Gate #
10: Inspection (Judgement)
Short
Description
The final gate is the inspection
gate. Miphkad Gate (in Hebrew); has connection with military
affairs and refers to the mustering of the troops for numbering and inspection.
This gate represents an
immigration office where immigrants have to register their name. In those days;
if any visitor has to enter in city they had to register their name in order to
get access into the city.
#1 Why/
How is this gate important to the Christian Faith?
This gate speaks to us of the bema
seat of Christ where our lives are inspected and rewarded appropriately. In our
Christian experience we should be living with this in mind. We are called to
live our lives with eternity in view, caring more for the things of eternity
than the temporal that we see around us.
#2 How
can this Gate be applied to one’s personal walk/ faith?
Prophetically this gate also speaks
of the judgement of the nations that takes place when Jesus returns. This is
recorded in the sheep and the goats judgement in Mathew 25:31-46. When Jesus
will come he will gather his people here and reward His people according to
their works.
#3 What
is the most important lesson you learned from this gate?
But why do you judge your brother? Or why do you show
contempt for your brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of
Christ. For it is written: As I live, says the Lord, Every knee shall bow to
Me, And every tongue shall confess to God. So then each of us shall give
account of himself to God (Romans 14:10-12). Every believer has
the opportunity to serve the Lord. When Jesus comes back He will review our
lives and reward faithful service. Although believers cannot lose their
salvation they can lose their reward. This will result in grief and shame for
them.
#4 What
have you learned from this gate that you would like to encourage/ challenge the
blog reader with?
This is the gate where we need to inspect ourselves. Let’s
not wait to someone to come to point us and our weaknesses, rather let’s go
back and check our gates in our lives. If they are needed to repaired let’s do
it! If we wait until Jesus comes; that will be too late, because we will not
have chance to correct in order to be rewarded.
Amen!
