Cry Out Like The Stone That You Are

Luke 19:28-40

Getting the colt - v28-34

Riding The Colt - v35-36

2 Kings 19:3 “They said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah, This day is a day of distress, of rebuke, and of disgrace; children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to bring them forth.” to avenge Elijah slaying Ahab and Jezebel

They treated him as the victorious king before he took on Ahab

The prophetic symbolism stood as a promise for generations

Zechariah 9:9 “Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.”

Coming Down the Mountain - v37

The Mt of Olives:

A Prophetic place

Zechariah 14:4 “4 On that day his feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives that lies before Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives shall be split in two from east to west by a very wide valley, so that one half of the Mount shall move northward, and the other half southward.”

Matthew 24:3 “3 As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?””

Bookending His Life

Matthew 5 - Teaching from the Mountain like Moses

Rebuke your disciples? - v37 - 39

Pharisees - because they are studied, they SAW the prophetic imagery

SOME of the Pharisees

Also, Good Friday

2 Corinthians 5:21 “21 For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”

Living stones - v40

Warning to the Pharisees

Habakkuk 2:9–11 “9 “Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house, to set his nest on high, to be safe from the reach of harm! 10 You have devised shame for your house by cutting off many peoples; you have forfeited your life. 11 For the stone will cry out from the wall, and the beam from the woodwork respond.”

Power over Creation

Matthew 27:45 “45 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.”

Matthew 27:51 “51 And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. And the earth shook, and the rocks were split.”

Living Stones

1 Peter 2:4–5 “4 As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, 5 you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.”