The Passion: The King of Glory at the Everlasting Gates
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Psalm 24:7–10
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.
After Jesus ascended from the sight of His disciples, after the cloud of witnesses — the saints of old — received Him, what happened next? The psalmist gives us the detail! Now He was in the heavens. Now He was approaching the everlasting gates. The saints of old were behind Him — Abraham behind Him, David behind Him, all the prophets behind Him. Glory to God! Because they could not enter into heaven without Him. Jesus Christ was the one who had to lead that procession. Because of His sacrifice, because that sacrifice was accepted, because He had made atonement for everybody — those under the old covenant and everyone who would come after — now they could legally enter into heaven.
And then Jesus says, “Lift up your heads, O ye gates! And be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors! And the King of glory shall come in!” Now pay attention to that phrase — everlasting doors. These are not the gates of hell. These are not any earthly gates. The only gates that are everlasting can only be the gates of heaven! There can be no other everlasting doors except they are the doors of heaven! So this is what happened when Jesus arrived at the very gates of heaven with His procession of redeemed saints behind Him. Hey! He calls Himself the King of glory!
עוֹלָם ʼolam everlasting – eternal, perpetual, everlasting, without end, belonging to the age to come
And the angels at the gates — they are on the other side and they respond: “Who is the King of glory?” Why do they ask? Because they have not seen Him like this before! Before, while He was in heaven, He was the Word. He was in the bosom of the Father(John 1:18). Remember when Jesus prayed in John 17: “Return me unto Your glory which I had before the foundation of the world.” That was His estate as the Word of God in the bosom of the Father. But now He is coming back — but this time as the Word of God with human flesh! So the angels that are in heaven they do not know Him like this yet, they had not seen Him yet; remember what the Bible says, “God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels.” So after He was raised from the dead after being justified in the spirit they are some angels that had not seen Him yet. This would be the moment that they would be seeing Him – and seeing the physical form of God for the very first time. So they ask, “Who is this King of glory?”
And the answer comes: “The Lord strong and mighty! The Lord mighty in battle..The Lord of hosts, he is the King of glory!” Oh, glory to God! He is mighty in battle! He spoiled principalities and powers. He made a public spectacle of Satan. He whipped the devil! He destroyed him that had the power of death. All the cohorts of hell got a whipping and were made captives. Satan and all his forces are now the Lord’s prisoners! He is the Lord strong and mighty, mighty in battle!
כָּבוֹד kabod glory – glory, honor, splendor, abundance, weight, the manifested presence and majesty of God
And then the gates open! There is a procession into the everlasting doors! Jesus is leading the way! And then Jesus enters into the real holy of holies in heaven where the real throne of God is and Psalm 110:1 picks up the scene inside: “The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.” Now, which Lord says to which Lord? The Lord who is God the Father that was sitting on the throne and never left His throne, said to the Lord Jesus who had gone out of the bosom of the Father (John 1:18) as the Word and had just come back into heaven with a physical body. And Colossians 1 from verse 18 explains this mystery that the Apostle Paul calls in Colossians 2:2 “the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;” and says that the resurrected and ascended Jesus Christ “…is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence. 19 For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell”.
What fulness?
Colossians 2 verse 9 reveals that “…in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily”. So that means, Psalm 110:1 is referring to the interaction of God the Father who was sitting on the throne in fellowship with God the Son – Jesus Christ as He had just entered into heaven and was standing before the throne. So what happened after this communication? Jesus – God the Son didn’t go and sit on another throne on the right side of God, NO!
Colossians reveals to us that Jesus – God the Son with His physical, resurrected, glorified body went to sit right there on the exact same throne that God the Father was sitting on, and Jesus sat on it and God the Father entered into God the Son and the Godhead in its fulness indwelt Him bodily – that is in Jesus’s physical body. And the Godhead is finally re-united again but this time the Word of God has a physical human body.
This is the mystery of godliness that the Apostle Paul was referring to in 1 Timothy 3:16 saying “And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.”
So when the Lord Jesus is now sitting on the throne and the fulness of the Godhead is now indwelling Him, Psalm 47 erupts in celebration: “God is gone up with a shout! The Lord with the sound of a trumpet!” That Hebrew word for “gone up” is alah, which means ascend. So many translations render it this way “God has ascended with a shout! The Lord with the sound of triumph!
Triumph in victory over the grave, over death, over hell, over Satan!
So sing praises to God forevermore! Sing praises unto our King today! Lift up your hands and thank Him, for who He is and all yhat He accomplished for us! For God is the King of all the earth! He reigns! Jesus our Lord sits upon the throne of His holiness! He is greatly exalted! And He calls Himself the King of glory — the Lord mighty in battle – the Lord, He is the King of glory!! Hallelujah!
Remember, if Jesus is the King of glory and the bible also refers to God the Father as the Father of glory and your Father. Jesus the King of glory and your King. That makes you what? His glory! Hallelujah!
So as a child of God you are the glory of God!
Thank you Lord Jesus!
Pray The Word
Heavenly Father, I thank You for the glorious scene at the everlasting gates of heaven when Jesus, the King of glory, entered in triumph. I thank You that He is the Lord strong and mighty, mighty in battle, and that He is now seated on the throne of glory. I acknowledge that He is my King and He is the King of glory, in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
Speak The Word
Jesus Christ is the King of glory! He is the Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle! He ascended in triumph and entered through the everlasting doors of heaven. He sits on the throne of God, and all His enemies are being made His footstool through the church which is His body in the earth. He is the King of glory and He is my King — and I am His glory! God is my Father, and He is the Father of glory, I am the glory of God, and I walk in the fullness of this glorious identity, in the name of Jesus Christ!
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