Lift Up Your Heads

Shalom In Yahshua and welcome once again to this blog and teaching. 

Today we will continue our teaching of Ps.118; studying out verse 19.

For our previous post click here

Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, [and] I will praise the LORD:

In the previous post we raised three questions and the last we answered first. Today we wish to deal with the other two, namely:

1. Who is speaking in this verse?
2. To whom is He speaking?

Let us first set the stage for this verse. Yahshua has recently arisen from the grave, confirmed His resurrection with His Talmidim (disciples) and meets with them for the last time on the mount called Olivet and while is yet speaking with them a cloud takes Him out of their sight. (Acts 1:4-9)

He is escorted by a retinue holy angels as He ascends to Shamayim (Heaven) itself to appear before YHVH for us. He ascends not as defeated, but as a Mighty Conqueror and all Shamayim are waiting to pay Him supreme homage. 

The Courts of Heaven are fully set up with perfect arrangement for the coming Coronation of it's Redeemer. The angelic host are set in rank and file and all musical arragements are set in place so that when the King shall appear and enter into its halls the shouts of Praise and adoration shall immediately ensue. 

As not to be out-done...the angelic host that escorts Yahshua to Shamayim are part of the program...listen closely to the anthems of praise as they near the Heavenly world.....


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.


And finally, as Yahshua nears the outer gates of the celestial Citadel He lifts His voice, and in musical tones, and with gentle, mild, and yet commanding authority speaks: 

Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, [and] I will praise the LORD:This gate of the LORD, into which the righteous shall enter.

And as He moves through the peril gates the highest and joy-est enraptured praise ensues. 

While Yahshua, like the Mighty Man of War that He is, walks, in measured step with the grand music, makes his way past the long column of all the leaders/heads of state from the distant sinless worlds, up and past the highest order of beings (the angels), up and past all the principalities and power and thrones and dominions, and past the highest ranking angels and now into the surpassing glory of YHVH'S immediate presence, where no man can look upon and live. 

And there we shall leave our story.......

Until next time shalom and Ahava In Yahshua.  

Open to me the gates of righteousness

Shalom In Yahshua and welcome once again to this blog and teaching. 

Today we will continue our teaching of Ps.118; studying out verse 19.

For my comments on verse 18 click here

Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, [and] I will praise the LORD:

As we continue with our study of Ps.118 we emphasis the need to look; not only at the simple, but the Sublime. And who is the Sublime? Yahshua! 

We admit, that this is a psalm of David and his troubles and pleas for deliverance. However, we conclude that David, in all his trials sought none other than Yahshua for His help and deliverance as we all must. 

With this we turn to the verse under consideration and ask the question? Who is speaking in this verse? To whom is He speaking? And what is the gates of righteousness? This last question we address first:

This gate of the LORD, into which the righteous shall enter.

The gates of righteousness is (the gate of YHVH) the gates into which the righteous shall enter.

Two interesting points here:

1. In verse 19 we find 'gates of righteousness' and in verse 20 it is singular 'gate'. Why is this?

Firstly, the gates of righteousness are the twelve gates of the New Yeruslam spoken of in Rev.21 and how do we know this? because we find out in the Psalm that it is the gate into which the righteous shall enter. 

Next, we find that more than one gate must be open because when Yahshua went to Shamayim (Heaven) shortly after His resurrection; He went not alone, but 'many bodies of the saints which slept arose and came out of the graves after His resurrection' Mat.27:52,53. These resurrected ones are the first fruits of the harvest, the first fruits of His power,which was typified here in the Tanakh:

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,


Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest:
And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it. (Lev.23:9-11)

Therefore, we see in the type a prophecy of Yahshua's decision to raise up many bodies of the saints (as firstfruits) of His resurrection. They, according to the type, had to be waved 'before the LORD'. 
So we see Yahshua in (Ps. 118:19,20) on the very day after the Passover (spoken of in Leviticus), bringing before His Father ('the LORD), a sheaf of the firstfruits, thus fulfilling another specificity of the Torah. 

And who was to wave the firstfruits before YHVH? 'the priest'. And who is our High Priest? Yahshua!

And yet the full harvest comes not until Yahshua, comes at the time of the Feast of Ingathering: 

And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud [one] sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.

And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe. 


And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped. Rev.14:14-16

Until next time........Shalom and Ahava In Yahshua

Chastened Sore

Shalom In Yahshua and welcome once again to this blog and teaching. 

Today we will continue our teaching of Ps.118; studying out verse 18.

For my comments on verse 17 click here

The LORD hath chastened me sore: but he hath not given me over unto death.

In review of this verse we see Yahshua once again.
It is in submission to  the chastening of YHVH that Yahshua was made perfect.(Heb.5:8) 

This is a lesson that I myself am learning as I travel on The Way to Shamayim. It was recently that I was chastened by YHVH for something that I failed to do; which I knew I should have done. I was chastened in public! Sometimes we stubble and fall but Yahshua never did. It is for this reason that He is our only example in all things. (1Pe.2:21;2Pe.1:3)

The text under consideration informs us that Yahshua was not given unto death. How can this be? Click here for comments on this point.

In the final battle before us; the time of Jacobs trouble (Jer.30:7) many will be martyred for their faith (Mat.24:9; 2Ti.3:12) It is at this time we should call to mind the words of this text:  

The LORD hath chastened me sore: but he hath not given me over unto death.

Until next time........Shalom and Ahava In Yahshua