Monday, July 16, 2018

The Everlasting gates and doors opened

Psa 24:7  Lift up your heads/rashaykam ראשיכם H7218, O you gates/sharayam שערים H8179! And be lifted up, you everlasting/aulam H5769 עולם doors/patachay פתחי H6607! And let the Sovereign of esteem come in/yabua יבוא. 
Psa 24:8  Who is this Sovereign of esteem? יהוה strong and mighty, יהוה mighty in battle. 
Psa 24:9  Lift up your heads, O you gates! Even lift up, you everlasting doors! And let the Sovereign of esteem come in. 
Psa 24:10  Who is this Sovereign of esteem? יהוה of hosts, He is the Sovereign of esteem! Selah.

The above we have is a translation from TS2009. 

Psa 24:7  שאו שערים ראשיכם    והנשאו פתחי עולםויבוא    מלך הכבוד 
Psa 24:8  מי זה    מלך הכבודיהוה עזוז וגבור    יהוה גבור מלחמה 
Psa 24:9  שאו שערים ראשיכם    ושאו פתחי עולםויבא    מלך הכבוד 
Psa 24:10 מי הוא זה    מלך הכבודיהוה צבאות—    הוא מלך הכבוד סלה

Revised word to word translation from Abary:

Psalms 24:7 Lift up gates heads and be lifted up doors everlasting and he will come King of Esteem
Psalms 24:8 Who is this King of Esteem? Yahuah Strong and Mighty, Yahuah Mighty in battle
Psalms 24:9 Lift up gates heads and lift up doors everlasting and he will come King of Esteem
Psalms 24:10 Who is He this King of Esteem? Yahuah of hosts-He is King of Esteem! Selah.


In the temple built by Shelemoh there were three gates to the house of Yahuah with three gates in through the inner court. The north gate, south gate and the east gate all leading to the inner court and the inner court leading to the Set apart place where there was a door which we will see a bit later.

Eze 40:23  And the gate of the inner courtyard was opposite the northern gate, and at the eastern gate. And he measured from gate to gate, one hundred cubits. 
Eze 40:24  And he took me toward the south, and look, a gate toward the south. And he measured its posts and porches according to these measurements. 

The outermost area of the temple in Yerushalayim was called the court of the Gentiles/Guym because it could be entered by all people. It was the most exterior and, by far, the largest of all the courts. This location, along with Shelemoh's Porch (which was a covered area that existed on either side of the court's eastern entrance) was frequented by Yerushalayim's sick and the poor seeking help (Acts 3:11, 5:12). 

Act 3:11  And as the lame man who was healed was clinging to Kĕpha and Yoḥanan, all the people ran together to them in the porch which is called Shelomoh’s, greatly amazed. 

See Shelemoh's temple picture in the image C to see and understand how Shelemoh's porch looked like

The "soreg" at Yerushalayim's heykal/temple was a fence that separated the court of the Gentiles/Guym from the rest of the temple mount complex. Gentiles/Guym and ritually unclean Yahudites were forbidden from passing through its gates to the interior areas.

The Temple Warning inscription, also known as the Temple Balustrade inscription or the Soreg inscription, is an inscription that hung along the balustrade outside the Sanctuary of the Second Temple in YerushalayimThe inscription was a warning to pagan visitors to the temple not to proceed further. Both Greek and Latin inscriptions on the temple's balustrade served as warnings to pagan visitors not to proceed under penalty of death. See image below:






The emissary Shaul, when writing to converted Gentiles in Ephesus, referred to this fence when he stated the following verse


Eph 2:11 Therefore remember that you, once gentiles in the flesh, who are called ‘the uncircumcision’ by what is called ‘the circumcision’ made in the flesh by hands, 
Eph 2:12 that at that time you were without Messiah, excluded from the citizenship of Yisra’ĕl and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no expectation and without Elohim in the world. 
Eph 2:13 But now in Messiah יהושע you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of the Messiah. 
Eph 2:14 For He is our peace, who has made both one, and having broken down the partition of the barrier, 

Those not understanding the divinity of Mashiyach and the Ruach hidden in the letter remain outside trampling the outer court as they do not see who is the One who enters the gates and who is the one who opens the gates to the worshipers to let them in.

Rev 11:2  “But cast out the court which is outside the Dwelling Place, and do not measure it, for it has been given to the gentiles/guym, and they shall trample the set-apart city under foot for forty-two months. 

The guym/gentiles are the lost sheep of the house of Yasharal, while many are called only a few of them (remnant) will make it through the doors of the house of Yah, while others will remain out trampling the outer court. Only the sick, distressed, unclean etc were in the outer court with a barrier of being forbidden to enter in.

Act 3:2  And a certain man, lame from his birth, was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the Set-apart Place which is called Yaphah (Beautiful), to ask alms from those entering into the Set-apart Place.

 The inner court was divided. On the east was the Yisraelites' hall ("'ezrat Yisrael"), 135 × 11 cubits; and on the west the priests' hall ("'ezrat kohanim"). Slats or sticks, also a step of 1 cubit rise, divided the priests' hall from that of the Yisraelites. In front of the priests' hall stood the dais ( Dukan), three stone steps, from the highest of which the priests blessed the people. This hall contained also several chambers (Mid. v. 16).This is the place where Yisraelites waited in reverent silence as their sacrifices to Aluahym were being burned. (See image C for the court of Yasharal)

Source (http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/14307-temple-plan-of-second)


The door to the Set-Apart place where only priests were allowed and in the Set-Apart place a veil which covered way to the Most Set-Apart place where only the Kahan Ha Gadul entered in once a year with the blood of the sacrifices on Yom Kippur.

Image of the heykal built by Shelemoh:


                                                                                  Image B

The main entrance was on the south, and consisted of two gates near the center, the one on the right for admission, and the other for exit. The two gates were named "Huldah," after the prophetess who used to preach there to the people. The eastern gate was called "Shushan" because it bore a model of Susa, the capital of Persia, in recognition of the permission given by that government to rebuild the Temple. The entrance on the north was through the "Tadi" gate, i.e., the gate of obscurity or privacy, it being used only by those who were ceremonially unclean and by mourners and those under the ban. In the above image the Tadi gate cannot be seen. See image C to see all the three gates



 Image C

Doors of the Most Set-Apart place and Set-Apart place:

1Ki 6:31 And for the entrance of the oracle he made doors of olive wood, the lintel, the side posts mazuzoth H4201, five. 
1Ki 6:32 And the two doors were of olive wood. And he carved on them figures of keruḇim, and palm trees, and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold. And he spread the gold on the keruḇim and on the palm trees. 



There were two doors with five side posts, many get confused to understand this to mean five doors which is wrong. See the image below:



This building model from Khirbet Qeiyafa depicts an elaborate doorframe surrounding an opening. With three—or maybe four—interlocking frames, the recessed doorframe sets apart the inner room as sacred space. This model may unlock the meaning of a mezuzah/side posts in the Scriptures regarding the description of Solomon’s Temple. Photo: G. Laron/Courtesy of the Khirbet Qeiyafa Expedition


Did this gate of the Most Set Apart place have five doors? No but 5 side posts. But mazuzoth are in this scriptural text, the door to the inner sanctuary (Most Set-Apart) of Shelemoh’s Temple had five of them. 

Doors of the Set-Apart place:




1Ki 6:33 So also he made for the doors of the temple posts/mazuzoth of olive wood, four
1Ki 6:34  And the two doors were of cypress wood, the two leaves of the one folded, and two leaves of the other door folded. 
1Ki 6:35  And he carved keruḇim, and palm trees, and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold laid smoothly on the carved work. 

The doors of the Set-Apart (Qodesh place) had four side posts/mazuzoth but the entrance door of the Most Set-Apart place had five side posts/mazuzoth.

The side posts stuck to the wall of the Set-Apart place as seen in the images above in the Most Set-Apart place and Set-Apart place. Number nine in scripture has a spiritual significance.

Nine  תשעה/תשע 'tashah' H8672 ...this word is from H8159 'shah' which means 'regard/have respect'

Gen 4:4  And Heḇel also brought of the first-born of his flock and of their fat. And יהוה had regard/shah H8159 שעה to Heḇel and his offering, 

The Aramaic Hebrew uses this word in the book of Daniel as 'shah' H8160  and translated as 'hour' 

Strong's defines 'תשעה 'tashah' H8672' as through the idea of a turn to the next or full number ten

The side posts/mazuzah shows us a spiritual picture of turning to the next or full number 10...a completeness in Mashiyach by clinging to Him just as the side posts/mazuzah clung to the walls of the Set-Apart and the Most-Sept Apart place. When in Mitsrayim, on the night they left they were to apply the blood of the lamb on the door posts and the side posts of their house


Exo 12:7  ‘And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts/mazuzah H4201 and on the lintel /mashquph H4947 of the houses where they eat it. 
Exo 12:8  ‘And they shall eat the flesh on that night, roasted in fire – with unleavened bread and with bitter herbs they shall eat it. 


The word 'mazuzah/side posts' has the root word 'maz' which means 'burn', 'zu' means 'this/that' and 'zah' means 'now'...put together 'Burn this now'

The word 'mashquph/lintel' has the root word 'mash' which means draw out & 'quph' which is the 'sun on the horizon' ...and it gives a spiritual picture of expectation of being drawn out as sun rays coming from the window

All because of the blood of the Lamb. The physical Set-Apart place and the Most-Set Apart place stood through the idea of a turn to the fullness in Mashiyach through the offering of his body for us as a burnt offering.

Heb 9:6  And these having been prepared like this, the priests always went into the first part of the Tent, accomplishing the services. 
Heb 9:7  But into the second part the high priest went alone once a year, not without blood, which he offered for himself and for sins of ignorance of the people,
Heb 9:8  the Set-apart Spirit signifying this, that the way into the Most Set-apart Place was not yet made manifest while the first Tent has a standing, 
Heb 9:9  which was a parable for the present time in which both gifts and slaughters are offered which are unable to perfect the one serving, as to his conscience, 
Heb 9:10  only as to foods and drinks, and different washings, and fleshly regulations imposed until a time of setting matters straight. 

Heb 10:19  So, brothers, having boldness to enter into the Set-apart Place by the blood of יהושע, 
Heb 10:20  by a new and living way which He instituted for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh, 

The good news is the middle wall of partition which kept the Guym/Gentiles (lost sheep of the house of Yasharal) out in the outer courtyard, by belief in Him and by His blood we are taken into the Most -Set Apart place through the veil of his flesh. Thus when Daud says '' Lift up gates heads'' Psa 24:9  שאו שערים ראשיכם    Mashiyach quoted part of this verse relating to his second coming but left out the gates/שערים sharayam in the verse because He is the King of Esteem Yahuah to whom the gates lifted up to make everything One and Complete in Himself

 Luke 21:28 ושאו ראשיכם כי־קרבה גאלתכם׃ ''lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.” 

It's also interesting to see the word 'שער' which means gate has the root words 'sha' which means 'watch/hour/regard/respect' and is a root word in 'nine/tasha' תשעה or תשע

Shar: Gate  שע/sha- watch for the resh ר or respect שע the resh ר

Tasha: Nine  ת/Tau- covenant שע/sha-watch...remember the number nine/tasha is through the idea of a turn to the next or full number ten

Luk 23:44 And it was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over all the land, until the ninth/תשעית tashayat hour/שעה shah. 
Luk 23:45 And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the Dwelling Place was torn in two.
Luke23:46 And Yahusha, crying out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into Your hands I commit My spirit.” Having said this, He breathed His last.

 It was the ninth/תשעית hour/שעה when the sun was darkened and the veil of the Dwelling Place was torn in two thus making way for us into the Most Set-Apart Place by His blood through the veil of his flesh. The everlasting/עולם aulam doors/פתחי patachay were opened up to make way for the King/מלך of Esteem/כבוד

  מי/Who is זה/this king מלך  of Esteem/הכבוד ? 

Psalms 24:8 Yahuah/יהוה strong /עזוז and mighty/וגבור Yahuah/יהוה mighty/גבור  in battle/ מלחמה

Col 2:14  having blotted out the certificate of debt against us – by the dogmas – which stood against us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the stake. 
Col 2:15  Having stripped the principalities and the authorities, He/Yahusha made a public display of them, having prevailed over them in it. 

Yahusha is the one who stripped the principalities and the authorities and made a public display of them, having prevailed over them. He is the Yahuah mighty/gibbor in battle/malchamah.

Rev 19:16 And on His robe and on His thigh He has a name written, King/malak of kings/hamalakyam, and Master/Adanay of masters/adanayam.  

While the first temple existed, it had the barrier (Soreg/Sagar) which prevented the Guym/gentiles (lost sheep of the house of Yasharal), the sick, unclean, crippled etc from entering the inner courtyard meant for Yahudites who went up to make their offerings, in the renewed covenant this wall/barrier was broken by Yahusha ha Mashiyach so that all those believing in Him would be cleansed from their wildness being engrafted into the natural olive tree, He ushers the believing into the Most Set Apart-Place through his blood and through the veil of his flesh in a renewed manner.

Eph 2:11 Therefore remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;
Eph 2:12 That you were at that time without the Mashiyach, being aliens from the commonwealth of Yisrael, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without Elohim in the world.
Eph 2:13 But now in the Mashiyach Yahusha you who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of the Mashiyach.
Eph 2:14 For He is our peace, who made both one and broke down the barrier of the dividing wall
Eph 2:15 by abolishing in His flesh the enmity, which is the Torah of commandments contained in ordinances, so that in Himself He might make the two into one new man, thus establishing peace, 
Eph 2:16 and might reconcile them both in one body to Elohim through the stake, by it having put to death the enmity.    


We saw the three gates (Susa/Shushan (east gate), Hulda (south gate with two entrances, one entrance and one exit) and Tadi (north gate- the private gate where only the ceremonially unclean, mourners and those under the ban entered ) and the doors to the Set-Apart and the Most-Set Apart place, Yahusha said that not one stone will remain upon another, the physical stood as a type of the spiritual temple who we are in Mashiyach.

Heb 3:6  but Messiah as a Son over His own house, whose house we are if we hold fast the boldness and the boasting of the expectation firm to the end. 


Eph 2:20  having been built upon the foundation of the emissaries and prophets, יהושע Messiah Himself being chief corner-stone, 
Eph 2:21  in whom all the building, being joined together, grows into a set-apart Dwelling Place in יהוה, 
Eph 2:22  in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling of Elohim in the Spirit/Ruach


Eph 4:15  but, maintaining the truth in love, we grow up in all respects into Him who is the head, Messiah, 
Eph 4:16  from whom the entire body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the working by which each part does its share, causes growth of the body for the building up of itself in love. 

Joh 2:18  And the Yahuḏim answered and said to Him, “What sign do You show to us, since You are doing these?” 
Joh 2:19  יהושע answered and said to them, “Destroy this Dwelling Place, and in three days I shall raise it.” 
Joh 2:20  Then the Yehuḏim said, “It took forty-six years to build this Dwelling Place, and You are going to raise it in three days?” 
Joh 2:21  But He spoke about the Dwelling Place of His body. 

The ancient doors/aulam patachay had to be lifted up to make way for the Malak ha kabod/King of Esteem. He now stands as the Patach/Door and the Way/Darak, the Truth/Amat and the Living/Chayam to the AHBA through Himself

He stands as the Door and the three gates (the Way, the Truth and the Living) Himself leading to the Father, opening and shutting the Door and the Gate to whom He wills.

Joh 10:9  “I am the door/ha patach. Whoever enters through Me, he shall be saved, and shall go in and shall go out and find pasture. 

Joh 14:6  יהושע said to him, “I am the Way/Darak, and the Truth/Amat, and the Living/Chayam. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

Rev 3:7  “And to the messenger of the assembly in Philadelphia write, ‘He who is set-apart, He who is true, He who has the key/mapatach  מפתח of Dawiḏ, He who opens/patach פתח and no one shuts/sagar סגר, and shuts/sagar סגר and no one opens/patach פתח , says this: 
Rev 3:8  “I know your works – see, I have set before you an open/patach פתח gate/shar שער, and no one is able to shut/sagar סגר – that you have little power, yet have guarded My Word, and have not denied My Name. 

The word for key is  מפתח H4668 mapatach and for door/open is פתח H6605/H6607 and for gate is shar שער H8179, shut is sagar סגר

sagar סגר H5462/63, H5534 means ‘enclosure/cage/shut/stop/close up’ and is related to the word soger H8276 which means ‘wrap/wreath’ ....i.e. the barrier of pointed sticks wreathed forbidding the guym/gentiles from entering into the haykal


Unless we understand the Renewed Covenant in the light of the Tanak we will not be able to see the whole picture. Reading Revelation 3:7 i.e. the words of Mashiyach make so much sense when we see the words in Abary. It was prophesied of Yahusha ha Mashiyach and He is quoting the decree in YashaYahu 22:22

Isa 22:22 Then I shall set the key/mapatach מפתח H4668 of the house/bayith בית H1004  of David on his shoulder, when he opens/patach ופתח H6605 no one shall shut/ sagar סגר H5462, when he shuts/ sagar סגר H5462 no one shall open/patach פתח H6605.  

Mashiyach says what he will ‘sagar’ no one can open, which shows that one who claims he crossed over the ‘soreg’ (the barrier of pointed sticks) would still find himself unable to enter the inner gate as the door/patach is Mashiyach Himself.

The haykal stood as the house of Daud as it was built by his son Shelemoh and Mashiyach is the one who stands as the door/patach, opening/patachay to whom he chooses and He is the one who puts the shuts/sagar disallowing entrance even though one claims he passed through the soreg/wreath.

Rev 1:18 “and the living One; and I was dead, and behold, I am alive forever and ever, and I have the keys/mapatach of death and of Sheol.”







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