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    The Gatekeeper's Manual: Guarding the Gates of Our Person
    The Gatekeeper's Manual: Guarding the Gates of Our Person
    The Gatekeeper's Manual: Guarding the Gates of Our Person
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    The Gatekeeper's Manual: Guarding the Gates of Our Person

    By Javon Rahman Bertrand

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    In a time when many focus on the outside forces against them, Javon Rahman Bertrand, is writing to help us guard ourselves from within. We must guard the gates of our person. Before we can guard our city, state or nation, we need to be able to guard ourselves. One of the greatest lessons we can learn is how to guard the gates of our person.

    "Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside." Marilyn Ferguson.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateJun 15, 2018
    ISBN9781937400958
    The Gatekeeper's Manual: Guarding the Gates of Our Person

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      The Gatekeeper's Manual - Javon Rahman Bertrand

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      Chapter One:

      Gates

      A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate. Emile M. Cioran

      Before we get too in-depth with gates, let’s define what a gate is, in Hebrew and Greek:

      Gate - Hebrew - Sha’ar

      1. gate (of entrance)

      2. gate (of space inside gate, i.e. marketplace, public meeting place) of a city or town

      3. gate (of palace, royal castle, temple, court of tabernacle)

      4. heaven

      Gate - Greek - Pyle

      1. of the larger sort, in the wall of either a city, a palace, a town, the temple or of a prison

      2. the gates of hell (likened to a vast prison)

      3. metaph. the access or entrance into any state

      You are a city. Every one of us is a city. Many of us never think of our body (person) as a city. We do not consider how our body parts are the borders, our internal organs are the citizens and our mind is the leader. If we thought of ourselves as a city, we would see gates differently. We would study how to guard and protect them from distant and closer enemies. As a city, we need to look at our gates and how to guard them. We must identify them and their purpose to our lives. We cannot leave the gates unguarded and opened to any and everything in life.

      Gates seemingly have one simple and logical purpose, to give or restrict access. However, further study shows that gates served a function in more areas than who could and could not come in. Gates are utilized as a place of heralding and proclaiming the decree of the king and even the word of the Lord. This function makes the gates a place of communication. We need to guard the gates that are used for our communication so that we may properly perceive, receive, do and hide the word of God concerning our lives. Some other functions that happened at gates are business and judicial rule.

      In biblical times, gates were used for military purposes. They had a design that allowed watchmen and gatekeepers to watch for the city to which they were assigned. Gates were made of wood, brass, stone, iron or pearls. Gates had double doors; the double doors functioned as a place for the gatekeeper (porter, doorkeeper, janitor). The gatekeeper was in between the doors, giving or restricting access to those trying to get in. Gates also had towers. These towers were used to see from a high point into the distance to scope the land for possible allies or approaching enemies. Gates also had thick walls. These walls were seen as a defense to those attempting to come in from the outside without proper permission; the invaders. Towers were within the gates, while the walls connected gates around a city.

      Possessing the Gate

      Abraham, our forefather, the father of our faith, had a very unique relationship with God, our Father. In Genesis 22, Abraham was instructed to sacrifice his son, Isaac. Abraham proceeds to follow the instruction of the Lord. He took some young men, saddled his ass with his son on a three day journey. One the third day, he saw the mountain afar which God required for the sacrifice. When Abraham got to the base of the mountain, he tells the young men to stay there because he and his son were going to worship. Now Abraham and Isaac went up the mountain. Isaac, who is of age to understand things, begins to ask his father where was the sacrifice? Abraham prophetically declares that God will provide a lamb for himself. Abraham’s unique relationship with God allowed him to have a supernatural expression of faith. Abraham brought order to the place of sacrifice by building an altar and putting Isaac on it. He was ready to strike his son and heard the angel of the Lord say, Do no harm to the lad. He was redirected to a ram in the thicket. Now, Abraham sacrifices the ram in the place of his son.

      Abraham named that place Jehovah Jireh. Many of us know the common meaning of this memorial name as the Lord will provide. However, the more exact meaning is the Lord who sees to it. God will see to it that His will is accomplished. After Abraham offers the burnt offering, he receives a word from the Lord.

      That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; Genesis 22:17

      The possession of the gate is in correlation to conquering the city. This prophetic word to Abraham, for his posterity, was that he would overcome all who would become enemies. It was a declaration of victory and conquering unto the lineage of Abraham. We, as disciples of Christ, are recipients of this prophetic declaration to Abraham. We are his seed because of Christ and we will possess the gates of our enemies, we will conquer, overcome and have victorious lives.

      Gates of Our Person

      When we look at our person as a city, we realize we do not have just one gate, but many. We are figuratively like the city of Jerusalem. Jerusalem is the holy city of the Lord. Jerusalem had been left desolate. Nehemiah received permission from the king to rebuild the gates of Jerusalem. Nehemiah and those who were gathered to facilitate the rebuild encountered much opposition and ridicule. However, because of their willingness and the leadership of Nehemiah, the gates were rebuilt in fifty-two days. When we propose to rebuild or work at guarding our gates, we may experience the same as Nehemiah and those who worked with him. We have to stand as he did, "I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down:" Nehemiah 6:3. In fifty-two days, they completed a work that included ten gates and many towers with a wall to enclose the city.

      The gates of Jerusalem were:

      1. The Sheep Gate - Nehemiah 3:1

      2. The Fish Gate - Nehemiah 3:3

      3. The Old Gate - Nehemiah 3:6

      4. The Valley Gate - Nehemiah 3:13

      5. The Dung/Refuse Gate - Nehemiah 3:14

      6. The Fountain Gate - Nehemiah 3:15

      7. Water Gate - Nehemiah 3:26

      8. Horse Gate - Nehemiah 3:28

      9. East Gate - Nehemiah 3:29

      10. Inspection Gate - Nehemiah 3:31

      Each one of these gates had specific purpose to aid the city. The ten gates of Jerusalem all had their own purpose. The Sheep Gate was the place where lamb and sheep were sacrificed, a place of worship. The Fish Gate was an economic and business location where fishermen would bring their catch and sell them. The Old Gate was the place where the elders met for discussion, to hear complaints and solve problems. The Valley Gate opened unto the Valley of Hinnom, a valley that separated Mount Zion from the evil counsel of the north and the plain of Rephaim to the south. The Dung Gate is where all the refuse and rubbish was taken and burned. The Fountain Gate was where the pool of Siloam was located and used by citizens to cleanse or wash before entering the temple of God. The Water Gate led to the Gihon spring which is the place that was utilized to anoint Solomon as king. The Horse Gate was close to the palace and it is the place where men rode into war. The East Gate, also known as the Golden and Beautiful, looked toward the Mount of Olives. The Inspection Gate is where soldiers were inspected for

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