What Is On Your Head
What does the Book of Truth (the Bible) say about covering your head while praying, hair length, and beards?
When I was growing up most of the men wore hats. Some wore cowboy hats or straw hats or baseball caps with various agricultural company logos on them. Some wore fedoras and other dressy hats when they dressed up to go to town or to go to church on Sunday. Some wore hats as part of their work uniform.
The women also wore hats but not as frequently. Some of their hats were more feminine versions of the same type of hats worn by men like cowgirl hats. Others were very plainly hats for a lady that no man would dare be seen wearing. Sometimes these hats were quite decorative and elaborate.
The thing about hats was there seemed to be a lot of rules for wearing hats. For example, you had to take off your hat when you were indoors. Nobody seemed to know why but even when I was in the US Air Force that was the rule. The same thing applied whenever you prayed or did anything like that when you were outdoors. Again nobody seemed to know why but they were adamant about enforcing this rule.
After I move off the farm and got out into the world I discovered even more confusion over hats and prayer. There were women who insisted on wearing little bonnets anytime they prayed. I met Jewish men who insisted on wearing some sort of hat before they would pray. Some of them insisted that not just any hat could be worn but it had to a a yarmulke (kippah). I even met men who would not pray unless they first put a tallit (Jewish prayer shawl) over their heads to form what looked like a little tent.
I also noticed over the years that there has been a host of confusing and often conflicting rules that people have made about other things that people have on their heads like hair.
For example, I have met people who insist that women must always have very long hair that is at least two feet (60 cm) in length and worn like a veil in public if they want to please the Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD). Yet I have met other people who insist that a woman must put her hair up, even it forms a one foot (30 cm) cone on her head, when she is in public for the same reason. Then there are people who say that women must never dye their hair any color or even braid it if they want to please Him. Yet there are other women among the Children of Truth (those who obey The Father of Truth because they love Him) who sport very short hair cuts like pixie cuts. Sometimes they even dye their hair unnatural colors like pink.
There is no less controversy about the hair styles of men. For example, my grandfather and his generation said it was wrong for a man to have hair that was more than a couple of inches (5 cm) long. I had a crew cut for a number years because of this. Yet at the same time, I knew other men who had hair down to their waist. They seem to think that any man whose hair was less than a foot (30 cm) long was somehow untrustworthy. Some them even said that the Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ) had long hair while the Romans had short hair to prove their point. On and on it has continued over the years.
Some people were against white men sporting afros. Some people thought the mullet was either too short in the front or to long in the back for decent people to wear. Some people thought that sporting a Mohawk was a sure sign of moral depravity. Some people were against men shaving their heads. Then I met Jewish men who wore a set of payot (long braided locks at the temples of the head) because they believed that it was the commandment of the Father of Truth.
These same Jewish men would insist that men must wear full beards that were untrimmed on the edges if they wanted to please the Father of Truth. Yet I encountered other men who ran Christian institutions, like large Christian churches and universities, who insisted that men should not have any facial hair including sideburns. Of course, like everything else, I have ran across the gamut of ideas between these two extremes including the idea that anyone wearing a goatee did so to signify that they were a secret worshiper of the Father of Lies (HaShatan aka Satan Aka The Devil).
There seems to be no end of conflicting rules when it comes to what people have on their heads. In particular at times there seems to be even greater confusion among the Children of Truth than other people over these things. Especially when it comes to prayer.
Fortunately, we do not have to wonder about these things at all. The Book of Truth answers every question about what is on your head.
The best place to start is with hats. There simply is no commandment to wear hats nor any prohibition against wearing hats any where in the Book of Truth except for the commandment for the Priests of Truth to wear bonnets when they were ministering in the Tabernacle or Temple (Exodus 39:27-29). This is why Moses put linen head wear on the first Priests of Truth (Leviticus 8:13). This is why the Priests of Truth who will serve in the temple when the Man of Truth rules the Earth will also wear linen headdresses (Ezekiel 44:15-19).
However there is a prohibition against men covering their heads when they pray to the Father of Truth or speak messages from the Father of Truth (1 Corinthians 11:4-7). This is why people would take their hats off when they prayed and pastors would take their hats off when they were conducting outdoor services. However the first thing to notice is that this only applied to men while women on the contrary are commanded to have their heads covered when they do these same activities (1 Corinthians 11:5).
So why is there a polar opposite treatment for men and women concerning head coverings when praying?
It is because a wearing a head covering is a sign that you are operating under the authority of another person or human institution. For example, when I was in the US Air Force I had to wear the appropriate hat that went with the uniform because I was operating under the authority of the US Air Force whenever I was on duty.
In like manner a woman shows that she is operating under the authority of her husband when she has her head covered. This is why women in almost every culture across time have worn veils when they are married. They are showing the world that they are coming under the authority of their husband on their wedding day.
So a woman having her head covered shows that she is still operating under the authority of her husband when she is praying or prophesying and is not rebelling against his authority (1 Corinthians 11:3-5). After all, a woman wearing a covering to show that she is under the authority of her husbands brings glory to her husband in the eyes of other men instead of dishonor (1 Corinthians 11:6-7). When a woman covers her head while praying she is acknowledging she was made for the benefit of her husband (1 Corinthians 11:8-9). This wearing a covering to show that she is under the authority of her husband is extremely important because it demonstrates obedience out of love to the angels (1 Corinthians 11:10). So a woman should not pray with her head uncovered even though she is no less important to the Man of Truth and His Father than her husband (1 Corinthians 11:11-13).
In the same way men are directly under the authority of the Man of Truth that a woman is under the authority of her husband (1 Corinthians 11:3). So men are not to insult the Man of Truth by covering their heads when praying or prophesying as if his authority over their lives was insufficient (1 Corinthians 11:4). Men are also patterned after the very image of the Father of Truth so they should not take away from His glory by covering their heads to hide that image when praying (1 Corinthians 11:7). This commandment to not cover their heads and mar that image while praying or prophesying in no manner whatsoever means that men are somehow more important to the Man of Truth or His Father than women (1 Corinthians 11:11-12).
To understand this prohibition more fully it helps to read the passage in the original Koine Greek. Naturally things are sometimes clearer when the language of the Renewed Covenant is understood. There are two main Greek words at play here when it talks about covering the head. So to get a better understanding of this passage we are going to uncover these words and recover some of the subtleties that may have been lost in translation.
The first one, "kata", is actually a preposition that can has a wide variety of meaning depending on the context including "over" or "on top of" (Kata example). So instead the "covering on his head" in this passage it is more literally translated "over the head" or "on top of the head". So a man is not to pray while having anything over his head or on top of his head. In context, it would be anything over his head or on top of his head that conveys that he is praying or prophesying under the authority of any man other than the Man of Truth or in addition to the Man of Truth.
The second word unveils the deeper meaning that ties everything together. We are going to look at the general root word this time instead of each permutation of the root word. (A root word is a word that is manipulated to convey subtleties like time that are defined by the context that it is used in while still retaining the original basic meaning. For example, the root word "be" becomes "is", "was", "were" and so on in English depending upon the number of subjects and the time of the action in the context of the sentence where it is used.)
This second root word is "katakalypto" and literally means to wear a veil like women do on their wedding day (Katakalypto example). So a woman is supposed wear something that veils her while she is praying or prophesying to show that she is still under the authority of her husband while a man is not supposed to put anything over his head that veils it in anyway whatsoever while praying or prophesying to show that he is not operating under the authority of anyone except the Man of Truth.
So men should definitely not be veiling themselves with a tallit when they are praying. Tallits were worn like cloaks, aprons and handkerchiefs below the head by Paul the Jew (Shaul aka Saul aka The Apostle Paul) and the other Children of Truth in the Book of Truth when they were on the Earth. They did not pray under them to form a tent or some sort of "prayer closet" as if tallits were some sort of supernatural garments. Worse yet, since men are not supposed to veil their heads when they pray but women are supposed to then whenever men use a tallit to veil their heads while praying they are wearing what pertains to a woman contrary to the commandment in the Law of Truth (Torah aka The Law) that the Father of Truth gave to Moses (Deuteronomy 22:5).
A man veiling his head with anything while praying or prophesying comes from the practices of idolaters. This is why you see druids, witches and other worshipers of the Spirits of Lies (devils aka demons aka unclean spirits aka gods) in movies always carrying out their religious activities while wearing hooded robes and the like. The Father of Lies wants to hide the image of the Father of Truth when men are praying and prophesying in his counterfeit religions. No wonder it is such a dishonor to the Man of Truth when men pray or prophesy with their heads veiled by a hood or anything else.
More than that men should not wear hats that mark them as being under the authority of any man other than the Man of Truth when praying or prophesying. (The bonnets of the Priests of Truth marked them as operating under the authority of the Father of Truth and not another man so they could wear them if they prayed or prophesied while carrying out their duties.) The Man of Truth alone has given all men the authority to pray to the Father of Truth in his name and to speak messages from the Father of Truth in his name. So a man is not to have anything on his head that shows he is under the authority of any man other than the Man of Truth when he is praying and prophesying. This is true about hats that are part of a uniform or bear the name, logo or image of anything. However in the case of yarmulkes (kippot) there are even more reasons to not wear one.
Yarmulkes are recognized around the world as marking someone as being under the authority of the Rabbis. The insistence of the Rabbis that men must wear yarmulkes all the time, especially when they pray, has absolute no basis in the Book of Truth. In fact, it is contrary to the commands of the Renewed Covenant (B'rit Chadashah aka The New Testament) as has already been shown.
The truth is that many of the Jews who were scattered in the three scatterings (Assyrian, Babylonian, Roman) in many places did not wear yarmulkes for most of their history even though they retained practices from the Law of Truth like blowing shofars and wearing tallits. They only began to wear yarmulkes in modern times after they were influenced by the Jews of Europe and the Middle East. Those Jews who influenced them claimed that this is the commandment of the Father of Truth and some even insisted that wearing a yarmulke has been practiced since the time of Moses.
There is simply no mention in the Book of Truth of men covering their heads when they prayed except for the Priests of Truth when they were operating under the authority of the Father of Truth in the Tabernacle or Temple. The only mention in the Book of Truth of men covering their heads, besides the Priests of Truth during the performance of their duties, was when they were mourning because they were under judgment for sin. David and those who fled with him covered their heads when they were fleeing from Absalom as punishment for his sins (2 Samuel 15:30-31). Haman covered his head after parading Mordecai because his doom was certain for trying to exterminate the Jews (Esther 6:11-13). The people of Judah covered their heads when the terrible drought was upon the land because of their sins (Jeremiah 14:2-4). So there is no basis from the Book of Truth for men wearing yarmulkes when they pray.
The truth is that archaeology has not uncovered any images of Jews wearing yarmulkes in ancient times nor are yarmulkes referenced in any ancient writing. In fact the oldest written reference to men even covering their heads during prayer is the commandment of Maimonides (Rambam), one of the few Rabbis called Great in Judaism, to do so sometime after 1150 AD. In the surviving image of Josephus, the Jewish historian who lived in Israel during the time of the Apostles, he is wearing a turban. In his extensive writings on the history and customs of the Jewish people there is not one mention of men covering their heads while praying. The Jewish captives shown in the relief of the Arch of Titus are not wearing yarmulkes or any head covering. There are images of Jewish men wearing various head coverings on the reliefs of Sennacharib and on the Shalmaneser stele but they do not show the Jewish men praying or even speaking. The idea that men must wear yarmulkes while praying or any other time is yet another example of Rabbinic distort.
In fact, the earliest images of people wearing a round piece of cloth on the top of their heads are found in the ruins of ancient Egypt. These round head coverings that was centered over the crown of the head was done so out of reverence to the Sun god who they called "Ra" in the religion they got from ancient Babylon. The False Church of Rome has continued this practice to this day as can be plainly seen on the heads of their leaders. This practice was universal across Europe in the Middle Ages by everyone except the Jews. Jews were forbidden to wear these skull caps and were forced to wear dunce caps (tall pointy caps) instead. When the dunce cap laws were repealed then the Jews insisted on wearing the round skull caps like everyone else. This unwittingly wearing the emblem of Babylonian sun god worship has continued to this day and has become the mark of being under Rabbinic authority. It is just another reason that Rabbis are the source of Jewish trouble.
This wearing the mark of being under the authority of the Rabbis is completely contrary to the command of the Man of Truth to call no one but him "Rabbi" (Matthew 23:5-8). The Man of Truth is the only authority that men are to be under when they are praying to His Father in his name. Of course, the Man of Truth is dishonored when men among the Children of Truth wear the emblem of Babylonian sun god worship on their head while praying to the Father of Truth or giving out messages from the Father of Truth!
The ironic thing is that many of the Children of Truth are carrying on this practice from Babylonian idolatry by covering their heads with tallits or wearing yarmulkes when they pray while at the same time that they are trying to be the Mensch who killed Christmas for practices from Babylonian idolatry found in Christmas trees and the like! They should remove the plank from their own eye before trying to remove the speck from the eye of someone else (Matthew 7:3-5). They may have done this out ignorance like other people do when they put up a Christmas tree but now that they know better the Father of Truth is commanding them to repent (Acts 17:30). They need to clean their own house and learn how to restore others gently to following the right path (Galatians 6:1-3). Then they will be more effective at cleaning up the Christmas mess that has so hindered the Children of Truth.
On the other hand, while women are not to pray or prophesy without a veil their hair serves as a veil if it is long enough (1 Corinthians 11:13-15). The question then becomes: how long is long enough?
Once again we have to uncover the original Greek to answer the question. There is a third Greek word used in this allowance of the long hair of women to serve as their veil that brings clarity to the answer. This Greek word is "periboliaon" (Peribolaion example). It means "to wrap around" and is only used in one other place in the Renewed Covenant. However it comes from another Greek word "peribolla" that we get our English word "parabola" from. A parabola is an a curve that is open on one side and enclosed on three sides like for example the Gateway Arch in Saint Louis. All the places in the Renewed Covenant where this word is used in connection with clothing the wrapping occurs horizontally. So for the hair of a woman to serve has her veil it has to be long enough to cover three sides of her head leaving the face uncovered. So her hair would basically be reaching down enough to nearly touching her shoulders on all three sides so that her head is wrapped by her hair. Most of the time women have hair styles that meet these standards because long hair is the glory of a woman (1 Corinthians 11:15).
Does this mean that women must have their hair at least this long or that they cannot braid their hair?
A woman may have her hair in a pixie cut or any other shorter hairstyle that is pleasing to her husband (1 Corinthians 7:34). If a woman has a shorter haircut or perhaps does not have sufficient hair due to a medical condition then she just needs to use something to veil her head on three sides when she is praying or prophesying to show that she is operating under the authority of her husband (1 Corinthians 11:5-6). This is why women with short hair throughout the ages in most places have worn veils, scarves and even elaborate hats.
In like manner a woman may braid her hair or do anything else with it as long as she is not using it as a substitute for doing good works (1 Timothy 2:9-10). She must only be careful to make sure that her head is veiled on three sides by either unbraiding her hair or using something else like a tallit or scarf when she is praying or prophesying.
No man has authority over her in these matters about her hair other than her own husband. A woman is plainly not to be subject to the will of every man because that would be chaos. It is only her own husband who she is not to teach or to usurp his authority (1 Timothy 2:11-12). So she can dye her hair any color she wants as long as it is pleasing to her husband. There is no prohibition against dyeing hair in the Book of Truth.
So what about the hairstyles of men?
It is a shame for a man to have long hair that veils his face on three sides because a man is not meant to be veiled as if he were married to another man (1 Corinthians 11:14). Does this mean that a man cannot have long hair?
No it does not. The Father of Truth even commanded men to not cut their hair when they took a Nazirite vow (Numbers 6:2-5). Samson (Shamshon) went without a haircut most of his life for this reason (Judges 16:17). Samuel (Shmuel) never had a hair cut during his entire life to show that he had been dedicated to the Father of Truth (1 Samuel 1:11-20).
So how can a man have long hair without veiling his face?
A man can have long hair by braiding it into locks and letting the locks grow long (Numbers 6:5). This is why Samson had seven long locks of hair (Judges 16:13). Ezekiel (Yechezqel) in like manner had grown his locks of hair long enough that a hand was able to securely lift him up by the one of the locks of his hair (Ezekiel 8:3). So a man can have long hair as long as it is confined in some manner so that it does not veil his face on three sides like the hair of a woman.
So what about a man shaving his head?
The Father of Truth commanded that a man who was healed of leprosy was to have his head completely shaved by the Priests of Truth including his eyebrows (Leviticus 14:7-9). That is why the Man of Truth told the ten lepers that he healed to show themselves to the Priest of Truth (Luke 17:12-14).
In like manner, a man who took a Nazirite vow was to shave his head when he completed his vow and burn his hair as a sacrifice (Numbers 6:13-19). Even Paul the Jew (Shaul aka Saul aka the Apostle Paul) shaved his head because he had made a Nazirite vow when he left Corinth via the port of Cenchrea to return to Syria on his way to Jerusalem in 52 AD (Acts 18:18). Paul the Jew, along with four other Jewish men who were part of the Children of Truth, had his head shaved again to show completion of a Nazirite vow during his final trip to Jerusalem in 57 AD (Acts 21:22-24).
[A Nazirite vow begins with shaving the head and ends with shaving head so that all of the hair that is offered is the hair that grew during the Nazirite vow. When Jews outside of the land of Israel completed a Nazirite vow they would shave their heads there and then have their heads shaved again by the Priests of Truth the next time they were in Jerusalem. So it is uncertain if Paul the Jew was starting or ending a Nazirite vow at this time. Still it is certain that Paul the Jew also grew the locks of his hair long during the time of his Nazirite vow. If he began a Nazirite vow at Cenchrea in 52 AD and had his head shaved to show the vow was completed in 57 AD, then he did not have a haircut for five years.]
Yet there is one thing that a man must not do with his hair and that is to round the corners of the head (Leviticus 19:27). This is why some Jewish men wear payot (side locks grown at the temples of the head) because some Rabbis say that the corner of the head is the two temples of the head and rounding the corners of the head means cutting the hair at the temples short. This obviously cannot be the case because it has already been shown that the Father of Truth commands in some cases for the entire head, including the temples, to be shaved. So what does rounding the corners of the head mean?
Again, looking under the covers will go a long way to uncovering the meaning of this prohibition. The Hebrew root word translated as "corners" is "pe'ah" and more precisely means "extremity" or "sides". [The Hebrew word for "corners" is "kanaph"]. Rounding every side of something makes it into a circle. In idolatrous religions that came from Babylon men would shave a circle in their hair that was centered at the crown of their head to mark that they were under the authority and protection of the sun god. This was common among the religious professionals of the False Church of Roman in Europe during the Middle Ages. This is why religious professionals in movies about medieval Europe are often shown with a bald or shaved circle at the crown of their head like Friar Tuck in Robin Hood movies. Sometimes, the circle was made by leaving the hair centered over the crown uncut while shaving the rest of the head. So the Father of Truth commands that men not make a circle on their heads by rounding the sides of their head in either manner.
In like manner, the Priests of Truth are commanded to not make a circle of baldness by pulling their hair out as was common among the priests of Babylonian sun god worship when they were in mourning (Leviticus 21:1-6). That is why Ezra the Priest of Truth plucked out all of his hair when he went into mourning upon learning that the Jews who returned to Israel from the Babylonian captivity were marrying idolaters and taking up their practices (Ezra 9:1-3). Ezekiel, who was both a Priest of Truth and a Prophet of Truth, shaved his head as well under the commandment of the Father of Truth to show the terribleness of the judgment that would come upon Jerusalem for changing His laws (Ezekiel 5:1-8).
Of course, leaving the center of the head shaved or bald made that part of the head subject to the elements. This is why those ancient Egyptian sun worshipers were wearing those little round clothes on their heads. This is also why skull caps were almost universal among men in medieval Europe where men needed to keep their heads from being cold as well being protected from sun burn. So ironically wearing a yarmulke is really a form of rounding the corners of the head and growing payot does not change that no matter how long they are.
It should go without saying that the Man of Truth is dishonored when people are praying or prophesying in his name while when the the corners of their head have been rounded. If someone has done this in ignorance then the best thing to do is shave the entire head to get rid of the circle that comes from Babylonian sun god worship.
So the only rules for the hairstyles of men is that they must not form a circle on their head by partially shaving their head and they must confine their hair in some manner if it is long so that it does not form a veil around their face. The only exception is that the Priests of Truth when the Man of Truth rules the Earth will neither shave their heads nor grow the locks of their hair long but will instead keep it trimmed so it is between these extremes (Ezekiel 44:19-21). So their hair will be cut somewhere between perhaps an inch (2.5 cm) and six inches (15 cm). This pretty much describes the hairstyles of most men throughout the ages.
It is worth noting that the Book of Truth tells us nothing about the length of the hair of the Man of Truth. People get the idea that he had long hair due a description of him given by Josephus that says his locks rested comfortably on his shoulders. It is not even known if this description is accurate but it is likely that the Man of Truth wore payot (side locks at the temple) since that was common among Jews in Israel at the time. These would be the locks of hair that rested upon his shoulders. That would not be surprising since he is Jewish and it's a Jewish thing to be following him. In any case, however long his hair was, he made sure that it did not veil his face.
Now it must be remembered that these few rules about hats and hairstyles are not man made rules but are ordinances give to all the Children of Truth from the Father of Truth (1 Corinthians 11:1-2). There should be no contention about these rules among those who worship the Father of Truth because there are no other customs to be observed among His Children (1 Corinthians 11:16). Everything in the Book of Truth came from the Father of Truth so that His Children can carry out His will on the Earth (2 Timothy 3:16-17). No one has a right to add their own rules to these rules from the Father of Truth or to take away from His rules (Revelation 22:18-19).
The same can be said for facial hair. So what are the rules for facial hair?
The Children of Truth are not to mar the corners of their beards because that is like cutting your flesh for the dead (Leviticus 19:27-28). For this reason the Priests of Truth were not to shave off the corners of their beards when their loved ones died (Leviticus 21:1-5). So does this mean that men cannot shave or even trim their beards?
The Priests of Truth were to shave off the beard along with the hair and eyebrows of a man who was healed of leprosy (Leviticus 14:9). Mephibosheth apparently had trimmed his beard normally for it had not been trimmed the entire time that King David had been exiled from Jerusalem (2 Samuel 19:24). Ezra the Priest of Truth plucked out his beard when he went into mourning over the sins of Israel (Ezra 9:3). Ezekiel also shaved off his beard at the commandment of the Father of Truth (Ezekiel 5:1).
So this obviously does not mean that men cannot shave or trim their beards. So what does it mean?
For one final time we are going to look at the original Hebrew to find our answer. The Hebrew word translated as "corners" in these two verses is again "pe'ah" which means "extremity" or "sides". The extremity of the beard is not its outer edges but rather the top of the beard where the whiskers begin and the hair of the head ends. It is roughly the area between the top of the cheeks and a line from the outer corner of the eye to the ear hole. It is the upper extremity on those fake beards that kids wear in plays about Biblical characters. It was again a prohibition against an idolatrous practice that was part of the religion that came from ancient Babylon. It was a custom of idolaters to mar that area with cuttings so that scar tissue would be prevented any whisker from growing there So to avoid even the appearance of marring the hinges of the beard the Priests of Truth were not to even shave that part of the beard. This is where the custom of men wearing sideburns when the rest of their face is shaved came from.
So there is no prohibition against shaving except for the Priests of Truth. Nor is there any command to shave except for a man who is healed of leprosy.
Still a beard is a mark of authority on a man. It says that he is a man and not a woman. It says that he is a grown man and not a boy. It is for this reason that Hanun the king of Ammon shaved off the beards on one side of the men that King David had sent on his behalf when he thought that they were spies (2 Samuel 10:1-4). (They were literally half-shaven men.) It is for this reason that King David sent them to Jericho until their beards grew back (2 Samuel 10:5). It is for this reason that the beard of the Man of Truth was brutally pulled out during the crucifixion (Isaiah 50:6). That is why his face looked like raw hamburger when he was on the cross (Isaiah 52:13-14).
Nonetheless militaries have required their men to be clean shaven with short haircuts since the time of Alexander the Great to prevent their men from being pulled onto the sword of their enemy like Joab did to Amasa (2 Samuel 20:8-10). For similar reasons the US Air Force only allowed us to wear a small mustache so that our gas mask would seal properly. So it is reasonable for rules regarding hair and facial hair to be imposed on men under their authority to protect them from harm.
Yet it is totally unreasonable to impose any such requirement upon men by the religious professionals who run a church or Christian university. Worse yet these religious professionals often claim to get this authority to do so from the Book of Truth! By adding their own commandments regarding hair and facial hair they would prevent all of the authors used to write the Book of Truth from attending their institution! They would even be excluding the Man of Truth from being on their campus! What are they thinking!?!
Those religious professionals who do so are no better than the Rabbis for making the Word of Truth of no effect through their own traditions (Matthew 15:2-6). Their added commandments are teaching a doctrine of their own that is no better than the commandments of the Rabbis concerning the washing of pots (Mark 7:7-9). It is time that these religious professionals repent for adding their own traditions to the the Word of Truth. If they will not repent then the commandment of the Father of Truth is for the Children of Truth to withdraw from them until they stop teaching traditions that are contrary to what is taught in the Renewed Covenant (2 Thessalonians 3:6).
Of course, these few rules concerning what is on your head, especially when praying or prophesying, only matter after you come into the House of Truth. The rules of the Father of Truth are for the Children of Truth who live in the House of Truth. The Man of Truth has authority over what is on your head when you submit to his authority because you believe that His Father raised him from the dead (Romans 10:9).
Come into the House of Truth.
When I was growing up most of the men wore hats. Some wore cowboy hats or straw hats or baseball caps with various agricultural company logos on them. Some wore fedoras and other dressy hats when they dressed up to go to town or to go to church on Sunday. Some wore hats as part of their work uniform.
The women also wore hats but not as frequently. Some of their hats were more feminine versions of the same type of hats worn by men like cowgirl hats. Others were very plainly hats for a lady that no man would dare be seen wearing. Sometimes these hats were quite decorative and elaborate.
The thing about hats was there seemed to be a lot of rules for wearing hats. For example, you had to take off your hat when you were indoors. Nobody seemed to know why but even when I was in the US Air Force that was the rule. The same thing applied whenever you prayed or did anything like that when you were outdoors. Again nobody seemed to know why but they were adamant about enforcing this rule.
After I move off the farm and got out into the world I discovered even more confusion over hats and prayer. There were women who insisted on wearing little bonnets anytime they prayed. I met Jewish men who insisted on wearing some sort of hat before they would pray. Some of them insisted that not just any hat could be worn but it had to a a yarmulke (kippah). I even met men who would not pray unless they first put a tallit (Jewish prayer shawl) over their heads to form what looked like a little tent.
I also noticed over the years that there has been a host of confusing and often conflicting rules that people have made about other things that people have on their heads like hair.
For example, I have met people who insist that women must always have very long hair that is at least two feet (60 cm) in length and worn like a veil in public if they want to please the Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD). Yet I have met other people who insist that a woman must put her hair up, even it forms a one foot (30 cm) cone on her head, when she is in public for the same reason. Then there are people who say that women must never dye their hair any color or even braid it if they want to please Him. Yet there are other women among the Children of Truth (those who obey The Father of Truth because they love Him) who sport very short hair cuts like pixie cuts. Sometimes they even dye their hair unnatural colors like pink.
There is no less controversy about the hair styles of men. For example, my grandfather and his generation said it was wrong for a man to have hair that was more than a couple of inches (5 cm) long. I had a crew cut for a number years because of this. Yet at the same time, I knew other men who had hair down to their waist. They seem to think that any man whose hair was less than a foot (30 cm) long was somehow untrustworthy. Some them even said that the Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ) had long hair while the Romans had short hair to prove their point. On and on it has continued over the years.
Some people were against white men sporting afros. Some people thought the mullet was either too short in the front or to long in the back for decent people to wear. Some people thought that sporting a Mohawk was a sure sign of moral depravity. Some people were against men shaving their heads. Then I met Jewish men who wore a set of payot (long braided locks at the temples of the head) because they believed that it was the commandment of the Father of Truth.
These same Jewish men would insist that men must wear full beards that were untrimmed on the edges if they wanted to please the Father of Truth. Yet I encountered other men who ran Christian institutions, like large Christian churches and universities, who insisted that men should not have any facial hair including sideburns. Of course, like everything else, I have ran across the gamut of ideas between these two extremes including the idea that anyone wearing a goatee did so to signify that they were a secret worshiper of the Father of Lies (HaShatan aka Satan Aka The Devil).
There seems to be no end of conflicting rules when it comes to what people have on their heads. In particular at times there seems to be even greater confusion among the Children of Truth than other people over these things. Especially when it comes to prayer.
Fortunately, we do not have to wonder about these things at all. The Book of Truth answers every question about what is on your head.
The best place to start is with hats. There simply is no commandment to wear hats nor any prohibition against wearing hats any where in the Book of Truth except for the commandment for the Priests of Truth to wear bonnets when they were ministering in the Tabernacle or Temple (Exodus 39:27-29). This is why Moses put linen head wear on the first Priests of Truth (Leviticus 8:13). This is why the Priests of Truth who will serve in the temple when the Man of Truth rules the Earth will also wear linen headdresses (Ezekiel 44:15-19).
However there is a prohibition against men covering their heads when they pray to the Father of Truth or speak messages from the Father of Truth (1 Corinthians 11:4-7). This is why people would take their hats off when they prayed and pastors would take their hats off when they were conducting outdoor services. However the first thing to notice is that this only applied to men while women on the contrary are commanded to have their heads covered when they do these same activities (1 Corinthians 11:5).
So why is there a polar opposite treatment for men and women concerning head coverings when praying?
It is because a wearing a head covering is a sign that you are operating under the authority of another person or human institution. For example, when I was in the US Air Force I had to wear the appropriate hat that went with the uniform because I was operating under the authority of the US Air Force whenever I was on duty.
In like manner a woman shows that she is operating under the authority of her husband when she has her head covered. This is why women in almost every culture across time have worn veils when they are married. They are showing the world that they are coming under the authority of their husband on their wedding day.
So a woman having her head covered shows that she is still operating under the authority of her husband when she is praying or prophesying and is not rebelling against his authority (1 Corinthians 11:3-5). After all, a woman wearing a covering to show that she is under the authority of her husbands brings glory to her husband in the eyes of other men instead of dishonor (1 Corinthians 11:6-7). When a woman covers her head while praying she is acknowledging she was made for the benefit of her husband (1 Corinthians 11:8-9). This wearing a covering to show that she is under the authority of her husband is extremely important because it demonstrates obedience out of love to the angels (1 Corinthians 11:10). So a woman should not pray with her head uncovered even though she is no less important to the Man of Truth and His Father than her husband (1 Corinthians 11:11-13).
In the same way men are directly under the authority of the Man of Truth that a woman is under the authority of her husband (1 Corinthians 11:3). So men are not to insult the Man of Truth by covering their heads when praying or prophesying as if his authority over their lives was insufficient (1 Corinthians 11:4). Men are also patterned after the very image of the Father of Truth so they should not take away from His glory by covering their heads to hide that image when praying (1 Corinthians 11:7). This commandment to not cover their heads and mar that image while praying or prophesying in no manner whatsoever means that men are somehow more important to the Man of Truth or His Father than women (1 Corinthians 11:11-12).
To understand this prohibition more fully it helps to read the passage in the original Koine Greek. Naturally things are sometimes clearer when the language of the Renewed Covenant is understood. There are two main Greek words at play here when it talks about covering the head. So to get a better understanding of this passage we are going to uncover these words and recover some of the subtleties that may have been lost in translation.
The first one, "kata", is actually a preposition that can has a wide variety of meaning depending on the context including "over" or "on top of" (Kata example). So instead the "covering on his head" in this passage it is more literally translated "over the head" or "on top of the head". So a man is not to pray while having anything over his head or on top of his head. In context, it would be anything over his head or on top of his head that conveys that he is praying or prophesying under the authority of any man other than the Man of Truth or in addition to the Man of Truth.
The second word unveils the deeper meaning that ties everything together. We are going to look at the general root word this time instead of each permutation of the root word. (A root word is a word that is manipulated to convey subtleties like time that are defined by the context that it is used in while still retaining the original basic meaning. For example, the root word "be" becomes "is", "was", "were" and so on in English depending upon the number of subjects and the time of the action in the context of the sentence where it is used.)
This second root word is "katakalypto" and literally means to wear a veil like women do on their wedding day (Katakalypto example). So a woman is supposed wear something that veils her while she is praying or prophesying to show that she is still under the authority of her husband while a man is not supposed to put anything over his head that veils it in anyway whatsoever while praying or prophesying to show that he is not operating under the authority of anyone except the Man of Truth.
So men should definitely not be veiling themselves with a tallit when they are praying. Tallits were worn like cloaks, aprons and handkerchiefs below the head by Paul the Jew (Shaul aka Saul aka The Apostle Paul) and the other Children of Truth in the Book of Truth when they were on the Earth. They did not pray under them to form a tent or some sort of "prayer closet" as if tallits were some sort of supernatural garments. Worse yet, since men are not supposed to veil their heads when they pray but women are supposed to then whenever men use a tallit to veil their heads while praying they are wearing what pertains to a woman contrary to the commandment in the Law of Truth (Torah aka The Law) that the Father of Truth gave to Moses (Deuteronomy 22:5).
A man veiling his head with anything while praying or prophesying comes from the practices of idolaters. This is why you see druids, witches and other worshipers of the Spirits of Lies (devils aka demons aka unclean spirits aka gods) in movies always carrying out their religious activities while wearing hooded robes and the like. The Father of Lies wants to hide the image of the Father of Truth when men are praying and prophesying in his counterfeit religions. No wonder it is such a dishonor to the Man of Truth when men pray or prophesy with their heads veiled by a hood or anything else.
More than that men should not wear hats that mark them as being under the authority of any man other than the Man of Truth when praying or prophesying. (The bonnets of the Priests of Truth marked them as operating under the authority of the Father of Truth and not another man so they could wear them if they prayed or prophesied while carrying out their duties.) The Man of Truth alone has given all men the authority to pray to the Father of Truth in his name and to speak messages from the Father of Truth in his name. So a man is not to have anything on his head that shows he is under the authority of any man other than the Man of Truth when he is praying and prophesying. This is true about hats that are part of a uniform or bear the name, logo or image of anything. However in the case of yarmulkes (kippot) there are even more reasons to not wear one.
Yarmulkes are recognized around the world as marking someone as being under the authority of the Rabbis. The insistence of the Rabbis that men must wear yarmulkes all the time, especially when they pray, has absolute no basis in the Book of Truth. In fact, it is contrary to the commands of the Renewed Covenant (B'rit Chadashah aka The New Testament) as has already been shown.
The truth is that many of the Jews who were scattered in the three scatterings (Assyrian, Babylonian, Roman) in many places did not wear yarmulkes for most of their history even though they retained practices from the Law of Truth like blowing shofars and wearing tallits. They only began to wear yarmulkes in modern times after they were influenced by the Jews of Europe and the Middle East. Those Jews who influenced them claimed that this is the commandment of the Father of Truth and some even insisted that wearing a yarmulke has been practiced since the time of Moses.
There is simply no mention in the Book of Truth of men covering their heads when they prayed except for the Priests of Truth when they were operating under the authority of the Father of Truth in the Tabernacle or Temple. The only mention in the Book of Truth of men covering their heads, besides the Priests of Truth during the performance of their duties, was when they were mourning because they were under judgment for sin. David and those who fled with him covered their heads when they were fleeing from Absalom as punishment for his sins (2 Samuel 15:30-31). Haman covered his head after parading Mordecai because his doom was certain for trying to exterminate the Jews (Esther 6:11-13). The people of Judah covered their heads when the terrible drought was upon the land because of their sins (Jeremiah 14:2-4). So there is no basis from the Book of Truth for men wearing yarmulkes when they pray.
The truth is that archaeology has not uncovered any images of Jews wearing yarmulkes in ancient times nor are yarmulkes referenced in any ancient writing. In fact the oldest written reference to men even covering their heads during prayer is the commandment of Maimonides (Rambam), one of the few Rabbis called Great in Judaism, to do so sometime after 1150 AD. In the surviving image of Josephus, the Jewish historian who lived in Israel during the time of the Apostles, he is wearing a turban. In his extensive writings on the history and customs of the Jewish people there is not one mention of men covering their heads while praying. The Jewish captives shown in the relief of the Arch of Titus are not wearing yarmulkes or any head covering. There are images of Jewish men wearing various head coverings on the reliefs of Sennacharib and on the Shalmaneser stele but they do not show the Jewish men praying or even speaking. The idea that men must wear yarmulkes while praying or any other time is yet another example of Rabbinic distort.
In fact, the earliest images of people wearing a round piece of cloth on the top of their heads are found in the ruins of ancient Egypt. These round head coverings that was centered over the crown of the head was done so out of reverence to the Sun god who they called "Ra" in the religion they got from ancient Babylon. The False Church of Rome has continued this practice to this day as can be plainly seen on the heads of their leaders. This practice was universal across Europe in the Middle Ages by everyone except the Jews. Jews were forbidden to wear these skull caps and were forced to wear dunce caps (tall pointy caps) instead. When the dunce cap laws were repealed then the Jews insisted on wearing the round skull caps like everyone else. This unwittingly wearing the emblem of Babylonian sun god worship has continued to this day and has become the mark of being under Rabbinic authority. It is just another reason that Rabbis are the source of Jewish trouble.
This wearing the mark of being under the authority of the Rabbis is completely contrary to the command of the Man of Truth to call no one but him "Rabbi" (Matthew 23:5-8). The Man of Truth is the only authority that men are to be under when they are praying to His Father in his name. Of course, the Man of Truth is dishonored when men among the Children of Truth wear the emblem of Babylonian sun god worship on their head while praying to the Father of Truth or giving out messages from the Father of Truth!
The ironic thing is that many of the Children of Truth are carrying on this practice from Babylonian idolatry by covering their heads with tallits or wearing yarmulkes when they pray while at the same time that they are trying to be the Mensch who killed Christmas for practices from Babylonian idolatry found in Christmas trees and the like! They should remove the plank from their own eye before trying to remove the speck from the eye of someone else (Matthew 7:3-5). They may have done this out ignorance like other people do when they put up a Christmas tree but now that they know better the Father of Truth is commanding them to repent (Acts 17:30). They need to clean their own house and learn how to restore others gently to following the right path (Galatians 6:1-3). Then they will be more effective at cleaning up the Christmas mess that has so hindered the Children of Truth.
On the other hand, while women are not to pray or prophesy without a veil their hair serves as a veil if it is long enough (1 Corinthians 11:13-15). The question then becomes: how long is long enough?
Once again we have to uncover the original Greek to answer the question. There is a third Greek word used in this allowance of the long hair of women to serve as their veil that brings clarity to the answer. This Greek word is "periboliaon" (Peribolaion example). It means "to wrap around" and is only used in one other place in the Renewed Covenant. However it comes from another Greek word "peribolla" that we get our English word "parabola" from. A parabola is an a curve that is open on one side and enclosed on three sides like for example the Gateway Arch in Saint Louis. All the places in the Renewed Covenant where this word is used in connection with clothing the wrapping occurs horizontally. So for the hair of a woman to serve has her veil it has to be long enough to cover three sides of her head leaving the face uncovered. So her hair would basically be reaching down enough to nearly touching her shoulders on all three sides so that her head is wrapped by her hair. Most of the time women have hair styles that meet these standards because long hair is the glory of a woman (1 Corinthians 11:15).
Does this mean that women must have their hair at least this long or that they cannot braid their hair?
A woman may have her hair in a pixie cut or any other shorter hairstyle that is pleasing to her husband (1 Corinthians 7:34). If a woman has a shorter haircut or perhaps does not have sufficient hair due to a medical condition then she just needs to use something to veil her head on three sides when she is praying or prophesying to show that she is operating under the authority of her husband (1 Corinthians 11:5-6). This is why women with short hair throughout the ages in most places have worn veils, scarves and even elaborate hats.
In like manner a woman may braid her hair or do anything else with it as long as she is not using it as a substitute for doing good works (1 Timothy 2:9-10). She must only be careful to make sure that her head is veiled on three sides by either unbraiding her hair or using something else like a tallit or scarf when she is praying or prophesying.
No man has authority over her in these matters about her hair other than her own husband. A woman is plainly not to be subject to the will of every man because that would be chaos. It is only her own husband who she is not to teach or to usurp his authority (1 Timothy 2:11-12). So she can dye her hair any color she wants as long as it is pleasing to her husband. There is no prohibition against dyeing hair in the Book of Truth.
So what about the hairstyles of men?
It is a shame for a man to have long hair that veils his face on three sides because a man is not meant to be veiled as if he were married to another man (1 Corinthians 11:14). Does this mean that a man cannot have long hair?
No it does not. The Father of Truth even commanded men to not cut their hair when they took a Nazirite vow (Numbers 6:2-5). Samson (Shamshon) went without a haircut most of his life for this reason (Judges 16:17). Samuel (Shmuel) never had a hair cut during his entire life to show that he had been dedicated to the Father of Truth (1 Samuel 1:11-20).
So how can a man have long hair without veiling his face?
A man can have long hair by braiding it into locks and letting the locks grow long (Numbers 6:5). This is why Samson had seven long locks of hair (Judges 16:13). Ezekiel (Yechezqel) in like manner had grown his locks of hair long enough that a hand was able to securely lift him up by the one of the locks of his hair (Ezekiel 8:3). So a man can have long hair as long as it is confined in some manner so that it does not veil his face on three sides like the hair of a woman.
So what about a man shaving his head?
The Father of Truth commanded that a man who was healed of leprosy was to have his head completely shaved by the Priests of Truth including his eyebrows (Leviticus 14:7-9). That is why the Man of Truth told the ten lepers that he healed to show themselves to the Priest of Truth (Luke 17:12-14).
In like manner, a man who took a Nazirite vow was to shave his head when he completed his vow and burn his hair as a sacrifice (Numbers 6:13-19). Even Paul the Jew (Shaul aka Saul aka the Apostle Paul) shaved his head because he had made a Nazirite vow when he left Corinth via the port of Cenchrea to return to Syria on his way to Jerusalem in 52 AD (Acts 18:18). Paul the Jew, along with four other Jewish men who were part of the Children of Truth, had his head shaved again to show completion of a Nazirite vow during his final trip to Jerusalem in 57 AD (Acts 21:22-24).
[A Nazirite vow begins with shaving the head and ends with shaving head so that all of the hair that is offered is the hair that grew during the Nazirite vow. When Jews outside of the land of Israel completed a Nazirite vow they would shave their heads there and then have their heads shaved again by the Priests of Truth the next time they were in Jerusalem. So it is uncertain if Paul the Jew was starting or ending a Nazirite vow at this time. Still it is certain that Paul the Jew also grew the locks of his hair long during the time of his Nazirite vow. If he began a Nazirite vow at Cenchrea in 52 AD and had his head shaved to show the vow was completed in 57 AD, then he did not have a haircut for five years.]
Yet there is one thing that a man must not do with his hair and that is to round the corners of the head (Leviticus 19:27). This is why some Jewish men wear payot (side locks grown at the temples of the head) because some Rabbis say that the corner of the head is the two temples of the head and rounding the corners of the head means cutting the hair at the temples short. This obviously cannot be the case because it has already been shown that the Father of Truth commands in some cases for the entire head, including the temples, to be shaved. So what does rounding the corners of the head mean?
Again, looking under the covers will go a long way to uncovering the meaning of this prohibition. The Hebrew root word translated as "corners" is "pe'ah" and more precisely means "extremity" or "sides". [The Hebrew word for "corners" is "kanaph"]. Rounding every side of something makes it into a circle. In idolatrous religions that came from Babylon men would shave a circle in their hair that was centered at the crown of their head to mark that they were under the authority and protection of the sun god. This was common among the religious professionals of the False Church of Roman in Europe during the Middle Ages. This is why religious professionals in movies about medieval Europe are often shown with a bald or shaved circle at the crown of their head like Friar Tuck in Robin Hood movies. Sometimes, the circle was made by leaving the hair centered over the crown uncut while shaving the rest of the head. So the Father of Truth commands that men not make a circle on their heads by rounding the sides of their head in either manner.
In like manner, the Priests of Truth are commanded to not make a circle of baldness by pulling their hair out as was common among the priests of Babylonian sun god worship when they were in mourning (Leviticus 21:1-6). That is why Ezra the Priest of Truth plucked out all of his hair when he went into mourning upon learning that the Jews who returned to Israel from the Babylonian captivity were marrying idolaters and taking up their practices (Ezra 9:1-3). Ezekiel, who was both a Priest of Truth and a Prophet of Truth, shaved his head as well under the commandment of the Father of Truth to show the terribleness of the judgment that would come upon Jerusalem for changing His laws (Ezekiel 5:1-8).
Of course, leaving the center of the head shaved or bald made that part of the head subject to the elements. This is why those ancient Egyptian sun worshipers were wearing those little round clothes on their heads. This is also why skull caps were almost universal among men in medieval Europe where men needed to keep their heads from being cold as well being protected from sun burn. So ironically wearing a yarmulke is really a form of rounding the corners of the head and growing payot does not change that no matter how long they are.
It should go without saying that the Man of Truth is dishonored when people are praying or prophesying in his name while when the the corners of their head have been rounded. If someone has done this in ignorance then the best thing to do is shave the entire head to get rid of the circle that comes from Babylonian sun god worship.
So the only rules for the hairstyles of men is that they must not form a circle on their head by partially shaving their head and they must confine their hair in some manner if it is long so that it does not form a veil around their face. The only exception is that the Priests of Truth when the Man of Truth rules the Earth will neither shave their heads nor grow the locks of their hair long but will instead keep it trimmed so it is between these extremes (Ezekiel 44:19-21). So their hair will be cut somewhere between perhaps an inch (2.5 cm) and six inches (15 cm). This pretty much describes the hairstyles of most men throughout the ages.
It is worth noting that the Book of Truth tells us nothing about the length of the hair of the Man of Truth. People get the idea that he had long hair due a description of him given by Josephus that says his locks rested comfortably on his shoulders. It is not even known if this description is accurate but it is likely that the Man of Truth wore payot (side locks at the temple) since that was common among Jews in Israel at the time. These would be the locks of hair that rested upon his shoulders. That would not be surprising since he is Jewish and it's a Jewish thing to be following him. In any case, however long his hair was, he made sure that it did not veil his face.
Now it must be remembered that these few rules about hats and hairstyles are not man made rules but are ordinances give to all the Children of Truth from the Father of Truth (1 Corinthians 11:1-2). There should be no contention about these rules among those who worship the Father of Truth because there are no other customs to be observed among His Children (1 Corinthians 11:16). Everything in the Book of Truth came from the Father of Truth so that His Children can carry out His will on the Earth (2 Timothy 3:16-17). No one has a right to add their own rules to these rules from the Father of Truth or to take away from His rules (Revelation 22:18-19).
The same can be said for facial hair. So what are the rules for facial hair?
The Children of Truth are not to mar the corners of their beards because that is like cutting your flesh for the dead (Leviticus 19:27-28). For this reason the Priests of Truth were not to shave off the corners of their beards when their loved ones died (Leviticus 21:1-5). So does this mean that men cannot shave or even trim their beards?
The Priests of Truth were to shave off the beard along with the hair and eyebrows of a man who was healed of leprosy (Leviticus 14:9). Mephibosheth apparently had trimmed his beard normally for it had not been trimmed the entire time that King David had been exiled from Jerusalem (2 Samuel 19:24). Ezra the Priest of Truth plucked out his beard when he went into mourning over the sins of Israel (Ezra 9:3). Ezekiel also shaved off his beard at the commandment of the Father of Truth (Ezekiel 5:1).
So this obviously does not mean that men cannot shave or trim their beards. So what does it mean?
For one final time we are going to look at the original Hebrew to find our answer. The Hebrew word translated as "corners" in these two verses is again "pe'ah" which means "extremity" or "sides". The extremity of the beard is not its outer edges but rather the top of the beard where the whiskers begin and the hair of the head ends. It is roughly the area between the top of the cheeks and a line from the outer corner of the eye to the ear hole. It is the upper extremity on those fake beards that kids wear in plays about Biblical characters. It was again a prohibition against an idolatrous practice that was part of the religion that came from ancient Babylon. It was a custom of idolaters to mar that area with cuttings so that scar tissue would be prevented any whisker from growing there So to avoid even the appearance of marring the hinges of the beard the Priests of Truth were not to even shave that part of the beard. This is where the custom of men wearing sideburns when the rest of their face is shaved came from.
So there is no prohibition against shaving except for the Priests of Truth. Nor is there any command to shave except for a man who is healed of leprosy.
Still a beard is a mark of authority on a man. It says that he is a man and not a woman. It says that he is a grown man and not a boy. It is for this reason that Hanun the king of Ammon shaved off the beards on one side of the men that King David had sent on his behalf when he thought that they were spies (2 Samuel 10:1-4). (They were literally half-shaven men.) It is for this reason that King David sent them to Jericho until their beards grew back (2 Samuel 10:5). It is for this reason that the beard of the Man of Truth was brutally pulled out during the crucifixion (Isaiah 50:6). That is why his face looked like raw hamburger when he was on the cross (Isaiah 52:13-14).
Nonetheless militaries have required their men to be clean shaven with short haircuts since the time of Alexander the Great to prevent their men from being pulled onto the sword of their enemy like Joab did to Amasa (2 Samuel 20:8-10). For similar reasons the US Air Force only allowed us to wear a small mustache so that our gas mask would seal properly. So it is reasonable for rules regarding hair and facial hair to be imposed on men under their authority to protect them from harm.
Yet it is totally unreasonable to impose any such requirement upon men by the religious professionals who run a church or Christian university. Worse yet these religious professionals often claim to get this authority to do so from the Book of Truth! By adding their own commandments regarding hair and facial hair they would prevent all of the authors used to write the Book of Truth from attending their institution! They would even be excluding the Man of Truth from being on their campus! What are they thinking!?!
Those religious professionals who do so are no better than the Rabbis for making the Word of Truth of no effect through their own traditions (Matthew 15:2-6). Their added commandments are teaching a doctrine of their own that is no better than the commandments of the Rabbis concerning the washing of pots (Mark 7:7-9). It is time that these religious professionals repent for adding their own traditions to the the Word of Truth. If they will not repent then the commandment of the Father of Truth is for the Children of Truth to withdraw from them until they stop teaching traditions that are contrary to what is taught in the Renewed Covenant (2 Thessalonians 3:6).
Of course, these few rules concerning what is on your head, especially when praying or prophesying, only matter after you come into the House of Truth. The rules of the Father of Truth are for the Children of Truth who live in the House of Truth. The Man of Truth has authority over what is on your head when you submit to his authority because you believe that His Father raised him from the dead (Romans 10:9).
Come into the House of Truth.
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posted by The House Of Truth @ February 15, 2015
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