4. Encoded Message at the Gate-Commentary

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4. Coded Message at the Gate

The main Eastern Gate with the names of the twelve Tribes of Israel is a code now open to reveal a "Welcome Home" message written there for each of God's children. The Angel of God is waiting with the Lamb's Book of Life in his hand containing names of all who have been written there.

This is a Bible code Rita discovered as she was studying the names of the Tribes of Israel and then looking up the meaning of each name. Perhaps, knowing that Deborah O'Donnell, in chapter four of "To Heaven and Back," had experienced a message from God written on the gates of Heaven, gave Rita the insight to even look for such a message. As she studied the names in Biblical order as Scripture had presented them in the last book of the Bible (Rev. 7:5-8, 21:12), she realized they made a most wonderful "Welcome Home" statement with just a few words added to make complete phrases.

It became a true Message at the Gates from Scripture, a Bible Code if you will, and a message of healing, opened and revealed for the first time for all of God's family.

Now in year 2000, God has let this message at the gates be read by nearly 200,000 people since this book on Heaven was published in 1997. Some readers may have slipped right by this new insight, not realizing the awesomeness of this message at the gates. Now with the picture to aid readers, the message can be understood more easily. "One picture is worth . . ." There isn't enough space to put the message at the top of the beautiful Gate in our picture, so we wrote the words in the middle of sides of this Gate that represents all twelve of them.

Let's look at these word meanings in a little more detail, though much more will be shown to us as we arrive at the New Jerusalem one day. We won't feel comfortable there unless we are:

Confessors and praisers of God. Heaven will ring with hosannas and songs of praise!

Viewing the Son means that since Jesus Christ (Messiah) gave His life for us we can hardly wait to see Him and to thank Him.

We're a Company, a band of people, not only individuals.

We are truly Blessed ones. What greater blessing can we have than being in the glorious presence of God forever?

Wrestling is over with sin, sickness, sorrow; you name it.

Forgetting the pain on both emotional and physical levels.

Hearing and obeying God's Word which is a primary key to entering the City of Light.

In marriage we cleave to our partner, now on a higher level we are Cleaving to our Lord and Bridegroom, eternally.

He is our reward, we desire no other gifts but God's presence.

We are Home; we made it! And what a Home.

We are added to the family of Jesus. The Father, Yahweh, desired a family and sent His Son to earth that we might be born again spiritually becoming God's children.

Son of the Father's right hand. Jesus Christ (Messiah) sits in the greatest place of honor in the universe, at His Father's right hand and Throne. God's throne outshines all earthly thrones put together.

More on Bible Codes What you may ask is a Bible code? One definition is a system of symbols (as letters, numbers, or words) used to represent assigned and often hidden meanings.

Presently the most publicized Bible Code discovery is through going back to Scripture's original Hebrew language. Scholars look for Bible Codes by laying out the letters with no punctuation, as it was originally, and seeing a pattern of equidistant-letter sequence (ELS) which creates a word or name. For example, at the beginning of Genesis, a Bible Code has been found every 50 letters creating the word "Torah," as if to give a stamp of approval supernaturally.

However, this Bible code over Heaven's Gate shown in our picture is more straightforward in that it can be read in English, a common language known to most of the world. But it's origin goes back to the Hebrew names of the Twelve Tribes of Israel. Hebrew names normally have meanings. Those meanings are in the Bible and have been discussed in Bible Dictionaries and Commentaries over the centuries.

The unique discovery is when God wants to reveal something He often opens the eyes of a person as they study and research His Word. That's one of the exciting things about Bible Study. Any revelation, of course, must be in agreement with the rest of the Bible. Rita, as well as millions of Bible students, had read the list of names in Revelation for years, but never until writing her book in 1996 had she seen that the meaning of the twelve names create a message to those living now and those arriving at Heaven's Gate!

The King of Kings and Lord of Lords, gave His life for us nearly two-thousand years ago in old Jerusalem that all these gifts can be ours. We are eternally grateful as we see this revealed message given through the names of the Twelve Tribes in the New Jerusalem. This Bible Code is open to us.

Twelve names, of the twelve Tribes of Israel, bring us twelve messages over the Gates of Heaven.