Lift up your heads, you gates;
be lifted up, you ancient doors,
that the King of glory may come in.
8 Who is this King of glory?
The Lord strong and mighty,
the Lord mighty in battle.
9 Lift up your heads, you gates;
lift them up, you ancient doors,
that the King of glory may come in.
10 Who is he, this King of glory?
The Lord Almighty—
he is the King of glory
be lifted up, you ancient doors,
that the King of glory may come in.
8 Who is this King of glory?
The Lord strong and mighty,
the Lord mighty in battle.
9 Lift up your heads, you gates;
lift them up, you ancient doors,
that the King of glory may come in.
10 Who is he, this King of glory?
The Lord Almighty—
he is the King of glory
Psalm 9:
Lord, see how my enemies persecute me!
Have mercy and lift me up from the gates of death,
14 that I may declare your praises
in the gates of Daughter Zion,
and there rejoice in your salvation.
15 The nations have fallen into the pit they have dug;
their feet are caught in the net they have hidden.
16 The Lord is known by his acts of justice;
the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands.
17 The wicked go down to the realm of the dead,
Surely this is the source of 1 Cor 2:6-8.
Note the occurrence in both of "Lord of the Glory" and of the reference to the archontes of this world.
But just when "he Lord" sees the persecutions of the his servant, (9:13) where is the latter in the moment of the extreme danger?
He is "in the gates of Zion".
The his presence "there" at the moment of the his coming death (and of the his invocation of salvation addressed to the Lord) is confirmed by the command addressed to the same "gates" in 24:9. Only as effect of the his death, he can enter in Zion beyond these gates. But before that moment, these same gates, being closed, are called "gates of death" (9:13).
Therefore the archontes are the celestial guardians of these "gates". They prevent souls - and Jesus too - from the entry in Zion. And Zion that is mentioned is the celestial Jerusalem (the upper heavens).
So Jesus finds the archontes on the his way only when he exits from the celestial Zion and attempts to enter again in it. During his ascension. So allowing in the middle the Eucharist episode on the earth (an event "seen" only by Paul) before the his death at the (closed) gates of the celestial Zion.
In Hebrews also Jesus dies "out of the gates" of the celestial Zion.
And naturally the celestial Zion had to be euhemerized in the earthly Jerusalem by proto-Mark.