Monday, April 18, 2011

Read Psalms 118:26  This week is a special week in our calendar.  It is called Passion week because it was when Jesus Christ demonstrated His love to us in giving His life for us on the cross of Calvary.  During the Jewish passover time, all of the Jews were supposed to go to Jerusalem for that special occasion.  Passover celebrated when the Children of Israel left their slavery in Egypt and headed for their Promised Land.  When Jesus came into Jerusalem to join in on the celebration, He was welcomed by all of the people as the coming Messiah.  The people shouted their happiness and threw down their coats and palm branches as a pathway for Jesus to ride into the city on.  That is why the Sunday before Easter Sunday is called Palm Sunday.  In Matthew, Mark, and Luke; the people were quoted as saying, "Blessed is He who cometh in the name of the Lord."  Isn't it interesting that that is exactly what was said in our verse here in Psalms 118!  But Psalms was written 950 years before the people welcomed Jesus into Jerusalem!  That is called prophecy - foretelling what would come to pass.  And it did!

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