The Mountains Bow Down To The Lord?
** Jerusalem is the one location in all the Earth where the Temple of the Lord was constructed by God's will and command. I searched on the internet for Jerusalem's elevation, and it came up as 2,474 feet above sea level. 24 7 4 feet. I went to the Protestant Bible's 24th book...Jeremiah... and looked at chapter 7, verse 4. Within that verse were the words "...The temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord...." It is the only place in the Bible where I would have found that repeated 3 times like that. The fact is that there were 3 temples located there during the course of time...temples of a sort, anyway: King Solomon built one during his reign in the 10th century B.C. It was destroyed by Babylon around 586 B.C., and Babylon took many Israelite hostages off to their nation as slaves for 70 years or less. Israelites returning from that Babylonian captivity rebuilt a temple on the old spot in Jerusalem. The Romans destroyed that one (which had been architecturally improved by Herod the Great) about 656 years later in 70 A.D.. And in between those two different stone temples the body of Jesus was destroyed on a cross there at Jerusalem...and Jesus had referred to His body as a temple. So, three 'temples' were 'built', and those three temples were destroyed. And that verse, Jeremiah 7:4, happens to speak of the temple being there in Jerusalem three times. Is there a connection? God knows. Jerusalem is very special to God, among all cities upon the Earth.
To quickly diverge, Jerusalem is where the law was replaced by the fulfillment of God's great promise that a 'seed of Abraham' would come, and promises were made about that 'seed'. Jerusalem informational sites (this one is from Wikipedia) may say that the area Jerusalem is 48.323 square miles. (This chart also shows the previously mentioned city elevation!). Here below is the chart from a Wikipedia article on Jerusalem:
So the geographical area of the 'city' of Jerusalem is 48.323 sq miles. If you go to book 48, chapter 3, verse 23 and the verses just before and after that in a Protestant Bible you are in Galatians and you find find a discussion about how the law (of Moses) was replaced with the promises which were made about Abraham's mysterious 'seed', of which the nearly sacrificed son of Abraham named Isaac was in some ways a prefigurement of the seed (who turned out to be Jesus of Nazareth) and these world changing events took place in Jerusalem. From Galatians chap 3:
15 Brothers and sisters, let me take an example from everyday life. Just as no one can set aside or add to a human covenant that has been duly established, so it is in this case. 16 The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. Scripture does not say “and to seeds,” meaning many people, but “and to your seed,”[i] meaning one person, who is Christ. 17 What I mean is this: The law, introduced 430 years later, does not set aside the covenant previously established by God and thus do away with the promise. 18 For if the inheritance depends on the law, then it no longer depends on the promise; but God in his grace gave it to Abraham through a promise.
19 Why, then, was the law given at all? It was added because of transgressions until the Seed to whom the promise referred had come. The law was given through angels and entrusted to a mediator. 20 A mediator, however, implies more than one party; but God is one.
21 Is the law, therefore, opposed to the promises of God? Absolutely not! For if a law had been given that could impart life, then righteousness would certainly have come by the law. 22 But Scripture has locked up everything under the control of sin, so that what was promised, being given through faith in Jesus Christ, might be given to those who believe.
Children of God
23 Before the coming of this faith,[j] we were held in custodyunder the law, locked up until the faith that was to come would be revealed. 24 So the law was our guardian until Christ camethat we might be justified by faith. 25 Now that this faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian.
26 So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith,27 for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.
End Quote
So Jerusalem occupies a very particular location and elevation in the world, but back to the main topic now.
Since elevations can sometimes 'speak' in a way, why not take a look at certain of the Earth's physical elevations? After all, the Earth and its features were created by God, just as God's word says that weights and measures were instituted by Him. Proverbs 16:11 kind of tells us that. "A just weight and balance are the Lord's: all the weights of the bag are His work." End Quote. I believe that passage speaks of 'standardized weights' being in the bag; fair, representative weights of certain specific sizes. The 'Standard'. (Proverbs 16:11 speaks of 'standards'? Perhaps it is a curious coincidence that the King James Bible came out in 1611 A.D., was first published that year in London. It is a 'standard' for great Bible translation in the eyes of many.) So anyway, if weights are ordained by the Lord, then maybe some units of measure too, right? Maybe...
A picture of Mount Everest. It is the highest of mountains. How about this for strange irony: God guides all of language. We learn that fact when we read the story of the tower of Babel in Genesis in the pages of the Bible, in which God divided the one language of mankind into many languages so that they could not continue in their wicked plots to build a great tower to oppose God's will. And in scripture, mountains sometimes symbolically represent covenants, nations, but also sometimes kings or rulers it seems (Rev 17:9,10 for one instance.) There is a 'woman who sits upon seven hills' there in Revelation. A bad woman. Pastors have long taught that it likely means she will be in authority over 7 kings, or in a city that literally has seven hills within it. Many cities today actually do believe they have seven noteworthy hills within their confines. Rome is a famous example: Capitoline, Aventine, Quirinal, Palatine, Caelian, Esquiline, and Viminal hills are the ones they claim as the source for this name. But so is Washington D.C.: Capitol Hill, Floral Hills, Meridian Hill, Knox Hill, Forest Hills, Hillcrest, and Hillbrook are the ones usually listed as being their seven. And there are many more prominent 'cities of seven hills' throughout the world.
We Christians are taught and believe that the greatest of all rulers ever to be given to mankind is Jesus (beneath the Father, that is.) Jesus will come, scripture says, to give his bride (the Christian church) peace, or rest from their enemies. Eve was the first 'bride' in scripture, and is also prophetically representative of the Church, many believe. She was a real person...the first woman...but she was also representative of the coming Church, just as Adam was representative of the coming Jesus. So the greatest of all rulers (Jesus) would equate to the highest mountain, right? And again, Jesus will eventually give the Church (Eve) rest, right? And God, the master of all things including all languages, caused it to be truth that this greatest of mountains is called Eve-rest. Everest. The greatest king (Jesus) will 'give Eve her rest'. The greatest mountain on Earth is called Everest. Only God could arrange such things as that I think. Or maybe it is coincidence, or reaching for connection God did not intend? I am just looking at the idea respectfully, investigating it. It may not have been a thought God used...but on the other hand, it might be.
Does this example of 'Everest being like Eve - rest' only work in the English language? God the Father knew and still knows the future. He has since the beginning. He would have known what a commonly spoken language English would be in the days when fairly precise measurements of mountains such as Everest would become possible to mankind. So, though this article is only speculatory, it is not an impossible thought to wonder if the English language would provide the key to seeing certain wonderful mysteries in these present times. It could be.
But to the point of this article: scripture contains passages alluding to things which seem physically unlikely in some cases. An example are the scriptures that speak of ' the mountains bowing down to the Lord ' (like in Habakkuk 3:6, though it speaks of 'hills' there.) Well, that might literally happen. I certainly wouldn't call anything impossible for our Lord and Maker. Who would? But it might also be metaphorical, or even a carefully couched mystery. Who can know until the Lord reveals the answer? But mountains are used as a symbol of other things sometimes in scripture: great mountains are usually a symbol of the Old and New Covenants as in the Galatians 4:24 area, or at other times nations, kings, or rulers when used symbolically in scripture. Scripture tells us specifically that God sometimes uses them as symbols in this way, in places and at certain times.
Christians believe that Jesus will come again, not as a teacher or a sacrifice this time, but as the King of Kings. He will come with a conquering army and destroy His enemies after sending out his servants, the angels that accompany Him, to mark the forehead and gather the living and dead that belong to Him. And then He will take them away from the battlefield, which is our planet Earth, prior to returning with His angels to wage war on His enemies. (Rev 7:3 is one spot where this is mentioned.)
So, if Jesus is the greatest king, and mountains can represent kings at times in scripture, do the greatest mountains speak of Him in some manner? Could God have placed some clue about that in the make up of our greatest mountains? It is just a speculative thought. But what if He used their heights to speak of our King and Lord Jesus? After all, God with Jesus formed the mountains, and God with Jesus guided our cultural development, including our system of weights and measures. So is there anything interesting to consider here? Let's look at a couple of examples:
Mount Everest: 29,029 feet tall by some reports. 29 - 02 - 9 ? You could choose to look at it that way. Did God intend it? Well.....maybe, but He never said anything like that, so it's purely investigative (imaginative) speculation. It's not intended disrespectfully, but not put forth as fact or truth. It's just taking a look to see if it seems plausible.
So, what is Book 29, Chapter 2, verse 9 of the Bible (of the 66 Book Protestant Bible)? It is Joel 2:9, highlighted below:
4 The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run.
6 Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.
15 Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly:
18 Then will the LORD be jealous for his land, and pity his people.
21 Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do great things.
24 And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil.
29 And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
End Joel 2 KJV quote
The verse in BOLD type is verse 9, about 'running to and fro….'
So, the height, measured in feet, of the highest (mightiest?) of Earth's mountains corresponds to a Bible book, chapter, (and verse) concerning sounding an alarm on His holy mountain and it is also about the mightiest of Kings (the Lord) advancing with His conquering army. Kind of interesting, right?
What about the world's tallest solitary mountain, Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa? It is listed in some locations as being 19,341 feet tall. Book 19 in the Protestant Bible is Psalms. Book 19, Psalm 34 praises the Lord in many ways, including its verse number 1:
I will bless the Lord at all times;
His praise shall continually be in my mouth.
2 My soul shall make its boast in the Lord;
The humble shall hear of it and be glad.
3 Oh, magnify the Lord with me,
And let us exalt His name together.
4 I sought the Lord, and He heard me,
And delivered me from all my fears.
5 They looked to Him and were radiant,
And their faces were not ashamed.
6 This poor man cried out, and the Lord heard him,
And saved him out of all his troubles.
7 The [a]angel of the Lord encamps all around those who fear Him,
And delivers them.
8 Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good;
Blessed is the man who trusts in Him!
9 Oh, fear the Lord, you His saints!
There is no [b]want to those who fear Him.
10 The young lions lack and suffer hunger;
But those who seek the Lord shall not lack any good thing.
11 Come, you children, listen to me;
I will teach you the fear of the Lord.
12 Who is the man who desires life,
And loves many days, that he may see good?
13 Keep your tongue from evil,
And your lips from speaking deceit.
14 Depart from evil and do good;
Seek peace and pursue it.
15 The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous,
And His ears are open to their cry.
16 The face of the Lord is against those who do evil,
To [c]cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
17 The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears,
And delivers them out of all their troubles.
18 The Lord is near to those who have a broken heart,
And saves such as [d]have a contrite spirit.
19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous,
But the Lord delivers him out of them all.
20 He guards all his bones;
Not one of them is broken.
21 Evil shall slay the wicked,
And those who hate the righteous shall be [e]condemned.
22 The Lord redeems the soul of His servants,
And none of those who trust in Him shall be condemned.
End quote of Psalm 34
In this way Mount Kilimanjaro, the world's tallest solitary (not nestled in a mountain range) mountain at 19,341 feet has a height which can be linked to a scripture which bows (pays reverent deference) to the Lord who created it. Interesting, right?
On to another mountain! Consider the case of Mount Kea on the island of Hawaii. Kea means 'white'. This mountain actually receives snowfall, and is sometimes snow covered on top. (In the book of Revelation John sees that Jesus has hair on top, on His head, which is as white as wool. So maybe Mt. Kea is like Jesus in this respect, right?) The portion of it that is visible above the ocean is pretty tall, but if you measure it from its true base (far beneath the ocean, for the whole island of Hawaii is basically the top of this tall mountain rising up out of the sea) to its peak we are informed by oceanographers and geologists that it is actually the tallest mountain on the planet. It is even far higher than Mt. Everest if you measure it in this manner:
One source lists Mt. Kea as being 32,808 feet tall. (the height is given as 10,000 meters which equals 32,808 feet). The estimates vary from source to source, but it is near to that. So, does that correlate in any way to the Bible? Well, maybe! I'm just playing with ideas here, but...here's one of a couple of ways that it might: it is over 32,000 feet tall. If you look at the Protestant Bible's book number 32 it is the Book of Jonah. The Book of Jonah mentions undersea mountains! In chapter 2 verse 6 of Jonah the prophet Jonah was told by God to go preach repentance to the city of Ninevah. These Assyrians were enemies of the Jews, so Jonah did not want this assignment. (Jesus did not wish to preach to the gentiles, but when He saw that God's people the Jews did not much listen He did end up preaching to the gentiles as well, such as to the Samaritans.) Jonah did not obey God. He ran to the ocean, found a ship that was sailing for Tarshish, and booked passage aboard it. But once at sea a storm overtook the ship. The sailors feel it is an odd storm, perhaps from an angry God? The men on the ship are frightened. Jonah admits to the sailors that he is probably the cause of the great storm which threatens to sink them all. He admits that if they throw him overboard...sacrifice him...that they may be able to live because of this. (Jesus also said that His sacrifice was necessary in order for others to live.) So the sailors of the imperiled ship fight the storm a while longer but eventually they reluctantly threw Jonah overboard and he sank to a place deep beneath the sea, and this suddenly quieted the storm. The sailors asked God to not hold them responsible for this act. (Pilate, giving in to the screaming Jews, also allowed Jesus to be killed, reluctantly, asking that he not be held responsible for this act. And when he condemned Jesus, the storm - the human storm, the riot that the Jews were egging on - was quelled.) As for Jonah, he sank down and down into the water, and eventually seaweed wrapped around his neck. (Jesus too was covered with vegetation after his crucifixion: spices were used to cover His body in the burial cave where they put him to rest.). And in Jonah 2:6 it says that Jonah sank to the base of the mountains that were beneath the sea, crying out to God. Jesus, when sacrificed, descended into Hell, but Hell had no hold on Him because He had not sinned; the Holy Father would not see Him remain there in hell and He ascended from the dead. (Perhaps it might be interesting to note that the letters - which also stand in as numbers in that language - in the YHWH spelling of God's name add up to 26, and that the Latin alphabet used by Romans such as Pontius Pilate had 26 letters. And it is in Jonah 2:6 that Jonah sinks to the root of the sea covered mountains.) So, the book of Jonah - book #32 in the Protestant Bibles - speaks of the root of a mountain that is far down and deep in the sea, and the sacrificed man Jonah sinks down to there. Not many places in the Bible speak of mountains rising up out of the seabed! Jonah is rescued by God when, instead of Jonah dying at the submerged base of the mountains, a great large fish swallows him and carries him back to the surface, swims to the shore, and vomits Jonah out upon the beach. Jonah then goes on to complete his God-given mission. But how odd that Jonah who was sent by God is somewhat Christlike, and a great fish has Jonah in its mouth for a while. Christianity is symbolized by the fish symbol. And Christians carry in their mouth the news that Jesus died for us, died to save us, but then was saved by God...not allowed to remain dead. That is sort of a core message of Christianity. Just as Jonah, vomited out by the great fish, went on to enlighten the gentiles in Ninevah, so likewise did the Gospel, which comes out of the mouths of the Christians of the Christian Church (symbolized by the fish symbol) goes out to enlighten the gentiles of this world with God's teachings through Jesus, and with word of the good news: salvation is possible through Jesus! Anyway, Jesus brought peace, Jonah means Peace, or Dove. Jesus was filled with the Holy Spirit in the form of a Dove on the day of His baptism. The 7th day was the day of rest. The specific island called Hawaii is one of 7 'Hawaiian Islands.' Jesus is the great and final 'rest' for His people. He is like the Sabbath, in bodily form! He is called the Lord of the Sabbath in scripture. In fact, Jesus gave Himself that title! The Jubilee Year from the ancient Jewish days of obeying the Laws of Moses was a 'year' of tremendously long rest (the 50th year in a 50 year cycle, it actually involved resting - not farming - for 2 successive years. They rested during the 49th year because it was a multiple of 7 years, and they rested every 7th year, and additionally they rested on the 50th!) And Hawaii 'by chance' is the 50th state of the United States of America.
For what it is worth, some sites state that the ancient Hawaiians considered the top of Mt. Kea to be a holy place. Did they somehow know something?
Finally, there is the ratio thing. Is Mt. Kea, the actual tallest mountain in the world, possibly made by God to resemble or bring to mind Jesus in some ways? Well, Jesus is the Word...the Word of God. The beginning of the Gospel of John calls Him that. But the Bible is also called the Word. A Protestant Bible has 66 books. There are 39 Old Testament Books, and 27 New Testament books. So what percentage of the Bible is the New Testament? Well, measuring it by 'books' we could divide 27 books by 66 books. You get 40.9%. It rounds to 41%. 41% of the Bible books are New Testament books. What if you divide the portion of Mt. Kea that is above the sea and out in the sunshine by the mountain's entire height? The portion that is out of the water is listed as being 13,803 feet tall on some sites. So what is 13,803 ft / 33,500 ft (the total height given by 'hypertextbook.com')? You get 41.2%. It also rounds to 41% Or if you divide Mt. Kea's above water height by the total height (given in a Wikipedia article about the mountain) you get 13,808 ft / 33,000 ft which comes to 41.8%, which rounds to 42%. So, Mt. Kea's ratios are, in that respect, about the same as the Bible's ratio of New Testament books divided by the number of books of the New and the Old Testaments combined.
What bout Mt. Hebron? The highest point is said to be 3366 feet, or 1026 meters. And believe it or not I actually found a possible link to the metric system height this time...the first one I have ever found in the Bible. Maybe it is 'coincidence', or maybe I have missed a bunch of them. I always find links to the English system of measurements, but never before to the metric. I'll mention it last.
The city of Hebron, with over 200,000 inhabitants is located near it. It is located in what is now referred to as the Palestinian West Bank of Israel. The Cave of the Patriarchs, or Cave of Machpelah as it is also known, is there nearby. There are Muslim Holy sites built over the cave site, and Jewish buildings also. But it is sacred to Christians, Jews, and Muslims. The Jews and Muslims have an arrangement whereby there are 10 days of the year where the Jews can go into the Muslim controlled buildings there, and the Muslims can go into the Jewish controlled portions. The cave that Abraham bought from the Hittites for a burial cave is beneath the buildings. But its opening is blocked off by a stone slab. You cannot enter. It is said that inside there is some sort of a double cave in which the bodies of Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebecca, and Jacob/Israel and his wife Leah are buried. (Rachael, Jacob/Israel's other wife, is buried in another location, near Bethlehem.)
So, does the height of 3366 feet correlate to anything? Does it 'testify'? Perhaps! In a Protestant Bible the 33rd book is Micah, and if you go to the 6th chapter you will find that God is literally asking 'the mountains' to listen as he makes His case against Israel for their idolatrous nature....worshiping what they should not worship. Verse 6 is not particularly aimed at Mt Hebron though. God is expressing His unhappiness that His people have cheating weights and measures, and follow the statutes of Omri, and some other things. And today's Hebron, speaking of the Tomb of the Patriarchs, is an instance of 3 religions being found in one city inside of Israel: Jewish, Muslim, and Christian. Is that meaningful? It seems like a maybe in this instance. But God is speaking to the mountains in this chapter.
If you go to a Catholic Bible it is different...more appropriate to Mount Hebron I think...if you go to the 33rd book, 6th chapter, 6 verse. Ezekiel 6 starts with God commanding Ezekiel to go and and set his face against the mountains of Israel and testify against them. Pretty mazing that a 3,366 feet mountain has a Biblical connection to the preaching of God's word to the mountains' in both the Catholic and Protestant Bibles. There are truly very few pages in the entire Bible where you could go and find God commanding someone to preach specifically to mountains. These might be the only two. But here in Ezekiel the people of the mountains re being castigated for their unauthorized 'high places' where they go to worship false gods or worship falsely. God speaks about how He will have their false alters and false idols smashed, and the people will die by plague, famine, and the sword.
If you use the Metric System height of Mt. Hebron...1026 meters...it is very focused on Mt. Hebron. It is 2 Samuel (10th Book of the Protestant Bible) chapter 2. Verse 6 is basically in the middle of this chapter's focus, where David asks God where he should go to live, and God tells him to go live at Hebron. He has become king and will end up reigning for the first 7 1/2 years of his 40 year kingship there in Hebron. He will later go to Jerusalem and Mt. Zion to rule for the rest of his reign. Hebron is mentioned at the beginning and the end of this chapter. Pretty amazing really. Especially if you consider that in Genesis 35:11 God promises Jacob/Israel, "A nation and a community of nations will come from you, and kings will be among your descendants." And about 800 years later God has King David, a descendent of Jacob/Israel through his son Judah, become probably the greatest king of the nation Israel, and rule from the very place where Jacob/Israel's bones were interred: the Mount Hebron area, near the Tomb of the Patriarchs. God showed the whole world that His promise to Jacob/Israel had been kept!
So, what about the Holiest of all mountains, the mountain upon which God chose to make His dwelling....what about Mount Zion in Israel? It has an interesting correlation too, in a slightly different usage of its height in the English feet system: 2,510 feet. If you go to book 25, the of the Protestant type bibles book of Ezra, and read its 10th (and final) chapter it actually occurs in Jerusalem on Mt. Zion, and involves an Israelite people returned from up to 70 years captivity in Babylon to their former home of Jerusalem. They are, in this chapter, a people acknowledging their sin and trying to rid themselves corporately of all the trappings of their sins so that they can get right before the Lord. They are trying to rid themselves of their foreign wives, because God wanted the Israelites to marry Israelite women, not foreign women. (and interestingly, the term 'foreign wives' is used elsewhere in scripture figuratively to refer to the worship of false gods.)
12 Then all the congregation answered and said with a loud voice, As thou hast said, so must we do.
20 And of the sons of Immer; Hanani, and Zebadiah.
21 And of the sons of Harim; Maaseiah, and Elijah, and Shemaiah, and Jehiel, and Uzziah.
22 And of the sons of Pashur; Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethaneel, Jozabad, and Elasah.
24 Of the singers also; Eliashib: and of the porters; Shallum, and Telem, and Uri.
26 And of the sons of Elam; Mattaniah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, and Abdi, and Jeremoth, and Eliah.
27 And of the sons of Zattu; Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, and Jeremoth, and Zabad, and Aziza.
28 Of the sons also of Bebai; Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, and Athlai.
29 And of the sons of Bani; Meshullam, Malluch, and Adaiah, Jashub, and Sheal, and Ramoth.
31 And of the sons of Harim; Eliezer, Ishijah, Malchiah, Shemaiah, Shimeon,
32 Benjamin, Malluch, and Shemariah.
33 Of the sons of Hashum; Mattenai, Mattathah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh, and Shimei.
34 Of the sons of Bani; Maadai, Amram, and Uel,
36 Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib,
37 Mattaniah, Mattenai, and Jaasau,
38 And Bani, and Binnui, Shimei,
39 And Shelemiah, and Nathan, and Adaiah,
40 Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai,
41 Azareel, and Shelemiah, Shemariah,
42 Shallum, Amariah, and Joseph.
43 Of the sons of Nebo; Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Jadau, and Joel, Benaiah.
44 All these had taken strange wives: and some of them had wives by whom they had children.
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**Here is a very interesting thing, by the way: Mount Zion is there at Jerusalem in Israel. Jerusalem is such a holy city I wondered if its elevation would prove prophetic. After all, it is the one place on Earth where the 'temple of the Lord' was built or placed by the will of Almighty God. So, I searched "What is the elevation of Jerusalem?" on the internet and the answer that came up was that Jerusalem is 2474 feet above sea level. So I broke that number down. Book 24 in a Protestant Bible is the Book of Jeremiah. Chapter 7, verse 4 of Jeremiah reads (and I included a few more verses to show the context:
Jeremiah 7 King James Version (KJV)
7 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,
2 Stand in the gate of the Lord's house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the Lord, all ye of Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the Lord.
3 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
4 Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the Lord, The temple of the Lord, The temple of the Lord, are these.
5 For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
6 If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
7 Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.
End Quote
Three times in verse 4 you see the words "The temple of the Lord" and that is verse correlating to the elevation of the city (Jerusalem) where the "Temple of the Lord" is located. If you think about that for a moment it is truly amazing!
How about Mt. Sinai? Does its height 'testify' or 'bow down'? In a sense it might. In the METRIC sense! Is it cheating to switch to METRIC? I admit that it may be. But....if you do look at the METRIC height it is said to be 2,285 meters tall (7,497 feet.) So, if you travel to book 2 (Exodus) chapter 28 and look at it all, including verse 5, it is a chapter where God speaks to Moses about the glorious attire of the High Priest of Israel; the first High Priest was Moses' very own brother Aaron. They are at Mt. Sinai...they have left Egypt and crossed the Red Sea, and God is specifying how to design and sew together the garb to be worn by His High Priest. It is good to remember that scripture lets us know that the real High Priest is to be Jesus, and the human High Priest is just a stand in until the real thing comes. So, this may be the clothing design Jesus will wear at times, for all we know. When God specifies the exact design of a thing down here, upon the Earth, it is believed to be a copy of a corresponding thing or things up in heaven in many cases. (Hebrews 9:23 confirms this idea, for one instance.) Here is Exodus chap 28 from the KJV:
28 And take thou unto thee Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's sons.
2 And thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron thy brother for glory and for beauty.
3 And thou shalt speak unto all that are wise hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they may make Aaron's garments to consecrate him, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office.
4 And these are the garments which they shall make; a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a broidered coat, a mitre, and a girdle: and they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and his sons, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office.
5 And they shall take gold, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen.
6 And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and of purple, of scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cunning work.
7 It shall have the two shoulderpieces thereof joined at the two edges thereof; and so it shall be joined together.
8 And the curious girdle of the ephod, which is upon it, shall be of the same, according to the work thereof; even of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
9 And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel:
10 Six of their names on one stone, and the other six names of the rest on the other stone, according to their birth.
11 With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel: thou shalt make them to be set in ouches of gold.
12 And thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulders of the ephod for stones of memorial unto the children of Israel: and Aaron shall bear their names before the Lord upon his two shoulders for a memorial.
13 And thou shalt make ouches of gold;
14 And two chains of pure gold at the ends; of wreathen work shalt thou make them, and fasten the wreathen chains to the ouches.
15 And thou shalt make the breastplate of judgment with cunning work; after the work of the ephod thou shalt make it; of gold, of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine twined linen, shalt thou make it.
16 Foursquare it shall be being doubled; a span shall be the length thereof, and a span shall be the breadth thereof.
17 And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, even four rows of stones: the first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this shall be the first row.
18 And the second row shall be an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.
19 And the third row a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst.
20 And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be set in gold in their inclosings.
21 And the stones shall be with the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet; every one with his name shall they be according to the twelve tribes.
22 And thou shalt make upon the breastplate chains at the ends of wreathen work of pure gold.
23 And thou shalt make upon the breastplate two rings of gold, and shalt put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.
24 And thou shalt put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings which are on the ends of the breastplate.
25 And the other two ends of the two wreathen chains thou shalt fasten in the two ouches, and put them on the shoulderpieces of the ephod before it.
26 And thou shalt make two rings of gold, and thou shalt put them upon the two ends of the breastplate in the border thereof, which is in the side of the ephod inward.
27 And two other rings of gold thou shalt make, and shalt put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath, toward the forepart thereof, over against the other coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of the ephod.
28 And they shall bind the breastplate by the rings thereof unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be above the curious girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate be not loosed from the ephod.
29 And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment upon his heart, when he goeth in unto the holy place, for a memorial before the Lord continually.
30 And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be upon Aaron's heart, when he goeth in before the Lord: and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel upon his heart before the Lord continually.
31 And thou shalt make the robe of the ephod all of blue.
32 And there shall be an hole in the top of it, in the midst thereof: it shall have a binding of woven work round about the hole of it, as it were the hole of an habergeon, that it be not rent.
33 And beneath upon the hem of it thou shalt make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, round about the hem thereof; and bells of gold between them round about:
34 A golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, upon the hem of the robe round about.
35 And it shall be upon Aaron to minister: and his sound shall be heard when he goeth in unto the holy place before the Lord, and when he cometh out, that he die not.
36 And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and grave upon it, like the engravings of a signet, Holiness To The Lord.
37 And thou shalt put it on a blue lace, that it may be upon the mitre; upon the forefront of the mitre it shall be.
38 And it shall be upon Aaron's forehead, that Aaron may bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall hallow in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always upon his forehead, that they may be accepted before the Lord.
39 And thou shalt embroider the coat of fine linen, and thou shalt make the mitre of fine linen, and thou shalt make the girdle of needlework.
40 And for Aaron's sons thou shalt make coats, and thou shalt make for them girdles, and bonnets shalt thou make for them, for glory and for beauty.
41 And thou shalt put them upon Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him; and shalt anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may minister unto me in the priest's office.
42 And thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover their nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs they shall reach:
43 And they shall be upon Aaron, and upon his sons, when they come in unto the tabernacle of the congregation, or when they come near unto the altar to minister in the holy place; that they bear not iniquity, and die: it shall be a statute for ever unto him and his seed after him.
End Quote Interesting that the METRIC HEIGHT of Mt. Sinai takes you to instruction given at Mt. Sinai. It was the mountain associated with the Old Covenant and its height (in METRIC) links to scripture in a place that is speaking of the High Priest of the Old Covenant, with the words even being spoken to Moses at Mt. Sinai.
What about the Mount of Olives you surely ask? This important mountain, just a half hour walk to the east of Jerusalem, was the scene of some of the New Testament's most important events. Jesus was taken prisoner there, for instance, and was then tried and was crucified, becoming the single and only sacrifice that can allow mankind's sins to be forgiven. Jesus became sin (sin is often signified by a snake) to swallow up the guilt of the sin caused by Adam, and later by the Israelites failed effort to follow the Law and the Prophets from the Covenant of Moses (the 2 previous 'snakes'?) The Mount of Olives is 2,710 feet tall. Notice how relatable this chapter of Exodus really is to the ministry of Jesus. It is from Book 2 (Exodus), Chap 7, and contains verse 10, which is a form of 2,710 in a way.
7 Then the Lord said to Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet. 2 You are to say everything I command you, and your brother Aaron is to tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites go out of his country. 3 But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I multiply my signs and wonders in Egypt, 4 he will not listen to you. Then I will lay my hand on Egypt and with mighty acts of judgment I will bring out my divisions, my people the Israelites. 5 And the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring the Israelites out of it.”
6 Moses and Aaron did just as the Lord commanded them. 7 Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh.
Aaron’s Staff Becomes a Snake
8 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, 9 “When Pharaoh says to you, ‘Perform a miracle,’ then say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh,’ and it will become a snake.”
10 So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did just as the Lord commanded. Aaron threw his staff down in front of Pharaoh and his officials, and it became a snake. 11 Pharaoh then summoned wise men and sorcerers, and the Egyptian magicians also did the same things by their secret arts: 12 Each one threw down his staff and it became a snake. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs. 13 Yet Pharaoh’s heart became hard and he would not listen to them, just as the Lord had said.
The Plague of Blood
14 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is unyielding; he refuses to let the people go. 15 Go to Pharaoh in the morning as he goes out to the river. Confront him on the bank of the Nile, and take in your hand the staff that was changed into a snake. 16 Then say to him, ‘The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to say to you: Let my people go, so that they may worship me in the wilderness. But until now you have not listened. 17 This is what the Lord says: By this you will know that I am the Lord: With the staff that is in my hand I will strike the water of the Nile, and it will be changed into blood. 18 The fish in the Nile will die, and the river will stink; the Egyptians will not be able to drink its water.’”
19 The Lord said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt—over the streams and canals, over the ponds and all the reservoirs—and they will turn to blood.’ Blood will be everywhere in Egypt, even in vessels[a] of wood and stone.”
20 Moses and Aaron did just as the Lord had commanded. He raised his staff in the presence of Pharaoh and his officials and struck the water of the Nile, and all the water was changed into blood. 21 The fish in the Nile died, and the river smelled so bad that the Egyptians could not drink its water. Blood was everywhere in Egypt.
22 But the Egyptian magicians did the same things by their secret arts, and Pharaoh’s heart became hard; he would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the Lord had said. 23 Instead, he turned and went into his palace, and did not take even this to heart. 24 And all the Egyptians dug along the Nile to get drinking water, because they could not drink the water of the river.
The Plague of Frogs
25 Seven days passed after the Lord struck the Nile.
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Well, there's a short list of examples of how the mountains - some of them - may even now 'bow' to the Lord (pay deference to the Lord) via the relating of their height to a corresponding portion of Holy Scripture from the Bible. And the Bible is God's Word, and we all know that 'the Word' is one of the names given to Jesus, through whom all things were made, including the great mountains of the Earth. So, in a way, the construction of the mountains may have been designed as yet another attestation to the mastery of our Maker. But again, this is only a person considering a thing. It may not be anything God intended, and so don't take it as anything more than an interesting particular of God's creation. And not every source gives the same number for the heights of various mountains, so....this is just food for thought at best unless God should ever confirm it. I expect we will see actual mountains literally move if we get to see the Lord Jesus arrive in person!