Chapter 907: The Lamp at Home

No matter which era or industry you are in, you have to start with an "apprentice", even a Catholic clergyman.

Father Bruna has been working as an altar boy at the Vatican since he was 14 years old, and he and 16 other boys are allowed to live in the Vatican City.

Every morning, he wakes up early to get the altar ready before school and prepare for morning mass in the 10 underground chapels.

Older people sleep poorly, young people are constantly awake, and Bruna felt like he was in a grave when he walked through the Vatican churches that are not yet open to the public.

And the first thing he did to prepare the altar was to light the candlesticks.

Later, the Arab Empire conquered Persia. During the process of Christianization, Zoroastrianism was rejected by Christianity and forced to migrate eastward. The holy fire was extinguished, and believers were not allowed to wear white clothes. Some of them entered India and some entered China through the Western Regions.

Among these believers, there is an ethnic group—the Sogdians. Like the Jews, they are natural merchants, and they are one of the most frequented peoples on the land Silk Road.

A baby boy was born in this ethnic group. An Lushan means God of War in Sogdian. According to legend, her mother was childless for many years, and later she prayed to the God of War to conceive him.

In the Middle East, far away from the Western Regions, there was a virgin named Mary, who was told by the death angel Gabriel that she would conceive and give birth to the Son of God by the Holy Spirit.

The Temple of Solomon is very luxurious. The gate of the temple and all the pillars, ceilings, doors and windows are all inlaid with gold. The lamps, sacrificial vessels and the "Ark of the Covenant" enshrining the "Ten Commandments of Moses" are all made of pure gold.

In the courtyard outside the temple, there are 100 gold-rimmed pools filled with lotus flowers, where believers can perform five sacrifices.

In 586 BC, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon led his cavalry to capture Jerusalem. They burned down the magnificent Great Temple with a fire, and from then on the bustling Jerusalem became a scorched ruins, and the pool with lotus flowers disappeared in the long river of history.

To this day, people have not dug up the remains of the First Temple, as if it did not exist, just like many people now doubt whether Jesus really existed, or whether he is just a fabricated character, just like Marco Polo.

First, the process of Mary's pregnancy did not conform to the laws of nature. Second, religious archaeologists have searched for two thousand years but have not found any physical evidence to support the existence of Jesus in the world.

The Babylonian captivity returned to Jerusalem, still in ruins, half a century later, and the Persian king allowed the temple to be rebuilt and the temple utensils taken from the Neo-Babylonian empire returned.

The rebuilt temple was later expanded to be one-third larger than the first temple, but the ark of the covenant has since disappeared.

In 20 BC, in order to buy the hearts of the Jews, King Herod built a large-scale construction project to expand the temple. It was completed in 26 AD, which lasted 46 years, and continued to be rebuilt until it was officially completed in 64 AD.

But in 70 A.D., the Roman general Titus led an army to attack Jerusalem, and the temple was destroyed again, fulfilling Jesus’ prophecy—no stone remained on it that would not be destroyed, leaving only a wall on the west side.

After burning down the Second Temple, the Roman Empire built a Temple of Cupid on the site of the Temple, and not only that, but they also transported the spoils back to the country, including the golden candlesticks of the Temple.

The candlesticks used by Judaism are not the same as those used by other European nations. They have seven lamps on one candlestick. According to the thirty-seventh chapter of "Exodus", the first candlestick was used by Bezalel, a famous craftsman in Israel. Made of gold. Among the 7 lamps, the middle one is slightly higher than the 6 on both sides, which represents the Sabbath, and the remaining 6 represent the 6 days of God's creation.

The seven lamps of the candlestick used by the Jews today are equal. During the Roman victory celebration parade, the gold candlestick became one of the centers. The scene of the Jewish prisoner carrying the candlestick to the public was engraved in the form of a stone carving on a triumphal arch in Rome.

The gold candlesticks placed in front of the third-rank exorcist Joseph and the first-rank gatekeeper Bruner are exactly the same as the candlesticks in Exodus - the middle one is slightly higher than the six on both sides, it is not very exquisite, At least compared to the large gold candlestick that is now on display in the window on the Temple Mount, the workmanship is quite poor.

But it looks very natural, like a blooming apricot flower, not to mention that it was taken out of the "Temple of Tears". Gold is not as fragile as a book, and it is estimated that it will not change after another two thousand years.

It is also very convenient to imitate a candlestick. If you don't tell the origin of this candlestick and sell it directly in a certain store, I am afraid no one will pay more attention to it.

"You feel……"

"Shut up." Joseph stopped Bruner, stared at the candlestick, almost forgot to blink.

"How did you choose it?" Bruner asked.

"I feel it calling me." Joseph said nervously.

"Return it when you're done using it!" The Swiss guard warned ferociously, "It's still lost..."

"Is a Jewish lamp important or the Pope?" Joseph said coldly, "I borrowed it to protect the Pope."

"Is there really a devil?" Bruner asked tremblingly.

"That's right." Joseph said emphatically, "When people light a lamp, they don't put it under a bushel, but put it on a lampstand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. Let your light shine before people in this way, so that they can see your good deeds. Give glory to your Father who is in heaven, and the devil will take our glory and shame us with it, and make us commit original sin of wrath."

"Before you take it away, can you give me an experiment?" Bruner said while holding his helmet. "I want to see what happened back then."

"Is that thing really useful?" Joseph asked.

"I...I've seen it." Bruner swallowed, "But it doesn't always work. There are many people who bring back holy objects from Jerusalem. Most of the pilgrims bring back the wood chips of the True Cross and the nails. There are not many of them, but there is a nail that seems to have been nailed to his body."

Joseph and the Swiss guards made a cross together.

"The pope's arm was pierced by a bullet. Do you think that looks like a stigmata?"

"Don't talk nonsense!" the Swiss guard warned Bruner fiercely.

"I was just thinking about the plague of the firstborn." Joseph said in a trance, "In the book of Ezekiel, the Lord made a man wearing linen cloth to mark those who were dissatisfied with evil deeds. This mark can protect them. Could it be that those Egyptian boys were also marked? It’s just that this mark is not for protection, but for killing.”

"How did you think of this?" the Swiss guard asked strangely.

"People can understand, but the scriptures say that even the firstborn animals die, who will bless the animals?" Bruner asked.

"Don't think so much, let's go!" The Swiss guard said impatiently, "Bring a wooden box, I don't want it to be seen."

"I haven't experimented yet..."

"You guard the Hall of Tears, you can watch it whenever you want!" Joseph said impatiently.

"No...it's hard for me to explain to you." Bruner said with a complicated expression.

"Go ahead," said the Swiss guard. "We have other things to do."

"I guess that symbol is the eye of Horus." Joseph said, "Horus is the creator god of Egypt, and his eyes have the meaning of protecting life."

"Don't worry about it, you madman!" shouted the Swiss guard angrily.

The brain hole is too big, how can the myth be taken seriously?

But the Egyptian priests did draw symbols on the heads of newborns, the custom of lotuses, the Eye of Horus, and the cross of Anka

In ancient Egypt, when you went to the temple to study, you had to swim from the crocodile and pass through an underwater maze. The enlightenment education in Egypt was really scary.

There is a very second-hand saying in Three Body: What does it have to do with you if you are destroyed?

The Creator God in the Old Testament sometimes feels like this