, Google, Tommy Hicks Prophecy, 1961 for a view of the End Times.

Tom's books include: Called By Christ To Be ONE, The Time Of The END, The Season Of The Last Generation, Worship God In Spirit And In Truth, Daniel And The Time Of The END, and Overcoming The Evil One. They are available at amazon.com. They can also be read without cost by clicking on link: Toms Books.

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Today, the Bride Of Christ is rising up in every nation in the world! Giving Glory to Her Savior and King, Christ Jesus!
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Monday, March 18, 2024

DOES BLOOD MOON ON APRIL 8, MEAN AND ECOMOMIC DISASTER FOR THE AMERICA?

 That is the Question pose by the following article.

https://www.wnd.com/2024/03/biblical-expert-warns-upcoming-blood-moons/

Further, the US is in Terrible Economic shape at the current time, according to the following article.

https://mrctv.org/blog/charles-kohlhaas/all-inclusive-mess




All-Inclusive Mess

 COMMENTARY

CHARLES A. KOHLHAAS | MARCH 15, 2024

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In the news this morning:

Oil price up; inflation up; 

10-year Treasury's yield up; 

Bitcoin down on an upward trend; 

Haiti in chaos and Americans there stuck and cannot get out; 

Biden’s budget trends will add trillions to the government debt in the next decade; 

Biden blames inflation on big business; another Boeing emergency landing (at LAX-cause not yet clear); 

polls show an increase of financial nihilism in young people; gangs establishing greater control of Mexico and  coordinating with China regarding drugs and manufacturing; 

the electric grid is in danger of failure because of increased AI and data center requirements; 

Biden wants to release $6B to Iran; 

Chuck Schumer is asking for Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to step down; 

a woman in Florida was abducted and sexually abused by three illegal immigrants; 

Biden’s budget shrinks the military in a world of increasing threats; 

senators are debating what to do about TikTok; 

Ukraine slowly losing its war; 

average price increases at Dollar Stores show no signs of slowing down; 

California is planning to charge for electricity based on consumers’ income level. 

What more?

This is a summary of reality in our world this morning. 

The Biden Administration denies much of this, denies their role causing any of it, and seems unprepared to deal with any of it. 

No wonder young people are developing nihilistic attitudes. 

Their own government has created a formidable and all-inclusive mess. 

“There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action” – Goethe

I would add we are seeing that ignorance compounded with arrogance is even worse. 

Twenty-first Century U.S. presidents each seem determined to prove they can outspend their predecessor. 

Biden is laying out plans to outspend himself. 

His budget predictions and debt forecasts for the next decade claim great benefits. 

For whom is not clear and nowhere is there a prediction of increases of inflation or interest rates. 

He also plans to increase taxes on corporations and wealthy individuals - a well-known counterproductive policy which reduces government revenues, not increase them. 

All this will certainly destroy confidence in U.S. financial strength and the dollar. 

As noted, 10-year Treasury yields are already going up; so are crypto, oil, and gold prices and further increases can be expected as far as the eye can see. 

Haiti lives and dies as a continual catastrophe. 

Refugees by the thousands are heading for the beach in Florida, just what Florida does not need. 

What to do?  Nobody seems to know. 

Americans cannot get out and are stuck in the middle of gang warfare. 

The Biden Administration is still encouraging more illegal immigrants to vote in November’s election. 

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Biden announced a plan to build a port in Gaza, at which aid for Hamas can be unloaded (Yes, Hamas. Gazan civilians are unlikely to get any).  

He did not mention the Hamas’ American hostages – or Americans imprisoned by Putin – or China – or Iran – and only reluctantly mentioned “Lincoln” Riley. 

Biden’s callousness regarding the American public and individual citizens is plain for all to see. 

Nearly 50 years ago, I attended lectures by an Army general and a colonel.  

These gentlemen had experience in guerilla warfare, subversion, raids behind enemy lines, and other forms of unconventional warfare. 

One of these lectures I remember clearly when I consider 10 million illegal immigrants, so far, entering the U.S. during the Biden Administration. 

Most of these are military-aged males including 20,000 to 25,000 Chinese, many criminals, and an unknown number from the Middle East. 

That lecture, by the general, explained how, with 100 men, he could shut down a major American city in 12 hours. 

The Chinese have described extensively their intent to undermine and destroy the United States with “Unrestricted Warfare.” 

We can be sure they have updated the general’s techniques with modern technology. 

We have already had cyber-attacks on our infrastructure. 

Consider the potential effect, if 25 major U.S. cities were attacked and shut down simultaneously in one night - all coordinated on TikTok.

The Boeing emergency landing last night was the 14th since the first of the year. 

Boeing made reliable airplanes since the early days of aviation. Is such a sudden series of problems the result of ESG management or DEI hiring? 

So many problems so suddenly in so short a time is a situation starting to stink. 

Sabotage? This is consistent with Chinese capability and intent and the type of thing the Chinese describe today in writings as techniques to destroy the U.S. – just as it was described so long ago by the general and colonel.

The International Energy Agency reported that oil demand is up and oil stocks are down. 

The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve was drawn down by the Biden Administration for election purposes. 

Irresponsible cynicism. 

Meanwhile, the Saudis are producing about nine million barrels of oil per day. 

They have a capacity of about 12 million for a surplus capacity of three million. 

Last year, they announced they would increase that capacity by one million, but this year announced they would not develop that additional one million. 

Many commentators framed that as a reduction of production growth. 

It was not; they decided three million surplus capacity is enough for them to influence the oil market and price. 

The Biden Administration wants to increase taxes on wealthy individuals. 

Gavin Newsom’s California wants to charge for electricity on a sliding scale, increasing charges based on the income of the user. 

This is all straight out of Marx – From each according to his ability to pay; to each according to his need. 

Milton Friedman made it clear: Inflation in the U.S. is only caused by excessive government spending, because the government is the only party in the country that can create money for itself to spend in excess. 

Excessive government spending is expenditure for reasons that have no tangible benefits (such as welfare for illegal immigrants, EV subsidies, and increasing regulations). 

That seems like a simple concept, but it exceeds the cognitive ability of the Biden Administration. 

Reportedly, $460 billion was spent on illegal immigrants in 2023, with no benefit or return to the taxpayers whose money it was. 

That is more than half the military budget.    

A potential electric grid failure in a country with abundant cheap natural gas and the ability to produce small nuclear generating plants would be a blatant result of government overregulation, mismanagement,  and misguided priorities.

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The Biden Administration’s incompetence is truly all-inclusive.

https://mrctv.org/blog/charles-kohlhaas/all-inclusive-mess

China doesn’t need a Trojan Horse – It has Joe Biden

 

By Peter Lemiska
March 18, 2024

Most people are at least vaguely familiar with the story of the original Trojan Horse. 

According to legend, sometime around the 12th or 13th century BC, Greece and Troy were at war. 

The Greek army was unable to breach the defenses of the heavily-fortified city of Troy, so it devised a plan. 

It decided to build an enormous wooden horse and left it outside the city, seemingly as a peace offering, a gift. 

Hidden inside the horse, though, was an elite group of Greek fighters, and after it was towed inside the city gates, the warriors emerged and destroyed the city.

The term “Trojan Horse” has come to mean anything that may appear innocuous, but is intended to cause harm. 

Today, most computer users associate the term with a type of computer virus – malicious software designed to spy on the user’s on-line activity, or to collect sensitive, personal information.

The wildly popular TikTok is offered free of charge – a gift with no apparent strings attached. 

As a social media platform allowing users to post short videos on line, it’s easy to understand its popularity. 

It gives users, mostly young people, hungry for attention and exposure, an opportunity to perform before an audience. 

Some of the video postings can be entertaining, funny, and even illuminating and informative. 

But they can also be deceptive, morally corrosive, and even dangerous – especially for young, impressionable minds. 

And like all Trojan Horse viruses, this app collects personal information on its users.

So how is that a threat to our national security? 

The problem is that TikTok is owned by ByteDance, a Chinese company headquartered in Beijing and controlled by the Communist Chinese government, which ultimately controls the content.

Today, our president likes to call China a competitor. 

He wants us to believe that we’re engaged in some sort of a game with the CCP – something akin to horseshoes or lawn darts. But geopolitical experts tell us China is not a friendly competitor. 

It should be considered an adversary, or even an enemy. Anyone doubting that need only look at China’s routine theft of America’s intellectual property, its belligerence toward Taiwan, its territorial expansion in the South China Sea via those artificial islands, and its bloated military. 

They need only look at China’s treatment of the Uyghurs to understand that the CCP is a ruthless, oppressive government, bent on world domination.

And it doesn’t have to be accomplished militarily.

It would be foolhardy to offer America’s enemies intimate knowledge of our nation’s psyche, or to allow Communist China’s propaganda machine to mold the impressionable minds of young Americans. 

That’s why TikTok has been called a threat to national security.

And social media platforms aren’t the only means China has to infiltrate America. 

There are other ways it can exert its influence and eventually dominate our country.

It can try to take control of our energy resources or our food supplies. 

It can work to transform our strong and proud citizenry into a nation of passive, compliant drug addicts, by feeding us unlimited amounts of narcotics.

It’s all happening today under the watchful eye of Joe Biden. 

In fact, in many cases, Biden is doing more than allowing it to happen. 

He’s facilitating it.

It was Biden who depleted our Strategic Petroleum Reserves to alarmingly low levels, where they remain today. 

It was Biden who sold millions of gallons of that precious commodity to China, while at the same time relentlessly pushing green energy. 

That has increased our dependence on Chinese-manufactured solar cells and batteries. 

And it’s Biden who’s allowing the Chinese to buy-up millions of acres of our farmland, essential to the world’s food supply.

Perhaps Biden’s biggest favor to the CCP is his open border policy. 

There’s no evidence whatsoever to suggest that Biden’s 10 million “newcomers,” including 37,000 Chinese, have any intention of pledging allegiance to this country or even assimilating American values. 

But common sense and the law of averages tell us that a percentage of them are planning to do us harm.

And the fentanyl streaming across Biden’s open borders has already killed or incapacitated hundreds of thousands of our citizens. 

If it continues, it will lead to the utter decimation of a once-proud nation.

Then there’s the China spy balloon, which Biden allowed to meander across our countryside, sucking up national defense data. 

And the China Initiative that Biden abruptly cancelled. 

That program was designed to track China’s espionage activity in this country.

For the Chinese Communist Party, Joe Biden is the gift that keeps on giving.

Some attribute that to Biden’s incompetence and his obvious cognitive decline. 

Others believe the millions of dollars the CCP paid to his family may have something to do with it. 

Shamefully, still others close their eyes and pretend that none of it is happening.

If the efforts by Congress to sever China’s ties with TikTok succeeds, it will remove one obvious threat to our national security. 

Unfortunately, there is still Joe Biden.

(This article first appeared on Americanthinker.com)

© Peter Lemiska
https://www.renewamerica.com/columns/lemiska/240318

Nihilism…all that exists is matter and energy: The worldview that caused the collapse of Christendom and Protestant America

 

By Linda Kimball
March 18, 2024

Man has stopped regarding himself as the vice-regent of God, created in His image, and having given up his soul (inner person), exists as a non-self (no inner person),“fragmented being ruled by ancient urges and lusts which control him and reduce his reason to a façade for rampant irrationalism. 

Not surprisingly, T.S. Eliot saw modern man in a waste land of his own making.” (The Word of Flux, Rousas John Rushdoony, p. 54)

America is quickly transforming into a wasteland controlled by insane fragmented beings—nihilists – who kill, steal, and destroy everything that makes life worth living. 

Nihilism has undermined and caused the collapse of Western and American Christian foundations. 

The collapse has meant the loss of Divine Moral Law, imago Dei, immutable truth, everything normal and natural, together with purpose and meaning; all derived from a uniquely Christian base. 

Madness, ugliness, the cheapening of human life, death-wishing, an unholy love of killing babies, inversion of good and evil, systemic lawlessness, murder, brutality, violence, and nihilism have rushed into the vacuum created by the collapse.

According to the spirit of nihilism, matter and energy exists but God does not. 

He is dead so life has no ultimate meaning or purpose, nor does the universe as a whole have any meaning. 

Whatever meaning and purpose that exists is an artificial construct created by people, and only exists as a coping mechanism without purpose. 

Since only matter and energy exist, there is no right way or wrong way to live, so people are free to invent their own identities and define their own way as they see fit. 

By extension of this way of thinking, there is no such thing as a morally right or morally wrong action because there is no such thing as God, thus no such thing as a Divine Law that says this is good and that is evil. 

(1) (7 Most Important Nihilist Philosophers and Their Main Ideas, atlasmythica)

Then there are the nihilists who believe that by undermining, destroying, and burning down the foundations of Western and American civilization, out of the ashes will magically arise a utopian paradise. 

While this is their stated belief, destruction is the primary goal.

The collapse was predictable since for over one hundred years Western and American ruling class elite nihilists and their accomplices in the church have been sweeping Western civilization clean of all traces of the living Foundation of the Western and American civilization: Christ Jesus, the Word, the Creator God of Genesis and Revelation.

The assault against Christ Jesus began during the Renaissance when Christians at the highest level of church and society rejected Christ Jesus and His offer of salvation in favor of ancient Mysteries, Egyptian magic science, Eastern mysticism, reincarnation, evolution and Gnostic pagan creeds that had appeared in the heart of Christendom during the Renaissance.

The resulting rebellion against Christ Jesus and His Gospel message gained speed and force with the philosophically pagan materialist implications of Darwinian theory. 

The idea that humans evolved by chance and natural selection from primordial waters (also the void) lay the axe at the very foundation of the Genesis account of creation ex nihilo. 

On the heels of Darwinian theory Christian theism came under forceful attack allowing a new pagan atheistic-mindset to be declared a scientifically supported reality.

Karl Marx’s exuberance for Darwin’s idea prompted him to consider dedicating his Das Kapitalto Darwin, an honor which Darwin declined. 

Marx was a pagan materialist, hence the rationale behind his invitation to Darwin was that he saw how Darwin’s materialist theory provided a so-called scientific anti-creation origin account to support his economic infrastructure, thereby allowing him to build his godless communist utopia, a modern Tower-building project.

Darwin’s pagan materialist theory (loss of the living Creator-God), and Marxist materialist presuppositions (based in new pagan creeds and new economic theory grounded in hatred of God) together with Freud’s pagan materialist- based analysis of religion and human sexuality threw faith in the Triune God and Christian theism into the dustbin of history.

It was the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche who exorcised the West of Biblical influence by declaring the death of Christ Jesus.

By the time of Nietzsche, perceptive thinkers had already been expressing apprehension at the prospect of the awakened multitudes whose loss of faith and hope would eventually be exploited by materialist haters of Christ Jesus (i.e., Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, American Progressive Liberals, Leftists, Secular Humanists). 

With Nietzsche, dreadful apprehension deepened into certainty, for Nietzsche despised religion in general, but upon Christianity he poured his unbridled fury:

    I call Christianity the one great curse, the one enormous and innermost perversion, the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are too venomous, too underhanded, too underground, and too petty.” (Nietzsche in “The Life of Nietzsche,” Faru Forster Nietzsche, 1921, p. 656)

It was Nietzsche, the dark prophet, the son of a Lutheran pastor calling himself the antichrist who pronounced the death of Christ Jesus and saw that His death had already begun to cast its first shadows over Europe, and though,

    “….the event itself is far too great, too remote, too much beyond most people’s power of apprehension, for one to suppose that so much as the report of it could have reached them,” still its advent was certain, and it was men like Nietzsche who were “the firstlings and premature children of the coming century,” the century of the “triumph of Nihilism.” (Nihilism: The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age, Eugene Rose, p. 44)

Nietzsche was the first apostate Christian philosopher to gaze fully upon man’s loss of faith and hope and its terrifying consequences. 

With no living Triune God up above to obstruct his vision, the nihilism (meaninglessness, hopelessness, despair) he saw down here was agonizing.

In “The Gnostic Religion,” Hans Jonas provides a full-scale study of the heretical world of pre-Christian and Christian era Gnostic nihilism together with its modern variants— Nietzsche’s nihilism, Existential nihilism, Epistemological nihilism, Moral nihilism, and Political nihilism.

Jonas writes that while ancient Gnostic man was thrown,

    “…into an antagonistic, anti-divine, and therefore anti-human nature, modern (Gnostic) man(is thrown) into an indifferent one.” (p. 338)

    Whereas the ancient gnostic conception was still anthropomorphic despite the nihilism, hostility and demonic, its modern counterpart with its’ completely godless, soulless, spiritless nature, represents the “absolute vacuum, the really bottomless pit.”

At least the ancient Gnostic dualism, as fantastic as it was, was at least self-consistent, as there was a source for ‘self’ (being). Not so for its’ modern counterpart:

    So radically has anthropomorphism been banned from…nature that even man must cease to be conceived anthropomorphically if he is just an accident of nature. As the product of the indifferent, his being, too, must be indifferent. Then the facing of his mortality would simply warrant the reaction, ‘Let us eat and drink for tomorrow we die.” (p. 339)

In other words, the death of Christ Jesus means the modern unbeliever has no source for his soul (inner person), spirit (mind), and identity in his Creator (John 1). 

Furthermore, there is loss of hope and immortality. 

For man, now the soulless fragmented being of evolution working on matter, there is nothing above—no God, no higher truth, absolute moral law, no heaven, no hell below and nothing to relieve the dreadful, agonizing fear of death.

Nietzsche saw only darkness with no entry from the outside into this hermetically sealed world. 

The paralyzing darkness that fell was an inner blinding, a madness that spread outward.

Hans Jonas concurs:

    “…modern nihilism (is) infinitely more radical and more desperate than gnostic nihilism ever could be for all its panic terror of the world and its defiant contempt of its laws. That nature does not care, one way or the other, is the true abyss. That only man cares, in his finitude facing nothing but death, alone with…the objective meaninglessness of his projected meanings, is a truly unprecedented situation.” (Jonas, p. 339)

This was precisely Nietzsche’s point. 

With the death of man’s only hope, Christ Jesus, objective meaninglessness, hopelessness, despair, fear of death, and escape from suffering at any cost would penetrate every avenue of thought and life, making life itself unbearable. 

All of this has become clear in these last days with the advent of the coronavirus pandemic. 

It took the form of a a panic-stricken spirit of death that haunted and terrorized unbelievers and even afflicted undiscerning orthodox Christians, making them ready to accept further losses of their personal freedoms.

Nietzsche went on to say that because Christ Jesus had died in the 19th century there would be two direct results in the 20th century.

First, the 20th century would become the bloodiest, most catastrophically destructive century in history, and second, a universal madness would break out and turn the West upside-down. 

Truth would become lie and lie truth; evil would become good; males would claim to be female and females claim to be males; the unnatural would become natural, and the unholy would become holy.

Nietzsche has been right on both counts.

There is only one way out of the spiritual wasteland of non-self, nothingness, and madness as it crazily careens downward into the abyss. 

That way is the Narrow Way. 

The time is right now for repentance and turning back to Jesus Christ: 

And do this, understanding the occasion. The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, for our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. The night is nearly over; the day has drawn near. So let us lay aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.…” Romans 13:11-12

“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” John 3:16

Linda writes about worldview, occult, and other subjects.

© Linda Kimball
https://www.renewamerica.com/columns/kimball/240318

Gay is OK, but trans for kids is on the skids – Have Americans now become judges of evil thoughts?

 

By Michael Bresciani
March 18, 2024

“Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts?” (James 2:4)

The adage “choosing the lesser of two evils” was thought to originate from this verse out of the book of James.

In America, we have begun to choose between two evils so much that the right and the wrong of most matters is lost.

Situation ethics and the new morality, which are mostly theoretical but are now a common practice, began in the 1960s.

Almost everyone knew one or more of the twelve verses of scripture that condemned the practice of homosexuality, even if they paid no attention to them.

The standard arguments not withstanding, the perversions and expansions that grew out of the gay activism of the 60’s has now soared to a giant swollen ball of deviancies that are begging God to intervene.

They include child pedophilia, transgender mutilation, and sex trafficking for every kind of perversion known to man.

Any night of the week we can watch news shows, sitcoms or comedy, and late-night shows where the guests are homosexuals, who often openly show their disgust with child rape and molestation. 

Their own homosexuality is fully acceptable.

Our own gradual cultural and moral decline has caused us to become those who accept the lesser of two evils on a daily basis.

Then along comes the LGBTQ activists pounding away at lawmakers and politicians to accept every nefarious perversion they can conjure to let the muck into society.

One example that recently broke the betrayal barrier took place in Virginia. 

Gov. Youngkin yielded to Virginia Senate bill HB174 which codifies homosexual “marriage’ into Virginia state law.

The bill passed 22-17 with the help of David Suetterlein, a RINO Republican senator. 

It is Obergefell v. Hodges all over again, state by state, as the nation teeters toward a divine judgment that will come with little warning and no remedy.

Compromise and concession to the LGBT may seem to fit the cultural changes of the day, but they are the very path to hell in another day.

As we approach the last days, the God of this world (Satan) gives up trying to be subtle and just pours out every ounce of filth and perversion men can receive in the shortest amount of time.

    “Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.” (Rev 12:12)

Odd as it may be, one of the easiest remedies for all this unfamiliar perversion is a very familiar statement from the very foundations of all that is normal.

To wit:

    “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16).

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America’s Folly: Gambling the Health and Safety of our Children Against our Very Existence

Christians: Help Your Country, Stop Hiding Behind the Phrase – “God is in Control”

Wokeism, Transgenderism, Child Abusers – Death and Hell are About to Give Up Their Dead

Best of Archive Series – Does homosexuality bring judgment? – Prophecies of the future say yes

Photo: quotefancy.com

To read more articles by Michael Bresciani click here.

© Michael Bresciani
https://www.renewamerica.com/columns/bresciani/240318

Persecution Watchdog's Warning: Canadian Bill Could 'Send Christians to Jail' for Quoting Bible

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A religious freedom advocate is warning that a proposed Canadian law could imperil freedom of speech and religious liberty.

Jeff King, president of International Christian Concern (ICC), a religious persecution watchdog, told CBN News proposed Bill C-367 "amends the criminal code and it takes away some religious exemptions that protected Christians."

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King compared the proposal to the Equality Act, a U.S. legislation that the Biden administration championed but failed to pass.

The U.S. bill sought to prohibit "discrimination based on sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity in areas including public accommodations and facilities, education, federal funding, employment, housing, credit, and the jury system," but ignited religious persecution concerns.

Similarly, Canadian Bill C-367, King said, would create potential problems for people making biblical claims or basing objections to certain issues on the Quran or other religious sentiments.

With these protections potentially in danger, King said the potential impact could create a similar dynamic to what is seen in more restrictive and despotic nations.

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"This is what the dictators and the despots do overseas to strangle Christianity or whatever faith," he said. 

"They say, 'Oh, we have religious freedom, but not in the public sphere.' 

So, it's the same game."

King said hate speech laws are "always being promoted ... for the common good," but he said such provisions tend to "create division."

He explained that hate speech laws were passed in Canada in 2003 and 2004 with protections, but warned that these caveats are now potentially on the chopping block. 

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Reprinted with permission from cbn.com. Copyright © 2024 The Christian Broadcasting Network Inc. All rights reserved.

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Eastern Europe Puts Bibles Into Schools – With Encouraging Results

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Exclusive: Bob Burckle & Dirk Smith report on successful efforts to establish Christian values


By Bob Burckle and Dirk Smith

Once upon a time, the United States openly and proudly professed "One Nation Under God," in our homes and in our individual lives. 

No one disputed our Judeo-Christian faith heritage. Children prayed and read the Bible at home and in schools, and were raised with foundational morals; in turn, we cultivated an increasingly outstanding society through honor, hard work and respect for God and others. 

We weren't a perfect nation by any delusional train of thought, but we openly believed in the sovereign God of the Bible. 

Because of this historic foundation of faith, countless Americans were able to live in a thriving nation that offered compassionate outreach and humanitarian aid to less fortunate regions of the world.

Today, we are living in an America that denies its heritage, belief in and dependence upon God. 

This is reflected in our biblical illiteracy, our lack of unity, the acceptance and encouragement of evil, and in outright opposition to biblical truths. 

We are currently witnessing egregious evils beyond our comprehension – the murdering of unborn babies, human trafficking of children, indoctrination to destroy all righteous innocence, a seemingly irreparable divide among the population, and an all-consuming obsession with technology that has overridden the motivation to work on and maintain healthy relationships.

Eastern Europe's example

A recent Christian Post article shared news about Tristan Azbej, the Hungarian Secretary of State for the Aid of Persecuted Christians and the Hungary Helps Program touting his country's quest to "implement the social teachings of the Bible" at home as he visited the United States to discuss the nation's efforts to address religious persecution abroad. 

In addressing unsurprising pushback from "reluctant" Western governments about this vision, he stated the following:

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"They claim that working together with faith communities is against the principles of … impartiality in humanitarian assistance. 

We think that this is a complete misunderstanding of the humanitarian principles. 

And on the contrary, we think that working together with these faith-based organizations [is] the only way to reach the most vulnerable … and those communities who are left behind."

This top Hungarian government official's perspective on humanity paints a picture of how crucial morality and liberty remain for all cultures to thrive. 

He was made a believer when he observed that Hungarian schools where children were taught a biblical view of morality and social justice were the schools where children were thriving – both academically and behaviorally.

Nearly a decade ago, Ukrainian leaders of various backgrounds and denominations had approached our ministry, explaining that they wanted to implement Bibles in public schools. 

Now with over two-thirds of the public schools having Bibles and bible-based materials, they also have seen a difference in schools' and students' performance when biblical tenets for life were taught.

While the U.S. has removed the Bible from public schools, formerly atheist-run Eastern European nations' governments, churches and schools are currently partnering together to provide Bibles to students, teaching lessons on Christian values and ethics in schools. 

Why? Because they have observed how this has ultimately improved student behavior, performance and long-term morale. 

With more than 4.5 million Bibles and Bible-based materials having been distributed throughout Eastern Europe free of charge since 2021 – and more planned for 2024 and beyond – we've witnessed a miraculous unification among these nations formerly under communism, transcending religious and cultural divides throughout the region.

We are seeing this across multiple nations – not just Hungary and Ukraine:

  • Last year in Croatia, nearly 80,000 children and teen Bibles were delivered to public schools for use in the classrooms.
  • Republic of North Macedonia's leading religious officials recently extended commendation for efforts in providing every child in North Macedonia with a Bible; Macedonian church leaders have also expressed gratitude in recalling their nation's biblical history, sharing, "Here the Gospel seed was sown first by the apostle Paul, but this country, like all the countries of the world, has a need for the message of Christ to be continuously shared with each new generation."

Ultimately, nations rooted in God become thriving, unified nations, producing compassionate and moral members of society. 

We have seen this happen over time at EEM (Eastern European Mission) as we have provided Bibles in the region for the last six decades, and more specifically in providing hundreds of thousands of children's Bibles in recent years. 

We expect this trend to keep growing as we are slated to distribute 570,000 Bibles for public-school students and refugee children in this region through our Bibles For Kids campaign in 2024.

Going back to a foundation on God's Word.

Let us allow Eastern Europe to serve as an example to us all. Real hope for the nations is founded on goodness, truth, justice and liberty – all concepts originating in the Bible. 

May we return to this foundation of faith for the sake of our children, our nation and our world. 

I believe we could see a renewal in society if we welcomed the Bible back into our lives, our homes and our schools. 

Imagine our students understanding respect for one another and the rewards of good behavior and hard work.

We must commit to opening our Bibles more than our phones; to raising our children in homes where righteousness and honor are valued over that of image and ease. 

We must actively fight for unity and justice for others, choosing love over division, simultaneously urging our national leaders to reinstate policies within schools that are founded on God's Word.


Bob Burckle and Dirk Smith are president and vice president, respectively, of EEM (Eastern European Mission), which has been delivering God's Word to the people of Eastern Europe since 1961, now reaching 32 countries in 25 languages. It provided nearly 2 million children's and teen Bibles and Bible-based materials free of charge in the region in the last two years, including in public schools in several nations. Learn more at http://www.eem.org/bfk.


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