LIGONIER, Pennsylvania – All that remained of Ruthie’s Diner on Jan. 21 was charred, ice-encased rubble – the aftermath of firefighters’ desperate efforts to extinguish the blaze that ultimately consumed the modest eatery, which for more than 70 years had served locals and the travelers, anglers, and hunters heading east along the Lincoln Highway.

Several locals pulled into the parking lot and simply stared, at a loss for words as they watched a community mainstay reduced to charred ruins, thin smoke still rising from the ashes.

Ruthie’s was the kind of place where everyone felt familiar, whether you’d been in last week, last month, or only when hunting and fishing season came around.

It was where my parents took me, and where I later took my children and grandchildren. For anyone who walked through those doors, it felt like home: comforting, unpretentious, and powerful in its simplicity.

It was the kind of place that served chicken-fried steak smothered in gravy, their version of peas and carrots succotash, and a pile of french fries unlike any other. Outside of the mile-high pies, it was the french fries that everyone loved.

Originally known as Burnsy’s Diner in the 1950s and ’60s, it was so rooted in the community that it even sponsored its own bowling team in the Ligonier Valley league and was famous for staying open 24 hours a day.

Every time I went, I met not just locals but hunters and anglers on their way to cabins, Pittsburgh families headed for the Flight 93 National Memorial or Idlewild, and neighbors gathering after Sunday services at one of the many churches that dot this Westmoreland County village.

Now Ruthie’s joins that painful category of “used-to-be” places that linger in the memory long after they’re gone. And this wasn’t the familiar story of neglect or empty tables slowly choking the life out of a business, which does not make the loss hurt any less.

That kind of rootedness rarely shows up in the way news is framed, which too often reflects the worldview of the rootless, the people who dominate the power structures of legacy media. They tend to live in the “super ZIP codes” of Washington, D.C., and New York, the centers of wealth and power, and their assumptions end up shaping the national story the rest of us are handed.

Why does that matter when it comes to Ruthie’s? Because people who live unrooted lives, not always, but often, are less able to grasp what’s really lost when a place like this disappears. This wasn’t just the closing of a diner. It was the loss of a room that held whole chapters of life, dinners with grandparents who are gone now, late-night meals with high school friends, the familiar booth you could still return to instead of relegating all of it to memory.

Those attachments aren’t sentimental clutter. They’re part of emotional well-being. There’s real power in being able to revisit the places that shaped you – and in being able to bring your children and grandchildren into them, so the story becomes something shared, not just remembered.

And it endured. It survived the turnpike siphoning away business as cars sped past the exit. It resisted the pull of homogenized chain-restaurant menus, and the even worse temptation of food fads, holding fast instead to the same personal touch through every shift in America’s driving and dining habits.

The social cohesion that Ruthie’s gave everyone who passed through her doors has left a void, one that tells the story of all of us, and serves as a reminder to hold on to, frequent and cherish the Ruthie’s in your city or town.

Salena Zito is a staff reporter and columnist for the Washington Examiner. She reaches the Everyman and Everywoman through shoe-leather journalism, traveling from Main Street to the beltway and all places in between. To find out more about Salena and read her past columns, please visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at http://www.creators.com.

Source: The End of the Road for the Little Diner That Could

Each year on January 27th, the world pauses to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1945. It is a solemn moment — not only to remember the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust, but also the millions of others who were systematically persecuted and killed by the Nazi regime. This date stands as one of history’s darkest reminders of what happens when hatred is allowed to fester unchecked and when civilized society looks away.

This day is not merely about memory. It is about responsibility.

As the generation that witnessed the Holocaust fades from living memory, the obligation to preserve its lessons falls to us. Remembrance must be active, not ceremonial. It must challenge complacency and confront the uncomfortable truth that the Holocaust did not begin with gas chambers. It began with ideas, with rhetoric, with the gradual normalization of dehumanization and exclusion. It began when people were sorted into categories, stripped of individuality, and judged not by who they were, but by what they were said to represent.

My own family history is rooted in that era. They lived through World War II in Europe, witnessed unspeakable brutality, and risked their lives to save Jews being persecuted. They later came to America believing it to be a nation built on individual dignity, moral clarity, and the rule of law — a country where such horrors could never be repeated. That belief shaped their lives and, in many ways, shaped mine.

Yet today, we would be foolish to assume that the conditions that enabled the Holocaust exist only in history books.

Across our culture, particularly among younger generations, we see a growing tendency to reduce people to categories — to judge individuals not by their actions or character, but by group identity. This mindset, often presented as enlightened or “progressive,” fuels resentment, encourages collective blame, and erodes the moral foundations of a free society. It replaces moral clarity with moral relativism and substitutes grievance for accountability.

History teaches us exactly where that road leads.

The Holocaust was not the product of ignorance alone. It was the result of ideologies that divided the world into oppressors and victims, that justified cruelty in the name of grievance, and that encouraged ordinary people to rationalize silence. When society abandons the principle that every individual possesses inherent worth, atrocities become possible — and eventually inevitable.

That is why Holocaust remembrance must be paired with education and moral clarity. Young people must understand not only what happened, but how it happened — and why it matters now. The Holocaust should never be reduced to slogans, nor filtered through modern ideological lenses that distort its meaning. It must be taught honestly, fully, and without political manipulation.

That’s why my son and I started the Next Generations Project. We believe an organization led by the children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors could play a critical role in this effort. They ensure that remembrance remains personal and human rather than abstract. Their work reminds us that memory is not inherited automatically; it must be intentionally preserved and passed forward. Without that effort, truth becomes vulnerable to denial, distortion, and indifference.

Holocaust Remembrance Day should also prompt serious self-examination. Are we willing to speak out when we see antisemitism — whether it comes from the extremes of the right or the left? Are we prepared to challenge narratives that excuse hatred when it is cloaked in fashionable language or political activism? Are we committed to defending free expression and equal treatment for all, even when doing so is uncomfortable or unpopular?

“Never again” is not a slogan. It is a commitment — one that demands vigilance, courage, and moral consistency. It requires rejecting any worldview that justifies hatred, excuses violence, or normalizes the silencing of dissent.

On January 27th, we honor the victims of the Holocaust by remembering their names and their stories. But we honor them even more by refusing to tolerate the ideas that led to their destruction. Remembrance without resolve is hollow. Memory without action is insufficient.

The lesson of the Holocaust is timeless and universal: when hatred is normalized and truth is compromised, civilization itself is at risk.

Let us remember — and let us act – and let us never forget.

Saulius “Saul” Anuzis is President of the International Institute and of the 60 Plus American Association of Senior Citizens. He was chairman of the Michigan Republican Party from 2005–2009 and was also a candidate for national chairman of the Republican National Committee in 2009 and 2011, as well as a Member of the RNC from 2005–2012. He is the founder of the Next Generations Project.

Source: Holocaust Remembrance Day: Not Just Memory — A Call to Moral Courage

For those tracking the chaos in Minnesota, here’s a detail that might shed some light on the lawlessness of state officials, like the attorney general. To qualify to be attorney general of Minnesota, you must: 1) be a qualified voter, 2) be at least 21, and 3) be a resident of the state for at least 30 days. For those watching the attorney general’s response after protestors barged into a church last Sunday and disrupted a worship service, this probably doesn’t surprise you. In Minnesota, you don’t have to be a lawyer — or even know the law — to be attorney general. Even though he is an attorney, that helps explain how Keith Ellison got the job without a) knowing the law, or b) being able to read it.

On the podcast of disgraced former CNN host Don Lemon — who was part of the Sunday disturbance inside Cities Church in St. Paul — Ellison dismissed the federal investigation, along with calls for charges under the FACE Act (Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act), saying:

“The FACE Act, by the way, is designed to protect the rights of people seeking their reproductive rights to be protected … so that people for a religious reason cannot just use religion to break into women’s reproductive health centers, right? So, how they are stretching either of these laws to apply to people who protested in a church over the behavior — or the perceived behavior — of a religious leader is beyond me.” 

It is beyond you, Mr. Ellison — so let me help you out. Class is in session.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, pro-life activists blockaded abortion facilities in organized waves across the country. Thousands of pro-life pastors and activists were arrested in cities like Atlanta, Pittsburgh, New York City, Los Angeles, Wichita, Washington, D.C., and Baton Rouge for sitting in front of facilities to block entrances. That campaign — led largely by Operation Rescue — prompted the late Senator Ted Kennedy to introduce the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act in 1993, which President Bill Clinton signed into law in May 1994.

But, to secure the necessary Republican support to pass the bill, the late Senator Orrin Hatch offered an amendment adding parallel protections for places of worship. In the 1990s, no one thought much about that addition, because protecting religious freedom was like mom, baseball, and apple pie — it enjoyed bipartisan support. Case in point, the same year the FACE Act became law, Bill Clinton also signed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Hostility toward religion may have been simmering in institutions, but it hadn’t yet erupted into the open intimidation and disruption we see today.

Fast forward two decades to the Biden administration, which used the FACE Act aggressively against pro-lifers — many of whom weren’t blocking entrances at all; most were simply praying outside.

Enough is enough. It’s time to apply the law as written. The Trump administration should use the prescient provisions of the FACE Act that protect places of worship to charge those who interfered with parishioners at Cities Church as they exercised their First Amendment right to religious freedom.

And if Mr. Ellison still can’t follow the plain text, perhaps he should be served with a summons — for aggravated ignorance.

Tony Perkins is the president of the Family Research Council and executive editor of The Washington Stand. He also served two terms as a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, and served as Chair of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom.

Source: Class Is In Session: Since Minnesota’s Attorney General Doesn’t Understand The Law… Let Me Explain It – Harbinger’s Daily

“Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution” (2 Tim. 3:12).

Cities Church, a Southern Baptist congregation in St. Paul, Minn., was invaded by a mob of anti-ICE protestors on Sunday, Jan. 18. Leftist instigators targeted this congregation, alleging one of its pastors is affiliated with ICE in the Twin Cities. Reports reveal that the worship service had to be canceled because of the agitators’ intimidation tactics.

Paul warned young Timothy that persecution would come upon those who desired to live godly lives. The godless disruptors in St. Paul entered a holy place, a sanctuary set aside for the worship of Almighty God, to prohibit it from sharing God’s Word on a Sunday morning.

This is further evidence that spiritual warfare is growing in these last days. These attention-seeking, Scripture-twisting, self-righteous political activists turned the worship service into a circus, but I wonder if they realize that the forces of darkness fueled their rage. Why else would these agitators show up at a church service on Sunday? They didn’t protest at the pastor’s office on Friday. Did they? No, because at its root, this is a spiritual issue. And if the protestors were honest, they would acknowledge that fact.

Sadly, the god of this world has blinded their eyes so that they cannot recognize whom they are ultimately serving (2 Cor. 4:4). This is the end-times spirit of worship that will engulf the world during the Tribulation, as prophesied in Revelation 13.

If you need more convincing of the spiritual battle at work, consider where this is happening. Minneapolis-St. Paul is nicknamed Paganistan because tens of thousands of Wiccans and Pagans call the metro area home. Paganicon is a pagan convention held annually in the Twin Cities to further the teachings and practices of paganism. The spiritual forces of darkness have targeted this part of America as much as any other region.

Dr. Albert Mohler pointed out on his Jan. 19 episode of “The Briefing” that the tactics employed by the Sunday protestors are straight out of the 1960s Marxists’ playbook. “Agitators such as Saul Alinsky became leftist ideologues who basically set the agenda for how these kinds of protests would take place.”

Detailing the radicals’ methodology, Mohler stated: “Maximum media coverage, maximum impact, maximum disruption.”

This demonic disruption reveals the convergence of prophetic signs. Marxists have tried to push the world toward the radical globalist agenda for decades. Minnesota is no stranger to this battle, as displayed by other recent political events. While much attention has been given to the Marxist takeover of global governments and economies, Sunday’s invasion at Cities Church shows the deeply spiritual side to this movement.

This prophetic convergence aligns perfectly with what God reveals in His Word. According to Revelation 13, the Antichrist and His cronies will lead a global government and economy, glued together by a deeply spiritual, demonic worship movement. This end-times mindset is developing rapidly in America, and we are witnessing it happen.

Christians must wake up to the spiritual urgency of this late hour. We must not allow the forces of darkness to silence our voices. We must continue proclaiming the Word of God to a world racing toward the Tribulation. We must continue to stand as watchmen on the wall.

Josh Davis serves as a staff evangelist with Southwest Radio Ministries and is a host of “Watchman on the Wall,” the oldest continuously running Gospel-based radio broadcast in the United States.

Source: Sunday’s Invasion At Cities Church Shows The Deeply Spiritual Side To The Marxist Movement – Harbinger’s Daily

In September, a musician named Patrick Cosmos wrote, “Working on a new unified theory of American reality I’m calling ‘everyone is twelve now.’” His words went viral, mostly as an attack on the Trump Administration. But the essential truth here is fully bipartisan. Americans are not only embracing the inner child, but glorifying immaturity. Films and television shows feature childish heroes who lack poise, self-control, and grace. Even our nation’s capital can seem like a nursery.

We should acknowledge that some negative aspects of our 12-year-old selves never disappear. But in normal adults, they should become muted and no longer control us. Also, I don’t want to disparage all 12-year-olds. Some are amazingly mature, kind, loving, and thoughtful.

But generally, 12-year-olds act 12. Their world centers on themselves and what they want right now. They are often belligerent and show little appreciation for the gifts passed down to them. They are both super sensitive about their treatment and super insensitive in their treatment of others. They lack calm and self-control. They can be ruthless and lack loyalty. They act like they know everything when, in fact, they still know very little. They have short attention spans, they’re moody, and they often put on a show of bravado while feeling frightened and insecure.

These ways of thinking have infected American adults, but not just Americans. It is global. 2 Timothy 3:1-5 describes it as a phenomenon of “the last days,” explicitly attributing childlike behavior and attitudes to adults. “But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power.”

Society is geared to childish thinking. Social media encourages simple thoughts condensed into short, ad copy style wording. People in our time don’t want detailed, thoughtful reasoning, but drop mic moments. I’m astounded at the praise given to celebrities when they answer critics with the equivalent of, “Oh yeah?” — except with not-safe-for-work language… like 12-year-olds.

There is merit to the idea that 12 has become the median psychological age of a large part of adult America. Those same adults have thrown away childlike innocence, opting instead for Sodom and Gomorrah — life at its lowest level. Consequently, a Lord of the Flies mentality full of savagery and rage is increasing across the land.

Most people have experienced dreams that took a turn and became nightmares. That’s how billions of people are beginning to feel. They long for someone — a mom, dad, mentor, or friend — to gently shake them and say, “Everything’s okay. Go back to sleep. You were just having a bad dream. You still live in Bedford Falls. The world hasn’t turned into Pottersville.”

But it isn’t a dream. It’s real. A new and dangerous reality surrounds us.

The Bible explicitly prophesies that these last-days attitudes will overflow the world. That’s good news because it means that God Himself has not been caught off guard. He’s still in control. People are behaving monstrously, but He’s still God. And in His Word, He repeatedly tells us not to be afraid. We find one of the most beautiful examples of this in Isaiah 41:10: “Fear not, for I am with you; Be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, Yes, I will help you, I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.”

When we’re not afraid, it becomes much easier to love.

Tom Gilbreath is an author and a contributor to the Hal Lindsey Report.

Source: A Society That Glorifies Immaturity: The New And Dangerous Reality – Harbinger’s Daily

Even in death, conservatives are granted no peace — while leftist allies, including terrorists and despots, are allowed to bask in their legacies.

Among the many indignities suffered by prominent normies and conservatives is that news of their death will nearly always include an accounting of their ideological sins.

No one else gets this treatment, not even Third World despots.

Consider this week’s coverage of the death of “Dilbert” creator Scott Adams.

In announcing the cartoonist’s passing, leading newsrooms found it necessary to note that Adams was guilty of holding problematic views.

“Scott Adams, whose comic strip ‘Dilbert’ was a sensation until he made racist comments on his podcast, has died at 68,” went a New York Times news blurb.

The subhead to Adams’ official obituary reads, “His chronicles of a corporate cubicle dweller was widely distributed until racist comments on his podcast led newspapers to cut their ties with him.”

The Washington Post’s blurb concludes: “Adams drew criticism after he veered into far-right political terrain.”

Its obit subhead states, “Publishers cut ties with Mr. Adams after he made racist comments on a YouTube live stream.”

For context, the humorist’s “racist” remarks were spurred by a 2023 survey in which 26% of black respondents disagreed with the statement “it’s OK to be white,” while 21% said “not sure.”

“If nearly half of all blacks are not OK with white people, that’s a hate group,” Adams said on his podcast. “And … the best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from black people.”

The editorial choice to lead coverage of Adams’ death with nods to those comments would be defensible were it consistent.

But it’s not.

Consider how these same newsrooms covered the death of Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez.

The Times: “Hugo Chavez: A Polarizing Figure Who Led a Movement.”

WaPo: “Hugo Chavez, passionate but polarizing Venezuelan president, dead at 58.”

Passionate. Fiery.

Good thing Chavez wasn’t a racist, because then the people he starved, tortured and murdered would’ve been in real trouble.

When radio host Rush Limbaugh died in 2021, the Times’ obituary headline accused him of turning “talk radio into a right-wing attack machine.”

Yet when the godfather of modern terrorism died in 2004, the same paper gave us this doozy: “Yasir Arafat, Father and Leader of Palestinian Nationalism, Dies at 75.”

When Thomas Monson, the longtime president of the Mormon church, passed away in 2018, the Times’ headline noted that he “rebuffed demands to ordain women as priests and refused to alter church opposition to same-sex marriage.”

In contrast, the murderous tyrant who held Cuba for half a century got a Times tongue bath in “Fidel Castro, Cuban Revolutionary Who Defied US, Dies at 90.”

Its accompanying news blurb read, “Castro’s legacy has been a mixed record of social progress and poverty, of racial equality and political persecution.”

When the late Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe died in 2024, his WaPo obit accused him of being a “climate-change denier.”

But when the United States obliterated an infamous Islamic State chief, the paper gave us this timeless classic: “Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, austere religious scholar at the helm of Islamic State, dies at 48.”

Then there’s the egregious difference in how two so-called “election deniers” are memorialized based on party affiliation.

In 2022, when Republican Rep. Jackie Walorski of Indiana died in a car crash, her WaPo obit concluded with a blatant political attack: “A Donald Trump supporter, Walorski voted against impeaching the president in 2021 for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, which resulted in the deaths of one police officer and four others and injured more than 100 law enforcement officers.”

One year earlier, the same paper marked the passing of Democratic Rep. Alcee Hastings with a sentimental obituary describing him as “charismatic” and “pathbreaking.”

Yet in 2001, Hastings helped lead the unsuccessful effort to block the certification of George W. Bush as president, joining a Democratic walkout staged during the certification process and standing as the first to register his objections to alleged — but never proven — voter fraud.

The Washington Post’s tribute to Hastings made no mention of his attempt to overthrow the results of an election.

The discrepancy is obvious, and it stems from the worldview so common in the left-leaning media — that politics is, and should be, all-consuming.

That’s why, even in death, conservatives are granted no peace: Death is no excuse for a cessation in hostilities.

When leftists say all-consuming, they mean all-consuming. 

Thus, the death of someone like Scott Adams is seen as just another opportunity to attack a political enemy for a supposed litany of -isms and phobias.

Meanwhile, those who’ve managed to fall into the loose hierarchy of left-wing “allies” are allowed to bask in their legacies, with even the worst of them romanticized as charming rebels and dreamy iconoclasts.

T. Becket Adams is a journalist and media critic in Washington, DC.

https://nypost.com/2026/01/15/opinion/why-death-doesnt-halt-the-media-attacks-on-scott-adams/?utm_source=aol&utm_campaign=nypost&utm_medium=referral

Two decades after Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” documentary was released, multiple climate predictions have proven largely inaccurate, including forecasts of Mt. Kilimanjaro.

It’s no understatement to say that the 2006 documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” changed the direction of public policy. And in fact, that’s exactly what failed presidential candidate Al Gore intended the film to do. Fortunately for him, he found a willing audience of Hollywood celebrities and left-wing media outlets to uncritically promote his ideology and activism.

Unfortunately for him, 2006 is now far enough in the past that we can test some of the predictions, claims, and statements of fact he makes in that film. So that’s exactly what we did.

At the start of 2026, nearly 20 years after the film hit theaters and helped pave the way for Europe’s delusional “net zero” policies, electric car mandates, and low-flow showerheads, OutKick rewatched “An Incovenient Truth” to see how well it held up over time. Spoiler alert: not particularly well!

The film starts off as a glowing tribute to Al Gore himself, an unsurprising beginning given his obvious ego and hubris. Almost immediately  afterward, it jumps straight into the propaganda. He references Hurricane Katrina as an example of more extreme weather events in the modern world. There’s a “Simpsons” video with propaganda of “global warming,” remember, this is pre-rebrand to “climate change,” with a young girl seeing her ice cream cone melt. Gore talks about what got him into this field which is one professor who took some measurements of CO2, then made vague predictions of what would happen if we didn’t make changes.

He says we started measuring CO2 in 1958, which, of course, thoroughly discredits his activism. Assuming the latest estimate is accurate, the earth is billions of years old. It keeps growing by the year, but as of January 2026, it’s 4.54 billion years. Sure, you can estimate CO2 concentrations for part of that past, but not all of it. Or even a sizable percentage of it. And making predictions and assumptions on such limited data is awful science.

But ignoring the past and focusing on the future, one of his most concrete predictions of doom came regarding Mt. Kilimanjaro. In his discussion, he shows pictures of snow on the African mountain from decades ago, then images from the early 2000’s with much less snow. He blames this on global warming, then ominously predicts, “Within the decade there will be no more snows on Kilimanjaro.”

How’d that age?

Gore’s Predictions Prove Woefully Wrong

Well, we’re now two decades removed from this claim, and there continues to be snow on Kilimanjaro. In fact, one story from The Times of London published a few years ago specifically highlighted how wrong Gore’s forecast was. Methley Swai, the owner of a trekking company for Kilimanjaro excursions, told The Times: “Many people have made Kilimanjaro a bucket list priority because of the Al Gore deadline but when they get here they are pleasantly surprised to find lots of snow.”

Sure enough, the story also reported, “There were also abnormally high snowfalls in 2018, which led to the highest recorded growth for the total snow depth on Tanzania’s inactive volcano, an aggregated increase of 1.2m.”

Whoops! We’re not done there!

His next example of declining snow is Glacier National Park. Gore tells a story about how he personally climbed it with his daughter in 1998, then shows pictures of less glacier activity in the mountains. Then, the kicker. A concrete prediction of what would happen to the park.

“Within 15 years this will be the park formerly known as Glacier,” he says, to oohs and aah from the crowd.

Nailed it again, buddy.

He mentions Argentina and Peru as countries where glaciers that are in danger of disappearing. Yet, as you’d expect, there are still glaciers in Argentina and Peru in 2026. In fact, one travelog from 2025 posted photos of the El Pertito Moreno glacier in Argentina, with the comment “Just west of El Calafate, this frozen river is one of the few glaciers in the world still growing.”

Nailed it again buddy.

Gore then uses a graph to show how our climate is warming, though, naturally, it’s purposefully misleading. The warming period he demonstrates in the modern era barely reaches above 0.0, after decades of well below average weather. Essentially, we experienced decades of cooling, as immortalized in a Time magazine cover from the 1970’s warning of global cooling, and the trend reversed. He also claims we can use ice in Antarctica to look back 650,000 years and show CO2 concentration at that point in time That’s nice, but again, doesn’t come close to covering 4.54 billion years of world history. He talks about Ice Ages, with zero acknowledgment that those Ice Ages ended without human intervention.

He uses a prop lift to show that we have the highest CO2 levels yet, and within 50 years, or 2056, he expects the concentration of CO2 will be well over 750ppm, doubling in a matter of decades. It’s currently around 420ppm. When the movie was made, two decades ago, it was 380ppm. At that rate of increase, it would take 185 years from when he made his prediction to reach 750ppm.

Whoops.

Oddly enough, after years of climate “experts” saying that weather isn’t climate, meaning individual weather events or yearly outcomes aren’t representative of changes in climate, Gore repeatedly references record warm temperatures in 2005 as “proof” of global warming. He specifically mentions the number of days over 100 degrees in western US cities to back up his fearmongering. Naturally, these trends have not been consistent. For example, in 2006 when this movie was released, Las Vegas had 86 days when temperatures reached 100 degrees. In 2025, there were 77.

Gore Makes Hurricane Predictions, Drought Predictions, That Prove False

Later on, Gore references hurricanes in the South Atlantic, once again using those as proof of increasing extreme weather, as if we have measurements of all hurricane activity in that ocean for 4.54 billion years. He claims that Katrina is yet more proof, using a graphic to show that it intensified because it went over warmer waters. These extreme storms will become more frequent, he says, because of warming temperatures. There is, of course, no evidence that this has happened. There were 14 hurricanes that made landfall from 2003-2005 in the United States. There were eight that made landfall from 2022-2024 in the United States.

Just this past year, the NOAA predicted an above-average hurricane season in 2025, literally a few months in advance. They were completely wrong, as there was average to below-average activity, with no increase in hurricane strength. Every single time.

Global warming causes more rain, but also more drought, Gore continues. He mentions extreme drought in middle Africa and Lake Chad evaporating to back it up. Here’s what a quick search on Lake Chad reveals today: “Despite historic shrinkage, satellite imagery from 2024 and 2025 indicates the lake has not continued to decline and has shown signs of replenishment since the early 2010s.”

Whoops again!

He highlights the decline of Arctic sea ice, again saying it’s rapidly diminishing. Except, current measurements for 2025-2026 show that sea ice extent is roughly in line with 2012-2013, just barely below the 1980-2010 average. Which is, of course, influenced by the period of colder weather that existed in the 1970’s.

Ironically, Gore then shows himself going on an airplane, after saying this is all the fault of human beings and their activity. Zero awareness.

One of his biggest and most terrifying claims is that the ice sheet covering Greenland is in danger of melting. The audience once again reacts in horror as he shows simulations of oceanic sea rise that would cover much of The Netherlands, San Francisco, Florida, Beijing, Calcultta, Manhattan, and Shanghai in such a catastrophic scenario.

Per the NOAA Arctic report card, here’s how the Greenland ice sheet did in 2024: “The Greenland Ice Sheet lost 55 ± 35 Gt of mass in 2024, the lowest annual ice loss since 2013. This occurred due to above-average snowfall and below-average melting.”

Temperatures didn’t change either. “We report monthly mean air temperatures measured at weather stations in Greenland. Air temperatures observed over the 2024 mass balance year were close to the 1991-2020 average.”

The 2025 report also found that the mass balance in the Greenland Ice Sheet showed “less loss than the 2003-24 annual average. “Above-average snowfall and below-average melt” contributed to “losing less mass this year.”

Additionally, a study published in January 2026 found that “Prudhoe Dome, a 500-meter-thick ice cap on the northwestern Greenland ice sheet, was completely ice-free around 7,100 years ago with temperatures 3-5°C higher than they are today,” per meteorologist Chris Martz. As he explains, it “goes to show that these processes can happen naturally without any anthropogenic influence.”

Gore’s Hypocrisy Is Evident Throughout

As the documentary continues, he brings up the Aral Sea disappearing as a further example of the dangers of human intervention in our climate. Except the Aral Sea dried up in part because “poorly thought-out irrigation strategies introduced by the Soviet Union in the 1960s-70s.” Restoration efforts are underway to undue some of that damage, and as of 2025, “the volume of water in the North Aral has increased by 42%.”

He appeals to authority, saying that peer-reviewed research unequivocally says global warming is factual and not up for dispute. Of course, this has changed over time, with plentiful new research contradicting his claim of consensus. To the point where Gore and his partners had to change their messaging to “climate change” to avoid dealing with many of their predictions not coming true.

Without a hint of irony, he puts up a quote saying: “It’s difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon him not understanding it.” Precisely the critique leveled at “global warming” scientists who rely on government funding. No problem to solve? No funding. Gore himself benefits from this; no demand for his presentation? No gigantic speaking fees.

He then says it’s dishonest to say we need to make a choice between the economy and the planet, an incredibly inaccurate prediction considering the damage countries like Germany and the United Kingdom have done to their economies by producing less energy to satisfy Gore’s ravings. Literally just this past week, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright made headlines by explaining that Germany has invested “half a trillion” in clean energy, doubled the capacity of their grid, yet produce 20% less electricity than they did before the half trillion dollar investment, and they sell it at three times the price.”

Coincidentally, Gore says “If we do the right thing, then we’re going to create a lot of wealth and a lot of jobs.” Not only has the jobs part been proven false, but the “wealth” that’s been created has mostly gone to people like Gore. Meanwhile, in the real world, California’s “Ivanpah Solar Power Facility,” which cost $2.2 billion to construct, is shutting down after it never met its energy production goals, killed birds and harmed the desert landscape.

Hard to be more wrong than that.

He concludes by putting up a world map showing his travels to show his slideshow, again, completely ignoring the CO2 emitted by his paid travel. There’s more charts, demanding higher mileage per gallon standards, saying that it wouldn’t hurt car manufacturers. Sure enough, car manufacturers have lost billions upon billions chasing his goals, including by building electric cars that aren’t actually less polluting when viewed in totality. Ford has shut down its “Lightning” truck after poor demand, and Porsche sent itself into a tailspin by investing in EV’s, to the point where their CEO was forced to resign in 2025 after damaging the company. As just a few examples.

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Source: Predictions From Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” Have Proven Completely False | OutKick

As we enter 2026, we are seeing headlines of courageous men and women standing up at great personal cost to the Iranian regime. We should all be praying for the people of Iran—especially for the many Iranian Christians among them. Pray for freedom, protection, and the gospel to continue spreading.

Iran is not simply a political talking point, but what many, including myself, believe is a land of biblical significance. Iran (ancient Persia) is considered a major player in end times prophecy.

Recent Middle East Conflicts 

If you recall, it was in April 2024, that Iran made an unprecedented attack on Israel, firing over 300 drones and missiles toward Israel. With aid from other nations, including the United States, nearly all were intercepted.

Then, in June 2025, Israel initiated Operation Rising Lion, striking dozens of Iranian nuclear and missile facilities to halt uranium weaponization. Key sites were heavily damaged or destroyed.

Iran retaliated with about 100 drones, but the conflict—the Twelve-Day War—ended in a U.S.-mediated ceasefire on June 24.

I believe this is all related to end times prophecy.

Israel, Iran, and Bible Prophecy

While some hold the theological viewpoint that the Church is now God’s chosen people, I disagree. I believe the Jewish people remain His chosen people, and that they play a key role in end times prophecy.

I believe the Bible clearly foretold that Israel would be scattered and regathered—fulfilled on May 14, 1948, and that’s when the prophetic time clock began to tick. It was not just a sign, but a super sign.

Scripture also predicts that in the last days, a great coalition from the north—including Persia (modern-day Iran)—will rise up against Israel (see Ezekiel 38–39). While the Middle East conflicts we’ve seen are not the full fulfillment of that prophecy, it is certainly a foreshadowing.

The Bible has more to say. Not only will the Jews be regathered together in their homeland, but they will be increasingly isolated. That’s happening. The Bible also predicted the rise of anti-Semitism in the end times. That is happening. The Bible also predicts a large nation to the north of Israel, identified in Ezekiel as Magog, will attack her. That has not yet happened. Many scholars believe that Magog is a reference to modern-day Russia. I concur with that view, but no one can say with absolute certainty.

And if Russia is indeed Magog, we should pay attention to its involvement with Iran, as one of the allies of Russia will be Persia (Iran).

What Happens Next?

I believe what has taken place in the Middle East is cause for us to sit up and pay attention.

Let me give you just a quick flyover of end times events chronologically. Number one, I think the next event on the prophetic calendar is the Rapture of the Church. Then, the Antichrist emerges on the scene and the Tribulation period begins. The Tribulation ends with the Second Coming of Christ, and then the Lord establishes the Millennium (the 1,000-year reign of Christ).

This should not make us fearful. Bible prophecy is not given to scare us, but prepare us.

Are You Ready? 

Ask yourself today, “Am I ready for the Lord’s return?”

Christ is coming again. This is a wake-up call to get right with God, walk closely with Him, and stay spiritually awake.

Let’s all make sure we’re ready to meet the Lord—because, well, He could come back at any time.

Greg Laurie is an evangelist, author, and the senior pastor of Harvest Riverside.

Source: Iran Is Not Simply A Political Talking Point, Its A Major Player In End Times Prophecy – Harbinger’s Daily

With mosques ablaze across Iran and protesters on the brink of toppling the Ayatollahs, the outlawing of Islam itself seems imminent. As the protesters openly talk of going back to their ancient religions, the West waits on the sidelines, ready to airdrop its anointed leaders and take charge.

However, the chosen leaders of the West have Islamic backgrounds even as the people of Iran want to shed themselves of Islam and embrace their pre-Islamic past. While one of the chosen leaders, Reza Pahlavi, the son of the Shah of Iran who was deposed in 1979, is cooling his heels in Washington, D.C., hoping to be their appointee, another leader in waiting is the hijab clad Maryam Rajavi of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), which purportedly stands for democracy.

Both figures have cultivated support in the corridors of power in the US and Europe, and we can soon expect a hollow, manufactured debate over whether Iran deserves a monarchy or a democracy, one that falsely frames the choice as a binary between Pahlavi and the NCRI, followed by a declaration that the people of Iran have prevailed and made their own choice no matter who among them is planted as the new Iranian ruler.

In 2022, when Iranian women publicly burnt their hijabs in defiance of the Mullahs, the US State Department at first issued statements of support, but in what must be seen as an act of betrayal, it abandoned the women when they started opposing Islam itself. For many years, the annual reports of the State Department’s United States Commission for International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) and the affiliates of the State Department, such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, have also supported Islam by presenting the perpetrators of Islamic oppression as the victims while demonizing the religions of the actual victims of Islam.

If we are to accept their worldview, it would result in the absurdity that the Iranian protesters burning mosques around Iran are the oppressors and violators of religious freedom, while the ayatollahs and their secret police are the victims of human rights violations.

To the east of the protesters, India, as a rising global power and a nation with deep civilizational ties to Iran, has also disappointed by abstaining from actively supporting the protests. The current situation presents a great opportunity for India and the United States to team up and send troops into Iran to protect the protesters.

Unlike the United States, which has faced political hurdles for more than fifty years when it comes to sending troops to other countries, India does not face such problems and can send in troops to complement the US and usher in the era of rekindling Iran’s ancient civilization as a replacement for Islam. As a country that has faced Islamic invasions over the centuries, India also understands how to address underlying tensions.

India’s role would be both strategic and restorative. Culturally, India remains a sanctuary for Zoroastrianism and other ancient traditions that share a common ancestry with Iranian culture. While the dominant religion among Persians is Zoroastrianism, Yazidis and certain Kurdish groups in western and northwestern Iran identify with specific Hindu traditions found in South India. Interaction with these Indian communities could help Iranians rediscover the cultural foundations.

However, the current situation does not instill much confidence as the credentials of NCRI and its leader, Maryam Rajavi, are suspect. Apart from the fact that Maryam Rajavi wears a hijab, revealing her Islamist leanings, her husband, Massoud Rajavi, who disappeared in 2003, was the founder of NCRI and was also the leader of the Islamic Marxist group Mojahedin-e-Khalq.

Like other Marxists, when the members of the NCRI throw around the word
“democracy,” they really mean “Marxist state,” and they use the term “democratic socialism” as an Orwellian euphemism for “the dictatorship of the proletariat.” Needless to say, they see Islam and Communism as natural allies.

As for the Pahlavi family, despite outward appearances and repeated claims that they were secular, they too ensured that Iran would remain an Islamist nation while they were in power. The Constitution of Iran during their reign explicitly stated that the official religion of Iran was Islam according to the “orthodox Ja’fari doctrine of the Ithna ‘Ashariyya” and mandated that the Shah was required to “profess and promote” this faith. The Constitution also mandated that no laws passed by Parliament could be “at variance with the sacred rules of Islam.”

Under the Pahlavi dynasty, the Bahaʼi community, the most populous non-Muslim group in Iran, faced systematic and severe discrimination. Groups like the Hojjatiyeh that carried out targeted attacks against the Baha’i community worked with the Shah’s intelligence agency (SAVAK). The Shah’s foreign policy, too, was based on religious considerations. During the Yom Kippur War, the Shah supported the Arab side, and he consistently supported the Islamic Republic of Pakistan over India.

This is not to say that Reza Pahlavi or Maryam Rajavi must never become part of the administration of Iran. A precondition for them to join the Iranian political mainstream should be that they renounce Islam and embrace one of the pre-Islamic religions so that they are aligned with the people of Iran.

To ensure their honesty, this would ideally include their converting to another religion and ensuring the same for their children and extended families. Even atheism would not be enough, and a conversion would be essential to prevent a member of a future generation from reverting to theocratic rule.

History offers a sobering example in this regard. While the Mughal king Akbar moved away from Islam and started his own religion, he neglected to convert his family members, and it resulted in his son, grandson, and great-grandson perpetrating cruelties on behalf of Islam.

Should the Iranian protesters succeed in their goal of removing Islam, they are sure to inspire other countries like Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan, and then Turkey. For now, the cynical path pursued by the US State Department of letting the protesters battle the Iranian regime and toppling it, while showing up just in time to reap the rewards by planting its Islamic proxies means that the best case scenario for the world would be for the protesters to succeed in overthrowing the regime after they have completely eliminated all traces of Islam so that Reza Pahlavi or Maryam Rajavi would be forced to follow suit in order to become part of the Iranian political ecosystem.

The protesters are determined and seem close to success this time. Despite severe internet blackouts, reports indicate that the protesters have taken control of some cities, including Abdanan and Malekshahi. Government forces have retreated in many other areas. There are protests even in Qom, the epicenter of Shia Islam. Those who support the freedom of Iranians from the religion forced on them wish the protesters the best and await the day when we can welcome our Iranian sisters and brothers into the global community!

Islam has never served a nation well, and the Persian people have a glorious history to fall back upon. Or, put another way, anything but Islam…

Arvind Kumar 

Source: New Iranian Rulers Must Embrace Their Pre-Islamic Past – American Thinker

To most of America’s founding fathers, the Bible was true from beginning to end, and it was the only source upon which to establish the new, independent nation.

However, with the advent of conjectures and hypotheses that undermined how people viewed the Bible’s history, its moral authority began to erode. Without the Bible’s absolute moral truths guiding the American people, the institution undergirded by this authority and designed to govern them will falter.

If the absolute authority of God’s Word is removed and moral relativity becomes the order of the day, on what will government and freedom stand? John Adams—one of America’s founding fathers and its second president—emphasized this truth when he said, “We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

In the United States the Fourth of July is a national holiday to reflect not only on the sacrifices of America’s founding fathers and the nation’s spiritual foundation, but also on where its people are today and what lies ahead if they do not return to trusting God’s Word as their foundation of truth in every area. It was this type of nation for which the founding fathers so willingly sacrificed their fortunes, homes, families, comforts, personal freedoms and lives.

The United States continues to be the longest on-going constitutional republic in the history of the world. Blessings such as those bestowed on this nation do not happen by chance or accident. They are blessings of God.

On July 2, 1776, after much discussion and prayer, Congress voted to approve a complete separation from Great Britain. Two days afterward, July 4, the early draft of the Declaration of Independence was signed, albeit by only two individuals at that time: John Hancock, president of Congress, and Charles Thompson, secretary of Congress. Four days later, members of Congress took that document and read it aloud from the steps of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, after which the Liberty Bell was rung.

Declaration and Deliverance

Comparing the turmoil, struggles and revolutions in other nations, in contrast to the relative stability and obvious blessings in the U.S., prompts American citizens to ask how this has been achieved. What was the basis of American independence? John Adams said, “The general principles on which the Fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity.” Perhaps the clearest identification of the spirit of the American Revolution was given by John Adams in a letter to his wife Abigail. Adams cautiously wrote, “This day will be the most memorable epic in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival.” John Adams believed that the Fourth of July should become a religious holiday—a day when Americans remember God’s hand of deliverance and a day of religious activities when its citizens commit themselves to Him in “solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty.” Such was the spirit of the American Revolution as seen through the eyes of those who led it, evidenced even further in the words of John Quincy Adams, one who was deeply involved in the activities of the Revolution.

In 1837 when Adams was 69 years old, he delivered a Fourth of July speech at Newburyport, Massachusetts. In that address, he posed the question: “Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day [the Fourth of July]?” Note his answer: “Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior? That it forms a leading event in the progress of the Gospel dispensation? Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer’s mission upon earth? That it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity?”

According to John Quincy Adams, for Americans Christmas and the Fourth of July were intrinsically connected. On the Fourth of July, America’s founders simply took the precepts of Christ which came into the world through His birth (Christmas) and incorporated those principles into civil government.

Integrity and Impact

Have you ever considered what it meant for those 56 men—an eclectic group of ministers, businessmen, teachers, university professors, sailors, captains, farmers—to sign the Declaration of Independence? This was a contract that began with the reasons for the institutional separation from Great Britain and closed in the final paragraph stating: “And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.” Dr. Benjamin Rush, the father of American medicine and a signer of the Declaration of Independence, recorded the events of that day in his diary. In 1781 he wrote to John Adams, “Do you recollect the pensive and awful silence which pervaded the House when we were called up, one after another, to the table of the President of Congress to subscribe to what was believed by many at that time to be our death warrants?”

These men took this pledge seriously. Robert Morris of Pennsylvania is an example of the highest level of integrity. He was chosen as the financier of the American Revolution. An honor … except that there was no bank willing to give any loans to help fund the Revolution during its first three years. So where did the money come from? Robert Morris effected loans of tens of thousands of dollars upon his own credit. In 1781 George Washington conceived the expedition against Cornwallis at Yorktown. He asked Judge Peters of Pennsylvania, “What can you do for me?” “With money, everything, without it, nothing,” Peters replied. Mr. Morris spoke up, “Let me know the sum you desire,” and before noon Washington’s estimates were complete. Robert Morris promised him the amount, and Morris raised it upon his own responsibility. America couldn’t repay him because there was no money, and yet Robert Morris never complained, because he had given his word.

Many other such stories exist in the records of the American Revolution.

Preserving American liberty depends first upon its citizenry understanding the foundations on which this greatly blessed country was built and then preserving those principles. Americans must not let the purpose for which the nation was established be forgotten. The founding fathers passed a torch; modern Americans would do well not to let it go out.

Answers In Genesis is an apologetics ministry founded by Ken Ham that is dedicated to enabling Christians to defend their faith and proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ effectively.

Source: A Foundation of Scripture: The Founding Fathers Passed A Torch; Modern Americans Would Do Well Not To Let It Go Out – Harbinger’s Daily

These past few weeks, Venezuela has been in the news as a narco-terrorist state, but in addition to that, it has become a territory where anti-Christian socialism violates the religious freedom of millions of believers. And we, as Christians, cannot think of a better way to rebuild a free Venezuela than respecting…

Nicolas Maduro, longtime dictator of Venezuela, has been captured by an incredible operation that bombed Fuerte Tiuna, the biggest military base in Caracas. The implications are still unknown, but the region has been shaken, for sure, as Venezuelans looked at the sky for Chinook, Black Hawk, and Little Bird helicopters.

In Cuba, the socialist regime concentrated in Havana will observe solidarity in support of the Chavista dictatorship. Now the frequent blackouts across the island will be more frequent. The jewel in Cuba’s iron crown has fallen.

Meanwhile, in Spain, the leftist politician Pablo Iglesias has embraced the pro-Maduro narrative: the United States is “bombarding Venezuela to steal its oil and impose a puppet government.” The truth is that Venezuelan oil was being consumed by the barrel by the dictators of Iran, Russia, and Cuba. In the case of Cuba, it was even more outrageous, because while the Cuban people were suffering through prolonged power outages, the regime was reselling the crude oil in illicit operations.

These past few weeks, Venezuela has been in the news as a narco-terrorist state, but in addition to that, it has become a territory where anti-Christian socialism violates the religious freedom of millions of believers. And we, as Christians, cannot think of a better way to rebuild a free Venezuela than respecting religious freedom.

Some stories are terrible. In 2021, several men armed with sticks and knives occupied the Men of Valor Christian Restoration Center in Mérida. They were members of the ferocious “colectivos” (copies of the Castroist Rapid Response Brigades) that function as paramilitaries in the service of dictator Nicolás Maduro and the United Socialist Party of Venezuela. At the Center, where Pastor Cristian Dugarte tries to reintegrate young former drug addicts into society, several people present were forced to chew pages of the Bible, beaten to the point of fracturing limbs and ribs, and felt the edge of knives cutting their skin in the shape of a cross.

Dugarte had previously received threats to stop his activities, as he had refused to provide information about the identity of the people receiving his help. Did the attackers fear that the pastor was stealing their drug customers? Or perhaps that someone would talk about the links between neighborhood drug trafficking and Chavista officials?

A local source told the Latin American Observatory for Religious Freedom (OLIRE) about this 2021 event that the attack targeted elements of the faith that motivated this type of ministerial work; that the members of the “colectivo” and the regime did not allow leaders like Dugarte to challenge their power and work without their consent; and that rehabilitating drug addicts was an unwanted and therefore prohibited activity.

In a report, the organization Outreach Aid to the Americas (OAA), which monitors human rights in the Caribbean basin, recalled that although dictator Hugo Chávez sought to approach evangelicals during his election campaign, he soon lost their support. Especially because of his national expropriation policies, the government’s infiltration of churches, support for Cuba, his diatribes against Israel, and Holocaust denial.

Years later, Maduro, his successor, seeing how the military and evangelicals had collaborated to overthrow his Bolivian ally Evo Morales and their influence in the elections of other countries, commissioned a survey that revealed that 30% of Venezuelans considered themselves evangelical, a figure higher than most estimates, according to OAA. “As a result, Maduro provided superficial initial support to these churches, including authorizing the distribution of Bibles, but ultimately followed Chávez’s failed policies and lost almost all support.”

During the COVID-19 pandemic years, Maduro restrained the ministerial work of many churches and Christian organizations regarding the receipt of humanitarian aid. He was perhaps seeking control of all those resources entering the country, and he would not share the monopoly of solidarity, in order to reinforce the image of the state as the provider of aid. In the process, he violated the religious freedom of those leaders and faithful who, because of their values, sought to lend a helping hand to those in need in the impoverished South American nation.

On March 30, 2021, the Ministry of Interior and Justice published a new “anti-terrorism” requirement: NGOs and other nonprofit organizations had to provide confidential information about activities, contributions, and names of beneficiaries, which in practice amounts to government surveillance, OAA recalled.

This ordeal has continued to this day. The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) confirms this in its recent report, “The Repression of Religious Freedom in the Authoritarian Triad of Latin America: Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.”

According to the document, although Chavismo has not intensified its persecution against religious groups to the level of Cuba or Nicaragua, it does engage in similar patterns of repression, such as persistent harassment of religious communities, threats and summonses, public attacks, arbitrary detentions, and surveillance of faith groups. “In Venezuela, religious leaders who are not considered supporters of Maduro by intelligence services face intimidation, including threats from both anonymous sources and state agents,” USCIRF reported. In 2025, for example, the journalist for the religious radio station Fe y Alegría, Carlos José Correa Barros, was arrested by masked military personnel. He remained missing until his release nine days later.

The impact of the closing of civic space on religious organizations is clear under Chavismo, mainly with the emergence of laws that also affect freedom of religion.

Since 2024, the Law on the Supervision, Regulation, Operation, and Financing of Non-Governmental and NonProfit Social Organizations has required NGOs to obtain government authorization to operate, allowing the state to suspend those that promote “fascism” — that old political corpse, a cousin of socialism, which is trotted out from time to time in demonizing diatribes.

As if he were a character from 1984, Maduro brandishes the application of the so-called Hate Law to punish church leaders critical of corruption.

Venezuela also follows in Cuba’s well-trodden footsteps in the systematic abuse of legal registration, maintaining, according to USCIRF, the requirement that religious groups register with the Directorate of Justice and Religion. Bureaucracy delays the registration process “for up to a decade for churches that do not demonstrate loyalty.”

The situation is no better in prisons. Chavista authorities frequently deny or prevent church leaders from entering detention centers. Caracas has learned from Havana over the years how to break not only bones but also spirits.

Let’s hope that a new Venezuela, with republican values, emerges after the Maduro capture. Maria Corina Machado, the opposition Venezuelan leader, said in a recent communication that she expects a moment for the “popular sovereignty prevails in Venezuela, the release of political prisoners and the return of exiles.” Many Christians are among them! Rejoice for the possibility of a free land in South America, and one less government oppressing our brothers and sisters.

Family Research Council is a nonprofit research and educational organization founded in 1983, dedicated to articulating and advancing a family-centered philosophy of public life.

Source: The Fall Of An Anti-Christian Regime? What Maduro’s Capture Could Mean For Venezuelan Christians – Harbinger’s Daily

“For too long, woke activists have been able to reduce religious freedom within the military with very little resistance, including limiting the freedom of our military chaplains. The ministry of military chaplains continues a tradition of service provided to our service men and women since 1775, making sure that those…

2026 is off to a great start, beginning with a couple of major federal actions to protect religious liberty for America’s service members and veterans.

Strengthening the Chaplain Corps

U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth recently announced several reforms that will restore the freedom and importance of military chaplains.

“In an atmosphere of political correctness and secular humanism, chaplains have been minimized, viewed by many as therapists instead of ministers,” Sec. Hegseth said in a video posted on X, formerly Twitter.

“There will be a top-down cultural shift, putting spiritual wellbeing on the same footing as mental and physical health, as a first step toward creating a supportive environment for our warriors and their souls,” he added.

“We commend President Trump and Secretary Hegseth for taking bold steps toward protecting religious freedom for those who sacrifice the most to defend it by ensuring that every chaplain in our military is able to fulfill their mission to be the spiritual light for our brave warriors,” said Chris Motz, Senior Counsel for First Liberty.

“For too long, woke activists have been able to reduce religious freedom within the military with very little resistance, including limiting the freedom of our military chaplains,” Motz continued. “The ministry of military chaplains continues a tradition of service provided to our service men and women since 1775, making sure that those who fight to defend our nation have the spiritual guidance they need.”

President Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission also commended the action, emphasizing that “the chaplaincy is foundational to the American military—a source of spiritual strength so that our service members continue to serve as a force for good in the face of evil and oppression.”

The Commission recently held a hearing focusing on the religious freedom challenges that America’s military men and women face. It heard powerful testimony from military chaplains as well as former Navy SEAL Blake Martin, military supplier Kenny Vaughan with Shields of Strength, historian Dave Barton, and others.

“These men and women are risking their very lives for our freedoms. To stand for theirs is the very least we can do,” noted Kelly Shackelford, President and CEO of First Liberty and a member of the Commission.

“The testimonies highlight the importance of ensuring that the religious liberty of our service members, chaplains and veterans is upheld both now and into the future,” Shackelford continued.

Protecting Religious Freedom at the VA

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) recently issued new guidance that doctors within the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) will no longer require VA employees to offer abortion services to veterans.

This action reverses previous guidance under the Biden administration which required abortions to be funded with taxpayer dollars for any reason and at any stage of pregnancy. The updated guidance ensures the VA will remain free from coercion for people of faith.

“VA doctors and nurses heroically care for our nation’s veterans, and they shouldn’t be forced to perform no-limit abortions against their religious beliefs,” Motz said.

First Liberty secured a huge victory for Stephanie Carter, an Army veteran and nurse practitioner at the VA medical center in Temple, Texas. When she sought a religious accommodation from participating in abortions in the fall of 2022, VA officials informed Stephanie that no process for such accommodations existed. First Liberty sued in federal court, arguing that the Biden administration’s rule violated longstanding protections for people of faith at the VA.

Because of our lawsuit, the VA implemented a policy to accommodate all VA employees who have religious objections to being forced to participate in abortions. This was a major win that not only impacted Stephanie, but thousands of religious employees at the VA.

“We commend the DOJ for taking bold steps toward protecting religious freedom for those within the VA by ensuring that health care providers will not be forced to provide abortion services, “ Motz concluded.

First Liberty Institute is the largest legal organization in the nation dedicated exclusively to defending religious liberty for all Americans.

Source: New Year Begins With Major Federal Actions To Protect Religious Liberty For America’s Service Members – Harbinger’s Daily

Paul’s admonition to his protégé, Timothy, offers wise counsel to followers of Christ still today: rightly divide the Word of God. The challenge throughout the Church Age has been to remain true to God’s Word—contending earnestly for the Truth it reveals in order to hand down the faith once delivered to future generations of saints.

The key to applying that wisdom lies in approaching the Word with fear and trembling—and without preconceived ideas sprung from the mind of man. That is especially true regarding the End Times.

Without besmirching the position of those who hold non-Pre-Tribulational and Pre-Millennial viewpoints, my experience is that most of them were taught to come to the Bible with a framework already established. For the Amillennialists, that tends to be an expectation that any prophecy dealing with Jesus’ Second Coming should be spiritualized. Some go so far as to say that although the First Advent prophecies were fulfilled literally, none of the Second Coming prophecies will be fulfilled in the same manner.

The same is true of Post-Millennial advocates. They elevate the role of the Church to the point that they believe the Church will usher in a golden age of peace, righteousness, and holiness on the earth—forgetting that while those characteristics should mark individual Christians and the Bride of Christ as a whole, the still-unrestrained Devil will continue to deceive and devour until Christ commands that he be confined for 1,000 years.

At the heart of the disagreement between the various eschatological viewpoints lies the Millennium. We have addressed the theological variance in those perspectives many times, but suffice it to say that anyone who simply opens the Book and reads God’s prophetic revelations will tend to come to a Pre-Tribulation, Pre-Millennial understanding.

Plain Sense Meaning

The golden rule of Bible interpretation is this: If the plain sense makes sense, don’t look for any other sense, lest you end up with nonsense. This method of interpretation makes a few key presumptions:

1. God intended to communicate with mankind.

2. In addition to His revelations about Himself and His plan of salvation, He provides prophetic insights into what lies ahead in His plan for the Ages.

3. God wants everyone who opens the Bible to have access to His truth—regardless of their education level or pedigree.

Those presumptions play out in a clear pattern of understanding. Let’s explore each in turn and be encouraged by God’s lovingkindness and self-disclosure.

He Knows How to Communicate

Ours is the God who speaks. Unlike the mute gods of wood and stone, and the false demonic gods who cannot gaze into the future, the living God speaks authoritative words that convey His power and intentions: “For as the rain and the snow come down from Heaven, and do not return there without watering the Earth and making it bear and sprout, and furnishing seed to the sower and bread to the eater; so will My word be which goes forth from My mouth; it will not return empty, without accomplishing what I desire, and without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it” (Isaiah 55:10-11).

He revealed His intentions through His prophets. And, He sent His only Son to testify to the truth—namely, the Gospel of the Kingdom (John 18:37). Over 1,600 times in the Old Testament alone, the writers prefaced their God-ordained remarks with, “Thus saith the Lord.” Paul affirmed Him as the Source of the sacred writings handed down from on high: “All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work” (2 Timothy 3:16-17).

The question is not whether God communicates, but whether we hear His voice—and are listening.

He is Close, and Will be Found by All Who Seek

Too many Christians have been infected by the same insidious poison that infected the ancient Israelites, metastasized throughout the Catholic and Orthodox churches, and spreads like a cancer even today. People believe that only men with lofty titles or advanced degrees can understand the Word of God.

Things got so bad in the Medieval period that merely owning a Bible (especially one printed in a language the common people could read) was a capital offense. Priests lorded over their congregations—isolating them from their actual Lord and Savior. Bibles were chained to the altar of the church, lest some inquisitive parishioner dare to take and read for themselves.

In such an environment, biblical understanding was limited, and abuses abounded. That is one of the reasons Martin Luther and others instigated the Reformation. We can rejoice that today the Bible is the most-published book in human history. Over 5 billion copies have been printed and distributed, in virtually every language in the world. The message of the Gospel—foolishness to those who are perishing but the power of God to those who are saved (1 Corinthians 1:18)—can be understood by a child. It can be communicated to people who are illiterate. And it continues to be studied and pondered by men and women with multiple advanced degrees. In short, it is for every sheep who will hear the voice of the Shepherd and respond in believing faith.

He Reveals Things to Come

God seems to delight in revealing what lies ahead. This is not only a source of encouragement and blessing for us, it is also a clear demonstration of His omniscience and power.

We can be encouraged by the fact that none of the pathologies of this world are a surprise to God. He foreknew them, just as He foreknew the fact that mankind would require a Savior. That is why it was His intention from the foundation of the world to offer salvation through the shed blood of the Lamb—His only begotten Son (Revelation 13:8). So, even as the world grows darker around us, we can be assured that God is still in control and that He will orchestrate every stray thread into a beautiful tapestry to His own glory.

The LORD God rightfully boasts about His foresight and power. Contrasting Himself with the deaf, mute, blind, and dumb gods that mankind fashions and follows, He mockingly challenged the false gods, saying, “Let them come and tell us what will happen. Tell us the past events, so that we may reflect on them and know the outcome, or tell us the future. Tell us the coming events, then we will know that you are gods. Indeed, do something good or bad, then we will be in awe when we see it. Look, you are nothing and your work is worthless. Anyone who chooses you is detestable” (Isaiah 41:23-25).

As Daniel said to King Nebuchadnezzar, “There is a God in Heaven who reveals mysteries, and He has made known… what will take place in the last days” Daniel 2:28).

In addition to revealing what will take place, God also chose to provide warning signs for those with eyes to see. I’m reminded of the rumble strips cut into a road as it is nearing an end, or the warning track at the edge of a baseball field that is designed to alert outfielders that they are approaching the wall before a dangerous collision. Woven into His prophetic Word are signs that can be recognized. It’s as if God was absolutely determined that there would be ample indications that His patience will not abide forever and His Son is coming soon.

Jesus expressed great disappointment that the supposedly religious Jews He encountered were oblivious to the Signs of the Times. Reminding them of age-old signs of nature evident in the color of the sky in morning or evening, He said: “Do you know how to discern the appearance of the sky, but cannot discern the signs of the times?” (Matthew 16:3).

Do You Know What You are Reading?

At Lamb & Lion Ministries, we are great advocates of simply opening the Book and studying for yourself. We believe the Holy Spirit is faithful to guide us into all truth. Jesus promised as much: “When He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come. He will glorify Me, for He will take of Mine and will disclose it to you” (John 16:13-14).

I can attest that there is a great blessing in coming to the Word of God with no preconceived notions, no skeletal preformed “outlines” or man-made eschatological systems. When I began studying God’s prophetic Word, the basic outline of what lies ahead was plain enough to see: Jesus promised to return, reign upon the Earth, and institute a thousand years of peace, righteousness, and holiness.

Some nuances and details remain mysterious, but some of them have become more obvious over time— like the provision for the regathering of the House of Israel from the four corners of the world.

Having said that, there are points at which any student of Bible prophecy can be stumped. This too is recognized and recorded in Scripture.

For example, when the Ethiopian eunuch was returning to his home country after coming to Jerusalem to worship (marking him as a man loyal to the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob), he was reading from the book of Isaiah (Acts 8). The Bible does not clarify whether the man was Jewish or Gentile, but the lack of specificity (contrasting with the account of Cornelius in Acts 10) suggests that he was likely Jewish. Led by the Spirit, Philip had traveled from Jerusalem down the desert road toward Gaza. The Spirit then commanded him to approach the eunuch and ask, “Do you understand what you are reading?” The eunuch’s answer, “Well, how could I, unless someone guides me?” offered an opening for Philip to share Jesus with him.

Because Philip was obedient to the Holy Spirit and willing to engage, the eunuch accepted his offer of illumination and was saved that day.

Tim Moore is a retired Air Force Colonel, the CEO and Senior Evangelist of Lion & Lamb Ministries, and a Contributor to Harbinger’s Daily.

Source: Are We Listening?: Rightly Dividing God’s Prophetic Word – Harbinger’s Daily

This Marxist-born racial attack bears no relationship to how American whites have fought for centuries to overcome racism and achieve equality.

In a speech at the December 2025 Turning Point USA summit in Phoenix, Arizona, Vice President J.D. Vance declared, “In the United States, you don’t have to apologize for being white anymore.”

There was an overwhelming and immediate meltdown on the left, replete with the usual vile epithets and accusations of “white supremacy,” as headlines on the internet blared, “JD Vance Goes Full White Nationalist at TPUSA Event,” and NPR declared, “Vance Refuses to Set Red Line Over Bigotry at Turning Point USA’s Convention.”

Within this echo chamber, the accusations of blatant racism assumed avalanche proportions. New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie proclaimed, “The Vice President is a Klansman.” Independent journalist Jennifer Schulze argued, “I don’t think the mainstream media can possibly report on just how vile and dangerous this JD Vance diatribe is. Some will gloss over the extremism; others will both sides it. So, people need to watch the actual video to see/hear for themselves the white nationalist venom spewing from this monster.” Typical of the hysterical reaction on the far-left social media site Bluesky is from the widely followed user PhillipUSA, who wrote, “JD Vance is a self-proclaimed f**king racist.”

On a more personal basis, I received an email from a former college professor regarding Vance’s speech and appearance at TPUSA. Her message was that unless I and others who support Trump denounce Vance, we are complicit in advocating white supremacy and further that the White race should apologize for centuries of racism and oppression. My reply is as follows:

I am a member of the Caucasian race and of European heritage, I am a naturalized citizen of the United States, and I am a Christian. I am extraordinarily proud of being all the above and revel in the overwhelming life-changing achievements of the United States. Further, even if I knew who my ancestors were, I do not have a scintilla of guilt, nor do I care about what they may or may not have done over the centuries.

Further, I am proud to be a member of the race that created Western Civilization. A civilization that ended 12,000 years of global slavery, initiated and promoted universal human rights, originated women’s equality, created parliamentary democracy, dramatically raised the standard of living for all races around the globe, and recognized that as certain rights came from God and not man, they cannot be abrogated.

After having attended the March on Washington on August 28, 1963, and listened to the immortal words of Martin Luther King, I have judged others not “…by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” Thus, I am not about to roll over and allow autocratic demagogues and their dimwitted acolytes, such as yourself, to use fictitious “systemic racism” and “white nationalism” to denigrate and intimidate the vast bulk of the population in order to achieve the ultimate goal of transforming this magnificent nation into a one-party socialist oligarchy.

It is long past time for America’s white population to stop cowering in the shadows and living in fear of being falsely and absurdly labeled. That begins by understanding the genesis of this anti-white movement and its ultimate objective.

Up until fifty-five years ago, America’s Marxists had been unable to make any serious inroads toward transforming the United States into a one-party “socialist paradise” by using the standard class-warfare tactics that had succeeded in other nations. Those tactics worked in these nations because there was an element of truth to the underlying allegations of rampant inequality stemming from rigid class structures and monolithic governments.

These tactics did not work in America, as this is the first nation in the annals of mankind to eliminate rigid class structure, recognize the rights of the individual, dramatically disperse governmental power, and champion capitalism. Further, it is also the first nation to create a written permanent Constitution with provisions to correct societal inequalities, a document used to establish women’s suffrage in 1920 and eliminate the last vestiges of institutional racism in the 1960s. It is the only nation in history that was willing to suffer the overwhelming death and destruction of a civil war to permanently end slavery. And it is the only country in the annals of mankind created as a multi-ethnic nation.

Thanks to the success of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, America’s Marxists were forced to—and did—change tactics. They began promoting the false premise that the Civil Rights Movement underscored the reality that the United States was and will continue to be a malevolent nation due to “systemic racism” and “white privilege.”

According to their agitprop, the European branch of the Caucasian race (or more contemptuously “whites”) has, since the dawn of recorded history, been the principal promoters and beneficiaries of slavery and repression throughout the world. Thus, the members of this villainous race who settled in this country over the past 400 years are responsible for imposing never-ending racism and inequity on the American continent.

Therefore, the current white American population must openly confess its collective guilt and seek forgiveness. Additionally, and in light of this demonic legacy, every American of any race should be mortified to be a citizen of such a vile and irredeemable country.

Not coincidentally, this same cabal has declared that there is a path toward national redemption and a mechanism to forever erase the stain of “white supremacy” and “systemic racism.” That is for the American Marxists (almost entirely populated by self-aggrandizing members of the white populace) to assume the reins of power in perpetuity and transform the nation into a one-party secular socialist paradise. Their permanent ascendancy to the top of the governing pyramid would be the only means for unenlightened members of the white population who are not part of the ruling left to be granted absolution.

If so-called “white supremacy” has run rampant throughout the nation since its founding, what explains the historical determination of America’s overwhelmingly dominant white Christian population to right wrongs and live by the tenets of the Declaration of Independence with its Judeo-Christian underpinning, a mindset that stretches back to the nation’s founding and the abolition movements of the 19th century?

This determination culminated in a devastating and brutal Civil War. A war in which nearly 400,000 white Union soldiers (the equivalent of over 6 million today) died to end slavery. Further, over the decades, it was the dominant white Christian citizenry that was the catalyst in bringing about change and ensuring the rights of all Americans.

In 1960, nearly 89% of the American population identified as White. Without the involvement of the white citizenry, the Civil Rights Movement would not have been successful. Eliminating all remaining vestiges of institutionalized racism would not have been achieved without the acquiescence of the bulk of the white population.

This is not a racist nation. Despite the American Marxists and their never-ending vitriol and despite their being able to exploit some credulous citizens, the vast majority of Americans instinctively know that.

As recently as 2008, and before the ascension of the race-baiting Barack Obama and his Marxist fellow-travelers, only 18% of Americans were greatly concerned or worried about the state of race relations in the country, as nearly 70% thought that relations between whites and blacks were very or somewhat good.

JD Vance is right: Stop apologizing for being white. All Americans should be proud of being a member of whatever race or ethnic group they may belong to and of being a citizen of the United States. They should not be gulled into feeling guilty about what their ancestors did or didn’t do, especially given that virtually every person on the planet today has ancestors who were slaves and who were also involved in the conquest of other peoples, tribes, or nations.

The time has come for America’s white population to uncompromisingly tell those among their number who are maliciously fomenting guilt and promoting reverse discrimination to shove it.

Steve McCann | December 30, 2025

Source: Stop Apologizing For Being White – American Thinker

Source: The meaning of Christmas is simple — yet so hard for modern minds to grasp

Should you be one of the increasingly few who still remember what the real “reason for the season” is this Christmas, then you can’t help but think about Jesus. How, though, in your mind’s eye, do you actually picture Him?

The Christmas Jesus

Because the Christmas holiday celebrates the Savior’s birth, when picturing Jesus, one naturally sees a baby. Popular nativity scenes portray Luke’s description of Jesus as a tiny babe swaddled in strips of cloth and lying in an animal trough. His parents, Mary and Joseph, gaze down adoringly. Shepherds and wise men gape in amazement from their perches along stone walls. The heavenly host flies above majestically singing, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill toward men!”

While the angels add a sense of the divine to the Nativity Story, and Hollywood adds the touch of a beam of Bethlehem starlight spotlighting the little family, for the most part, the scene is rather pastoral. We see a peasant family sitting in the hay among the barnyard animals in some sort of cave. It is meant to be a very humble scene.

The Easter Jesus

Because Christmastime is also celebrated by cultural Christians and even non-Christians, the humble imagery of the baby Jesus remains in the mind’s eye. That is, until Easter. Then Jesus is portrayed altogether differently. Now He’s all grown up, fully bearded, yet frail and emaciated. His lithe body suffers from beatings and is covered in lash marks. He is nailed naked to a tree where he hangs limply, bleeding. And there Jesus remains on that cross in the mind’s eye, at least until Christmas returns to reset the mental image of Jesus back into a tiny baby again. And the circle continues.

The Popular Jesus

One of the most popular scenes from the movie Talladega Nights is when the lead character, race car driver Ricky Bobby (played by Will Ferrell), says grace with his family over a feast of fast food. He begins each praise and prayer request with “Dear Lord Baby Jesus” until his wife, Carley, impatiently interrupts with a, “Hey, you know, Sweetie, Jesus did grow up. You don’t always have to call him ‘baby.’” Incensed, Ricky responds with, “Well, I like the Christmas Jesus best, and I’m saying grace. When you say grace, you can say it to grown-up Jesus, or teenage Jesus, or bearded Jesus, or whoever you want.” Even Ricky’s father-in-law, Chip, chimes in with, “He was a man! He had a beard!” From there, the conversation degenerates as each family member describes the “Jesus” they prefer: a ninja fighting off evil samurai, a guy sporting giant eagle’s wings, or a cool fellow singing lead vocals in a band, and so on.

Christians watching this movie tend to squirm, dumbfounded over whether this scene balances closer to blasphemy or comedy. And yet, one cannot help but come away with a profound revelation: most people have created their own “Jesus.”

People see Jesus in the only way they’ve ever encountered Him, and often that’s only during Christmas and Easter. Therefore, Jesus remains to most people as either a helpless baby or a dying man.

The Prophetic Jesus

The beauty and majesty of God’s Prophetic Word introduce us to a third image of Jesus that few, if any, encounter because they never study Bible prophecy. In the prophecies concerning Jesus’ Second Coming, human frailty is stripped away, revealing Christ’s true glory—a divinity that the Apostles could only glimpse at the Transfiguration. Christ’s true form stunned James and John into silence and Peter into babbling. The Apostles had witnessed Jesus in His eternal, glorified state!

In Revelation 1:8, Jesus introduces Himself with the self-identification, “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End… the Almighty,” breaking out of the box of babyhood with His claim to agelessness and ultimate power. Revelation 1 continues to describe Jesus as “One like the Son of Man,” so only resembling frail humanity in appearance. Clothed with a garment and girded with a golden band, His hair gleams bright white as wool, and His eyes blaze like flames. Jesus’ feet glow like brass refined in a furnace, and His voice thunders with the sound of many waters. Jesus’ holiness blinds with the strength of the sun. The Jesus whom the elderly apostle John encountered caused him to fall at Jesus’ feet, as if he were a dead man.

Jump ahead to Revelation 19, and you’ll stand in awe of the description of Jesus as He triumphantly returns to earth as a warrior king, dispensing righteousness, judgment, and waging total war against Satan’s forces. Jesus bursts out of the heavens riding His white war charger as the armies of Heaven trail endlessly behind Him. Jesus’ eyes blaze like fire, atop His head sit many crowns, His robe is dipped in blood, and He strikes the enemy nations dead with the sword of the Word protruding out of His mouth. Emblazoned on Jesus’ thigh is the title: “King of kings and Lord of lords.”

Often, it is more palatable to paint Jesus inside the box of one’s mind as a little baby or suffering servant, but is that the genuine Jesus? In part, yes, for they were as much a part of Jesus as our own baby, childhood, and teenage selves once were to us then, but are no longer.

Jesus eternal is the Jesus of Bible prophecy. So stand in awe of your Savior this Christmas season, and all year long!

Dr. Nathan E. Jones is an author, the Director of Internet Outreach/Internet Evangelist at Lamb & Lion Ministries, the co-host of the weekly television program Christ in Prophecy, and a Contributor to Harbinger’s Daily.

Source: The Jesus Of Bible Prophecy: Christ Is No Longer A Little Baby Or Suffering Servant – Harbinger’s Daily

American Education: From Biblical Roots to Atheism

American schools began with the Puritans in the 1600s for the purpose of Bible literacy. With the Bible as the core of learning, America’s first reader, the New England Primer, was created to teach children Bible stories, poems, hymns, and prayers. This emphasis on literacy and education promoted strong religious convictions among colonists and led to the creation of the most literate, educated society in the world.

By the 1800s, the core of learning in schools had begun to shift. For more than 200 years, American culture has endured an onslaught of secular ideologies that gradually have undermined our Christian foundations.

In late 1824, Robert Owen, a Welsh utopian textile manufacturer who communicated with spirits through mediums and séances, arrived in America. He founded the New Harmony socialist commune in Indiana that soon failed. He proposed that government should educate children and introduced the Prussian government indoctrination system that inspired our first public schools.

In the late 1830s, socialists, determined to replace the Biblical lessons with secularism, established government-controlled — public – schools. This would be implemented by teachers educated in the new teacher colleges that standardized what government wanted students to learn.

A signatory of the Humanist Manifesto that rejected the existence of God and moral truth, John Dewey was one of the most influential of the teacher education professors. Often referred to as the “father of public education,” Dewey believed that children should not think for themselves. His mission was to use public schools for the reconstruction of society. With his long tenure at the prestigious Columbia teacher college and his prolific publications, he was largely responsible in his lifetime for turning public schools from largely Protestant Christian academies into secular indoctrination centers.

In the 21st century, the core of education shifted still further from the Bible with the implementation of Common Core Curriculum Standards in public and some private schools. The standards were rooted in the U.N.’s occultist World Core Curriculum derived from the teachings of theosophist Alice Bailey, founder of the infamous Lucis Trust.

Although former U.S. Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos stated in a 2018 speech that “Common Core is dead,” it is alive and well — under aliases — even in states such as Texas that did not adopt Common Core during the Race to the Top under Obama. With the passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act in 2015, Common Core was codified so every school district that accepts federal funding is required to implement this leftist legislation with its occult rooted curriculum.

With the far-left teacher colleges churning out radical activists, public schools have become a magnet for paganism, witchcraft, and eastern religions that are contrary to our Judeo-Christian principles.

In California, the State Board of Education adopted an ethnic studies curriculum that required students to recite prayers and chants to pagan Aztec gods of war, human sacrifice, and cannibalism. A lawsuit forced the board to remove the section about chants with the rest of the curriculum remaining in place.

Florida students were subjected to witchcraft programming — “Witchy Wednesday” — via the school’s TV system during weekly announcements. Only when faced with allowing Christians to have equal time to profess their faith was the school administration willing to stop the witchcraft indoctrination.

In Chicago, students were coerced to participate in silent mantras to Hindu deities and in individual worship in dark rooms where they had to kneel in front of an altar with fruit offerings to the gods. The indoctrination stopped after the district was forced to pay a multi-million-dollar award to the victims over violation of their First Amendment rights with Transcendental Meditation (TM).

Some public schools such as Pin Oak Middle School in Bellaire, Texas, have credit-based classes in Hinduism and the culture of India. Where is a credit-based course in Biblical history?

Although schools and educators steadfastly refuse to integrate Christian prayer into the curriculum, Buddhism often is found in public classrooms as “mindfulness” and “meditation techniques.” Claimed to be a way to reduce student stress and promote mental well-being, Buddhist mindfulness meditation is akin to prayer for Christians while the mindfulness curriculum teaches Buddhist practices. Often referred to as the Quiet Time Program, students and teachers meditate for 10 to 20 minutes twice each day with instruction and follow-up by teachers trained to provide instruction.

Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) is claimed to improve student mental health, but actually it is a vehicle for indoctrination. The “circle time” practices used in SEL lessons in schools across the nation are drawn from Theosophy and Mahayana Buddhism.

In 1965, the Students International Meditation Society (SIMS) was founded to teach Transcendental Meditation in schools and universities. By 1974, TM was in local schools in 14 states and 50 universities. In 1979, the courts ruled that, although it is not a theistic religion, TM focuses on issues and ideas analogous to those in well-recognized religions and is prohibited, under the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, from taking government funding for mandated programs. Determined to continue their mission to infuse Buddhist principles into Western schools using secular language, SIMS obtained private funding.

For decades, Saudi oil money has bought the “right” for Muslims to proselytize in the classroom through Middle East history, culture, and the Arabic language. In the red state of Texas, students chant to Allah, recite aloud Islamic prayers, learn the Five Pillars of Islam, visit mosques, and wear burqas. In conservative rural Tennessee, numerous school activities indoctrinate students in Islam.

Recently, Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro Pennsylvania announced a $5 million “grant,” funded by taxpayers, to the Al-Aqsa Islamic Society of Philadelphia to expand its K-12 Muslim school. Taxpayers already are funding Islamic education under various guises.

Once a moral and highly literate nation of people, America has become amoral, violent, and dumbed down. We cannot lay all the blame on public education, but we have to consider what kind of morals might develop when citizens are educated in a system that teaches God is irrelevant. We have to consider what effect that a steady barrage of atheism, paganism, and eastern religions in the classroom is having on our youth.

Angry parents have organized to “take back” public education. The problem is that they fail to recognize that they never controlled the government schools in the first place. They believe they can “fix” public schools. Yet public education was flawed from its inception. Education reformers have tried for decades to improve public schools, yet the problems grow ever more dire. Fixing public education requires changing its purpose. Don’t count on that happening.

If parents really want schools that produce highly literate and moral students, they should withdraw their children from public schools and seek alternate forms of learning — like those in colonial days.

Source: American Education: From Biblical Roots to Atheism – American Thinker

I have long looked for a definition of antisemitism that could help me explain to Christian’s why this targeted hatred of Jewish people is a spiritual battle that’s playing out in real time right before our eyes.

I finally found it in the words of Israeli journalist Haviv Rettig Gur, who captures antisemitism with rare clarity.

He argues that antisemitism is “an ancient idea that recurs throughout history—the archetype that Jews stand in the way of the redemption of the world.”

That definition gets to the heart of something many political commentators, academics, and activists miss entirely. Antisemitism isn’t ultimately about stereotypes, war, money, power, or politics. It’s about a deeper belief embedded across civilizations; it’s the belief that the Jewish people are the obstacle preventing the world from becoming what it ought to be.

For years, I’ve heard evangelicals insist that antisemitism is more than prejudice—that it is spiritual warfare, a satanic assault against the people God chose to bear His promises.

I agree!

But if we want to confront the rising tide of Jew-hatred—especially now that it spreads far beyond the progressive left, infecting conservative spaces and even Christian communities—we must go deeper.

If antisemitism is satanic, we must ask what Satan is actually trying to accomplish, and Gur’s framing, in my opinion, provides the key.

If the Jewish people are seen as the barrier to global redemption, then antisemitism is fundamentally a theological grievance disguised as political, cultural, or racial critique. It is the same ancient lie retold in new vocabulary. Antisemitism is a shapeshifter that has taken on three dominant forms throughout history.

The first is the oldest, religious antisemitism—the belief that Jewish faith and Torah observance are what threaten the world’s progress. That lie surfaces in the book of Esther when Haman describes the Jews as a people who refuse to obey the king’s laws. It resurfaces centuries later in Antiochus Epiphanes, a Greek king who outlawed Jewish practice because it interfered with his imperial vision of cultural conformity. It appeared in Medieval Spain, when King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella insisted Jewish difference was so intolerable after the Reconquista that Jews must convert, leave, or die.

Religious antisemitism persists today; it can be seen in Islamic teachings and certain Christian doctrine. Last year, social media influencer Father Calvin Robinson went on a viral rant claiming that there is no such thing as “Judeo-Christian” values, only Christian values. He refused to use the word Judeo. His post was received with acclaim by many, including Candace Owens, who said she’s stopped Judeo because of its “overtly political history.”

Religious antisemitism claims that Jews are a problem because they will not “become like us.”

A second form of antisemitism took shape in the modern era: racial, genetic antisemitism. Unlike earlier hatred, which targeted what Jews believed, this newer version targeted who Jews were. Jewishness became a biological stain, an inborn problem, a threat embedded in DNA. A Jew could be secular or observant, religious or an atheist—it didn’t matter. Their very existence, their bloodline, was now seen as the source of society’s corruption.

This is the worldview Adolf Hitler seized upon, accusing the Jewish people of poisoning Germany and dragging it into humiliation after World War I. Nazi propaganda went so far as to invent physical identifiers, like the infamous “Jewish nose,” even though scientific studies disproved such claims.

But the truth was irrelevant.

Demonization was the goal. And genetic antisemitism gave Hitler the ideological foundation to murder six million Jewish men, women, and children in the Holocaust. It didn’t matter what Jewish people believed; the problem with Germany and the world was the Jew.

A third form of antisemitism has become unmistakable in the 21st century: statehood antisemitism. It claims to be political, offering critiques of Israeli policy, but always ends by targeting Jewish people—anywhere, everywhere.

You see more clearly since the Hamas massacre on October 7, Jewish students on college campuses have been shoved, harassed, screamed at, and excluded from classrooms—many of them aren’t even Israeli.

Synagogues, kosher restaurants, and Jewish community centers across the world have been vandalized or threatened. The message is unmistakable: Israel’s existence as a Jewish state is the problem, and therefore Jews everywhere must pay the price.

Statehood antisemitism pretends to be about geopolitics. But it functions the same way ancient hatred always has: it collapses Israel, Judaism, and the Jewish people into a single target. The war in Gaza becomes a pretext for hostility toward Jews in New York, Paris, or London who may have never set foot in Israel. This is not “critique.” It is the same old lie wrapped in modern language.

As I considered these three expressions of antisemitism through Gur’s definition, one truth became impossible to ignore and helped me see Satan’s goal.

Every form of Jew-hatred aims at undermining the foundational promise God made to Abraham in Genesis 12—God’s promise of a land, a people, and a blessing for the nations.

Religious antisemitism attacks the blessing by targeting the Jewish faith through which Scripture, covenant, and the Messiah came into the world. Genetic antisemitism attacks the people by attempting to erase them entirely, which would make God’s promises void. Statehood antisemitism attacks the land by denying Israel’s legitimacy and centrality in God’s redemptive plan.

In other words, antisemitism tries to dismantle the Abrahamic covenant from every direction. And that is why it is satanic. Not simply because it is bigotry or hatred—though it is—but because it is a direct assault on God’s credibility. If Satan can convince the world that the land no longer matters, that the Jewish people are not chosen, that the blessing through Abraham is irrelevant, then he can convince the world that God is unfaithful.

This is why antisemitism is so persistent. It is why it mutates from religious to racial to political forms. It is why it appears on the left and the right. And it is why today’s Jew-hatred looks eerily like yesterday’s, even when the rhetoric has changed. The covenant God made with Abraham remains, and therefore the hatred remains.

But the Scriptures are clear: the Jewish people are not the obstacle to the redemption of the world—they are the vehicle of it. Through them came the Word of God, the prophets, the Messiah, and the promise of restoration that would begin in Jerusalem and extend to every nation. And through them God pledged to bless all the families of the earth. A promise that still stands!

That is the truth Satan seeks to erase through antisemitism. And that is why confronting antisemitism is not merely a political or moral duty—it is a spiritual one. To stand with the Jewish people is to stand with the covenant God made with them, going back to the moment Abraham took that step of faith to heed God’s call in Genesis 12. To resist antisemitism is to celebrate God’s promise to Abraham. And to proclaim the truth is to declare, again and again, that God’s promises still stand.

According to God, the Jewish people aren’t the obstacle to global redemption; their salvation is the pathway!

Chris Katulka is the Vice President of North American Ministries for The Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry, the host of The Friends of Israel Today radio program, a writer for Israel My Glory magazine, and a Contributor to Harbinger’s Daily.

Source: The Truth Satan Seeks To Erase Through Antisemitism – Harbinger’s Daily

No, no it’s not. We will spend years and decades beating back the insane climate policies and squeezing out the corruption in the climate alarmism NGO complex. We need to completely rewrite curricula, deregulate, fire a bunch of teachers, reclaim our science journals from insane people who disdain truth, and nuke the World Economic Forum and the United Nations.

Still, peak climate is behind us. The peak was high, the damage done, and the cleanup will be as difficult as rooting out the Japanese soldiers hiding in the Pacific island caves, but the tide has turned. As with the trans hysteria, beating back the baddies will be a long and painful process, but we are winning.

Bill Gates has been a key enabler of the climate grift, although hardly the most powerful proponent of it. Despite his reputation as an innovator, he is and always has been more inclined to ride a wave than create one. If he is calling off the climate catastrophe talk, you can be sure that he is merely voicing what many people in his orbit are thinking.

There’s a doomsday view of climate change that goes like this:

In a few decades, cataclysmic climate change will decimate civilization. The evidence is all around us—just look at all the heat waves and storms caused by rising global temperatures. Nothing matters more than limiting the rise in temperature.

Fortunately for all of us, this view is wrong. Although climate change will have serious consequences—particularly for people in the poorest countries—it will not lead to humanity’s demise. People will be able to live and thrive in most places on Earth for the foreseeable future. Emissions projections have gone down, and with the right policies and investments, innovation will allow us to drive emissions down much further.

Unfortunately, the doomsday outlook is causing much of the climate community to focus too much on near-term emissions goals, and it’s diverting resources from the most effective things we should be doing to improve life in a warming world.

It’s not too late to adopt a different view and adjust our strategies for dealing with climate change. Next month’s global climate summit in Brazil, known as COP30, is an excellent place to begin, especially because the summit’s Brazilian leadership is putting climate adaptation and human development high on the agenda.

What I do think is insane are the claims that The Science™ says we are doomed, or even particularly threatened. The data sucks and is manipulated, the models are ridiculous, and the science is following the money.

And the money is HUGE. As in trillions of dollars a year, climate alarmism has been a gold rush for many and a power grab for everybody in the transnational elite.

Whatever the exact truth is, nobody who is shouting about climate change either knows it or remotely cares about what it might be. There is too much money and power to grab, and the more horrifying the stories they can concoct the more money and power they can grab.

Lomberg has rightly pointed out many reasons not to be terribly concerned about climate change, at least not now. There are far more pressing problems in the world, including hunger, disease, poverty, and the enduring lack of resilience to natural disasters.

But that is not my point. Obviously, rational arguments have made no impact on the climate “debate” over the past few decades, and they surely won’t now with the people who lie awake at night wondering what Greta Thunberg would do. These are not rational people.

Nor are many in governments around the world, but the decisions may soon be taken out of their hands. Many of the people who have ridden this wave but not relied upon it for their bread and butter are losing interest in it, and the stasis in European economies is giving members in the transnational elite—at least on this side of the Atlantic—pause.

What was good for business—the climate grift—is now bad for business. Energy crises in Europe will soon enough lead to the fall of governments and the rise of populism, as has happened in the United States with Trump.

The idiocy of climate alarmists has been obvious to anybody who paid attention for years, and it is infuriating that people like us have to fight against disastrous policies for years or decades before we are proven right. We don’t even get thanks or credit for being right, and the idiots don’t get punished for being perpetually wrong. As with COVID, it’s forgive and forget for the elites.

Imagine if we had built a hundred more nuclear power plants, or two hundred, since the 1980s. But no, the fearmongers stopped us, and the result is that we have spent decades trying to restart an industry that we killed for no reason other than alarmism.

It’s not until the damage is done, is obvious, and the bill is outrageously high that people move on. Germany, soon enough, will do an about-face on energy or simply wither away, but if and when they do, they will have to rebuild the nuclear plants they destroyed and work mightily to lure back any industries that might take the risk.

The damage was completely avoidable. We told them so. We jumped up and down. Showed the evidence. Took apart the models. Put things in context. Held conferences. Endured ridicule and censorship.

But it won’t be until people like Bill Gates shrug and say, “Gee, maybe there is a better way,” that anybody with power will listen. The climate grifters will have made bank, our economies will have been hobbled, and the people who are supposedly the beneficiaries of all the “nice” policies will have paid an enormous price for no gain.

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By – David Strom  8:00 AM | October 29, 2025