The King of Glory Comes

"Lift up your heads O gates, and be lifted up O ancient doors"  Psalm 24:7

This year 2020 will be a year of declaration leading into a decade of declaration. As we speak out and declare, so God will respond and do.

And what we are to declare is that the King of Glory is welcome to come into the hearts and the affairs of the people and institutions of this country, to move with great power, changing hearts and changing structures.

Psalm 24 begins by declaring that the earth is the Lord's, and all it contains. It also goes on to say; This is the generation of those who seek Him, who seek Your face.

Commentaries on Psalm 24 say that this psalm talks about a procession carrying the sacred ark, bringing it to a city which would be called Jerusalem, in order to place it into a tabernacle set up for it there. This is a city King David conquered to be Israel's capitol, the same city called Salem where the High Priest Melcizedek (a representation of Christ)  lived, who came out of it to bless Abraham from whom he received tithes centuries before.

The picture here is a procession ascending with the ark up to the gates of the city. When the procession gets there a choir outside declares; Lift up your heads O gates, and be lifted up O ancient doors. that the King of Glory may come in. The idea is that the King of Glory, the Maker of the universe, is present with the ark. And when the ark is placed into a tabernacle set up for it in the city (a tent structure at this time) the Lord's presence would reside in a thick cloud of glory over the mercy seat, which sits on top of the ark, inside the most holy section of the tabernacle

However, to get into the city He has go through gates, which figuratively are too small for One so great.

There is evidence that back then those gates may have worked on a weight and pulley system, not opening out or in but rather the doors were set in grooves and moved up to open. Once the choir makes their declaration Lift up your heads, O gates . . . it is answered by another choir from inside the city who ask; Who is the King of Glory?

And the response then from the choir outside is; The Lord, strong and mighty. The Lord, strong in battle. Lift up your heads O gates, and be lifted up O ancient doors, that the King of Glory may come in! Who is the King of Glory? The Lord of hosts, He is the King of Glory.

I see a connection here to what the Lord wants to do in our country now in a mighty way. It is like in Revelation chapter 3 where Jesus says He stands at the door knocking. There are walls surrounding our hearts and walls surrounding the institutions of our country (government, media, academia, finance and business, arts and entertainment, the family and the Church). We need to declare that the King of Glory is welcome to enter the gates (or doors) through those walls and that He is welcome to reside there.

I believe we are in a generation of those who will, even more than in the past, seek the Lord and seek His face. This year in our land and to our land we will be part of an anointed choir that will declare to the hearts and institutions here: Lift up your heads O gates, and be lifted up O doors, that the King of Glory may come in.

And when they ask us, Who is the King of Glory? We will respond; The Lord of host, He is the King of Glory! Let us then look and expect to see His glory coming in great clouds, changing not only hearts but also the institutions of our land that have been made captive to the lies, plans and schemes of the evil one.

And one more thing. Our call as always is to pray, to intercede, to be in His will, and now to declare. And we can do this in confidence because the battle is not ours, it is the Lord's.