20151029 Thursday, October 29 2015
Ezekiel 06: Getting High

by Wayne Blank
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"They also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree ... And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom"

Satan's loser revolution began from his delusional lust to get high (see also What Is Satan's Real Name? and How Does Satan Impersonate Jesus Christ?).

"14:13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: 14:14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High." (Isaiah 14:13-14 KJV)

Eden became "Babylon" (from the Hebrew word that means confusion; see How Did Eden Become Babylon?) when humanity lusted to get high on a phallic steeple to heaven.

"11:4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven ..." (Genesis 11:4 KJV)

From then on, rebellious humans sought to get high with all sorts of things and substances that they lusted to idolize (see What Is Sorcery? and Seed-Bearing Plants: For Food Or For Folly?).

The "high places" were often atop hills and mountains, but they were also found in the dregs of the lowest places because it was as much a self-inflicted defective state of mind as a state of place. Even when they reduced themselves to lying in the spiritual or physical gutter, they still called it getting "high."

"14:23 For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree. 14:24 And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel." (1 Kings 14:23-24 KJV)

"33:6 And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger." (2 Chronicles 33:6 KJV)

So it was then that the Israelites, the Kingdom of Israel (see Israel In History and Prophecy: The Lost Ten Tribes) and then the Kingdom of Judah (see Israel In History and Prophecy: Kingdom Of Judah), were sent back to Babylon because, in their arrogant presumptuousness that they were the LORD's people who could do no wrong, regardless of the reality of how much wrong they willfully and defiantly were actually doing, they became worse than the idol-worshipping "high" heathens that were driven out of the land so that the Israelites could possess it.

"36:14 Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem. 36:15 And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place: 36:16 But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy." (2 Chronicles 36:14-16 KJV)

Ezekiel, while one of the earlier exiles of Judah in Babylon (see Ezekiel's Whirlwind), was given to record the LORD's condemnation of their "high places," high and low, that they had used to destroy themselves and their nation.

"6:1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 6:2 Son of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them, 6:3 And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith 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. 6:4 And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols. 6:5 And I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars. 6:6 In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished. 6:7 And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

6:8 Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have some that shall escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through the countries. 6:9 And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations. 6:10 And they shall know that I am the LORD, and that I have not said in vain that I would do this evil unto them.

6:11 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Smite with thine hand, and stamp with thy foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence. 6:12 He that is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he that is near shall fall by the sword; and he that remaineth and is besieged shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish my fury upon them. 6:13 Then shall ye know that I am the LORD, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their idols. 6:14 So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I am the LORD." (Ezekiel 6:1-14 KJV)

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