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    Yeats

    YAYTS

    Meaning

    Gate keeper; Guardian of the gate

    English origin · Boy

    What it points to

    Yeats would rather be a doorkeeper — one day in God's courts worth a thousand, the gate guardian who knows the Door is Christ Himself.

    Verses · King James Version

    “I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.”

    John 10:9

    “For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.”

    Psalm 84:10

    biblesundays.com · King James Version

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