Terror of Demons: Reclaiming Traditional Catholic Masculinity by Kennedy Hall

Author:Kennedy Hall [Hall, Kennedy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: TAN Books
Published: 2022-01-17T15:00:00+00:00

Out of Egypt

“And Moses said to the people: Remember this day in which you came forth out of Egypt, and out of the house of bondage, for with a strong hand hath the Lord brought you forth out of this place.”

—Exodus 13:3

Leading your family as the priest of the home is not a simple task. Getting your own spiritual and moral life in order is hard enough. If you are a single man reading this, it still applies to you. We all need to escape from the bondage that our culture offers us, whether we are married or not.

Due to our fallen nature, we tend to rebel; for evidence of this, see the Old Testament. For thousands of years, it is a similar story over and over again. Even the Israelites who walked across the Red Sea did not take long to rebel against the priestly command of Moses. In some cases, your family will take to your household priesthood, but often you will encounter resistance. It is futile to try and force your family to accept the proper order of things all at once. Moses parted the Red Sea and performed the greatest of wonders, yet his spiritual children still rebelled.

If you have long lived a worldly life with disorder in the fabric of your home, it will be humanly impossible for you to right the ship. I say humanly impossible, but not impossible with God’s guidance. When Moses went up the mountain to receive the Ten Commandments, we read in the Holy Bible that the people “rose up to play” (Ex. 32:6). This is biblical terminology that means they engaged in sexually deviant behavior and ritual debauchery. They had come out of a pagan culture, and pagan religious rituals were always mixed with ritualistic sexual practices. It would have been a scandalous scene.

Contrast the two main priests: Moses and Aaron. Aaron, of course, overall is a great hero of the Old Testament. But even he falls into this carnal ritualism as he performs priestly functions with the golden calf. On the other hand, Moses is hardened and stoic in his priesthood and casts out immorality and rebellion with severity. What is so different about Aaron and Moses? It is probable that Aaron, a slave, grew up with at least a semblance of the old traditions from Abraham. Whereas Moses, a prince, was steeped in Egyptian paganism in the royal court. The difference between the two is that Aaron, although an Israelite, left Egypt, but Egypt had not left him. Moses, although raised pagan, had spent years in the desert before he began to liberate his people. We read that Moses was away from Egypt for “a long time” (Ex. 2:23) and that he finally met the Lord in the “inner parts of the desert” (Ex. 3:1). The major difference between Moses and Aaron is that not only had Moses left Egypt, but he made sure Egypt had left his soul.

In an ideal situation, we should be raised in a faithful family, void of paganism and immorality.

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