Enter through the Porch
“Now, therefore, says the Lord, turn to Me with all your heart, with
fasting and weeping, and with mourning.
So rend your heart and not your garments…” Joel 2:12
This is a call to repentance. In
2:15 the Lord asks for the trumpet to be blown.
This is the second trumpet, as the first was to be sounded in 2:1. This is a call to repent, to corporately
repent and turn to the Lord. As the
people are gathered together, the priests are then called forth – those priests
who minister to the Lord – to come and weep between the porch and the altar.
This word was spoken in the time of Solomon’s temple. That temple included a porch as well as an
altar. Leading up to the porch was a
series of steps. This explains the Scripture of “going up to the house of
the Lord,” Isa. 2:1-4. The porch,
which was covered, was situated just before the Holy Place. In order to go into the Temple, the priest
had to go through the porch: made of cedar (incorruptible) and overlaid with
gold (divinity). Access to the presence
of God in the Temple was achieved by going through the porch, the entrance
point. Our relationship to Father is
through His Son and so there is only one way to enter. The porch is the place of entrance.
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