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Open with Option 1 from curriculum. “Easter Egg phenomenon w/Disney Mickey’s.”
Open with Option 1 from curriculum. “Easter Egg phenomenon w/Disney Mickey’s.”
It’s the same way with the Old Testament and Jesus. We find these scattered everywhere.
Setup to to where we are at in the text.
Matthew the tax collector is writing.
Jesus and the disciples are on what’s called the Triumphant Entry. We’ll explain that.
Jesus is on his way to being crucified. He knows it. Disciples aren’t really getting it.
The Text...
The Text...
1 Now when they drew near to Jerusalem and came to Bethphage, to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, 2 saying to them, “Go into the village in front of you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Untie them and bring them to me. 3 If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord needs them,’ and he will send them at once.” 4 This took place to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet, saying,
5 “Say to the daughter of Zion,
‘Behold, your king is coming to you,
humble, and mounted on a donkey,
on a colt, the foal of a beast of burden.’ ”
6 The disciples went and did as Jesus had directed them. 7 They brought the donkey and the colt and put on them their cloaks, and he sat on them. 8 Most of the crowd spread their cloaks on the road, and others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road. 9 And the crowds that went before him and that followed him were shouting, “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!” 10 And when he entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred up, saying, “Who is this?” 11 And the crowds said, “This is the prophet Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee.”
12 And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. 13 He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you make it a den of robbers.”
14 And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them. 15 But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying out in the temple, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant, 16 and they said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?” And Jesus said to them, “Yes; have you never read,
“ ‘Out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies
you have prepared praise’?”
17 And leaving them, he went out of the city to Bethany and lodged there.
18 In the morning, as he was returning to the city, he became hungry. 19 And seeing a fig tree by the wayside, he went to it and found nothing on it but only leaves. And he said to it, “May no fruit ever come from you again!” And the fig tree withered at once.
20 When the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, “How did the fig tree wither at once?” 21 And Jesus answered them, “Truly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what has been done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ it will happen. 22 And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.”
There’s a lot here, but there is one main truth we can work to hang onto from these verses.
GP “Points.”
GP “Points.”
One Main Truth - Jesus is the Savior who came to restore true worship. He flips what we or what they thought and established true worship.
One Main Truth - Jesus is the Savior who came to restore true worship. He flips what we or what they thought and established true worship.
We see this in 3 ways from the texts. These are examples of Easter Egg finds in the OT.
We see this in 3 ways from the texts. These are examples of Easter Egg finds in the OT.
First one....
First one....
1 Now when they drew near to Jerusalem and came to Bethphage, to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, 2 saying to them, “Go into the village in front of you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Untie them and bring them to me. 3 If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord needs them,’ and he will send them at once.” 4 This took place to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet, saying,
5 “Say to the daughter of Zion,
‘Behold, your king is coming to you,
humble, and mounted on a donkey,
on a colt, the foal of a beast of burden.’ ”
6 The disciples went and did as Jesus had directed them. 7 They brought the donkey and the colt and put on them their cloaks, and he sat on them. 8 Most of the crowd spread their cloaks on the road, and others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road. 9 And the crowds that went before him and that followed him were shouting, “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!” 10 And when he entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred up, saying, “Who is this?” 11 And the crowds said, “This is the prophet Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee.”
Matthew 21:
The “Easter Egg” here is in and .
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.
The restoration and plot twist here is the humility Jesus is exemplifying in his arrival.
He’s on a donkey modeling humility. Think about the way a donkey is viewed today. It’s not very kingly or esteemed. It’s just a work animal. Well, Jesus is setting this thing up. Secondly....
32 King David said, “Call to me Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada.” So they came before the king. 33 And the king said to them, “Take with you the servants of your lord and have Solomon my son ride on my own mule, and bring him down to Gihon. 34 And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet there anoint him king over Israel. Then blow the trumpet and say, ‘Long live King Solomon!’
32 King David said, “Call to me Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada.” So they came before the king.
Solomon was an example of Jesus represented by his great kingdom. He wasn’t Jesus, but he represented what Jesus’ kingdom would be like at his final return.
1 Kings 32-34
Jesus flips this restoration of true worship by modeling humility and fulfillment.
Second one...
Second one...
12 And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. 13 He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you make it a den of robbers.”
14 And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them. 15 But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying out in the temple, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant, 16 and they said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?” And Jesus said to them, “Yes; have you never read,
“ ‘Out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies
you have prepared praise’?”
17 And leaving them, he went out of the city to Bethany and lodged there.
Matthew 21:
The “Easter Eggs” here are , , and .
9 For zeal for your house has consumed me,
and the reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.
And also...
6 “And the foreigners who join themselves to the Lord,
to minister to him, to love the name of the Lord,
and to be his servants,
everyone who keeps the Sabbath and does not profane it,
and holds fast my covenant—
7 these I will bring to my holy mountain,
and make them joyful in my house of prayer;
their burnt offerings and their sacrifices
will be accepted on my altar;
for my house shall be called a house of prayer
for all peoples.”
8 The Lord God,
who gathers the outcasts of Israel, declares,
“I will gather yet others to him
besides those already gathered.”
They were keeping the “foreigners” out of the temple by necessary sacrifice. They instituted a means of making money by selling what the Gentiles “needed” to get into worship. What was even worse about this was the fact that they made up extra regulations for the Gentiles to get in. Oppression at it’s finest.
Jesus flips this restoration of true worship by rebuke! He corrects their institution of segregated worship here by literally turning tables over!
Third one...
Third one...
Matthew 21:
18 In the morning, as he was returning to the city, he became hungry. 19 And seeing a fig tree by the wayside, he went to it and found nothing on it but only leaves. And he said to it, “May no fruit ever come from you again!” And the fig tree withered at once.
20 When the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, “How did the fig tree wither at once?” 21 And Jesus answered them, “Truly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what has been done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ it will happen. 22 And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.”
The issue here is the fig tree with no “fruit.” Given Jesus’ response, the tree represented all it needed to produce and the fruit was expected. However, for some reason it was a false representation and it was cursed!
Some scholars view this type of thing as Jesus reflecting on his authority combined with how Matthew recorded this. He’s a King coming in restoring true worship and he will call those out who look like the plant, but are certainly unfruitful in their production.
Jesus flips this restoration of true worship by cursing false representation and rebuke!
Conclusion...
Conclusion...
Does Jesus’ response in these situations surprise you? How so?
How do you think you would have responded if you were with Jesus in the temple or when he cursed the fig tree?
Why do you think the prophecies of Jesus predicted that the King would enter the city on a donkey? What does this say about Jesus?
What do you think motivated Jesus in his mission of cleansing the temple?