Palm Sunday 2024 (Novato)
March 25, 2024
Thirty percent of the Gospels focus on the last week of Jesus’ life. Read one of the Holy Week
Matthew 21-28, Mark 11-16, Luke 19-24, John 12-21.
. If you count 10 people per lamb (a low estimate), then an estimated crowd of well over 2.5 million people gathered in and around Jerusalem.
The Triumphant Entry - The
a) The Passover. The Passover commemorates the
b) Lazarus. Not long before this passover, Lazarus had just been raised from the dead, and the story had gone
9 Now a great many of the Jews knew that He was there; and they came, not for Jesus’ sake only, but that they might also see Lazarus, whom He had raised from the dead. 10 But the chief priests plotted to put Lazarus to death also, 11 because on account of him many of the Jews went away and believed in Jesus. —John 12:9-11
c) Fulfilled prophecy. This was a moment of alignment and
- The
- The
“Know therefore and understand,
That from the going forth of the command
To restore and build Jerusalem
Until Messiah the Prince,
There shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; —Daniel 9:25
- The key to understanding this is that the Bible expresses a week in both weeks of days and weeks of years, or
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion!
Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem!
Behold, your King is coming to you;
He is just and having salvation,
Lowly and riding on a donkey,
A colt, the foal of a donkey. —Zechariah 9:9
- There was an alignment between earth and heaven as the Spirit of revelation came upon a multitude, and their eyes
28 When He had said this, He went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem. 29 And it came to pass, when He drew near to Bethphage and Bethany, at the mountain called Olivet, that He sent two of His disciples, 30 saying, “Go into the village opposite you, where as you enter you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever sat. Loose it and bring it here. 31 And if anyone asks you, ‘Why are you loosing it?’ thus you shall say to him, ‘Because the Lord has need of it.’ ”
32 So those who were sent went their way and found it just as He had said to them. 33 But as they were loosing the colt, the owners of it said to them, “Why are you loosing the colt?”
34 And they said, “The Lord has need of him.” 35 Then they brought him to Jesus. And they threw their own clothes on the colt, and they set Jesus on him. 36 And as He went, many spread their clothes on the road.
37 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, 38 saying:
> “ ‘Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord!’
Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!”
39 And some of the Pharisees called to Him from the crowd, “Teacher, rebuke Your disciples.”
40 But He answered and said to them, “I tell you that if these should keep silent, the stones would immediately cry out.” —Luke 19:28-40
- In this moment, Jesus was being presented and
Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself. —Daniel 9:26
- Cut-off means to suffer the
The Lamb of Heaven
1. Palm Sunday took place on Lamb
Day.
3 Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying: ‘On the tenth of this month every man shall take for himself a lamb, according to the house of his father, a lamb for a household.
6 Now you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month. Then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at twilight. —Exodus 12:3, 6
2. Passover Lambs must be
for 4 days before the Passover Feast.
knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, 19 but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. —1 Peter 1:18
3. Jesus shed his
for us as the Passover lambs were being slaughtered for the feast.
4. In the book of Revelation, we see the
is name repeatedly used for Jesus in the heavenly realm.
Lamb is used
Jesus