“Howbeit the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He built the higher gate of the house of the LORD.”
2 Kings 15:35 KJV
But Jotham didn’t interfere with the traffic to the neighborhood sex-and-religion shrines; they continued, as popular as ever. The construction of the High Gate to the temple of God was his work. God had made a covenant with the children of Israel when they came out of Egypt, “You shall make no covenant with the neighbouring nations, nor with their gods. They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against Me. For if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.” Over the years, the children of Israel were caught in that snare of worshipping the surrounding nations’ gods and goddesses. The decline in these nations was evident and they had to face the consequences. In the new covenant that Jesus Christ has made with humanity, the finished work of redemption in Christ is the ultimate and there are eternal consequences of rejecting this covenant. Not secularism, nor humanism, nor any other ideology of mankind can bring salvation, only Jesus Christ can because He is the Way, the Truth and the Life, no one comes to God except through Him. He is the I AM. Amen!
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