Doors, Gates, Puertas, and Portals

Doors, Gates, Puertas, and Portals

Psalms 24:7 reads:

"Lift up your heads, O ye gates, and be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors; that the King of glory may come in."


Everytime I read the foregoing verse, I think that those gates are strange because they have heads, unless they are people?

In John 10:7-9, the NT reads:

"So Jesus again said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.
All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.
I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture."

In the foregoing verses, Jesus said that He was the door, and Jesus was a person. Is anyone seeing what I am seeing here?

Mathew 23:13 says:

"But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.

Very interesting, in the previous verse I get the feeling that these scribes and Pharisees were not being open doors to the Kingdom of heaven. My interpretation is that God created us to be like Him, and if Jesus was a door than we are to be doors. The entire chapter 23 in Mathew speaks of the scribes and Pharisees, and it starts by saying: "so practice and observe whatever they tell you--but not what they do."

Finally, lets not do like the scribes and Pharisees who shut the Kingdom, but lets be a door just like Jesus. Lets be those ancient gates that allow others to enter the Kingdom of God! As the Psalms says: "Lift up your heads, O gates! And be lifted up, O ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in."

References:

Holy Bible (ESV)

JPS Tanakh