Yes, its the
day that Jesus Christ entered into Jerusalem
on a colt donkey, and people threw down palm
branches before him, and hailed him as the
Messiah. So where's the miracle?
The MIRACLE
is:
For one thing,
this was the first time that Jesus Christ
allowed anyone to worship Him as the Messiah,
without rebuking them. Each time
previously, when people would attempt to
worship Him as the Messiah, He would caution
them, My time is not yet. Palm Sunday,
is referred to as the Triumphant Entry because
for the first time in His 3.5 year ministry He
permitted anyone to openly and publicly
worship Him as the long awaited Messiah.
The Jewish religious leaders of course,
were furious, and admonished Jesus to rebuke
those worshiping Him. But Jesus said
"The stones would cry out."
His entry into Jerusalem fulfilled
several prophecies. The Messiah was to
arrive on a donkey's colt:
Zechariah
9:9 "Fear not, daughter of
Zion; Behold, your King is
coming, Sitting on a donkey's colt." [fn]
His entry on a colt donkey was a
prophetic sign that He was the long awaited
Messiah.
Mark 11:7-11:10 "Then
they brought the colt to Jesus and
threw their clothes on it, and He sat on
it. And many spread
their clothes on the road, and others
cut down palm branches from the palm trees and
spread [them] on the road. Then
those who went before and those who
followed cried out, saying: "Hosanna!
'Blessed [is] He who comes in the name
of the LORD!' [fn]Blessed [is] the
kingdom of our father David That comes
in the name of the Lord! [fn] Hosanna in
the highest!"
Luke 19:33-40 "But as they were loosing the
colt, the owners of it said
to them, "Why are you loosing the colt?" And they said, "The Lord has
need of him." Then they brought him to Jesus.
And they threw their own clothes
on the colt, and they
set Jesus on him. And as He went, [many] spread
their clothes on the road.Then, as He was now drawing near
the descent of the Mount of Olives, the
whole multitude of the disciples began
to rejoice and praise God with a loud
voice for all the mighty works they had
seen, saying: " 'Blessed [is] the King
who comes in the name of the LORD!' [fn] Peace in heaven and glory in the
highest!" And some of the Pharisees called
to Him from the crowd, "Teacher, rebuke
Your disciples."But He answered and said to
them, "I tell you that if these
should keep silent, the stones would
immediately cry out."
Why
did Jesus say this, that if His followers
were silent, even the rocks would cry
out?
Because an even greater
miracle was happening! This particular date
that Jesus came into Jerusalem on a colt
allowing people to worship Him as the
Messiah, was no ordinary date! This
date was extremely precise involving the
fulfillment of an ancient prophecy from the book of Daniel,
when God revealed through the angel Gabriel
exactly, and precisely WHEN the MESSIAH
would arrive, ......560+ years before it
happened......to the day!
Daniel
9:25: "Know therefore and
understand, that from the going forth of
the commandment to restore and to
build Jerusalem unto the Messiah
the Prince shall be seven weeks
[of years, or 7 years], and threescore [60
years] and two weeks [2 years]: the street
shall be built again, and the wall, even
in troublous times."
This includes a
mathematical prophecy. The Jewish calendars
used a 360-day year; 69 weeks of
360-day years totals 173,880 days.
In effect, Gabriel
told Daniel that the interval between the
commandment to rebuild Jerusalem until the
presentation of the Messiah as King would
be 173,880 days.
The commandment to restore and
build Jerusalem, after the Babylonian
Captivity, was given by King Artaxerxes
Longimanus on March 14, 445 b.c.5
When we examine the period
between March 14, 445 b.c. and April 6, 32
a.d., and correct for leap years, we
discover that it is 173,880 days
exactly, to the very day!
This is the great Palm Sunday
MIRACLE!
How could Daniel have known this in
advance? How could anyone have contrived to
have this detailed prediction documented
over three centuries in advance? But there's
more.
Daniel 9:26:
"And after threescore
and two weeks shall
Messiah be cut off, but not for himself"
Jesus, the Messiah was,
of course, executed at the Crucifixion. "But
not for Himself." This too was
prophesied in in the old testament in
Isaiah, long before Christ was born:
Isaiah 53:8 "He was taken from prison and from
judgment, ... For He was
cut off from the land of the living; For the
transgressions of My people He was
stricken."
Hosea 6:2 "After two days He will revive
us; On the third day He will raise
us up, That we may live in His
sight.
All
fulfilled in the New Testament:
1 Corinthians 15:3-6
"For I delivered to
you first of all that which I also
received: that Christ died for
our sins according to the
Scriptures, and that He was buried,
and that He rose again the third
day according to the Scriptures, and that He was seen by Cephas,
then by the twelve. After that He was seen by over
five hundred brethren at once.."
Acts 13:30 "But God raised Him from
the dead.
1 Corinthians 15:19 "And if our hope in Christ is only
for this life, we are more to be pitied
than anyone in the world. But
now Christ is risen from the dead, [and] has
become the firstfruits of those who have
fallen asleep. ...For as in Adam all die, even
so in Christ all shall be made
alive."
Romans 8:34 "Who [is] he who condemns? [It is] Christ who died, and furthermore is
also risen, who is even at the right hand of
God, who also makes intercession for us."
1 Corinthians 15:55-57 "O Death, where [is] your
sting? [fnHosea
13:14] O Hades, where
[is] your victory?" [fn] ...But
thanks [be] to God, who gives us the
victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
If
Jesus, the Messiah, hadn't come and died for
our sins, we would have no hope of Heaven.