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Re-Education

even in the midst of the pressure and the grasp. It is beautiful and enigmatic.
pleasure of the seen, is belief.” Samuel A puzzle and yet an answer. And
Phillips, Like the Days of Noah the couple are right in the middle of
and Lot, Chapter 7: Faithfulness in this paradox of new life unfolding
Servanthood. within and beside them, yet they
have no control over it. It is perfect,
Basically, what happened to man- in that sense, because man, while
kind was that he chose to live from he was allowed to be involved,
what is tangible, visible and suppos- has been removed, in a way from
Chioma Phillips is the Editor of Msingi Afrika Mag- edly verifiable by scientific inquiry, managing the process. So, in order
azine and the host of Msingi Afrika Television. Her
hope is to see the Truth shared, with all who will listen, facts and statistics, and thereby to to overcome his limitations in this
for the transformation of the people and the continent of devolve from being a higher being process, what did man go and do?
Afrika - and the world. to this limited creature you see He ‘invented’ tools and machines
around you today. A being now that would enable him to see what
limited in all his ways, while think- is going on within the woman and
Because that’s basically what man ing that he is empowered, advanced to monitor the progress of the new
has decided. That’s how we ended and progressive. And mankind did physical form that is growing within
up with things like abortion and this, all the while claiming that those her (tools which have side effects
euthanasia, and the wickedness of who chose to remain with their eyes might I add), all the while failing to
testing drugs on people or intro- fixed on what is unseen are the ones see the real point. The life is neither
ducing sickness into their bodies who are backward and mediocre. the physical form, nor the process
without their knowledge just to see Perhaps, as you read this, you in the womb that he now feels in
what will happen. It is madness. will be able to see ‘where the rain control over – but is the unseen
started beating us’, because as you reality of the new person who is be-
In my husband’s just-released book, look at the world around us, this ing shaped in the unseen womb of
“Like the Days of Noah and Lot”, one distortion of realities is playing out the unseen realm. It is a realm that
of the many issues facing today’s world, in every single sphere of society. no machine can fathom and which
that he tackles, is how people made the Where, even while denying the very is being connected inter-dimension-
decision to walk away from living from the existence of God, the world still – ally from the unseen to this realm,
place of the unseen, and instead embraced somehow – manages to blame every so that something new can emerge
a life from the seen, and thereby, living single negative thing on Him, all and take place upon the earth. This
from the place of unbelief. Consider his the while ignoring their own role new unseen person, is being housed
thoughts on this: in the establishment of the faulty in the seen physical form that is
“Unbelief, therefore, is the opposite of global reality that they have created taking shape in the physical womb.
belief, that is, the disconnection from that by their own hands. Unrepentant,
which is unseen, which is made seen by arrogant, and blinded by their own It is a wondrous thing. That people
evidence of the testimony of God, by stupidity. Now, this is a crisis that is do not understand this is evident in
holding onto that which is seen and tem- choking the entire world, but it is a the decisions that are made to kill
poral as the reason for living. To put it in simple one to resolve. Repent, re- babies in the womb. If they under-
another way, we are constantly faced with store faith, live based on the unseen, stood the depths of this mystery, if
the pressure and pleasure of that which we as directed by God who created all they knew what they are as a vessel
can hold, see, smell, touch, feel, hear in the things, and things will quickly get or a bridge between two dimen-
physical and, sometimes, this can become back into order. sions, perhaps they would honor it
so overwhelming that it consumes a lot of more. This is one reason why the
attention, which in turn takes our eyes Think about the world’s perspec- world system is so vigorously pursu-
away from that which is unseen. tive versus that of the unseen from ing ways in which not to teach spir-
We live in a world where the reality of this viewpoint. When a woman is ituality as it relates directly to this
that which is unseen, and the holding on pregnant, one of the world’s most world. A people who are spiritually
to of that, is considered mediocrity. We beautiful mysteries is unfolding ‘blinded’ are far easier to control
are faced with the constant choice between right within her. It involves her than those who are aware that there
that which is seen and temporal, and that and her husband, yet is somehow is so much more than what we see.
which is unseen but eternal. The ability to beyond their ability to control or to And that remains the reality of all
constantly hold on to that which is unseen,

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