American Education

Joel 2:15 ”Blow the trumpet in Zion,
Consecrate a fast,
Call a sacred assembly…
Gather the children and nursing babes…
Why should they say among the peoples,
‘Where is their God?’”

On September 8, 2009 at Noon eastern time/9 a.m. pacific daylight time President Obama will address the Nation’s children with a school speech via live video feed. Thousands if not millions of concerned parents are already beginning to take action against what many are calling, “Obama’s social indoctrination.” Other concerned parents have dubbed Sept. 8, “Keep Your Kids at Home Day.” Parents will have their children either opt out of the President’s speech or they will give their children permission to stay home that day. What if the kids who opted out all gathered around their flagpoles to pray? What if the children staying home put aside television and video games and instead united with their parents to fast and pray in the spirit of Elijah (Malachi 4:5-6)? What if children everywhere were praying for their President, for revival in their nation, and revival in their schools? What would happen if millions joined in, with a grassroots movement of prayer and fasting for the greatest spiritual awakening in the history of this nation?

We are asking parents all across this nation to unite for what could be a flashpoint of a great spiritual awakening. Would you consider writing your children permission slips that say, “My child has my permission to ‘opt’ out of President Obama’s Speech on September 8, 2009 to pray at the flag pole”? If you know other Christians who would join in, please forward this message to everyone you can, and let’s see this nation turn back to God. Let us make a bold declaration that we want our children to hear the voice of God before they hear the voices of men.

Many people’s concern regarding the indoctrination of our children stemmed from, according to ABC news, the language of the preparatory materials where students had been asked to, “Write letters to themselves about what they can do to help the president.” It is easy to see the reason for people’s concern. The President, as a public servant, is supposed to serve the people, not the other way around. The people are called to serve God, our nation, and the constitution, and not taught be to “serve” the President. So the Whitehouse has revised the language. According to the new version, the U.S. Department of Education, is saying, the President will challenge students to work hard, set education goals, and take responsibility for their learning. It leaves us begging the question, “was their wording a non-tactful misrepresentation, or was the administrations original intent to rise up a political agenda in the youth, which they quickly changed due to public concern?”

According to Onenewsnow.com:

Neal McClusky with the Cato Institute’s Center for Educational Freedom believes the Obama administration is engaging in outright indoctrination of school children. He says that on September 8, Obama will address schools nationwide — and in conjunction with that speech, school teachers have been sent study packets and a letter from the Department of Education, complete with assignments and questions to ask their students.

The letter says that ‘no other task is more critical to our economic future and our social progress than what these schools do.’ Now that alone is a little disturbing because it suggests that the schools are supposed to be pushing social change,” McClusky notes. McClusky calls the event “unprecedented.” He adds that the Constitution lays out explicit powers for the federal government and education is not among them. “So the federal government has been really unconstitutionally involved in education for the last 40-some years,” McClusky says.”

Therefore, we are summoning believers from all across the state and the nation to gather for a defining moment of reversal. When there is no remedy, when there is no natural hope, God still has a holy prescription. Blow the trumpet in Zion, gather the people, and call a fast (Joel 2). Let the believers of this great nation gather and cry out to God, believing that September 8th could become the flash point of real “change” in America, not the open door to societal collapse. Let us return to fasting and prayer on September 8, 2009 at Noon Eastern time/9 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time and seek the face of God for President Obama, revival in our nation, and revival in our school.

http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=8489714
http://ed.gov/admins/lead/academic/bts.html

Onenewsnow.com quotations are from: Obama’s school speech – social indoctrination? Pete Chagnon – OneNewsNow – 9/3/2009 6:00:00 AM. http://www.onenewsnow.com/Education/Default.aspx?id=662126

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Then in the Fall on October 1, 2009 at UC Berkeley thousands if not millions will leave their classrooms to gather in their quads, fields, auditoriums, fraternities/sororities, or dorms and call on God for the greatest revival this nation has ever seen. If that doesn’t work for your school, choose a time that will work for your school, but let everyone at your school know!

This nation’s education system was founded and flourished on the teachings of the scriptures in the Bible. All of the first Universities were founded as theological seminaries, The American university was founded as an explicitly religious institution. Through the influence of the Enlightenment and subsequent European philosophical influences, religious presuppositions were over time replaced by secularist ones.

This is an appeal to heaven for a spiritual outpouring as we stand in spiritual defiance to the Anti-Christ environment that is robbing 70-80 percent of Christians going into college. These students are not loosing their faith because of open-mindedness, free thought, reason, or critical thinking, but rather opposite. They are being brainwashed by biased and twisted opinions and agendas. This is an appeal to God in prayer and the schools in a act of civil disobedience. Ask for a outpouring of God’s spirit, and remind the nation to return to their first Love – God.

Attributes to America’s Educational Greatness:

The first hundred plus universities in America were founded as theological seminaries to preach the Gospel.

Harvard’s Beginnings:
While Harvard was not created solely for the purpose of training clergy, it was a primary objective, graduating 52 percent of its students into the clergy. Harvard’s seal adopted in 1643 had the word “Veritas” inscribed across three books. It was quickly replaced by “In Christi gloriam” to express the institution’s desire to train students for the glory of Christ Harvard included “a twice daily Bible reading (which) was reinforced by a twice daily ‘logical analysis’ of a biblical passage, breaking it down into its major and minor premises and expounding its arguments.”
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