Hello John and Doves,
This coming Sunday is Palm Sunday and 10 Nisan (when
using the 'sighted moon'). March 29, 2026
Palm
Sunday and Why The Date Is So Significant:
In John 12:1 -2 we are told that Jesus was in Bethany
- a town just outside of Jerusalem. "There he shared a
meal with Mary, Martha, and Lazarus." (This was after
Jesus resurrected Lazarus from the dead.) This was six days
before Passover.
In John 12:12, "The next day" - was five days before
Passover.
Exodus 12:3 -6: The Lord spoke to Moses and
Aaron when they were still in Egypt: "Speak ye unto
all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of
this month they shall take to them every man a lamb,
according too the house of their fathers, a lamb for an
house....Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the
first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or
from the goats. And ye shall keep it until the
fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole
assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the
evening."
"On the "tenth day of this month", each family was to
choose a one-year-old lamb "without blemish", bring it into
their home and care for it for five days. On Nisan 14,
there were to slaughter it just before sundown and put its
blood on the lintel and doorposts of their home."
"That same night, the Lord would "pass over" every
home he saw with the lamb's blood: "For I will pass
through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the
firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and
against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment:
I am the Lord." Exodus 12:12
This "same night" was 15 Nisan.
On 9 Nisan, Jesus is in Bethany with Mary, Martha, and
Lazarus. The next day was 10 Nisan. The
same day Jesus rode the donkey into Jerusalem (Triumphal
Entry) was the day the Jews were to bring the
'unblemished' lamb into their home.
10 Nisan:
A crowd of people, carrying palm branches, met Jesus
as he entered the city. Jesus was riding on the back
of the donkey and the people spread their cloaks and palm
branches on the road. The people were shouting:
"Hosanna! (Save now!) Blessed is he who comes in the
name of the Lord. The King of Israel." John
12:13
The people saw "Jesus fulfilling Zechariah's
prophecy. It was a prophecy the Jews knew well.
When Jesus passed through Jerusalem's gates, they were
openly proclaiming Him as their Savior and King (though in
the sense of relieving Israel from Roman oppression).
What they didn't see was God's selection of Jesus
Christ as the final Passover lamb to be slaughtered.... Just a few days later
on 14 Nisan, as upwards of 250,000 lambs were being
sacrificed in the temple courts according to God's
instruction in Exodus 12, Jesus would be nailed to the
cross."
"We
remember and celebrate Palm Sunday as both the triumphal
entry and the day "Christ our Passover" was set apart as
"a lamb without blemish or defect" to be sacrificed for
our sins."
"The book of Hebrews says the Old Testament
sacrificial system is only a shadow of the good things to
come - not the realities themselves. Exodus 12:3 was
the shadow, the picture of what would happen centuries later
when Jesus of Nazareth entered Jerusalem. Just as
Isaiah declared, God made known the end from the beginning."
"Declaring the end from the beginning, and from
ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying My
counsel shall stand, and I will do My pleasure."
Isaiah 46:10
Happy Palm Sunday! Blessed is He who comes in
the name of the Lord!
Maranatha!
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