March 29, 2026

YOUR KING IS COMING TO YOU, HUMBLE, AND MOUNTED ON A DONKEY MATTHEW 21:1-11 Jesus knows all things, and this is tremendously comforting; ROMANS 5:8 8 …but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 1 JOHN 3:19–20 19 By this we shall know that we are of the truth and reassure our heart before him; 20 for whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything. Unbearingly distressing would be the thought that after placing His saving love upon us, God would learn even the slightest thing about us. The Messiah who has rejected all worship now orchestrates worship; ZECHARIAH 9:9 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. Riding an animal that has never been ridden; NUMBERS 19:2 2 “This is the statute of the law that the LORD has commanded: Tell the people of Israel to bring you a red heifer without defect, in which there is no blemish, and on which a yoke has never come.” DEUTERONOMY 21:3 3 And the elders of the city that is nearest to the slain man shall take a heifer that has never been worked and that has not pulled in a yoke. 1 SAMUEL 6:7–8 7 Now then, take and prepare a new cart and two milk cows on which there has never come a yoke, and yoke the cows to the cart, but take their calves home, away from them. 8 And take the ark of the LORD and place it on the cart and put in a box at its side the figures of gold, which you are returning to him as a guilt offering. Then send it off and let it go its way ―A dramatization of the second coming― Jesus allows Himself to be worshiped; PHILIPPIANS 2:10–11 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Jesus is welcomed by “waving” trees; ISAIAH 55:12 12 “For you shall go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.” Jesus arrives mounted upon an animal; REVELATION 19:11 11 Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse! The one sitting on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war. Jesus arrives from the Mount of Olives; ZECHARIAH 14:4 4 On that day his feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives that lies before Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives shall be split in two from east to west by a very wide valley, so that one half of the Mount shall move northward, and the other half southward. Jesus enters the Holy City by the eastern gate; EZEKIEL 44:1–2 1 Then he brought me back to the outer gate of the sanctuary, which faces east. And it was shut. 2 And the LORD said to me, “This gate shall remain shut; it shall not be opened, and no one shall enter by it, for the LORD, the God of Israel, has entered by it. Therefore it shall remain shut. Jesus comes “down” into the Holy City; REVELATION 1:7 7 Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him, and all tribes of the earth will wail on account of him. Even so. Amen. Jesus enters the Holy City for His coronation; MATTHEW 25:31 31 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. Jesus’ first act after entering the Holy City is judgment; REVELATION 20:12 12 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done. Jesus’ return is supremely public; REVELATION 1:7 7 Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him, and all tribes of the earth will wail on account of him. Even so. Amen. Jesus is escorted into the Holy City by a great crowd of worshipers; 1 THESSALONIANS 4:15–17 15 For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. 16 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. Christ is unmistakably orchestrating the fore-runner of His true triumphal entry. Humility without modesty; MATTHEW 25:31–34 31 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. 32 Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33 And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left. 34 Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. Humility: The quality of purposely placing others before self (Phi. 2:3-4). Modesty: The quality of being unassuming or moderate in the estimation of one's abilities. Crown Him or kill Him―those are our choices. A demonstration of the great reversal; GENESIS 3:5–6 5 For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” 6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate. ISAIAH 14:13–14 13 You said in your heart, “I will ascend to heaven; above the stars of God I will set my throne on high; I will sit on the mount of assembly in the far reaches of the north; 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.” ISAIAH 53:4–5 4 Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. 5 But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed. 2 CORINTHIANS 5:21 21 For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. Sin is humanity putting themselves where only God should be. Salvation from sin comes through God putting Himself where humanity should be. 3/29/2026