Victor that enters his Waterloo?

Victor that enters his Waterloo?

Palm Sunday

However, it is only a defeat to his disciples until he rises from the dead.  As Jesus enters Jerusalem the signs of victory are somewhere in the mind of Christ as he comes upon the back of a mule as depicted here:  “Rejoice heartily, O daughter Zion, shout for joy, O daughter Jerusalem!  See, your king shall come to you; a just savior is he, Meek and riding on an ass, on a colt, the foal; of an ass.  He shall banish the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem: The warrior’s bow shall be banished,  and he shall proclaim peace to nations.  His dominion shall be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.”  (Zec 9: 9 - 10).  

A Victor before the battle is begun, the fight for your soul and mine.  Has three and a half years brought this to the mission Christ was Incarnated to complete?  Absolutely, as we delve into the plan that God instituted to defeat his enemy, Satan, and our enemy, the sin of mankind.    

Where can we be, the remnant of God’s remaining creatures that were made in their image, after their likeness?  

What are the signs of this warrior of God that prepared him for battle?  Hear me, O coastlands, listen, O distant peoples. The Lord called me from birth, from my mother’s womb he gave me my name.  He gave me a sharp-edged sword and concealed me in the shadow of his arm.  He made me a polished arrow, in his quiver he said to me, Israel through whom I show my glory.  (Is 49: 1 - 3).  The second Suffering Song of Isaiah. 

The tears of Jesus were not for his passion, but for the refusal of Israel to accept their release from the bonds of worldly beliefs instead of what God gave them beginning with their release from captivity and the road to the promised land of milk and honey. (Lk 19: 41 - 44).   “Therefore I have come down to rescue them from the hands of the Egyptians and lead them out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey.”  (Ex 3: 8).

How often must the Lord call on us to believe his prophecies of forgiveness?  Was the Sacrifice of his Son on the Cross not enough?  We will only find out when the call of our soul reaches into our earthly life and will then awaken us in eternity.  

The palms we now hold and raise in the glory of Christ’s entry for his passion, they also remind us that we shall give him praise once more as he welcomes us before his Father. 

Ralph B.Hathaway