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