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People, walls and gates
People: great afflictions and reproach
Walls: broken down
Walls symbolize protection and security…
Without the walls, there is nothing from stopping the enemy from coming in and causing havoc…
Gates: burned with fire
Gates allow access, they are a place if authority, they are the battleground “gates of hell shall not prevail”, they are life and death to the well-being of a city… They are the vulnerability or the strength of a city…
Significance of the gates… it’s what got Jerusalem into this whole mess…
2 Kings 25:1–4 (KJV 1900)
1 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about. 2 And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. 3 And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
4 And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king’s garden: (now the Chaldees were against the city round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain.
The leaders fled their post by way of the gates…
Without gates, the city walls are for nought…
Without walls, the city is without protection or defense from the enemy…
If the walls are broken down, it should make a cause for alarm…
What’s the big deal?
Jerusalem was a place where God chose to place His name
2 Chronicles 6:6 (KJV 1900)
6 But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.
It was where Solomon built the temple - place of worship
It was a place of great riches
1 Kings 10:27 (KJV 1900)
27 And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycomore trees that are in the vale, for abundance.
What happened?
Nebuchadnezzar simply surrounded Jerusalem and nothing more…
They killed themselves from the inside out…
No bread and the people were done…
No bread (Word of God) and we’re also done…
All the world has to do is cut you off from your Bible and they will starve you spiritually until you flee from the gates of the city…
Once you flee, they invade and:
burn your place of worship
Break down your walls of security and defense to ensure it’s easy to get back in
burn your homes and everything you know
Take you captive to their land where they can change your name, diet, identity and everything Godly about you…
Caleb’s vision was a vision of faith…
Without faith it’s impossible to please Him…
Ephesians 3:20 KJV 1900
Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
Why for vision…
Church purpose
The objective of the church is to proclaim the gospel (Matthew 28:19-20), administer church ordinances of Believer's Baptism and the Lord's Supper (Matt. 28:19-20, I Cor. 11:23-34), to build up the Saved through the teaching of Scripture in regular services, Sunday School, media, prayer services, Bible study and revival services, to watch over one another in brotherly love, to remember each other and pray for each other, to earnestly contend for and never depart from the faith which was once delivered unto the saints; specifically the teaching of the Holy Scriptures.
Christ centered preeminence
‘I will build my church…’
Matthew 16:18 KJV 1900
And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Don’t lose your vision…
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