THE DOOR

 A famous person in the past declared to be the Door! I wonder what He meant? Have you ever consider this Person? He has a name, and his name is Yehoshua, also called Yeshua and “Jesus.” However, Jesus is not his true name. He was born to a Jewish family in Israel, and was called Yehoshua, which means Yehovah Saves. Yehovah is our Father and Creator in Heaven.

But why would He describe Himself as a Door?

Well, you see, if want to get inside a place that has perimeters, which could be a store, or a church, a city, a country, you need to pass through and entrance which usually is called a Door.

So why did Yehoshua say, “I am the Door?”

Let us read the Scriptures.

Yochanan/John 10: 1- 5 “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climb s up some other way, the same is thief and a robber. ‘But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the doorkeeper open, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. “And when he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. Yet they will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.”

So we have learned the importance of having a door. Immigrant who do not pass by the legal entrance door to any nations, are described as thieves and robbers, and we know this to be a fact. When a person has nothing to hide, he obeys the laws of the land.

This is the same in the natural and in the spiritual.

Yehoshua continues to teach us in the following verses.

Yochanan 10: 7-10 Then Yehoshua said to them again, “Most assuredly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. All who ever came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them. I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.

Yehoshua says that the thieves who do not pass through the door, are coming to steal, kill and destroy.

Spiritually, we also, must enter into the Kingdom of Heaven through the Door, who is Yehoshua.

We saw the first mentions of a door covered with blood at the first Passover while Israel was preparing to move out from slavery in Egypt. Yehovah commanded Mosheh/Moses to have each family kill a lamb, and apply the blood on the lintels and doorposts of their houses. Only by obeying Yehovah, and apply the blood, they would be spared their lives, or their firstborn would be killed. (Shemot/ Exodus 12:1-13, 22-23)

This Passover was a prophetic shadow picture of our Messiah who would be sacrificed as the Lamb of Elohim (Yochanan 1:29). His blood has to be applied to our lives in order for us to have eternal life. He is the Door and He gave His blood to provide entrance into the Kingdom of Heaven.

There is no other way to Heaven. Our sins have to be atoned by innocent Blood. But it is not enough to know about it, we have to apply it as Israel did, or we die and end up in the pit with the devil and his demons.

But the will of Yehovah is good. He provided the atonement and we can be saved.

Repentance of our sins is necessary.

You may think that you have not sinned. Have you every lied? Have you stole something as small as a pencil? Have lusted after another women, or men? Are you lusted for those of your own sex? Have killed your own baby in the womb or out of? Do you love Yehovah with all your heart and never prayed to another false god? Do you read your horoscope? Do you keep the Sabbath as He has commanded? Do you keep His Feasts or some other feast He did not sanctified?

The list goes on and on. You are a sinner until you will repent of your sin. Yehovah declares it in the Scriptures.

Yechezqel/Ezekiel 18:4 “Behold, all souls are Mine; the soul of the father as well as the soul as the soul of of the son is Mine; the soul who sins shall die.”

We also read in the Hebrew New Testament the following verses.

Romiyim/Romans 3:22-23 ...For there is not difference; for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of Yehovah.

Are you convinced that you need to pass through the Door?

If you do, please understand that when you will humble yourself and repent of your sin to Yehovah, and believe in Yehoshua, the Door, you will be received and forgiven. His Holy Spirit will come into your own live as you accept your Savior, and you will receive Eternal life. This is called the new birth.

Do it now and be safe and saved.