LIFT UP YOUR HEADS ‘O’ YE GATES.
Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle.
Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah Psalm 24:7-10 (KJV)
This Scripture is known as the messianic Psalms, which depict Christ the messiah as he attempted to get access to Hades; but was prevented by the ancient everlasting gates and the demonic personalities guarding those gates. It is important to note that the heralding angels of Christ did not suggest to the gates to move, but commanded them to be lifted up.
PURPOSE OF GATES.
Purpose simply means use. The use of gates in the natural has to do with keeping things; to confine, shut up, or control. Gates allow or prevent transaction or flow; they could be protective or destructive. There was the story of a young man who was being chased by a lion, he ran into his house and shut the gate.Tthat was protective. As he sat down to rest, he looked up and there was a cobra looking down at him from the ceiling of the house, the same gate has become destructive.
From these scriptures, we see several purposes of gates.
- Entrances or passage ways for flow of traffic.
“Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day or night; that men may bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought”. (Isaiah 60:11)
- Places of worship.
“Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name”. (Psalms. 100:4)
- Places of warfare.
“That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies”. ( Gen. 22:17)
- **Places of weighty decisions._
“And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. The Lord make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do thou worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Bethlehem” (Ruth 4:1-12)
- Places of worthy convocations.
“Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land” (Pro. 31:23)
- Place of Weighty appreciations.
“Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates”. (Pro. 31:31)
- Places for weird practices.
“And Joshua adjured them at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before the LORD, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho: he shall lay the foundation thereof in his firstborn, and in his youngest son shall he set up the gates of it” (Josh. 6:26)
- Place of work.
“And a certain man lame from his mother’s womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple”. (Acts 3:2)
Though the man at the beautiful gate was begging he was working as well.
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