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Thank you so much for this quote. This is literally describing the pagen holiday of yule/xmas. Now have a Bible lesson on why Christians can't glorify God by pagen means.
Turn to 1 kings 12:25-33
>Then Jeroboam built Shechem in mount Ephraim, and dwelt therein; and went out from thence, and built Penuel.
>And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom return to the house of David:
>If this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn again unto their lord, even unto Rehoboam king of Judah, and they shall kill me,and go again to Rehoboam king of Judah.
So Jeroboam wanted to make sacrifices to God.
>Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
>And he set the one in Beth-el, and the other put he in Dan.
>And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan.
Then jeroboam made false idols.
>And he made an house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi.
>And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on thefifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Beth-el, sacrificing unto thecalves that he had made: and he placed in Beth-el the priests ofthe high places which he had made.
Then he made high places dedicated to serving God, why wouldn't God like us going out of the way to please Him in ways he didn't command?
>So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Beth-el the fifteenth day of the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and ordained a feast unto the children of Israel: and he offered upon the altar, and burnt incense.
So Jeroboam tried really hard to make a substitute temple with non-leviticul priests. What did God think about this? Read 1 kings 13, it was sin to jeroboam to have done so.
Now what happened to these high places meant for God? Read 2 chronicles 14:1-4
>SO Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead. In his days the land was quiet ten years.
>And Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God:
>For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the highplaces, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:
>And commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment.
Turn to 1 kings 15:8-14
>And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead.
>And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned Asa over Judah.
>And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
>And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, as did David his father.
>And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
>And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron.
So far so good.
>But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa’s heart was perfect with the LORD all his days.
He took away all the idols, and even the high places/altars "of the strange gods" though? How is there still high places? Did he maybe think those high places that jeroboam dedicated to God were sanctioned by God? yes