Warkworth Castle

Warkworth Castle in Northumberland: once a mighty fortress, now a ruin and a playground for the idle and the curious. Kings have stayed here, wars fought here, dukes plotted here. Shakespeare employed it as a setting for his play Henry IV (both parts). It is no longer a threat to the good villagers of Warkworth, nor is it a deterrent to Scots heading south, nor a threat or support to His Majesty’s government down in London. It is a playground, a stop-off on one of Northumberland’s many tourist trails.

This earth is for most people a place of pain, of toil, of oppression; a platform of illness, disruption and deception.  Yet it will one day become a pleasure garden, a new Eden, the home of peace and harmony when its Creator returns to restore all things. It might now be the scene of Satan's to-ing and fro-ing, and even the location of his throne, but a Greater than he is coming, and better times with Him.

And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness...And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations. Isaiah 16:5 and 61:4