A few weeks ago I wrote about how I was shown that CS Lewis’ story,’The Silver Chair’, was prophetic for these days. I would encourage you to read or reread it.
One of the parallels I drew was between the Giants of Harfung and today’s God-denying Giant corporations, for example BIG Agriculture, BIG Pharma and BIG Tech. I said when these corporate entities are unredeemed they trade in “the bodies and souls of men” as described in Revelation 18. I named Bill and Melinda Gates as having been cast in the role of the King and Queen of the Giants. “Cast in the role of” is significant, for we do not get to choose the part that we will play, in this drama called LIFE.
Yesterday I got another of those ‘signs following’ confirming to me that I had indeed heard right. I learned from James Corbett in his fourth and final video in the series Who is Bill Gates?, that there is a chapter in Gate’s book ‘Showing up for LIFE’ which he has entitled, “Walking With GIANTS”
This chapter describes the close relationship the Gates family have with the Rockefeller family who have also used their great wealth to promote under the guise of philanthropy a Eugenics ideology and agenda, in Corbett’s words “Not to improve the world for mankind, but to improve the world for their kind”
https://www.corbettreport.com
This was the same mentality that the Giants of Harfung had……at times almost capable of pity for the Man and Marsh wiggle “meal to be” but bound by the understanding that their being Giants “fodder” was the natural order of things. ……for Giants kind was not “humankind”
Our three heroes, Eustace, Jill and Puddleglum had two Awakening experiences in the story.
The nature of the Giants as malevolent rather than benevolent, was the first Awakening, which lead to them taking immediate and drastic action to escape. There is an obvious parallel between this and where we find ourselves today as the human race under threat.
Having said that, one can see God’s redemptive hand in the (to pun) ‘Silver Linings’ to what has been variously called the plan-demic, panic-demic and sham-demic.
The most obvious may be how in this imposed season of Sabbath rest, people are refocusing on home and family….the God ordained building block …..as we come to Him, the living stone – rejected by men but chosen by God and precious to him, and as living stones are built together into a dwelling place in which God lives by his Spirit, to express His glory. This is in contrast to the building of a Tower of Babel where men in their arrogance say, “Come let us to make a name for ourselves.”
I believe however the greatest ‘silver lining’, believe it or not, has been………
The Pain
At this very moment our eldest son Robin, is being relieved of the chronic Pain he has suffered for 31 years as he undergoes an above knee amputation of a leg that has been almost totally destroyed by infection and cancer below the knee.
As we have been together in Boston during these pre-op days the main theme of his speech has been profound gratitude,.….gratitude for being alive at this time on earth, when, had he been born just a few decades earlier, he would have been long dead!……gratitude for God’s hand orchestrating that the surgery will be done by probably the leading surgeon in the world in this field……but also gratitude for what he calls the ‘gift of the wound’ which has changed who he is and how he now views God, his life and other human beings – through God’s compassionate eyes.
That means human beings without exception, from the most obviously disadvantaged and damaged child to the “apparently” successful powerful and public leader…..who inside is also a damaged – and terrified little child.
It was Lewis who said, “Pain is God’s megaphone to wake a sleeping world” who crafted The Silver Chair to illustrate this with the Marsh wiggle, obviously of another ‘kind’ but with the ‘divine spark’ to endear him to us. In a desperate attempt to resist the enchantment he sacrifices his own comfort for the sake of apprehending the truth. He courageously stomps his foot in the fire. As he cries out in Pain all three are jolted back to the awareness of that beautiful reality of Overland
In a similar way Robin’s Pain and Prunimg courageously endured, has served to re-awaken him as a Puddleglum, (and Hilary and I as a Jill and a Eustace.) to a deeper reality – the kingdom of God that is coming on earth. and to desire this Awakening for all through the Present Pain and Pruning.
This has involved Robin taking responsibility for his own heath and applying the truth he has discovered that sets us free. Leg aside, the medical tests revealed he has gone in to surgery in excellent physical condition….. even scaling that tree he pruned, with his own “dead” limb, that is now itself, being pruned!
Today’s date for Robin’ss surgery has been perfectly ordered by our Father. Last Sunday I had a marvelous conversation with Robin’s two sons about the story of Paul’s shipwreck in Acts 27. This has been a life passage for me.
Robin and his son Ravi are also named Paul. That evening Robin told of how he had made a tax payment for $2700 and then was confused when he got a check back from the government for $2700. It proved to be his stimulus check……’God incidentally’…. for the same 27 amount!!
Then it dawned on me the surgery had been rescheduled for today, 27th.
The beauty of that prophetic story in Acts 27 is that in the midst of the storm when everyone else had lost hope, that Paul stood up and said, “ Last night an angel appeared to me and said, ‘Fear not! God has graciously given you the lives of all on board.’”
Not only did Paul and his believing companion Aristarchus make it safely to shore, but all 276 on board also reached Melita, which means honey. This represents the land ‘flowing with milk and honey’, ‘the promised land’ of our immortal inheritance that was lost in Adam but has now been recovered in Christ.
This is the Greatest Love Story Ever.
……..That in the end of the day the most damaged child ever born and the most ‘apparently’ successful ‘leader’ will share the same fate, as actors in the Divine drama, some as vessels of honor, some as vessels of dishonor.
All will humbly bow at the end of the play before the dazzling light of the one who has authored, cast and completed this story and before the one through whom the whole world has been conciliated……….our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
When we awaken to this story……that God is this good, God is this gracious, God is this wise, God is this powerful, and God is this sovereign, then we know,
All Will Be Well,
……….and we can easily join Paul at the end of the Ephesians 5 passage
…….ALWAYS giving thanks for EVERYTHING in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen