Jehovah Hakabod Izzuz Gibbor — The Lord of Glory Strong and Mighty
Whatever you are going through in this life, you need to lift up your head and prepare for the Lord of Glory, Strong and Mighty to come in. In Psalms 24, David indicated that God’s people were like a city whose gates were sagging and their door appeared to be loose on the hinges. When you survey the history of God’s people, there have been many times when they were in that condition.
In 2 Kings 6, Ben Hadad king of Syria gathered all his army and besieged Samaria.
At the same time, there was a great famine in Samaria. Conditions were so severe that everyone was starving. Two women in the city killed one of their sons and boiled him for food. Not only were they physically hungry, they were out of contact with God. God gave a word to Elisha that the Lord of Glory, Strong and Mighty was about to turn things around.
The Lord said, “About this time tomorrow everything will change.”
Is it hard to believe that within one day everything can change? That night the Lord of Hosts caused the Syrians to hear the noise of chariots, the noise of horses, and the noise of a great army.
In 2 Kings 18, the king of Assyria sent his commander in chief of his army, his chief officer, and the Rabshakeh or governor from Lachish with a great army against Jerusalem.
The Rabshakeh sent a message to King Hezekiah and said, “What confidence is this in which you trust?” He told the people, “Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he shall not be able to deliver you from the hand of the king of Assyria.” “Don’t let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord, saying, ‘The Lord will surely deliver us…’” “Has any of the gods of the lands been able to deliver their countries from my hand?” When King Hezekiah heard these things, he went into the house of the Lord. Hezekiah said, “‘This day is a day of trouble, and rebuke, and blasphemy; for the children have come to birth, but there is no strength to bring them forth.” At that time Isaiah received a word from the Lord. God said, “Do not be afraid of the words which you have heard.”
The Lord of Glory is Strong and Mighty. He is Jehovah Hakabod Izzuz Gibbor.
When your gates are sagging and your doors are about to fall off their hinges, you need to turn you face toward God.
God is raising up a generation that is seeking Him, who seek His face.
They are hungry for the blessing, salvation and righteousness that God will bring. They are sick and tired of religion without power. They need to know the King of Glory Strong and Mighty. They cannot continue fighting in the battle of life without God’s glory, strength and might.
Psalms 24:5-6 tells us that the generation that seeks Him will receive blessing from the God of their salvation.
When we begin realizing that God is able to help us, David told us what to do.
Psalm 24:7-8 NKJV Lift up your heads, O you gates! And be lifted up, you everlasting doors! And the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, The Lord mighty in battle.
The King of Glory is Jehovah Hakabod. He is Strong and Mighty (Jehovah Izzuz Gibbor).
These verses indicate that the gates had began to sag and the doors appeared to be loose. This was a spiritual condition that had happened to God’s people. This is much more than the gates of the city or the doors to their house. They had reached a point where they were languishing and barely hanging on.
Have you ever felt like that?
Your old house was just barely holding together. So many things had come against you and you wondered if you could keep holding on. Satan kept whispering that no body was strong enough to rescue from his hand. You began feeling that all of your strength was gone and there were too many things coming against you.
Have you felt that stirring of something inside that is saying, “I need the Lord of Glory to come in?”
The Holy Spirit inside is telling you to seek the face of God. In your distresses and in your trial, the Holy Spirit is saying, “When the King of Glory comes in He is Jehovah Izzuz Gibbor (The Lord Strong and Mighty).” Something is going to change when the King of Glory, the Lord Strong and Mighty comes in.
So what are you supposed to do?
Look at this word carefully. When you start lifting up your heads — the King of Glory shall come in.
Do you know what it is like to dwell in the presence of the King of Glory?
In His presence there is victory, power and glory. The King of Glory is the Lord Strong and Mighty, The Lord mighty in battle. He will come into your gates and through your doors. Whatever has taken you down will have to answer to His sovereign and mighty power.
Look at this!
Psalm 24:9-10 NKJV Lift up your heads, O you gates! Lift up, you everlasting doors! And the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord of hosts, He is the King of glory. Selah
Who is Jehovah Hakabod Izzuz Gibbor? Who is the Lord of Glory Strong and Mighty?The Lord of Hosts (Jehovah Sabaoth), He is the King of glory.
The Lord of Hosts is the Lord Jesus Christ.
He is the commander of all of the armies of God. He is the King of Glory. Thousands of thousands of the hosts of heaven are the armies of the Lord. They are ready for the command of the Lord of Glory. The King of Glory is ready to come through your gates and doors with all of His Strength and Might.
This text is a calling for those who are fighting something that has knocked their gates and doors off their hinges to lift up their heads!
Whatever strong thing you have been up against is nothing compared with Jehovah Hakabod Izzuz Gibbor. The King of Glory is the Lord Strong and Mighty. He is mighty in battle. He is the Lord of all of the Hosts of heaven’s armies.
Psalm 106:10 NKJV He saved them from the hand of him who hated them, And redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
Do you believe that the King of Glory can save and redeem you from the power of the enemy?
Psalm 18:14 NKJV He sent out His arrows and scattered the foe, Lightnings in abundance, and He vanquished them.
Psalm 107:2 NKJV Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, Whom He has redeemed from the hand of the enemy,
Lift up your heads and give some worship and praise to the King of Glory.
Who is this King of Glory?
In the Book of Revelation, John saw the Lord of Glory in the midst of the church.
Revelation 1:14-18 NKJV His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and His eyes like a flame of fire; His feet were like fine brass, as if refined in a furnace, and His voice as the sound of many waters; He had in His right hand seven stars, out of His mouth went a sharp two-edged sword, and His countenance was like the sun shining in its strength. And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead. But He laid His right hand on me, saying to me, “Do not be afraid; I am the First and the Last. I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death.
Jehovah Hakabod Izzuz Gibbor is the King of Glory Strong and Mighty.
He is mighty in battle. He has already conquered and has all authority and power over Hades and Death. Every enemy that you may face will have to fall on their knees and bow before this King of Glory.
David was talking to people who had their gates and doors almost knocked off their hinges.
He said, “Lift up your heads and the King of Glory Strong and Mighty will come in.”
Hallelujah! Jesus Christ has all victory and power.
He is ready right now to come in to your sorrow and grief. He will heal your broken heart. He will bring liberty and victory into your life. He will break the bondage of your oppression.
The King of Glory Strong and Mighty has all of the armies of God at His disposal.
As soon as you lift up your heads and prepare for His entrance, He will come in and reign in your life. He is mighty in battle. Nothing that you are facing is greater than Him. When you begin lifting up your heads and start seeking the face of your God, He will show you that He is near and able to help you. He is not just God of the good times or God in the mountains. He is still God when you are in the valley. He is still the God that can make everything new.
He told Elisha, “About this time tomorrow everything will change.”
Stop looking at your sagging gates and broken down doors. The King of Glory Strong and Mighty is available to help you.
I don’t know how God is going to work in your life, but His word says: “Lift up your heads… and the King of Glory Strong and Mighty shall come in.”
Make this your declaration of faith — “Hallelujah, the Lord of Glory Strong and Mighty is coming through my gates and doors…”
