Palm Sunday demonstrates how fickle popularity can be. The Lord Jesus is welcomed as a hero, the crowds shouting that he is the long-awaited Messiah of Israel (Luke 19:37-38).
Not all are happy (Luke 19:39), particularly the worldly profiteers of the Temple, the family of the High Priest (Matthew 21:15; Mark 11:18; Mark 15:10-11).
But the least happy person that day is the Lord Jesus Christ himself. In fact, he weeps over Jerusalem (Luke 19:41-42), warning that the city is going to be under siege and destroyed (Luke 19:43-44).
God ordained the fulfilment of the curses of Leviticus 26:27-33 and Deuteronomy 28:52-57 at least three times in Israel's history: Samaria by Assyria in 722, Jerusalem by Babylon in 586, and rebuilt Jerusalem in A.D 70 by the Romans. Curiously, the first and second Jewish temples were destroyed centuries apart, but on the same day of the same month, Tisha B'Av (the ninth day of the Jewish month Av that falls between July and August).
Jesus also warned that what had happened under the Babylonians (Psalm 137:8-9) would happen again: Infants heads will be smashed against walls because war unleashes human savagery as nothing else (Luke 19:44).
The crowd is fickle: Within a few days, those who shouted "Hosanna" will be shouting "Let his blood be on us and on our children!" Matthew 27:25)
What can break a blood curse? Only the blood of Jesus (Galatians 3:10-14; Romans 3:25-27).
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After serving Grace Presbyterian Church in Alexandria, Louisiana, Bob was honorably retired on Sunday, September 27, 2015, and given the title "Pastor Emeritus." This was forty years to the day after he became their pastor.
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