Comments: The “lifting up” symbolically portrays the death (lifting up on the cross) of Christ, but also triumph over death and the triumphal entry. The red color on each doorway represents the blood of the lamb in the first Passover, where God saved the Israelites from death in Egypt. He passed over the houses whose door posts were smeared with the blood of a sacrificed lamb, a picture of the coming sacrifice of incarnate God, Jesus Christ, the “Lamb of God”, which saves us from spiritual death. The entire Old Testament points to this "King of Glory”, who King David wrote about in Psalm 24. These verses were written one thousand years before Jesus’ triumphal entry through the two arches, called the Mercy Gate (Golden Gates) of Jerusalem. It also reminds us; Jesus called himself “the door”.