... but in Psalms 24, there an interesting context:
Psalm 24
[sup]1[/sup] The earth is the LORD's and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein,
[sup]2[/sup] for he has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the rivers.
[sup]3[/sup] Who shall ascend the hill of the LORD? And who shall stand in his holy place?
[sup]4[/sup] He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false and does not swear deceitfully.
[sup]5[/sup] He will receive blessing from the LORD and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
[sup]6[/sup] Such is the generation of those who seek him, who seek the face of the God of Jacob.
Selah
[sup]7[/sup] Lift up your heads, O gates!
And be lifted up, O
ancient doors,
that the King of glory may come in.
[sup]8[/sup] Who is this King of glory?
The LORD, strong and mighty,
the LORD, mighty in battle!
[sup]9[/sup] Lift up your heads, O gates!
And lift them up, O
ancient doors,
that the King of glory may come in.
[sup]10[/sup] Who is this King of glory?
The LORD of hosts,
he is the King of glory!
Selah
Here we see the establishment of who God is, then the calling of a peoples, and then the restoration of the
ancient doors.
Exactly how can this Psalm be
ancient when the doors would be modern?
Or better said, -- how is this Psalm modern, because the doors are
ancient?
So if this is a modern prophecy, then was there some fulfillment as to both the conception of a nation, (but not the BIRTH), and a calling of peoples?
As early as the 1880’s European and Arabian Jews realized the vision of emigrating to Palestine. By the year 1924 there had been three ‘aliya’s’, or immigration waves. These first three waves provided a population base of 120,000 settlers. The fourth wave, from 1924 to 1929, increased this populous by over 57% to 186,000. This net population total is even more impressive when considering that approximately 33% of the arriving Jews re-emigrated. By 1948 the Jewish population measured at 650,000.[1]
[1] Amos Elon, Israelis Founders and Sons, Rinehart and Winston, NY, 1971, p. 135