Headline article from the Spring 2024 Commonwealth of Israel Foundation quarterly newsletter.
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| Doug Krieger, Chair - COIF |
It’s time for some
theological clarity, commentary and devotional. There
are few Messianic Scriptures from the Hebrew text which are alluded to and/or
directly quoted in all four gospels— so, the passages from Zechariah 9:9-10 are altogether poignant,
laced with overt prophetic fulfillment and found in Matthew 21:5; Mark 11:7, 9;
Luke 19:38; John 12:15, to wit:
“Rejoice greatly, O
daughter of Zion! Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King is coming to
you; He is just and having salvation, lowly and riding on a donkey, a colt, the
foal of a donkey” (Zech. 9:9)
Allow me to pause here for Messiah’s
First Coming wrought us so great a
SALVATION—yes, His Triumphal
Entry on Nissan 10 (so-called “Palm
Sunday”—which will occur this year on April 18, 2024
with Passover on April 22—contrariwise, Easter will occur on March 31, 2024 with Palm
Sunday on March 24, 2024). Nisan 10 matches the same date on the Hebrew Sacred
Calendar as the choosing of the spotless lamb on that first Passover—4 days before it was
slain (Exodus 12:1-11). Moreover, it was on Nissan 10 the very day the children
of Israel crossed over the Jordan River into the Good Land (Joshua 4:19) – and the day when
Ezekiel saw the vision of the Holy City, the Holy District as found in Ezekiel
40:1-2—viz. “. . . at the beginning of the year [religious
Rosh Hashanah], on the tenth day of the month . . ...”
