Jessica Koehler

I find the premise for the prophecy false, so the prophecy feels invalid. America was not actually founded to be a “new Israel,” even if that was the intention of some. There was no “covenant” with the Lord upon the founding of our nation. God doesn’t even appear in the Constitution. The “founding fathers” were mostly Deist or atheist. They left England for monetary reasons more than religious. The book also talks about how America “abolished prayer and Scripture from its public schools,” but I’m a teacher in a public school, and I run a Christian club that (usually) meets on campus. We invite people to pray and read the Bible with us. Our district even says “under God” in the pledge, another common misconception. The book also says pornography and its acceptance equate to “tolerance.” This is so far from the common understanding of tolerance that I don’t see how it made it into the book. I also have to say that, as an English teacher, I find the writing repetitive, dull, and unprofessional. I was still willing to push through that, but the inaccurate claims are piling up and making me feel like stopping my reading.