Opening the Gates of Heaven Perry Stone

CHAPTER 2

The Five Gates of the Holy Spirit Lift up your heads, O you gates! Lift up, you everlasting doors! And the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord of hosts, He is the King of glory. Selah. —P SALM 24:9–10

T HE MOST IMPORTANT parts of the temple compound in Jerusalem were the many gates leading in and out of the temple facility. The main outer walls of the city of Jerusalem were built upon layer after layer of large ashlars, cut stones taken from a quarry. The Jerusalem from the time of Christ had large limestone ashlars, some weighing four hundred tons. 1 The gates were openings in the walls where large, thick wooden doors were hung. The sacred side of the temple was the east side, and the double wooden doors leading to the holy place were layered in Corinthian bronze. When the sun arose from the east over the peak of the Mount of Olives and struck the gates on the east, the gates glowed with a brilliance that reflected like gold.