Thursday, August 4, 2022

The Path of Gideon or Jerubbaal

Homeschooling right now is the best option for your children.  I have no doubt about that.  And every parent should do their best to provide their children with a solid, classical education.

Homesteading may be a solid alternative to the current corruption of food.  Growing your own food and raising your own livestock is a solid idea and even if you can't raise chickens or goats or pigs, you can at least grow potatos in a bucket.

But that doesn't mean you are exempt from the fight against local evil.

Consider the prophet Gideon.  When we first meet him, his land is constantly ravaged by foreigners while his people starve.  This is so bad that Gideon is beating his wheat out inside a wine press in order to hide it.

In other words, he is working outside the system in order to survive.   The Midianites were nearby looking to steal his food and the best he could do was make his flour in secret.

Then God speaks to him and empowers him.  Gideon then, on God's instruction, tears down the local altar to Baal and the Ashera pole next to it.  After that, he is called Jerubbaal because he was bold enough to cleanse the evil that had overtaken his community.

And because he cleansed the local evil in his community, he was able to then liberate his nation from the Midianites.

Our country has been overtaken by a great evil.  They have near full control of entertainment, government, and the press.  And yet, we cannot just withdraw from society and leave others to succumb to wickedness.

But we start to fight back in our local communities.  Some communities are better than others.  Some have solid local school boards who are trying to educate children.  Some are doing worse things in the name of Satan.

And just because you homeschool, it doesn't mean you shouldn't fight.  Because CRT, sexual education, and so much other nonsense is our altar to Baal.  How can we hope to fight against the greater evils in our nation if we are not fighting the lesser ones next to our homes?

So your path is clear: you can follow Gideon's path and make your food in secret hoping they don't find you or you can follow the path of Jerubbaal, where you find your courage and fight back against the evil around you.

And if you are homeschooling and homesteading, you have a much more solid foundation than most other people.