G is for Gate

We take the word Gate from Jesus claim in John 10:7: "I am the Door for the sheep." Several translations use the term ‘Gate’ for ‘Door’, and since we already did a name for D, we shall use the name ‘Gate’.

You may be asking "How can Jesus be called a 'Gate’?" A good way to explain how this term can be applied to our Lord is by taking a look back to the Shepherds of the Bible times. It was, and perhaps still is, a common thing for the shepherd to place his sheep into a sheepfold for the night for safety. Then instead of closing a gate, the shepherd himself would lie down in the doorway making himself as a human door. Should anything try to get to the sheep, it would first have to go through the shepherd.

Do you see the significance here? The first time I read about this I felt excited, awed, and thankful all at once! What a beautiful picture of my Lord’s protection. No matter what comes my way, be it sickness, poverty, injury, death, it must go through my Shepherd first. Jesus is the Gate; nothing gets by Him that is not allowed.

Anyone who tried to get in any other way than through the ‘Gate’ will be called a thief (see John 10:1) In verse 9 of John 10, it tells us that Jesus is the ‘Gate’ and that anyone who does go through this ‘Gate’ will be safe.

Here are some excepts from John 10 from "The Message" translation: "If a person climbs over or through the fence of a sheep pen instead of going through the Gate, you know he is up to no good…I am the Gate for the sheep…All those others are up to no good…I am the Gate. (Repeated twice for emphasis). Anyone who goes through me will be cared for…"

There is no other way or name under heaven, given among men, whereby we can come to the Father, other that through the Gate, Jesus.