CCCCCHHHHHRRRRRIIIIISSSSS OOOOOYYYYYAAAAAKKKKKHHHHHIIIIILLLLLOOOOOMMMMMEEEEE Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the King James Version of the Bible. 1st Edition 1998 Gates of Zion ISBN 978-35622-5-8 Copyright 1998 by Chris Oyakhilome Published by LoveWorld Publications London Address: Christ Embassy Int’l Office Suite 209/210 Estuary House Ballards Road Dagenham RM10 9AB P.O. Box 21520 London, E10 5FG Tel:+44-208-517 2367 Nigeria Address: P.O.Box 13563 Ikeja, Lagos. Tel:+234-802 332 4187-9; +234-1-773 7611-5 e-mail:[email protected] website:www.christembassy.org All rights reserved under International Copyright Law. Contents and or cover may not be reproduced in whole or in part in any form without the express written permission of the Publisher. CONTENTS Chapter One EXPERIENCING THE GLORY! Chapter Two NOW ARE WE IN ZION! Chapter Three GATES Chapter Four A SET PATTERN FOR ZION Chapter Five THE SHEEP GATE Chapter Six THE FISH GATE Chapter Seven THE OLD GATE Chapter Eight THE VALLEY GATE Chapter Nine THE DUNG GATE Chapter Ten THE FOUNTAIN GATE Chapter Eleven THE WATER GATE Chapter Twelve THE HORSE GATE Chapter Thirteen THE EAST GATE Chapter Fourteen THE GATE MIPHKAD Conclusion AN EXPRESSION OF EXCELLENCE CCCCChhhhhaaaaapppppttttteeeeerrrrr OOOOOnnnnneeeee EXPERIENCING THE GLORY! 1 Peter 1:9-11: “Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls. Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied THE GATES OF ZION 10 of the grace that should come unto you: Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.” The prophets of old testified of the sufferings of Christ and the glory that should follow. Isaiah gives a detailed account of his sufferings in Isaiah Chapter 53: “Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces