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Celebrate!
We celebrated yesterday, it was my birthday.
Every year on April 8.
I have it on good authority it’s my birthday b/c I was there when I was born.
I don’t remember much of that, but my mom assured me that it all happened on that day.
Did you see last week Doris Day celebrated her birthday?
She thought, like everyone else she is 93.
Someone found her birth announcement and discovered she’s 95.
How do you not know how old you are?
I guess after you’ve celebrated a few of these the big deal wanes a bit.
Sara is out of town.
She did good of preparations before she left.
The kids did a good job of recognizing the occasion.
After 57 of these, the importance wanes, other priorities take over and the celebration gets put aside as the occasion lessens in importance.
We kind of forget why it’s a big deal.
Today we’re celebrating Palm Sunday.
We’ve been celebrating this occasion for almost 2000 years.
You come to church expecting maybe palm fronds, lilies, music about a King, maybe a donkey.
But, more and more it’s becoming just another Sunday.
Is it still a big deal?
Did it really happen when they say it happened?
Who was there to be sure?
No one around here, today.
It is still a big deal.
It happened just like it was predicted.
While other priorities try to push this off of our radar screen and out of our minds we have to get back to the fundamentals and the reason why we celebrate Palm Sunday.
When Jesus rode into Jerusalem the week before Passover he accomplished several things.
We’re going to look at 3 of them:
He Fulfilled Prophecy
Jesus has fulfilled over 1300 prophecies in the O.T.
This one has to do w/ when He arrived in Jerusalem
Daniel wrote this in 530 b.c.
1 “seven” = 7 years
3 periods of time are mentioned:
7 sevens = 49 years
62 sevens = 434 years
1 seven = 7 years
Totaling 70, 7-year periods.
7 sevens begin w/ the decree to rebuild Jerusalem
After the Babylonian exile, Ezra and Zerubabbel had returned w/ the people and rebuilt the temple but the city w/ its walls was still in ruin.
Nehemiah went to the king of Persia, Artexerxes, in the month of Nisan during the 20th year of his reign and asked not only for permission to return to rebuild the wall around Jerusalem, but also for the materials to do so.
It was more than just the wall to be rebuilt, but the city buildings, homes, and business, as well.
The Persians kept great records of their kings edicts and decisions.
Our calendar hadn’t been invented, yet.
But once it had been, it was easy enough to work backward to determine what date, according to our calendar, Artexerxes gave the edict to rebuild Jerusalem.
It was March 5, 444 b.c.
That’s 86 years after Daniel wrote about it.
So, March 5, 444 b.c.
marks the beginning of the time prophecied about, the first 7 sevens, 49 years.
It took 49 years for Israel to rebuild the city and return to their unfaithful, disobedient ways that got them exiled.
(Nehemiah and Malachi).
The 2nd period, the 62 sevens begin immediately as the 7 sevens end.
After Malachi wrote, there were approx.
400 years of silence from God b/c Israel had repeatedly been so disobedient.
The period of 62- sevens ends when the Anointed One is put to death.
62 sevens = 434 years.
401 years of silence + the life span of Jesus.
March 5, 444 b.c.
+ 69 sevens (483 years of the Hebrew calendar) = March 30, 33 a.d.
March 30, 33 a.d. was the Sunday before Passover that year.
That is the day Jesus rode the colt into Jerusalem.
There is a break of an unspecified amount of time before the 70th week.
The Tribulation, involving the Anti-Christ and the Abomination of Desolation (Mark 13:14)
If the 1st 69 weeks are this accurate, there will be a 70th week.
533 years before it happened, Daniel predicted The Anointed One, Jesus, would arrive in Jerusalem to be killed.
533 years is a long time to wait.
You’d have to believe that at some point they wondered if it was really going to happen.
Others things were happening that had been predicted.
But this was a big one.
God’s been known to wait before.
He waited 430 years to bring Israel out of Egypt.
He waited over 400 years between Malachi, the last prophet, and John the Baptist.
If they wondered if God was going to provide the Anointed One, even to be killed, how many of us wonder if Jesus really is going to return someday?
It happened.
The past proves the future.
There has been no more accurately predicted event than the death and resurrection of Jesus.
We can’t explain everything w/ facts.
If we could we wouldn’t need faith.
But there are enough proven facts to buoy our faith so that we can be certain that it will happen the way the Bible says it will.
Stay faithful.
This has been planned for a long time.
It’s going to work out.
The 2nd thing he fulfilled by riding into Jerusalem that day:
He Fulfilled His Purpose
There was no other reason for Him to leave heaven.
He willingly left the perfect place to come to earth.
Suffering in itself.
He was born, confined to a human body, He was humiliated, died a horrible death, just so we could be saved.
And, we need to be saved
Death simply means separated from God.
Our sin separates us from God, and God is the source of life.
Apart from God, there is no life.
Sin requires death.
Not only does it cause a rift w/ God, the only possible outcome of a sinner is death, separation from God.
A death is required by God in order to make things right w/ Him.
This is why, in the OT, the tabernacle was set up.
We had to understand that blood had to be shed in order to be forgiven.
The blood of animals does nothing, other than represent what God was going to do for us at some point in the future.
Faith had to accompany the temple sacrifice.
Apart from faith that the gracious God was going to sacrifice His own Lamb for us, the priest’s sacrifices meant nothing.
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