WITHOUT WALLS, IN PLAIN SIGHT

THERE EXISTED A PRISON WITHOUT WALLS LONG AGO IN A LAND CALLED EGYPT.  WITHOUT WALLS, I SAY, BECAUSE OUTSIDE OF A FEW TASKMASTERS TO PUMMEL AWAY ANY AMBITIONS WHATSOEVER, THE HEBREW SLAVES WERE NO MORE CHARGED TO BREAK THE HERD TOWARD FREEDOM THAN SHEEP.  HOW COULD IT BE?  COULD IT BE THAT ONCE, LONG AGO, WHEN A FAMOUS RELATIVE OF THEIRS [JOSEPH], SAVED THE DAY BY WAY OF A DREAM AND BECAME A NATIONAL FIGURE, THEY THOUGHT EGYPT WAS NOW THEIR PRIZED-POSSESSION!  DID THEY THINK THAT THEY WOULD RIDE THE COAT-TAILS OF JOSEPH IN INFAMY.  NO DOUBT, THEY WERE WELCOMED AND TREATED WELL FOR AWHILE.  THEY GREW AND PROSPERED AS A PEOPLE. THEY LIVED UNDER THE PROTECTION OF PHAROAH.  THEY WERE ABLE TO KEEP TO THEMSELVES AND PRESERVE THEIR CULTURE AND HERITAGE.  THEY KNEW THEIR FATHER WAS ABRAHAM AND THEY KNEW EGYPT WAS NOT THEIR HOMELAND.  HOWEVER, THEY SEEMED WILLING TO STAY AS CITIZENS FOREVER, CONTENT EVEN.  NOT A TRACE OF MOTIVATION TO SEEK GOD OR HIS LAND OR HIS WAYS OR HIS GOVERNMENT OR HIS FACE.  UNTIL.  UNTIL IT FINALLY HAPPENED! 

YEAH, A NEW PHAROAH.  HE DIDN'T LIKE WHAT HE SAW, SO HE CHANGED THE LAW.  SLAVERY.  KEEP THE MASSES TAME LIKE SHEEP.  DRIVE THEM HARD WITH LABOR, LIKE CATTLE.  MAKE THEM FORGET THEY ARE A GREAT PEOPLE!  MAKE THEM FORGET THAT THERE IS STRENGTH IN NUMBERS!  MAKE THEM SCRAPE AND FIGHT AMONGST EACH OTHER TO VALIDATE THEIR MEAGER EXISTENCE.  LET SURVIVAL BE THE ONLY FOCUS THEY CAN MUSTER UP!  MAKE THEM FEEL THAT THIS IS ALL THERE IS TO LIFE!  THAT THERE IS NO ONE TO SAVE THEM FROM IT!  NO HOPE.  NO ESTEEM.  CAN YOU BELIEVE IT, THAT ALL THE WHILE, THERE WERE NO WALLS TO HOLD THEM?  THEY WERE A 'NUMBified' PEOPLE WELL PRESERVED IN FEAR, AFRAID TO STIR.  YET MOSES WALKED OFF THAT VERY SAME LAND AND NOT ONE FROM PHAROAH'S ARMY PURSUED!  40 YEARS LATER, AARON, HIS BROTHER DID THE SAME WHEN HE WENT SEARCHIN FOR HIS BROTHER, AND STILL NO ONE PURSUED.  AND IF AARON KNEW WHERE TO FIND MOSES, SO DID AN ANGRY PHAROAH....

NOW, LET'S FAST FORWARD TO TODAY:

...I WANT TO BUILD MORE PRISONS,
   I WANT TO BUILD MORE PRISONS,
   I WANT TO BUILD MORE PRISONS,
   I WANT TO BUILD MORE PRISONS,
   I WANT TO BUILD MORE PRISONS,
   I WANT TO BUILD MORE PRISONS...[sublime]

THE MIND IS THAT SOUGHT AFTER PRISON, ULTIMATELY.  OUR MODERN TASKMASTERS OF TODAY, PATTERNED AFTER AN ANCIENT AGENDA, STILL DO NOT USE WALLS.  

 SET FREE, LORD.  SET THE MINDS FREE.  OPEN BLIND EYES. LET THE MUTE, SPEAK.  LET THE EARS HEAR AND PERCEIVE WHAT THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH IS SAYING TO THEM.  LORD, LET YOUR PEOPLE KNOW THAT...

this is not a test>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>