Festival of Lights
Why are millions of Christians celebrating Chanukah?
When I was growing up I never even heard of Chanukah. (Properly pronounced K'HA-nu-Kah but usually pronounced HAN-nuk-Kah in America). Today Chanukah is everywhere. There are Chanukah stamps in the post office. There are Chanukah specials on TV by major entertainment companies like Nickelodeon, Disney and PBS. There have been Chanukah movies like "Eight Crazy Nights". There is Chanukah wrapping paper in many stores along with Chanukah gift cards. Many stores like "Bed, Bath and Beyond" have a Chanukah section where you can buy Chanukah paraphernalia needed to celebrate Chanukah. There is also Chanukah decorations that can be placed on a Chanukah bush, Chanukah cookie cutters for making Chanukah sugar cookies and I even saw Chanukah stockings this year.
More than that, millions of Christians have taken to celebrating Chanukah, usually along with Christmas. A few years ago, most of the evangelical Christian homes in Colorado Springs, Colorado had a Chanukiah (a Chanukah candelabra) in their window during Chanukah to show solidarity with their Jewish neighbors.
You may have noticed this sudden appearance of Chanukah and you may have a few questions, particularly concerning Christians celebrating a new holiday that seems to have sprang up suddenly out of nowhere.
When is Chanukah?
Chanukah starts on the 25th day of the month of Kislev on the Jewish calendar. It lasts for eight days and usually begins some time after Thanksgiving in the US (fourth Thursday of November) and usually ends by New Year's Day in the US (January 1). The start date of Chanukah on the Gregorian calendar each year moves around like Easter for pretty much the same reasons.
What is Chanukah?
Chanukah is not a new holiday that was made in America like Kwanza. Chanukah has been celebrated for about 2,200 years by Jews. However Chanukah is not a Jewish Christmas as people sometimes think. The confusion partially arises because Chanukah often overlaps Christmas and is also celebrated on the 25th day of a month. Chanukah is a Jewish holiday that has no direct relation to Christmas other than its timing.
How is Chanukah celebrated?
There are many different traditions for celebrating Chanukah in various places around the world just as there are many different traditions for celebrating Christmas in various places around the world. However, there are some things that are pretty much universal. A Chanukiah (Chanukah Menorah) is placed in the window and a progressive number of candles are lit each night, starting with one candle on the first night and ending with eight candles on the last night. Foods cooked in oil are eating pretty much every meal for all eight days, including special holiday foods like latkes (potato pancakes) and sufganiyot (jelly donuts). Games are played, but especially the Dreidel game where a driedel (a four sided top) is used to gamble for gelt (chocolate coins). And of course, there are also Chanukah songs like Ma'oz Tzur and the Dreidel song.
However as Jews have always done in the Diaspora (scattering) they have been influenced by the surrounding culture as much they have influenced the surrounding culture. In America, Chanukah has been competing with Christmas, just like how everything competes with everything else in America, and Jewish families did not want their children feeling left out when they heard their Gentile friends going on and on and on about how wonderful Christmas is. So they starting giving presents on all eight days. That is also why there are a whole slew of Christmas alternatives like Chanukah bushes decorated with Chanukah ornaments instead of Christmas trees decorated with Christmas ornaments, Chanukah cookies instead of Christmas cookies and Chanukah stockings to hang over the fire place. No wonder people in America sometimes think that Chanukah is a Jewish Christmas.
What is Chanukah celebrating?
Chanukah is celebrating the dedication of the Temple after the Jews got it back from the Seleucid Greeks who ruled the eastern part of the Greek empire that stretched from Syria to northern India. The short version of the story is this:
Antiochus Epiphanes wanted everyone in his empire to do everything the Greek way, including worshiping Greek idols. While everyone but the Jews were already idol worshipers this was only a matter of renaming their current idols so for them it was no big deal. However, the Jews would have nothing to do with worshiping idols of any kind. So Antiochus Epiphanes removed the rightful high priest and placed corrupt men in the office of high priest in his place. He then ordered these illegitimate high priests to end the daily sacrifice commanded in the Law of Truth (Torah aka The Law) and they complied. Then he set up a giant image of himself in the Temple and commanded that everyone worship it. When the believing Jews refused, he outlawed many of the practices that the Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD) had commanded in the Law of Truth including observing the Sabbath, reading the Original Covenant (Tanach aka Old Testament) and wearing Tzitzits (cords on the corner of their garments that contained a blue thread). The believing Jews responded by staying faithful to the Father of Truth, but often in secret when they could, but still many died for refusing to work on the Sabbath. They hid their reading of the Original Covenant by quickly hiding their scrolls and taking out dreidels to gamble for coins whenever the Greek soldiers checked up on them. They made smaller garments with tzitzits that were like handkerchiefs and girdles that they wore hidden under their Greek clothes. After a while, a believing priest named Matthias refused to worship the idol that the Greeks had set up in Modi'im where he lived. An unbelieving Jew stepped forward to worship the idol and Matthias killed him. Next Matthias, his five sons and the other believing Jews fought off the Greeks there then headed for the hills. They were the Maccabees. They were joined by other believing Jews who also decided that resistance was essential and that they would not be assimilated. They waged a war against the mightiest empire on Earth and pushed the Syrian Greeks out of their land but many of them died in so doing. When the Temple was recaptured, they had to clean it up before they could use it. In particular, they had to get rid of the altar and replace it with a new one because Antiochus Epiphanes had sacrificed three pigs and a dog on it to an idol. The clean up took eight days and then once again the Menorah of the Temple was lit. The people of Israel could now worship the Father of Truth in peace.
This story is found in the books of 1 Maccabees and 2 Maccabees along with some incidents that happened during this same period in other books of the Apocrypha (a collection of historical books (worth reading) and Jewish fables (avoid reading (Titus 1:14 )). It is worth noting that there is no eight day miracle of the oil in these historical books as well as other ancient texts about the events like those found among the Dead Sea scrolls. The story that there was only enough oil for the Temple Menorah to last for one day but it lasted for eight does not appear until about five hundred years after the fact in the Talmud. That is kind of like me writing a history of the voyage of Columbus and adding that there was a fourth ship that flew. The "miracle of the oil" story was probably added to compete with the story of the miraculous birth of the Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ). It is a shame, because it takes attention away from the great miracle of Father of Truth delivering His people against all odds and the dedication that His people had for Him. The real point of the story that resistance is not futile and we do not have to be assimilated if we will be dedicated to the Father of Truth even to the point of dying if necessary.
Is Chanukah in the Book of Truth (The Bible)?
The entire story of the Chanukah that is in 1 Maccabees and 2 Maccabees was foretold in the book of Daniel (Daniel 11:21-34). Antiochus Epiphanes was a vile person that became king through treachery when his brother Demetris was the rightful heir to the throne causing him to be held in contempt by the nobles of the Empire (Daniel 11:21). He replaced the legitimate High Priest (the prince of the covenant), Onias with Jason and then deceitfully replaced Jason with Menelaus when he offered Antiochus more money than Jason (Daniel 11:22-23). After returning from a successful military expedition in Egypt, he became angry against the covenant given by the Father of Truth because it was in direct opposition to his command for everyone to assimilate to the Greek way of life (Daniel 11:28). After the Romans prevented him from completely taking over Egypt, he plotted with the unbelieving Jews that were for abandoning the covenant given by the Father of Truth, who helped him to take away the daily sacrifice and to pollute the Holy Temple with his idol to make it desolate of believing Jews that remained loyal to the Father of Truth (Daniel 11:30-32a). The believing Jews rallied around the Maccabees who did exploits like those of David with the help of the Father of Truth to regain the Temple, Jerusalem and Israel (Daniel 11:32b-33a). However it was only after many of them were martyred (Daniel 11:33b). They did receive some help from a few believing Gentiles but many more Gentiles pretended to be their friends after they had won (Daniel 11:34).
What does Chanukah have to do with Christians?
Foremost, the Man of Truth validated Chanukah by celebrating Chanukah (John 10:22). Those Children of Truth (those who obey The Father of Truth because they love Him), who were born the first time as Gentiles, became true Jews when they were born again (Romans 2:28-29). When those Children of Truth, who were born the first time as Gentiles, were born again, they were grafted into the family tree of Israel (Romans 11:24-25). When those Children of Truth, who were born the first time as Gentiles, they were aliens to the commonwealth of Israel, but when they were born again, they were brought into the commonwealth of Israel by the blood of the Man of Truth (Ephesians 2:11-13). It is legitimate for the Children of Truth to celebrate Chanukah with the Man of Truth.
"Chanukah" literally means "Dedication".
It was during Chanukah that the Man of Truth said that the Children of Truth will follow only him because of their dedication to him (John 10:3-5). It was during Chanukah that the Man of Truth declared that he would lay down his life because of his dedication to the Children of Truth (John 10:10-13). It was during Chanukah that the Man of Truth declared that he would lay down his life to save the Gentiles who would follow him as well as the Jews who would follow him because he was dedicated to ending the separation between the believing Jews and the believing Gentiles (John 10:14-16). It was during Chanukah that the Man of Truth declared he would obey the commandment of the Father of Truth to die and come back to life because he was dedicated to the Father of Truth (John 10:17-18).
The Children of Truth must also show their dedication to the Man of Truth even to the point of laying down their lives (Matthew 10:22). Many have so done by becoming martyrs for the Man of Truth just like so many died as martyrs for the Father of Truth in resisting Antiochus Epiphanes. Stephen (Acts 7:58-60), James the brother of John (Acts 12:1-2), Shual (aka Paul) (2 Timothy 4:6-7), Cephas (aka Peter) (2 Peter 1:13-15) and Antipas (Revelation 2:13) were all dedicated to the Man of Truth to point of dying. Every Child of Truth must be dedicated enough to suffer for the Man of Truth before they can reign with the Man of Truth (2 Timothy 2:12). Every Child of Truth will suffer some type of persecution because of their dedication to the Man of Truth and the Father of Truth (2 Timothy 3:12).
The Children of Truth must not accept the premise of the world that resistance is futile and that they will be assimilated.
The Children of Truth must resist the pressures of the world to disobey the Father of Truth because they are dedicated to obeying the Father of Truth just like the Man of Truth, even to the point of having their blood shed (Hebrews 12:3-4). The Children of Truth must resist the Father of Lies (HaShatan aka Satan Aka The Devil) by being dedicated to obeying the Father of Truth and he will flee just as the Maccabees resisted Antiochus Epiphanes and he fled. (James 4:7).
The Children of Truth will not be assimilated into this world because they do not belong to this world just as the Maccabees did not belong to the Greek world (John 15:18-20). The Children of Truth must not submit to being assimilated into this world even at the cost of their lives just as the Maccabees refused to be assimilated into the Greek world even at the cost of their lives (Romans 12:1-2). The Children of Truth do not love this world and the ways of this world due to their dedication to the Father of Truth just as the Maccabees did not love the Greek world and its ways due to their dedication to the Father of Truth (1 John 2:15-17).
Chanukah is also called the Festival of Lights.
It was during Chanukah when the Man of Truth delivered the woman caught in adultery from the penalty of her sin and then declared that he was the Light of the world (John 8:10-12). It was during Chanukah when the Man of Truth opened the eyes of the man born blind and then declared again that he was the Light of the world (John 9:4-6). It was during Chanukah when the Man of Truth opened the eyes of the man born blind to bring light into his world (John 10:21-22).
On the Chanukiah there are eight candles that are lit one after another but there is an extra candle that is separate and lifted up higher than all the other candles called the shamash (servant). The shamash is used to light the other candles. The other candles only have light because the shamash gave them light but each one that is lit makes the world brighter. The Man of Truth is like the shamash and the Children of Truth are like the other candles.
The Man of Truth came as a servant (Mark 10:45). The Man of Truth came as a servant so the Children of Truth would know how to serve each other instead of lording it over each other (Luke 22:25-27). The Children of Truth must serve one another (Galatians 5:13).
The Man of Truth calls the Children of Truth "the light of the world" (Matthew 5:14). The light that the Man of Truth gives causes the Children of Truth to give out light as well (Luke 16:8) The Children of Truth have no light without him (John 1:9). The Man of Truth causes the Children of Truth to no longer be without light (John 12:46).
The Light of Chanukah burns brightly in the House of Truth for it reminds the Children of Truth that they must be dedicated to not being assimilated into the world but to rather bring the light given by the Man of Truth to the world. You come into the House of Truth when you dedicate your life to the Man of Truth because you believe that His Father called him out of the darkness of the grave (Romans 10:8-10).
Come into the House of Truth.
When I was growing up I never even heard of Chanukah. (Properly pronounced K'HA-nu-Kah but usually pronounced HAN-nuk-Kah in America). Today Chanukah is everywhere. There are Chanukah stamps in the post office. There are Chanukah specials on TV by major entertainment companies like Nickelodeon, Disney and PBS. There have been Chanukah movies like "Eight Crazy Nights". There is Chanukah wrapping paper in many stores along with Chanukah gift cards. Many stores like "Bed, Bath and Beyond" have a Chanukah section where you can buy Chanukah paraphernalia needed to celebrate Chanukah. There is also Chanukah decorations that can be placed on a Chanukah bush, Chanukah cookie cutters for making Chanukah sugar cookies and I even saw Chanukah stockings this year.
More than that, millions of Christians have taken to celebrating Chanukah, usually along with Christmas. A few years ago, most of the evangelical Christian homes in Colorado Springs, Colorado had a Chanukiah (a Chanukah candelabra) in their window during Chanukah to show solidarity with their Jewish neighbors.
You may have noticed this sudden appearance of Chanukah and you may have a few questions, particularly concerning Christians celebrating a new holiday that seems to have sprang up suddenly out of nowhere.
When is Chanukah?
Chanukah starts on the 25th day of the month of Kislev on the Jewish calendar. It lasts for eight days and usually begins some time after Thanksgiving in the US (fourth Thursday of November) and usually ends by New Year's Day in the US (January 1). The start date of Chanukah on the Gregorian calendar each year moves around like Easter for pretty much the same reasons.
What is Chanukah?
Chanukah is not a new holiday that was made in America like Kwanza. Chanukah has been celebrated for about 2,200 years by Jews. However Chanukah is not a Jewish Christmas as people sometimes think. The confusion partially arises because Chanukah often overlaps Christmas and is also celebrated on the 25th day of a month. Chanukah is a Jewish holiday that has no direct relation to Christmas other than its timing.
How is Chanukah celebrated?
There are many different traditions for celebrating Chanukah in various places around the world just as there are many different traditions for celebrating Christmas in various places around the world. However, there are some things that are pretty much universal. A Chanukiah (Chanukah Menorah) is placed in the window and a progressive number of candles are lit each night, starting with one candle on the first night and ending with eight candles on the last night. Foods cooked in oil are eating pretty much every meal for all eight days, including special holiday foods like latkes (potato pancakes) and sufganiyot (jelly donuts). Games are played, but especially the Dreidel game where a driedel (a four sided top) is used to gamble for gelt (chocolate coins). And of course, there are also Chanukah songs like Ma'oz Tzur and the Dreidel song.
However as Jews have always done in the Diaspora (scattering) they have been influenced by the surrounding culture as much they have influenced the surrounding culture. In America, Chanukah has been competing with Christmas, just like how everything competes with everything else in America, and Jewish families did not want their children feeling left out when they heard their Gentile friends going on and on and on about how wonderful Christmas is. So they starting giving presents on all eight days. That is also why there are a whole slew of Christmas alternatives like Chanukah bushes decorated with Chanukah ornaments instead of Christmas trees decorated with Christmas ornaments, Chanukah cookies instead of Christmas cookies and Chanukah stockings to hang over the fire place. No wonder people in America sometimes think that Chanukah is a Jewish Christmas.
What is Chanukah celebrating?
Chanukah is celebrating the dedication of the Temple after the Jews got it back from the Seleucid Greeks who ruled the eastern part of the Greek empire that stretched from Syria to northern India. The short version of the story is this:
Antiochus Epiphanes wanted everyone in his empire to do everything the Greek way, including worshiping Greek idols. While everyone but the Jews were already idol worshipers this was only a matter of renaming their current idols so for them it was no big deal. However, the Jews would have nothing to do with worshiping idols of any kind. So Antiochus Epiphanes removed the rightful high priest and placed corrupt men in the office of high priest in his place. He then ordered these illegitimate high priests to end the daily sacrifice commanded in the Law of Truth (Torah aka The Law) and they complied. Then he set up a giant image of himself in the Temple and commanded that everyone worship it. When the believing Jews refused, he outlawed many of the practices that the Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD) had commanded in the Law of Truth including observing the Sabbath, reading the Original Covenant (Tanach aka Old Testament) and wearing Tzitzits (cords on the corner of their garments that contained a blue thread). The believing Jews responded by staying faithful to the Father of Truth, but often in secret when they could, but still many died for refusing to work on the Sabbath. They hid their reading of the Original Covenant by quickly hiding their scrolls and taking out dreidels to gamble for coins whenever the Greek soldiers checked up on them. They made smaller garments with tzitzits that were like handkerchiefs and girdles that they wore hidden under their Greek clothes. After a while, a believing priest named Matthias refused to worship the idol that the Greeks had set up in Modi'im where he lived. An unbelieving Jew stepped forward to worship the idol and Matthias killed him. Next Matthias, his five sons and the other believing Jews fought off the Greeks there then headed for the hills. They were the Maccabees. They were joined by other believing Jews who also decided that resistance was essential and that they would not be assimilated. They waged a war against the mightiest empire on Earth and pushed the Syrian Greeks out of their land but many of them died in so doing. When the Temple was recaptured, they had to clean it up before they could use it. In particular, they had to get rid of the altar and replace it with a new one because Antiochus Epiphanes had sacrificed three pigs and a dog on it to an idol. The clean up took eight days and then once again the Menorah of the Temple was lit. The people of Israel could now worship the Father of Truth in peace.
This story is found in the books of 1 Maccabees and 2 Maccabees along with some incidents that happened during this same period in other books of the Apocrypha (a collection of historical books (worth reading) and Jewish fables (avoid reading (Titus 1:14 )). It is worth noting that there is no eight day miracle of the oil in these historical books as well as other ancient texts about the events like those found among the Dead Sea scrolls. The story that there was only enough oil for the Temple Menorah to last for one day but it lasted for eight does not appear until about five hundred years after the fact in the Talmud. That is kind of like me writing a history of the voyage of Columbus and adding that there was a fourth ship that flew. The "miracle of the oil" story was probably added to compete with the story of the miraculous birth of the Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ). It is a shame, because it takes attention away from the great miracle of Father of Truth delivering His people against all odds and the dedication that His people had for Him. The real point of the story that resistance is not futile and we do not have to be assimilated if we will be dedicated to the Father of Truth even to the point of dying if necessary.
Is Chanukah in the Book of Truth (The Bible)?
The entire story of the Chanukah that is in 1 Maccabees and 2 Maccabees was foretold in the book of Daniel (Daniel 11:21-34). Antiochus Epiphanes was a vile person that became king through treachery when his brother Demetris was the rightful heir to the throne causing him to be held in contempt by the nobles of the Empire (Daniel 11:21). He replaced the legitimate High Priest (the prince of the covenant), Onias with Jason and then deceitfully replaced Jason with Menelaus when he offered Antiochus more money than Jason (Daniel 11:22-23). After returning from a successful military expedition in Egypt, he became angry against the covenant given by the Father of Truth because it was in direct opposition to his command for everyone to assimilate to the Greek way of life (Daniel 11:28). After the Romans prevented him from completely taking over Egypt, he plotted with the unbelieving Jews that were for abandoning the covenant given by the Father of Truth, who helped him to take away the daily sacrifice and to pollute the Holy Temple with his idol to make it desolate of believing Jews that remained loyal to the Father of Truth (Daniel 11:30-32a). The believing Jews rallied around the Maccabees who did exploits like those of David with the help of the Father of Truth to regain the Temple, Jerusalem and Israel (Daniel 11:32b-33a). However it was only after many of them were martyred (Daniel 11:33b). They did receive some help from a few believing Gentiles but many more Gentiles pretended to be their friends after they had won (Daniel 11:34).
What does Chanukah have to do with Christians?
Foremost, the Man of Truth validated Chanukah by celebrating Chanukah (John 10:22). Those Children of Truth (those who obey The Father of Truth because they love Him), who were born the first time as Gentiles, became true Jews when they were born again (Romans 2:28-29). When those Children of Truth, who were born the first time as Gentiles, were born again, they were grafted into the family tree of Israel (Romans 11:24-25). When those Children of Truth, who were born the first time as Gentiles, they were aliens to the commonwealth of Israel, but when they were born again, they were brought into the commonwealth of Israel by the blood of the Man of Truth (Ephesians 2:11-13). It is legitimate for the Children of Truth to celebrate Chanukah with the Man of Truth.
"Chanukah" literally means "Dedication".
It was during Chanukah that the Man of Truth said that the Children of Truth will follow only him because of their dedication to him (John 10:3-5). It was during Chanukah that the Man of Truth declared that he would lay down his life because of his dedication to the Children of Truth (John 10:10-13). It was during Chanukah that the Man of Truth declared that he would lay down his life to save the Gentiles who would follow him as well as the Jews who would follow him because he was dedicated to ending the separation between the believing Jews and the believing Gentiles (John 10:14-16). It was during Chanukah that the Man of Truth declared he would obey the commandment of the Father of Truth to die and come back to life because he was dedicated to the Father of Truth (John 10:17-18).
The Children of Truth must also show their dedication to the Man of Truth even to the point of laying down their lives (Matthew 10:22). Many have so done by becoming martyrs for the Man of Truth just like so many died as martyrs for the Father of Truth in resisting Antiochus Epiphanes. Stephen (Acts 7:58-60), James the brother of John (Acts 12:1-2), Shual (aka Paul) (2 Timothy 4:6-7), Cephas (aka Peter) (2 Peter 1:13-15) and Antipas (Revelation 2:13) were all dedicated to the Man of Truth to point of dying. Every Child of Truth must be dedicated enough to suffer for the Man of Truth before they can reign with the Man of Truth (2 Timothy 2:12). Every Child of Truth will suffer some type of persecution because of their dedication to the Man of Truth and the Father of Truth (2 Timothy 3:12).
The Children of Truth must not accept the premise of the world that resistance is futile and that they will be assimilated.
The Children of Truth must resist the pressures of the world to disobey the Father of Truth because they are dedicated to obeying the Father of Truth just like the Man of Truth, even to the point of having their blood shed (Hebrews 12:3-4). The Children of Truth must resist the Father of Lies (HaShatan aka Satan Aka The Devil) by being dedicated to obeying the Father of Truth and he will flee just as the Maccabees resisted Antiochus Epiphanes and he fled. (James 4:7).
The Children of Truth will not be assimilated into this world because they do not belong to this world just as the Maccabees did not belong to the Greek world (John 15:18-20). The Children of Truth must not submit to being assimilated into this world even at the cost of their lives just as the Maccabees refused to be assimilated into the Greek world even at the cost of their lives (Romans 12:1-2). The Children of Truth do not love this world and the ways of this world due to their dedication to the Father of Truth just as the Maccabees did not love the Greek world and its ways due to their dedication to the Father of Truth (1 John 2:15-17).
Chanukah is also called the Festival of Lights.
It was during Chanukah when the Man of Truth delivered the woman caught in adultery from the penalty of her sin and then declared that he was the Light of the world (John 8:10-12). It was during Chanukah when the Man of Truth opened the eyes of the man born blind and then declared again that he was the Light of the world (John 9:4-6). It was during Chanukah when the Man of Truth opened the eyes of the man born blind to bring light into his world (John 10:21-22).
On the Chanukiah there are eight candles that are lit one after another but there is an extra candle that is separate and lifted up higher than all the other candles called the shamash (servant). The shamash is used to light the other candles. The other candles only have light because the shamash gave them light but each one that is lit makes the world brighter. The Man of Truth is like the shamash and the Children of Truth are like the other candles.
The Man of Truth came as a servant (Mark 10:45). The Man of Truth came as a servant so the Children of Truth would know how to serve each other instead of lording it over each other (Luke 22:25-27). The Children of Truth must serve one another (Galatians 5:13).
The Man of Truth calls the Children of Truth "the light of the world" (Matthew 5:14). The light that the Man of Truth gives causes the Children of Truth to give out light as well (Luke 16:8) The Children of Truth have no light without him (John 1:9). The Man of Truth causes the Children of Truth to no longer be without light (John 12:46).
The Light of Chanukah burns brightly in the House of Truth for it reminds the Children of Truth that they must be dedicated to not being assimilated into the world but to rather bring the light given by the Man of Truth to the world. You come into the House of Truth when you dedicate your life to the Man of Truth because you believe that His Father called him out of the darkness of the grave (Romans 10:8-10).
Come into the House of Truth.
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posted by The House Of Truth @ December 15, 2012
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