This week is Passion week. BK got all the scriptures accumulated, so we're going to do week 8 even though we just finished week 3. But anyway, I pray you would show me what you want to show me... my eyes and ears are open.
Lord, thank you for coming. Thank you for willingly going to J and willingly going to your death. Your compassion and love, your whole being is beautiful. I just want to sit and soak it up.
Love,
Matthew 21:1-11
Matthew is making the point that their King is coming into Jerusalem humbly. Not on a chariot, a war horse, or with his thousands of soldiers and captives behind him. He's coming to J at the busiest time, too... (Mr. M, March 28, 2010). But I find it interesting that you orchestrated all of this... but who started saying that You were the Son of David? Who started shouting Hosanna? How did it all start? I mean, you could have come in on a donkey, and people would be like, "Hey, it's Jesus! The prophet! Come heal us, come teach us!" But they started saying that he was the Christ.
Only You know how it really started happening, but I find it interesting how it all worked.
Mark 11:1-10
A lot more on getting the colt than on the actual entry. But even with all that colt stuff (You are in charge of everything and know what will happen), the thing that struck me this time was, Jesus did have an escort--not of soldiers, but of people. Who were probably much more dear to him than any soldier ever is to a general.
Luke 19:29-44
New stuff:
Where the crowd started singing and kind of why: Near the Mount of Olives, and because of all the miracles they had seen.
Pharisees indignant: Jesus tells them if they all stayed quiet, the stones would cry out--and when you are next to the Mount of Olives, that would be loud. So I guess that was his back-up plan, lol. Ok, no :-)
Jesus moved by the city: Even though they are shouting praises and pretty much calling him Christ, he's still looking ahead to the time when they would all stand there again, shouting "Crucify him!" and wishing he could show them who he was. But they would not understand. Everyone thinks the Messiah is going to conquer the Romans.
John 12:12-19
John is so different from everyone else. Jesus found the donkey. The crowd heard Jesus was coming and went out to praise God. And he focuses on how the disciples didn't get it at all. But hey, usually hindsight is better than when it's happening right then.
Interesting. The crowd that saw Jesus provide a resurrection told everybody they met he was coming. We've seen/heard Jesus being resurrected, and we're not telling everyone he's coming. Some of it is tact, or God is saying to stay silent, but other times we have plenty of opportunity, but we don't want to force our beliefs on anyone, or we're afraid of what they might say...
And the Pharisees despair...