High Places

Numbers 21-23; Mark 6,7 

“So he took him to the field of Zophim on the top of Pisgah, and there he built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar…And Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, overlooking the wasteland…Now when Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord to bless Israel, he did not resort to sorcery as at other times…the Spirit of God came upon him and he uttered his oracle:”

Numbers 23:14, 28; 24:1-3

Balak’s attempt to use sorcery to curse Israel on top of Moab’s mountain was blocked by a ‘better word’ that came from the mountain of the Lord. Satan has tried to control the high places of the earth through sacrifices and idolatry, but he is powerless in the face of the word of the Lord, spoken from the mountain of the Lord. Isaiah saw the nations streaming to the Lord’s mountain to learn his ways (Isaiah 2:2). Daniel saw the mountain of the Lord that began as a rock smashing the kingdoms of this world and filling the whole earth (Daniel2:3, 5). John saw “a mountain great and high” representing the New Jerusalem (Revelation 21:10). Balak and every other ruler opposed to the mountain of the Lord’s temple will fail.

On which ‘mountain’ are we worshipping?

“Come Lord Jesus.”