The Hijacked House
How did Christians come to adopt Pagan customs?
I have had many discussion with the Children of Truth (those who obey The Father of Truth because they love Him) about customs that most of them have adopted, which have no foundation in the Book of Truth (The Bible).
For example, some of them did not know when the Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ) was born. They honestly thought, that it was on December 25th. Some of them have even thought, that there is some command in the Renewed Covenant (B'rit Chadashah aka The New Testament) to celebrate his birthday on Christmas.
They did not even know that what is often called the Christmas Story, is not telling the same story about the birth of the Man of Truth as the Renewed Covenant . They certainly had no idea about the story behind the story.
Some of them still even provoked the Satan Clause, to deceive their own children each year.
This is not just limited to Christmas, but to many other customs. I have meant some, who honestly believed that Ash Wednesday was in the Renewed Covenant somewhere. Some even thought, that Halloween is a Christian holiday, sanctioned by the Renewed Covenant.
They met on Sunday, because they did not know who changed the Sabbath. Some did not even know, that they need to give one day a week to the Father of Truth.
One of the most common lies about how Christians adopted these customs, is that Saint Patrick taught people to do these things.
He did the very opposite, and practiced Celtic Christianity in its original form, which had absolutely none of these customs. He taught people wish each other Happy Firstfruits, instead of Happy Easter. He understood that keeping the customs given by the Father of Truth, instead of Pagan customs, is not just a Jewish thing. He demonstrated how to fully carry out the Great Commission.
So how did all of these Pagan customs get adopted by Christians?
This can perhaps be best illustrated by the story of the hijacked house.
There once was a magnificent twenty-seven floor house in a city located in the dark and swampy land of the west, called The Beautiful House. While the skies of The West Land were always overcast and gloomy, this house always glowed with light. The Beautiful House was celebrated throughout the Earth for its beauty.
Each floor had a different number of rooms. Some had only one large room, while others had as many as twenty-eight rooms.
On the floors with more than one room, the size of the rooms varied greatly in size. Still, every room of every floor was beautiful beyond compare.
The floors of each room were covered by beautiful long rugs, that never needed cleaning, and always looked brand new. These long rugs formed strips of various widths, that covered the entire width of the floor. Some rooms had a few long rugs, while others had many.
Each of the beautiful long rugs were formed by panels, scaled in length to the number of panels in the rug. Each panel was the same width as the rug it helped form. Some of the beautiful long rugs had a few long panels, while others had many short panels. Many of the panels formed a sort of mosaic of decorations from places both familiar and strange. Yet others formed a sort of mosaic of decorations that were unlike any place on Earth.
The Beautiful House also had an a beautiful round glass elevator on the northern wall, that allowed access to any floor that one wished to go. On each floor, there was a narrow hallway along the northern wall that gave access to each room. In each room, there was a narrow walkway along the northern wall that gave access to each rug. There was also a narrow band between rugs, where one walk to could reach any panel.
The Beautiful House was also celebrated for the transformation that it could bring to those, who spent a lot of time in it. The sick were healed. The insane were made sane. The poor ceased to be poor. Broken relationships were mended. Every type of problem experienced by people could be solved, by them going into this house frequently.
Yet one man in this city, named Christian, questioned if The Beautiful House really belonged in their dark and swampy land of the west. He could not help but notice, that the foundation under The Beautiful House did not match the house.
First, every floor of The Beautiful House had passages, entered via trapdoors hidden under some of the rugs. Some hidden passages lead to other floors of The Beautiful House, but others lead to nowhere. They just came to a dead end when they reached the foundation. It seemed as if the foundation should have had somewhere for these passages to go.
Then there was the foundation itself. It just did not fit The Beautiful House at all. It was the wrong shape and size. Some places, The Beautiful House hung over the foundation, while other places, the foundation extended far out from The Beautiful House.
Also, while The Beautiful House was all beauty and light, the foundation was all Gothic and dark. Also, while the walls of the house was deep and strong, the foundation was shallow and weak.
The more Christian thought about it, the more sure he became, that The Beautiful House should be setting on a different foundation, than the one in a city located in the dark and swampy land of the west.
Christian decided to ask The Historian about this. If anyone knew if The Beautiful House should be sitting on a different foundation, it was him.
The Historian told Christian that nobody had asked him this before, and he was not sure. However, he promised go look in the archives, to see what they said about this. He told Christian to return in three days, and he would let Christian know what he found.
Three days later, The Historian reported what he had found.
The foundation under The Beautiful House, were the ruins of the foundation that had been under the fortress of The Dark Lord, known as The Dreadful Citadel. The Dark Lord had ruled over The West Land, from The Dreadful Citadel, before The Sent Ones led the West Landers in bringing an end to his brutal rule.
The Dreadful Citadel had been Gothic and dark in appearance. It had not contained beautiful rooms, but dark and gloomy chambers. It had not been a place of healing and hope, but a place of pain and despair. Everyone dreaded being taken captive and imprisoned in The Dreadful Citadel.
After the rule of The Dark Lord came to an end, then his fortress was demolished, and The Beautiful House had been placed on the ruins of the foundation of The Dreadful Citadel.
The Historian also showed Christian a map of the foundation of The Dreadful Citadel, before it was mostly destroyed, and The Beautiful House was placed on it. The foundation of The Dreadful Citadel had contained images of the idols that The Dark Lord had used to enslave the West Landers in fear and depravity, before The Sent Ones had brought them deliverance. It also showed West Landers committing all kinds of wickedness in their worship of these idols. The Dreadful Citadel had sat on The Foundation of Idolatry.
The Foundation of Idolatry had once been much thicker and stronger, but The Sent Ones had led the West Landers in destroy it. They completely destroy the top surfaced that contained all of the images of idols and idol worship.
The Preachers, whom The Sent Ones raised up to continue their work after they died, were supposed to lead the West Landers in finishing the work of completely getting rid of The Foundation of Idolatry. Instead, The Preachers let the ruins of The Foundation of Idolatry remain in The West Land. The ruins of The Foundation of Idolatry were the shallow and weak foundation, that The Beautiful House now sat upon.
Lastly, The Historian told Christian that there was an oral history, that was written long after the fact, that said that The Beautiful House had originally set on a magnificent structure in The Golden City at the center of The Center Land. He told Christian if he went to The Golden City, then he should find The Sage, who as the wisest man in The Center Land.
So, Christian made a map of the bottom of The Beautiful House, and carefully noted the exact location where each passage met the foundation. He then set out to see, if he could find the foundation that fit The Beautiful House in The Golden City at the center of The Center Land.
Soon he reached The Center Land, that was connected to the lands of the north, south, east and west, but it was by far the smallest of all lands.
The first thing he noticed, was the Center Landers were different from the people of all other lands.
The second thing he noticed, was that once he entered The Center Land, he was always going up as he moved towards The Golden City In fact, the edge of The Center Land was raised a little higher than the lands connected to it, and he had to go up, just to enter The Center Land.
The third thing he noticed, was that as he traveled towards The Golden City, that the skies became clearer and brighter.
About two days after he had first entered The Center Land, he began to make out The Golden City in the distance. As he made his way to The Golden City, it became apparent why it was named that. The entire city was made from gold colored stone.
When Christian got close to The Golden City, he could see a magnificent structure rising up from the center of the city. It was as beautiful as The Beautiful House, but the top of it looked flat and barren.
When he came to The Golden City, his heart raced. Christian thought, surely this magnificent structure in the center of the city must be the long forgotten original foundation of The Beautiful House!
Christian decided that he needed to investigate further to be sure.
The only problem was that he could not get to base of the magnificent structure, because someone had built a wall completely around it. To make matters worse, when Christian entered some of the openings in the wall, he found himself in an incredible maze. He was only able to find his way back out, because he had the foresight to marked an arrow showing which way he had came from on each wall with chalk.
He was not sure what to do, after he had spent a few days looking for a way past the wall, but could not find one. Then he remembered that The Historian had told him to seek out The Sage, if he needed help.
Soon, Christian found The Sage, who was famous in The Golden City. He explained to The Sage about his quest to find the true foundation of The Beautiful House, his desire to investigate the magnificent structure to see if it was that foundation, and the wall that hemmed in the magnificent structure in the center of The Golden City.
The Sage promised to help him, if he could accompany Christian. So the next day, The Sage showed Christian a hidden passage that gave him direct access to the base of the magnificent structure. So they went through the passage, and were soon at the bottom of the magnificent structure.
As they walked around the bottom of the magnificent structure, they found a shaft for a round elevator on the north wall, that was the same width as one on The Beautiful House. Also like The Beautiful House, there was only one opening per floor at the elevator shaft.
Christian realized that this structure was taller than The Beautiful House. He counted that thirty-nine stories. Also it somehow seemed older. So, Christian decided to enter on the beginning floor to look for a passage to the top.
Christian discovered that the floor had a long hall way on the north side, and the doors of many rooms on it. In fact, he counted fifty rooms, almost twice as many rooms as any floor of The Beautiful House.
When he entered the first room, he found that it was laid out with rugs in the exact same manner as The Beautiful House. The rugs in like manner, were made of panels, just like The Beautiful House.
So, Christian began checking for trapdoors, and sure enough, there were trap doors under some of the rugs. When he entered one of the passages under the trap door, he found that the passage soon started going upwards. Soon he was using the passages to travel up towards the top of the magnificent structure.
By the time that he had reached the top of the magnificent structure, he had came to appreciate the complexity of it. Although one floor had only one room, like some of the floors of The Beautiful House, one floor had one hundred and fifty rooms!
Next, Christian began comparing the location of passage openings on the top of the structure, to those on the map that he had made of the bottom of The Beautiful House. He found that they were an exact match! In fact, everything about the magnificent structure lined up with The Beautiful House. He was sure that he had found the original foundation of The Beautiful House!
So, he went back down to the bottom, and reported to The Sage all that he had discovered. The Sage then invited Christian to stay at his house that night, and they would discuss the magnificent structure and The Beautiful House.
After dinner, The Sage asked Christian to tell him everything that he knew about The Beautiful House, and everything he had discovered that day about the magnificent structure. The Sage listened intensely to every detail and stroked his beard.
When he finished, The Sage told him that it all made sense. Now, he would tell Christian about the hijacked house.
The Sage began by telling Christian, that the magnificent structure was called, The Foundation Of Holiness.
The Sage explained how The Builder had worked through the Center Landers over a period of more than a thousand years to build The Foundation of Holiness. Those who led these efforts were called The Foretellers. The materials for The Foundation of Holiness had came from The South Land, and The East Land, as well as The Center Land.
The Foretellers, who were appointed in different generations to build their part of The Foundation of Holiness, all spoke of a day when The Carpenter, the son of The Builder, would come down from Heaven, to cause a house to be built upon The Foundation of Holiness.
The Sage carefully explained that The Dark Lord had not just had sway over the West Landers, but over all the people of the Earth, including the Center Landers. He also explained that The Dark Lord was not human, but was an immortal shape shifter. He further explained how The Dark Lord had tried to prevent The Foundation of Holiness from being built, but could not.
After the last of The Foretellers died, The Dark Lord tried to destroy The Foundation of Holiness, but he could not prevail in that either. The Builder had raised up The Scribes, from the last days of The Foretellers, to defend The Foundation of Holiness until The Carpenter caused a house to be built on it.
So instead, The Dark Lord convinced many of the Center Landers to build The Great Maze around the base of The Foundation of Holiness. These Center Landers, who were called The Masters, then told everyone that The Great Maze was to protect The Foundation of Holiness, but they really built it to keep people from accessing The Foundation of Holiness themselves.
Soon, the Center Landers found it very difficult to gain entry into The Foundation of Holiness. Instead, the Center Landers had to rely on The Masters to tell them what was in The Foundation of Holiness. However, The Masters did not know themselves what was in The Foundation of Holiness, because they did not go into it very deeply. Anyone that went into it deeply, understood what would happen when The Carpenter arrived.
After a few centuries, The Carpenter came down from Heaven to cause a house to be built upon The Foundation of Holiness. The Carpenter began to inspire the Center Landers to really explore the Foundation of Holiness for themselves, and to prepare to build a house upon it. He created passages that bypassed The Great Maze, so they could do this.
Soon The Masters realized that they were losing their control of the Center Landers to The Carpenter. So, they worked with The Dark Lord in a plot to kill The Carpenter.
However, The Masters did not understand what they were really doing. For even though, they managed to get The Carpenter killed by some West Landers, this was part of the plan, which was hidden in the rooms of The Foundation of Holiness.
Three days after they killed The Carpenter, The Builder raised him from the dead. The Carpenter then commissioned The Sent Ones to build The Beautiful House on The Foundation of Holiness, and invite all the people of the Earth to come into The Beautiful House. He then returned to Heaven, after giving one final instruction for The Sent Ones to wait in The Golden City for The Living Fire, who would help them overcome The Dark Lord.
After The Living Fire came to help them, The Sent Ones began building The Beautiful House upon The Foundation of Holiness.
However, The Masters continued to stir up trouble for The Sent Ones. They did not like The Beautiful House, that The Sent Ones were building, for it reminded everyone, that they had been behind the death of The Carpenter.
The Masters also did what they could, to keep the Center Landers out of The Foundation of Holiness. They had observed, that those who really explored The Foundation of Holiness, would invariably find one of the hidden passages, and end up in The Beautiful House.
So The Sent Ones went outside of The Center Lands to get help in building The Beautiful House. Everywhere they went, they found that many people yearned to be free of the control of The Dark Lord. This was especially true in The West Land.
So, they led the West Landers in bringing an end to his rule over them, and destroying The Dreadful Citadel. The Sent Ones then led the West Landers up higher, by bringing them into The Beautiful House, that sat upon The Foundation of Holiness.
Thus, in less than seventy years, The Sent Ones built The Beautiful House on The Foundation of Holiness. The materials for The Beautiful House came from The North Land and The West Land, along with The Center Land.
After the last of The Sent Ones died, The Dark Lord discovered that he could not destroy The Beautiful House either. The Builder had raised up defenders of it from among the Center Landers and West Landers, called The Preachers, who were assisted by The Living Fire. So, he came up with a plot to keep The Beautiful House from fulfilling the purpose for which it was built, by causing The Preachers to not be able to understand that purpose.
First, The Dark Lord worked through The Masters to convince almost all of the Center Landers, that they did not want The Beautiful House in their land. The Masters convinced most of the Center Landers, that all they really needed was The Foundation of Holiness, and they did not even need to bother going into that themselves. The Masters told the Center Landers, that they alone understood how to navigate The Great Maze, and they would give them everything they needed from The Foundation of Holiness.
Next, The Dark Lord raised up a group among the West Landers that were similar to The Masters, called The Clergy. The Clergy convinced the West Landers that they needed to rely on The Clergy to get what they needed from The Beautiful House, and give it to them. The Clergy began stirring up resentment among the West Landers over having to go up to The Foundation of Holiness in order to come into The Beautiful House. Soon, The Clergy raised up hatred among the West Landers against The Foundation of Holiness itself.
Last, The Dark Lord got The Masters and The Clergy to work together to hijack The Beautiful House from The Foundation of Holiness, and place it on the ruins of The Foundation of Idolatry instead. The Masters convinced most of the Center Landers to release their ownership of The Beautiful House, and give it to The Clergy.
The Clergy then brought in a great army of West Landers to separate The Beautiful House from The Foundation of Holiness in the bright and clear land of the center, and place it on the ruins of The Foundation of Idolatry in the dark and swampy land of the west.
So, The Beautiful House had sat on the wrong foundation for many centuries. Even though the Center Landers had been scattered among all the people of the Earth, very few could recognize that this was The Beautiful House spoke of by The Foretellers. Even though many people, particularly the West Landers went into The Beautiful House, they could not understand the true purpose of it, because that required The Foundation of Holiness.
Christian sat there stunned when The Sage finished. He had been right about The Beautiful House having originally been built on a different foundation than the ruins of The Foundation of Idolatry, but he had not understood why it bothered him. He now understood that this had all been the work of The Living Fire.
So Christian asked The Sage, what could be done to return The Beautiful House to The Foundation of Holiness, so that the true purpose of The Beautiful House could be realized?
The Sage began his answer, by telling Christian his story.
He had been raised in The Golden City, and as a boy had found one of the hidden passages that bypassed The Great Maze. He told about how he had explored The Foundation of Holiness, and realized that it a house had once sat upon it.
He had heard of The Beautiful House, for its fame went throughout the Earth, and thought that perhaps it was the house that had once sat upon The Foundation of Holiness. So, he made a precise map of top of The Foundation of Holiness, including the exact placement of where the hidden passages came out.
He then traveled to the city that Christian was from in The West Land, to investigate. He explored The Beautiful House, but could not see how it could have been connected to The Foundation of Holiness.
He was about to go home in despair, when he met The Historian. The Historian told him, that there was a legend that The Beautiful House had came from The Center Land, but he had not looked into the archives to see if the legend was true.
So The Sage went back into The Beautiful House to examine the hidden passages, and map where they ended. When he was done, he realized that the hidden passages that ended at the foundation of The Beautiful House, matched the location where the hidden passages came out on the top of The Foundation of Holiness.
So, he told his friend The Historian good-bye. The Sage then returned to tell his people in the Center Land that he had found the house, which The Foretellers had spoken of in The Foundation of Holiness.
When he returned, he found that there was great resistance to this news. Most simply chose to believe The Masters, without even looking into the matter for themselves. However, he did manage to get a few of them to explore The Foundation of Holiness with him. He then showed them how The Beautiful House fit all the clues that The Foretellers had left in The Foundation of Holiness.
Like Christian, he too longed for The Beautiful House to be taken off the ruins of The Foundation of Idolatry, and placed again on The Foundation of Holiness.
So, he made numerous trips to both The Beautiful House and The Foundation of Holiness to see if they contained an answer.
Christian wanted to know, if he had found an answer.
The Sage said, that he had indeed. The Beautiful House would be moved back to The Foundation of Holiness by The Carpenter, when the Center Landers asked him to do so. This would not be resisted by the West Landers, because they would no longer desire to visit The Beautiful House.
The Sage explained that there were already West Landers, who were rebuilding The Foundation of Idolatry in a new location, to replace the one that laid in ruins under The Beautiful House. They planned to rebuild The Dreadful Citadel for The Dark Lord as well.
The Sage went on to explain that The Dark Lord had once had such fortress in every land, and would have them again. It was only the Faithful Few, like Christian, that had destroyed these fortresses, and were keeping The Dark Lord from rebuilding them.
However, The Carpenter will soon take the Faithful Few off the Earth, so that no one would stand in the way of The Dark Lord. The Dark Lord would then raise up a man, who would do all of his will on the Earth. Then the old fortresses would be raise up again.
This man would make a treaty with The Center Land, and then break that treaty when their guard was down. He would then try to destroy the Center Landers off the face of the Earth.
After seven years of his oppression, when all becomes hopeless for the Center Landers, the people of The Golden City will cry out to The Carpenter to save them. Then The Carpenter will come with an army of the Faithful Few to save them from The Dark Lord and his armies.
After the defeat of The Dark Lord, The Carpenter will then place The Beautiful House back on The Foundation of Holiness. Then The Beautiful House will be in position to begin to finish the purpose for which it was built.
The West Landers, and all people, will then despise the ruins of The Foundation of Idolatry in their land, and finally remove them completely off the face of the Earth. All of the Center Landers will be returned to The Center Land. The Center Land will become the most prosperous country on Earth. The Golden City will become the capital of the whole Earth. The entire Earth will experience peace and prosperity that has never known, under the rule of The Carpenter and the Faithful Few.
Christian asked what he could do today. Most of the Center Landers did not want The Beautiful House moved back to The Golden City, and most of the West Landers did not want to move The Beautiful House from the ruins of The Foundation of Idolatry.
The Sage told him to visit both The Beautiful House and The Foundation of Holiness often. He told Christian to follow those passages that he found that lead to the bottom of The Beautiful House to their origin in The Foundation of Holiness. He told Christian to put the customs he found in The Foundation of Holiness into practice, and many mysterious things in The Beautiful House would start to make sense. He told Christian to have nothing to do with anything from the ruins of The Foundation of Idolatry, because they were senseless, and had absolutely nothing to do with The Beautiful House.
It is the same with us.
Christians came to adopt these pagan customs, that came from idolatry, by the subtle work of the Father of Lies (HaShatan aka Satan Aka The Devil).
The Father of Lies was able to accomplish this, by working through the Rabbis to get the Jewish people, particularly from Jerusalem, to put a maze of man made traditions around the Original Covenant (Tanakh aka The Old Testament), and to reject the Renewed Covenant (B'rit Chadashah aka The New Testament). He was able to accomplish this, by working with the clergy of the False Church of Rome to move the Renewed Covenant off the foundation of the Original Covenant, and onto the ruins of a foundation of idolatry.
We should realize that trying to put the Renewed Covenant upon any foundation, other than that of the Original Covenant, will not fit, any more than The Beautiful House would fit upon the ruins of The Foundation of Idolatry. We should realize that we have been visiting a hijacked house, when we try to use the Renewed Covenant to justify the customs of Christmas, Ash Wednesday, Easter, Sunday worship, and the like, which are the ruins of a foundation of idolatry. They simply do not fit the Renewed Covenant - and they never will.
Like Christian, we are being called to go up higher to the place created by the Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD), instead of trying to bring the work of the Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ) down to the place, where we are used to living at.
Like Christian, we should abandon every custom that comes from the ruins of the idolatry, which our ancestors once practiced. These practices are senseless, and have nothing to do with the Renewed Covenant. Trying to make sense of the Renewed Covenant by using these customs, is a passage that leads to nowhere.
Like The Beautiful House was never meant to be separated from The Foundation of Holiness, so also there is no real separation between the Renewed Covenant and the Original Covenant. There are countless passages in the Renewed Covenant that are connected to passages in the Original Covenant. For example, the Book of Revelation has 640 references and allusions to passages in the Original Covenant. We can never begin to understand the full purpose of the Renewed Covenant, without spending considerable time in the Original Covenant.
Like Christian, we have to learn by doing. Many things in the Renewed Covenant will only start to make sense, after we put into practice the customs found in the Original Covenant. These are the same customs, that the Apostles of Truth taught the Children of Truth to put into practice in the Renewed Covenant. These are the same customs, that Saint Patrick taught people to put into practice.
We should follow the example of Saint Patrick.
Saint Patrick did everything he could to destroy the foundation of the idolatry of the Celts, but he did not live long enough to get rid of the ruins. That would have required a concentrated effort over the course of several generations, but many in the generations after him wanted to keep those customs.
Saint Patrick did everything he could to teach people how to put into practice the customs found in the Original Covenant, so the Renewed Covenant would make more sense. He was in no way responsible for the hijacked house.
Of course, Saint Patrick recognized, that it does not matter what customs people keep, unless they first come into the House of Truth.
They cannot come into the House of Truth by keeping the customs of the Original Covenant (Galatians 2:16). They cannot come into the House of Truth by abandoning the customs from the ruins of idolatry, even though the Children of Truth are commanded to have nothing to do with them (Galatians 4:8-10). The only right motivation for keeping the customs of the Original Covenant, instead of the customs from the ruins of idolatry, is a desire to walk in truth to please the Father of Truth, after they have come into the House of Truth (2 John 1:1-4).
They can only come into the House of Truth by making the Man of Truth their lord, because they believe that the Father of Truth raised him from the dead (Romans 10:9)!
Come into the House of Truth!
I have had many discussion with the Children of Truth (those who obey The Father of Truth because they love Him) about customs that most of them have adopted, which have no foundation in the Book of Truth (The Bible).
For example, some of them did not know when the Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ) was born. They honestly thought, that it was on December 25th. Some of them have even thought, that there is some command in the Renewed Covenant (B'rit Chadashah aka The New Testament) to celebrate his birthday on Christmas.
They did not even know that what is often called the Christmas Story, is not telling the same story about the birth of the Man of Truth as the Renewed Covenant . They certainly had no idea about the story behind the story.
Some of them still even provoked the Satan Clause, to deceive their own children each year.
This is not just limited to Christmas, but to many other customs. I have meant some, who honestly believed that Ash Wednesday was in the Renewed Covenant somewhere. Some even thought, that Halloween is a Christian holiday, sanctioned by the Renewed Covenant.
They met on Sunday, because they did not know who changed the Sabbath. Some did not even know, that they need to give one day a week to the Father of Truth.
One of the most common lies about how Christians adopted these customs, is that Saint Patrick taught people to do these things.
He did the very opposite, and practiced Celtic Christianity in its original form, which had absolutely none of these customs. He taught people wish each other Happy Firstfruits, instead of Happy Easter. He understood that keeping the customs given by the Father of Truth, instead of Pagan customs, is not just a Jewish thing. He demonstrated how to fully carry out the Great Commission.
So how did all of these Pagan customs get adopted by Christians?
This can perhaps be best illustrated by the story of the hijacked house.
There once was a magnificent twenty-seven floor house in a city located in the dark and swampy land of the west, called The Beautiful House. While the skies of The West Land were always overcast and gloomy, this house always glowed with light. The Beautiful House was celebrated throughout the Earth for its beauty.
Each floor had a different number of rooms. Some had only one large room, while others had as many as twenty-eight rooms.
On the floors with more than one room, the size of the rooms varied greatly in size. Still, every room of every floor was beautiful beyond compare.
The floors of each room were covered by beautiful long rugs, that never needed cleaning, and always looked brand new. These long rugs formed strips of various widths, that covered the entire width of the floor. Some rooms had a few long rugs, while others had many.
Each of the beautiful long rugs were formed by panels, scaled in length to the number of panels in the rug. Each panel was the same width as the rug it helped form. Some of the beautiful long rugs had a few long panels, while others had many short panels. Many of the panels formed a sort of mosaic of decorations from places both familiar and strange. Yet others formed a sort of mosaic of decorations that were unlike any place on Earth.
The Beautiful House also had an a beautiful round glass elevator on the northern wall, that allowed access to any floor that one wished to go. On each floor, there was a narrow hallway along the northern wall that gave access to each room. In each room, there was a narrow walkway along the northern wall that gave access to each rug. There was also a narrow band between rugs, where one walk to could reach any panel.
The Beautiful House was also celebrated for the transformation that it could bring to those, who spent a lot of time in it. The sick were healed. The insane were made sane. The poor ceased to be poor. Broken relationships were mended. Every type of problem experienced by people could be solved, by them going into this house frequently.
Yet one man in this city, named Christian, questioned if The Beautiful House really belonged in their dark and swampy land of the west. He could not help but notice, that the foundation under The Beautiful House did not match the house.
First, every floor of The Beautiful House had passages, entered via trapdoors hidden under some of the rugs. Some hidden passages lead to other floors of The Beautiful House, but others lead to nowhere. They just came to a dead end when they reached the foundation. It seemed as if the foundation should have had somewhere for these passages to go.
Then there was the foundation itself. It just did not fit The Beautiful House at all. It was the wrong shape and size. Some places, The Beautiful House hung over the foundation, while other places, the foundation extended far out from The Beautiful House.
Also, while The Beautiful House was all beauty and light, the foundation was all Gothic and dark. Also, while the walls of the house was deep and strong, the foundation was shallow and weak.
The more Christian thought about it, the more sure he became, that The Beautiful House should be setting on a different foundation, than the one in a city located in the dark and swampy land of the west.
Christian decided to ask The Historian about this. If anyone knew if The Beautiful House should be sitting on a different foundation, it was him.
The Historian told Christian that nobody had asked him this before, and he was not sure. However, he promised go look in the archives, to see what they said about this. He told Christian to return in three days, and he would let Christian know what he found.
Three days later, The Historian reported what he had found.
The foundation under The Beautiful House, were the ruins of the foundation that had been under the fortress of The Dark Lord, known as The Dreadful Citadel. The Dark Lord had ruled over The West Land, from The Dreadful Citadel, before The Sent Ones led the West Landers in bringing an end to his brutal rule.
The Dreadful Citadel had been Gothic and dark in appearance. It had not contained beautiful rooms, but dark and gloomy chambers. It had not been a place of healing and hope, but a place of pain and despair. Everyone dreaded being taken captive and imprisoned in The Dreadful Citadel.
After the rule of The Dark Lord came to an end, then his fortress was demolished, and The Beautiful House had been placed on the ruins of the foundation of The Dreadful Citadel.
The Historian also showed Christian a map of the foundation of The Dreadful Citadel, before it was mostly destroyed, and The Beautiful House was placed on it. The foundation of The Dreadful Citadel had contained images of the idols that The Dark Lord had used to enslave the West Landers in fear and depravity, before The Sent Ones had brought them deliverance. It also showed West Landers committing all kinds of wickedness in their worship of these idols. The Dreadful Citadel had sat on The Foundation of Idolatry.
The Foundation of Idolatry had once been much thicker and stronger, but The Sent Ones had led the West Landers in destroy it. They completely destroy the top surfaced that contained all of the images of idols and idol worship.
The Preachers, whom The Sent Ones raised up to continue their work after they died, were supposed to lead the West Landers in finishing the work of completely getting rid of The Foundation of Idolatry. Instead, The Preachers let the ruins of The Foundation of Idolatry remain in The West Land. The ruins of The Foundation of Idolatry were the shallow and weak foundation, that The Beautiful House now sat upon.
Lastly, The Historian told Christian that there was an oral history, that was written long after the fact, that said that The Beautiful House had originally set on a magnificent structure in The Golden City at the center of The Center Land. He told Christian if he went to The Golden City, then he should find The Sage, who as the wisest man in The Center Land.
So, Christian made a map of the bottom of The Beautiful House, and carefully noted the exact location where each passage met the foundation. He then set out to see, if he could find the foundation that fit The Beautiful House in The Golden City at the center of The Center Land.
Soon he reached The Center Land, that was connected to the lands of the north, south, east and west, but it was by far the smallest of all lands.
The first thing he noticed, was the Center Landers were different from the people of all other lands.
The second thing he noticed, was that once he entered The Center Land, he was always going up as he moved towards The Golden City In fact, the edge of The Center Land was raised a little higher than the lands connected to it, and he had to go up, just to enter The Center Land.
The third thing he noticed, was that as he traveled towards The Golden City, that the skies became clearer and brighter.
About two days after he had first entered The Center Land, he began to make out The Golden City in the distance. As he made his way to The Golden City, it became apparent why it was named that. The entire city was made from gold colored stone.
When Christian got close to The Golden City, he could see a magnificent structure rising up from the center of the city. It was as beautiful as The Beautiful House, but the top of it looked flat and barren.
When he came to The Golden City, his heart raced. Christian thought, surely this magnificent structure in the center of the city must be the long forgotten original foundation of The Beautiful House!
Christian decided that he needed to investigate further to be sure.
The only problem was that he could not get to base of the magnificent structure, because someone had built a wall completely around it. To make matters worse, when Christian entered some of the openings in the wall, he found himself in an incredible maze. He was only able to find his way back out, because he had the foresight to marked an arrow showing which way he had came from on each wall with chalk.
He was not sure what to do, after he had spent a few days looking for a way past the wall, but could not find one. Then he remembered that The Historian had told him to seek out The Sage, if he needed help.
Soon, Christian found The Sage, who was famous in The Golden City. He explained to The Sage about his quest to find the true foundation of The Beautiful House, his desire to investigate the magnificent structure to see if it was that foundation, and the wall that hemmed in the magnificent structure in the center of The Golden City.
The Sage promised to help him, if he could accompany Christian. So the next day, The Sage showed Christian a hidden passage that gave him direct access to the base of the magnificent structure. So they went through the passage, and were soon at the bottom of the magnificent structure.
As they walked around the bottom of the magnificent structure, they found a shaft for a round elevator on the north wall, that was the same width as one on The Beautiful House. Also like The Beautiful House, there was only one opening per floor at the elevator shaft.
Christian realized that this structure was taller than The Beautiful House. He counted that thirty-nine stories. Also it somehow seemed older. So, Christian decided to enter on the beginning floor to look for a passage to the top.
Christian discovered that the floor had a long hall way on the north side, and the doors of many rooms on it. In fact, he counted fifty rooms, almost twice as many rooms as any floor of The Beautiful House.
When he entered the first room, he found that it was laid out with rugs in the exact same manner as The Beautiful House. The rugs in like manner, were made of panels, just like The Beautiful House.
So, Christian began checking for trapdoors, and sure enough, there were trap doors under some of the rugs. When he entered one of the passages under the trap door, he found that the passage soon started going upwards. Soon he was using the passages to travel up towards the top of the magnificent structure.
By the time that he had reached the top of the magnificent structure, he had came to appreciate the complexity of it. Although one floor had only one room, like some of the floors of The Beautiful House, one floor had one hundred and fifty rooms!
Next, Christian began comparing the location of passage openings on the top of the structure, to those on the map that he had made of the bottom of The Beautiful House. He found that they were an exact match! In fact, everything about the magnificent structure lined up with The Beautiful House. He was sure that he had found the original foundation of The Beautiful House!
So, he went back down to the bottom, and reported to The Sage all that he had discovered. The Sage then invited Christian to stay at his house that night, and they would discuss the magnificent structure and The Beautiful House.
After dinner, The Sage asked Christian to tell him everything that he knew about The Beautiful House, and everything he had discovered that day about the magnificent structure. The Sage listened intensely to every detail and stroked his beard.
When he finished, The Sage told him that it all made sense. Now, he would tell Christian about the hijacked house.
The Sage began by telling Christian, that the magnificent structure was called, The Foundation Of Holiness.
The Sage explained how The Builder had worked through the Center Landers over a period of more than a thousand years to build The Foundation of Holiness. Those who led these efforts were called The Foretellers. The materials for The Foundation of Holiness had came from The South Land, and The East Land, as well as The Center Land.
The Foretellers, who were appointed in different generations to build their part of The Foundation of Holiness, all spoke of a day when The Carpenter, the son of The Builder, would come down from Heaven, to cause a house to be built upon The Foundation of Holiness.
The Sage carefully explained that The Dark Lord had not just had sway over the West Landers, but over all the people of the Earth, including the Center Landers. He also explained that The Dark Lord was not human, but was an immortal shape shifter. He further explained how The Dark Lord had tried to prevent The Foundation of Holiness from being built, but could not.
After the last of The Foretellers died, The Dark Lord tried to destroy The Foundation of Holiness, but he could not prevail in that either. The Builder had raised up The Scribes, from the last days of The Foretellers, to defend The Foundation of Holiness until The Carpenter caused a house to be built on it.
So instead, The Dark Lord convinced many of the Center Landers to build The Great Maze around the base of The Foundation of Holiness. These Center Landers, who were called The Masters, then told everyone that The Great Maze was to protect The Foundation of Holiness, but they really built it to keep people from accessing The Foundation of Holiness themselves.
Soon, the Center Landers found it very difficult to gain entry into The Foundation of Holiness. Instead, the Center Landers had to rely on The Masters to tell them what was in The Foundation of Holiness. However, The Masters did not know themselves what was in The Foundation of Holiness, because they did not go into it very deeply. Anyone that went into it deeply, understood what would happen when The Carpenter arrived.
After a few centuries, The Carpenter came down from Heaven to cause a house to be built upon The Foundation of Holiness. The Carpenter began to inspire the Center Landers to really explore the Foundation of Holiness for themselves, and to prepare to build a house upon it. He created passages that bypassed The Great Maze, so they could do this.
Soon The Masters realized that they were losing their control of the Center Landers to The Carpenter. So, they worked with The Dark Lord in a plot to kill The Carpenter.
However, The Masters did not understand what they were really doing. For even though, they managed to get The Carpenter killed by some West Landers, this was part of the plan, which was hidden in the rooms of The Foundation of Holiness.
Three days after they killed The Carpenter, The Builder raised him from the dead. The Carpenter then commissioned The Sent Ones to build The Beautiful House on The Foundation of Holiness, and invite all the people of the Earth to come into The Beautiful House. He then returned to Heaven, after giving one final instruction for The Sent Ones to wait in The Golden City for The Living Fire, who would help them overcome The Dark Lord.
After The Living Fire came to help them, The Sent Ones began building The Beautiful House upon The Foundation of Holiness.
However, The Masters continued to stir up trouble for The Sent Ones. They did not like The Beautiful House, that The Sent Ones were building, for it reminded everyone, that they had been behind the death of The Carpenter.
The Masters also did what they could, to keep the Center Landers out of The Foundation of Holiness. They had observed, that those who really explored The Foundation of Holiness, would invariably find one of the hidden passages, and end up in The Beautiful House.
So The Sent Ones went outside of The Center Lands to get help in building The Beautiful House. Everywhere they went, they found that many people yearned to be free of the control of The Dark Lord. This was especially true in The West Land.
So, they led the West Landers in bringing an end to his rule over them, and destroying The Dreadful Citadel. The Sent Ones then led the West Landers up higher, by bringing them into The Beautiful House, that sat upon The Foundation of Holiness.
Thus, in less than seventy years, The Sent Ones built The Beautiful House on The Foundation of Holiness. The materials for The Beautiful House came from The North Land and The West Land, along with The Center Land.
After the last of The Sent Ones died, The Dark Lord discovered that he could not destroy The Beautiful House either. The Builder had raised up defenders of it from among the Center Landers and West Landers, called The Preachers, who were assisted by The Living Fire. So, he came up with a plot to keep The Beautiful House from fulfilling the purpose for which it was built, by causing The Preachers to not be able to understand that purpose.
First, The Dark Lord worked through The Masters to convince almost all of the Center Landers, that they did not want The Beautiful House in their land. The Masters convinced most of the Center Landers, that all they really needed was The Foundation of Holiness, and they did not even need to bother going into that themselves. The Masters told the Center Landers, that they alone understood how to navigate The Great Maze, and they would give them everything they needed from The Foundation of Holiness.
Next, The Dark Lord raised up a group among the West Landers that were similar to The Masters, called The Clergy. The Clergy convinced the West Landers that they needed to rely on The Clergy to get what they needed from The Beautiful House, and give it to them. The Clergy began stirring up resentment among the West Landers over having to go up to The Foundation of Holiness in order to come into The Beautiful House. Soon, The Clergy raised up hatred among the West Landers against The Foundation of Holiness itself.
Last, The Dark Lord got The Masters and The Clergy to work together to hijack The Beautiful House from The Foundation of Holiness, and place it on the ruins of The Foundation of Idolatry instead. The Masters convinced most of the Center Landers to release their ownership of The Beautiful House, and give it to The Clergy.
The Clergy then brought in a great army of West Landers to separate The Beautiful House from The Foundation of Holiness in the bright and clear land of the center, and place it on the ruins of The Foundation of Idolatry in the dark and swampy land of the west.
So, The Beautiful House had sat on the wrong foundation for many centuries. Even though the Center Landers had been scattered among all the people of the Earth, very few could recognize that this was The Beautiful House spoke of by The Foretellers. Even though many people, particularly the West Landers went into The Beautiful House, they could not understand the true purpose of it, because that required The Foundation of Holiness.
Christian sat there stunned when The Sage finished. He had been right about The Beautiful House having originally been built on a different foundation than the ruins of The Foundation of Idolatry, but he had not understood why it bothered him. He now understood that this had all been the work of The Living Fire.
So Christian asked The Sage, what could be done to return The Beautiful House to The Foundation of Holiness, so that the true purpose of The Beautiful House could be realized?
The Sage began his answer, by telling Christian his story.
He had been raised in The Golden City, and as a boy had found one of the hidden passages that bypassed The Great Maze. He told about how he had explored The Foundation of Holiness, and realized that it a house had once sat upon it.
He had heard of The Beautiful House, for its fame went throughout the Earth, and thought that perhaps it was the house that had once sat upon The Foundation of Holiness. So, he made a precise map of top of The Foundation of Holiness, including the exact placement of where the hidden passages came out.
He then traveled to the city that Christian was from in The West Land, to investigate. He explored The Beautiful House, but could not see how it could have been connected to The Foundation of Holiness.
He was about to go home in despair, when he met The Historian. The Historian told him, that there was a legend that The Beautiful House had came from The Center Land, but he had not looked into the archives to see if the legend was true.
So The Sage went back into The Beautiful House to examine the hidden passages, and map where they ended. When he was done, he realized that the hidden passages that ended at the foundation of The Beautiful House, matched the location where the hidden passages came out on the top of The Foundation of Holiness.
So, he told his friend The Historian good-bye. The Sage then returned to tell his people in the Center Land that he had found the house, which The Foretellers had spoken of in The Foundation of Holiness.
When he returned, he found that there was great resistance to this news. Most simply chose to believe The Masters, without even looking into the matter for themselves. However, he did manage to get a few of them to explore The Foundation of Holiness with him. He then showed them how The Beautiful House fit all the clues that The Foretellers had left in The Foundation of Holiness.
Like Christian, he too longed for The Beautiful House to be taken off the ruins of The Foundation of Idolatry, and placed again on The Foundation of Holiness.
So, he made numerous trips to both The Beautiful House and The Foundation of Holiness to see if they contained an answer.
Christian wanted to know, if he had found an answer.
The Sage said, that he had indeed. The Beautiful House would be moved back to The Foundation of Holiness by The Carpenter, when the Center Landers asked him to do so. This would not be resisted by the West Landers, because they would no longer desire to visit The Beautiful House.
The Sage explained that there were already West Landers, who were rebuilding The Foundation of Idolatry in a new location, to replace the one that laid in ruins under The Beautiful House. They planned to rebuild The Dreadful Citadel for The Dark Lord as well.
The Sage went on to explain that The Dark Lord had once had such fortress in every land, and would have them again. It was only the Faithful Few, like Christian, that had destroyed these fortresses, and were keeping The Dark Lord from rebuilding them.
However, The Carpenter will soon take the Faithful Few off the Earth, so that no one would stand in the way of The Dark Lord. The Dark Lord would then raise up a man, who would do all of his will on the Earth. Then the old fortresses would be raise up again.
This man would make a treaty with The Center Land, and then break that treaty when their guard was down. He would then try to destroy the Center Landers off the face of the Earth.
After seven years of his oppression, when all becomes hopeless for the Center Landers, the people of The Golden City will cry out to The Carpenter to save them. Then The Carpenter will come with an army of the Faithful Few to save them from The Dark Lord and his armies.
After the defeat of The Dark Lord, The Carpenter will then place The Beautiful House back on The Foundation of Holiness. Then The Beautiful House will be in position to begin to finish the purpose for which it was built.
The West Landers, and all people, will then despise the ruins of The Foundation of Idolatry in their land, and finally remove them completely off the face of the Earth. All of the Center Landers will be returned to The Center Land. The Center Land will become the most prosperous country on Earth. The Golden City will become the capital of the whole Earth. The entire Earth will experience peace and prosperity that has never known, under the rule of The Carpenter and the Faithful Few.
Christian asked what he could do today. Most of the Center Landers did not want The Beautiful House moved back to The Golden City, and most of the West Landers did not want to move The Beautiful House from the ruins of The Foundation of Idolatry.
The Sage told him to visit both The Beautiful House and The Foundation of Holiness often. He told Christian to follow those passages that he found that lead to the bottom of The Beautiful House to their origin in The Foundation of Holiness. He told Christian to put the customs he found in The Foundation of Holiness into practice, and many mysterious things in The Beautiful House would start to make sense. He told Christian to have nothing to do with anything from the ruins of The Foundation of Idolatry, because they were senseless, and had absolutely nothing to do with The Beautiful House.
It is the same with us.
Christians came to adopt these pagan customs, that came from idolatry, by the subtle work of the Father of Lies (HaShatan aka Satan Aka The Devil).
The Father of Lies was able to accomplish this, by working through the Rabbis to get the Jewish people, particularly from Jerusalem, to put a maze of man made traditions around the Original Covenant (Tanakh aka The Old Testament), and to reject the Renewed Covenant (B'rit Chadashah aka The New Testament). He was able to accomplish this, by working with the clergy of the False Church of Rome to move the Renewed Covenant off the foundation of the Original Covenant, and onto the ruins of a foundation of idolatry.
We should realize that trying to put the Renewed Covenant upon any foundation, other than that of the Original Covenant, will not fit, any more than The Beautiful House would fit upon the ruins of The Foundation of Idolatry. We should realize that we have been visiting a hijacked house, when we try to use the Renewed Covenant to justify the customs of Christmas, Ash Wednesday, Easter, Sunday worship, and the like, which are the ruins of a foundation of idolatry. They simply do not fit the Renewed Covenant - and they never will.
Like Christian, we are being called to go up higher to the place created by the Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD), instead of trying to bring the work of the Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ) down to the place, where we are used to living at.
Like Christian, we should abandon every custom that comes from the ruins of the idolatry, which our ancestors once practiced. These practices are senseless, and have nothing to do with the Renewed Covenant. Trying to make sense of the Renewed Covenant by using these customs, is a passage that leads to nowhere.
Like The Beautiful House was never meant to be separated from The Foundation of Holiness, so also there is no real separation between the Renewed Covenant and the Original Covenant. There are countless passages in the Renewed Covenant that are connected to passages in the Original Covenant. For example, the Book of Revelation has 640 references and allusions to passages in the Original Covenant. We can never begin to understand the full purpose of the Renewed Covenant, without spending considerable time in the Original Covenant.
Like Christian, we have to learn by doing. Many things in the Renewed Covenant will only start to make sense, after we put into practice the customs found in the Original Covenant. These are the same customs, that the Apostles of Truth taught the Children of Truth to put into practice in the Renewed Covenant. These are the same customs, that Saint Patrick taught people to put into practice.
We should follow the example of Saint Patrick.
Saint Patrick did everything he could to destroy the foundation of the idolatry of the Celts, but he did not live long enough to get rid of the ruins. That would have required a concentrated effort over the course of several generations, but many in the generations after him wanted to keep those customs.
Saint Patrick did everything he could to teach people how to put into practice the customs found in the Original Covenant, so the Renewed Covenant would make more sense. He was in no way responsible for the hijacked house.
Of course, Saint Patrick recognized, that it does not matter what customs people keep, unless they first come into the House of Truth.
They cannot come into the House of Truth by keeping the customs of the Original Covenant (Galatians 2:16). They cannot come into the House of Truth by abandoning the customs from the ruins of idolatry, even though the Children of Truth are commanded to have nothing to do with them (Galatians 4:8-10). The only right motivation for keeping the customs of the Original Covenant, instead of the customs from the ruins of idolatry, is a desire to walk in truth to please the Father of Truth, after they have come into the House of Truth (2 John 1:1-4).
They can only come into the House of Truth by making the Man of Truth their lord, because they believe that the Father of Truth raised him from the dead (Romans 10:9)!
Come into the House of Truth!
Labels: Customs, Holidays, Saint Patrick
posted by The House Of Truth @ March 18, 2018
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