{"id":5859,"date":"2014-09-30T00:05:28","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T07:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/?p=5859"},"modified":"2014-09-29T22:52:44","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T05:52:44","slug":"triumph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2014\/09\/30\/triumph\/","title":{"rendered":"Triumph"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cRejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion!
\nShout, O daughter of Jerusalem!
\nBehold, your King is coming to you;
\nHe is just and having salvation,
\nLowly and riding on a donkey,
\nA colt, the foal of a donkey.
\nI will cut off the chariot from Ephraim
\nAnd the horse from Jerusalem;
\nThe battle bow shall be cut off.
\nHe shall speak peace to the nations;
\nHis dominion shall be \u2018from sea to sea,
\nAnd from the River to the ends of the earth.\u2019
\n\u201cAs for you also,
\nBecause of the blood of your covenant,
\nI will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit.
\nReturn to the stronghold,
\nYou prisoners of hope.
\nEven today I declare
\nThat I will restore double to you.
\nFor I have bent Judah, My bow,
\nFitted the bow with Ephraim,
\nAnd raised up your sons, O Zion,
\nAgainst your sons, O Greece,
\nAnd made you like the sword of a mighty man.\u201d (Zechariah 9:9-13)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

All four of the Gospels in the New Testament describe Jesus\u2019 triumphal entry into the city of Jerusalem the week before he was crucified. Two of them, John and Matthew, quote God\u2019s words about the king riding on a donkey. It was a prophesy that Jesus fulfilled. But the expectations of God\u2019s people regarding the nature of the coming Messiah was something other than what God had in mind. While they saw a conqueror bent on overthrowing the Roman government\u2014a thought heavy on the minds of Jesus\u2019 disciples and the adoring crowds that cast palm branches at his feet\u2014Jesus\u2019 throne was not earthly, but instead was heavenly. The fulfillment of God\u2019s words to Zechariah was far grander than the disciples or anyone else ever imagined. Jesus was not king just of Israel, but of the universe itself\u2014of all that there was. And he intended to reign in the hearts of his people forever. Of course, God made his intent clear, when he told the Israelites that he would get rid of the weapons of war from their hands, when he spoke of salvation and peace. Our weapons are not the weapons of this world, but rather spiritual. God has conquered sin and brought salvation to us all.<\/p>\n

Send to Kindle<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cRejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King is coming to you; He is just and having salvation, Lowly and riding on a donkey, A colt, the foal of a donkey. I will cut … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[18,17,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5859"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5859"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5861,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5859\/revisions\/5861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}