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California High School Students Organize National Walkout Against Abortion - CBN News Emily Jones

California High School Students Organize National Walkout Against Abortion

03-22-2018

Students at a California high school are calling on their peers to protest abortion in a national school walkout.

Brandon Gillespie, a student at Rocklin High school, is using social media to drive the campaign.

"I have officially announced the pro-life walkout that i am organizing. It is going to take place on Wednesday, April 11th at 10:00 am. The walkout will last for 17 minutes. We encourage students across the country to participate in a stand for #life," he wrote on Twitter.

Gillespie told CBN News the event is meant "to honor the lives of the millions of children who fell victim to abortion."

"I want to test and see if there is a doubel standard in the school dsitrict," he added.

Gillespie decided to plan the walkout after Julianne Benzel, a teacher at Rocklin High School, was placed on administrative leave after questioning the recent national walkout for gun control.

She asked the students if they thought the school administration would let another group of students protest a cause like abortion. The next day, she was placed on administrative leave.

Although she was reinstated just two days later, it was enough to inspire Brandon Gillespie to take action, who says the movement is growing at his school.

"It's starting to become a lot bigger on our campus....So far everybody that has come up to me is very supportive," he said.

Not all students are on board with the anti-abortion protest.

"Abortions aren't really anything that has to do with school or students here," Naeirika Neev told CBS 13.

Neev is the editor of the school newspaper. She's using the hashtag "enough is enough" to promote peace, and challenge the pro-life movement on her campus.

"The comparison of a protest against gun violence and that of an abortion is a logical fallacy – a false equivalence," she recently wrote in the school newspaper.

"Due to the First Amendment, those who wish to hold protests on abortion, or any other matter, have the freedom to do so. However, the controversy of abortions has nothing to do with the school administration or the school environment. Therefore, it is unreasonable for such protest to take place on school ground, during school time and unreasonable to make such comparison," Neev added.

Rocklin High School's principal plans to meet with Gillespie about the protest Friday.

"While we can't speculate the outcome of this meeting, we support students' exercise of their First Amendment right to free speech in compliance with the law and our Board Policy," a spokesperson for the Rocklin High School District told CBN News.

Gillespie says his meeting with the principal Friday will be "the big deal breaker" to see if he'll be able to follow through with his plans.

It's Time to Call Out This Rampant False End-Times Belief - REV. GARY CRISTOFARO CHARISMA NEWS

Is there a more endearing phrase in all the world than, "That's my child"? Can't you just feel the pride and love welling-up inside of you as you think back to that moment when you held your baby in your arms and declared those words for the first time. Or maybe the time you said those words to a fellow little-league parent or at a school concert? Our children mean the world to us, don't they?

This is the same passion, love and devotion I sense when I read the words, "My people Israel", spoken from the mouth of God through His prophets. In each case where this phrase appears it is in the context of The Holy One of Israel coming to the defense of His people, promising intimacy with them and/or promising their ultimate deliverance.

For example, "I will restore the fortunes of My people Israel; they will rebuild the ruined cities and inhabit them; they will plant vineyards and drink their wine; they will make gardens and eat their fruit. I will plant them upon their land, and no more will they be uprooted out of their land which I have given them. The Lord your God has spoken (Amos 9:14-15).

With the love for your family in mind, imagine this: You've invited me into your home and you've asked me to peruse a photo album filled with pictures of your children. I take one look at its contents and say; "I'm not interested". I'm quite sure you would be highly offended. But if I were to be so callous as to say; "Those children should be dead", I'm even more positive that, as a loving parent, you would physically remove me from your home exercising very little restraint.

Now transfer this analogy to the love that God demonstrates for His people. He has presented a picture of His children for all the world to see, displayed within His written Word. Imagine our heavenly Father's grief, sorrow and disappointment when His church peaks inside His book and walks away apathetic toward them at best. Even apathy is silent consent with Israel's enemies who desire their death and destruction.

False Eschatology

Part of the problem is that many Christians believe that in the last days, two-thirds of the Jewish people in Israel will be killed and that only one third will survive. This false eschatology comes from a poor translation of a prophecy found in the book of Zechariah. Zechariah 13:8-9 has been consistently translated into English to read; two-thirds will be cut off and die but one-third shall be left in it".

A more accurate translation reveals that Zechariah was in full agreement with the prophet Isaiah regarding Israel's future. Both speak of two times Israel would be scattered and twice they would be re-gathered. Thus, a more accurate translation of Zechariah 13:8-9 from the Hebrew would be, "two parts shall be cut off and die but a third part would come through the fire", ... "And each one will say; The Lord is my God". The third part is Israel today, the third Commonwealth that was re-born in 1948.

What kind of sick joke would it be for God to re-gather His people from the four corners of the earth in order to kill two-thirds of them. The Hebrew witnesses, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Zechariah and Amos all agree to the contrary. They all echo that "in that day" all of Israel will know their God, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

This false eschatology has caused many Christians to look at prophecy with a certain detachment and they fail to see the love story that is unfolding within these prophecies and how important their role is in them. Years ago, I coined a phrase regarding this phenomenon. I said too many Christians are sitting in their "Armageddon armchairs" watching Israel from a distance and waiting for the last days events to unfold. All the while God is watching to see who will hear and respond to His call to the nations. The good news is, more and more Christians are now responding to this call. According to figures provided by ministries involved in the return process called Aliyah, about a third of all the Jewish people who returned to Israel in 2017 received aid from Christian ministries in order to complete their Aliyah process.

Mandate for Our Generation

The reestablishment of the nation of Israel and the on-going regathering of the Jewish people from the four corners of the earth is the greatest sign of God's eternal covenant that the world has ever seen. " Indeed, I will cause men to walk upon you, My people Israel, and they shall possess you, and you shall be their inheritance, and you shall no longer bereave them of children" (Ezek. 36:12) The prophets foretold of God's faithfulness to His people and the nations are to be responsible for helping His children get home during this final exodus. "See, I will lift up My hand to the nations and set up My standard to the peoples; and they shall bring your sons in their arms, and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders (Isa. 49:22). This is a mandate for our generation.

Anti-Semitism is rising sharply all over the world. In the former Soviet Union many of God's people are still trapped by poverty in notoriously anti-Semitic countries. The war in Ukraine has created thousands of Jewish refugees and Jewish people are facing economic uncertainty from Siberia to South America. I believe it is incumbent for Christians to heed the call to serve them. We need to rescue them from the chains of poverty and persecution and help then return to Israel. If Christians won't help restore hope to His children, who will? Who will respond and help My people Israel get home?

Rev. Gary Cristofaro is the director of development for Ezra International ezrainternational.org.

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Jewish law states that even if one is alone on the Seder night, one must pronounce the text of the Haggadah and not just read it. Plato alluded to this matter without fully realizing why his own teachings never came close to receiving the treatment they perhaps deserved.

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The Arrival of the Messiah ✡ "Your King Is Coming To You" - Israel365

Rejoice greatly, Fair Tzion; Raise a shout, Fair Yerushalayim! Lo, your king is coming to you. He is victorious, triumphant, Yet humble, riding on an ass, On a donkey foaled by a she-ass
Zechariah 9:9 (The Israel Bible™)

גִּילִי מְאֹד בַּת־צִיּוֹן הָרִיעִי בַּת יְרוּשָׁלִַם הִנֵּה מַלְכֵּךְ יָבוֹא לָךְ צַדִּיק וְנוֹשָׁע הוּא עָנִי וְרֹכֵב עַל־חֲמוֹר וְעַל־עַיִר בֶּן־אֲתֹנוֹת
Hear the verse in Hebrew

gee-LEE m’-OD bat tzi-YON ha-REE-ee BAT y’-ru-sha-LA-im hi-NAY mal-KAYCH ya-VO LAKH tza-DIK v’-no-SHA HU a-NEE v’-ro-KHAYV al kha-MOR v’-al A-yir ben a-to-NOT

The Arrival of the Messiah

Zecharya (Zechariah) described the arrival in Yerushalayim (Jerusalem) of Israel’s king, mashiach (messiah), to the cheers of the people after defeating Israel’s enemies. Returning in miraculous victory, the mashiach will not enter the gates of Yerushalayim on a glorious military steed. Instead, the mashiach will ride into the holy city on a humble donkey. Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, explains that the word donkey in Hebrew is chamor (חמור), similar to chomer (חומר), which means materialism. This verse teaches that the mashiach who represents spirituality will ride upon the donkey of materialism, for he will usher in a world where these two contrasting values will be fused together in the service of Hashem (God).

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