I saw today that elementary and high school students all across the U.S. walked out of school in protest of Donald Trump’s victory. Amazing. Do you think those kids came up with that idea simultaneously all across the country or were they put up to it by their teachers? Think about it.

Many people have felt that our schools have become classrooms for indoctrination rather than education on every level and especially college. This is evidenced by the younger grades walking out in protest and the fact that many of those rioting and protesting are also very young and of college-age. How did our country and our education system get to this point?

According to Samuel Blumenfeld in his book, N.E.A.: The Trojan Horse in American Education, written in 1984, the American socialist John Dewey, the father of American education, and his cohorts were looking for a way to change our society from capitalism to socialism. They became the first agents of change. (This term is what teachers today commonly call themselves. Now you know what change they are really fostering.)

In the 1800s, a German Kaiser lost some battle, and it made him so mad that when he came home he founded public education in Germany. His goal was to produce young men that would follow orders and not ask questions.

John Dewey and those of his ilk went to Germany to see if that might be the ticket for changing our culture and thus was born “public education” in the United States.

If you want people that don’t ask questions and just do what they are told, you need a fairly ignorant population. This is why the book, Why Johnny Can’t Read, was written in 1955. The author found that the NEA had designed a system to teach reading that caused 30% to 40% of our children to be functionally illiterate. Thus, many either never learned to read or reading was very difficult. As a side note, it used to be against the law to educate slaves. The more educated a person becomes the more questions they begin to ask. Why are you free and I am a slave, etc. Even today we have a low literacy rate.

People that don’t read or can’t read have the same result — both are ignorant. Ignorant people are easily led and do what they are told on TV or by other liberal politicians.

“The children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society…” John Dewey.

John Dewey and his associates knew what they were setting out to do would take longer than their lifetimes. They also learned that to put their ideas into children’s heads at such an early age they needed their like-minded people teaching in the colleges. This is why liberals are in the great majority of professorships around the country. They do more indoctrination of the secular humanism, socialist, progressive movement than they do education.

Our country has been in the grip of this ideology for a long, long time. Our public schools were founded on the principle of socialism. It is basically the worship of a type of secularism, part of the Progressive Movement.

Several thousand years ago another group of people was faced with a somewhat similar problem.

Because of certain sins of Solomon, the kingdom of Israel was split into a northern kingdom then called Israel and a southern kingdom that became known as Judah. Judah had been founded on the worship of Jehovah similar to our country which was founded by people wanting to be free to worship God without persecution. Judah stayed with the worship of the one true God, Jehovah. Israel’s new king Jeroboam set up two idols for the people of God to worship so they would not go back to Jerusalem to worship lest he lose his kingdom.

From the inception, the northern ten tribes were founded on or worshiped idols. Judah stayed with the one true God for many generations until Jehoshaphat, a good king and follower of Jehovah, had his son marry the daughter of Ahab hoping to have a more peaceful relationship with the northern ten tribes of Israel.

This wife brought the idols of Israel into Judah, and that began the downfall of the tribe of Judah. Now the tribe of Judah began to have kings that worshiped idols more and more. They would occasionally get a good king, but the evil worship of idols became very rooted in the culture of Judah.

For example, when Hezekiah became king, he cleaned out the temple and reinstituted the worship of the one true God, and all seemed great until his death. When Hezekiah died and his son Manasseh took over, the evil sprang back up like a dormant plant and became even worse than before.

The evil had not really been rooted out, it just went into hiding and waited for a more opportune time. But it was alive and well, and the evil came roaring back.

Finally, because Manasseh shed so much innocent blood in the kingdom, God had the tribe of Judah carried away into captivity by the Babylonians like Israel had been carried away 150 years earlier by the Assyrians.

• 2 Chronicles 36: 15-21 And the Lord God of their fathers sent warnings to them by His messengers, rising up early and sending them, because He had compassion on His people and on His dwelling place. But they mocked the messengers of God, despised His words, and scoffed at His prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against His people, till there was no remedy. Therefore He brought against them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, on the aged or the weak; He gave them all into his hand. And all the articles from the house of God, great and small, the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king and of his leaders, all these he took to Babylon. Then they burned the house of God, broke down the wall of Jerusalem, burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all its precious possessions. And those who escaped from the sword he carried away to Babylon, where they became servants to him and his sons until the rule of the kingdom of Persia, to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her Sabbaths. As long as she lay desolate she kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.    (New Kings James Version)

Therefore, the only solution for the land and the people was that they went into captivity. The land had rest from all the idolatry for seventy years — two to three generations. Then the people returned home.

It is interesting to note that before the captivity Judah worshiped a multitude of gods, but after they came home they NEVER worshipped idols again. That evil root had died out.

When Jesus Christ came on the scene 400 years later, he reproved the religious leaders for many things, but idol worship was not one of them. They had learned as a culture and never worshiped idols again.

God had these events written for our learning upon whom the ends of the world are come. We ought to really think about that. We are God’s children if we have confessed Jesus Christ as Lord and believe that he was raised from the dead (born from above). We have God’s spirit living in us so that we can see spiritually what is going on.

Many people all over the world and in this country were praying for the Presidential Election of 2016. I believe God heard those prayers and tapped many of his children on the shoulder and said “go vote.”

Now is NOT the time to relax. It is the time to be awake and pray. It is the time to ask God to send people into the colleges to teach the next crop of teachers that will teach our youth.

I have already seen where teachers of the blue states are thinking of moving to red states to indoctrinate the youth “properly” in order to affect the next elections. We cannot all go and teach, but we can all pray to the God of Heaven, our Father, and ask Him to fix our education system.

• 2 Corinthians 10:3-4  For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds;)
• Ephesians 6:12  For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
• Ephesians 6:18  Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;

It is often said that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. We do not have to repeat the experience of Israel. We are sons and daughters of God by birth. We have His spirit born within us so that we can spiritually see the attacks that come at the church, and from whence they come. Many of the church’s children are in public schools, and thus we need to pray to God to send workers into the colleges and schools that will teach the history of our country, why we have a constitution and how it works, and teach the benefits of capitalism.

Our constitution was written the way it is by men of God for our protection, so that we, as their offspring, could enjoy The Prosperous Life and have a country where we are free to worship, free to speak God’s Word and free to send the message of the gospel to all the world.

So, as the scriptures say repeatedly, “Watch and pray.”