Twelve Gates: 

There are twelve gates which are made manifest to man.  These gates sit along the walls of Jerusalem, and it is said, “But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it. And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.”[Micah 4:1-2] 

Life truly does begins before conception, God places an emphasis on a person's time of birth into the world; this value is inherently placed upon the birth-month because God chooses it to suit His purposes.   At birth the child passes into the world through one of the twelve gates of Jerusalem, which corresponds to the month in which the babe is born.  Each gate is represented by one of the twelve sons of Jacob, and is positioned upon one of the four walls of Jerusalem, which sit upon twelve foundations.  The birth-month represents the tribe each person is born into. It symbolizes being born into one of the twelve chosen blessings of God; the bible says that children are a blessing from the Lord[Psalms 127:3] therefore at birth each man is represented by one of the twelve tribes of Israel because it is through them that the world is blessed.
 
God revealed this blessing unto Abraham:  (And the LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do; Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?) [Genesis 18:17-18]  Now this verse is by all means referring to Jesus Christ being born of Abraham's blood and saving mankind from sin, but there is also another symbolic reference here that is important.  The symbolic reference to Abraham is this, Abraham is the father of the faithful, therefore he is our, “symbolic father”[Romans 4:16].  Now, continuing along this line of thought, we are physically born through one of the twelve gates of Abraham at birth, and upon confessing Jesus as God's Son and