The Family Altar Audio Devotional - Day 179

Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord of hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah. (Psalm 24:7-10) 24 Ezekiel couldn’t stand it any longer. He said, “What’s going on, brethren?” And he looks over Daniel’s shoulder. He said, “Brethren, there’s that Wheel in the middle of the Wheel that I saw turning way up in the middle of the air. He said, “I’ve conquered. Let’s go out. The next conquering I got to conquer is the grave. Come, go with Me, children.” I can hear Abraham say, “Can we make a little whistle stop?” “Yes, I’m going to just talk with My disciples for forty days.” On Easter morning He conquered the Roman seal. He conquered Joseph’s grave. He broke forth the seal and destroyed corruption, and He rose triumphantly. 25 Here He goes up in the air with His disciples, with the Old Testament saints, goes on beyond the moon, beyond the stars, beyond the spheres and the spheres. And after while they come in sight of the city. What do you think took place? Let’s look in the Bible and see what took place. I’m going to quote David’s prophecy. The Old Testament saints, when they see the city in sight, and Jesus at the Head of the army marching on, the Old Testament saints screamed out, “Lift up, ye everlasting gates, and be ye lifted up, and let the King of glory come in.” And all the Angels begin to gather on the top of the building. You know, they said when Nero had conquered a city that the people fainted, and screamed, and called him a god. When Adolf Hitler went into France, he stood at the Arch of Triumph, and for hours, the whole sky was dark with airplanes, and goose-stepping soldiers… And when Stalin come into Germany after Russia had won, how the tens of thousands of Russian soldiers crossing their legs and giving the victory salute as Stalin stood for hours. Oh, it must have been a great thing. 26 I talked not long ago to a soldier. He said, “Billy, after I’d been fighting so long, and when our ship sailed into the New York harbor…” Said, “I’d been overseas for four years. All I’d seen had been hell and death.” He said, “Some of the soldiers was crippled, some with no legs, some with no arms. They rolled us all up on the deck.” He said, “When I seen the Statue of Liberty standing there, and I knowed I was going under her arm… Just behind there was everything that was dear to me: my mama, my father, my wife, my children.” He said, “Soldiers fell on the deck weeping.” And if it’ll make a man out of four year’s of battle act like that to come back home, what would it be when we go under the old rugged cross, when the last battle is fought, and we’ve conquered? Oh, what a time it will be. 27 And as they hollered back to them, “Who is this King of glory?”… And the Old Testament saints screamed, “The Lord of hosts, mighty in battle.” You know the Scriptures. The great Angel, Gabriel, must have pressed the button. Those great big doors folded back. Right under the arch of the old rugged cross went Jesus and the soldiers of the Old Testament. Right down through the streets of Jerusalem they went with Angels, singing and screaming (What a welcome home.), right down through to the great white throne. And He said, “Father, these are those that believed on You. I’ve conquered both death, hell, and the grave.” And I can hear the Father say, said, “Set on My throne here, Son, until I made the last enemy Thy footstool.” And Jesus climbed up at the right hand of the God of heaven on His throne on high. There He stands tonight. A few hours ago: