Mini-Easter Celebration: Palm Sunday

Sunday 6


“Rejoice greatly, Daughter Zion! Shout, Daughter Jerusalem! See, your king comes to you, righteous and victorious, lowly and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey. I will take away the chariots from Ephraim and the warhorses from Jerusalem, and the battle bow will be broken. He will proclaim peace to the nations. His rule will extend from sea to sea and from the River to the ends of the earth”

— ZECHARIAH 9:9-10

As we celebrate Palm Sunday, we remember the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, when the crowds celebrated, waved palm branches and praised Jesus, as many of them had heard his teaching and had seen his miracles. This event fulfilled Zechariah’s prophecy. 

The palm branch is a symbol of victory, triumph, peace and eternal life. This triumphal entry into Jerusalem is a foretaste of what will come, as Jesus promised to come again to usher in his Kingdom and rule forever. Sometimes, as we live in this in-between period, it is hard to visualize this future.

We must remember that Jesus wins!  Revelation gives us the “end of the story.” We are told that Jesus will return and establish his Kingdom, where peace, love and righteousness will reign. People from every nation will be worshipping around the throne, holding palm branches in their hands in worship to their victorious King!

“After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands”  REVELATION 7:9

As we live in this sin-inflicted world, we live in light of the reality that one day, Jesus is going to return to establish his Kingdom, where peace, love and righteousness will reign, and people from every tongue, tribe and nation will be at peace because of our common worship of Jesus.

One comment on “Mini-Easter Celebration: Palm Sunday

  1. What a challenge! Luke chapter 6 indeed is. It is full of messages to us as Christ followers and thus the church. Are we seeing so many weak and ineffective Christians and Churches because we are not putting into practice the many “words” of Jesus. We hear much, but do little, see little of what God sees as important, relevant and of value. We are rich, selfish, self centered, extravagant, and quarrelsome. In deed, our personal and corporate houses are collapsing. And rightly so, as we have built upon the wrong foundation. We say Jesus is our rock, but we live otherwise.

    Thank you Lisa, for a well articulated challenge to us all. God bless.

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