Matthew chapter 21 records the Palm Sunday declaration by Jesus of His Messiahship, the only public occasion in all his three-and-half years of ministry when He acknowledged the crowd's hailing of His Messiahship.
This unique occasion fulfils Zechariah 9:9 to the very letter. "Such is the accuracy of Scripture," says Sir Robert Anderson, the Head of Scotland Yard of Britain and an author of numerous Christian books including the famed "The Coming Prince".
So this Palm Sunday was no ordinary day or occasion. It was a day of destiny for the nation of Israel in their final rejection of their Messiah, and they would suffer God's judgments for this rejection of Christ. In AD 70 the Roman General Titus was to destroy the city of Jerusalem and its Temple, killing the whole city population and sending Israel into exile for the following 1800 years. Then came the Holocaust of that Master of ethnic cleansing, the monster Hitler, who almost wiped out the race of the Jews. So drastic are the consequences of rejecting their Messiah.
Andrew Loh
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