SHEEP GATE

 

Sept 6, 2018

The Lord has been showing me about Gates for some time, now.  In all the years of the past I have never heard anyone teach on the 12 Gates and how they are a treasure in the picture of our journey.    Particularly, I am learning of the Sheep Gate, and how our precious Lord, the Good Shepherd goes with the sheep, (as they are prone to wander).  He goes thru the same door as the sheep, and by the way in which they go, even to stoop down (taking the body of man), to go thru the door which is provided for them, because being such as they are, they need the sheepfold for a defense, and cannot enter by any other way. Wow.  Does that not tell you of His heart of love for man?

According to Andrew Jukes, “If anyone ‘climbs up’, showing by doing such, that he is superior to the sheep, or if he goes by a nearer or higher way, in which the sheep cannot follow him, they, being only sheep; he has not a shepherd’s heart and shows that he is a thief.  For in meddling with sheep, a man will either be a shepherd or a thief – Men do not meddle with them without intending to either serve themselves or to serve the sheep.”

Jesus came to us as our shepherd, to bring us with Him into glory.  We follow Him and His way, for He has walked it before us, and won the victory.  Then we, the proclaiming and remnant ones are gates as well to the generations after us.  We teach and preach and write the secrets of the Kingdom, for are walking where others have not walked before, but we are leaving a trail of His glory behind us that those that follow may run.

TGW