From: "Beverly French" <frenchb@vcss.k12.ca.us>
To: "Heritage" <gheritage@juno.com>
Subject: SONday Greetings
Date: Sunday, April 08, 2001 7:54 AM

The prophecy:
"Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion!
 Shout in triumph, O daughter of Jerusalem!
 Behold, your king is coming to you;
 He is just and endowed with salvation,
 Humble, and mounted on a donkey,
 Even on a colt, the foal of a donkey."  Zechariah 9:9

The fulfillment:
"...When they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, took the branches
of the palm trees, and went out to meet Him, and began to cry out, 'Hosanna!
Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel.'
And Jesus finding a young donkey, sat on it; as it is written, 'Fear not,
daughter of Zion; behold, your king is coming, seated on a donkey's colt.'"
John 12: 12-15  (You will find the fill account in Matthew 21:1-11; Mark
11:1-10; Luke 19:35-38 and John 12-15)

This is the day we call 'Palm Sunday' when Christians celebrate the
triumphal
entry of Jesus into Jerusalem.  The people were there at that time for the
Feast of the Passover, but only Almighty God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit,
knew who this spotless and perfect Lamb was to be. The shed blood of the
Lamb of God was the plan of salvation from before the foundation of the
world!  For Scripture tells us that  Jesus is,
"...the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world."  Revelation 13:8

Jesus is the Lamb of God as we see in the following Scriptures:
"He was oppressed and He was afflicted,
 Yet He did not open His mouth;
 Like a lamb that is led to slaughter,
 And like the sheep that is silent before its shearers,
 So He did not open His mouth."  Isaiah 53:7  (For the fulfillment of this
prophecy see Matthew 27:12-14)

"The next day he (John the Baptist) saw Jesus coming to him, and said
'Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!'"  John 1:29

"Knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things...from your
futile way of life...but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and
spotless, the blood of Christ."  1 Peter 1:18-19

Christ, the Lord, is forever the Lamb of God as we see through the Apostle
John's eyes in verses in the Revelation,
"And I saw between the throne (with the four living creatures) and the
elders a Lamb standing, as if slain..."  Revelation 5:6

"And I saw when the Lamb broke one of the seven seals, and I heard one of
the four living creatures saying with a voice of thunder, 'Come'."
Revelation 6:1

"After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no one
could count, from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues,
standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes...
and they cry out with a loud voice, saying, 'Salvation to our God who sits
on the throne, and to the Lamb.'"  Revelation 7:9-10

Speaking of the Holy City, the Apostle John says,
"And I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God, the Almighty, and the Lamb are
its temple.  And the city has no need of the sun or of the moon to shine
upon it, for the glory of God has illumined it, and its lamp IS the Lamb."
Revelation 21:22-23

Jesus, is The Passover Lamb!  Hebrews 10:1-19 gives the picture of the
One perfect sacrifice for sin and His obedience.
I will share just of few of the verses:
"Then He said, 'Behold I have come to do Thy will.'  He takes away the
first order to establish the second.  By this will we have been sanctified
through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.  ...He,
having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, sat down at the right
hand of God."  Vs. 9-10; 12

Christ Jesus, is the glorious Lord of all and He is worthy of all glory,
honor and praise.  How awesomely wonderful is He.  Believer, beloved
in Christ, let us give thanks to the Lord for this life we now have in Him!
Amen