The correct understanding of the Lord entering through the East Gate
From the passages in Ezekiel 43 and 44 about the East Gate of the Millennial Temple
Introduction My reasons for writing this paper.
⦁ I am writing this paper because I am concerned about the false teaching and misconceptions / presumptions about when Jesus returns to this earth to the city of Jerusalem. To evict the enemy out of the temple before He sets up His righteous kingdom on the earth.
⦁ I am concerned that many people presume that He will be entering the city of Jerusalem by the closed East Gate because they falsely believe through what they have been taught that this East Gate in the wall of Jerusalem is prophetic fulfilment of the verses in Ezekiel 44:1-3.
⦁ They believe that the Gate has been shut because the Lord had entered by this gate at His first coming in peace into Jerusalem on the colt the foal of the donkey.
⦁ I will prove that this belief is wrong by the list of numbered questions given below and by examining the verses from Ezekiel 43 & 44 the verses about the East Gate.
From examining the verses from Ezekiel 43 and 44 I will show how this is not the case. From studying these verses we will see that these are two very different gates and one has nothing to do with the other in connection to the Lord Jesus’s return and entry into His temple the millennial temple.
Here are some questions I have concerning the gate that people say Jesus will enter into Jerusalem through on His return to earth.
⦁ If this gate in the wall in Jerusalem is shut because Jesus entered into the city of Jerusalem by this gate at His first coming.
⦁ How come He is not ruling from the temple now.?
⦁ Where is the temple that He is supposed to be ruling from?
⦁ When did this gate become closed and who closed it?
⦁ How come He is entering Jerusalem by a closed gate when it says He will be entering the Temple Sanctuary by an open Gate?
⦁ Have you dear reader of this paper given a bit of logical thought to these things or do you just swallow piece meal all that your so called bible teachers teach you without looking into the bible first and reading these verses in their proper context? Or do you just presume that these verses talk about a gate in a city wall?
⦁ For those that this question applies to please allow for the Holy Spirit to take your blinkers off so that you can take a proper look at what the word is really saying. Instead of allowing your prejudices or those from your false teachers blind you to the truth of what the scriptures really say and allow the true Holy Spirit to teach you what the bible says here.
⦁ It is satan who is teaching these lies concerning the Messiah Jesus entering into Jerusalem by this East Gate in the city walls for it will not be the true Messiah Jesus who will be entering the city via this gate.
No it will be the false messiah a counterfeit Jesus whom satan will possess who will enter into the city by this gate first.
⦁ Like the typical thief he is satan enters where he is not wanted or invited by force for it will be by force that he will force his way into the city and into the Third temple to set himself up as God.
By killing many people in the process and causing God’s wrath and judgments to come down upon this city which will be the seat of satan’s final dominion on the earth before the true Jesus returns from heaven to deal with him see Revelation 19 & 20.
⦁ In this paper I will endeavour to debunk the lie of satan concerning who will enter in by the East Gate in the wall of Jerusalem.
Some thought provoking questions concerning this gate
Let us now look at these verses in Ezekiel 43 and 44 concerning the Glory of Lord God Almighty entering the East Gate. In looking at these verses we need to be asking ourselves these questions.
⦁ When is the Lord entering by the East Gate?
⦁ Where is the location of the East Gate through which He is entering? Is it in the Temple wall or is it in the city wall of Jerusalem?
⦁ If the East Gate is in the Temple wall where is this temple? Is this temple on the current temple Mount or is it on Mt Zion that is high and lifted up above all other mountains?
⦁ Is the Gate open or shut when the Lord enters it how is it shut when He enters through it? Does God or man shut it?
⦁ Where does the Lord go when He enters in through this Gate? Why can’t Ezekiel enter into the Holy Place from where he hears the voice of the Lord speaking to him from?
⦁ Is this the same gate that is currently shut in the wall of Jerusalem today?
⦁ Was this gate shut after Jesus entered through it on the day He came into Jerusalem on the colt the foal of a donkey? See Zechariah 9:9 and John 12:12-16, Luke 20:28-48.
⦁ Did God or man shut this gate and is this current gate in the wall of the city of Jerusalem or the temple which isn’t in existence today anyway?
⦁ Have we in teaching that Jesus will enter into Jerusalem through this East Gate that is currently shut bought into urban myths about this gate and thereby buying into false teaching?
⦁ We must be like Bereans and examine all things carefully and test what is being taught against the scriptures. In other words are the people teaching us about the East Gate teaching us from the word rightly handling the scriptures or are they only parroting what their false teachers are telling them? Are they twisting the scriptures to fit in with their false understanding of end time prophecies?
⦁ Lastly could this teaching of the Messiah entering the East Gate that is currently in the wall of Jerusalem be a counterfeit version of the true East Gate in the Temple that will be on Mt Zion which will be high and lifted up and through this East Gate the real Messiah will enter into His temple?
⦁ Could this Gate be the one through which the false Messiah will enter and thereby fool people into believing that he is the true Messiah because he entered through the East Gate that was shut and it is polluted by graves near it. Will this false messiah have the power to raise people from the dead?
⦁ Before we deal with the above questions I will put in the passages in Ezekiel dealing with the East Gate.
⦁ Then I will deal with the questions above one by one and from them you will see the difference between what the Bible really says which is truth and what the false teachers are saying / teaching which are lies or partial truths.
Ezekiel 43:1-9
1 Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh toward the east:
2 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice was like a noise of many waters: and the earth shined with his glory.
3 And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city: and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face.
4 And the glory of the Lord came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east.
5 So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory of the Lord filled the house.
6 And I heard him speaking unto me out of the house; and the man stood by me.
7 And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcases of their kings in their high places.
8 In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post by my posts, and the wall between me and them, they have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger.
9 Now let them put away their whoredom, and the carcases of their kings, far from me, and I will dwell in the midst of them for ever.
Ezekiel 44:1-5
1 Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary which looketh toward the east; and it was shut.
2 Then said the Lord unto me; This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it; because the Lord, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut.
3 It is for the prince; the prince, he shall sit in it to eat bread before the Lord; he shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate, and shall go out by the way of the same.
4 Then brought he me the way of the north gate before the house: and I looked, and, behold, the glory of the Lord filled the house of the Lord: and I fell upon my face.
5 And the Lord said unto me, Son of man, mark well, and behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I say unto thee concerning all the ordinances of the house of the Lord, and all the laws thereof; and mark well the entering in of the house, with every going forth of the sanctuary.
This next segment is to concerning the Prince
⦁ To do with the Prince and the people entering to worship in the temple how they are to enter and where they are to stand. This is the porch of the east gate in the inner courtyard. Not the main East Gate through which the Glory of the Lord entered into the temple
Ezekiel 46:1-3, 8-12
1 Thus saith the Lord God; The gate of the inner court that looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of the new moon it shall be opened.
2 And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate without, and shall stand by the post of the gate, and the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate: then he shall go forth; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening.
3 Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the door of this gate before the Lord in the sabbaths and in the new moons.
8 And when the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way of the porch of that gate, and he shall go forth by the way thereof.
9 But when the people of the land shall come before the Lord in the solemn feasts, he that entereth in by the way of the north gate to worship shall go out by the way of the south gate; and he that entereth by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the way of the north gate: he shall not return by the way of the gate whereby he came in, but shall go forth over against it.
10 And the prince in the midst of them, when they go in, shall go in; and when they go forth, shall go forth.
11 And in the feasts and in the solemnities the meat offering shall be an ephah to a bullock, and an ephah to a ram, and to the lambs as he is able to give, and an hin of oil to an ephah.
12 Now when the prince shall prepare a voluntary burnt offering or peace offerings voluntarily unto the Lord, one shall then open him the gate that looketh toward the east, and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as he did on the sabbath day: then he shall go forth; and after his going forth one shall shut the gate.
Answers to the Questions raised above about the passages referring to the East Gate.
Question 1 When is the Lord entering by the East Gate?
⦁ We know the Lord left by the East Gate in Ezekiel chapters 10 & 11, the Lord left His house due to the abominations that were done in it by the leaders of Israel through idol worship.
⦁ He left His house and gave it over to be raided and burned by the Babylonians when they conquered Jerusalem which marks the beginning of the Times of the Gentiles. Ezekiel sees in his vision a new temple and the Glory of the Lord returning to this temple in chapters 40-48.
⦁ We don’t know exactly when this temple will be built but most people who do know their bibles believe that this temple will be the one the Lord Jesus wll enter into and will dwell in during His millennial reign on earth.
The Lord will enter through this East Gate at His return but again we do not know the hour or the day of His return.
We only know the season that being the season of the Autumn Feasts and their corresponding solemn assemblies. That being Trumpets, Day of Atonement and Feast of Tabernacles. I have dealt with these in other blog posts on the trumpet and vial judgements of Revelation and the signs of the second coming of Jesus.
Question 2a Where is the location of the East Gate through which He is entering?
⦁ From reading the two passages of Ezekiel above the East Gate is in the Temple Sanctuary wall. It is not in the wall of the city of Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 43:1-4
1 Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh toward the east:
2 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice was like a noise of many waters: and the earth shined with his glory.
3 And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city: and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face.
4 And the glory of the Lord came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east.
Question 2b Is it in the Temple wall or is it in the city wall of Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 44:1
1 Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary which looketh toward the east; and it was shut.
⦁ Please Note this verse in Ezekiel 44:1, says outward sanctuary of the temple it is in the wall of the outer courtyard it is not in the wall of the city.
⦁ When one reads the passages of scripture carefully and in their proper context the word can be easily understood and not be taken out of context.
⦁ For when we read the passage on the temple of Ezekiel’s vision that God gave to him, he meets a man who is an angel showing him the complete temple complex.
This angel is measuring the parameters of the temple its gates and buildings and he describes in great detail what they look like how high they are and how they are decorated the gates and temple building.
⦁ In fact the first gate the angel measures is the East Gate through which the Glory of the Lord enters Ezekiel 40:6.
⦁ The Lord is coming into the Temple from the East by the East Gate of the outer Sanctuary of the Temple which is on the top of the uplifted Mt Zion Isaiah 2:2-4.
Question 3a If the East Gate is in the Temple wall then where is this temple?
⦁ This is another thing most people teach about the Lord (Jesus) entering the East Gate and their focus is on the temple being on the current temple mount.
⦁ They forget that the Gate that Jesus will enter into this temple by is open it is not shut.
⦁ He doesn’t enter into the temple sanctuary by a closed Gate.
⦁ They are acting on presumption when they teach about Jesus coming back to Jerusalem and entering into the city by a closed gate in a city wall.
⦁ They also focus on Jesus when He returns will be coming into the city of Jerusalem by this East Gate in the city wall. Which is currently shut, they forget that Jesus will be coming into the temple from the East through the Gate that is in the outer wall of the temple Sanctuary not a city wall.
⦁ They also forget that the false messiah will come first before Jesus comes back from heaven to earth and they forget that it is quite possible that the false messiah will enter Jerusalem himself by this closed East Gate in the city wall.
⦁ More on these three points above in question 11.
This temple is not in existence yet.
⦁ However if we look at Ezekiel 40 we will see that the temple mount is on a high mountain with Jerusalem to the South.
The first Gate measured is the East Gate through which God Himself enters the temple
Ezekiel 40:1-10
1 In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the selfsame day the hand of the Lord was upon me, and brought me thither.
2 In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me upon a very high mountain, by which was as the frame of a city on the south.
3 And he brought me thither, and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate.
4 And the man said unto me, Son of man, behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears, and set thine heart upon all that I shall shew thee; for to the intent that I might shew them unto thee art thou brought hither: declare all that thou seest to the house of Israel.
5 And behold a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the man's hand a measuring reed of six cubits long by the cubit and an hand breadth: so he measured the breadth of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.
6 Then came he unto the gate which looketh toward the east, and went up the stairs thereof, and measured the threshold of the gate, which was one reed broad; and the other threshold of the gate, which was one reed broad.
7 And every little chamber was one reed long, and one reed broad; and between the little chambers were five cubits; and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate within was one reed.
8 He measured also the porch of the gate within, one reed.
9 Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the posts thereof, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was inward.
10 And the little chambers of the gate eastward were three on this side, and three on that side; they three were of one measure: and the posts had one measure on this side and on that side.
Question 3b Is this temple on the current temple Mount today or is it on the future millennial Mt Zion that is high and lifted up above all other mountains?
This temple of Ezekiel's vision is future, it is not yet. It is yet to come, it will be on the temple mount not as it currently is today.
⦁ I believe all of these things point to the temple that Ezekiel sees as being the millennial temple on a mountain that has been raised up by God.
The temple mount will undergo a great change in appearance.
This will be done through earth movements and supernaturally to be the highest mountain on earth which will be holy where heaven and earth can truly meet.
⦁ Angels will be on this mountain as well as the glorified saints who will meet with the Lord concerning things to do with ruling the earth and also some may be priests in the inner sanctuary, the Holy of Holies of the temple.
⦁ The mountain will be like the Garden of Eden no harmful thing will dwell on this mountain.
⦁ It is through this Temple’s East Gate that the Glory of the Lord enters into His House.
Also in Isaiah and Micah they both speak of Mt Zion being high and lifted up and in Zechariah it talks about Mt Zion being holy with no unclean or unholy thing coming onto that mountain with a plain being before it and in Joel 3 it says the same thing.
Isaiah 2:2-4
2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
Micah 4:1-3
1 But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it.
2 And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
3 And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
Zechariah 14:9-11, 20-21
9 And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one.
10 All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin's gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananeel unto the king's winepresses.
11 And men shall dwell in it, and there shall be no more utter destruction; but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited.
20 In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, Holiness Unto The Lord; and the pots in the Lord's house shall be like the bowls before the altar.
21 Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the Lord of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seethe therein: and in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the Lord of hosts.
Joel 3:17
17 So shall ye know that I am the Lord your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.
Question 4a Is the Gate open or shut when the Lord enters it?
⦁When the Lord enters the East gate in the temple
sanctuary wall.
The gate is open it is not shut as the current East Gate in the wall of Jerusalem is shut.
Question 4b How is it shut when He enters through it? Does God or man shut it?
When God comes through this Gate in the outer wall of the temple I believe He God / Jesus will shut this gate supernaturally.
⦁ Just like God shut the door to the Ark Himself thereby shutting Noah and his family in the Ark.
⦁ The Gate is open when Ezekiel and the angel look at the gate but it is shut after God goes through it.
⦁ God Himself shuts the gate or it just closes of its own accord supernaturally after He goes through it.
⦁ Man doesn’t close the gate, man doesn’t even touch this gate.
⦁ This gate is for the Glory and majesty of the King of all Glory to enter in, to dwell with His people forever.
⦁ This gate will never be opened again it is shut for good to signify that God will never again leave His people but will stay married to them forever through the New Covenant He made with them by His own blood / through the blood of His Son Jesus.
Genesis 7:16
17 And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the Lord shut him in.
Ezekiel 43:1-4
1 Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh toward the east:
2 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice was like a noise of many waters: and the earth shined with his glory.
3 And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city: and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face.
4 And the glory of the Lord came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east.
Ezekiel 44:1-2
1 Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary which looketh toward the east; and it was shut.
2 Then said the Lord unto me; This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it; because the Lord, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut.
Question 5a Where does the Lord go when He enters in through this Gate?
⦁ When the Glory of the Lord enters through the East Gate He enters into the house the Inner Sanctuary, the Holy of Holies of the Temple.
Ezekiel 43:4-7
4 And the glory of the Lord came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east.
5 So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory of the Lord filled the house.
6 And I heard him speaking unto me out of the house; and the man stood by me.
7 And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever,
Ezekiel 44:4
4 Then brought he me the way of the north gate before the house: and I looked, and, behold, the glory of the Lord filled the house of the Lord: and I fell upon my face.
Question 5b Why can’t Ezekiel enter into the Holy Place from where he hears the voice of the Lord speaking to him from?
⦁ Ezekiel comes back into the Inner Court by way of the North Gate but he doesn’t go into the Holy of Holies for no flesh (or flesh that doesn’t have a glorified resurrected body can stand before the Lord) can stand before the Lord God Almighty because of sin.
⦁ This vision was written before the death, resurrection of Christ.
Ezekiel couldn’t go into the Holy of Holies even with the angel before the Glory of God came into that place because if he went in there his flesh that is tainted with sin would have defiled the Holy of Holies.
Also he would not be able to look upon the face of the living God and live.
Ezekiel 41:3-4 from the Amplified Bible
3 Then the man [being an angel, and unrestricted] went inside [the inner room, but went alone] and measured each post of the door, two cubits, the doorway, six cubits, and the breadth of the entrance, seven cubits.
4 And he measured the length [of the interior of the second room] in the temple proper, twenty cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits; and he [came out and] said to me, This is the Most Holy Place (the Holy of Holies).
Question 6 Is this the same gate that is currently shut in the wall of Jerusalem today?
⦁ The answer to this question is a resounding NO this is not the same gate that is shut that is in the wall of Jerusalem today.
⦁ It is in a city wall it is not part of the wall of the Sanctuary of the Temple.
⦁ Currently there is no temple on the Temple Mount.
⦁ So this is not the same gate that Ezekiel is speaking of here in the above passages, it is a very different gate.
Question 7 Was this gate shut after Jesus entered through it on the day He came into Jerusalem on the colt the foal of a donkey?
⦁ Again we don’t know if the gate that is in the wall of Jerusalem today is the same gate that Jesus entered Jerusalem by, when He rode into the city of Jerusalem from the Mt of Olives on the back of the colt the foal of the donkey.
⦁ He did enter into the temple by the East Gate possibly but not in the way that Ezekiel describes how the visible glory of the Lord entered into the Temple.
⦁ He came yes into the outer sanctuary of the temple (the second temple that Herod enhanced) in His human body the body that was prepared for Him to offer as a sacrifice as written in the volume of the book about Him.
He cleansed the outer sanctuary of the temple He did this at least three times but He never ever entered into the Holy Place or the Holy of Holies of the temple like the Glory of the Lord entered into the innermost Holy Place in Ezekiel’s vision.
⦁ His glory was hidden in a vessel of clay.
⦁ He couldn’t enter into the earthly Holy of Holies as He was not of the priesthood and thereby would not have been allowed within cooee of either the Holy Place or the Holy of Holies.
⦁ If he dared go near them they would have stoned Him for trespass even though He is the Son of God and God He had the right to go into those places but He didn’t and chose to abide by the Law of Moses concerning these things.
⦁ He was from the Tribe of Judah not from the tribe of Levi the priestly tribe and thereby had no authority to enter into the inner sanctuary.
⦁ He entered into a better sanctuary with the blood of His sacrifice when He ascended to heaven thereby making the way open for us to enter therein see Hebrews 5-10 concerning these things.
⦁ He will not be entering the temple until His return and this millennial temple will be lifted up on Mt Zion that is when He will enter into this temple in His resurrected Glorified body as the Lord of Lords and King of all Kings and the God of Israel.
⦁ That is when He will enter this temple via the open East Gate and this gate will be shut and not before.
⦁ This earthly gate that they talk about was not shut immediately after Jesus came into Jerusalem before His last Passover meal with His disciples.
This was before He went out of that Gate on the way to Golgotha’s Hill which would have been on the Mt of Olives opposite the temple on the East.
⦁ Nor was this gate shut when he entered into Jerusalem it was open and it stayed open until the Romans destroyed the city of Jerusalem.
Question 8a Did God of man shut this gate?
⦁ In answer to this question it was man and not God who closed and blocked up this gate.
⦁ The Romans destroyed the temple and the Gates of the temple when they sacked the temple and Jerusalem and renamed the city.
⦁ Later on it was the Muslim ruler Suleiman who closed up this gate in the wall the gate that is called the Golden or East Gate and he polluted it by having graves put around it to stop the Messiah supposedly entering the city by this gate.
⦁ So in a nutshell it was man and not God who closed this gate that is in existence today.
Question 8b Is this the current gate in the wall of the city of Jerusalem or the temple which isn’t in existence yet today?
⦁ Whereas in the passage in Ezekiel 43 & 44 the gate is shut after the Glory of God the visible Glory of God comes through this gate which may be very well be the visible glorified body of Jesus coming through this gate and He shuts it Himself on the way through this gate.
⦁ For being God only He can come through the gate and close it to signify that He will never ever leave His people again because of idolatry.
This is to indicate that they have been made clean by His atoning sacrifice on the cross and He is their eternal living covenant that cannot be broken because of His pure blood being poured out on the cross and is now on the Mercy Seat in heaven.
⦁ It must be noted that Ezekiel’s vision from the Lord is about a temple and he talks about God entering through the East Gate of the Temple Sanctuary.
⦁ Ezekiel is not talking about God entering into the city of Jerusalem by a Gate but he talks about God coming back into His Holy Temple to dwell among His people once more forever never more to be separated from them.
⦁ Ezekiel chapters 10 & 11 give a vivid description of how the glory of God departed out of His house on the chariot comprised of the Cherubim with His throne above them on the firmament.
⦁ He doesn’t walk out of Jerusalem like a man does but His glory leaves the Temple and is lifted up over the Mountains which will be the Mt of Olives towards the east of Jerusalem.
⦁ It is to this self-same Mt of Olives that Jesus comes back to earth from heaven see Acts 1:9-11, Zechariah 14 and Revelation 19:11-21
Question 9 Have we bought into urban myths about this gate that is currently shut and buying into false teaching?
⦁ I have to say a resounding yes many, many people and churches have bought into the myths concerning the Golden Gate even Wikipedia is wrong in saying that the Golden Gate being closed by the Muslim leader in the Middle Ages is fulfilling prophecy of Ezekiel 44:1-3 when it is not.
⦁ For there is no temple sanctuary yet for this gate to be part of. The Lord is not dwelling in the Holy of Holies on earth in this temple yet. So how can this closed gate fulfil Ezekiel 44? It is myth.
⦁ Glancing through the Wikipedia you can see how heavily Christian especially Catholic myth and Crusader myths as well as Jewish myths have influenced the churches by a large way of thinking concerning this gate.
Golden Gate (Jerusalem)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Gate_(Jerusalem)⦁ So in essence a lot of teaching about the Messiah entering through this gate is from traditions of men a mixture of Jewish and Catholic tradition about the coming of the Messiah.
⦁ It is wisdom from the earth not wisdom from above and this wisdom is devilish not from God James 3:13-18 this sort of teaching brings confusion, envy and strife, beware of teachers who teach fables instead of truth 1 Timothy 4:1-2, 7, 2 Timothy 4:3-4.
The next question shows us why we must be like Bereans and examine all things carefully and test what is being taught against the scriptures.
Question 10a Are the people teaching us about the East Gate teaching us from the word rightly handling the scriptures or are they only parroting what their false teachers are telling them?
⦁ In continuing on from question 9 we must be like Bereans and thoroughly check out what we are being taught about Jesus entering into Jerusalem by this gate.
⦁ That we must check out these teachings in line with the scriptures what do they say put them in context and what do men say what do myths about this gate say.
⦁ How much of what is being taught is a mixture of scripture and of myth or even Cabala Jewish mysticism, masonry, Catholicism check it out don’t just accept what they tell you. Check it out in accordance with the scriptures.
Question 10b Are they the false teachers twisting the scriptures to fit in with their false understanding of end time prophecies?
⦁ These teachers / prophets / people who might run ministries to do with end times or support of Israel are not telling you the truth but are telling you lies from the evil one.
They are twisting scriptures in saying that Jesus will enter into Jerusalem by this gate to fit in with their false views on His second coming.
⦁ You will have to ask yourself how can God enter into the city of Jerusalem by a gate that is already closed and closed by a man a pagan man who further polluted the entrance to this gate by putting a graveyard right near it in front of it.
⦁ God being holy will never enter into something defiled by dead bones He even tells Ezekiel they are not to put graves near His temple walls for it will defile them in Ezekiel 43:7-9.
Ezekiel 43:7-9
7 And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcases of their kings in their high places.
8 In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post by my posts, and the wall between me and them, they have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger.
9 Now let them put away their whoredom, and the carcases of their kings, far from me, and I will dwell in the midst of them for ever.
⦁ So why would God enter Jerusalem by a closed gate it defies logic. ⦁ The gate He comes into the temple is open it is He who shuts the gate as I keep saying over and over again in this paper in the hope that by repeating this enough it will sink into your spirits and your eyes will be opened to the truth.
⦁ What they are teaching you in your churches in their supposed end time prophecy conferences etc about this gate is a lie it is not true it is not scriptural.
⦁ Please throw out their false teaching about God (Jesus) coming into Jerusalem by the Gate Beautiful.
⦁ For there is no biblical basis for the Lord coming into Jerusalem or onto the temple mount by this Gate it is not part of the temple it was built later this current gate.
⦁ The Temple Mount when Jesus returns will be raised up higher than all mountains as mentioned in this paper and what I write is supported by the scriptures above.
⦁ Also when the mount is raised up it makes it unnecessary for Jesus to enter the city by this gate which may be destroyed anyway by the time Jesus returns to the city due to a huge earthquake see Revelation 11:13, Revelation 16:17-20 and Zechariah 14:1-4.
⦁ So could this gate be destroyed by the earthquake after the two prophetic witnesses are taken up to heaven or even destroyed if the city is Jerusalem that is mentioned in Revelation 16:19 to be divided into three parts by a huge earthquake.
⦁ Looking at these passages also I don’t believe that Jesus will enter into Jerusalem by this gate a man will do so as a false Messiah not the true Messiah more on in this in my last question, question 11.
⦁ Yes Jesus will come onto the Temple Mount that is currently in Jerusalem so that He can deal with the antichrist who is sitting in the inner sanctuary.
⦁ Yes He will enter into Jerusalem from the Mt of Olives but as I say the gate will possibly be destroyed due to the a huge earthquake from when He stands on the Mt of Olives or when the earthquake happens after the death of the two witnesses.
The graves will also be opened at His coming that is the graves of the righteous dead will be opened and they will be caught up to meet with Him in the air.
⦁ The geography of the land will be changed too when Jesus stands on the Mt of Olives due to the valley that will be made and the mountain splitting in half at His feet standing on the Mountain to form the valley through which His people will flee to safety from the invading armies that will be invading Jerusalem. So in a sense the East / Golden Gate may not be in existence at the return of the Lord but could be destroyed.
Isaiah 66:6
6 A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the Lord that rendereth recompence to his enemies.
Revelation 11:11-13
11 And after three days and an half the spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.
12 And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.
13 And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.
Revelation 16:19
18 And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.
19 And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
Zechariah 14:1-7
1 Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall 1be divided in the midst of thee.
2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
3 Then shall the Lord go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the Lord my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.
6 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:
7 But it shall be one day which shall be known to the Lord, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
Now we have come to the last question which is a very important question.
We must consider the possibility that the teaching of the Messiah entering the East Gate in the walls of Jerusalem could in reality be preparing people for the false messiah. Rather than preparing them for the true Messiah Jesus by its focus on this person entering into Jerusalem through the Gate Beautiful that is currently shut.
Question 11a Could this Gate be the one through which the false Messiah will enter and thereby fool people into believing that he is the true Messiah because he entered through the East Gate that was shut and it is polluted by graves near it?
⦁ Now to my final observations this only came to me today the 07 June 2016 and perhaps this has come to me by the Holy Spirit showing me what will take place in how the false messiah will enter into Jerusalem.
⦁ That the fuss about the Messiah coming through the east gate and some people only say Messiah without naming him by His name Jesus others do say His name Jesus but which Jesus are they talking about who will enter into Jerusalem by this gate?
⦁ I believe that the false messiah will enter into Jerusalem through this gate and being not a holy person he wouldn’t care if there are graves right up near the gate he will just appear via air somehow onto the Mt of Olives.
⦁ He will rock up to this gate and use fire from heaven or some sort of fire power to blast his way through the gate
⦁ The counterfeit messiah the false Christ who will enter in by / through this gate to try and prove that he is the true messiah when he isn’t.
⦁ Many, many people will be fooled by him doing this for they have been taught falsely that the true Messiah the Lord Jesus Christ will enter into Jerusalem by this gate.
⦁ As discussed in the points above Jesus will be entering into the Millennial Temple Sanctuary via an open East Gate to take up His rightful throne in the Inner Sanctuary and He Himself will be closing this gate on the way in.
⦁ Another thing Jesus will be ruling over the House of Jacob (Israel) from the throne of David but He will be ruling from the Temple Sanctuary as both priest and King over Israel and over the nations.
Luke 1:31-33
31 And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name Jesus.
32 He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:
33 And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.
Zechariah 6:12-16
12 And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The Branch; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the Lord:
13 Even he shall build the temple of the Lord; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.
14 And the crowns shall be to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, and to Hen the son of Zephaniah, for a memorial in the temple of the Lord.
15 And they that are far off shall come and build in the temple of the Lord, and ye shall know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me unto you. And this shall come to pass, if ye will diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God.
Jeremiah 3:16-18
16 And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith the Lord, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the Lord: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit it; neither shall that be done any more.
17 At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the Lord; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the Lord, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart.
18 In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers.
Psalm 2:6-9
6 Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
7 I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.
8 Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
Question 11b Will this false messiah have the power to raise people from the dead?
⦁ This false messiah will enter into Jerusalem by this polluted East Gate because of the graves he will come upon the temple mount where the false version of the true millennial temple will stand a masonic version of King Solomon’s temple.
⦁ He will wage war against the two prophets who have been witnessing for the Lord under the power of the Holy Spirit for 42 months while the city of Jerusalem have been trampled down by the feet of the Gentiles.
⦁ The Gentiles will be worshiping their myriad of demonic gods in the outer court of the false temple while the Jews will be doing sacrifices and worshiping Yahweh in the inner Sanctuary.
⦁ That a body something like the UN will be running / have control over the old city of Jerusalem and their sacred holy sites so that no man can say that they have control over Jerusalem. This will be carried out for three and half years of the seven year false peace treaty.
Revelation 11:1-14
1 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
3 And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
4 These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.
5 And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.
6 These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.
7 And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.
8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.
9 And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.
10 And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.
11 And after three days and an half the spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.
12 And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.
13 And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.
14 The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly.
Daniel 9:24-27
24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
⦁ Yet midway through this period the Antichrist aka the false messiah will make his move come up to Jerusalem by some sort of false display of might arrive by some vehicle by air and come through the East Gate to come up to the temple mount to kill the two prophets.
⦁ So the false messiah will come through this gate first before the true Messiah who is Jesus does,
and no he will not be raising the dead in those graves that are near the east gate because he won’t have the power to do so.
⦁ He the false messiah will then break the peace covenant with Israel stop the sacrifices and kick the Jews who are opposed to him out of the temple.
⦁ Then he will sit himself in the Holy of holies ready to be worshiped as God and will set up the abomination of desolation an image of himself or the Queen of heaven or a statue of BAAL or even have the Islamic crescent moon put on top of the temple to be worshiped and cause people to take a mark of some sort.
⦁ He will be possessed by satan by this time too and he will put to death those who will oppose him.
⦁ Just like Judas Iscariot was possessed by satan to betray Jesus so too this false messiah will be possessed by satan and will betray Israel / Jerusalem by breaking the false peace covenant he has made with her and he will put himself in God’s place to be worshiped in the temple.
⦁ In the meantime after three days the dead bodies of the two witnesses that are lying in the street of Jerusalem will come to life be resurrected and caught up to heaven When they are resurrected Jerusalem will have a huge earthquake that will destroy the city and kill 7,000 people and people will fear and glorify God the true God of heaven and earth.
⦁ This is before the third woe and the third woe God will bring upon the earth the woe being the devil being kicked out of heaven for good Revelation 12: and he will come to earth in a rage to pour out his wrath against the saints who follow Jesus.
God in turn will be pouring out His righteous wrath and judgments upon the devil’s evil kingdom and those who worship him and take his mark and He God will judge Babylon by making her drink doubly of the cup of His righteous wrath and indignation.
⦁ As I have stated above by the time the true Messiah who is Jesus comes back this East Gate could be destroyed and He will just enter Jerusalem by the place the gate was in.
The real East Gate through which the Messiah Jesus will enter in His glory will be in the outer wall of the temple sanctuary on the lifted up Mt Zion and this will be the true millennial temple in which He will sit to rule over Israel and the nations as the Priest – King.
Please note
A human being cannot give life or raise people from the dead and the false messiah will not be able to do either thing.
It is only Jesus who can raise people from the dead because He is the living God and the Son of the living God. He has eternal life and He gives this life to whomever He wills.
Jesus second coming will be evidenced by His visible appearing and raising the righteous dead and catching those who are alive who are His ie who are sealed with the Holy Spirit up to be with Him by the sound of His voice and Shofar blast.
⦁ It is only the true Jesus who will descend from heaven to earth with a shout to raise the dead those who are asleep in Him and with the voice of the Arc Angel and the sound of the shofar to call up to Himself those who are alive at His visible second coming. That the angels will gather His elect to Him through the sound of His voice and shofar blast.
⦁ When He descends to earth Jesus will give a shout of command for the righteous dead to hear His voice and to be raised up for He said that the dead will hear His voice and come to life.
⦁ When Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead and those who were dead in their graves came alive after Jesus died on the cross and were seen in Jerusalem after His resurrection this was just a dry run for when the real thing will take place at His return.
⦁ They the righteous dead came to life by the sound of His voice, Lazarus heard the voice of the Lord and came forth from the tomb, the dead heard the voice of the Son of God crying out before He died on the cross It is Finished.
⦁ At the sound of His voice they came alive and came out of their graves after Jesus arose from the dead and they ascended to heaven with Him as first fruits of His finished work of redemption, these are the righteous dead the Old Testament saints.
John 5:24-28
24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
25 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.
26 For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;
27 And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man.
28 Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,
John 11:41-44
41 Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me.
42 And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.
43 And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.
44 And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.
John 19:30
19 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.
Matthew 27:50-53
50 Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.
51 And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;
52 And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,
53 And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
Matthew 24:29-31
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
1 Thessalonians 4:15-18
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
In Conclusion
⦁ Finally all of this will culminate in the return of the real Jesus Christ as King of kings and Lord of lords to wage war in righteousness upon His enemies and He will return on the Day of Atonement the blowing of the Shofar to announce the year of Jubilee.
For when Jesus returns to Jerusalem and Israel to the Mt of Olives it will be a year of Jubilee.
The captivity of Israel will be turned back and all of the Jews living among the nations will be brought back to Israel to return every man to his possession.
That is they will come back to their land and tribal inheritance.
There will be no Jews living among the nations any more they will all be dwelling in Israel see Jeremiah 30-33, Ezekiel 47-48.
Leviticus 25:8-13
8 And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.
9 Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.
10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.
11 A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed.
12 For it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.
13 In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession.
This shofar blast as well as the shout of command by the descending Jesus will be done to raise up the righteous dead and those who are alive up to be with Jesus.
⦁ After He comes back and cleanses Jerusalem and Israel from their sins He will have His marriage to His people celebrated through the Feast of Tabernacles when all nations the sheep nations that have entered into His kingdom
This will be after He had judged the nations in the Valley of Decision separating the sheep from the goats of those who will enter into His kingdom. Matthew 25:31-46 and Joel 3.
⦁ He will have all nations come up to worship Him in Jerusalem at the time of the Feast of Tabernacles. This is when He will enter into His millennial kingdom Temple through the East Gate that will be shut after He has passed through it on the way into the Holy of Holies of the Temple.
⦁ This is where He will be worshiped as God of all the earth, He will be known by one name by all people and His glory will cover Jerusalem by cloud by day and fire by night this is where He will dwell with His people forever in His millennial reign.
This millennial reign is a prelude to His forever kingdom which will be on the New Earth where the New Jerusalem will be placed and Father and Son will dwell openly with their people forever more.
Isaiah 4:2-6
2 In that day shall the branch of the Lord be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel.
3 And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem:
4 When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.
5 And the Lord will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence.
6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the day time from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.
⦁ We will be with the Lord on the New Earth in the New Jerusalem we will not be living in heaven but on the earth as seen in the passage from Revelation 21.
So again those that teach that we will live in heaven forever are teaching fables this is not what the scriptures say at all they teach that God will dwell openly with His people on the New earth in the New Jerusalem.
Thereby heaven will be on the earth for God will be dwelling upon the earth in the midst of His people in the New Jerusalem
⦁ Again people I cannot emphasis enough please read the scriptures in context to see what they really say and not come to your own conclusion about what you think they say based on your own beliefs or what you have been taught by the myriads of false prophets, teachers and apostles doing the rounds of the churches today teaching on end times.
⦁ Let scripture interpret scripture that is the best way to understand the word of God and allow the Holy Spirit to teach you through the scriptures by allowing Him to interpret the word to you from the word.
Revelation 21:1-7, 22-26
1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
7 He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
22 And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.
23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
24 And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.
25 And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there.
26 And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it.
⦁ So going from what I have written the East Gate of the current Jerusalem will be used by the counterfeit Islamic (New Age Cosmic) version of the messiah to take over the counterfeit temple in order to set up his counterfeit version of the millennial kingdom.
⦁ You may think by reading the things I have written above that it seems a bit like the pot calling the kettle black.
⦁ At first glance that may be the case but when you carefully read through the scriptures and the questions I have put before you, you can see it is not the case. Also you must realize that in order to pass himself off as the real messiah satan must counterfeit / copy everything the real Messiah will do at his return.
⦁ Jesus will come back to the Mt of Olives and enter into the millennial temple by the East Gate and He will rule from the temple over Jerusalem and the nations of course satan doesn’t know everything but he will copy counterfeit as much as he can of the true Messiah Jesus.
⦁ So it is only logical that satan may have a false rapture take place a false coming to the Mt of Olives from the air somehow, a false entry into Jerusalem by the East Gate that so many teach falsely the true Jesus will enter into the city through this said gate.
⦁ He the false messiah will have lying signs and wonders done through his false prophet and try and prove that he is the true messiah from the line of David somehow.
⦁ He will also eliminate his enemies by killing the two witnesses and others who he will feel threatened by and then sit in the temple as God as I have already stated above. So be prepared the false messiah will do exactly what the real Messiah will do as much as he can to fool as many as he can.
⦁ So we must not be fooled by him or be deceived by him to take his mark to show allegiance to him. Of course the true followers of Jesus won’t take his mark but will stand against him for their names will be in the Lamb’s book of life.
⦁ It is those whose names that are not written in the Lamb’s book of life who will take this mark and I am sorry to say that many who will take this mark will be from the apostate church that will form the backbone of the One World Religion.
⦁ In essence it will be those who falsely call themselves Christians but did not have a true salvation in Christ who will take this mark. For many are teaching against individual salvation today in their vain attempt to Christianize the whole earth they are falsely preaching that nations and cities will be saved but not people per se and this includes the people of Israel
⦁ So in essence they the leaders of these false revivals, false movements are sending people to hell in a handbasket they are priming the world including the church world for the beast the antichrist the enemy of Christ.
⦁ These people(along with the muslims, those of other religions, those who are unrepentant) will be the ones who will call for the rocks and the mountains to fall on them when they see the true Jesus coming in the clouds in His kingly glory with His saints and angels. They will want to hide from Him because they know what they have done is wrong and they don’t want to face His righteous wrath and indignation at what they had done in deceiving many.
⦁ Beware of false teachers and their false teaching concerning the East Gate and the messiah entering in by it for it is a lie it will be used by the Antichrist.
⦁ Dear reader of this paper you must realize that the false kingdom of the antichrist must come first upon the earth and it will be based in Jerusalem in the land of Israel.
⦁ We must not confuse this event taking place with the coming of the true Messiah for He comes after satan has established himself openly in Jerusalem.
⦁ Jesus comes after this takes place so that God can judge the Babylon world system once and for all and to come forth from heaven when His people the remnant of the Israeli people cry out for Him to come and save them when they see that there is no way out.
This will be when Jerusalem is invaded by the armies of the world Revelation 16, Ezekiel 38 & 39 and there is nowhere else for them to run for they will be blocked from running anywhere due to the Mt of Olives being a barrier to their escape to the east of Jerusalem.
⦁ Yet it is to this same Mt of Olives that Jesus will come to split it in half so that His people can flee from their enemies by the valley that He will create by His feet standing on this mountain as I have already mentioned in this paper above.
⦁ That at the sound of their cry to save them calling upon Jesus by name of Jesus or Yeshua He will come to save them and they will say blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.
⦁ He will wage wall openly on His enemies and this will take place in Jerusalem. The State of Israel has to be in existence today in the unsaved state she is in in order for all of these prophetic events that are written in the bible to take place to bring about the second coming of Jesus on the Day of Atonement or Day of the Lord the Day of His Vengeance.
⦁ So please don’t be fooled by people speaking about Jesus entering into Jerusalem by the Golden Gate or talk of a messiah coming before all the prophetic events leading up to Jesus’s second coming takes place which includes the Great Tribulation.
⦁ Please don’t get caught up in the hype of this talk / activity but remember the counterfeit must come before the true, the false messiah comes before the truth messiah.
⦁ The false temple and false millennial kingdom comes before the true temple and millennial kingdom of the righteous One who is the Holy One of Israel the Son of the Holy One of Israel at whose name every knee will bow and every tongue confess that He is Lord and He will be known by a new name when He sets up His kingdom on the earth.
⦁ It will be the kingdom of heaven established on the earth based in Jerusalem as its capital city on the earth but linked with heaven via the Son ruling from the temple in Jerusalem.
⦁ Take what I have written to the Lord Jesus Christ in prayer and ask Him to verify these things to you. May He open your eyes to these truths and help you to understand His word to take it in context and to test all things. Do not buy into Christian or Jewish myths but weigh them up in the light of scripture.
