Author: mikhaelah z

Kingdom Curriculum

The mindset that directs the teaching of our children in the disciplines of Reading, Writing, Mathematics, & Research:

In Deuteronomy 11:19 YHWH instructs us on how to teach our children “You shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.” The primary thing we are to ingrain in our children is His instructions / teachings; that is actually all He instructs us to disciple them in: His way. The teaching of every other subject finds its roots in and stems from Yah’s instructions. Therefore our primary teaching resource is the Scriptures, for reading, writing, grammar, history, geography, science and even math, it is a book with infinite depth that only grows more interesting with each completion of it.

In Proverbs 22:6 (the Hebrew says) “Habituate a child upon the mouth of his way, and when he is old he will never depart from it.”

This Kingdom Curriculum lays out the purpose or end goal in each of the disciplines: Reading, Writing, Mathematics and Research, all other subjects either are included in the above, or are unnecessary toward the goal of raising reverent offspring (Malachi 2:15). This Kingdom Curriculum will direct you in steps to take to achieve that goal of each child being proficient and an independent learner in each of those four disciplines. May YHWH direct each of you in the best ways to implement it in your home.

READING

The purpose for reading is to be able to read, understand and apply the Scriptures. You know your job is done

  • When your child reads the Scripture (and any other text you give them) with the intent to learn, understand and apply the information / lesson to his / her own life.
  • When he / she stops to investigate words they don’t understand
  • When they pause to meditate on what is entering their minds
  • When they ask questions regarding what they’ve read
  • When they can critique what they have read through the lens of the Scripture

All of these they will learn from you, as they see you do it, as you make all of these actions a habit when you read; they will follow in your footsteps, so to speak. So the simplest way to teach this is just to be the example, and everything you want to see from them, do it yourself with them as you read aloud to them in the beginning, then as they read aloud to you, and finally, because it has become their habit, they will do it too on their own.

Skills to teach:

  1.  Learning how to read:
    1. Teach each letter’s name and sound or sounds (capital letters and lowercase letters). Depending on your child’s ability, this may be a good time to also teach them how to write the letters.
    1. Begin blending the sounds together: 2-letter syllables: ba, ca, at, ot etc., then simple 3-letter words hat, run, dog, ask, etc., then 4-letters: mama, solo, mint, want, etc. At every stage emphasizing sounding out each letter.
    1. Teach the rules of pronunciation, long and short vowels: hat vs hate etc., diphthongs (two vowels forming one sound): eat, soul, great, etc., and blended letters: ch, sh, ph, tion, etc.

And there you go, your child can now read!

  • Understanding the text: skills that enable understanding of the text
  1. Vocabulary – use of a dictionary, dictionary skills
  2.  Alphabetical order
  3. Using the pronunciation guide
  4. Language of origin of a word (etymology)
  5. Comparison of Common usage versus Original usage
  1. Contextual understanding
  2. Reading widely: Scripture, history, biographies, and relative literary works
  3. Read aloud time
  4. Reviewing usage of words
  1. Punctuation – meaning of the different punctuation marks
  • Critical thinking: One has to have a base from which to judge all assertions and implications
  • Does it line up with the Scripture?
  • Problem solving
  • Application of each lesson learned

Once your child has mastered reading with these principles, you can set them free to continue learning with all the tools and directions you have equipped them with.

This opens up to them the fields of study such as History, Geography, Science; Physics, Biology, Chemistry etc.

WRITING

The Bar/Aim is to give your child the

  • Ability to express their thoughts intelligibly in writing
  • Ability to give a concise and thorough written report on a given topic

Skills to teach:

  • Transcribing the Scripture, word for word, mark for mark, space for space

(This is the main tool to teach writing skills; it will give understanding of and ingrain proper writing techniques through repetition, and will also teach correct spelling.)

  • Story writing, Essay writing, Report writing, Summary writing
  • Dictation and correction, through repetition and consistency this will teach spelling and focus.
  • Neatness; this is achieved when it is required, practicing the formation of letters and a requirement on the part of the teacher that they always be written a certain way is what will bear the fruit of neat handwriting. It requires discipline and repetition – on the part of the teacher. (Writing is for others to read as well as yourself so it must legible.)
  • Record-keeping; as they get older they can begin to keep a record of daily activities. (This relieves the teacher from having to do it, and teaches them the discipline of keeping a record of completed tasks.)

MATH

The Bar/Aim is to enable your child to solve problems involving numbers towards being more efficient (money matters, numbering and measurements etc.)

Also to give them proficiency in the four veins of number manipulation

Skills to teach:

-Counting to 10, 100, 1000, etc.

-Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division – as a means of solving problems

–Number sense: Numbers only go from 1 to 9, 10 shows one complete unit. And then the numbers carry on, one complete unit and one (11) one complete unit and two (12) …and so on and so forth ad infinitum.

Once that concept has been grasped, understanding the manipulation of numbers has a solid foundation from which to grow.

–Place value: each number shows quantity and value: i.e, in the number 75, the 7 is not the same value as in 27. In 75 the 7 is showing seven tens (7 cycles/groups of 10), and in 27 it is showing seven units, or ones (7 singular objects). And in the same way, the 7 in 7000 is showing 7 thousands (7 cycles/groups of 1000).

The more concrete or hands-on and visual you can be with passing on math concepts the better.

-Manipulation of numbers: mastery of all levels of addition, subtraction, division and multiplication, gained through repetition.

            -Using these number principles to solve problems (money matters such as shopping etc., measuring quantities and dimensions etc.)

RESEARCH

The aim is to bring your child to the point where they can research a given topic, think critically through the discovered material, share the lessons learned and apply them to his / her own life independently.

How to teach this:

Teacher-led research:

  • Level  1  

We read together and think through topics together; using a notebook to record what is learned immediately.

  • Level 2

Teacher gives the topic and the resources, and the questions to answer to see if the topic is understood, internalized and mentally manipulatable.

  • Level 3

Teacher gives the topic and resources, student writes their own report, and gives an oral summary (teaching) on the topic. He or she also reads aloud the written report.

  • Level 4

Teacher gives the topic, student finds resources, and writes and reads their report before the family / homeschool group, and/or gives an oral report.

  • Level 5 – Independent Scholar

Student selects the topic, researches it, and gives a report, oral and/or written, before the clan / family / homeschool group.

*A report requires:

  • A Title
  • A record of current understanding (before research)
  • Scriptural finding (discovery) & dictionary findings
  • Other findings from books, documentaries, internet
  • Criticism of findings through lens of the Scripture
  • Application to real-life situations and personal implications
  • Record of Resources used

When our children have ingrained the habit of these disciplines – reading, writing, mathematics and research, and when they have both the desire to grow in wisdom, and the discipline to achieve it, our work is done. And this is easily achieved within the time-span from birth to 12 (puberty). After that Isaiah 54:13 says “All your children shall be taught by YHWH, and great shall be the peace (shalom) of your children.” Ours is to be the example for them, to “Habituate them in the way they should go, and when they are old, they will never depart from it” Proverbs 22:6.  We are to lead them to the Father, having given them the habits that will ensure their continued walking with Him. He will do the rest. And it does not take an 8-hour school day to achieve that!

Remember, Repetition is learning, Review is wisdom. As we repeat something it forms a habit in us, and that is the way all human beings learn. The Most High made us habitual beings therefore EVERYBODY can learn, nobody fails!

Shalom.

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A Time for Peace and a Time for War…

This is a time for the saints to have peace in their hearts, while we engage in battle.

Shalom,

I seek to play my role as part of the body of the Messiah. I hesitate to say that I have seen a vision, because what I, and I think most of us associate with that phrase is someone who loses control of their body / mind while receiving of a barrage of images from an un-earthly source. Not to say that that doesn’t happen but my experience is something else. The Hebrew word for vision is CHAZON, and the function of that verb is to see that which is not normally visible. That is what Yahweh gives me when I pray in the Spirit; an understanding of our Spiritual reality.

When I was praying in the Spirit, YHWH gave me a vision, a chazon, He let me see the spiritual reality of His desire for the outcome of this whole plandemic / scamdemic debacle, and this is what He showed me:

I saw on the earth, everything was dark and overcast, and all of humanity were running. They all fled in terror from a towering dark monstrosity behind them.

There were two coverings over the earth. The first and higher one was the one that Yahweh had made on the second day, the firmament or sky. The second one beneath it was a spiritual one, unseen by physical eyes, black and dark; it was in essence the blinding that hasatan has put over all humanity, the way he has engulfed our mind and turned our thoughts away from our Creator, a veil of sorts over the minds of humanity.

“But their minds were blinded. For until this day the same veil remains unlifted in the reading of the Old Testament, because the veil is taken away in the Anointing. But even to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart. Nevertheless when one turns to the Master, the veil is taken away…But even if our functional news is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, whose minds the power of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the functional news of the honor of the Messiah, who is the image of Powers, should shine on them.” 2 Corinthians 3:14-16 and 4:3-4

Yet over that darkened dome, there stands over it those speaking truth who take a sledgehammer to it and are making cracks in it; and through those cracks came a voice, The Voice, a still, small whisper calling the names of His faithful ones.

Those who heard it stopped to listen, and at His direction turned around, to begin walking in the opposite direction, against the running mass of humanity and toward the dark ominous monstrosity.

As they walked, now toward that fearful darkness, their beings, their very bodies began to radiate light. As they confronted the darkness being hurled and sent out after the frightened masses they shone brighter and brighter. Then as they continued their confrontational walk they turned to bright flames. Now, some of the people they were walking past, those who were running in fear, began to notice the shining saints and to take courage, and they began to turn and walk with the lightened ones in opposition of that darkness.

At this point, those saints who were shining as bright lights had the ability to “shoot” or attack that monstrosity with their light, flames of fire.

The faith that had them standing against the dark, the fact that they took action, enabled, and loosed the messengers (angels) to take part, and they royally took down the monstrous source of fear and darkness.

A new era was begun:

The righteous were leading and directing the affairs of men, determining the roles and character of, for, and toward the people towards function. A time of light, and for a generation to be born in the light; no more youngsters being brought forth into darkness.

The fulfillment of all prophecy is contingent on the disobedience or obedience of those to whom it pertains.

This is a great and vast vision; and we cannot do it of our own power of might, only by His spirit. But nothing is too difficult for Him, and all He needs is willing vessels, to merely resist the devil and watch him flee! What the adversary plans for the downfall of humanity, Yahweh uses for the advancing of His kingdom. Everyone is talking about the steps that the kingdom of darkness is taking to destroy, or subdue and further enslave all of humanity, but that should not bother us! Our concern should be for how YHWH wants to use this time. He allowed it, so He has a plan for it, a desire, contingent on His people fulfilling it. Who knows what YHWH’s plan is with this Re-set of humanity?

We are praying that all principalities and powers, all world rulers of this present darkness, and the messengers of dysfunction in the heavenly places are bound, the unspoken prerequisite being a life of purity and alignment with our Creator through obedience to His word. Especially at this time that the spirit of fear and confusion is wrecking havoc on the faith of so many believers, and actually on humanity as a whole.

There are so many voices out there, the majority of them crying out doom, destruction and death; but whose report will we believe? That this so-called pandemic is a reason for us to hide inside of our houses, and to prioritize self and taking care of number one? Is this the time to put aside ‘lay down your life for the brethren; meeting needs, righting wrongs and setting things in order for humanity’? And what of those who these statutes of men will injure the most? Those living from hand to mouth, how do they practice ‘social distancing’? Our call is to defend the fatherless, take care of widows and orphans, HEAL THE SICK, raise the dead, and know that nothing shall by any means harm us!

This is a time when we as believers are to shine brightly! The people of the earth, those who do not walk in the light, ought to turn to us, the people unaffected, the people giving solutions, the people meeting needs and righting wrongs, the people UNAFRAID, the people of Yahweh the Power of the Hosts of heaven at this time. We are ambassadors of a kingdom not from here, and so in all our kingdom affairs we are not subject to the decrees of Caesar. My brethren, we are not bound by statutes and limitations of men, whose lies have been repeatedly exposed! We are subject to obey the instructions given by the only One who can command us and that is the One who made us.

Throughout history Israel was known as a people who did not consider themselves part of the nations, we had our own instructions that we would follow, and when we did, the nations around us feared us, definitely wouldn’t prosper off us, and couldn’t touch us. Only as long as we stayed obedient to our Father in heaven. (Numbers 23:9, Ezra 4:19-20, Esther 3:8, Luke 23:2, 22:29-30)

So during this time, I exhort you all to silence the loud noises causing fear and causing us to forget who we are, because we forget who our Power is. Let us seek His face, and resolve to obey his voice in the face of any and all opposition. What time is there such as this for us to see the hand of YHWH at work! What time as this for the witnesses to be given of deliverance from corrupt officials, if we but stand. We are surrounded by a great company of those who went before us who did not bow to the dictates of wicked rulers: Mosheh, Gideon, David, Daniel, Hananiah, Misha’el, Azariah, (Meshak, Shadrach, Adbedneggo) Peter, John, Paul, and the Firstborn of this family named in heaven and on eath: Yeshua Hamashi’ach, whose Spirit lives in us today!

‘Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Yeshua, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of Powers.’

Shalom, shalom.

Our Day

Shalom,

It’s been a while since my last post, and I want to share with y’all the witness that Yahweh is making our house. As a side-bar: I know for those just starting out, it is very helpful to have a template or an idea of how to do things, and to see how others are going about it, once you decide to walk the “less traveled path”. We are all one body and each member contributes its part, so I’ll just share what we do, the reasons why, and the fruit we are already reaping from the seeds being sown.

So, every day begins like this:

At about sunrise the children are up; they went to bed at around 7:00 p.m., so by sun-up, they’ve had their 8-10 hours of rest.

The first thing each of us does, including the children, is to read the Word, one chapter of Psalms, and one chapter of Proverbs. Psalms gives us the right perspective of rejoicing in YHWH’s sovereignty to begin the day, and Proverbs gives everyday practical wisdom. We have a wide range of ages, so the older ones read to the younger ones who are not so proficient in reading. After that they pray; ask Yahweh to help them stay obedient, and to do all things as unto Him. Then they get ready for the day: get dressed, drink water, comb hairs, etc.

The next thing is they each have a responsibility, a.k.a. chores. Everybody plays their part to keep the house clean and tidy.

After they’re done with their chores, they do a short workout (some jumping jacks, squats, push-ups and planks) and after a snack, they go for a short run with Daddy, yes, even the little cute one!

Boot Camp.

Every other day is BOOT CAMP: a longer workout where we go and run on a hill, or at the beach, and then come back to eat. On those days academic work begins a little later.

We can never seem to get enough of that beautiful beach!

After breakfast we begin the academics for the day. Everyday has its own flow; Yahweh directs each day so it’s not always exactly the same (that used to drive me nuts, but I’m growing and maturing and learning to go with His flow, after all they are His seeds of Power, He knows what He wants them to learn in everyday; my challenge is to harmonize with Him so I can be His vessel to dispense His desired lesson).

Academia

So generally speaking the academic part goes something like this:

At this time (between 8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.) Mamikha, as they call me, comes to class. (I’ve been up since before them in order to get in my quiet time with YHWH, do my workout, and make breakfast –it’s also my preference to prep lunch and dinner at that time, but that’s just me.)  And this is usually the scene I’ll find:

Because they know their schedule, they’ve already begun working on their assignments for the day. When I get to the porch, which is where we eat and have our “school”, I’ll help them with what they don’t understand, but before then they have a daily regimen that they can do without my help.

So once I’m there, I’ll generally sit and tell them a story from the Torah; they have to know true history and origin of humanity.

Proverbs 1:8 correctly translated says Hear, my son, the restraints / setting limits / discipline of your father, and you will not forsake the Torah (instructions and teachings) of your mother.

As mothers, ours is to instill the Torah (instructions / teachings of Yahweh) in the seeds of Power we are responsible for.

Also at that time we’ll talk about any pertinent issues: why were you arguing? How to clean your ears, or lessons learned from the beach run or grocery store trip, etc.

Transcribing – Our mainstay

The core work that they all do (everyone who can write) is to transcribe the Scriptures: Beginning at Genesis 1:1, they copy word for word, every punctuation and verse number in a dedicated notebook. They are writing down their own copy of the Scriptures.

In Deut 17:18-19 Yahweh instructed the king to write a copy of the Torah for himself which he was to read every day, for the purpose that he would never lift himself up above his brethren. So since Yeshua has graduated us to being kings and priests, ours have begun taking on princely duties.

“Word for word, the thoughts of the Author of life”, the older boys sometimes straight from the original.

We didn’t even know how impacting and invaluable this transcribing was going to be. It hits so many birds with one stone: it increases their vocabulary, spelling, reading speed, and handwriting. As they replicate the thoughts of the author of Existence, they are learning grammar and punctuation from the best-selling book of all time. As well as, the most important part, they are hiding the Word in their heart, it’s becoming incarnate within them!  The Scripture is our primary resource for teaching.

For the younger ones who cannot read or write yet, they work up to that. When they can talk intelligibly, we’ll have them simply repeat the alphabet after me: I say “a” then they say “a”, “b” then they say “b”, “c-c” all the way to “z”. Once they can say the alphabet by themselves, the next step is for  them to keep saying it as they follow along with their finger on a simple ABC chart.

Say it, touch it, write it, repeat.

Repetition is learning, review is wisdom; we’ll say it every day several times, and soon (the older they are the quicker this happens) they start to put two and two together, that “A” means that shape on the chart, then “B” and so on. At this time we also have them writing it, so, the younger ones’ lesson will comprise of looking, touching, coloring, writing, and saying the letters. By the time they are around 3 years old (because we begin as soon as they can speak), they will recognize each letter and be able to name it. Then we have them say the name and sound of the letter, and then just the sound. After that they can begin to read! All reading is, is just putting the sounds together, et voila! With this method we’ve taught 9 children (ours as well as from other families) to read, some who began very early (1 year old), some much older (5, 6 and even 7 and 8 years old) , and it has worked with all of them. It showed us you don’t have to follow a curriculum to teach your child to read, you can just keep it simple, line upon line.

Arithmetic

On certain days we will do number work, a.k.a. math; learning how to use and manipulate numbers, with the emphasis on practical everyday use of numbers. They need a firm grasp of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division and that is IT! Only what is necessary, and practical for everyday use.

We are not educating them to pass some arbitrary exam, nor do we wish to have educated fools; all that we need to ensure they have is the understanding of how to live a functional life, and to give them all the tools that they need in order to do so.

 The most valuable and mandatory lesson in life is this: one must know What they are, Who they are, and Why they are. When that is understood, when their identity is secure as sons and daughters of the King of kings, sojourning in the earth as ambassadors of a superior dominion, and that their test is to establish His ruler-ship as it is in the heavens here on earth…once that mindset is secured, all other aspects of kingdom life will surely follow; the character traits of our Heavenly Father embodied in our children: loving your neighbor as yourself, and they will be the change in the status quo of humanity. So, the long and short of it is: math must be functional in how it is useful for everyday life.

Context of Existence

We also teach science, geography and history holistically; all knowledge of their present context of existence, as it applies to them and their role toward or in any given topic.

After the morning time, comes lunch time; both our physical lunch as well as our spiritual lunch which will be 2 chapters from the Second Covenant – stories of Yeshua graduating us to ruling and reigning with Him.

After we eat, we clean up from lunch and have our NAP TIME!!!!

You can see my enthusiasm for that part of the day; children quiet, house is clean and I have a couple of hours of free time to do my own tasks or sleep. When they wake up later in the afternoon, the day coasts downhill from there; showers, or completing assignments, or whatever else will come up at that time.

5:00 p.m. is dinner time; spiritual and physical (2 chapters from the First Covenant-our history, and examples for us to live by). We’ll eat and clean up, and then maybe throw around some balls with Daddy, or play a trivia game or do a puzzle, or whatever activity is pertinent on that day, then 7:00 p.m. is prayer and bed time; Daddy prays with the children. Also at that time Daddy will give the reprimands and spankings for whatever foolish things were done that day.

7:00 p.m. is bed time for everyone under 12 years of age. Between 8:00 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. is when we strive to have the whole house shut down with lights off.

On the job training

A girl’s first love is her Daddy.

We’re learning that raising seeds of Powers, these gifts that YHWH has bestowed on us, is truly a full-time job. Our daily schedule has evolved to match the things we are learning about children:

Looking at creation we saw that the “play” of all young animals are activities mimicking their parents a.k.a. producers. All their antics that entertain us are just them instinctively preparing themselves, honing the skills they will need for adult life; be it lion cubs wrestling and running to prepare for hunting and killing prey, or young antelopes frolicking and knocking heads to prepare for escaping the predators, and fighting other males for the right to breed.

In humanity it was the same before the modern age and present education systems; the way young people entertained themselves was to copy what they saw the adults doing; boys mimicked their dads and girls their mothers. A boy would play at hunting and shooting and wrestling and building etc., honing the skills needed to provide for and protect his own family when the time came. And the girls would play at caring for babies and home-making and cooking etc., all in preparation for when they would be pillars of support and mothers.  The rest of their time would be spent helping with the day to day activities, their help being greatly appreciated as they grew in stature and responsibility.

In a natural lifestyle, the darkness would signal rest-time, and the sunrise the beginning of work; everybody looked forward to sleeping and slept deeply after a full day’s work. People lived long, full and healthy lives. The onset of the industrial revolution changed all that; every family ceased being producers and became consumers, and society has pursued that downward trend into the mess we have today.

BUT we are striving to go back to the eternal path, and so we saw that children’s playing just to play, or entertainment as an end in and of itself is not functional. To allow them just to lose all restraint, to have portions of the day where they don’t know what they’re supposed to be doing actually undoes the lessons of self-discipline instilled at other times of the day. We also saw that that was when the most injuries and accidents occurred (you know, they took it into their head to jump off beds, scratch the walls, throw rocks etc.).

Idleness is the devil’s workshop; when there is no instruction for a given portion of the day, they are open to the adversary’s suggestions and thoughts from below. Hasatan does NOT wish to see our children grown up and secured in the Kingdom; he’ll use whatever little room we give him to plant seeds that will mature and bear fruit later in life, or just cause harm to take away our peace.  So now, striving to raise the next generation of change, our schedule has them knowing what they’re to do at each point of the day, and playing just to play isn’t part of it.

It can be challenging, but there’s a simple solution…

I see and understand why parents like to have a time when the children are out of their hair, to get a break because the constant demand for moment to moment occupation can be wearying. As parents we can design our children’s lives around us; they came into our lives, not we into theirs. So WE can decide when they should sleep and wake, we can habituate them to a certain routine that is functional for both us parents, and them. I submit to you that a nap-time during the day gives a much-needed break to parents, and even if they’re too old to sleep during the day that can be a deliberate time that they learn to just be still – they don’t always have to have something to do – it’s never too early to learn to be still and know that Yahweh is Powers. Let them meditate on lessons learned, quote the Scripture or read the Scripture, on their own. And while they do that, you as the parent have time to do what you need to do; your time to be still and rest too, so that you are refreshed and able to close out the day still nurturing and being patient with the little munchkins.

Our two older boys, Nabii and Aaron, have been on this regimen since birth, they are now 6 years old, and have begun reading through the Scriptures for themselves. They do not sleep at nap-time. They lie on their beds and quote the Scripture verses they know, or talk (sometimes argue and test each other) about what they’ve been reading. 6-year-olds debating from the word! They continually surprise and impress us.

The two oldest girls, who came to live with us last year, have their Scripture debates as they wash dishes, and help to cook in the kitchen. Words fail me to describe the satisfaction I feel when all they have is question, after question after question about the Word; and it is because that is what we have submerged them in, and it is the root from which spring all our daily activities.

Because they have a regimen they have become responsible, and their interests are shaped by the parameters we set. So the arguments in this house tend to be about who the greatest prophet was, how old Abraham was when he died, or how Yeshua ascended to heaven, etc.

In closing, we have inherited a wealth of lies about how to raise our children; the world tells us to cater to them and let them lead and decide for themselves what they want to be.

The Word tells us we are all born with the nature of the adversary, and thus all children have foolishness bound up in their hearts, and the ONLY instruction it gives for how to deal with that is to drive it out with the rod.

The Word tells us to habituate them in the way they should go, and to disciple them when we are sitting in the house, when we walk by the way, when we lie down and when we rise up – not much room for “let kids be kids”.

The Current Dilema

We are in a generation disconnected from our own biological functions; girls turn into young women but their minds are still childish which brings about the phrase “a child having a child”, when actually the only reason she could get pregnant is because she is physically mature, albeit her mental capacity has been retarded so that her mental and physical being no longer match up. Boys turn into young men at puberty but with the mental restraint of a toddler. We have thus brought upon ourselves the ”terrible teens”, a confused portion of humanity, raised with no restraint, habituated to expect to be treated as grown-up without any actions to that effect. A generation of people used to being coddled and negotiated with when wrong instead of being reprimanded and disciplined; a generation that does not respect the wisdom of the elders, and thus seems to be lost. A generation that parents who “believed the lie”, created.

A humble suggestion, and maybe a call for an uprising…

We can do it differently. We can do the one thing no one is expecting, let’s turn our backs on this modern way of living which is destroying humanity, and obey the eternal instructions. Let’s go back to what worked for millennia before this modern age of technology and shortened, deteriorated life-spans. Let’s take our children back from the jaws of Babylon and not let her tentacles reach into our homes; let us raise an un-defiled generation!

At this time when there is an attack on the homeschooling families, especially in our part of the world, I’ll close by saying this:

No administrative authorities need to give us the go-ahead; raising our children who WE birthed as WE see fit is a SOVEREIGN RIGHT OF HUMANITY. Rights cannot be given to us nor can they be taken from us; we are born with them and only we can lay them down. We had rights before they were written down on paper and signed by people we don’t know. What the administrative authorities mete out and have authority over are privileges they offer to those submitted to their authority, their statutes and regulations. Raising our children and educating them, which is one and the same thing, is a RIGHT not a PRIVILEGE. The corrupt administrative authorities were not there when conception happened in the womb, and as such they are not responsible to answer for the souls WE created.

(All of this information is well documented in ‘legalese’ and can be found by sincere research. I can share any links requested.)

Yahweh Elohim will bring US to account for the lives we began, let’s do Him proud!

Blessings to all y’all.

Shalom

How To Begin…

How to begin…

How to begin what, exactly? Homeschooling? Educating our children? What does that even mean? Is education just making sure our sons and daughters can read and write and churn out the government-prescribed information at the designated age? Is it to give them the ability to regurgitate falsehoods that have passed into the realm of ‘information’ for the purpose of controlling the masses via mind-control agencies (also known as government: from gubernare-meaning control,and mente-meaning mind)?

The current public (and most private) curricular are an assortment of assembly-line, factory-type manuals, introducing particular information at designated times to children who spend majority of their time in the unnatural peer-group setting. Are we to bring this into our home, force feed it to our children and be content that we have fulfilled our divine appointment of raising up reverent offspring?  

Did you know that the word educate actually means to ‘bring out or lead forth’? In its original usage it meant to ‘bring up (children) or to train them’. It only began to be used in the academic sense in the 1800s. Historically, in most successful cultures, before the sweeping onslaught of this present popular-western culture, every child born was seen as an addition to his/her family production unit, and, by extension, his or her skill would advance the community.

A child was considered ‘well-educated’ when they could handle themselves in an adult capacity. Most cultures included some rite of passage or testing of a young man crossing the threshold of puberty, to see the strength of his character. This would mean he had to stand before the whole assembly of men, prove his worth and, upon obtaining their approval, join their ranks, henceforth accountable to them for his every action.

A young woman would have grown up surrounded by watchful eyes from the time she was very young, older women watching, correcting, shaping her character and work ethic; a strong young woman was an invaluable support when a man was established and ready to build his home. When her time came, she was eager to begin implementing all she had learned in her own home.

How far a cry from the product of academic sheeple farms of today (also known as schools), young people with no identity or direction, wide open to the tutelage of the screen. They are constantly bombarded with bright, unrealistic colors and impossibly fast action sequences, having their morals shaped by imaginary characters in fictitious settings, and their ideas of the ideal life played out before them by hypocrites (that is actually the Greek word meaning ‘actor’).

Our girls dream of a prince charming to sweep them off their feet, but are not taught to save and prepare themselves for him, nor indeed can they for that is meant to be a passive by-product of a functional family setup where she would be kept close, concealed and sculpted till her day came to move from father’s house to husband’s to lend her wisdom and insight, spiritual and physical giftings to advancing the Most High’s call on a certain son of His.

Our young men do not know the value of a woman, nor his responsibility to each niqeivah he humbles; to cover and serve her, teaching her all things that the most High has taught him, and making her the excellence of his perfection in Yahweh. That woman every man so desires doesn’t come ready made-she is his reflection; as the earth personified, she will bear the fruit of every seed he sows within her. For every enjoyment he wishes to receive from her, every good fruit he wishes to savor, he must first plant the seed, cultivate and tend it through seasons of growth to finally revel in the harvest. Our young men know not the magnitude of their seed; the means by which a man can himself create beings in his image, after his likeness. The seed of a man represents the ability to build a clan, every man has it within him to be a father of a nation!

So, coming back to the initial question: How do I begin? I think a more pertinent question is “when should I begin?”

Proverbs 13:24 tells us he who spares his rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him promptly.

The Hebrew word they translate as ‘discipline’ is yasar meaning to restrain and set limits, restricting, disciplining, setting values, influencing toward a goal, correcting.

 The word they translate as ‘promptly’ is shachar, which means ‘seeking bright future’ and ‘dawn breaking’.

So we are to begin restraining our children, setting values for them and influencing them toward a goal from the dawn of their life; as soon as they come out of the womb into this phase of their existence.

We are responsible to begin molding their character and understanding of life from the moment they come out of the womb. They are blank slates when they come out, they know nothing of life except for having inherited a rebellious nature that we are charged with curbing.

Everything they become is a pure reflection of what we allow into their lives; every child up to the age of accountability (12 years old) is, from heaven’s perspective, a direct result of what their parents put into, required from or allow to touch them.

Discipline is the beginning or first step of education, not the ABC’s. Just FYI, did you know it only takes about 200 hours to pass on the skills of reading, writing and arithmetic to an eager and willing student?

So first things first: the first word every healthy child can learn to obey (they don’t need to learn to talk early-they have nothing substantial to contribute anyway 😉 Plus they have two eyes and two ears but only one mouth-reason: they need to observe and listen twice as much as talk) is NO.

Discipline is a response to a certain stimulus: rebellion. Ergo discipline begins when rebellion begins.

‘When is that?’ you may ask. Well if we allow the Most High to teach us Himself, and abandon everything the world has ever taught us about raising children, we will see that from very early on a child shows his nature. When he/she is fed and warm and changed and has been loved on, is now sleepy and irritable…put that baby down in his bed and most young ones (months old) will cry and throw a fit. The world teaches us to cater to that, telling us ‘he’s just a baby’; and so in following their advice we pick him up to ‘soothe him’ we carry him around (or drive him around) till he falls asleep and then like servants desperately trying not to wake the master, contort ourselves to put him down gently so as to not ‘waken the cracken’ (because that term just fits so well here). And so from the child’s infancy we the parents bind ourselves in the shackles of catering to the whims of a selfishly-inclined individual, and strengthen him in his rebellious way. The truth may be harsh, nonetheless it will set us free.

But I have seen and can attest that when we don’t cater to him and his ignorantly, unintentional, self-destructive nature, when he/she is forced to conform to the environment he is born into and not vice-versa, he will. And words cannot describe the swell of joy and pride in a son or daughter who, from a tender age, is a functional, enjoyable, growing part of the family. When they stop crying themselves to sleep because they realized it doesn’t work and so just gurgle adorably till they sleep, or when you can call your 6-month old to you and he will crawl over to you every time, not only for a treat, but because he knows to disobey means a painful consequence… I believe children disciplined have an advantage, as far as reasoning from an early age is concerned-they have to think through the consequences of their actions.

There is a manual for child rearing, it’s called the Scriptures and it works for every single child. To sum it all up the instructions are these:

  1. Be fruitful and multiply
  2. With those children teach them everything you know of the Father, when you walk by the way, when you sit in your house, when you lie down and when you rise up. Habituate them in the way of Purpose, teach them who they are, why they exist, give them identity (it is not something they ought to go out looking for on their own).
  3. Fathers, living out every principle you teach and the disciplining of the seeds you create is on you. Mothers, we are to impart the Torah (instructions/teachings of Yahweh) to our young sons and daughters, which presumes that the parents know the instructions.
  4. When you see rebellion discipline it with the rod, the Hebrew word literally is a branch (not time-outs, not grounding them, not having them write things on the blackboard, or yelling at them, only the rod. And it works, with every child)
  5. Woven subtly into the text of this manual is the love, affection and affirmation every child requires. That part never had to be said explicitly, it was an automatic prerequisite to all the rest, in today’s world though it bears mentioning.

Gen 18:19, Deut 8:5, 11:19, Psa 127:3-4, Psa 144:12, Prov 3:11-12, 13:24, 22:6&15, 23:13-14, 24:13 23:24, 29:15&17, Eph 6:1-4, Gal 4:1, Heb 12:5-11

Yahweh our Powers gave us the ability to create eternal beings.

We as His people are the only way humanity will experience His meeting of needs, His satisfying of objective justice, and His harmonizing and setting things in order. Each child we have is an opportunity to raise up one whose mind is freed from the shackles of this present darkness, one who can influence others toward fulfilling purpose and re-establishing tsadiq – objective justice. In order to realize this we have to do things His way, no mixing and syncretizing the world’s system with Kingdom requirements, it’s got to be 100% raw, without admixture, the eternal path. Let us whittle the arrows in our hands and make sure they stand tall and fly straight. If we but stand fast, holding true our aim, we have the weapons that will bring down this illusionary system of entrapment, and establish His reign as it stands in the heavens here on earth!

Shalom

A First Piece of History…

To know what has led to our current decadent state of life, we must first comprehend life’s initially intended design, and then we will know where we deviated; only then can we begin to walk the path back to purpose.

From antiquity:

A covenant is made, an eternal bond sealed; in a single moment of intense pleasure, a seed is deposited deep within the matrix of a woman. As it was mindfully designed, seed meets egg, and a combination of DNA, sinews and character traits begins to take shape in the image of the Author of life. And so the first step of this existential journey is embarked upon:

Development

Hands, feet, and internal organs begin to form. At the time of life, mother’s body will instinctively transpose the being that in nine months has grown too large for his surroundings. When the child is born, his Designer will have prepared him fully for the next stage of existence:

Learning

A few things are fully functional when a child is born, some of them being his ears, and nose – tools for absorbing information, learning; and his thymus (the seat of his immune system) is well able to mount a defense against any viral or bacterial attack on his newly exposed body.  

From learning the smell of nourishment, warmth and comfort (we call that Mom) to recognizing the sound and the feel of security (Daddy’s deep voice and strong chest), that child is learning a mile a minute from the moment he is born. And that doesn’t change; he will interact with the world around him through his senses, seeing, touching hearing, tasting and smelling. His curiosity is the tool given to ensure a constant addition to his mental information bank. Once he is able to move, well, that catalyzes his education in leaps and bounds.

And so it goes on; mimicry: he learns how and when he should respond to a certain stimulus from watching his parents and older siblings. The “why” is understood much later. As he proves competent he is given, much to his proud delight, tasks of his own. He understands his role as part of the home. He has an established position and need look no further for affirmation; he is his father’s beloved son and helper / co-protector of mom (his personal one-woman cheerleading squad). He will grow this way, ever aspiring to manhood; to be a fully functional, contributing member, first of house then community.

A daughter in the family grows showered with affection, affirmation, and protection from her father and older brothers. She embraces and basks in her role as an indispensible pair of hands to help mom, her admired, esteemed and loved aspiration. She is ever assured of an unshakeable position in her father’s heart. She knows she is precious and thus to be protected. This to her is not a belittlement, it is the self-evident order of things; what is precious is not flaunted, rather to be honored, it is concealed, not paraded; only worthy eyes may look upon that which is most treasured. She knows she must be strong, for one day she will be a helper for one like-yet-opposite of her. She yearns for the day she can play her part and do the one thing she alone in all of creation can do: to host and birth eternal souls; her part in being fruitful and multiplying the human family.

Testing – Nothing substitutes for time and grade to know the true mettle of a man.

Then comes puberty. By this time he is a dependable worker. His wholistic education has prepared him for life – how to farm, how to build, how to tend the herds, how to fight. Being a young warrior, he contributes greatly to the family economy and is a ready, able hand should a defense be needed against a threat to the family. With every well-done task he establishes his reputation, his name, in the community. With the trust he has earned comes responsibility and he begins to prepare his outside work, and make it fit for himself in the field; into adulthood he will accumulate his wealth – true wealth was, until recently redefined, having land, productive land that yields the plant food necessary for sustenance, as well as livestock (before it turned into just “stocks” and bonds). The ultimate fulfillment of his manhood will be when he initiates and grows a family (house) of his own, and that is his ultimate aspiration. And so he will work his land, prepare his outside work until such time as he is mature and established enough (usually around 30-40 years old, when he understands the meaning of life and can pass that on to one just beginning the walk of purpose) to take on the responsibility of another soul, a woman, a complement of his spirit to perpetuate the cycle that brought about his existence.

She will come to him young and pure, thrilled to begin her own adventure of being full grown; not just to help care for the children of others but to finally have her own…it’s been her desire since the first time she put her hand on her mother’s belly swollen with child and felt her little sister kick… now it’s her turn.

As is organically woven into her being, she will love him, not only for the care, attention and understanding he shows her, but because the first time they become one in body, their souls will be interwoven. Now she is his extension, responsibility, and pillar of support, and he her stable foundation, guide and protector. Together they begin again the succession of life, him providing for and protecting his family and her nurturing and educating the heirs of life they create to carry on in all that is functional for the perpetuation of the human family.

This sequence of events would never have stopped had there not been an unseen hand orchestrating events and legislature to deviate and hinder humanity from living out our initial purpose…

Mindset

I look down at the young faces before me, bright, eager eyes are fastened on me waiting with baited breath for the next words that will come out of my mouth; one little girl has her mouth hanging open, heart racing, waiting to hear what will happen to little David with the giant bearing down on him…

It’s story time in our homeschool, and my favorite part of class, a time to instill morals and the Scriptural outlook on life. The assortment of children sitting at my feet range from a feisty little 2 year-old, to a calm and reserved 13 year-old. All different walks of life are represented in the group before me, but one thing is the same about them all; they are all sponges, eager to learn, naïve and therefore an open book, waiting to be written in, little seeds carried on whatever winds blow into their life. And I like a military strategist have in my hand the raw materials to create a  much-needed revolution. Looking through those little eyes into the souls forming before me I see the power of change in the palm of my hand. All it ever took to begin a revolution, or turn the tide of history was one individual, given to his goal/ purpose, one individual to stand out, move against the flow and stand up to oppression, violence and gangsterism…and here before me, were 12!

“Like arrows in the hand of a warrior so are the children of one’s youth.”

Because, you see, when we say “we homeschool our children” we do not mean that we are bringing the mainstream education into our home, no. Rather, that we are preparing the individuals who will stand up to wickedness and oppose the status quo that rules in favor of the few.

Our children will be able to do this because they know no other way. We immerse them in what is functional, guard them from what is not, and when they are older, it will be their nature to make corrections, to meet needs, and defend those who cannot defend themselves.

 “Habituate a child upon the mouth of his way, and when he is old he will never depart from it.”

So I must conclude when people say phrases like “a simple housewife” or “our girls need to aspire to a life greater than that of a mere housewife”, that there is a mis-understanding of the magnitude of the task of making a house a home, a home into a king’s palace; and nurturing and educating the eternal souls we bring into existence. Not only is that vocation completely fulfilling and satisfying, but through it we have the chance to bring about change, to bring about the genesis of the exodus from our current mentally subjugated existence, so we can return to fulfilling purpose, and living as our Creator intended.

My name is Mikhaelah Zeigler, and I am a homeschooling mom.