Altars

Metaphor and manner of sacrifice.

According to Wikipedia "An altar is any structure upon which offerings such as sacrifices are made for religious purposes."

The first question might be what do we mean when we say Religion, or Pure Religion‎. One might think there are hundreds of different religions in the world today and if you depend on superficial appearance and form as your criteria certainly you can make an assumption for that conclusion.

If you focus on the purpose and means of obtaining those religious goals there are only two types of religion.

Certainly there is something we may call False religion but that is opinion driven. There is also Public religion but what do we mean when we say or think Our Religion?

From an unbiased detailed study of the history of religion there is clear evidence that that at least one type or teaching concerning religion is regularly highjacked by the other type. One of the most common tools used to do this is to change the definition of religion so as to umoor the purpose from what we may call the purpose or defining characteristic or character of a religious idea and practice.

In the Old Testament there were at least two types of altars mentioned as metaphors describing the structure of their society.

Each member or family of a free assembly of the people is an altar of earth. The term altar of earth is called an altar of adamah. Adamah is not dirt but is man and all the sons of Adam. Altar of earth are simply living groups of men and not dead piles of dirt.

The same is true of "altars of stone". A gathering of stones or an altar of stone was simply a gathering of friends. These altars of earth and stone were meant to be systems of social welfare that operated through voluntary means and mutual love through charity.

The congregations of ministers are altars of stone. Both earth and stone altars were symbols for a way to operate together in a Network of charity and Freewill offerings so that a nation of believers might remain a peculiar and free people.

All the symbols attached to them and the symbols surrounding them make for an opportunity to hijack the purpose of caring for one another by love and turn it into a system of mind control through a promise of justification, pride and delusion. The real purpose of the religion of God is that we actively spend our lives learning to be free souls who are bound together by natural love for one another alone.

Footstool Altar of stone

God sees the heart and mind of mankind, but the world often requires something more tangible as a evidence in witness. His Holy Church offers a system for the edification and protection of the free Church and congregation which may assist in the maintenance and nurturing of a free people under God.

A congregation of record seeking other congregations and coming together in a network of people seeking the wholeness and holiness of a righteous government need to manifest that oneness with Christ and the Father both in Spirit and in truth so that may live in the world but not of it.

The Altars

From HHC In the Church there are two types of altars, stone and clay.

These terms are metaphors for a system by which men may remain free souls under God the Father in Heaven with no other gods before him.

Every man is an altar of earth. The Hebrew word for earth when talking about altars of earth is "adamah". We are all sons of Adam. Each man plays his part in the kingdom of God by being a conduit for the sacrifices of his family in the practice of "pure religion".

"Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the world." James 1:27

The Elder of each family chooses how his family is to serve his congregation and the whole community.

The stone altars are also men. The living ministers of the Church chosen by men, and ordained of God are the living altars of stone of the kingdom. They are titular leaders and benefactors who do not exercise authority over the contributing of the people but minister their offerings for the good of those they serve.

The church is an alternative government based on "the perfect law of liberty" composed of families in congregations, and ordained ministers who are servants of servants facilitating faith, hope, and charity that sets men free. To find out more join the Living Network.

It is the mission of His Holy Church to teach the ways of Christ and document the boundaries of the Church, congregations, and the families as a witness of the the world of the Kingdom of God at hand. From HHC

HHC is dedicated to the Weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith which include caring for the needs of our neighbors and the widows and orphans of our society through Pure Religion in matters of health, education, and welfare. We are NOT to provide for the needy of society through the Covetous Practices and the men who call themselves benefactors but who exercise authority one over the other like the socialists do.

The Way of Christ was like neither the way of the world of Rome nor the governments of the gentiles who depend on those fathers of the earth through force, fear and fealty who deliver the people back in bondage again like they were in Egypt. Christ's ministers and true Christians do not depend upon systems of social welfare that force the contributions of the people like the corban of the Pharisees which made the word of God to none effect. Many people have been deceived to go the way of Balaam and the Nicolaitan and out of The Way of Christ and have become workers of iniquity.

The Christian conflict with Rome in the first century Church appointed by Christ was because they would not apply to the fathers of the earth for their free bread but instead relied upon a voluntary network providing a daily ministration to the needy of society through Faith, Hope, and Charity by way of freewill offerings of the people, for the people, and by the people through the perfect law of liberty in Free Assemblies according to the ancient pattern of Tuns or Tens as He commanded.

The modern Christians are in need of repentance.

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"Follow me!" —Jesus the Christ.

• One of the most important things to do is to become involved in a network of Charitable Practices. Everyone should want to join a Living Network of Love and Charity.

• If you think you have a calling to be a Minister of God or you might want to dedicate your life to Christ as an Ordained Minister of His Holy Church, contact us to start the process of discipleship and become the benefactors who exercise only love, NOT authority.

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Other links

Unmooring the altar from its purpose.

From the book Thy Kingdom Comes, The Altar of Abraham

• Moses and the Altars
• The Altar of Sin

From the book Thy Kingdom Comes, Joshua’s Altar

• White Altars of Joshua, King over us

From the book Thy Kingdom Comes, Factions at the Altar

• The Pharisees and The Sadducees
• The Polity of the Church on Congregations

Sacrifice
Altars
Stones | Clay and Stone | Stones upon |
White stones‎ | Lively Stones of a Living Altar |
Sophistry | Leaven | Breeches | Stoning | Altars |
Church legally defined | Sacrifice of fools
Graven images | Red Heifer | Reserve fund
Corban | Tithing In Conscience | Self-Sacrifice |
Pure Religion | Legal charity | Public religion |
Worship | Welfare | Welfare types | Daily ministration
Christian conflict | Benefactors | Feasts |
Good Samaritan | Thy first love | Born again | New creature
Celebrate | Temples |
Modern Christians | The Blessed Strategy
Power To Change | Peine forte et dure |
Tithing | Offering | Korban
Korab | Minchah
Necek | Nedabah
Shelem | Tenuwphah
Teruwmah
Charity | Freewill offerings | Corban
Religion | Pure Religion | Golden rule |
Altars | Tens | Network | Pentecost
Perspective | One purse | Temptations |
Tithe | Tithing | Tithing In Conscience | Tithingman |
Tribute | Taxation | Treasury | Corban |
Charitable Practices | Covetous Practices |
Fervent Charity | Gleaners | FEMA | Lady Godiva |

Copy links from TKC

3. The Altar of Abraham of the book Thy Kingdom Comes

• Moses and the Altars of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
  

http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCc3-1AltarsofClay.php

• The Altar of Sin of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
  

http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCc3-2Sin.php

• Sacrifice of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
  

http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCc3-3Sophistry.php

4. Moses, Moses of the book Thy Kingdom Comes

• The Civil State of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
  

http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCd4-1CivilState.php

• Gods Many of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
  

http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCd4-2godsmany.php