PASSION WEEK…THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY

Gloria Phifer

PALM LEAF

            Last week, we saw that Jesus was anointed before His death by Mary and another woman. Psalm 45:1-8. This is a Psalm of “The King.” Vs. 6 He is God upon His throne. Vs. 7 because He loves righteousness…He is anointed with the oil of joy. All His robes are fragrant with myrrh, aloes, and cassia…” vs. 3 “Put on Your sword, O Mighty Warrior.” The Warrior King Footnotes of Full Life study Bible “The Messianic King is called God!!!” 

Hebrews 1:8-9

Full Life study Bible: “Because Jesus Christ loved righteousness and hated wickedness, God set Him above all others by anointing Him. This anointing refers to the glory, blessedness and authority given Him by God. The “oil of joy” is directly related to His anointing with the Holy Spirit.

Zechariah 9:9 “Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion! See (Behold) your King comes to you, righteous and having salvation, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt the foal of a donkey. (NIV).

          
  Luke 19:28-44. (Jesus had just given the parable of the talents.) The day was Sunday, the day after Sabbath. It was considered the 1^st day of the week. (This is our Palm Sunday.) Jesus was on the Mount of Olives. Vs. 30-34 what did Jesus tell two of His disciples to do? What happened when the owner of the colt saw them losing the colt? Their reply?

           
 The Lord had need of this colt. I thought this was interesting that they put their cloaks on the colt, and also, as He went, the people spread their cloaks on the road. John 12:12-19: What did the crowd do when they heard Jesus was on His way to Jerusalem? (Palm branches were a sign of “victory.”)

           
 Vs. 16-19 the disciples later on, realized Jesus had fulfilled the prophesy of Zechariah. The Pharisees said to one another “See, this is getting us nowhere. Look how the whole world has gone after Him.” Thoughts?  How wonderful if the world would go after Him now. Someday they will.

           
 Luke 19:37-40. The whole crowd began praising God and saying…Blessed is The King Who comes in The Name of The Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest! Ps. 118:19-29.

The Full Life Study Bible: vs. 25 “Save us.” This phrase becomes “Hosanna” in the Greek translation of the Old Testament, and was sung by the crowds during Jesus entry into Jerusalem.  Vs. 22-23 The Stone rejected…Jesus applied these verses to Himself, because He was thrown aside by His own people, but afterwards became the Principal Stone of God’s new house, the church. Matt. 21:42, Acts 4:8-11, Eph. 2:20-22, 1 Peter 2:4-8.”

           
 Notice also in this Psalm 118 vs: 27---the last part of this vs. “up to the horns of the altar.”

They were getting ready to celebrate Passover. The blood of the sacrifice was put on the 4 corners (they were called horns) of the Burnt altar; and the rest of the blood was poured out at the base of the altar. Exodus 27:1-2.
 This altar was made of “acacia wood. Acacia means “pierced.” It was overlaid with bronze…bronze is a symbol of “judgement.

 This is a picture of the cross. Jesus, the Lamb of God, would be nailed to the cross. His blood would be on four parts of the cross. The thorns on His head. His two hands. His feet. (And by His stripes we are healed…His torn back was against this rough cross.) His heart was pierced and water and blood flowed to the foot of the cross. He took our judgement on the cross.

           
 So we see that through this procession in Psalm 118:27 “God is Lord, Which has showed us Light. (Jesus is the Light). Bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar.

           

 Notice also Psalm 118: 16-18. He shall not die…and be given over to death. (Death will not consume Him.) He has been chastened sore. (He was chastised for our peace. Isaiah 53:5.)  vs. 19 He is opening the “Gates of righteousness…this Gate will the righteous enter.” Ps. 9:13-14. God will lift Him up from gates of death.”  Jesus is “The Gate” of our salvation. The Entry into salvation. John 10:9 Jesus said He is the Door, if any man enter in, he shall be saved.

Greek “door” is “thyra.” “A primary word…a portal or entrance…door, gate.”

(We have also discussed before how Jesus went through the Eastern Gates…and it was prophesied in Ezekiel that these gates would be shut, because the God of Israel had gone through them…which was fulfilled when the Ottoman Turks sealed the Eastern Gates in 1517AD.   Ezekiel 43:1-3. These are the ancient gates of Psalm 24.  When He returns to earth, and His feet land on the Mount of Olives, these gates will open and The King of Kings and Lord of Lords will enter them. Who is The King of Glory…The Lord of Hosts…Mighty in battle…He is The King of Glory!!! Zech. 14:3-4.

           

 Luke 19:37-40. “I tell you that, if these should hold their peace the stones would immediately cry out.” I have been to Israel, and I remember thinking of this scriptures as I saw a field full of stones.

           

 Luke 19:41-44. Jesus wept over Jerusalem. Notice in vs. 44b…”Because you knew not the time of your visitation.  Their Messiah had come…and they did not know it. Jesus prophesied what would happen in 70AD. Your thoughts on Jesus heart at this moment?

LAB: “about 40 years after Jesus said these words, they came true. In A.D. 66 the Jews revolted against Roman control. Titus, son of the emperor Vespasian, was sent to crush the rebellion. Roman soldiers attacked Jerusalem and broke through the northern wall but still couldn’t take the city. Finally, they laid siege to it and in A.D. 70 they were able to enter the severely weakened city and burn it. Six hundred Jews were killed during Titus’s onslaught.” (The Temple was destroyed.} And the Jewish people were dispersed throughout the world. There was no more “Israel” until 1948.

Matthew 21:8-11.  The entire city of Jerusalem was in an uproar as He entered. “Who is this? They asked. “It is Jesus, the Prophet from Nazareth in Galilee.”

 Zech.9:9 “Rejoice, o people of Zion! Shout in triumph, o people of Jerusalem! Look, your King is coming to you. He is righteous and victorious, yet He is riding on a donkey, riding on a donkey’s colt.” (LAB  study Bible.)