"The King of Glory and His Kingdom"..

Pastor Walter L Smith III and Pure In Heart Int'l Ministries, Inc. - PIHIM; WS-3 Enterprises & Associates

Listen to: "GET READY FOR THE FLOOD"

Should we prepare for "another AZUSA"?

NO.. The Azusa meetings continued with intensity for about seven years with hundreds of thousands having attended and missionaries being sent out. Many Pentecostal denominations today trace their roots back to the Azusa Street Revival, and many individual Pentecostals trace their spiritual roots back to the same. Unfortunately, the emphasis on tongues "as the only evidence of filling by the Holy Spirit", is unbiblical and leads to error and excess.

ANY TIME that human beings attempt to make ANY PART of their spiritual efforts and work the sole focus of God's Works and His Wonders that He Performs, we short circuit the potentiality of the lavish and super abundant supernatural release that He Purposes — that is supposed to be without proportional comparisons or boundaries, which should be inestimable, incommunicable, and unfathomable, as we simply look to Him, rely upon Him, and depend upon Him; to be THE ANSWER to every challenge, to every foe, and to every circumstance without fail!!

The phrase King of glory is found in a series of verses in Psalm 24:

"Lift up your heads, you gates;

be lifted up, you ancient doors,

that the King of glory may come in.

Who is this King of glory?

The Lord strong and mighty,

the Lord mighty in battle.

Lift up your heads, you gates;

lift them up, you ancient doors,

that the King of glory may come in.

Who is he, this King of glory?

The Lord Almighty—

he is the King of glory" (Psalm 24:7–10).

The Hebrew word translated "glory" in Psalm 24 is kabod, which means "weight," but it is used figuratively, as in "his argument carries weight" or "the content of that book is weighty." Kabad carries a connotation of solemnity and power. Calling God the "King of Glory" means He is the most awesome, most powerful king and should be taken seriously.

Using a type of personification known as apostrophe, the psalmist speaks to the "gates" and the "ancient doors," calling them to attention and commanding them to "be lifted up" or raised to admit the King of glory. However lofty these ancient doors are, they must be loftier still to admit such an august presence as the Lord Himself.

There is a connection to be made between the King of glory in Psalm 24 and the Shekinah glory in Exodus 33. When God gave Moses instructions for building the Ark of the Covenant, He said, "I will appear in the cloud over the atonement cover [mercy seat]" (Leviticus 16:2). The mercy seat was to be seen as God's glorious "throne" on earth (see 2 Samuel 6:2; Psalm 80:1; 99:1). And it was from the mercy seat that God spoke to Moses: "There, above the cover between the two cherubim that are over the ark of the covenant law, I will meet with you and give you all my commands for the Israelites" (Exodus 25:22).

Psalm 24 pictures the coming of the King of glory in a time of celebration. Given the Hebrew association of the cloud of glory with the Ark of the Covenant, it is quite possible that Psalm 24 was written to commemorate the entrance of the Ark into Jerusalem during David's time (2 Samuel 6:12–17) or into the temple during Solomon's time (2 Chronicles 5:7). The King of glory came through the gates of Jerusalem and through the doors of the temple with a great procession as the Ark of the Covenant was brought to its permanent home on Mt. Zion.

Jesus is called "the Lord of glory" in 1 Corinthians 2:8. His entrance into Jerusalem amid the shouts of a jubilant crowd (Matthew 21) could be seen as another fulfillment of Psalm 24. Jesus is the One with "clean hands and a pure heart" who can "ascend the mountain of the Lord" (Psalm 24:3–4). Jesus "will receive blessing from the Lord" (verse 5). Jesus is the "King of glory, the Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle" (verse 8).

Psalm 24:1-10, NKJV (KEYS)

1. Praising the Creator and Sovereign

2. Positioning ourselves with the appropriate approach in the spirit

3. Posturing ourselves in anticipation of the King of Glory

Walter L. Smith III

Founder/President

Pure In Heart Int'l Ministries, Inc./

The Center For Kingdom Advancement 

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