: Javon Rahman Bertrand
: The Gatekeeper's Manual Guarding the Gates of Our Person
: Manifold Grace Publishing House, LLC
: 9781937400958
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: CHF 7.30
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: Lebensführung, Persönliche Entwicklung
: English
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In a time when many focus on the outside forces against them, Javon Rahman Bertrand, is writing to help us guard ourselves from within. We must guard the gates of our person. Before we can guard our city, state or nation, we need to be able to guard ourselves. One of the greatest lessons we can learn is how to guard the gates of our person. 'Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.' Marilyn Ferguson.
Chapter One:
Gates
“A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.” Emile M. Cioran
Before we get too in-depth with gates, let’s define what a gate is, in Hebrew and Greek:
Gate - Hebrew - Sha’ar
1. gate (of entrance)
2. gate (of space inside gate, i.e. marketplace, public meeting place) of a city or town
3. gate (of palace, royal castle, temple, court of tabernacle)
4. heaven
Gate - Greek - Pyle
1. of the larger sort, in the wall of either a city, a palace, a town, the temple or of a prison
2. the gates of hell (likened to a vast prison)
3. metaph. the access or entrance into any state
You are a city. Every one of us is a city. Many of us never think of our body (person) as a city. We do not consider how our body parts are the borders, our internal organs are the citizens and our mind is the leader. If we thought of ourselves as a city, we would see gates differently. We would study how to guard and protect them from distant and closer enemies. As a city, we need to look at our gates and how to guard them. We must identify them and their purpose to our lives. We cannot leave the gates unguarded and opened to any and everything in life.
Gates seemingly have one simple and logical purpose, to give or restrict access. However, further study shows that gates served a function in more areas than who could and could not come in. Gates are utilized as a place of heralding and proclaiming the decree of the king and even the word of the Lord. This function makes the gates a place of communication. We need to guard the gates that are used for our communication so that we may properly perceive, receive, do and hide the word of God concerning our lives. Some other functions that happened at gates are business and judicial rule.
In biblical times, gates were used for military purposes. They had a design that allowed watchmen and gatekeepers to watch for the city to which they were assigned. Gates were made of wood, brass, stone, iron or pearls. Gates had double doors; the double doors functioned as a place for the gatekeeper (porter, doorkeeper, janitor). The gatekeeper was in between the doors, giving or restricting access to those trying to get in. Gates also had towers. These towers were used to see from a high point int