“Our life here below is not one of ease and quiet, but a continual warfare, a conflict, a race, a wrestling not only with flesh and blood, but with principalities and powers and spiritual wickedness in high places. We have to dread ourselves more than anything or anybody, and to view our flesh as our greatest enemy.”
- excerpt from J.C. Philpot’s Daily Portions for April 23
And what are these high places?
Many assume they are strictly some kind of celestial planes far above this world. But that is only where the dark influences come from. The actual combat is not in the sky, but on earth.
A high place (
bamah) in the Bible is a raised site—often a hill, mountain top, or artificial platform—used for religious sacrifice, worship, and idolatry.
Biblically, high places refer to pagan temples where worship involved child sacrifice and perversions engaged in with official temple prostitutes. By extension, high places can include elevated offices in government, education, industry, technology, and society, as witnessed by the Epstein files.
We can also consider high places as ungodly attitudes and practices we have exalted in our hearts above God.
1 Kings 11:7
Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that
is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.
