Endtime Prophecy
columnist: Craig Treadwell

Topic: Education
Will the Anti-Christ be Anti-Homeschool?

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In 1925, the United States Supreme Court unanimously declared that “the fundamental theory of liberty upon which all governments in this Union repose excludes any general power of the State to standardize its children by forcing them to accept instruction from public teachers only.”

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by Craig Treadwell
(Libertarian)
Wednesday, February 20, 2008

The hard, tight-fisted knock at the door came on a Thursday morning. When Katherina Plett opened the door of her home in Paderborn, Germany, she found herself staring into the face of an undercover police woman. Little did Katherina know when she opened the door that secretly lurking nearby were German officers who would arrest her and raid her home! Katherina's crime? Homeschooling. Germany is presently reinforcing a 1938 Hitler-induced law which made homeschooling illegal. When this news came to my attention, I felt the shock, since my wife homeschools our three children. It stopped me in my tracks and forced me to ask, "Will the Anti-Christ be anti-homeschool, and enforce international laws, making home based education illegal?"

In 1938 Nazi Germany passed a law requiring all children to attend public school to avoid "the emergence of parallel societies based on separate philosophical convictions." At the core of their belief system was twisted logic that says, "You can't be trusted to educate your own children because we cannot afford freedom of thought. We have Europe to conquer, better yet; the entire world is in the palm of our hands." If you think this is a stretch of the truth, study the philosophies of Adolph Hitler. Even though Hitler was not the Antichrist, both he and Nazi Germany foreshadowed the emergence of the future global government.Early on, Hitler understood the psychology of propaganda. That is why he appointed Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels as his propaganda minister. As a devout anti-Semite, Goebbels took total control of the media and developed it into a mouthpiece for Nazi philosophy. He employed argumentum ad nauseam, the practice of repeating a lie until it eventually is believed to be true. He so mastered it until it eventually became known as the Goebbel technique. To make sure every home was properly programmed with Nazi ideology, he ordered the broadcasting of Nazi propaganda to the masses, all the while blocking out news from other countries. Any potential threat to their influence was outlawed. Is it any wonder that homeschooling was outlawed? The propaganda ministry could not achieve its goal of total conquest if the educational system was not completely controlled. Simply put, no matter how large the megaphone of propaganda, it could not be a complete success if parents were allowed to raise free-thinkers who might influence society contrary to Hitler's agenda. With the influence of homeschooling and other contrary influences out of the way, Hitler was able to hypnotize Germany into embracing Social Darwinism. This was the ethical theory, birthed by Herbert Spencer, which taught that the strong should thrive at the expense of the weak. To them, this justified their engagement of eugenics, the study of hereditary improvement of the human race by controlled selective breeding. This led to forcing people to undergo surgical sterilization to prevent people, considered to be carriers of undesirable genetic traits, from having children. This resulted in people like Dr. Josef Mengele carrying out brutal medical experiments on human subjects at Auschwitz. Forcing people into pressure chambers and freezing them to death was just part of their attempt at making sure the Nazi party did not lose its monopoly of power. As reinforcement, Hitler established and deployed the Schutzstaffel (SS) or "protection squad" to carry out their genocidal dreams, murdering 11 million innocent people, 6 million of whom were Jewish. Since Hitler was not the Antichrist, just how brutal will the real beast be?

EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS = GLOBAL GOVERNMENT

If you are not sure if world government is gaining strength in Europe today, consider the actions of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), headquartered in Strasbourg, France. One couple who felt the sting of their power was Fritz and Marianna Konrad who discovered their children were being force-fed corrupt teachings about sexuality. The Konrads filed a complaint with this court which stated that Germany's law, which forces public school attendance, jeopardized their children's religious beliefs. The court ruled that the parents' desire to exclude their children from such influence could not dominate the need for mandatory school attendance. In other words, "We cannot allow your religious beliefs to upset our quest for global mind conditioning." Shouldn't the very court which claims to defend human rights in its name have come to the Konrad's defense? Can you imagine the deep disappointment and rejection the Konrads felt after such cold denial?As another example of the death grip world government structures like the ECHR has in Europe, consider this: In Brussels, Belgium, the editor of The Brussels Journal website was called into the police station. They said, "The Belgian authorities are of the opinion that, as a homeschooler, he has not adequately educated his children and, hence, is neglecting his duty as a parent, which is a criminal offence." This incident leaves us with the impression that the ECHR does not fully protect European citizens against Hitler's laws. Another case in Germany involves a 15-year-old homeschool student, Melissa Busekros. She was seized from her home by police and taken to a psychiatric institution. She was then removed from the institution and taken to an undisclosed location. German officialsat the timerefused to inform Melissa's parents of her location. Citizenswere notseeing this case being reported by their German news agencies. Netzwerk-Bildungsfreifeit, a German homeschool advocacy group, said "Germany blatantly spurns parental and human rights and cannot be regarded any longer as a free country. It is running more and more to tyranny and dictatorship." Didn't Nazism die in 1945?

A core value contained in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) states: "Considering that the child should be fully prepared to live an individual life in society, and brought up in the spirit of the ideals proclaimed in the Charter of the United Nations.as indicated in the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, the child needs special safeguards and care, including appropriate legal protection." Legal protection? Protection from what? Their own parents? According to Michael Farris, chairman of the American Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA), the Convention places serious restrictions on parent's rights to guide their children. Article 13 states that parents should be subject to prosecution for any attempt to prevent their children from interacting with material they deem unacceptable. When a nation is bound to the UNCRC, children receive legal protection to resist their parent's religious guidance. According to Farris, in 1995 the UK was declared out of compliance with the UNCRC, "because it allowed parents to remove their children from public school sex-education classes without consulting the child." Farris also said, "By the same reasoning, parents would be denied the ability to homeschool their children." Could this be a display of an even larger scheme: a global initiative to paralyze fundamental parental control?

AMERICAN HOMESCHOOLERS AT RISK?

In 1925, the United States Supreme Court unanimously declared that "the fundamental theory of liberty upon which all governments in this Union repose excludes any general power of the State to standardize its children by forcing them to accept instruction from public teachers only." "Yeah, but a US president would never allow a one-world government to infiltrate the sovereignty of America," some would say. "These overseas reports about homeschoolers being arrested won't affect Americans, so we can breathe a sigh of relief." Oh really? The Clinton administration attempted to make ratification of the UNCRC treaty a major policy objective. It was signed by Madeleine Albright, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, on February 16, 1995. However, they failed to achieve a two-thirds majority of the Senate. Hillary Rodham Clinton is a former chairman of the Washington-based Children's Defense Fund. As such she supported the radical legal doctrine of children's rights and promoted this U.N. Convention. Remember her book, "It Takes A Village?" The concept behind this book is that it's too tough for the traditional family to raise kids in today's world and that "the village" or society should claim control. Is America at risk? You have heard the evidence. Even if Hillary Clinton does not win the presidency in 2008, there are many more like her who share her views. Does America have guaranteed protection from the potential dangers of the UNCRC? Farris said that the UNCRC could render homeschooling unlawful in the United States, even though the U.S. Senate has never authorized this Convention. Ferris proclaimed, "If the international law movement is not curtailed in the United States, American homeschooling will be banned."

THE PROPHECY FACTOR

     Daniel 7 and Rev. 13 harmonize, providing us with animal symbols which represent nations that will exist in the last days. Daniel saw a lion with eagle's wings, a bear, a leopard with four heads, and a ten-horned beast. These 4 kingdoms came together in Revelation as a unified beast, giving the Antichrist unprecedented global power. The leopard portion of this beast represents Germany. The four leopard heads represent how many times Germany rose and fell. Hitler ruled during the famous 3^rd Reich (head). Nazi Germany was defeated by the Allied armies during WWII and divided into occupation zones. The Berlin wall was constructed; dividing East from West, fulfilling the first part of Rev. 13:3 which states that one of his heads was wounded to death. There is more to the story. The same verse also states that the deadly wound was healed. In 1989, the Berlin Wall came down and the deadly wound was healed. Daniel 7:6 says that dominion was given to the leopard. As the most powerful economy in the European Union, is it any wonder this renewed power could be going to Germany? Germany currently holds the brief 6 month EU presidency. Germany's president is Angela Merkel and her top goal is to pass the EU constitution. The re-birth of the Holy Roman Empire is in the making. Prophecy gives us insight that the Antichrist will arise from a re-born Holy Roman Empire. It is no wonder that we are able to trace the seed of opposition to homeschooling to the very heart of the Antichrist's power. Global thinkers recognize that if they are to achieve their dream of one-world government, they must force all citizens to behave globally. This explains why modern German and Belgian police are forcibly taking children away from their parents and hauling them off to attend state-run schools. (See lesson one of Understanding the Endtime for more information on Daniel's beasts and the nations they represent)

Revelation 13:2 reveals the secret of power behind the dominating global government beast: "and the dragon (Satan) gave him (the one-world government beast) his power, and his seat, and great authority." Will the Antichrist be Anti-homeschool? As a man possessed by Satan himself, will he have a choice? Are we staring into the eyes of a hideous monster who is about to emerge from a lair darker than Hitler's? As the beast of Revelation rises and the world looks on with wonder and amazement, we should not be surprised when he targets our dearest and most precious commodity: our children. Do we value the freedom to choose how we educate them? Will the Antichrist be anti-homeschool? Since factual evidence reveals that world government structures, over which the Anti-Christ will rule, are anti-homeschool, the answer is likely to be yes. It won't, however, be without a fight. With approximately 1.6 to 2.0 million children being homeschooled in America, the global powers that be will most assuredly be aware of our presence. I, for one, plan to take a stand for freedom!

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