THE TAINT OF EVIL PART 3: Who Owns Your House?

I was a day late with this one. Family needed an outing, and I was dead when I got home so no blog post. That’s life I suppose. Still, I’m back so let's get right into the final installment of this series on Tainted Land. Who owns your house?

Then Naaman and all his attendants went back to the man of God. He stood before him and said, “Now I know that there is no God in all the world except in Israel. So please accept a gift from your servant.”

The prophet answered, “As surely as the LORD lives, whom I serve, I will not accept a thing.” And even though Naaman urged him, he refused.

“If you will not,” said Naaman, “please let me, your servant, be given as much earth as a pair of mules can carry, for your servant will never again make burnt offerings and sacrifices to any other god but the LORD. 2 Kings 5:15-17 

You might be asking why I brought you a Bible passage about some guy asking for as much dirt as his mules could carry. Others might have had this song stuck in their minds:

No, I’m not mocking you over your desire to understand how hauntings and attachments work, and how to defend your own house or cleanse a new one from a taint. Naaman was a Syrian commander with leprosy who was told to wash in the Jordan river seven times to be healed. Initially he grumbled a bit, and said he might as well go home to Syria and bathe in better rivers before his servants convinced him to do as the Prophet told him. He did and was healed as we saw. So what’s with the dirt?

Same thing with the rivers, and why he had to wash in the Jordan and not in the rivers around Damascus like he wanted. Israel was God’s portion. We’re skipping a whole lot of spiritual shenanigans, but if we look at the Tower of Babel or specifically other verses that deal with the event rather than just the main passages we find an interesting concept.

When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance,

when he divided mankind,

he fixed the borders of the peoples

according to the number of the sons of God.

But the LORD’s portion is his people,

Jacob his allotted heritage. Deuteronomy 32:8-9 (ESV version)

Now I’ve opened a whole different can of worms because a fair amount of you are going to look this up in your NIVs and other nonsense and go,” Hey! Grizzly messed up. It says according to the ‘Sons of Israel’ not the ‘Sons of God!’” To quote a timeless character of a certain tree-like variety, don’t be so hasty.

This is why translations, and digging deeper into your Bible is so important. Heck, I bet half of you have never even cracked the book of Deuteronomy open let alone read any of it. Be honest. Most of you who have read some of the book only read it for a Bible study or Sunday School assignment, and you forgot everything you read five seconds after reading it.

To make simple, no I didn't make a mistake. In this case the English Standard Version has a more accurate translation thanks to the Dead Sea Scrolls, and a whole lot of other stuff that’s frankly a distraction in this piece. If you want to dig into this passage more I recommend reading Dr. Hieser’s work, The Unseen Realm in particular, eagle eyed viewers have doubtlessly seen how I’m using his work for many of these theories and postulations. So look it up.

Suffice it to say that I can see why certain translators want to get away from the Sons’ of God reading. Because the verse basically says that after the Tower of Babel, “When the Most High… divided mankind”, God apportioned the nations out to the other elohim or “gods” or sons of God, but Israel was kept as his portion.

Finally we make our way back to old Naaman. The Syrian realized that God wanted him to wash in the land apportioned to God. Bathing in the waters around Damascus would’ve been washing in another god’s turf. One who was either in rebellion to the Almighty, or would be soon enough. So when Naaman wanted to worship God properly he knew he needed land or dirt apportioned to God.

I know, I’m getting into the weeds here, but hang in there we’re getting there. Trust me. A son of god in rebellion to the Father in Heaven would be attempting to use his allotted portion of the earth and creation against God. We can see these concepts all throughout culture as well. How many vampire myths and other monster myths have evil creatures unable to cross on to holy ground or church grounds? Speaking of vamps, see how their story revolves around the concept that they need permission to cross your threshold and enter your house?

If we want to look at more modern examples, many stories about cryptids, and such have them behaving strangely. Almost as if they can’t or won’t enter houses. They even show a reluctance to snatch certain people despite having opportunity and the means to do so. Sometimes this takes on the manifestation of ghostly images, demons, and lights that are following the beasts. A very fascinating phenomenon that leads me back to our original question. Who owns your house?

Are you on God’s alloted territory? Now, I’m not saying we need to be like Naaman and grab a bunch of dirt for us to live on out of Palestine. What I’m saying is have you dedicated your house and your life to God? Have you had your sins forgiven, and are connected to God and your Savior Jesus Christ?

Eventually God is going to take back all the earth, and bring creation into the kingdom of Heaven. Till then it's our jobs to make sure our souls, our families, and our land is dedicated to God. Think of your little portion on earth as a kind of embassy of the Kingdom of Heaven in a hostile land. Embassies are often expelled or invaded. Does that mean that a nation or empire is defeated? No, just that piece sent on diplomatic, or in many cases espionage based, missions has been overwhelmed. God, like that nation or empire, is insulted, but he isn’t beaten. God will win you need to make sure you're not a casualty in a war in the cosmos. 

I threw a lot at you guys, but let me end things with one of the creepier true stories I’ve ran into. One that pertains to this concept quite well. That is the story of the Tévennec Lighthouse.

Off the coast of France is a particularly treacherous set of islands known as the Raz de Sein and on one lonely rock the lighthouse was built. Not long after the lighthouse keepers would start going insane. One by one they went mad saying voices were talking to them telling them this place was a place of the damned or such. One man’s father who was bed ridden while his son operated the lighthouse went so mad he slit his own throat with a razor. Bad luck and rumors spread with each new incident till the French Government was desperate enough to go to the Catholic Church.

Priests were dispatched, and after several failed cleansings crosses were erected on every part of the island and blessings put upon them. For a time this seemed to work, but we will never know if the ploy worked forever because in 1910 the French government automated the lighthouse. Which in all honesty was probably for the best all things considered.

Another interesting possible connection that I found, but that I can’t possibly verify since I don’t live in Brittany and I can’t find more collaboration online, are references to the island of Tevennec being the seat of Ankua. Basically a pagan Celtic embodiment of death who looks like either an old man in a long brimmed hat on a cart or the grim reaper with a long brimmed hat. The story that I wish I was near Brittany dockyards to ask around about goes that non motorized vessels are naturally driven to the island, and that Ankuo uses it as a kind of Davy Jones's Locker.

If I believe the legend, it does seem plausible on the spiritual side, and other sailor legends about gates to hell and such on those islands we make a fascinating inference. We have connections to old pagan gods and deities, and a nasty one too considering the connection to death and a certain similarity to modern urban legends like the hat shadowman. We have lots of death with the shipwrecks all along these islands, and have a remote wilderness area with tales of wild stories that would make the Bermuda Triangle blush. These connections, plus the fact that multiple failed exorcisms were attempted before the cross remedy stuck, points to something old, powerful, and nasty. 

And what do we see that finally cleansed the taint at least for a time? Placing down crosses. The Heavens’ gang sign if you will, and blessing them. In spiritual terms the island was conquered. Now let's be clear. I don’t imagine that will last forever because the lighthouse went automated, and what Jesus said about unclean spirits that are exercised.

“When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, but finds none.

Then it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when it comes, it finds the house empty, swept, and put in order.

Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and dwell there, and the last state of that person is worse than the first. So also will it be with this evil generation.” Mathew 12:43-45

What does all this mean to us? There is a spiritual turf war out there not just for human souls, but for the physical land as well. With enough unclean actions, rebellious sons of God’s power, and sin in general land can be tainted. The more heinous the acts, murder of the innocent for example, the more dastardly that taint can become. Yet, through prayer, dedication of land and spirit, such things can and have been driven out. However, if one does not hold to their faith, and maintain that connection to the Kingdom of Heaven then they are susceptible to those unclean spirits, demons, and other spiritual nonsense returning with a vengeance.

So you might want to clean up the sin in your lives, pray more, and start monasteries on strange islands rumored to be the seat of the embodiment of death so your lighthouses don’t get haunted. But that’s just my opinion and theory on the matter. Let me know what you guys think on the matter, and if you have any stories or legends you think might add to the subject. Otherwise I think that’s it for this now bloated and very late episode.

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