Subject: Sacrificing at the High Places 
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 23:25:46 +0000
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From:          Marvin Ennels
To:            <heb_roots_chr@geocities.com>
Subject:       Sacrificing at the High Places 
     

Eddie:
          
In Deuteronomy 12:2-6, the children of Israel were commanded: "You 
shall utterly destroy all places where the nations which you shall 
dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills 
and under every green tree. And you shall destroy their altars, break 
their sacred pillars, and burn their wooden images with fire, you 
shall cut down the carved images of their gods and destroy their names 
from that place. You shall not worship the Lord your God with such 
things. But you shall seek the place where the Lord your God chooses,  
out of all your tribes, to put His name for His dwelling place, and 
there you shall go. There you shall take your burnt offerings, your 
sacrifices, your tithes, the heave offerings of your hand, your vowed 
offerings and the firstborn of your herds and flocks."
     
Deuteronomy 12:13-14: "Take heed to yourself that you do not offer 
your burnt offerings in every place that you see; but in the place 
which the Lord chooses; in one of your tribes, there you shall offer 
your burnt offerings and there you shall do all that I command you."
     
Yet, in I Kings 3:2-3 we read: "Meanwhile the people sacrificed at the 
high places, because there was no house built for the name of the Lord 
until those days. And Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the statutes 
of his father David, EXCEPT that he sacrificed and burned incense at 
the high places".
     
God seems to have accepted the burnt offerings even though he 
commanded against the use of high places. Were the high places used
by the children of Israel and King Solomon temporary Places of Worship 
or sites of pagan sacrifices?
     
In the precious, HOLY name of Yeshua,
     
Marvin

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