It will be said on that day, “Behold, this is our God; we have waited for Him, that He might save us. This is the LORD; we have waited for Him; let us be glad and rejoice in His salvation.” ¹

In that day, this song will be sung in the land of Judah: “We have a strong city; He sets up salvation as walls and bulwarks. ²

Open the gates, that the righteous nation that keeps faith may enter in, O LORD. ³

You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You. ⁴

Open to me the gates of righteousness, that I may enter through them and give thanks to the LORD. ⁵

This is the gate of the LORD; the righteous shall enter through it. ⁶

Who shall ascend the hill of the LORD? And who shall stand in His holy place? ⁷

He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false and does not swear deceitfully. ⁸

He will receive blessing from the LORD and righteousness from the God of his salvation. ⁹

Such is the generation of those who seek Him, who seek the face of the God of Jacob. Selah. ¹⁰

Lift up your heads, O gates! And be lifted up, O ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in. ¹¹

Jesus says, “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber. ¹²

But He who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. ¹³

“I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture.” ¹⁴

I am the good shepherd. I know My own and My own know Me, just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep. ¹⁵

Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD has risen upon you. ¹⁶

For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but the LORD will arise upon you, and His glory will be seen upon you. ¹⁷

And nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising. ¹⁸

By its light will the nations walk, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it, and its gates will never be shut by day — and there will be no night there. ¹⁹

They will bring into it, the glory and the honour of the nations. ²⁰

But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life. ²¹

Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and that they may enter the city by the gates. ²²

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places. ²³

Jesus says, “I am coming soon. Hold fast what you have, so that no one may seize your crown.” ²⁴

To the only God, our Saviour, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever. ²⁵

Amen and Amen!

 

1 Isaiah 25:9	14 John 10:9
2 Isaiah 26:1	15 John 10:14-15
3 Isaiah 26:2	16 Isaiah 60:1
4 Isaiah 26:3	17 Isaiah 60:2
5 Psalm 118:19	18 Isaiah 60:3
6 Psalm 118:20	19 Revelation 21:24-25
7 Psalm 24:3	20 Revelation 21:26
8 Psalm 24:4	21 Revelation 21:27
9 Psalm 24:5	22 Revelation 22:14
10 Psalm 24:6	23 Ephesians 1:3
11 Psalm 24:7	24 Revelation 3:11
12 John 10:1	25 Jude 1:25
13 John 10:2