Friday, 10 July 2015

The Meek King Coming to Save

Don't Fret Because of Evildoers
10Yet a little while and the wicked man will be no more; And you will look carefully for his place and he will not be there. 11But the humble will inherit the land And will delight themselves in abundant prosperity. 12The wicked plots against the righteous And gnashes at him with his teeth.…




Bible Verses


Mark 11:7  And they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their
garments on it, and He sat on it.  8  And many spread their
garments in the road, and others spread layers of branches
full of tender leaves, having cut them out of the fields. 
9  And those who went before and those who followed cried out,
Hosanna! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord! 
10  Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David!
Hosanna in the highest!



 Words of Ministry 

In Zechariah 9:9, and Psalm 118:26 we have the prophecy 
concerning Christ as the meek King mounting a donkey’s colt 
and entering Jerusalem triumphantly, to whom the crowds cried, 
“Blessed be He that cometh in the name of the Lord.” This 
prophecy is actually related to Christ’s death. The Lord 
purposely went back to Jerusalem not to minister but to 
present Himself as the Lamb of God to be crucified. Therefore, 
His mounting a donkey’s colt and entering Jerusalem 
triumphantly was for His wonderful, all-inclusive death.

Garments [in v. 8] signify the human virtues of people’s 
conduct. The disciples honored the lowly King by putting their 
garments on the donkey and colt for Him to ride on, and the 
crowd honored Him by spreading their garments in the road for 
Him to pass through. In verse 8 we are told that others cut 
branches from the trees and spread them in the road. These 
were branches of the palm tree (John 12:13), signifying the 
victorious life (Rev. 7:9) and the satisfaction of enjoying 
the rich produce of this life as typified by the feast of 
tabernacles (Lev. 23:40; Neh. 8:15). A palm tree is rooted 
deeply in hidden springs and grows prevailingly upward into 
the air. This signifies the victorious life. In honoring the 
meek King with whatever they were, the people recognized that 
He was the One with the victorious life.

The Hebrew word hosanna means “save now” (Psa. 118:25). In the 
warm welcome of the King, the people shouted out a quotation 
from Psalm 118:26: “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the 
Lord.” According to Psalm 118, only the One who came in the 
name of the Lord was qualified to be praised in such a way. 
Thus, the spontaneous praise of the people sovereignly 
indicated that this meek King came not in His own name but in 
the name of Jehovah. Those who welcomed the King indicated 
through their praise that He was the One sent by the Lord, 
thus the One who came in the name of the Lord. 

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