.....and being with you nothing else I desire.
I just realized, his name is actually Russell Brand!………Obviously Brandon was a Freudian slip!
On the previous blog I gave the number of references in Robert F Kennedy’s book as 22,000. It should have read 2,200………Again I find my human ‘mistakes’ are often because Father wants to highlight something for me. Interestingly 22 is the number for ‘sons of light’
A lot has changed over the past few years, not least who it is we ‘hang out’ with!
It’s as if our Father has taken a pack of playing cards, shuffled them and redealt us a hand. When we glance down, we are surprised at who is in that hand …and who isn’t!
More than just a rearrangement……. we are experiencing a whole ‘paradigm shift’!
Bob Jones alluded to this in the prophecy I posted in the last blog. He said,
“What He’s doing right now in the church is uniting whosoever will with one another. Because these weapons being released cannot be handled by one person. It will take teams to handle them and usually TEAMS consist of about twelve people. These teams will be united with one purpose in mind and when they go to war they will make decrees and declarations according to the heart of the Father. These decrees will be established according to the will of the Father.”
You shall also decide and decree a thing, and it shall be established for you; and the light [of God’s favor] shall shine upon your ways. (Job 22:28).
When people ask me, “What church do you belong to?” I know they often expect a ‘cultural’ rather than biblical answer as we acknowledge membership in a denominational (including non-denominational denomination!) organization that we have joined, that probably has as it’s primary focus a meeting on a Sunday, in a building.
This is one aspect of the paradigm shift that God has been accelerating through events over the last few years, as we find ourselves going ‘Back to the Future” rediscovering a more New Testament model where ‘church’ is identified primarily as a ‘kingdom’ lifestyle out of a family/ home base, where God elects to ‘joint’ people as members of an ‘organic’ body which is a source of life and a setting for service
……… as Bob said, ‘teams of about twelve people’…..“united with one purpose”. That purpose is ultimately to bring to the world, “the light of God’s favor”
I was reflecting last night on how we now find ourselves in a number of such ‘teams”– diverse and different, and sometimes overlapping.
These team members seem more conscious than ever that they need to be, ‘lead together by the Holy Spirit’ (Matt. 18:20) to walk together in the light and in covenant relationship, in mutual availability and vulnerability.
As Dr Zelenko points out, we are every moment, individually and collectively being ‘vivified’, and albeit less dramatically than in his miraculous testimony, have been spared…..‘for such a time as this’
It is as we look down at the hand our Father has dealt us, we see the TEAM/S he has given us to work with in these pivotal days. In one of these groups the other night someone had a vision of ‘circles around camp fires’
On a broader front we are also finding in this new paradigm, our TRIBE.
In the above video Dr. Zalenko tells the story of his 4 year old daughter saying to him,
‘Daddy you are my brother”
“How is that ?” he asks her.
“Well if God is your Father and he is my Father that makes you my brother!”
Amused, he acknowledges his daughter has just shown him some truth about their relationship he hadn’t realized before!
Nowadays we find ourselves relating with people in a broader TRIBE, we would not have expected….people like this brilliant Orthodox Jewish truth teller from New York.
The spiritual battle we have been engaged in over the last few years defies ‘natural’ fault lines such as religion or politics, class, race or culture. This war is between good and evil, over what is true and what is false.
The good doctor speaks very plainly in this powerful message that the issue that will unite us in purpose is our commitment to ‘Rise Up’ and stand for ‘truth’ as we choose to fear no man but serve God alone.
This drives home the point that the sort of ‘faith’ Jesus prized was not primarily theological orthodoxy but a living trust in a sovereign God.
The man most honored by Jesus for his faith was a Roman centurion. He likely followed the religion of the day but when Jesus encountered him for the first time on the road his words of approval (without regard to what his ‘beliefs’ were) rang out, “I have not seen such faith in all Israel!”
Man looks on the outward appearance, but God looks on the heart where faith resides, and if we seek to look with his eyes he will help us discern those who are of this TRIBE of truth and faith. (Which I might add, is not the same as ‘the church crowd’!)
……for Jesus said, “Whoever is of the Truth hears my voice.” and Paul added, “Faith comes by hearing.”
If you have read this blog thus far (having not previously hit the’Unsubscribe’ button!) you may be on one of these TEAMS I’m in…… and are probably part of this TRIBE. Thank you for still being here!
We do find ourselves in these days of shaking apart, that we might be shaken together, with some unlikely folk…….. who are still thinking critically and searching for that truth.
As a friend said to me the other day,
“I never thought I’d been listening to Russel Brandon in bed at night!…….STRANGE BEDFELLOW!!”
This is not to say that I am suggesting you accept everything, everyone I have named or linked to on the blog says……not at all! The ‘discernment of spirits’ I spoke about last week is more important than ever in these days.
For example, the ‘packaging’ on this link around Dr Zelenko’s address I found unhelpful. Similarly the next video I’m sharing below about ‘mass formation’ I can track with until the last song! I believe it is a very different song that will set us all free – more akin to the song I’ve posted at the very end, from our grandchildren’s uplifting and heartwarming Festival of Lessons and Carols today!
Ultimately that song to liberate the whole of creation will be the ‘new song’ of Revelation 14:13….. which I believe we are beginning to learn to sing!
Hallelujah!
VERSE 3
But now sleep, Son of God
We’ll watch in awe
You’ll fulfill the Father’s plan
Reconciling God and man
Now Your promises to keep
Must sleep
Chorus
Sovereign One
Born as Mary’s son
Prince of Peace
One day You’ll deliver me
Deliver me
P.S. As always, we appreciate all your comments and any questions.
Love always,
Paul (and Hilary)
The word “Apocalypse” while having negative connotations in most peoples minds simply means, “uncovering” as God pulls the curtain back to reveal things previously hidden. Certainly in these days we are awakening to the depth of evil that has been and is now present in our world. This is the focus of the first link in this blog……
Although Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of Children’s Health Defense does not speak with a “Thus saith the Lord”, he is like the Old Testament prophets in the way he is being used to expose the corruption of ‘the establishment’ in this nation and the wider world. This interview is a excellent summary of his throughly researched ‘best seller’ with it’s 22,000 references, in which he alerts us to the fact that we are indeed in the midst of the battle of “Armageddon”. Although over an hour long, please listen to this on behalf of your children and grandchildren!
Concurrently God is ‘uncovering’ His magnificent and good plan for these ‘last days’.
Last week I talked about ‘Bob’ the New Covenant prophet – Bob Jones that is, and mentioned his words to Hilary, over 31 years ago in 1990.
Before Bob died he prophesied of what is now taking place in regard to the ‘plandemic’. He saw the sickness that was coming on the world, but his prophecy contained great encouragement and direction concerning the power of the blood of Jesus. Interestingly it has now been shown that ‘Covid’ and ‘the shots’ create disease not primarily of the respiratory system but of the cardiovascular system. You can read the prophecy here…….http://www.elijahlist.com/words/display_word.html?ID=23424
As we reviewed Bob’s prophecy from 1990 we also reviewed prophecies we received personally at the same time from Paul Cain, the other main prophet being used by God in those days. He on two occasions at large gatherings in Belfast and London signaled us out for words from the Lord and we realized that in the context of these words he also spoke 31 years ago of the present ‘health’ crisis and of God’s solution. Paul said,
“Twenty years ago the Lord spoke to me audibly and said, In the last days the church there will be a release of viruses and these will be cancer viruses – they will be communicable forms of cancer and only the church will have the solution. The medical profession and the medical community will be bankrupted for the second or third strain of aids is issuing in, and God says the church for that time is going to be a victorious church – it’s going to be victorious in power beyond equal in power and she’ll have some unity and she’ll have some purity and she’ll have some intimacy and she’ll say ‘NO’ to the devil no to adultery – I will not leave a testimony with fallen men that I could not change them – that I could not bring them all the way into the land.”
Just as Bob’s prophecy about ‘the blood’ makes ‘more sense‘ with unfolding scientific discovery, so Paul’s prophecy about Aids and communicable forms of cancer now makes ‘more sense’ in the light of the revelations given over the last few years by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Dr. Judy Mikovitz in her books, Plague, Plague of Corruption and Ending Plague and in the PLANDEMIC movie series. https://plandemicseries.com
This ‘truth’ has of course been heavily censored by the Main Sewer. Nonetheless, the first in this series has been watched now by over a billion people! Here is the powerful trailer for Part 3 which is about to be released.
Interestingly our prompting to recall the prophet Bob Jones words to us was as a result of a gathering in another Wisconsin city – Superior, a few weeks ago.
Bob Jones last prophecy before his going home on February 14th 2014 was about ‘the apple blossom’. The apple represents the fruit of PEACE. You can read this hope filled word here…….
http://didyoulearntolove.org/2014/01/02/the-coming-promise/
I rarely eat apples, but that day in Superior had taken in my lunch box half a “Honeycrisp” apple. Again I usually would have cut the apple lengthwise, but that day had cut it crosswise.
As Ron spoke about the Bob Jone’s Apple prophecy he asked “Do you know what pattern is seen when you cut an apple crosswise?”
I looked down. A pentagon!
“Do you know it’s significance ?” Ron asked.
“That is the shape of the entrance into the Holy of Holies.”
(Ron subsequently went on to ‘uncover’ other hidden geometrical truths such as how at the cross Jesus ‘squared the circle’!)
The Passover age, gave way to the Pentecostal age two thousand years ago when prophetically speaking we passed from the Outer Court into the Holy Place. We now are crossing over another threshold, through a five sided door (pentagon) from the Holy Place of the Pentecostal age into the Holy of Holies.
……. as we enter into the Tabernacles age.
(Hence the photo title A Tabernacles L(a)unch.)
It is with this hope and under this anointing that I believe we can anticipate the ongoing fulfillment of Bob’s and Paul’s prophecies of healing, victory and salvation!
This week I got a report from Spotify on my most played songs in 2021.
# 1. Born into a Battle!
But be encouraged! Although we may be in the middle of Armageddon. As the Apocalypse continues we will increasingly witness…..
The Coming of The Prince of PEACE.
Last night I had a dream in which I was trying on a pair of dapper brown shoes. Brown speaks of servanthood.
So be ready to “…..go out with joy and be lead forth with PEACE”
and to serve.…..
“Having your feet shod with the equipment of the gospel of PEACE.” (Eph.6: 12)
“How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who brings good news…proclaiming PEACE” ( Is.52:7)
“Therefore since we have been justified through faith, we have PEACE with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.” (Rm.5.1)
Brian wrote,
“Paul, your “mistake” in using bog instead of blog is another confirmation. A bog is God’s design in nature to cleanse the water. It is a place where the water flow slows down so that certain types of plants can remove contaminates. He leads me beside still waters. There is a difference between still water in a bog or other wetland and stagnant water. Stagnant water has no outflow and becomes contaminated. Still water is slowing down and being cleansed.”
This morning I received this email from our dear friends in Great Barrington who have stood faithfully over many years as ‘Gatekeepers’ for ‘New England’ where The Flame of the gospel first came to this land.
“Dear Paul,
One of the main ‘streams’ of our church prayer meeting last night was the cleansing of the Housatonic river, which flows through the center of Great Barrington, and upon which the native Christian Indians built their mission house and Farm, which, you remember, turns out to be right under our church building.
It is also on the national register of most polluted by lead battery ‘sewage’ from decades of GE factory runoff upstream.
Jonathan Edwards named it ‘The Puritan River’ because it was so pure.
The day it is cleansed, by whatever remediation, God or man, will be a Sign to me that The Move is nigh and working. I had a dream last week in which I was weeping for the Berkshire Land, not the people, church, etc… the Land!
God created the Berkshire land first and loves it. The land cries out and needs to receive and hear the Lord ‘speak a better word than Abel’s’ Heb 12:24**. This was new to me, that the Land is Living! The native Indians understood this, so I think I was in that ‘stream in the dream’.
Thanks again for the subtle witness that we are in the river together.
Love to Hilary the sniffer and all.
Collins“
I went back to reread a blog I posted on October 7th 2021, entitledI “The King is Coming”.
It was about The Flame coming, first to New England, and the significance of Great Barrington.
In a P.S. I quoted from Cheryl……
“………the successful transformation of alternating current first happened in Great Barrington. The first street lights and house to house transmission of electricity happened here. GB literally gave light to the rest of the world!“
I suggested The Great Barrington Declaration which was signed there in ‘the middle of the feast’ of Tabernacles last year, was a flame that was being lit that would give light to the rest of the world in this dark time.
This morning Stephen Jones ‘just happened’ to also post this…….
https://godskingdom.org/blog/2021/12/the-great-barrington-declaration
** “And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant and to the blood of sprinking that speaks better things than that of Abel.” This is the theme of the song “God’s Land” on the O Ireland album.
It’s hard not to juxtapose the two incidents in the Wisconsin towns of Kenosha and Waukesha. I appreciate the Epoch Times attempt at honest journalism. Here is one of their reports on the man responsible for the Christmas parade massacre……
It is also hard, to then not juxtapose, the title to my recent blog post, “The Cost of Nobility” describing those who are seeking to spiral upwards, with a title “The Price of Ignobility” describing the suffering of those who get in the way of the ones who are spiraling downwards.
Noble means “High”. Ignoble means “Low”. It is our higher brain function that distinguishes us as human beings. The lower brain also called the reptilian brain is concern with basic appetites and instincts. It would seem that ‘the serpent’ in the garden was wanting to reduce us to his state, whereas Christ came to teach us what it was to be truly ‘human’ and to make a way so that we might become fully like him as, “son of God, and son of man”
…and the names keep speaking.
As I pondered the name of the Waukesha driver, “Brooks” I thought of the story of Gideon’s army in Judges 7, and how they were tested by the way in which they drank water from a ‘river’ called ‘trembling’ (‘Harod’)
Gideon began with 30,000 troops, but the Lord instructed him to reduce that number lest they boast that their own strength had saved them. Subsequently, 22,000 fearful soldiers, afraid of death, were dismissed.
The remainder were further whittled down to the necessary 300 by another test, as they took a drink of water.
The majority simply stuck their heads into the water, and took in, without discerning, everything that was in the water. Those who cupped their hands looked first to ensure they were not imbibing something harmful….
(Continuing the toilet bowl theme from last week)
….like raw sewage!
Considering these ‘cuppers’ numbered 1 in 27 of the remaining soldiers, once again fear may have been an element in the test. This time the ‘fear of man’ rather than the ‘fear of death‘ became a filter, as the ‘odd man out’ did not bow to peer pressure but determined to cup his hands in order to drink wisely.
Englishman, Philip Johnston writing in the “Telegraph” a few days ago a piece entitled, “Masks aren’t a minor inconvenience. They’re dehumanizing and controlling” confessed,
“I have succumbed. On the train to work yesterday I wore a mask for the first time since the prematurely designated “Freedom Day” back in July. Since then, we had been advised to continue covering our faces on public transport; but since it was no longer mandated by law I declined to do so, along with many others.
“By last week, roughly half the passengers with whom I commuted were maskless.
Yesterday, I would judge that about 98 per cent of them wore coverings. A few refuseniks, selfishly reckless or courageous, depending on your point of view, remained bare faced.”
In Gideon’s army it was 99% who ended up disqualifying themselves because of a lack of courage or a lack of discernment.
The 1% went on to win a battle….. on behalf of all the people.
I believe in the future many of that minority group who have been lambasted as ‘cranks’, ‘weirdos’ and ‘conspiracy theorists’ will in the end be hailed as heros of humanity.
I have on a few occasions deliberately written Main Sewer Media. The Mainstream is a sewer containing all sorts of defiling material that the undiscerning, naively take in.
The TPT renders Proverbs 25:26, “When a lover of God gives in and compromises with wickedness, it can be compared to CONTAMINATNG A STREAM WITH SEWAGE or polluting a fountain.”
The result of that stream contaminated with sewage, vividly pictured in verse 28, is eerily reminiscent of the scene of the devastated Christmas parade in Waukesha, “If you live without restraint and are unable to control your temper, you’re as helpless as a city with broken down defenses, open to attack.”
I wonder how much Main Sewer ‘brainwashing‘, had a part to play in brutalizing the ‘city’ called Darrell Brooks who in turn devastated the lives of dozens of families?
Proverbs 16:4 says, “The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil” and in Is. 45:5, God says, ‘I create evil’
But why would God create such a thing?
Could one reason be that we might learn to juxtapose, EVIL and GOOD, that we might become ‘mature’ as those “who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish GOOD from EVIL.” (Heb. 5:14)?
The reporting of these two incidents by the Main Sewer – when compared against the facts of both cases (which I will leave you to discover outside of the Main Sewer) illustrates vividly that we live in a day
“When wrong is called right and right is called wrong.”***
…….When a victim is called the villain and the villain is called a victim.
This is to be expected from the “prince of the power of the air” (WAVES) who is ‘the father of lies’
I have found, often through people I know and trust, more reliable sources of truth. Occasionally I do dip back into the Main Sewer to see if anything has changed, so the other night I clicked on BBC. As I read the ‘swan song’ of their departing US correspondent, there was no surprise as I sniffed out a few pieces of B.S. about our country of adoption, before pulling my head out of the BBC river!
The bad taste this left in my mouth stood in contrast to the pleasure from 55 years ago, of listening each Sunday morning to the familiar voice of Alastair Cooke reading his informative and amusing ‘Letter from America’,
I wondered. “Is it me or the Beeb that has changed?”
Likely both.
The other night we had occasion to get out and read aloud some prophetic words we had received from the prophet, Bob Jones over thirty years ago.
He had said to Hilary,
“You’ve got a gift like I’ve got! You can smell the working of the devil. You can smell him. You got a nose that can smell him right out. Man you got a high level of discernment in you. It flows beautifully through you…….”
A young man who had joined us for dinner started to laugh heartily. He had lived with for a time a number of years ago.
“Bob was so right!” The young man chuckled. “When I lived here I couldn’t get away with anything. Hilary, you are one powerful B.S. detector!”
Today more than ever, this is the gift of the Spirit we should all ‘covet’
There is however another river that we can juxtapose with this polluted ‘Stream’ and choose to drink from. The TPT translates it in Psalm 1 as, “the brooks of bliss”
I was given a song about it a number of years ago called, “There is a River”.
It is more relevant now than ever. I would invite you to sing/say it with me as an encouraging affirmation of God’s purposes and a prayer toward that end, that we now with the eye of faith see being wonderfully outworked in these days!
The song is on the CD The Trek. It is also available on Spotify and other digital streaming platforms…..
1.
There is a river whose streams make glad the city of our God.
A river of history flowing now from His throne above
All the kings and rulers who would not condescend
Now see they were just servants of this kingdom without end.
There is a river whose streams make glad the city of our God
A river of destiny flowing now from His throne above.
Saints throughout the ages who loved him unto death
Are one with us who walk below, we breath this single breath.
Flow river flow into a mighty sea
Flow river flow setting the captives free
Flow river flow, soon all the world will see
This river of God, this river of man’s history
This river of God, this river is our destiny
2.
There is a river whose streams make glad the city of our God
A river of love that’s flowing now from his throne above
Even the foulest sinner is covered by his blood
So join me as I run and dive into redemption’s flood.
Flow river flow, into a mighty sea
Flow river flow, setting the captives free
Flow river flow, soon all the world will see
This river of God, this river of love to you and me
This river of God, this river of grace and mercy
3.
There is a river whose streams make glad the city of our God
A river of glory flowing now from His throne above
All creation’s straining on tiptoe just to see
The sons of God come into their own, what a sight that’s gonna be!
Flow river flow, into a mighty sea
Flow river flow, setting the captives free
Flow river flow, soon all the world will see
This river of God, this river – shekinah glory
This river of God, this river flows out through you and me
Interestingly when I did a Duck Duck Go search to find the above picture to illustrate this blog it turned up a photo from the city of Two Rivers which we drove through a few years ago…..guess where?
……Yes. Wisconsin!!
*** From All Will Be Well
I thought I had cleaned the toilet, but the other morning Hilary pointed out that it had not been ‘properly’ cleaned. So consistent with the wisdom that you should always begin the day by doing the thing you are least enthusiastic about first so that you then can move on to the things you like to do, I went straight to work in the ‘wee room’
It’s not what you do, but who you are doing it with that determines whether something is play or not, so as I engaged with my playful Dad we had a fun conversation!
I realized being honest that I don’t enjoy cleaning….but that I do enjoy getting things clean! There is a great satisfaction in looking at something that is pristine again, just as it was to begin with….maybe even better!!
“……that we may be holy and blameless before Him.’ (Eph.1:4) was the phrase that came to mind.
Our Father’s stated goal for each of us is that we become again as we were in the garden……..and even better…..for we will have through the experience of living this life, in a time and space world of good and evil, learned and grown into what it really means to be a ‘son of the Most High God’
For our heavenly Father as for us the cleansing process may not be ‘fun’ but then again it’s not what you do, but who you are doing it with, and so it is a joy just to be doing stuff, any sort of stuff, together…….as I wrote in a poem to my own first born son, 26 years ago…
“a father and a son… each delighting in the other one.”
As I continued to scrub and check and scrub again and check, and flush and scrub, and flush and check, and scrub and scrub again…… I realized I had moved far from the “Let’s get this over and done with so that I can get to something else…” mentality to “Yes Dad! this is really great!”
He reminded me of another experience of ‘High Praise’ No it wasn’t at a conference of thousands with a brilliant worship band and crescendoing chorus, it was at 3 am on a cold Minnesota winter morning alone in the ladies toilets of the local Computer City store. Cleaning toilets was the job Father had assigned for that season, and knowing I was in the right place at the right time doing what Dad had ordered, it was once again an experience of
“A father and a son….each delighting in the other one.”
Time flies when you are enjoying yourself, so after 30 minutes on this simple job I stood back once more to inspect my handiwork,
“Almost perfect” I thought, “Well as good as I can get it…… I ‘m not you Dad : – ) ”
“I wonder will Hilary be satisfied? …….So glad I’m married to someone who likes things done ‘perfectly’….. because I know that’s like our Father…….he will not stop short of,
………..‘holy and blameless before him.’ “
“What a day that will be……… when perfection is not just ‘imputed’ but finally ‘imparted’!!!!!!!”
I am so glad our Father gave me this experience to share with you this week. My blogs of late have contained material revealing how the human race is ‘in the toilet bowl’ so as to speak.
Could be a depressing place to be……….unless we live in the constant awareness that we are not alone.
…..we are with our Dad….. and we are exactly where we are meant to be on this journey
” …as we take the hand of our Father, as we take the hand of our King”
and ‘step farther out‘ ….and then ‘step further in’**
…….to a glorious future, filled with hope!
What an opportunity for ‘High Praise‘
Psalm 149 says,
“Let the HIGH PRAISE of God be in their mouths
and a double-edged sword in their hands,
to inflict vengeance on the nations
and punishment on the peoples,
to bind their kings with fetters,
their nobles with shackles of iron,
to carry out the sentence written against them—
this is the glory of all his faithful people.
Praise the Lord.”
WOW! (Worship Of Wonder!)
…….So that means when we personally feel we are in the ‘toilet bowl’ but choose to trust God and express that trust in “High Praise” we are not only reconnecting personally with our Dad
….. but are effectively participating in the overthrow of the evil empire, and in the establishment of His kingdom on earth!
“Ours is this privilege to serve, (as we clean the toilet bowl) before our Father’s face!”***
Please accept this simple song below as my Thanksgiving gift to you……
** On The Day You Were Born. The Ascent CD. *** I Am Your Son O God. Come Lord Jesus CD.
As I was finishing off sending Sunday’s “The Road Less Travelled” blog, I noticed an email arrive from a friend. So after hitting the “Send” button I opened it up. He had parsed the names Kyle Ritten-house and Ken-osha and come up with some intriguing results including this,
“Kyle meaning narrow or strait also syncs with Matthew 7:14 – Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.”
“As for the saints in the land. They are the glorious ones in whom is all my delight.” (Ps.16:3)
The widely publicized Trial of Kyle Rittenhouse has concluded and the first person I described as a “Noble Kyle”, has now been found “Not Guilty” by the US justice system.
The second “Noble Kyle”, Kyle Warner, has been also been undergoing his own ‘Trial’ as this post shows……..
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CWJwZLeN1Ze/
As I watched and listening to both these young men men they struck me as compassionate and courageous. They have both journeyed along “The Road less Travelled” This of course is the title of a bestselling book by the Christian psychiatrist, M. Scott Peck.
I have always identified with this title because of the unusual journey the Lord has taken us on in life, but had never read the book, not until this week that is, when I read not only Peck’s first classic, but also his second, “People of the Lie”, a study on evil.
“The Road” is the road upwards to spiritual maturity. Peck believes the reason so few make this journey along the ‘highway of holiness’ is because of original sin expressed in “Laziness”. By this I believe he means the unwillingness to experience the discomfort of doing the work of discovery and debate in order to find the truth and thus to ‘remap one’s view of reality’, becoming more one with God, who is the Way the Truth and the Life
Developing this further in “People of the Lie” he identifies “Pride” as the root of those he considers ‘evil’ which finds expression in their unwillingness to acknowledge any personal flaw and their need to be in total control. As he points out EVIL is simply LIVE spelt backwards. The evil one, ‘the father of lies’ was ‘a murderer from the beginning’. Evil people destroy other people, and in the end of the day, themselves
We live once again in ‘the days of Noah‘ when “God saw how great man’s wickedness on the earth had become and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time.” We see it demonstrated for example in the hateful responses to the two ‘Noble Kyles’
Facts no longer matter. Name calling as a ‘white supremicist’ or ‘antivaxxer’ have been used to demonize these two who do not ‘fall in line’ with the dominant and divisive narrative spun by ‘the father of lies’. The suffering of these two has been as a result of evil at work in opposing their ‘nobility’
I found the most intriguing chapter in “People of the Lie,” the one entitled MYLAI: An Examination of group Evil.
This refers to the indiscriminate massacre of hundreds of Vietnamese civilians that went unreported.Many who were considered ‘ordinary decent’ people participated in the atrocity.
It helped answer the objection I often hear, “How could what you believe about evil and corruption on such a grand scale be so, when there are so many ‘good people’ in the medical profession.”
Having trained as a doctor I know dozens of ‘good’ people in the medical profession. I was embarking on a career in psychiatry but God had a different idea.
What a gift to then find someone who with the same Christian faith has synthesized in these books valuable information gained from lifetime of psychiatric practice about how good and evil manifest in humanity!
Although written 40 years ago, like Lewis’ “The Silver Chair” or Orwell’s 1984 it is incredibly illuminating as to what we are all going through at this time. In MYLAI it was the military, but of all ‘specialized groups’, Peck writes,
“The specialized groups therefore are particularly prone to narcissism – that is to experiencing themselves as uniquely right and superior in relation to other homogenous groups.”
in these days of ‘medical tyranny’ it is the medical ‘specialists’ who have featured.
He continues….
“For the reality is that it is not only possible but easy and even natural for a large group to commit evil without emotional involvement simply by turning loose – it’s ‘experts’.
It happened in Vietnam, It happened in Nazi Germany, I am afraid it will happen again.”
The conditions for this to happen again have been greatly enhanced over the past 40 years. With the disappearance of objective journalism and real education as people are dumbed down, brainwashed and bullied, bribed and blackmailed, truth has been the casualty.
I say this not to condemn but merely explain why I have had such negative feedback from most of my medical friends who seem unwilling to ‘do the work’ of opening up to a different ‘map of reality’ to the one they have dedicated their lives to. I wonder if but for the grace of God in taking me along a different road in life I might well have found myself in their position.
There are only a few of my medical friends, that we know of, who have heroically been willing to ‘do the work’ of asking the hard questions and with an open mind seek out the truth, discovering that we are in fact currently facing – a global demacide***
……..another OURLIE massacre.
When Hilary and I had our dramatic ‘visitation’ from the Lord a few months ago, I wrote an account of it called, ‘Consider then the Kindness and Severity of God.”
As it was a ‘pearl’ we had received from the Lord, we did not feel at liberty to just publish it for anyone and everyone to see. Rather we said if you had personal questions or doubts we would be happy to send it to you. Two reached out to me. They were looking for help. They were ready to do the work.
In return I can say they both received from the Lord ‘miraculous’ aid in their different but equally difficult situations.
Interestingly these two ‘NOBLE’ ladies were also called by a form of the name KYLE!!
Why these two ? The scripture comes to mind,
“God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”
The grace they experienced preceded current events. One confided with me that from a very young age the scripture that forms the basis for the FREEDOM! song , “On the day you were born I danced over you…” has been a living reality to her.
She is secure in her identity as a child of God. Her identity as ‘a medical worker’ is secondary!
There is indeed a Cost of Noblity, whether being maligned and ostracized as a ‘white supremicist‘ like Rittenhouse or an ‘antivaxxer‘ like Warner or a ‘conspiracy theorist‘ like my doctor friend.
This however is what we must bargain for if like Paul our disposition is to, “… press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.” (Phil.3:14)
This is “The Road Less Travelled”
As Paul said elsewhere,
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize?
……..Run in such a way as to get the prize.” (1 Cor. 9:24)
***https://www.brighteon.com/7d55613e-a983-4b52-b884-23d423771900