You said “I can think of no way this makes sense unless the teaching you heard as a child was someone talking about worshiping in the high places or burning incense on the high places? In that case, going up and the high places have very different meanings.”
…unless the teaching you heard as a child. This that Davy shared is what I heard as a child about going up. Concerning the thousand year reign of Christ. Unless I misunderstood it is his belief that Zechariah 14:16-27 speaks of going up to worship before the King during the thousand year reign. And again, what will happen if they don’t go up to worship.
But also where (I think) I’ve heard it also is from
@Episkopos when talking about also a future outer darkness. I’m not saying he said it, nor that I’m not wrong but back then the conversations about being cast out into outer darkness, also spoke of not going up before the king to worship, but instead put out in outer darkness. Either gives a perspective of what lies ahead which was why I was interested in what happened to Benjamin when that tribe didn’t go up to worship. That was all. It was only questions. I can’t tell you how I’ve formed my opinions over the years but only shared things that have had an influence…things I question now.
Another example of things I heard as a child.
Zechariah 14:12 Their Flesh Shall Consume Away
The Bible describes many terrible events that will occur during the final days of this world’s history. One verse, Zechariah 14:12, presents a particularly fearful-sounding representation of the final fate of the lost:
“And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their
flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their
eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their
tongue shall consume away in their mouth.” (Zech 14:12)