While reading Derek Prince’s book Pulling Down Strongholds, I was also reading daily Bible passages from the Oswald Chambers Devotional Bible. “Coincidentally,” both on the same day dealt with the “high places.” God had chosen the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to form the nation of Israel, and the Old Testament books of the Bible record that nation’s history. The passage from which I was reading was in I Kings, particularly chapter 14, in which God mentions “the high places” many times.
God had instructed the people to worship in certain places, first in the tabernacle He had instructed Moses to build in the wilderness and later in the Tabernacle of David, in the city of Jerusalem. What did they do? When they possibly could, they would worship on the “high places” that had been used by the pagan tribes around them. These people worshiped things associated with the abomination of idolatry. God said in I Kings 14:21-23, “Now Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD…for they also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and wooden images on every high hill and under every green tree.” God told them, “They have built the high places of Baal to burn their children in the fire as offerings to Baal–something I did not command or mention, nor did it even enter my mind.” (Jer. 19:5 NIV)
The New Testament actually refers to the New Covenant that God made with us, in which He explains, particularly in the Book of Hebrews, why it is so superior to the Old Covenant in the Old Testament. The Israelites were given certain places to worship; however, Christians were given a spiritual place of worship. Rev. Prince expounds, “The Lord never promised to meet Israel on a high hill, or on the high places. But He did say, in effect, ‘If you come to the place where I have put My name, I will be there.’”(See Matthew 18:20) He continues, “God does not authorize any other basis for Christians to come together but the basis of being led by the Holy Spirit into the name of Jesus. Any other place–any other basis–is a ‘high place.’”
What does all this have to do with us here in America and the “mess” we are in now? In 1798, John Adams wrote in a letter to the Massachusetts state militia that, “Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” This quote is in Charlie Kirk’s book Right Wing Revolution. He speaks throughout of the importance of becoming bold in the faith of Jesus Christ. He was never timid about his faith, which had a great deal to do with his assassination on September 10, 2025.
Three thousand years ago, the poet Homer wrote, “All men have need of gods.” Kirk says this is the reason “wokeness” has been so successful in recent years. He states that wokeness is “more of a religion than that practiced by many lukewarm Christians.” There was a time people were told by Kamala Harris that they were at the wrong rally when they cried out, “Jesus is Lord!” Having been “One nation under God,” we may now be “One nation under gods.” What kinds of gods do people have now in America? I feel sure we can all realize many answers to that. People have been deceived. Let’s pray against rebellion and deception.
People get ready, Jesus is coming soon!
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