Following my last post inspired at our grandchildren’s school Rivertree, our English cousin, Barry, who ‘co-incidentally’ lives ‘just down the road’ from The Bard’s home in Stratford-upon-Avon, sent me a ‘co-incidental’ article about Education.
it was a BBC report on how a Utah school district had just banned the Bible because of ‘violent and vulgar’ content. I have learned that when the Babylon Brainwashing Corporation chooses to report something as ‘news’ it is often because under the veneer of objective reporting there is in fact a dark agenda of advancing the very thing they want you to focus on. In this case, the banning of the Bible.
I chuckled because what is described as ‘vulgarity and violence’ is simply the earthiness of real life that neither Shakespeare nor scripture shy away from anymore than they shy away from the issues of morality, of what is right and what is wrong. Both texts are therefore an excellent preparation for young people in learning about the ‘not so nice’ aspects of ‘real life’ and how to best handle them.
I recommended the Johnny Enlow Unfiltered series, especially from Episode 55 onwards. Here Episode 60 deals with The Mountain of Education in the ‘Seven Mountains’ revelation, and how it has been usurped by ‘the enemy.
https://www.elijahstreams.com/watch/watch.php?ID=1358
Isaiah 60 begins, ‘Arise and shine’ Johnny’s latest book RISE is an acronym for Reformers Influencing Society Every day.
Plandemic 3. The Great Awakening* by Mikki Willis at Plandemicseries.com also gives helpful insights into how, by the ‘capture’ of this mountain we have ended up in such ‘dire straights’ as the human race.
Johnny’s spiritual biblical insights give the divine foundation and Mikki Willis’ historical, political and psychological insights give a practical foundation for a way forward.
As we Awake and Arise we have a unique opportunity to co-operate with God’s rescue plan to bring his creation, ‘Back to the Future………beyond Eden’
Both of these perspectives helped me understand why so many highly ‘educated’ intelligent, Bible believers have been ‘hoodwinked’ over the last few years revealing a greater trust in a Lying World than in the Living Word.
The scripture, ‘unless you become as a little child you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven‘ is alive to me in a new way, as we value the ‘’childlike’ right brain, the Hebraic way of thought, and escape the Mass Formation as described by Mattius Desmet, not just of the last few years, but of millennia!
I appreciated being taught clinical medicine at Med. School, but never heard about The Flexner Report and the influence of Big Pharma in the training of doctors, nor about the Prussian model of education to train up good assembly line workers, both to serve the wealthy elite of the day rather than the people or practitioners.
Thankfully learning about these things now, I can appreciate more fully the blessing my grandchildren are receiving through a different educational model at Rivertree.
The Rivertree man of Psalm 1 knows the secret to fruitfulness is learning the art of meditating on God’s word day and night’ to apprehend God’s ways for God’s world. From first grade Shakespeare sonnets are part of the Rivertree curriculum.
Let me share with you a most encouraging encounter I had at the Shakespeare festival.
Peter and his wife and family had been lead several years ago to ‘launch out in faith’ from their safe and comfortable existence in Minneapolis, just as we had launched out from Ireland 28 years ago. Their destination was the northern Wisconsin city of Ashland.
There they have by God’s grace been establishing another school like Rivertree, based on the Ambleside model. They gave a glowing report of how God was on the move in that area and new life was springing forth!
A few months before they moved north, through an amazing sequence of ‘God-incidences’ we had been invited to go to Ashland. When we arrived doors opened for us to bring a message to three of the denominational churches, including Salem Baptist Church that Sunday.
On the long drive north, Father had given me the message. Again it was a ‘childlike’ play on words. I was to sing an ‘O Ashland’ version of my song, ‘O Ireland’ ………as a prayer, that ‘out of the ashes’, God’s glory would again shine forth from Ashland.
The last verse goes……
‘The dove now hovers o’er your head
Only in Jesus could you ever be
One in heart completely free,
And once again God’s love proclaim
A burning heart in Jesus name’.
I shared the message again at a breakfast on the Monday morning. After singing the above verse, the Tribal chairman from the Bad River Indian reservation who had been listening attentively, picked up a paper napkin and began to draw on it.
‘What is that?’ He asked me.
’It looks like a dove.’ I replied.
“Yes.’ He said. ‘But can you see it is also the shape of Lake Superior?
And here is Ashland, where we are sitting……..with the dove hovering o’er our heads!’
He continued ,’Our creation story says this is where the world began as fire came out of the sun rose up in this place…………..Do you see now how significant the words you have just sung are?’
The week after our visit, Salem Baptist Church sanctuary was literally ‘turned to ashes’ by an arson attack. All of it that is, except for the cross. One of the firemen had directed his hose toward the cross throughout the blaze.
The cross alone came through the fire.
“So where does the new school meet in Ashland?’ I asked Peter.
‘ In the ‘new’ Salem church building ‘ He replied.
‘Wow!’ I responded
(I noticed that around that time the church name changed, to simply, Salem Church Ashland…..representing a transition from our abominable denominationalism to becoming the answer to Jesus prayer, ‘…….that they might be one.’)
I’ve often heard the phrase recently, ‘Everything they told us is a lie’
Certainly everything we have been and are told needs to be questioned. When we are secure in our identity as Sons of the Most High God we can do that without feeling threatened and with confidence knowing he will, as he has promised, lead us into ‘all truth’ ……at least all the truth I need to know to fulfill my calling as a faithful son, and you need to know about the Script-u-are
A few days ago Stephen Jones wrote on his in depth blog series on the meaning of the numbers 40-80 in the context of the book of Psalms…….
https://godskingdom.org/blog/2023/05/the-meaning-of-45-part-1/
‘As a side note, when the KJV was being edited in the year 1611, Francis Bacon was the final editor. Bacon was also the author of the plays that were published under the name of William Shakespeare. When Bacon came to Psalm 46, he took note that this was the center chapter of the Bible. He put his cryptic mark upon it—his signature, of sorts. The 46th word in the psalm is “shake” (Psalm 46:3 KJV), and the word “spear” is the 46th word from the end of the psalm (in Psalm 46:9 KJV). The King James Version, of course, is written in Shakespearean English.’
A few years ago I might have dismissed such an idea that it was Francis Bacon who authored “Shakespeare’s’ plays as a nonsensical ‘conspiracy theory.’ Now so many ‘conspiracies’ have proven to be factual, I am open to anything, and in particular to listening to people with proven character and a good track record who challenge my current belief system, because the one thing I do know is how very little I know, and how I need to keep asking questions and looking for the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth…….so help me God!🙂
Thankfully, “Everything He told us in Scripture is true.’
……Including the promise that, ‘The earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.’ (Hab.2;14).
Then our Education will be complete😀
Sir Francis Bacon (I presume?)