Palm Sunday
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If we are going to put the procession of Christ into Jerusalem on a donkey into the context of the times of Jesus' first advent, then we have to understand that after the sun went down on the Jewish Sabbath, that the people came out to see Jesus in Bethany on the first day of the week. Bringing the Palms Sunday event into our understanding of today means that the waving of the palm fronds and the laying of cloaks upon the ground as Jesus rode a donkey into Jerusalem, actually would have happened during the twilight of Saturday evening during the twilight hours after the sun went down.
Now, Jesus walked up from Jericho to Bethany during the afternoon and arrive there just before the sun went down to herald the beginning of the Jewish Sabbath Day, six days before the Passover Feast that was going to be observed on the following Friday.
The day of preparation for the Passover feast occurred on the Thursday, when the Passover Lamb was killed and cooked/prepared for the Passover meal.
There is much that we, today, have to learn about the context of the events that led up to the crucifixion of Christ on the Thursday afternoon, with Christ dying around 3 PM, the ninth hour, his body being taken down and put into a tomb before the sun went down, that heralded the start of the day of the Passover.
Shalom
If we are going to put the procession of Christ into Jerusalem on a donkey into the context of the times of Jesus' first advent, then we have to understand that after the sun went down on the Jewish Sabbath, that the people came out to see Jesus in Bethany on the first day of the week. Bringing the Palms Sunday event into our understanding of today means that the waving of the palm fronds and the laying of cloaks upon the ground as Jesus rode a donkey into Jerusalem, actually would have happened during the twilight of Saturday evening during the twilight hours after the sun went down.
Now, Jesus walked up from Jericho to Bethany during the afternoon and arrive there just before the sun went down to herald the beginning of the Jewish Sabbath Day, six days before the Passover Feast that was going to be observed on the following Friday.
The day of preparation for the Passover feast occurred on the Thursday, when the Passover Lamb was killed and cooked/prepared for the Passover meal.
There is much that we, today, have to learn about the context of the events that led up to the crucifixion of Christ on the Thursday afternoon, with Christ dying around 3 PM, the ninth hour, his body being taken down and put into a tomb before the sun went down, that heralded the start of the day of the Passover.
Shalom
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Ride on! ride on in majesty!
Hark! all the tribes hosanna cry;
O Savior meek, pursue thy road
with palms and scattered garments strowed.
Ride on! ride on in majesty!
In lowly pomp ride on to die;
O Christ, thy triumphs now begin
o'er captive death and conquered sin.
Ride on! ride on in majesty!
The angel-squadrons of the sky
look down with sad and wondering eyes
to see the approaching sacrifice.
Ride on! ride on in majesty!
Thy last and fiercest strife is nigh;
the Father on his sapphire throne
expects his own anointed Son.
Ride on! ride on in majesty!
In lowly pomp ride on to die;
bow thy meek head to mortal pain,
then take, O God, thy power, and reign.
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