Moses, The Wisdom Of The Egyptians, And Modern Education

Earlier this year, I read an opinion piece that opened with these thought-provoking words. “Imagine a world where your child becomes the child of the state, effectively no longer under your care or influence. Their heart, soul, mind, and body are captured by the state's dictates, philosophy, and immorality. Sadly, if your child attends a K-12 public school, this nightmare is becoming a reality and worsening daily. Through entities like the US Department of Education, the CDC, and influential non-governmental organizations, your role as your child's primary influence and caretaker is being stripped away.

“Like the proverbial frog in the pot, hardly noticing as the heat rises until it's too late, our children are being indoctrinated to align with the state's norms, leaving parents behind as mere spectators in their upbringing.” [1] That thoughtful piece certainly grabbed my attention; I suspect that the words I just cited grab your attention, whether you are a parent or a grandparent; and the words should grab your attention if you are a student or if you are anticipating attending one of our institutions of higher education.

Whatever students are paying for when they enroll in our colleges and universities, or even in our medical schools and law schools, it is increasingly evident that they are not paying for an education. Students in our institutes of higher education are paying to be indoctrinated in modern paganism—indoctrinated in the concepts of DEI and in radical racial politics by people that hate western civilization and the concept of democracy; students are being indoctrinated in a philosophy as old as sin itself, the philosophy that says “power” is the ultimate goal of all life. They are taught that the narrative is greater than the individual ad that all must submit to whatever the current morality is rather than holding the concept of God-given rights of the individual as essential to freedom. Modern students must endure or submit to propaganda in order to even have a hope of receiving an education in modern institutions of higher education.

It is important to always remember that education does not equate to wisdom—not all educated people are wise, nor are all wise people educated. The two concepts—education and wisdom—are not synonymous. Though the Bible never discourages education, it does urge each of us to become ever more wise. The tragedy is that for too many of our contemporaries, education has obscured the pursuit of wisdom. One example of such acts resulting in confusing the two terms is provided as a deacon in the church in Jerusalem reviews the life of Moses.

Stephen, a deacon of the New Beginnings Baptist Church of Jerusalem, was the one presenting the account on that fateful day when he was compelled to stand before the Sanhedrin. At that time, he presented a defence of his own ministry and his life as one who followed the Risen Saviour. Before that august tribunal the first martyr of the church spoke these words.

“At this time Moses was born; and he was beautiful in God’s sight. And he was brought up for three months in his father’s house, and when he was exposed, Pharaoh’s daughter adopted him and brought him up as her own son. And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was mighty in his words and deeds.

“When he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the children of Israel. And seeing one of them being wronged, he defended the oppressed man and avenged him by striking down the Egyptian. He supposed that his brothers would understand that God was giving them salvation by his hand, but they did not understand. And on the following day he appeared to them as they were quarreling and tried to reconcile them, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers. Why do you wrong each other?’ But the man who was wronging his neighbor thrust him aside, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? Do you want to kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?’ At this retort Moses fled and became an exile in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.

“Now when forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush. When Moses saw it, he was amazed at the sight, and as he drew near to look, there came the voice of the Lord: ‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob.’ And Moses trembled and did not dare to look. Then the Lord said to him, ‘Take off the sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground. I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their groaning, and I have come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send you to Egypt.’