Monday 18 Apr 2011

Monday Reading: Matthew 21:1-11

Key Verse: Matthew 21:9
9  And the crowds 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!

Devotion:
Can you imagine what the local news (should there have been news or even newspapers back then) would have said about the entry of Jesus into town? Maybe they would have been something like this:

“New King in Town”

“And in the news today from Faith we hear of a new King in town. Yesterday a man came riding into Bethphage to be greeted by a huge crowd who cheered Him into town. The crowd was making quite a scene by pulling down branches from palm trees and laying them down in the road before this man. Some where even taking their own garments and placing them in the path before Him. We managed to catch up to the crowd as they came into Jerusalem so that we could ask who this man was. The reply we got was that He is the Son of David, our Messiah!

According to our scriptures our Messiah would indeed come riding into town upon an ass and a colt, the foal of an ass. Lo and behold, so did this Man. Again in our scriptures we know that our Messiah will be of the lineage of David – so far I have managed to find out His parents so will have more news later to check on that lineage. Certainly most of the crowd that was following Him were calling Him our Messiah – unfortunately we could not get close enough to ask any questions at this stage. I did manage to get a statement from one knowledgeable person who said “This is Jesus the prophet, from Nazareth of Galilee.” Just maybe this is what we have been waiting for!

So far we have not had any official statement from the chief priests although they did seem somewhat annoyed that anyone would be given the label of ‘Messiah’ or even ‘King’ in their absence! We will have our chief correspondent with them over the coming days to follow their reaction. More tomorrow!

Points to Ponder:
Can you help out with finding who this Jesus is?

Is this our Messiah?