The Seven Mountain Prophecy: Unveiling the Coming Elijah Revolution by Johnny Enlow

Author:Johnny Enlow
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Eschatology, End of the world, Christianity and Culture, Christian Life, Religion, Biblical Biography, Spiritual Growth, Old Testament, Christian Theology
ISBN: 9781599792873
Publisher: Charisma Media
Published: 2008-01-27T22:00:00+00:00

Perizzites and the Mountain of Religion

The mountain of religion is the mountain that we as Christians are most familiar with. It is perhaps the only battlefield that some of us have recognized. We’ve accidentally advanced very far on this mountain, but a significant battle awaits us. I say “accidentally” because we’ve primarily advanced on this mountain through bottom-line decisions for Christ. We’ve filled the mountain with people, but we’ve under-informed most on the mountain as to what the mission is.

What Is Religion?

The definition of religion is “the service and worship of God, or the supernatural.”

We have learned a lot about religion in a negative context as that which is ritual and not real, but there is a pure and undefiled religion that is good. The four great religions on the earth are Christianity (2.1 billion followers), Islam (1.2 billion), Hinduism (900 million), and Buddhism (376 million). Other major religions are Chinese traditional/folk religion (394 million), which mixes various strains of Taoism, Confucianism, and Buddhism. African folk religions that often mix the occult and Christianity/Catholicism are practiced by more than 100 million. There are 14 million Jews, and millions spread out among other religious groups.1

Christianity is the fastest growing religion in the world, with Charismatic/Pentecostal being the fastest growing group within Christianity. More than 700 million Holy Spirit-filled Christians are in the world, and their numbers and influence are growing exponentially, particularly so in South America and Africa.

Who Rules the Mountain of Religion?

Next in our list of the Deuteronomy 7 nations to be dispossessed are the Perizzites. The Perizzites’ name means “unwalled, rustic dweller.” They lived in the hill country of the tribes of Judah and Joseph.

Then the children of Joseph spoke to Joshua saying, “Why have you given us only one lot and one share to inherit, since we are a great people, inasmuch as the Lord has blessed us until now?”

So Joshua answered them, “If you are a great people, then go up to the forest country and clear a place for yourself there in the land of the Perizzites and the giants, since the mountains of Ephraim are too confined for you.”

—Joshua 17:14-15

What the land of the Perizzites and the giants represents, for our purposes, is idolatry In Scripture, idolatry was always entrenched in the “high places,” the last holdouts in Israel’s struggles against false worship. This land of the Perizzites was also called the land of the giants, indicating that idolatry creates religious giants that need to be removed. That their name means “unwalled” denotes that they have no protection. That they are “rustic dwellers” means that they also experience limited provision.

Idolatry strips people of their protection and their provision. War and famine are common trademarks of people locked into a system of false worship. History shows that as a people and a nation eradicate idolatry and turn to worship of the true and living God, a better economy and less fighting soon follows. Idolatry is particularly insidious because the very things it causes—death and lack—are the very things it purports to remedy.

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