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The account of Jesus’ triumphal entry is a wonderful and necessary prelude to His declaration that His house shall a house of prayer for all nations (Luke 19:28-48)
There are many lessons in the account of the triumphal entry of Jesus (Ansy highlighted that Jesus chose the donkey over the colt signifying that He entered the city in peace as opposed to hostility). Another important truth was that Jesus’ triumphal entry was a fulfilment of the prophecy that the King was coming to take His rightful place among His people.
The question here is to ask if the King is in His rightful place in our lives.
We read in verses 41-44 that some lacked the spiritual discernment of God’s visitation and suffered the consequence. We read further in verses 45-46 that the desecration of the Temple resulted from ignorance of the Scriptures.
It became clear that the fulfilment of ‘my house shall be a house of prayer for all nations’ (Mark 11:17) was not by the Jewish people but by a people of faith who firstly, had enthroned Jesus as Lord of their lives and received understanding by the Spirit of God, that their new lives included the mandate that they were to carry the gospel to all nations (last week’s message).
May the Easter of 2013 not pass us by without a fresh revelation of why Jesus the King came, died and rose again.