There is a gate in heaven. One day, heaven will extend
through this gate unto earth. There is a gate on earth. On that day this gate will
receive the extension of heaven. Both of these gates are known
respectively as golden gates.

The golden gate on earth was located in the eastern wall of
the temple mount in Jerusalem. It was located where an
east-west ley line that extended from the Holy of Holies to Elijah’s Hill in Sion beyond the Jordan intersected the wall.
Historians write that the doors to this gate in the Herodian temple were
covered with Corinthian Bronze, an alloy of copper, silver and gold. Due to its
unique luster, especially in the sunlight of dawn or eventide, Corinthian
Bronze was considered more valuable than gold itself. In the ancient world,
gold represented the gods, silver represented men and copper represented judgment.
In the East, the elders sat at the town gate making decisions and pronouncing
judgments.

Before this gate was termed as the Golden Gate it was known
as the Temple Gate Beautiful throughout antiquity. (Acts 3:2) In the fourth
century, Jerome chose to translate the Greek word horaios,
meaning beautiful, with the Latin word aurea, meaning gold, for the Latin
Vulgate. His reasons for doing so are uncertain, however, when the figurative
significance of Corinthian Bronze is considered, his reasons may not be far
from the mark.

According to scriptural prophecy, the Lord Jesus Christ and
his glory shall enter the temple mount by way of this eastern gate.

1: Afterward he brought
me to the gate, even the gate that looketh toward the east:

2: And, behold, the glory
of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice was like a
noise of many waters: and the earth shined with his glory.

3: And it was according
to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that
I saw when I came to destroy the city: and the visions were like the vision
that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face.

4: And the glory of the
LORD came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the
east.

5: So the spirit took
me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory of the LORD
filled the house.

6: And I heard him
speaking unto me out of the house; and the man stood by me.

7: And he said unto me,
Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet,
where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy
name, shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their kings,
by their whoredom, nor by the carcasses of their kings in their high places
Ezekiel 43

Christ, as the former context of Ezekiel reveals, first
projects himself in fiery judgment upon the sin of Adam, then, as the Lord
himself, proceeds in the mercies and blessings of the first resurrection for
all who have believed. The purifying ashes of the red heifer represent this
judgment. These ashes were kept in the gatehouse of the Beautiful gate. As such
these ashes of the red heifer were sprinkled for symbolic purification on those
who had come into the presence of a dead body before they were allowed through
the Beautiful temple gate to the temple mount. The apostle Paul in his
revelation states that the body is dead because of the inherited sin of Adam.
(Rom. 8:10) So now, man will only become purified in resurrection for his true
entrance first through his own ashes. (Luke 3:16, II Peter 3:10, Malachi 4, I
Peter 1:24, John 12:24, I Corinthians 15:22,23,36, Hebrews 12:29, Genesis
18:27, Hebrews 9:27)

1: The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon
me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he
hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives,
and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;

2: To proclaim the acceptable year of
the LORD, and the day of vengeance (nuance- cleansing) of our God; to comfort
all that mourn;

3: To appoint unto them that mourn in
Zion, to give unto them beauty
for ashes,
the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness;
that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD,
that he might be glorified. Isaiah 61

The word beauty here in Isaiah literally means a
headdress in the Hebrew language. In the Eastern culture both the bride and the
groom wore simple head dressings that denoted the groom’s family identity by tribe
and clan. They represented the assumed glory of the union. Accordingly, these
wedding headdresses were prized family possessions. They were subsequently worn
in public only on the most notable family occasions.

The word beautiful in the phrase “gate of the temple which
is called Beautiful” in Acts 3:2 is the Greek word horaios.According to lexicon definitions by Lindell,
Scott, Jones and Thayer this word applies to persons and things. It means in due season
especially harvest
time. It does not necessarily imply beauty but
does imply appropriateness
in time. (Secularly, in some instances it was used of a young man
or young woman who had come to a marriageable age.) Perhaps the lame man laid
daily at the Beautiful temple gate in the third chapter of Acts was there
waiting for what he knew would be an appropriate location and possible time for
him to be made whole - the coming of his Messiah for his resurrection into
perfection. This view would be fitting with the scriptures on the subject and
with the Arabic name for the gate -The Gate of Eternal Life

In the ancient east the names of temple gates were
significant as were the gates believed to lead into and out of heaven. The
primary gate of heaven was known as the golden gate. From it, the gods ascended
and descended. This gate has been written of from antiquity to modern times.

The Sumerian Epic of
Gilgamesh, written several centuries after the worldwide flood, contained
the first reference to this gate. After the death of his beloved companion
Enkidu, Gilgamesh searched for answers about how to obtain eternal life from
his ancestor Noah who resided in the center of the heavens with the gods. After
Gilgamesh crossed the celestial sea he came to the gate in the Mountain of the
Sun guarded by scorpion men. This gate opened to a passage that led to a
paradisiacal land in which there was another sea with a central island where
Noah dwelt. This epic was far reaching in that day and time. It was translated
into Akkadian, Elamite, and Hittite. It was also adapted and presented as
plays. This epic endured in Near Eastern cultures for over a millennium.

In a similar fashion the second millennium BC Egyptian Book of
Gates places Ra, the sun god, in a celestial boat passing through successive
guarded gates and passages filled with flames to emerge in the waters of Nu
represented by a circle or disk in the sky. Ra then entered the boat of the
gods that moved to a central island represented by the circular body of Osiris.

This belief in a gateway
to and from heaven has been universally maintained through out the ages in the
writings of poets, philosophers, priests, prophets, monks, magi and mystics. It
has also been recorded in the symbols of kings and emperors like the imperial
seal of Cyrus the Great and the labarum of Constantine. Even today one of the
more popular songs is entitled, Knocking on Heaven’s Door and
a common figurative expression is the pearly gates referring the
entrance to heaven.

Where then is this gate in heaven located? It is located at
one of the two points where the two great celestial circles appear to
intersect. The first great circle is that of the zodiac. This is the circuit on
which the sun proceeds through the heavens during its annual cycle. It is named
the ecliptic. The other is the circle of the Milky Way or circle of our galaxy.
Its center line is named the galactic equator.

The intersection of the circles between Taurus and Gemini is
known as the silver gate of heaven. The intersection of these two circles
between Scorpio and Sagittarius is known as the golden gate of heaven. The
galactic center lies visually from our solar system along a line that passes
through the golden gate.

The ancient celestial signs
surrounding the golden gate are revealing.

Ophiuchus is above the golden gate of heaven. He is holding
down the malevolent serpent. Jupiter, the king planet, made a unique retrograde motion
under the feet of Ophiuchus in 2007.During the Hebrew Feast of Unleavened Bread, the planet visually stopped
under the foot of Ophiuchus just beyond the golden gate of heaven. Then on the
winter solstice of 2007, Jupiter proceeded to be uniquely in the golden gate of
heaven.

Ara, the altar of fire, is below the golden gate. It was
commonly know as the golden altar of heaven. In the upper left is Aquila
represented dually as a descending eagle/man. In the lower right is Lupus the
victim slain or the body of the dead dog. To the center right is Libra, the
balances of judgment. And to the left is Sagittarius. Sagittarius was known in
the earliest cultures as the
place of the mighty ones. The arrow of Sagittarius is pointed at the
“opposing” bright star Antares across the golden gate in Scorpio. The glowing
galactic center is located far beyond the golden gate.

The
Milky Way or galactic circle is present, as are stars and planets, during the
daylight hours. However, the light from the sun washes out all these other
lights during the daytime. In the East the Magi and other celestial observers
noted the position of the sun in the zodiac on a daily basis by observing the
stars present just before sunrise.

Because the earth circles the sun, the backdrop of the
galactic circle and the stars changes a bit daily. In the course of one year
the sun will visually travel clockwise about 1 degree per day around the
ecliptic through all twelve constellations of the zodiac and be in nearly the
same location on the day ending that year.

From year to year the slight difference in the sun’s
location on a given day is imperceptible to human sight. However, if the
location on that given day is observed for centuries the difference becomes
apparent. For example, on the winter solstice, the proposed day of Jesus’
conception, baptism
and transfiguration, in
4004 BC at the creation of man, according to E. W. Bullinger’s chronology, the
sun was located above the star Nashira in the east of Capricorn. In the flood
year of 2248 BC the sun was located in the west of Capricorn on the winter
solstice. In the year when Jesus was crucified in 28 AD the sun was located
between Capricorn and Sagittarius on the winter solstice. (Celestron’s, The
Sky) Now, in this season, the sun is passing across the golden gate of heaven
on the winter solstice.

The movement is termed “procession” and is due to the slow
and consistent movement of the earth’s axis as it circles like that of a very
slow-motion wobbling top. One cycle in this wobble takes about 26,000 years.
This motion causes the sun to move counter-clockwise around the zodiac 1 degree
every 72 years.

The ancient cultures like those of the Egyptians and
Babylonians were visually aware of this slight westward processional movement
of the sun from its succeeding winter solstice positions. And they were aware
of the future time period when the sun would cross over this golden gate of
heaven on the winter solstice.

Could it be that the writers of the first century Christian
document entitled the Didache – The
Teaching of the Twelve were referring to this season of what is now called galactic alignment on the winter
solstice when they wrote, “Then the signs of truth will appear: First, the sign
of heaven opening”? The Greek word for opening
means extension such as a sail on a
boat unfurling in the wind.

The following is a translation of the last three verses of
the Didachce by Ivan Lewis from extant Greek
manuscripts with consideration given to the Coptic and Latin texts:

6) Then the signs
of truth will appear: First, the sign of heaven opening. Then, the sign of the
trumpet sounding. And third, the resurrection of the dead.
7) Yet, not of all, but as it is said: "The Judge will come, and all His angels."
8) Then the world will see the judgment coming on the clouds of heaven.

Modern scholars have noticed the similarity of words and
phrases in the Didache with those of
the gospel of Matthew. It appears that these final verses of the Didache were adapted from Jesus’ words
in this section of Matthew chapter twenty-four:

27: For as the
lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also
the coming of the Son of man be.

28: For wheresoever
the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.

29: Immediately
after (meta-with) the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and
the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and
the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

30: And then shall
appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of
the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of
heaven with power and great glory.

31: And he shall
send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together
his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

The fact that the sun crossing heaven’s golden gate on the
winter solstice signaled the end of corrupted man’s tenure on earth was fairly
common knowledge in the ancient East. Corresponding evidence also suggests that
they knew that corrupted man’s tenure would end about 6,000 years after the
“fall” of Adam.

The fourth century BC Greek historian Theopompus of
Chios reportedthat, according to
the ZurvanianMagi, for three thousand years alternately the
one god will dominate the other god and be dominated, and that for another three
thousand years they will fight and make war, until one smashes up the domain of
the other.(Plutarch, Isis and
Osiris 46; tr. J. Gwyn Griffiths) Both the Judean Zohar and the Talmud
Sanhedrin state that human history would last six millennia. (Zohar Chadash 16b; Talmud Sanhedrin 38b) The Samaritans were a conglomeration of former Assyrian
captives who were used to repopulate the northern kingdom of Israel after the
Assyrian conquerors dispersed the native Hebrews in the seventh century BC. The
Samaritans believed that 6,000 years after the “fall” of Adam a Restorer would
arise for a time before a subsequent time of judgment headed by Moses. (Holman
Bible Dictionary, p 1436)

The
Easterners are known as the fathers of astronomy. Today there are cuneiform
clay tablets scattered under and over sands of the Middle East. Many of these
tablets contain precise records of the positions of the stars, sun, moon, and
planets on a particular day thousands of years ago. These Easterners are also
known as the fathers of complex mathematics in association with celestial
mechanics. With these two advanced skills, their more proximate knowledge of
the creation date, and their belief in a 6,000 tenure for corrupted man's earthly dominance, they
could easily calculate the position of the sun in the golden gate on the winter
solstice during these days, even if their fathers were not at first informed of
it by the patriarch Noah.

Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none
else; I am God, and there is none like me,

Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things
that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my
pleasure: