The King Is Coming

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THE KING IS COMING



I thank God daily for the angel He sent to be my mother.


1. THE MARKET PLACE IS EMPTY,
NO MORE TRAFFIC IN THE STREETS,
ALL THE BUILDERS TOOLS ARE SILENT,
NO MORE TIME TO HARVEST WHEAT;
BUSY HOUSEWIVES CEASE THEIR LABORS,
IN THE COURTROOM NO DEBATE,
WORK ON EARTH IS ALL SUSPENDED AS THE
KING COMES THROUGH THE GATE! (CHORUS)

2.ALL THE RAILROAD CARS ARE EMPTY,
AS THEY RATTLE DOWN THE TRACKS,
IN THE NEWSROOM NO ONE WATCHES
AS MACHINES TYPE POINTLESS FACTS;
ALL THE PLANES VEER OFF THEIR COURSES,
NO ONE SITS AT THE CONTROLS,
FOR THE KING OF ALL THE AGES
COMES TO CLAIM ETERNAL SOULS! (CHORUS)

3.HAPPY FACES LINE THE HALLWAYS,
THOSE WHOSE LIVES HAVE BEEN REDEEMED,
BROKEN HOMES THAT HE HAS MENDED,
THESE FROM PRISON HE HAS FREED,
LITTLE CHILDREN, AND THE AGED
HAND IN HAND STAND ALL AGLOW
WHO WERE CRIPPLED, BROKEN,RUINED,
CLAD IN GARMENTS WHITE AS SNOW! (CHORUS)

4. I CAN HEAR THE CHARIOTS RUMBLE,
I CAN SEE THE MARCHING THRONG,
THE FLURRY OF GOD'S TRUMPETS
SPELL THE END OF SIN AND WRONG:
REGAL ROBES ARE NOW UNFOLDING
HEAVEN'S GRANDSTAND'S ALL IN PLACE
HEAVEN'S CHOIR IS NOW ASSEMBLED
START TO SING AMAZING GRACE! (CHORUS)

CHORUS: OH, THE KING IS COMING,
THE KING IS COMING,
I JUST HEARD THE TRUMPET SOUNDING,
AND NOW HIS FACE I SEE!
OH, THE KING IS COMING,
THE KING IS COMING,
PRAISE GOD! HE'S COMING FOR ME!

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Coming in the Clouds
"...they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other." Matthew 24:30-31
"...they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory. And then He will send forth the angels, and will gather together His elect from the four winds." Mark 13:26
"For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words." 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18
"...we shall all be changed— in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: 'Death is swallowed up in victory.'” 1 Corinthians 15:51-54
"And at midnight a cry was heard: Behold, the bridegroom is coming; go out to meet him! Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said to the wise, 'Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’ But the wise answered, saying, ‘No, lest there should not be enough for us and you; but go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves. And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding; and the door was shut.... Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming." Matthew 25:6-13
"When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory. All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats. And He will set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left. Then the King will say to those on His right hand, ‘Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world...." Matthew 25:31-34
"...that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you also suffer; since it is a righteous thing with God to repay with tribulation those who trouble you, and to give you who are troubled rest with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels...." 2 Thessalonians 1:5-7
"In my vision... was one like a son of man, coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days and was led into his presence." Daniel 7:13
"...and seated on the cloud was one 'like a son of man' with a crown of gold on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand. Then another angel... called in a loud voice to him who was sitting on the cloud, 'Take your sickle and reap, because the time to reap has come... So he who was seated on the cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the earth was harvested." Revelations 14:14-16.

"Behold, He is coming with clouds, and every eye will see Him, even they who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. Even so, Amen.
“'I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,' says the Lord, 'who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.” Revelations 1:7
"For this reason I also suffer these things; nevertheless I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him until that Day." 2 Timothy 1:12
Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, 'Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.” Revelation 21:2

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Rocks, Stone, Mortar And A Graveyard Will Not Block Any Route Of Christ's Travel, Whatever It May Be, When He Returns To Earth!


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The Eastern/Golden Gate


Christ is able to majestically step through stone and mortar, but what a sight it would be, if the Gate is still standing when He Returns, to see the stone crumble before His Presence! My - the Splendor, Awe and Power of His Return!

Can't you see His feet stepping down on earth! Hallelujah!


~~~ Historical facts about the Eastern/Golden Gate: ~~~

The Mount of Olives faces the Eastern/Golden Gate of Jerusalem.

When Jesus was on earth, when the Gate was still open, He walked through it many times, as He went between the Mount of Olives and Jerusalem.

Thinking to prevent Christ returning through the Gate, the Muslim conquerors of Jerusalem (the Ottoman Turks) sealed it in the 1500's. (There are teachers who believe this to be a fulfillment of Ezekiel 44:1. See the *QUESTION below for those who believe otherwise.)

His Return

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Zechariah 14:4 - And His feet shall stand in that day upon the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the East,

~~~ Jesus returned to Heaven from the Mount of Olives. (Acts 1:9 - 12) One day His feet shall stand again on the Mount of Olives. (Zechariah 14:4) ~~~

Matthew 24:30 - And then shall appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

Revelation 1:7 - Behold, He comes with clouds; and every eye shall see Him,

Zechariah 14:9 - And the LORD shall be King over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and His Name One.


The Millenial Gate That Looks Toward The East

Ezekiel 43:2 - And, behold, the Glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the East: and His voice was like a noise of many waters: and the earth shined with His Glory.

Ezekiel 43:4 - And the Glory of the LORD came into the house by the way of the Gate whose prospect is toward the East.

Ezekiel 44:1 - Then He brought me back the way of the Gate of the outward sanctuary which looks toward the East; and it was shut.

A *QUESTION For Those Who Hold The View That The Present Eastern/Golden Gate Is Not The Ezekiel Gate.

Q - If the Gate of Ezekiel 43:2,4 and 44:1, is the Millennial Gate and not the present Eastern/Golden Gate, why would it be shut in the Millennium?

An Answer Taken From A Brother In Christ's Email.

A - It is shut in the Millennium to tell the people living in the Millennial period that God in the Person of Jesus Christ and the Glory of the Lord will never leave them again. Remember back in earlier Chapters of the Book, Ezekiel described the reluctant four staged process of the departure of the Glory of the Lord of Israel from the Temple to the Mount of Olives and then completely. The first stage (Ezekiel 9:3a) was from the Cherub (first position) to the threshold of the door of the Temple (second position). The second stage (Ezekiel 10:18-19) from the threshold of the door of the Temple to the Eastern Gate (third position). In the third stage the Glory of the Lord departed from the Eastern Gate and moved over the Mount of Olives (fourth position) in Ezekiel 11:22-23. Finally in the fourth stage of departure, the Glory of the Lord left Israel and disappeared from Jewish History.

The Glory of the Lord was not in the second Temple as it was in the first Temple (see Haggai 2:9). However, Haggai 2:9 contained a promise. He promised that the Glory would come in some different form and in a greater way to that second Temple. This manifestation of God's Presence had to occur with Jesus Christ because the Temple was destroyed in 70 AD.

The Millennial System of Priesthood and Sacrifice is dealt with in Ezekiel 44:1- 46:24 and deals with the various laws regulating the Millennial system. Ezekiel 44:1- 3 concerns the law of the outer Eastern Gate. The passage states that in the beginning of the Millennium, the outer Eastern Gate will be shut never to be reopened again throughout the Millennium (vs. 1). The reason for shutting of the Gate is due to the fact that the Glory of the Lord of Israel shall return by way of the Eastern Gate, (Ezekiel 43:1- 9) never to leave Israel again (vs. 2). This is a symbol that the Glory of the Lord will never depart from Israel again.



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Glory to GOD,
The KING OF KINGS Is Coming!
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The Holy City

Frederick E. Weatherly and Stephen Adams
Written In 1893

Last night I lay asleeping, There came a dream so fair,
I stood in old Jerusalem, Beside the Temple there,
I heard the children singing, And ever as they sang,
Methought the voice of Angels, From Heaven in answer rang,
"Jerusalem, Jerusalem! Lift up your Gates and sing,
Hosanna in the highest, Hosanna to your King!"

And then methought my dream was chang'd, The streets no longer rang,
Hush'd were the glad Hosannas, The little children sang,
The sun grew dark with mystery, The morn was cold and chill,
As the shadow of a cross arose, Upon a lonely hill,
"Jerusalem, Jerusalem! Hark! How the Angels sing,
Hosanna in the highest, Hosanna to your King!"

And once again the scene was chang'd, New earth there seem'd to be,
I saw the Holy City, Beside the tideless sea,
The Light of God was on its streets, The Gates were open wide,
And all who would might enter, And no one was denied,
No need of moon or stars by night, Or sun to shine by day,
It was the new Jerusalem, That would not pass away,
"Jerusalem! Jerusalem! Sing for the night is o'er,
Hosanna in the highest, Hosanna for evermore!"

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THE EASTERN GATE
DLS 3-20-02
THE EASTERN GATE IS THE MOST IMPORTANT AND IMPRESSIVE GATE IN JERUSALEM. IT IS THE ONLY VISIBLE ENTRANCE TO THE CITY OF JERUSALEM FROM THE EAST. CHRIST ENTERED THE TEMPLE THROUGH THE EASTERN GATE.


THIS OLDEST OF ALL THE GATES TO THE CITY WAS THE ONLY ONE NOT REBUILT BY SULEIMAN THE MAGNIFICENT IN A.D. 1539-42. MONOLITHIC STONES IN THE WALL JUST ABOVE GROUND HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED AS 6TH CENTURY BC MASONRY FROM THE TIME OF NEHEMIAH.


THE EASTERN GATE WAS WALLED UP BY THE ARABS IN THE YEAR 810. IT HAS REMAINED CLOSED NOW FOR NEARLY TWELVE CENTURIES. THE JEWISH PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT THE GATE WILL OPEN WHEN THE LORD RETURNS TO JERUSALEM.








This page was last updated on: March 30, 2006

THE EASTERN GATE


I WILL MEET YOU IN THE MORNING,
JUST INSIDE THE EASTERN GATE.
THEN BE READY FAITHFUL PILGRIM,
LEST WITH YOU IT BE TOO LATE.


I WILL MEET YOU
IN THE MORNING,
I WILL MEET YOU
IN THE MORNING,
JUST INSIDE THE EASTERN GATE
OVER THERE...
I WILL MEET YOU
IN THE MORNING,
I WILL MEET YOU
IN THE MORNING,
I WILL MEET YOU
IN THE MORNING OVER THERE.
IF YOU HASTEN OFF TO GLORY,
LINGER NEAR THE EASTERN GATE.
FOR I'M COMING IN THE MORNING,
SO YOU'LL NOT HAVE LONG TO WAIT.


I WILL MEET YOU
IN THE MORNING,
I WILL MEET YOU
IN THE MORNING,
JUST INSIDE THE EASTERN GATE
OVER THERE...
I WILL MEET YOU
IN THE MORNING,
I WILL MEET YOU
IN THE MORNING,
I WILL MEET YOU
IN THE MORNING OVER THERE.
I WILL MEET YOU
IN THE MORNING,
I WILL MEET YOU
IN THE MORNING,
JUST INSIDE THE EASTERN GATE
OVER THERE...
I WILL MEET YOU
IN THE MORNING,
I WILL MEET YOU
IN THE MORNING,
I WILL MEET YOU
IN THE MORNING OVER THERE.

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EXODUS
"THIS LAND IS MINE"

"This land is mine, God gave this land to me...
This brave and ancient land to me.
And when the morning sun reveals her hills and plain,
Then I see a land where children can run free.

So take my hand and walk this land with me,
And walk this lovely land with me.
Though I am just a man, when you are by my side,
With the help of God, I know I can be strong.

Though I am just a man, when you are by my side,
With the help of God, I know I can be strong...
To make this land our home.
If I must fight, I'll fight to make this land our own,
Until I die, this land is mine."

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Contents:
Psalm 122 Exodus Romans 10
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Psalm 122:
A Song of degrees of David.
I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD. (Psa 122:1 KJV)

Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem. (Psa 122:2 KJV)

Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together: (Psa 122:3 KJV)

Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the LORD. (Psa 122:4 KJV)

For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David. (Psa 122:5 KJV)


Pray for the peace of Jerusalem:
they shall prosper
that love thee.
Psalm 122:6

Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces. (Psa 122:7 KJV)

For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee. (Psa 122:8 KJV)

Because of the house of the LORD our God I will seek thy good. (Psa 122:9 KJV)

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Romans 10:
"Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. {2} For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. {3} For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. {4} For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth. {5} For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.
{6} But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:) {7} Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.) {8} But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; {9} That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. {10} For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

{11} For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. {12} For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. {13} For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

{14} How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? {15} And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!

{16} But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report? {17} So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

{18} But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world. {19} But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you. {20} But Esaias is very bold, and saith, I was found of them that sought me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me. {21} But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people."


Romans 11:
"I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. {2} God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias [Isaiah]? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying, {3} Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
{4} But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal. {5} Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace. {6} And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.

{7} What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded {8} (According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day. {9} And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompense unto them: {10} Let their eyes be darkened that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.

{11} I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy. {12} Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness? {13} For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office: {14} If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.

{15} For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead? {16} For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches. {17} And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert grafted in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree; {18} Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.

{19} Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in. {20} Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear: {21} For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.

{22} Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off. {23} And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again. {24} For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?

{25} For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. {26} And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:

{27} For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins. {28} As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes. {29} For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.

{30} For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief: {31} Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy. {32} For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.

{33} O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! {34} For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor? {35} Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again? {36} For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.

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As the prophets said Soon will come the dawn
For Messiah's coming, Coming to Jerusalem.
Wars and strife shall cease There'll be perfect peace
When the Prince of Peace Comes back to Jerusalem.

CHORUS
City of our God City of our God
Where kings and prophets walked
You are the wailing wall, you are the joy of all the earth
Apple of His eye I love you, Jerusalem.

Optional spoken interlude:

Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones the messengers I send to her! How often have I desired to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks beneath her wings, but you would not have me! Now your house will be left desolate, for I tell you the truth, you will never see me again until the day on which you say, 'Baruch ha'ba ba'shem adonai' -- 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.'
(Repeat freely)