9Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
10Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah.
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Building upon my last comments, these verses are helping to clarify the identity of the real messiah. Verse 8 describes the expected messiah - a great and mighty general. Verse 10 is even more explicit. "How is this King of glory?" - this man who is pure and good enough to enter the inner sanctum? Who is this KIng of glory? - this man who receives blessings and righteousness from God? Who is this King of glory? - this man who brings a seeking generation to the face of God? Who is this King of glory? - this man who is able to lift up the everlasting doors? He is a Lord strong and mighty in battle - yes. But he is also the "LORD OF HOSTS, he is the KING OF GLORY." (Selah, hallelujah and amen).
He is the Lord of the hosts of angels. He is Glory embodied in human flesh. He is our Lord and Savior. Because of His sacrifice, blood sacrifices will not be needed anymore. He has cleaned us forever and forever removed the barrier between ourselves and God. Selah - let us rejoice and sing.
I guess the door could resemble our shield/wall that we have put up to keep out God away from us.
Often in any relationship, it is extremely difficult to open up to one another. Opening up leaves us very vulnerable. It is like taking our own heart out and placing it in another's hand. As more and more disappoints and wounds we receive after opening up, our shield thickens. This happens with our relationship with God. Of course once we take that difficult first step to open up to him for the first time or the 1000th time, he will leap us farther than we can ever imagine. The more we get to know him better our feeling of vulnerability and living with fear of getting hurt fades away and we can live freely with the joy and glory of being with God.
I'm not quite sure why David used the word "everlasting" or "ancient" doors. I'll have to think about it some more...
Lift up your heads, O you gates; lift them up, you ancient doors,that the King of glory may come in. Who is he, this King of glory? The LORD Almighty— he is the King of glory. Selah (Psalm 24:9-10 - NIV)
Lift up your heads, O gates,And lift them up, O [a]ancient doors,
That the King of (A)glory may come in!Who is this King of glory? The LORD of (B)hosts,He is the King of glory. Selah. (Psalm 24:9-10 - NASB)
By reading these verses, one could ask, "what is the glory" that is depicted here in the Book of Psalms...?
.....Continuation...According to Hebrews 1:3, "The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word." Hence, we can see through this verse that God's glory can also be interpreted as God's power/ authority that sustains everything on this earth through the word. In fact, here we can see the trenchant power and strength of God's word that holds everything together. Our king of glory deserves to praised and worshipped. Amen
These two verses appear to repeat the same message from verses 7 and 8. But interestingly, verse 9 says "lift them up" in contrast to "be lifted up" in verse 7. Who or what is "them"? I guess the most straightforward answer is that "them" refers to the "heads" of the gates and doors. Per my comments from verses 7 and 8, our hearts and minds have all sorts of barriers when it comes to completely (unconditionally!) accepting God's sovereignty. The author here implores us to lift up the heads of these barriers -- by opening the eyes of our hearts and minds, we will be able to see the truth and thus allow our glorious Father to enter into our lives.
I like the different angles presented in earlier postings. Fyi, I didn't actually notice the word "everlasting" in NKJV (both NIV and NASB use "ancient") when I posted my comment about verse 7. I think "everlasting" has a more forward-looking connotation than "ancient" which is more backward-looking, but both have a sense of finiteness in terms of their starting point and therefore seem to refer to something God created, i.e. mankind.
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