SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 5/28/2023 9:44 PM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-1 “The End of the Pilgrimage”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference:
Matthew 21:1a
Message of the verse: “And when they had approached Jerusalem and had come to Bethphage, to the Mount of Olives”
This takes place after Jesus had healed the two
blind beggars, and then made His way up to Jerusalem from Jericho. I realize that Matthew did not cover the
salvation of Zaccheus, but that also happened in Jericho. Now the truth of it is that as He approached
Jerusalem this would be His final journey as He would be crucified a week
later. Therefore this would end His
three year ministry, which had been preceded also by thirty years of obscurity,
something we really don’t know a lot about.
Jesus was about to reach the final goal set before Him by His heavenly
Father. Now as the multitudes followed
along with Him to celebrate the Passover, little did they know they were
accompanying the Passover Lamb Himself.
John MacArthur writes “During a census taken about ten
years after this time, the number of sacrificial lambs slaughtered at the
Passover was determined to be some 260,000.
Because one lamb was allowed to be offered up for up to the people, the
worshipers in Jerusalem that week could have numbered over 2,000,000. It is not likely that the number then would
have been much higher than during this last Passover that Jesus celebrated,
indicating that the city was teeming with people.”
I will not make this SD very long as it is Sunday
evening, and so I just am kind of tired as we had a rather full day.
Now it was before Jesus and the Twelve entered Jerusalem
they stopped at the little hamlet of Bethphage.
This town is close to the Mount of Olives and that is about all we know
about it, as not much is written about it.
Let’s look at a couple of verses from Mark and Luke to help us out a
little bit. “As
they approached Jerusalem, at Bethphage and Bethany, near the Mount of Olives,
He sent two of His disciples,” (Mark 11:1).
“When He approached Bethphage and Bethany, near the mount that is called
Olivet, He sent two of the disciples,” (Luke 19:29). This is all we know about this small town
close to Jerusalem, and near the Mount of Olives.
5/28/2023 10:01
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