Zechariah 9-11, Revelation 1, Proverbs 24: 1-14
Zechariah 9:9 (ESV)
“Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O
daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having
salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a
donkey.”
I love verse 9 from Zechariah 9 because it is another prophecy
of the coming of Jesus Christ when he rode into Jerusalem on a donkey.
According to Bible commentaries, only royalty rode on donkeys. Christ was a
king and a messiah when he rode into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. I find it so
interesting that there are many prophecies of the coming of Jesus Christ in the
book of the Old Testament.
People in the time of Jesus knew the words of the Old Testament.
It makes me wonder if they connected the prophecies of a messiah coming to them
when they saw the things in life of Jesus that were reflected in these prophecies.
In the two new “Dune” movies, they depicted how people connected the prophecies
of their messiah to Paul Atreides by the things that Paul was doing in their
lives. Did people in the time of Jesus connect their prophecies in the Old
Testament of the coming of a messiah was wondrously as they did the Dune
movies? I often ask myself if I had lived in the time of Jesus, would I have
been able to connect the Old Testament prophecies to the life of Jesus. If I
lived at that time, how would I have responded to the healing miracles of Jesus.
Would I have become a believer and follower of Jesus? Or would I have been a sceptic?
I like to think I would have become a follower, but I’ll never know.
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