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Updated: May 23, 2025
The Devil is in possession of much of the world, and the lawful owner has to dispossess the 'squatter. No one can suppose that society is organised on Christian principles even in so-called 'Christian countries'; and there is much overturning work to be done before He whose right it is to reign is really king over the whole earth. We, too, have our 'high places and Asherim' to root out.
These encouraged him to vigorous efforts to spread the religion which had thus gladdened and brightened his own life. Is that the use we make of the ease which God gives us? Jehoshaphat had to destroy first, in order to build up. The 'high places and Asherim' had to be taken out of Judah before the true worship could be established there. So it is still.
Wherever there was a solitary watchman's tower among the pastures there was a high place, and they were reared in every city. Images and Asherim deformed every hill-top and stood under every spreading tree. Everywhere incense loaded the heavy air with its foul fragrance.
'Strange altars, that is, those dedicated to other gods; 'high places, that is, where illegal sacrifice to Jehovah was offered; 'pillars, that is, stone columns; and 'Asherim, that is, trees or wooden poles, survivals of ancient stone- or tree-worship; 'sun-images, that is, probably, pillars consecrated to Baal as sun-god, were all swept away.
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