SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 6/6/2023 9:41 AM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-4 “The
Epitome of Praise”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matthew
21:8-9
Message of the verses: “8 And most of the
multitude spread their garments in the road, and others were cutting branches
from the trees, and spreading them in the road. 9 And the multitudes going before
Him, and those who followed after were crying out, saying, "Hosanna to the
Son of David; BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD; Hosanna in the
highest!’”
I have been talking about how the children of Israel
wanted to have their Messiah destroy the Romans, but mentioned that it was not
the time for the Romans to be destroyed.
The first thing that had to happen was to destroy sin, which Jesus did
on the cross. It is true that the Romans
were a godless and cruel oppressors, and the Lord would not allow them to
survive indefinitely. But they were not
His people’s greatest enemy, as mentioned their greatest enemy was sin. The Jewish people would go ahead and have
Jesus crucified, using the hated Romans to do it, and because they refused to
trust Jesus as their Messiah in around 40 years later God would have the Romans
destroy the Jewish Temple, which has never been rebuilt yet, but will be in the
future. In the book of Deuteronomy it told
that the Jewish people would be sold as slaves, but no one would buy them, and
this happened in 70 A. D. when there were too many slaves on the slave market
and so after Titus and his Roman army destroyed the temple in 70 A. D. they
Jews really had no place to go. In May
of 1948 Israel became a nation again right in the place where God gave them the
land when they conquered it from the heathen nations through Joshua. They may be in their land but they still do
not understand who their Messiah is, and won’t understand that until near the
end of the tribulation period.
John
MacArthur writes “On the day after His triumphal entry into Jerusalem Jesus ‘entered
the temple and cast out all those who were buying and selling in the temple,
and overturned the tables of the moneychangers and the seats of those who were
selling doves. And He said to them, ‘It
is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer, ‘but you are making it
a robbers’ den’’ (Matt. 21:12-13). The
cleansing of the Temple was purely symbolic and had little lasting effect. The mercenary moneychangers and sacrifice
sellers were doubtlessly back in business the next day. But less than forty years later, in A. D. 70,
the Romans would utterly destroy the Temple, after which, just as Jesus
foretold, not one stone of it was left upon another that was not torn down
(Matt. 24:2). Not until modern times,
nearly two thousand years later, could even its ruins be identified.
“As
far as the true intent of the people was concerned, Jesus’ coronation was a
hollow, empty pretense. The words of the
multitude were right, but their hearts were not. In any case, He had not come at that time to
be crowned but to be crucified.”
Those
who know Scripture know that someday Jesus will be crowned, and not like the
first time when the only crown He had was a crown of thrones. The times of rejection will be over as I
mentioned earlier, and at His name “every knee [will] bow, of those who are in
heaven, and on earth, and under the earth, and…every tongue [will] confess that
Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father” (Phil. 2:10-11). I have mentioned that the first time Jesus
came, He came to provide men’s salvation.
But when He comes again, He will come to display His sovereignty. His great ultimate coronation is described by
John in Revelation 5:8-14, which we will not look at.
8 And when He had taken the book, the four
living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, having
each one a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the
saints. 9 And they sang a new song, saying, "Worthy art Thou to take the
book, and to break its seals; for Thou wast slain, and didst purchase for God
with Thy blood men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. 10
"And Thou hast made them to be a kingdom and priests to our God;
and they will reign upon the earth." 11 And I looked, and I heard the
voice of many angels around the throne and the living creatures and the elders;
and the number of them was myriads of myriads, and thousands of thousands, 12 saying
with a loud voice, "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and
riches and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing." 13 And
every created thing which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and
on the sea, and all things in them, I heard saying, "To Him who sits on
the throne, and to the Lamb, be blessing and honor and glory and
dominion forever and ever." 14 And the four living creatures kept saying,
"Amen." And the elders fell down and worshiped.
Spiritual
meaning for my life today: I am thankful be on words to realize that
Jesus did not by pass the cross, but took my place there in order to pay for my
sins so that one day, in heaven after the rapture of the church that I will be
watch His wonderful coronation described in the verses from Revelation 5:8-14.
My Steps of Faith for Today: I desire to live my life in a way that will
bring glory to my Lord who saved me.
6/6/2023 10:16 AM
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