A Bird’s Eye View of the Passover, Part 8

(You can find the other parts of the story here.)

Daniel, the Crowned Eagle, gives his view on the final plague and the parting of the sea:

 

Today has been the saddest day I’ve ever witnessed. As I flew from one end of Egypt to the other, I heard the sound of mothers weeping, fathers crying, brothers and sisters wailing.

One single man hardened his heart toward the Lord and believed he was a god. The king of Egypt, Pharaoh himself, hardened his heart, and because of his stubbornness all the firstborn children in Egypt died. You never know how many people will be affected by a single hardened heart.

Today has been the happiest day I’ve ever witnessed. As I flew from Egypt to Goshen, I saw all the Hebrew slaves rejoicing. Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, summoned Moses, the prophet of the Lord, and declared that all the Hebrew slaves would be free—forever free from their slavery to the Egyptians.

I wheel down from my course through the sky to hear their praises. I love to hear all of creation praise the Lord, especially those who had been downtrodden.

As I come closer, I hear the Hebrews discuss the amazing events among themselves.

An old man speaks to his grandson. “We took the lamb, the perfect, one year old lamb, and we slaughtered it as the sun went down. We smeared the blood of the lamb on two sides of the door and on the top of the door. We ate the roasted meat with unleavened bread. And while we ate, the Lord delivered us. Not one of our children died because we obeyed! This night the Lord kept vigil to bring us out of the land of Egypt! Praise the Lord that I lived to see this day!”

“Are we really free, Grandfather?” the boy asks.

“We are really free, Joshua!”

“Praise the Lord,” the boy whispers. “Praise the Lord!”

The whole nation walks away free. My heart is elated by what the Lord has done for them! I follow this magnificent procession as they walk through the desert to the Red Sea.

Why has the Lord brought them here? What will He do next?

The Israelites build camp by the sea.

I catch my dinner from the crags of the rocks nearby and perch close to see what will happen.

My eagle eye catches what the Hebrews cannot see. Pharaoh, with 600 of his chariot and hundreds of soldiers, are riding and marching across the desert. The Israelites are trapped! I leave my half-eaten dinner to fly through the sky and cry out a warning to them. Some of the Israelites sound the warning trumpets. Everyone is in a panic.

Everyone, that is, except Moses. “Stop being afraid!” he says. “Stand your ground, for you will see how the Lord will save you!”

Moses lifts his staff and reaches his hand out over the sea.

A cloud stands before the Israelites, a pillar of brightness and beauty like the glory of the Lord. Behind the Israelites there was a cloud of great darkness and fire. The Egyptians didn’t come near the Israelites.

A strong east wind blows all night long. By the light of the moon and the light of the stars I see that a path has formed—right in the middle of the Sea!

The people of Israel, all of them, walk straight through the Red Sea on dry ground.

That cloud of darkness and fire lifts. I am glad I stayed on this side of the sea long enough to see the surprise on their faces. Who before has ever seen the sea part in two?

Pharaoh, in his rage, orders his army to follow the Israelites. He wants his slaves back.

But God wants them to be free.

All the chariot wheels stick in the mud while they’re in the middle of the sea.

Moses once again reaches his hand out over the sea, and the water returned to where it was before.

Moses and the Israelites rejoiced so loudly that I heard them from across the sea:

I will sing to the Lord,
for he is highly exalted.
Both horse and driver
he has hurled into the sea.

“The Lord is my strength and my defense;
he has become my salvation.
He is my God, and I will praise him,
my father’s God, and I will exalt him.

~ Exodus 15:1-2

* For those who think this may have just been ankle deep water that Moses and the Israelites crossed, how much of a miracle was it that the entire Egyptian army drowned in 6 inches of water? Just something to consider.

A Bird’s Eye View of the Passover Story, part 5

A Bird’s Eye View of the Passover part 5

A Rosefinch sees the Burning Bush

Wonder of wonders! Gideon the Rosefinch thought as he flew to the ground in the midst of a flock of sheep and a flock of his brother and sister Rosefinches. My Maker, the King of the Universe, is talking to that man from out of that fiery bush! And the fire is doing no harm to the bush.

As he heard the Lord’s voice, Gideon stopped gathering food, he stopped his chirping and he stood very still. Even an Eagle had soared in from high in the sky and stayed still on a branch. Gideon’s brothers and sisters sounded no alarm songs. No one feared anything on that mountain. They had nothing to fear except the Lord. And He had just declared who He was to a man named Moses. Then He told Moses He was going to free the Israelites!

Who were the Israelites?

Oh, that’s right. Gideon heard one flock who flew from Egypt tell about the Israelites. They were slaves. They served the Egyptians with no hope of escape.

But God was going to free them! And He was going to send that shepherd named Moses.

Moses answered, “What if they do not believe me or listen to me and say, ‘The Lord did not appear to you’?”

Then the Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand?”

“A staff,” he replied.

The Lord said, “Throw it on the ground.”

Moses threw it on the ground and it became a snake, and he ran from it. Then the Lord said to him, “Reach out your hand and take it by the tail.” So Moses reached out and took hold of the snake and it turned back into a staff in his hand. “This,” said the Lord, “is so that they may believe that the Lord, the God of their fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has appeared to you.”

Then the Lord said, “Put your hand inside your cloak.” So Moses put his hand into his cloak, and when he took it out, the skin was leprous—it had become as white as snow.

“Now put it back into your cloak,” he said. So Moses put his hand back into his cloak, and when he took it out, it was restored, like the rest of his flesh.

Then the Lord said, “If they do not believe you or pay attention to the first sign, they may believe the second. But if they do not believe these two signs or listen to you, take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground. The water you take from the river will become blood on the ground.”

Moses said to the Lord, “Pardon your servant, Lord. I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue.”

The Lord said to him, “Who gave human beings their mouths? Who makes them deaf or mute? Who gives them sight or makes them blind? Is it not I, the Lord? Now go; I will help you speak and will teach you what to say.”

But Moses said, “Pardon your servant, Lord. Please send someone else.”

Then the Lord’s anger burned against Moses and he said, “What about your brother, Aaron the Levite? I know he can speak well. He is already on his way to meet you, and he will be glad to see you. You shall speak to him and put words in his mouth; I will help both of you speak and will teach you what to do. He will speak to the people for you, and it will be as if he were your mouth and as if you were God to him. But take this staff in your hand so you can perform the signs with it.”

Gideon never saw anything like that before. If he’d never stopped to observe, he would have never seen anything like that again.

The Eagle and the Burning Bush, A Bird’s Eye View of the Passover Story, Part 4

This is one of my very favorite passages of scripture, Exodus 3. Here, God reveals Himself as the LORD, and shares with Moses His heart for His people, Israel. It also shows how He feels about slavery. My daughter usually has a LOT of questions about this chapter, and I let her ask away. I wrote this adaptation for homeschool because she LOVES birds. While I read the story, I let her color a picture of a golden eagle.

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

A Bird’s Eye View of the Passover Story Part 4

The Eagle and the Burning Bush

As she soared through the sky, Deborah the Golden Eagle spied bush on fire on the mountains below. A gray-haired shepherd suddenly turned aside from his flock to gaze at this burning bush. Deborah eyed a wandering lamb in the flock. It would be easy prey while the shepherd looked at this fire. Then something within her said ‘stop’. The warning to stop was so strong. Maybe it was an angel that spoke it.

Deborah calmed her appetite and glided toward a tree near the bush. She landed on a thick branch and tucked her seven foot wing span behind her. She sat quietly and watched.

This was strange: the bush was on fire but none of the leaves or branches burned up. No wonder the shepherd turned aside to look at this!

Then a voice spoke from the bush. “Moses! Moses!”

The shepherd timidly spoke out, “Here I am.”

“Take off your sandals, for the place on which you stand is holy ground.”

Moses the shepherd obeyed quickly.

The voice spoke again saying, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.” At this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God.

The Lord said, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey… And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.”

But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”

And God said, “I will be with you. And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship God on this mountain.”

Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what shall I tell them?”

God said to Moses, “I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I am has sent me to you.’”

God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’

“This is my name forever,
the name you shall call me
from generation to generation.

“Go, assemble the elders of Israel and say to them, ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob—appeared to me and said: I have watched over you and have seen what has been done to you in Egypt. And I have promised to bring you up out of your misery in Egypt into the land … flowing with milk and honey.’

“The elders of Israel will listen to you. Then you and the elders are to go to the king of Egypt and say to him, ‘The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Let us take a three-day journey into the wilderness to offer sacrifices to the Lord our God.’ But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go unless a mighty hand compels him. So I will stretch out my hand and strike the Egyptians with all the wonders that I will perform among them. After that, he will let you go…”

Deborah curled her talons around the tree branch and waited with bated breath. Her Maker, the Lord, was speaking. What would He say next? And how would He free His people, the Hebrews, from slavery?

A Bird’s Eye View of the Passover Story, part 2

Here’s a continuation of the story I wrote as part of my daughter’s homeschool curriculum. You can find Part 1 HERE

Part 2

Baby in the River

Boaz flew as fast as he could to the Nile River. He did not see Jochebed, Miriam or the baby in the basket, but he did see Ehud, the ringed-plover. Ehud was digging for insects and worms in the mud beside the river.

“Did you see anything peculiar?” Boaz asked Ehud.

“I have seen sad things today,” Ehud said. “Pharaoh’s soldiers have done awful things.”

“Have you seen a mother and daughter carrying a basket?” Boaz asked.

“Hush!” Ehud said. “Someone’s coming!”

As Ehud scurried under the reeds, Boaz flew to a nearby branch and watched.

It was none other than Jochebed and Miriam walking toward the river. Jochebed carried the large basket in her arms. Inside the basket, the baby cried softly.

Jochebed stepped through the reeds until she reached the clear bank of the river.

“What is she doing?” Ehud asked. “Doesn’t she know that crocodiles live in this river?”

Jochebed set the basket in the river, the basket that carried her baby. As the current carried the basket downstream, Jochebed wiped tears from her eyes. “Miriam,” she said to her daughter, “follow the river to see where the basket goes.”

The little girl ran as fast as she could, all the while keeping a close eye on her brother’s basket floating in the Nile.

Ehud fluttered about in the reeds as if he would cry. “What will happen? She’s running toward Pharaoh’s palace!”

“Be calm and trust in God,” Boaz said. “God will deliver that boy.”

“Fly, Boaz,” Ehud said, “fly to the palace and tell my friend Peleg, the ibis, that this baby is coming his way.”

Boaz took to the air before Ehud even finished speaking.

*

Peleg the sacred ibis waded in the shallows beside the palace steps, giving orders to the flock about him.

“You three must watch for predators! You four make sure no one gets too close to those palace steps! And the rest of you, watch the young ones while you catch the fish and frogs!”

Nearby, Pharaoh’s daughter and her servant girls waded in waters near the steps. All of them giggled and splashed and played like children, even though the princess was already a mother.

A barn swallow flew over the Nile. “Peleg!” he cried out. “I need to find Peleg!”

The ibis stepped away from his flock and looked up at this barn swallow. “What is it, little bird, and what has you flying so far from your nest during hatching season?”

“My name is Boaz,” the barn swallow said. “There is a basket in the river. Please, you must help me keep it safe!”

Peleg gave Boaz a stern look. “What is in this basket?”

“It’s a baby,” Boaz said. “A Hebrew baby boy.”

Peleg fluttered his wings as he gasped. “I see the basket now. It’s headed straight for the steps of the palace, right in the midst of the princess and all her servants. You fly home to your mate and your children. The ibis will take it from here.”

“But what can you do?” Boaz asked.

“What can any of us do but trust in God?”

As Boaz flew away, the basket floated right toward Pharaoh’s daughter.

Peleg turned toward his flock. “Whatever happens, we must not startle and we must not fly away quickly. The princess needs to open this basket.”

The whole flock hushed as the princess gave a gasp.

“What is this?” she asked.

Before any of her servant girls answered, the princess had pulled the basket from the river and opened the lid.

She gave a wide smile. “A baby! A beautiful baby boy! I will raise him as my own. I will name him Moses because I drew him out of the river.”

Suddenly, a small girl pushed her way through the reeds into the water. “Excuse me, your highness, excuse me! Do you need someone to care for that baby?”

The princess looked at all her servant girls and then at the small Hebrew slave girl at the riverbank. “Yes,” she said, “yes I do need someone to care for this baby.”

*

Boaz stopped on a branch and waited. The ibis said he would take care of things, but Boaz still stayed. He hoped to have a good report to bring back to Dinah.

He watched as Miriam asked the princess if she needed help. Then he watched as Miriam ran back up stream to her mother.

“Mama! Pharaoh’s daughter wants you to help care for the baby! Come quick! Come and see Moses!”

Boaz flew off to see Dinah, both to tell her the news and to help her with their own babies.

…to be continued…

A Bird’s Eye View of the Passover – part 1

Hi everyone, and especially you brave homeschooling moms! Here’s something I’ve been putting together for school with my five year old. She absolutely loves birds, and talks about them for hours, so I’ve incorporated them into the curriculum. I’m presenting 1-2 stories a week from Exodus, told in a very gentle way so she can learn without nightmares (always a goal on my part). She’s been telling her friends about the Exodus story, and about these stories I wrote for her. I read the bird version, and then the original so she knows the history. Without further ado, here’s the first part of A Bird’s Eye View of the Passover:

A Bird’s Eye View of the Passover Story

Part 1

The Birth of the Boy

Dinah the barn swallow returned to her nest in the eaves of the house when she heard a sound that startled her. The sound startled her so much she dropped her little piece of straw. From inside the house came the sound of a baby’s cry.

Three days ago, Dinah had heard sad news from a swan who lived near Pharaoh’s palace. Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, had given a command to have all the Hebrew baby boys killed.

Dinah fluttered to the window of the small house and peered inside. The mother looked tired and happy and worried all at the same time. The father paced the floor.

“Amram, do not worry,” the mother said to the father. “God will give us wisdom.”

“Will we be able to hide him from the soldiers, Jochebed?” the father asked.

“Look, he is quiet now,” the mother said. “And he is a beautiful baby.”

“I’ve never seen a lovelier baby,” the father said. “You are right—God will give us wisdom. Shall we bring Aaron and Miriam in to meet their brother?”

The mother’s face beamed. “Yes!”

Although Dinah worried for this human baby, she had to check up on him later. She had her own babies to think about, and a nest to finish so she could house them.

 [Right here I put in
a picture of a barn swallow.
I don't have a royalty-free picture of a
barn swallow, unfortunately.]

Dinah’s nest was all built with straw and mud, and day after day she sat on her eggs to keep them warm. While she’d been building her nest, she saw the Hebrew men using the same materials she had used, straw and hay, to make bricks for Pharaoh.

Dinah sat on her nest and listened to the lullabies Jochebed would sing to her son. Boaz, Dinah’s mate, would bring her bugs while she waited for her eggs to hatch. Every time a soldier passed by the house, Boaz and Dinah did their best to distract him. But Jochebed’s baby was so pleasant and hardly ever cried.

One day, Amram and Jochebed’s daughter, Miriam, brought home an armful of reeds and a basket filled with pitch. Pitch is a dark mud that is used to make boats airtight so they won’t leak.

“That’s perfect, Miriam,” Jochebed said. “Now you set those down and sit here with the baby while I work.”

Dinah couldn’t pay any more attention to them—her eggs had begun to hatch! One by one, the baby barn swallows emerged from their eggs. Dinah began to understand, just a little, how Jochebed could feel tired and happy and worried all at once. Now she had lots of work to do—she had to feed those barn swallow babies.

Dinah and Boaz made dozens of trips every day to find food for their little ones. Each time she returned, Dinah glanced in the window at Jochebed working. This mother used the reeds and pitch to make a large basket, large enough to hold a small child.

“It’s finished,” Jochebed said sadly one day. “Miriam, place him in the basket.”

The little girl kissed the baby’s forehead and set him inside the basket. “Don’t worry, Mama. God will take care of him.”

Jochebed smiled at her daughter. “Will you come with me to the river?”

Dinah fluttered impatiently as she waited for Boaz to return with food for their little ones. When she saw him, she explained what she heard the mother say.

“You stay and feed our babies,” Boaz said. “I will follow them to the river.”

…to be continued…

As soon as we finished the story, I gave my daughter a coloring page of a barn swallow. When she finished coloring, she acted out the story with me. This was one of our best homeschool days.

And if you have any older readers in your house (10+) I have a YA Fantasy book that is free on the Kindle this week.

Similarities Between Exodus and Revelation, Part 3

It’s been over a year since I wrote part 2, but ever since  I wrote part 2 I’ve been praying about how and when to write part 3. Then today, as I as reading Hosea 2, I saw it.

The parallels between Revelation 12 and Exodus 16-19 are strong, but I’d never seen them before. It took reading through Hosea 2 to see this.

Okay, let me unpack this. I hope I do it well!

Revelation 12:6 “The woman fled into the wilderness to a place prepared for her by God, where she might be taken care of for 1,260 days.”

The Israelites were led into the wilderness, this woman fled into the wilderness, but God had prepared a place for her, and God was going before them. In both instances, His will was to provide for them.

In Exodus, God provided manna, quail, water that had been bitter turned sweet, water from springs, even water from a rock.

In Exodus 19:, God had this to say to the Israelites:

I bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself.

Revelation 12:14 has this peculiarly parallel verse:

The woman was given the two wings of a great eagle, so that she might fly to the place prepared for her in the wilderness

But it’s not the same. In the first instance, God bears them on eagles’ wings and brings them to Himself. In the second instance the woman has the eagle’s wings.

Follow me for a second here, and if, after you’ve read through it, you disagree with me, I’d love to hear your point of view. But this is what I felt the Lord was showing me.

In Exodus, God was manifesting Himself to the Israelites with outward signs. If the woman in Revelation 12 is a picture of the Church, then in the last days God will be manifesting Himself through His people. Which is why she has the wings and can fly. It’s the Lord through her.

The Man-child (Jesus) is taken up to heaven, but she is not. She’s in the wilderness for 1,260 days, the amount of time discussed in other places as being the duration of the Great Tribulation.

Later this week we’ll be celebrating the Feast of the Tabernacles. There are 5 commanded feasts (plus one fast) the Israelites kept. There are three feast in the spring:

Pesach (Passover), Waving of the Sheaves (First Fruits), and Shavout (Pentecost, Feast of Weeks).

These feasts were fulfilled in Christ’s first coming. He was the Passover Lamb and the First Born of the dead (the First Fruit). Shavout was fulfilled in the coming of the Holy Spirit. It was originally meant to celebrate the giving of the Law on Mount Sinai. Now we have the Law written in our hearts.

The other two feasts, the fall feasts, the Feast of Trumpets and the Feast of Tabernacles, are pictures of the end of the age, the End Times. God gave these feasts so we would practice and be prepared for when the time came. The Feast of Trumpets is about marshaling and preparing, being alert, awaiting the coming of the Bridegroom, and bringing food to the Lord (maybe so it can be distributed like the five loaves and 2 fish were?). We’re not told many specifics about the Feast of Trumpets, but we are told specifics about the Feast of Tabernacles. It was to remind us of how God protected people in the wilderness and provided for them every step of the way. For seven days, people were to dwell in booths. Temporary dwellings. This was to remind them of how the Israelites lived in tents or booths in the desert between slavery and the Promise Land.

I know that after we give our lives to the Lord we live as aliens on the earth, and this feast is a picture of that. But what if it’s also a picture of how life will be for the Church at the end of the age? What if we’re to be in the desert, in temporary dwellings, and the Feast of Tabernacles, or Feast of Booths, is rehearsal for that?

Heaven is paradise, not a desert. So why is the woman brought into the desert? What if we’re not raptured out of here beforehand but are presented before the world as witnesses of His glory? Protected by His glory. Faithful witnesses, just like Jesus was. Jesus, who “tabernacled among us” (John 1:14).

The literal translation of Psalm 84:1 is: “How lovely are your dwelling places,” or “How lovely are your tabernacles.” And the Psalm goes on:

5 Blessed are those whose strength is in you,
whose hearts are set on pilgrimage.
⁶ As they pass through the Valley of Baka [desert region, literally 'valley of weeping'],
they make it a place of springs;
the autumn rains also cover it with pools.
⁷ They go from strength to strength,
till each appears before God in Zion.

(emphasis mine)

In this world we will have trouble, but take heart–Jesus has overcome the world! And He is coming back for us.

Many have very strong thoughts on this subject; I do like to hear them.

All I ask is you keep it friendly

Similarities Between Exodus and Revelation, Part 2

I hope this encourages you to look these passages up!

The second similarity I see between Exodus and Revelation? The sea of glass.

In Revelation 4:6, we are introduced to the ‘sea of glass’ that is before the throne of God. This ‘sea’ also shows up in Rev. 15:2, where it is mingled with fire.

This ‘sea of glass,’ when seen from heaven, is as clear as crystal.

But has it ever been seen from earth?

I’m going to suggest yes, but it looks different.

In Exodus 24:9-11, God invites the leaders of Israel to join Moses up on the mountain. It’s very likely that 75 people were there to witness this scene: Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, the 70 elders, and Joshua who simply wouldn’t leave the Lord’s presence (see v. 13). While on the mountain, they saw the God of Israel. Under His feet was a pavement of sapphire (sometimes translated as ‘lapis lazuli’) that was as blue as the sky. They saw this pavement as blue from below, but if they were standing in front of the throne I wonder if it would be as clear as crystal.

We see this example in nature: astronauts also see the earth as clear as crystal, but when we look up during the day we see only blue sky. Also, when we look at a large body of water it looks blue, but if we were looking up from inside the water we wouldn’t see blue but clear.

But if the sea of glass is the pavement of sapphire, why is this important?

After the Israelite leaders saw the Lord they ate and drank (a picture of communion). But they were still separated from the Lord.

In Rev. 21:1 it says that there is no more sea. In other words, there is no firmament separating heaven and earth, God and man. He makes all things new!

There are a few other places in the Old Testament where the pavement of sapphire is mentioned, but I’m going to leave that up to you to find. (Hint–look in Ezekiel.)

Also, if you note anything interesting in the passages, feel free to share!

Happy Sunday to you!

 

See Part 3 here.

Similarities between Exodus and Revelation, Part 1

As I promised in a different post, I’ll discuss the similarities between Exodus and Revelation.

Before I dive in, I want to bring up a verse from Hebrews. God’s word is alive and active. I’m not bringing up these similarities to say, ‘Hey, look how well I read.’ (Most of what you’ll read I learned from other teachers and studied myself to make sure it’s there.) Neither is this to say, ‘Look how the bible all ties together.’ Although that is really cool.

I believe God is showing something essential in the similarities between Exodus and Revelation, something that some of us, if not all of us, will need for our lives. And the lives of those around us.

One of the first similarities that pops out to most people is how one of the two witnesses in Revelation 11 bears a remarkable resemblance to Moses. He turns the water to blood and strikes the earth with plagues as often as he sees fit. We better hope this guy is like Moses if we’re alive when he is. Moses was reluctant to do anything unless the Lord instructed him to, and more often than not Moses swung to the mercy side of the pendulum.

Rev. 16, the chapter about the bowls of wrath, is another place where there are a number of similarities to the plagues on Egypt in Exodus 7-12. Here are a few:

• Sores on people’s skin.
• Water turns to blood.
• Darkness.
• Terrible storm with huge hail. In Revelation, the hail is 100lbs. each.

These are several examples for right now. But don’t take my word for it–go look it up and prove me right or wrong.

See part 2 here.

See part 3 here.