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House has to do with home, family, belonging, roots, dreams, happiness, a place always
desirable to return after a long day’s work to family, from a business trip, etc., to all that
is near and dear to a man or woman.
Some years ago there was a song, entitled: “Don’t Destroy
Another Man’s Castle.” The beginning lyrics are powerful
and meaningful:
“They say a man's home is his castle. He's like a
king on a throne. It may be a shack down alongside
the track. But everything in it’s his home.”
Perhaps the saying of one important man who had just
returned from a lengthy trip sums up best the meaning of a
house that embodies a person’s home,
“The best part of
going away is to come home again.”
This was after
hearing another say to him, “Welcome home.”
The Taking Away of a Home
The following Scripture not only described the ancient time of Israel, but it also applies
in principle in today’s society when a man’s house and home is forcibly taken away from
him legally, and indicting those who do it:
Micah 2:1-2 “Woe to those who devise iniquity, and work out evil on their
beds! At morning light they practice it, because it is in THE POWER OF
THEIR HAND (
legally
). They COVET fields and take them, also houses, and
seize them. So they oppress a man and his house, a man and his
inheritance.”
There is a law of ‘Eminent Domain’ in the United States that makes possible the taking
away of houses/homes of people who have owned and lived in them for many years.
Law of Eminent Domain
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“In the United States, the law of eminent domain allows the government to confiscate an
individual's private property, impound property or seize the rights that an individual
holds in a property. Although the owner receives financial compensation for the
property, he or she does not have to authorize or approve the transaction.
“Private property is often taken by the government
for its own use or to give to other parties who will
use it for public or community purposes. The most
common recipients of appropriated property are
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