The Power of His Prophecy
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My message today speaks of the power of prophecy but as we begin looking at scripture today We find Jesus weeping… Luke 19:41-42
41 When He approached Jerusalem, He saw the city and wept over it, 42 saying, “If you had known in this day, even you, the things which make for peace! But now they have been hidden from your eyes.
But the people...
They are celebrating and cheering
The disciples are elated and full of anticipation for what lay ahead
Jerusalem is preparing for it’s biggest celebration of the year… Passover
The town is a buzz with the news that this Jesus everyone is talking about has raised Lazarus from the dead
This is the same Jesus who fed 5000 people
They become excited… let’s make him our king!
A king to FREE them
A king to FEED them
A king to HEAL them
Luke 19:37-38 Describes the scene well...
37 As soon as He was approaching, near the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of the disciples began to praise God joyfully with a loud voice for all the miracles which they had seen, 38 shouting: “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord; Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!”
So, why was Jesus weeping?
Warren Wiersbe states well why Jesus wept…
No matter where Jesus looked, He found cause for weeping. If He looked back, He saw how the nation had wasted its opportunities and been ignorant of their “time of visitation.” If He looked within, He saw spiritual ignorance and blindness in the hearts of the people. They should have known who He was, for God had given them His Word and sent His messengers to prepare the way. As He looked around, Jesus saw religious activity that accomplished very little. The temple had become a den of thieves, and the religious leaders were out to kill Him. The city was filled with pilgrims celebrating a festival, but the hearts of the people were heavy with sin and life’s burdens. As Jesus looked ahead, He wept as He saw the terrible judgment that was coming to the nation, the city, and the temple. In AD 70, the Romans would come and, after a siege of 143 days, kill 600,000 Jews, take thousands more captive, and then destroy the temple and the city. Why did all of this happen? Because the people did not know that God had visited them! “He came unto His own, and His own received Him not” (John 1:11). “We will not have this man to reign over us!” (Luke 19:14)[i]
[i] Wiersbe, W. W. (1996). The Bible exposition commentary (Vol. 1, p. 255). Wheaton, IL: Victor Books.
Jesus, in His lament, says “if you had known in this day”… What should have been known?
Who Jesus was
When He would come
Scripture States WHO they should have been looking for, and even the WHEN!
Scripture States WHO they should have been looking for, and even the WHEN!
Luke begins his gospel going back to Adam and continues this line all the way to Jesus...
From the very moment God punished Adam and Eve in the garden… God had been promising one who would come, one who would redeem mankind from their sin… one who would be a savior… God had been promising and foretelling of a Messiah who would come.
God promises that the seed of the woman promised to Adam and Eve would crush the serpents head In Genesis 3
In Genesis 12 we see Abraham, God promises him that He will bless all families of the earth through his seed
Jesus is a Jew
In Genesis 49:10 God narrows down the tribe of Judah as the one who would come to rule.
10 “The scepter shall not depart from Judah, Nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, Until Shiloh comes, And to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.
“Until Shiloh comes.” Many sources see “Shiloh” as a title of the Messiah. However, the Hebrew word šîlōh should be rendered “whose it is,” that is, the scepter will not depart from Judah … until He comes whose it (i.e., the scepter) is (or as the niv puts it, to whom it belongs). [i]
[i] Ross, A. P. (1985). Genesis. In J. F. Walvoord & R. B. Zuck (Eds.), The Bible Knowledge Commentary: An Exposition of the Scriptures (Vol. 1, p. 98). Wheaton, IL: Victor Books.
From the tribe of Judah would come King David son of Jesse from Bethlehem.
David was anointed king by Samuel
A man after God’s own heart
He wants to build a temple, a house for God, 2 Samuel 7:16 God has other plans...
16 “Your house and your kingdom shall endure before Me forever; your throne shall be established forever.” ’ ”
In return God says He will establish David’s line/house forever!
David was God’s anointed King
The Hebrew word mashiyach means “the anointed” gradually over time this would become the title for God’s coming Savior-King … Messiah!
For centuries the people would wait and anticipate who from David’s line would become this King… this Messiah!
Luke in his gospel tells us Mary and Joseph, in the line of David
This baby Jesus the angel said would be called Emmanuel God with Us!
When Jesus is born they know he will come from Bethlehem!
The angels declare in Luke 2:14
14 “Glory to God in the highest, And on earth peace among men with whom He is pleased.”
The Messiah had come!
Zechariah 9:9
9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; He is just and endowed with salvation, Humble, and mounted on a donkey, Even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
Jesus comes riding the donkey… but the religious leaders want nothing of the people’s praises Luke 19:32-40
32 So those who were sent went away and found it just as He had told them. 33 As they were untying the colt, its owners said to them, “Why are you untying the colt?” 34 They said, “The Lord has need of it.” 35 They brought it to Jesus, and they threw their coats on the colt and put Jesus on it. 36 As He was going, they were spreading their coats on the road. 37 As soon as He was approaching, near the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of the disciples began to praise God joyfully with a loud voice for all the miracles which they had seen, 38 shouting: “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord; Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!” 39 Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Him, “Teacher, rebuke Your disciples.” 40 But Jesus answered, “I tell you, if these become silent, the stones will cry out!”
So… why would the stones cry out?
So… why would the stones cry out?
Daniel 9:24-26
24 “Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy place. 25 “So you are to know and discern that from the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; it will be built again, with plaza and moat, even in times of distress. 26 “Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and have nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its end will come with a flood; even to the end there will be war; desolations are determined.
Daniel is to “know” and “discern” some things…
A decree will be given that will start the clock 483 years to the Messiah’s comeing!!!!
Nehemiah 2:1-6 444BC in the month of Nisan issued for the rebuilding of Jerusalem as a whole
7 weeks…seven sets of seven or 7x7=49 years to rebuild Jerusalem!
And the 62 weeks continue to follow this time… 62x7=434 years
Jewish years are lunar and therefore are 360 days and our years are solar 365 days
Over 483 years’ time this would be 173,880 days
IF… the decree was given on Nisan 1, 444BC 173,880 days later would land on March 30, 33AD
To the day, to the hour, I believe even to the minute!
If the people were not proclaiming it… THE ROCKS WOULD!
These rulers, religious leaders, scholars could have known to the month if not even to the day when the Messiah would come!
The religious leaders were looking… they just didn’t like what they found!
God’s Word is accurate and true
God’s promises are kept, His prophecies fulfilled
The power of the prophecies is this… it happened as God said it would, when He said it would, and Jesus was the Messiah
And if all that is true then what He did in His death and Resurrection has the power to save you and me!
This was God’s plan from the beginning; He knew He would send His Son to die for the sin of the World.