The Final 2 Gates in Nehemiah’s list are the
EAST GATE
and
MIPHKHAD GATE
The East Gate
is also known as the
Golden Gate
and is probably one of the more easily recognized gates
as well as the most photographed!
Next to them, Zadok son of Immer made repairs opposite his house. Next to him, Shemaiah son of Shecaniah, the guard at the East Gate, made repairs. Neh 3:29
This gate is also known by other names:
Sha’ar Harachamim
שער הרחמים
Golden Gate
Gate of Mercy,
the Gate of Eternal Life.
East Gate or
Temple Gate:
Just north of the Horse Gate, it led to the temple.
Around 600 BC, Ezekiel prophesied that a
gate facing east would be sealed Ezekiel 44:1–3,
but this is not the same East Gate mentioned by Nehemiah.
Recall the walls of Nehemiah are inside the existing walls of Jerusalem today.
The Eastern Gate was where freewill offerings were given by the king, to be distributed to the people by the keeper of the gate.
The people entered the Temple through this gate, on their way to worship the Lord and present their offerings and sacrifices to Him.
2 Chronicles 35:7-8 And Josiah gave to the people, of the flock, lambs and kids, all for the passover offerings, for all that were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bullocks: these were of the king’s substance. And his princes gave willingly unto the people, to the priests, and to the Levites: Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, rulers of the house of God, gave unto the priests for the passover offerings two thousand and six hundred small cattle, and three hundred oxen.
2 Chronicles 31:14 And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the porter toward the east, was over the freewill offerings of God, to distribute the oblations of the LORD, and the most holy things.
The spiritual meaning of the East Gate is that, once we become established in God, we are to share our blessings with others.
The East Gate suggests the return of Yeshua HaMashiach/Jesus Christ, which will take place in two stages.
He will return first for His own Jn. 14:1–3
and second with His own 1 Th. 3:13.
He will appear as the bright and morning star
to the church Rev. 22:16
and as the Sun of righteousness to Israel. Mal. 4:2.
The East Gate
is most likely the Gate that Yahshua/Yeshua/Jesus
came through on what we call Palm Sunday.
Above, old photos of the Golden Gate from both sides.
Archeologist Dr. Jim Fleming is one of the people who discovered the Herodian stones under the present East Gate. What that means is we can be quite certain that the present East Gate is where the East Gate that Jesus came through was located. But it also is opposite a certain point on the Mount of Olives, where the High Priest had to stand with the red heifer on Yom Kippur and look through the East Gate into the Holy of Holies across the Kidron Valley.
That would tend to verify the theory of Dr. Asher Kaufman of the Department of Antiquities of Hebrew University that would put the location of the original temple not on the exact site of the Mosque of Omar – the Dome of the Rock which we’ve seen pictures of – but about seventy meters north of it. In other words, in order to rebuild the temple, you would not have to tear down the mosque.
In 1969 a young archaeology student named James Fleming was exploring the walls and gates of ancient Jerusalem after a heavy rain the night before when, suddenly, outside of the Golden Gate on the eastern wall of the Old City, the ground fell out from under him. “I felt I was part of a rock slide,” Fleming wrote. “Down I went into a hole 8 feet deep.”
When he picked himself up and realized he was uninjured, he regained his composure and looked around. He was standing in the midst of a mass grave. Then he began to examine the adjacent wall— the wall beneath the Golden Gate.
The Golden Gate is surely one of the most beautiful of Jerusalem’s eight gates. It was blocked up hundreds of years ago, probably for security reasons, but perhaps for religious reasons as well, for the Golden Gate is associated with messianic expectations and the final judgment of humanity. According to the prophet Zechariah, “On that day his feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives which lies before Jerusalem on the east … Then the Lord your God will come, and all the holy ones with him” (Zechariah 14:4–5). The prophet Joel tells of an awful and awesome “Day of the Lord,” when the sun will become dark, and the moon will turn to blood, and the Lord will judge the nations in the Valley of Jehoshaphat (Joel 2–3), traditionally associated with the valley before the Golden Gate.
Sha’ar HaRachamim
Gate of Mercy/Golden Gate
שער הרחמים
The Biblical account of this gate is not precise. All we really know from the above passage is that there WAS an East Gate, and that it had a guard, known as Shemaiah, son of Shecaniah. Shemaiah may have been regarded as a descendant of the Shemaiah of 1 Chron. 26:6, whose duty was to guard the temple. If this is the case, then the East Gate is undoubtedly the East Gate of the Temple. Others however, identify it with the Water Gate, towards the east.
Called Gate of Mercy because of the Jewish belief and tradition that this is the gate where the Messiah will enter at the end of days. It is therefore a place that one would go to pray and ask for mercy.
The gate is actually made up of two doorways/portals that lead straight to the Temple Mount.
Here are some pictures below, of the Golden Gate seen from the inside on the Temple Mount.
Looking at the 2 doorways, the southern opening,
the one on the right side as one faces East is the
Sha’ar HaRachamim
or Gate of Mercy
and the northern portal is called
Sha’ar Hatshuva
or Gate of Repentance.
The Eastern Gate of Jerusalem
is also called/reffered to as
the Beautiful Gate
or the Gate Beautiful
referred to in Acts 3:2.
And a certain man who had been lame from his mother’s womb was being carried along, whom they used to set down every day at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful…and they were taking note of him as being the one who used to sit at the Beautiful Gate of the temple to beg alms…
Some scholars argue that Jerome may have mistranslated the Greek text as he wrote the Latin Vulgate. It was from the Latin Vulgate that the King James Bible, the first English version, was translated. The Latin Vulgate read “Golden Gate”, whereas the Greek New Testament read “Beautiful Gate”
“In the earliest Greek New Testament,
the word for ‘beautiful’ is oraia.
When Jerome translated the New Testament into Latin in the 4th Century he changed the Greek oraia into the similar sounding Latin aurea, rather than to the Latin word for ‘beautiful.’ So the Latin Vulgate text read ‘Golden Gate’ instead of ‘Beautiful Gate.'” (BAR, Jan/Feb 1983, p.27)
It now seems clear that the
Beautiful Gate
was not the
Golden Gate
in the Eastern Wall,
but rather the outermost entrance to the temple itself.
Above: View of what is directly behind the Gate.
The Eastern Gate was sealed shut in AD 1540–41 by order of Suleiman the Magnificent, a sultan of the Ottoman Empire, this is the only gate that was not rebuilt by him.
The Golden Gate or Sha’ar HaRachamim
is the oldest and most important and by far the most impressive gate to the old city of Jerusalem/Yerushalayim.
In the picture below is the location of
The Shushan Gate – Shaar Šušān
שושןהבירה
שער שושן
also called
Susa Gate,
was an
Eastern gate
of the Temple.
It was named after the ancient Persian city of Susa. According to Jewish tradition, the gate had been called the Shushan Gate, because Nehemiah was at the Persian summer palace in Shushan when he heard about the situation at Jerusalem/Yerushalayim, after which he repaired and rebuilt the walls and gates.
Strong’s Hebrew: 7800. שׁוּשָׁן (Shushan)
Based on archeological excavations, the Golden Gate is believed to have been built during the Byzantine era. Constructed on top of ruins of an older gate built in the time of the 2nd temple. Monolithic stones found at base of the current gate were identified as dating to the time of the prophet Nechemia/Nehemiah.
It is interesting that the reason Suleiman sealed the gate was the concern, that there was and is truth to to the Jewish traditional belief that the Messiah will enter Jerusalem through
Sha’ar Harachamim.
Suleiman the Magnificent was determined to put a stop to the Jewish tradition and he sealed the gate shut. Moslem tradition places the resurrection in the end days occurring in front of the Eastern gate. Because of this, a Muslim cemetery was also built in front of the Golden Gate, which exists very prominently today. this was the cemetery which General Allenby refused to pass through, entering Jerusalem/Yerushalayim via the Jaffa Gate instead. This cemetery, coupled with the gate being sealed shut, were Islamic attempts to dissuade the Messiah or the Prophet Elijah who was to come first, from entering the city, as they were both Kohanim.
According to Jewish law a Kohen (high priest) can not enter a cemetery; but as Jewish biblical tradition states that the Messiah will be from the family of King David, whose is descendant from the tribe of Judah, not Levi, and therefore not a Kohen; this is not an exact truth.
Even though we cannot be certain of the exact location of this gate from the Nehemiah account, we do know its purpose:
The man brought me back to the outer gate of the sanctuary, the one facing east, and it was shut. “The Lord said to me, ‘This gate shall be shut; it shall not be opened, and no one shall enter by it, for the Lord God of Israel has entered by it.” Eze. 44:1-3
It would seem that this East Gate was set aside specifically by our Heavenly Father/Yehoveh for one particular event:
The Return of His Messiah!
In Ezekiel 46:12 we read that there is one person, a “prince” who may enter via the eastern gate:
Ezekiel 46:12: “When the prince provides a freewill offering to the LORD . . . the gate facing east is to be opened for him. . . . Then he shall go out, and after he has gone out, the gate will be shut.”
Many scholars believe Yeshua/Jesus entered the East Gate on Palm Sunday.
palm sunday: אחספה ינפלש ‘א םו
Shabbat HaGadol – Great Sabbath
was not a Levitical feast day by itself,
but part of the Passover/Pesach preparations.
It was prophetic in that He was fulfilling
several Old Testament prophecies.
Zechariah 9:9-10, Psalm 118:25-26.
As we can see, this gate, right now is sealed. Done after the Messiah went through this gate. It also states that Yehoveh/God would enter through it. Yahshua/Yeshua/Jesus was Yahoveh/God; He entered through the gate and this prophecy of Ezekiel 44:1-2 has been literally fulfilled.
To the Jew, the Golden Gate was to be the sight of the Messiah’s return to establish His kingdom on earth; and free the Jewish people from the nations of the world. The Golden Gate was to be the entry point for the Jewish Messiah into Jerusalem.
By entering the Eastern Gate there is little doubt that Yeshua/Jesus knew what He was doing. As stated in Ezekiel, and believed by Jews of Yeshua/Jesus’ time and today, the Messiah would return to rule Jerusalem through the East Gate. It was however not exactly the rule and reign they were anticipating!
His Triumphal Entry was Him proclaiming Himself as Messiah and bringing the Kingdom of the heavens for those who would receive Him and by doing so; He fulfilled the passage in Ezekiel about the Prince returning and entering by the Eastern Gate.
This event set the stage for the confrontation with the scribes and Pharisees, which led to His arrest and ultimately to His crucifixion.
It is an amazing thought to ponder on that previously mentioned archeologist, Dr. Jim Fleming’s buried gate, may also be the gate through which Yeshua/Jesus passed the week before His death and resurrection.
The Glory/Shekinah of the Lord coming into the temple,
Ezek. 44:1-2, is seen as the triumphal entry.
Ezekiel 43:2; Matthew 21:1–11.
And, finally, the “prince” to whom the gate will be opened
Ezekiel 46:12
is seen as Christ Himself at the second coming
the Prince of Peace will return to the Mount of Olives
Zechariah 14:4
and enter Jerusalem/Yerushalayim
by way of the re-opened Eastern Gate.
For the Believer in Messiah, the East Gate continually speaks of the His return. It’s a daily reminder for us of our need to live with this hope clearly fixed in our hearts and minds and to long for His return and the setting up His Kingdom, it’s a sign that our Heavenly Father is faithful concerning His promises.
Peter summed up the vital importance of the East Gate:
“Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godly lives as you look forward to the day of god and speed its coming. That day will bring about the destruction of the heavens by fire, and the elements will melt in the heat. But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, the home of righteousness. So then, dear friends, since you are looking forward to this, make every effort to be found spotless, blameless and at peace with him.” 2 Peter 3:11-15.
The previous gate, the Horse Gate, as well as reminding us that we are in a constant state of spiritual warfare; also reminds us of the second coming of Messiah. Why do 2 gates next to each other have the same message? Could it be that when our Heavenly Father says something twice we should know He is very serious? He is trying to help us understand that the focus of our lives must be the Truth that He WILL return, and very soon!
The Horse Gate and the East Gate both teach us to live our lives with eternity as our primary focus and not the things of this world. We are sojourners who are simply passing through; this is not our home and explains why so many of us feel like we do not belong and do not, and have never fitted in, even though we have tried to.
One spiritual meaning of the East Gate is that this is the gate that leads into the Temple courtyard, and is a representation of our entrance into Heaven’s Glory at the end of our physical, earthly life.
As we imagine approaching the Eastern Gate, passing through the Kidron Valley with all of its sorrows, now lies behind us. Facing the Golden/East Gate, the Mount of Olives and Gethsemane, with its’ cemeteries are also behind us.
We see the double gate and unlike the other gates, this gate welcomes us into the presence of our Heavenly Father.
It has been said that the double entrance stands for
justice and mercy.
Justice for those who refused the message of the Gospel
and mercy for those who accepted it.
The East Gate was the first gate to be opened each morning
and the question would be asked,
O watchman, what of the night?
It must have brought great comfort to the people when the watchman on the wall may have said,
The dawn is coming.
I see light on the horizon and the sun will soon be up.
The declaration that the city was safe after a long night of watching, waiting, and wondering if in the darkness there was danger from an enemy; and to hear the watchman say that the night was almost over, and that light has broken through the darkness of the night must have brought shalom to all who heard him.
The swinging open of the East Gate was the start of a new day timed to the sun coming up over the horizon.
In the reference to East Gate our hearts are reassured that one of these days the Lord Jesus/Yeshua HaMashiach, Who is the bright and morning star, will appear to take those who are His own out of this night of sin.
As we have noted earlier in the post, that Israel believes their long awaited Messiah will enter through this gate when He comes. Judaism does not yet understand, that their Messiah has already done that, when He rode a donkey from the Mount of Olives to that gate!
Rev. 22:20
He which testifieth these things saith,
Surely I come quickly. Amen.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
The last Gate in Neh.3:31 is the
Inspection or Prison Gate.
Inspection Gate: Miphqad
Phonetic Spelling: mif-kawd’
Definition: appointed place
מִפְקָד שַׁ֤עַר
Sha’ar Miph-kad Hammiph-kad
Also called
Muster Gate
and the
Gate of Revenge
as well as
The Benjamin Gate
and the
Gate of Gathering.
Research shows various maps for the locations of the gates and their multiple names; please take all information as approximations. Readers are encouraged to check for themselves from the pictures and maps given in the text as starting points for further study.
Why the discrepancies? This is because the location of walls and gates of Biblical Jerusalem are often in doubt due to lack of strong archeological and historical evidence.
The map shows the city according to the theory which includes the southwest ridge in the city of both Solomon and Nehemiah. Some scholars challenge this and limit the western expansion to the area enclosed by the black dotted line that starts at the
Ephraim Gate
middle left of diagram below.
The eastern wall is extended out from Nehmiahs wall so approximate position is shown on the photos.
Neh 3: 31 After him repaired Malchiah the goldsmith’s son unto the place of the Nethinims, and of the merchants, over against the gate Miphkad, and to the going up of the corner.
Muster Gate/Inspection Gate/Benjamin Gate:
is reported to be between the East Gate
and the northeast corner of the wall.
Possibly the same as the
Benjamin Gate
Jeremiah 20:2
where Jeremiah was imprisoned in stocks.
This gate in Hebrew also means:
the Gate of Judgment.
When Messiah returns, there will be a judgment.
There are two judgment seats:
one for the saved and one for the unsaved.
The thronos and the bema;
the unsaved will appear before the thronos, and
the saved before the bema seat according to scripture.
The Muster or Inspection Gate
Sha’ar Miph-kad Hammiph-kad
in verse 31
was located in the northernmost section of the wall.
The word for
Inspection
is found in only 3 other passages:
2 Samuel 24:9 & 1 Chronicles 21:5,
where it means:
numbering or mustering,
and
Ezekiel 43:21,
where it means:
the appointed place for the sin offering to be burned.
The elders sat at this gate
judging and rendering decisions
in matters brought before them.
Spiritually speaking, the Muster or Inspection Gate
can be a reminder for every believer of the time when we will stand before the bema seat; Inspection
or Judgment Seat of Messiah as scripture tells us we will:
“give an account of himself to God” (Rom. 14:10–12). Each person will be judged “according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad” (2 Cor. 5:10) and will be rewarded “according to his own labor” (1 Cor. 3:8). All our works will be tried by fire to determine their value for Christ (1 Cor. 3:13–15).
Sha’ar Miph-kad -Hammiph-kad
The word Hammiphkad means:
review of registry.
When strangers came to Yerushalayim/Jerusalem, they had to have a type of what we call a visa, and were stopped at this gate for the purpose of registry.
The word in Hebrew has a military connection and according to tradition it was at this gate that King David would meet his troops to inspect them.
It was a gate of review, because this is the gate that the army came through. It was here that David welcomed his soldiers returning from battle. Most of them would have gladly laid down their lives for him and as they came under the arch, he was there to thank his battle-scarred men for their unselfish loyalty and courage.
As we have just noted in the scripture, that when our Heavenly Father calls those of His own out of this world, there is to be
a gate of review.
This gate speaks to us of our Heavenly Father examining our lives as Paul writes in
1 Cor 4:4: ‘For I am conscious of nothing against myself, yet I am not by this acquitted; but the one who examines me is the Lord.’
In our halak/walk, we should be living with this in mind; that we are called to live our lives with eternity at the forefront of our thinking, caring more for the things of eternity than the temporal things that we see around us. Paul tells us that if we would only deal with our sins and judge ourselves down here, we would not have to have Him deal with them and that we should live in the light of that understanding.
The examining will be, how well did we serve Him and how much spiritual treasure did we send on ahead of us?
Command them to do good, to be rich in good deeds, and to be generous and willing to share. in this way they will lay up treasure for themselves as a firm foundation for the coming age, so that they may take hold of the life that is truly life. 1Tim. 6:18-19.
for in so doing, we lay up our treasure in Heaven where no thief comes near and no moth destroys.
So, that which will be in question is whether the things we have done in this life deserve Him greeting us with the words..
well done, thou good and faithful servant. Matthew 25:21.
The word Miphkad means:
numbering
as in census, and also
appointed place.
To the believer, the spiritual meaning of
the Gate Miphkad
comes into view from
Ezek. 43:21 Thou shalt take the bullock also of the sin offering, and he shall burn it in the appointed place miphkad of the house, without the sanctuary.
It means the place, where the presence of our Heavenly Father is and His forgiveness by the blood and the offering, the sacrifice of the perfect lamb of God, Yahshua/Yeshua/Jesus.
The Gate Miphkad is considered by some to be the gate through which we must pass when we die, as it is connected to judgment.
Psalm 39:4 LORD, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is: that I may know how frail I am.
Hebrews 9:27 And as it is appointed to men once to die, but after this the judgment.
“Next to him, Malkijah, one of the goldsmiths, made repairs as far as the house of the temple servants and the merchants, opposite the Inspection Gate, and as far as the room above the corner” Neh 3:31
This is the final gate!
Today, it would be the
Lion’s Gates
ha’ar ha arayot
and apparently it is
sometimes misnamed the
Sheep Gate
and it stands where the
Inspection Gate was located.
As with the East Gate, very little known about it. In fact, this particular gate isn’t mentioned anywhere else in the Bible.
Based on the description, it is thought that the Inspection Gate must have been on the in the east or northeast wall, a little to the south of the Sheep Gate.
Matt 25:31: When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his throne in heavenly glory. all the nations will be gathered before him . . .
what is involved with this judgment, this inspection?
As a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats . . . He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left. Matt. 25:31-33.
The judgment will be a separation of humanity into two groups designated by Yeshua/Jesus as the sheep and the goats.
Why and what happens to these groups?
Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. Matt. 25:34-35.
Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.’ Matt. 25:41-42.
Is there a reason why He is reminding us of the final judgment?
No doubt it is because He wants to motivate us in desiring to be in the first group, the sheep…
He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance. 2 Peter 3:9.
So as the last gate in the wall, when the repairs to the
Inspection Gate
and the section of the wall to the corner were completed,
the work had come full circle back to the
Sheep Gate in v. 32,
which, as looked at in part 1,
represents the saving work of the cross of Yeshua/Jesus.
And between the ascent of the corner unto the sheep gate…. Nehemiah 3:32
We started there and we end there because everything in the life of a believer in Yeshua/Jesus is done in the light of His cross.
I am the Gate of the Sheep ….I am the beginning and the end.
We begin at the Sheep Gate; we end at the Sheep Gate.
Our Heavenly Father does not want us to forget that we were once and for all time purged from our old sins and are now sinners saved by grace. 2 Pet. 1:9.
Overview: summary
In the gates we can see they are representative of spiritual experiences in our halak/walk, along His Way/derek.
We must first enter by the..
SHEEP GATE: Entering to the experience of Repentance, Forgiveness, Salvation/Born from Above, Atonement and coming through the Door/Dalet to know the shepherd of our souls becoming one of His flock. He is the true Sheep Gate.
FISH GATE: We are made into Fishers of men as we follow Him and are able to lead new souls to the knowledge of His grace, forgiveness salvation and adding to the ecclesia/called apart ones.
OLD GATE: Restoring back to the foundational Truths and to the initial experiences, the joy of salvation and we are taught the ancient paths of our Hebrew heritage. His ways do not change and the old paths are important for us to walk in. Also the old man has been renewed we are a new creation in Jesus/Yeshua.
THE VALLEY GATE: To be with Yeshua/Jesus outside the camp and to experience walking through the valley of the shadow of death with Him. This gate speaks of the trials that come our way and the testing of our faith which works to transform us into His image. This includes suffering and the secret of promotion. It teaches us the principle of humility and brokenness and how to be continually dying to the self life by crucifying the flesh with all its cravings and desires. These experiences usually involve the pulling up of the deep roots of our human carnal nature, exposing all the areas we need to get rid of at the next Gate!
THE DUNG GATE: The experience of cleansing, deliverance getting the clutter and uncleanness out of our lives. Separating from that which is worthless vain it is a precursor to the full circumcision of the heart.
FOUNTAIN GATE: This gate speaks of the time of cleansing and purification. It points to the Laver in Moses tabernacle Zech. 13:1 also tells us
A fountain has been opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.
Depending on our Heavenly Father for everything by the power of His Spirit of Holiness a fountain that springs up giving energy to the new life in Him. Here we will experience the outpouring of His Ruach HaKodesh/Holy Spirit.
WATER GATE: Our lives are instructed by the Word of God with the washing of the Water by His Word which continually cleanses and sanctifies us. He offers living water to those who are thirsty. As well as bringing cleansing, it will also bring direction and encouragement to our lives.
His voice is like the sound of many waters. Rev.1:15, 4:1
HORSE GATE: As we ride into battle, we must live a life of praise and worship of our Heavenly Father; this is integral to the spiritual warfare we encounter along the Way. We are over-comers, the warhorse a type of the conquering saints.
EAST GATE: From life to life, of newness of life, or glory to glory and is an image of the soon return of our Lord Jesus Christ/Yeshua HaMashiach. It depicts us entering into His eternal presence.
MIPHKHAD GATE: means assignment, appointment. The principle of judgment in the gate. The place of self judgment and the appointed place where we will be inspected at the Bema seat of Messiah where there is open reward, the victors crown. The gate of review speaking of running the race, which reminds us of the coming final judgment, so that we will always remember to live our lives with Eternity in view.
Adding in here the Ephraim and the Prison gates makes 12.
Ephraim Gate: means doubly fruitful/productive: fruitfulness in spiritual reproduction when we partake of His divine nature and double portion which is the blessing in the birthright of the firstborn.
Prison Gate: One who has entered His rest has become a prisoner of the Lord one who is bound to Him and His purposes. Full commitment by the individual and one who has fully surrendered to Him and has been placed in His custody as a willing love slave unto not loving his life unto death.
We should live our lives in humbleness of spirit; with an integrity of heart and mind; and with a boldness for our Lord and Savior.
After the receiving the Lamb as our Savior, we began a journey that took us from the lowest part of the city overlooking the Valley of Gehenna, a place that represents the torments of hell; past the Water Gate, a place of worship; and past the Horse Gate, a place of service. On this journey, we should be mindful that we will someday enter heaven’s Eastern Gate and be inspected at the Inspection Gate.
The Gates of Jerusalem /Sha’ar Yerushalayim, have a wonderful prophetic story to tell, having been named 1,000 years before the Lamb!
And when He came He told us which
Gate
we must enter…
Matt. 7:13,14
for He is the Gate, the Dalet
