♨️‭Ezekiel 6:3 AFV ‬♨️ - “And say, 'Mountains of Israel, hear the Word of the Lord God. Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers and to the valleys, "Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.

♨️‭Ezekiel 6:3 TLV ‬♨️ - “‭Say: mountains of Israel, hear the word of Adonai!” Thus says Adonai Elohim concerning the mountains and concerning the hills, concerning the wadis and concerning the valleys: “Behold, I will bring a sword on you. I will destroy your high places.

SWORD TO DESTRUCTION OF HIGH PLACES

Prophets and Ministers of the Word of God were not only called to prophesy or speak the word to people, but also to the creation and creatures. Even if men would not listen to the Word of God, we will still preach and prophesy the Word of the Lord to the mountains and earth that bear them, to the houses and stones that shelter them, to air and water that sustain their lives, to their death and grave that shall damn them, and to everything and everywhere they sinned or committed iniquities against God.

Example, the man of God all the way from Judah to Bethel, came to prophesy the word of the Lord, but basically to altars in high places. As it is written,

[1 Kings 13:1-2] — And behold, a man of God came out of Judah by the word of the LORD, to Bethel. And Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense. And he cried against the altar by the word of the LORD and said, "O, altar, altar, thus says the LORD. 'Behold, a son shall be born to the house of David, Josiah by name, and upon you he shall offer the priests of the high places who burn incense upon you, and men's bones shall be burned upon you.' ”

In the top bible verse, the son of man began his ministering the Word of prophecies, which were addressed by God basically to objects in the word of the Lord and witness of men concerned. Later he would prophesy to even dry bones, but now he was directed to face and prophesy to the mountains of Israel, to the hills of Jacob, to the rivers and valleys of the place that was once a land flowing with milk and honey.

In his prophecy to these Geographical or Topological features, the word of the Lord through him promised to imminently bring a Sword on them: And with the Sword, the Lord will destroy the high places of those mountains of Israel. “High Places” then meant “Shrines” or ‘Temples/Altars’ for Idolatry/Idols/demons. The mountains of Israel were not Holy mountains because of the high places on them, as well as in their rivers and valleys. The Sword was not primarily meant to destroy those places, but to destroy the high places of those places. When you come to “Ezekiel 36” the son of man was again directed to still face and prophesy but good things or gospel to the same mountains, hills, rivers and valleys of Israel, after the high places in them are destroyed from them, for God to rebuild them after cleansing them from high places.

Now understand these:

☆A☆ We still prophesy or preach the gospel, the Word of the Lord, to every creature;

☆B☆ The Lord, even as Jesus Christ, brought Sword into the world in place of peace;

☆C☆ We moved from destroying the high places (shrines) to destroying the spiritual wickedness in high places, as well as principalities, powers, rulers of darkness of this world, strongholds and high things that exalt themselves against Knowledge of Christ.

It's not flesh or carnal destruction, but spiritual destruction of high places: especially now that the high places are integrated in some churches so that to destroy those high places would mean to destroy those churches integrated with idolatry and demons.



♨️‭Ezekiel 6:4 AFV ‬♨️ - “And your altars shall be desolate, and your incense altars shall be broken. And I will make your slain fall before your idols.

♨️‭Ezekiel 6:4 NKJV ‬♨️ - “Then your altars shall be desolate, your incense altars shall be broken, and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.

DETAILS OF THE DESTRUCTION OF THE HIGH PLACES

The purported destruction of the high places spoken of, is hereby described in detail: There would be both physical aspects to it and spiritual aspects to it.

☆a — The Physical aspects to the destruction of the High Places ‐ These are covered in the bible verse above, and entails

Desolation and Brokenness of the Altars in the Shrines or High Places, and

Slaying or killing the worshippers/attendants, and piling up their carcasses before their idols.

Their idols will have their worshippers and believers killed before them, but those idols cannot raise them to live nor take vengeance for their own worshippers before them.

This prophecy of Ezekiel is also exactly the same with the prophecy of Moses, saying:

[‭Leviticus 26:30 NIV‬] — I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars and pile your dead bodies on the lifeless forms of your idols, and I will abhor you.



♨️‭Ezekiel 6:5 NKJV ‬♨️ - “‭And I will lay the corpses of the children of Israel before their idols, and I will scatter your bones all around your altars.

♨️‭Ezekiel 6:5 NIV ‬♨️ - “I will lay the dead bodies of the Israelites in front of their idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars.

DETAILS OF THE DESTRUCTION OF THE HIGH PLACES 2

In continuation of describing the purported destruction of the high places spoken of, here are the spiritual aspects to it.

☆a — The Spiritual aspects to the destruction of the High Places ‐ These are:

Desecration/Defilement of the Altars in the Shrines or High Places with the deadness and bones of the worshippers/attendants of those idols.

Recall the man of God from Judah to Bethel, prophesied against the altar of the high place there, saying those priests’, worshippers’ and men's bones shall be burned on the altar [1 Kings 13:1-2] — Josiah the king fulfilled that prophecy, defiling those altars.

What desecrating or defiling those altars and idols with the deadness/dead bones of the same people who worshipped/served them would achieve includes — reversing or voiding all the proceeds and profits those idols and altars that fed them received from the same dead people. All their previous renderings are canceled by such desecration. Just as the dead do not praise or worship the Lord (Psalms 115:17) unless they rise up from the dead (Psalms 88:10), even so dead worshippers by desecrating their idols and high places with stench instead of incense/worship, nullify their earlier renderings.

Behold how Josiah fulfilled the prophecy of the man of God from Judah in Bethel:

[b][‭2 Kings 23:5-20 NIV‬] — He did away with the idolatrous priests appointed by the kings of Judah to burn incense on the high places of the towns of Judah and on those around Jerusalem—those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun and moon, to the constellations and to all the starry hosts. He took the Asherah pole from the temple of the Lord to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem and burned it there. He ground it to powder and scattered the dust over the graves of the common people. He also tore down the quarters of the male shrine prostitutes that were in the temple of the Lord, the quarters where women did weaving for Asherah. Josiah brought all the priests from the towns of Judah and desecrated the high places, from Geba to Beersheba, where the priests had burned incense. He broke down the gateway at the entrance of the Gate of Joshua, the city governor, which was on the left of the city gate. Although the priests of the high places did not serve at the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem, they ate unleavened bread with their fellow priests. He desecrated Topheth, which was in the Valley of Ben Hinnom, so no one could use it to sacrifice their son or daughter in the fire to Molek. He removed from the entrance to the temple of the Lord the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun. They were in the court near the room of an official named Nathan-Melek. Josiah then burned the chariots dedicated to the sun. He pulled down the altars the kings of Judah had erected on the roof near the upper room of Ahaz, and the altars Manasseh had built in the two courts of the temple of the Lord. He removed them from there, smashed them to pieces and threw the rubble into the Kidron Valley. The king also desecrated the high places that were east of Jerusalem on the south of the Hill of Corruption—the ones Solomon king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the vile goddess of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the vile god of Moab, and for Molek the detestable god of the people of Ammon. Josiah smashed the sacred stones and cut down the Asherah poles and covered the sites with human bones. Even the altar at Bethel, the high place made by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin—even that altar and high place he demolished. He burned the high place and ground it to powder, and burned the Asherah pole also. Then Josiah looked around, and when he saw the tombs that were there on the hillside, he had the bones removed from them and burned on the altar to defile it, in accordance with the word of the Lord proclaimed by the man of God who foretold these things. The king asked, “What is that tombstone I see?” The people of the city said, “It marks the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and pronounced against the altar of Bethel the very things you have done to it.” “Leave it alone,” he said. “Don’t let anyone disturb his bones.” So they spared his bones and those of the prophet who had come from Samaria. Just as he had done at Bethel, Josiah removed all the shrines at the high places that the kings of Israel had built in the towns of Samaria and that had aroused the Lord’s anger. Josiah slaughtered all the priests of those high places on the altars and burned human bones on them. Then he went back to Jerusalem.[/b]

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