
The Messiah comes to rebuild Jerusalem
Palm Sunday is the day the Christian Church remembers the “triumphal enrty” of Jesus into Jerusalem, exactly one week before His resurrection (Matthew 21:1-11) Some 450-500 years earlier, the Prophet Zechariah had prophesied, “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” (Zechariah 9:9) Matthew 21:7-9 records the fulfillment of that prophecy: “They brought the donkey and the colt, laid their clothers on them, and set Him on them. And a very great multitude spread their clothes on the road; others cut down branches from the trees and spread them on the road. The multitudes who wnet before and those who followed cried out, saying: “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the Highest”
This event took place on the Sunday before Jesus’crucifixion.
In remembrance of this event, the church celebrates Palm Sunday. because of the palms branches that were laid on the road as Jesus rode the donkey into Jerusalem. Palm Sunday was the fulfillment of the Prophet Daniel’s “seventy sevens” (Daniel 9:25)