June 21, Passing Through the Door

“Then said Jesus unto them again, ‘Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.’” (John 10:7)

God’s cherubim are the watchers and the holy ones who guard the door. The cherubim are mighty warriors with both wings and arms. They are described as having wheels within wheels. It is not clear whether the wheels are part of their anatomy or part of vehicles.

They have eyes looking all different directions, and they carry fire around with them.These ferocious fighters surround God and constantly do His bidding. (Ezekiel 9 and 10)

God does not need the cherubim to do His bidding, any more than He needs any of us;yet He chooses to use the members of His creation in His special ways to help with His work. God never sleeps and does not need to eat. He does not need angels or people to take care of Him. He assigned cherubs to guard the gate to the garden of Eden, which is located in an unknown place; they surround God on His throne, where they shut out any who would attack His glory and holiness; and they guarded the entrance to the tabernacle and temple Holy of Holies, where only the high priest could enter at appointed times to mediate with a blood offering to cover the sins of the people. This was a single day of the year.

In the blessed time after the coming of the Messiah, now that we have accepted the salvation bought for us with the precious shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, no one stops us from entering God’s throne room, the Holy of Holies.

During His earthly ministry, Jesus told a parable recorded in the Gospel of John. He said,"I am the Door: by Me if any man enter in, he shall be saved." (John 10:9)

Those who understood the work of the cherubim should have easily understood the analogy of Jesus as the door of a sheepfold, but since many of them were blinded to the obvious, they simply didn’t get it.

Finally when He paid the price by dying on the cross, the veil in the temple was torn from top to bottom. Those who went looking for God would no longer find Him there behind that ripped curtain. That ripped curtain is an important reminder of the way God loves you! The Apostle Peter reassures us with these words:

--But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of Him who hath called you out of darkness into His marvelous light. (I Peter 2:9)

Peter is talking to us, the believers in Christ! You and I are especially selected by God, Who loves us, to be His extraordinary people. He has appointed us to function as priests, with the right to enter His holy presence. He has instructed His cherubim to let us pass through the door, and He is sending us to tell others about His wonderful works demonstrating the way He loves all of us. He has called us out of darkness into His marvelous light, and He has changed us from nonentities into significant somebodies, not because He needs us, but because He loves us!

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