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Palm Sunday
Significance of the donkey colt
In scripture
The story from Matthew
What it means to us today
Introduction
Today you can carry Jesus with you...
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The donkey colt is significant it is the representation of
Jesus as the humble suffering servant and the coming Royal Messiah
Fun facts about donkeys
Power Point Slides
1. Donkeys can be used to guard livestock against coyotes and wolves.
They instinctively attack, by biting and kicking and if they get the chance they will even kill.
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2. A Greek philosopher called Chrysippus died of laughter due to watching his donkey drink wine and eat figs.
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There is donkey power, which is one-third of a horsepower.
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Two zebras died of hunger in a zoo in Palestine and were replaced with donkeys painted with black and white stripes.
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A cross between a zebra and a donkey can be called a zonkey, zebronkey, zedonk, or zebadonk.
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15. “Pule”, the most expensive cheese in the world, is actually made from the milk of Balkan donkeys.
It fetches $600 USD per pound because only 100 such donkeys exist.
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WW1 pp slide
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A donkey named Murphy was awarded Australia Purple Cross in 1997 for animal bravery.
During WWI, he with his 22 years master carried the wounded from the front and travel down the exposed rocky gullies to reach field hospitals.
A statue of Murphy is also erected at the Australian War Memorial.
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You tube Shrek “that will do Donkey that will do”
Typology
Genesis 22:1
Today you can carry Jesus with you...
Prophesy
Zechariah 9:9
Biblical background to Donkey’s
The use of the donkey
1.
It is mentioned more than 120 times in the bible
2. Carrying budens
3. Used for riding
4.
An ass was valuable enough that the firstborn ass had to be ritually redeemed through sacrifice of a lamb (Exod.
13:13; 34:20) or by killing the newborn ass
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Not to used with an Ox, unequally yoked
6. Drawing chariotts
7. Samson used a draw bone to kill
8. Mentioned that they also need a Sabbath rest
9. Balaam the prophet was going a bit crazy and a donkey spoke to him Num 22:21-41
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Prophesy
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Jesus used a donkey colt
12. Isaac was placed on a donkey colt as the sacrificial lamb
Its Significance
The donkey and colt were considered a sign of nobility for leaders and the like.
An ass was valuable enough that the firstborn ass had to be ritually redeemed through sacrifice of a lamb (; ) or by killing the newborn ass
The Messiah would ride on a donkey (Zech.
9:9), the animal of the nobility in days when Israel did not have a king.
The animal contrasted to the horse used in the kings’ military exploits after Solomon’s time (1 Kings 10:26) in violation of Deut.
17:16.
The picture in Zech.
9 thus joins the humble suffering servant and the royal Messiah.
The donkey colt is significant it is the representation of
Jesus as the humble suffering servant and the coming Royal Messiah
Today you can carry Jesus with you...
1. Donkeys can be used to guard livestock against coyotes and wolves.
They instinctively attack, by biting and kicking and if they get the chance they will even kill.
– Source
2. A Greek philosopher called Chrysippus died of laughter due to watching his donkey drink wine and eat figs.
–
10.
There is donkey power, which is one-third of a horsepower.
– Source
13.
Two zebras died of hunger in a zoo in Palestine and were replaced with donkeys painted with black and white stripes.
– Source
14.
A cross between a zebra and a donkey can be called a zonkey, zebronkey, zedonk, or zebadonk.
– Source
15. “Pule”, the most expensive cheese in the world, is actually made from the milk of Balkan donkeys.
It fetches $600 USD per pound because only 100 such donkeys exist.
– Source
20.
A donkey named Murphy was awarded Australia Purple Cross in 1997 for animal bravery.
During WWI, he with his 22 years master carried the wounded from the front and travel down the exposed rocky gullies to reach field hospitals.
A statue of Murphy is also erected at the Australian War Memorial.
– Source
Power Point Slides
When the word of the Lord comes!
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There’s a couple of things at play in this story
There’s a parallel of 2 stories.
Jesus fulfilling prophecy
He came in the fullness of time
to fullfill prophesy
If God can use a donkey to reveal the Messiah, he can use us to glorify him
It was at a time when the disciples were all going to abandon Christ.
Today you can carry Jesus with you...
They hadn’t really come to grips with all that Jesus had said to them.
Then there was the owner of the donkey and her colt.
For this situation to take place he would of been already prepared by God that this was going to happen.
The scriptures don’t say who it was but ONLY how it came about.
Therefore the significance was not about the person supplying the donkey and colt, but the fact that the prophecy and it was a fulfilment of scriptures.
To the Israelite who saw and recognised Jesus coming into Jerusalem on the donkey and a colt, they would of recognised its significance to the OT scriptures and to tradition of a triumphal entry into the city.
Of a Warrior King coming back from war, possible on a horse.
But now the Prince of Peace is entering the city.
War is about to break loose on His life.
We know where that ultimately ended up…Jesus dying for our sins, conquering death and Hell and rising from the dead
There was a spiritual battle but there was a magnificent spiritual victory about to break forth.
Messiah
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