At the dark moment when Jesus expired on the cross, everything appeared so pitiful and hopeless. Christ's death seemed to the apostles are absolute disaster. Jesus has been taken prisoner in the Garden. The disciples has scattered, fleeing in all directions for their lives.
Once the body of Jesus was in the tomb, the disciples were thinking what to do next. Fear held them. Judas, whom they had never for a moment suspected, had proved to be a traitor whom could they trust? Like a sheep scattered without a shepherd.
What was this that had happened? Jesus has died forsaken of God. His last pitiful words, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken forsaken me? [Mathew 27:46] Was God a good God after all? Was there anything at all they could believe?
The disciples felt they had been put to shame. What was there for them to do but to return to their former occupations.
The future of Christianity looked bleak. Then what was it that suddenly intervened and made Christianity dynamic - one that reversed the very order of history and changed the destiny of nations? There can be but one answer, and that was the resurrection of Christ from the dead! Any other explanation would require as great a miracle as the resurrection.
[Mathew 28:6] He is not here, for He is risen as He said.
[1 Corinthians 15:19] "If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable.
Rev Rachel
Senior Pastor
Question: "What Is Palm Sunday?"
Answer: Palm Sunday is the day we remember the "triumphal entry" of Jesus into Jerusalem, exactly one week before His resurrection [Mathew 21:1-11]. Some 450-500 years earlier, the Prophet Zechariah had prophesied, "Rejoice 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"
[Zechariah 9:9].
Mathew 21:7-9 records the fulfillment of that prophecy: "They brought the donkey and the colt, laid their clothes on them, and set Him on them. And a very great multitude spread their clothes on the road; other cut down branches from the trees and spread them on the road. Then the multitudes who went before and those who followed cried out, saying: Hosanna to the son of David! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!' Hosanna in the highest!'" This event took place on the Sunday before Jesus' crucifixion.
In remembrance of this event, we celebrate Palm Sunday. It is referred to as Palm Sunday because of the palm branches that were laid on the road as Jesus rode on a donkey into Jerusalem. Palm Sunday was the fulfillment of the Prophet Daniel's "seventy sevens" prophecy: "Know therefore and understand, That from the going forth of the command to restore and build Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince, There shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; The street shall be built again, and the wall, Even in troublesome times" [Daniel 9:25]. John 1:11 tell us, "He (Jesus) came to His own, and His Own did not receive Him." The same crowds that were crying out "Hosanna" were crying out "crucify Him" five days later [Mathew 27:22-23].
I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
