Why Does Jesus Need Keys?
Y ou’ve heard it said that Jesus holds the keys. You’ve heard the song. Perhaps you’ve read about it in the Bible. But what does it mean? For that matter, what keys does he hold? Some of the keys Jesus holds are those of hell and of death. But he holds more than that. The Bible says that he holds the key of David. He opens and no man can shut and shuts and no man can open. Does that mean that David had some special ability? No, I don’t think so. Let’s think first about what it means to hold the keys. When I was in college, I spent a summer working in fire protection at a large manufacturing facility. One of the tasks that I and some other college students had was to collect fire extinguishers throughout the building and carry them back to the shop for maintenance. Most of the facility was wide open. The workers were trusted to leave most things that didn’t pertain to them alone. If they couldn’t do that, they were walked out the door. But there were a few doors with locks on them. ...