Weekend Finisher

 Does Walking Around a House Seven Times bless it?

 

Recently I was invited to a house warming. You know, when one move into a new house. For some reason the occupants believe that their home and land  will be blessed if they get a pastor or regular minister to do a blessing or cleansing. This is done by walking around a house seven times while praying. I heard of people doing this but never up close and personal.

This idea of seven times came from the bible where incidents relating to the number seven appeared in the bible quite often. Some one made note of this and it took off like superman, only wobbling and twisting never being able to get straight.

I'm not going to spend time on explaining places where seven is mention. I see no salvation in it except trying to show how smart I am about the subject. However, I no very little about it and knowing all the places just don't raze my berry. Some things are not worth spending time on.

But there is a seven I do want to talk about and it's found in Joshua 6:1-6.You can read it for yourself but it speak of God telling the Israelites to walk around the walls of Jericho six days and on the seventh day to walk around Jericho seven times and the priest's was to blow the ram's horns and the walls will come tumbling down. They did and the wall fell giving them victory over their enemy.

This is totally different than one trying to bless a house. Yet, many undenominational Church pastors took this to be a thing to bless new homes and land of their congregation.  What blessings there're looking for God to perform is unknown and right out there with flying monkeys and striped elephants.

But weak pastors wanting power over the people lie on God to fool the ignorance into believing this is to be done because this type of blessing bring the house and land so called "good luck (pagan)."  Many in the so-called Holiness Churches believe such foolishness with out question or thought. Even some in other Churches believe the same.

Any way, this was done at a house I attended recently unaware what was to happen. It started inside with women pastors draped in Jewish head covering praying and pretending to speak in false demonic tongues followed with wolf hollering, it sounded like. continue