A few days ago while talking with a Jewish acquaintance, she said that Passover starts on Wednesday. My thoughts immediately went to Jesus, THE Passover Lamb. With Him in mind I remembered a Palm Sunday message of several years ago that I would like to repeat this Palm Sunday.

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.
"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." Verses 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