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.