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I’ve posted this important discussion. It was a Youtube post from Unherd but I don’t want it lost

 

 

I originally recorded this in February 2021 during “The Plague Years”. I intended to get to grips with Luke’s passage Luke 2:22ff on the presentation of Christ in the temple with Simeon and Anna. I’ve added a couple of songs.

I hope you find it useful.

 

 

Tom Holland, the historian, has not yet bent the knee to Christ, but he’s almost there. He just wont take the final step. Having said that, I believe that God has used Tom to bring many closer to the living faith.

This video is a splendid example of his thought.

 

Well it’s been eight months since the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at Asbury College in Wilmore Kentucky. The film below was partially filmed during the outpouring but compiled recently and gives a testimonial to what happened. I found it thrilling.

Now here is the latest – its around 50 minutes so get a coffee.

 

 

Earlier on, during the outpouring itself I got blessed and was on a tail end of a Zoom call with Pete Greig and some of the students. I made a little video which I shot as it was happening.

 

I’ve been impressed for some time with the thought and discussions of Mary Harrington. I previously posted a link to a discussion between Mary and the social commentator Paul Kingsnorth.

The following is over 1 hour and this long form is quote attractive if you are prepared to invest time with it.

 

Every now and then I come across a song or a piece of music that grabs me and excites me. I don’t know for sure where “Babylon is Fallen” originated. Some research shows:

“Babylon is Fallen is a church hymn of North American origin, printed in Sacred Harp, No. 117. G.W. William’s article “Babylon is Fallen: The Story of a North American Hymn” in The Hymn, Volume 44, April 1993, pp. 31-35, said: “The original six-stanza text was by Richard McNemar and first appeared in the Shaker hymnal Millennial Praises, Containing a Collection of Gospel Hymns … Adapted to the Day of Christ’s Second Appearing (Hancock, Mass.), 1813.”

Actually, I’m not convinced. It may be that it was first published here but I think that the origins go back to the English Civil War and the Puritans. Some evidence can be found that the opening of the film “Winstanley” had this song sung by the marching Diggers. According to reports the director was meticulous for historical accuracy.

In my view, the song was carried through history by oral tradition to the Americas where it found a home in the Shaker community.
Modern-day singing of this son can be found in the “Sacred Harp” singing tradition (Check Youtube etc) but the version here comes from more of an English folk tradition which is likely to be close to the original. The words are thrilling for those who await the Lord’s Return.

Hail a day so long expected
Hail the year of full release
Zion’s walls are now erected A
nd the watchman’s published piece
Throughout Shiloh’s wide dominion
Hear the trumpets loudly roar
Babylon is fallen is fallen is fallen
Babylon is fallen to rise no more

All of Earth should stand with wonder W
hat is this that’s come to pass
Murmuring like a distant thunder
Crying Oh alas alas
Swell the sound ye kings and nobles
Priests and people rich and poor
Babylon is fallen is fallen is fallen
Babylon is fallen to rise no more

Blow the trumpets on Mt Zion
Christ shall come a second time
Ruling with a rod of iron
All who now as foes combine
Fables garment sweet rejected
And our fellowship is o’er
Babylon is fallen is fallen is fallen
Babylon is fallen to rise no more

All God’s promises are “Yes and Amen”

I’m giving huge praise and thanks to God for his graceful provision
of the needs of the charity “Adam Outreach Project” providing help
for homeless men in Lowestoft

I write this in the days during the events at Asbury University in Kentucky where there appears to be a visitation from God.
This is my take.

 

This, I believe, is an important lecture of Lord Sumption, previous one of the UK’s leading judges on The Supreme Court showing how our freedoms have been taken away by decree