The Miphkad gate is also known as the appointed place. The Miphkad gate is the place for commissioning as well as inspection for reward. After Jesus' resurrection, He appeared to His disciples and made an appointment with them to meet Him at an appointed place.
The East gate is to the east of the temple in Jerusalem. And the glory of God comes from the east through the East gate. When Jesus was born, a star appeared in the east and led wisemen (magus) in through the East gate. It means, the glory of God had come among men.
In scripture, 'Horse' represents strength, might, power and authority. When you receive a fresh unction at the Water gate, you become more conscious of your right to reign in life through Christ. At the Horse gate, you will have better understanding of your authority in Christ and your strength in the Holy Ghost.
The Water gate speaks of the Holy Ghost. It is the place of anointing. Fresh revelation comes with fresh anointing. The Water gate is the place of fresh anointing.
The Fountain gate is the place where God gives you a fresh revelation. You go through the experience of the Dung gate before the glory of the Fountain gate. At the Fountain gate, something new happens in your spirit; the stirring up of the inner man. It is stirring up of the life that's in your spirit.
The Dung gate is the gate through which most of the dung (excrete) is taken out of Jerusalem. In scripture, 'Dung' refers to worthless or useless things; things that must be removed for purity and cleanliness to be maintained. The Dung gate is where God takes away the mess from your life.
The Valley gate symbolises the valleys of life; when you seem to be going down in trouble and it's as though all hell has broken loose against you and criticism is coming from every angel. There are two types of valley experiences: one helps the new convert become more patient, while the other brings the older christian to a place of humility.
The Old gate is a place where you are founded in the word of truth. As a soul-winner you will have a lot of new converts to your credit. These are brought to the Old gate to be taught the principles and doctrines of our kingdom.
When you submit to God as His sheep, you are taken to the Fish gate. It is the next gate after the Sheep gate. The Fish gate is to be a soul-winner, to bring in fish. You become fishers of men. The Fish gate was the gate through which fishermen brought fish into the city from the River of Jordan and the Sea of Galilee.
When you submit yourself to the Shepherd, the Lord Jesus Christ then you are at the Sheep gate. This was the starting point for the building of Jerusalem, and in your life, it would mean the beginning of glory. You cannot skip the Sheep gate experience.
Studying Nehemiah's rebuilding of the wall and gates of Jerusalem, we find a pattern that God uses in building His church. These are the ten gates of Jerusalem: Sheep gate, Fish gate, Old gate, Valley gate, Dung gate, Fountain gate, Water gate, Horse gate, East gate and Gate Miphkad. God builds up His people through these ten patterns.
Gates are symbolic expression and demonstration of power and authority. There are two classification of gates: (1) Godly gates and (2) ungodly gates. Godly gates are referred to as the gates of Zion and ungodly gates are gates of Hell. Every believer is therefore, the gate of Zion. Gates of Zion speak of the works of the Church, which are the works of God precious than the dwellings of Jacob.
Zion has two-fold application to Israel and the church. But Abraham was a prophet and he was looking for a spiritual city whose builder and maker is God and not physical Israel. Thus, the present church! Zion is the city of the living God. Zion is the church of the living God. It is the place the new man in Christ is born into. We are there now and not matching to Zion some day.
Though there are two kinds of deliverance: (1) deliverance through knowledge, and (2) deliverance by laying on of hands. Proverbs 11:9 says, "...through knowledge shall the just be delivered". The believer's deliverance is through knowledge of the word of God unto maturity. Knowledge is what delivers the born again person.
When someone says, "we are only humans", it suddenly shows how ignorant they are of their divine life. God said, "Ye are Gods". The man is God and the woman is Goddess. If you say you are human, you will suffer what humans suffer: frustrations, depression, sickness, disease, satanic oppression etc. We are Gods in Christ.
The way to use the blood of Christ against the adversary is taking communion, the breaking of bread and drinking of the cup. The Greek word translated "testimony" is " marturia", which means record. The record we have is the eternal life we have in us now. That is why we take the blood of Christ.
A lot of people, including christians, are merely existing, not knowing where they are, what they ought to be doing or where they ought to be in life. So they just go about in the mere human course of life. This is wrong because God has a definite plan for everyone of His children. God has called us to manifest His glory, display His virtues and show forth His praise as royal priesthood, and chosen generation.
Nobody is to "repent from their sins". What the Bible actually says is REPENT! The expression "from your sins" was added to "repent" by man and not God. With regard to the unbeliever, what the Bible teaches is "repentance toward God". Repentance simply means a change of mind, thus "metanoia", which comes from the Greek word "metanoeo". God is not against the sins of the sinner but against his/her carnal mind. Repentance means come to the elevated place of God.
"Poor in spirit" is a Grecian idiomatic expression, it simply means "a teachable spirit". It has nothing to do with worshipping God and becoming poor or impoverished. It has nothing to do with pauperism as a sign of denying wealth with the hope of going to heaven. "Poor in spirit" is the state of humbleness to learn and receive more.
The discourse on fire is categorized into two viz, Hell fire and Lake of fire. Hell fire is different from Lake of fire (everlasting fire). Get this truth into your spirit. There is fire for everyone to taste including the believers in Christ. The story of Abraham, Lazarus and the rich man in the book of Luke chapter 16 is the illustration of Hell fire and Abraham Bosom (Paradise). However, there is the Lake of fire designed for the believers in Abraham Bosom highlighted in Matthew chapter 25.
Hell is a place designed by God to accommodate anyone who died and didn't serve God through Christ Jesus. If you are a believer and follower of Christ then you should count it joy that God has a plan for unbelievers who end up in Hell fire. As messengers of the gospel, the scope of our messages must get to Hell as well. That is the stretch of the good news.
Man is a special being, a special being of God. The new man is God Himself. Man is the personality of God. God wants us to come to His level where believers will not doubt anything. To even understand God is part of service. For God has called us into His garden. For we are no longer the fallen Adam, thus Adam Enosh; but the standing Adam. So throw away the old nature of the fallen Adam.
The most poisonous food you eat is not the physical food you eat, but the wrong or weak messages you feed your spirit man with. For every word you hear is food for the spirit and when you take in will reflect on your body.
Jesus Christ, the right hand of God, the salvation of God came to His own but His own rejected Him. He came to the Jews, the church, and the Pharisees and the Scribes rejected Him. Therefore, the Bible says as many as received Jesus, He gave them the power to become the sons of God. And these sons are those God seeks to reveal His glory through. Indeed, it is the day the Lord has made, we should rejoice in it. THE DAY THE LORD HAS MADE is that, I shall live and not die physically! This is the go...
It is the delight of God to hide a matter, but the honour of a king is to search it out. God doesn't reveal secrets to the unmatured, hence God expects us to come to the place of maturity so that He can reveal His secrets to us. God takes counsel with kings in His secret room.
Concerning the dualism of Jesus, there is the Jesus of the Jews and the Jesus of Heaven. Jesus of the Jews went to the cross, and died and resurrected with mankind; and received the Certificate of Resurrection. We have Christ as a personality and we have heaven as his place. In simplicity, Christ is heaven. If you have Christ, you already have heaven. You are heaven! Therefore, you don't need to die to be in heaven. To die and go to heaven is a lower dimension of immortality in eternal life.
According to the finished work of Christ, we are in the ontology, historicity, and onticity of a new order of the resurrected Christ. We are no more in the Adamic nature and unrighteous consciousness, but in the Christic nature and righteous consciousness. It was through Adam HaRishon, sin (Hamartia) was imputed; and it is through Christ righteousness (Dikaiōsunē) is also imputed. Therefore, we are not in the Adamic era but in Christic era.
The material for the construction of the body of Christ is eternal life. And this eternal life is in us right after resurrection (anastasis). Christ is righteous and we too are righteous. Our Christic nature is righteousness. We are righteous in consciousness. We are righteous just as Christ is. This is the nature of the new man in Christ, imputed dikaiōsunē!
The fallen Adamic nature is the generic make up of sin nature, rendered as hamartia in Greek, and this consciousness is in the DNA of every man born of a woman. Adamic consciousness is unworthy consciousness. Adamic consciousness is unrighteous consciousness. It puts a man in bondage. Therefore, this is the reason, most believers approach God with an unrighteous consciousness lifting their hands for forgiveness of sin and mercy. Believers shouldn't approach God as sinners.
The word SIN doesn't mean the same thing everywhere in scripture. You must be careful when you read English scripture, because they don't mean the same thing in Hebrew or Greek. SIN can be divided into two: (1) Hamartia (sin as nature) and Hamartano (sin as actions). One must do critical analysis of the word SIN to gain distinct understanding or you will mess up the fabric of the tapestry.
