The first in this week-long series on Jesus’ last days here on Earth.
The Sunday before Easter is the beginning of Passover, the Jewish holiday designed to commemorate the story in Exodus when God inflicted Egypt with ten plagues as punishment for Pharaoh’s refusal to free the Israelites, who were slaves in the Egyptian kingdom.
The Bible tells us that, on the first day of Passover, some 2009 years ago, as Jesus went into the city of Jerusalem, there was a multitude that “spread their clothes on the road; others cut down branches from the trees and spread them on the road. Then the multitudes who went before and those who followed cried out, saying: ‘Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD! Hosanna in the highest!’”
As we all know, just days later, many in this same multitude would cry out “crucify Him” as Jesus was being charged for blasphemy by the Pharisees and chief priests.
This just goes to show you that people will lift you up one day only to tear you down the next. That is why we must place our faith in God and God alone.
Man is weak, but God is strong.
Man changes, but God never changes.
As the old hymn says, “on Christ the solid rock I stand, all other ground is sinking sand.”
God bless,
J.W.
The Sunday before Easter is the beginning of Passover, the Jewish holiday designed to commemorate the story in Exodus when God inflicted Egypt with ten plagues as punishment for Pharaoh’s refusal to free the Israelites, who were slaves in the Egyptian kingdom.
The Bible tells us that, on the first day of Passover, some 2009 years ago, as Jesus went into the city of Jerusalem, there was a multitude that “spread their clothes on the road; others cut down branches from the trees and spread them on the road. Then the multitudes who went before and those who followed cried out, saying: ‘Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD! Hosanna in the highest!’”
As we all know, just days later, many in this same multitude would cry out “crucify Him” as Jesus was being charged for blasphemy by the Pharisees and chief priests.
This just goes to show you that people will lift you up one day only to tear you down the next. That is why we must place our faith in God and God alone.
Man is weak, but God is strong.
Man changes, but God never changes.
As the old hymn says, “on Christ the solid rock I stand, all other ground is sinking sand.”
God bless,
J.W.
Good stuff - keep up the good work
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