KING OF GLORY - Who is this king of glory? - King Jesus stands in stark contrast with all earthly kings, for He is the eternal King. He is the King whose coronation was foretold in advance by the prophets. Christ is perfectly righteous and forever victorious, yet He is lowly — humbling Himself to the point of death on a cross. His weapon is not mass destruction, but the mass restoration of lives. On Palm Sunday, King Jesus rode into Jerusalem not to conquer the city like an earthly king, but to conquer your heart and mine. He entered the city not as a man of the sword but as a man of sorrow, not as a man of hatred but as the God of love - is Christ the King of your life? - "They took palm branches and went out to meet him, shouting, 'Hosanna!' 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!' 'Blessed is the king of Israel!'" - Historically, the Sunday before Easter is celebrated as Palm Sunday, a day for the church to reflect on and celebrate the kingship of Jesus. Palm Sunday was a unique moment in Jesus' lifetime — the first time He allowed His followers to crown Him King. Through this historic event, we see the glory of Jesus that sets Him apart from every prophet and king who ever lived. King Jesus stands in stark contrast with all earthly kings, for He is the eternal King. He is the King whose coronation was foretold in advance by the prophets. Christ is perfectly righteous and forever victorious, yet He is lowly — humbling Himself to the point of death on a cross.

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King Of Glory

WHO IS THIS KING OF GLORY?

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King Jesus stands in stark contrast with all earthly kings, for He is the eternal King. He is the King whose coronation was foretold in advance by the prophets. Christ is perfectly righteous and forever victorious, yet He is lowly — humbling Himself to the point of death on a cross. His weapon is not mass destruction, but the mass restoration of lives. On Palm Sunday, King Jesus rode into Jerusalem not to conquer the city like an earthly king, but to conquer your heart and mine. He entered the city not as a man of the sword but as a man of sorrow, not as a man of hatred but as the God of love - is Christ the King of your life?

Michael Youssef, Ph.D.

"They took palm branches and went out to meet him, shouting, 'Hosanna!' 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!' 'Blessed is the king of Israel!'" - (John 12:13).

Historically, the Sunday before Easter is celebrated as Palm Sunday, a day for the church to reflect on and celebrate the kingship of Jesus.

Palm Sunday was a unique moment in Jesus' lifetime — the first time He allowed His followers to crown Him King (see John 12:12-19).

Through this historic event, we see the glory of Jesus that sets Him apart from every prophet and king who ever lived.

King Jesus stands in stark contrast with all earthly kings, for He is the eternal King.

He is the King whose coronation was foretold in advance by the prophets.

In fact, hundreds of years before Jesus entered Jerusalem, Zechariah prophesied, "Rejoice greatly, Daughter Zion! Shout, Daughter Jerusalem! See, your king comes to you, righteous and victorious, lowly and riding on a donkey" (Zechariah 9:9).  

The difference between King Jesus and every other earthly king can be found in this one verse.

Christ is perfectly righteous and forever victorious, yet He is lowly — humbling Himself to the point of death on a cross.

His weapon is not mass destruction, but the mass restoration of lives.

On Palm Sunday, King Jesus rode into Jerusalem not to conquer the city like an earthly king, but to conquer your heart and mine.

He entered the city not as a man of the sword but as a man of sorrow, not as a man of hatred but as the God of love.

Earthly kings may lord their authority over their subjects, but King Jesus compels us by His love and invites us into His Kingdom.

On that first Palm Sunday, the masses cried out, "Hosanna!" which means "Save now."

In doing so, they were proclaiming, "The king who will reign forever, whose sacrifice will redeem us, whose strength will carry us, whose might will defeat Satan — He is here."

Jesus purposely rode into Jerusalem on a donkey in order to fulfill the prophecy of Zechariah, and the crowd recognized His kingship.

The celebration of Christ's kingship on Palm Sunday begs the question: Is Christ the King of your life?

Prayer: Jesus, You are the rightful, righteous, eternal King. Help me by Your Spirit to live a life of submission to You. Thank You for Your love and sacrifice. All glory and praise belong to You. I pray in the name of Jesus. Amen.

DR. MICHAEL YOUSSEF

Even before he was born, it was evident that God had a vision for Michael Amerhom Youssef. Against doctors’ recommendations to terminate the at-risk pregnancy, Michael’s parents chose life after God intervened, sending the family pastor to reassure them that this child would be “born to serve the Lord.” His mother gave birth and lived to see him surrender his life to the Lord in 1964 at age 16.
Dr. Michael Youssef was born in Egypt and lived in Lebanon and Australia before coming to the United States and fulfilling a childhood dream of becoming an American citizen. With degrees in theology and social anthropology, God has gifted Dr. Youssef with a bold voice to bring Biblical clarity to today’s issues and speak to a worldwide audience.

https://au.ltw.org/read/my-devotional/2019/04/who-is-this-king-of-glory

THE INGATHERING - Restoration Of Israel - The miracles of God’s promises to Israel continue to unfold; the good, the bad and the ugly. In very many places, the Scriptures prepare us for the fact that God was planning to bring His people back to His land by hook or by crook. With anti-Semitism spiraling out of all control around the world, many Jewish people are now deciding that they would be safer in war-torn Israel under the protection of the IDF than they are in Europe, and are packing their bags to escape while they still can. They are being hunted and hounded back to the land given to their fathers, just as the Bible said. The regathering of God’s people to their land is one of the most frequently predicted prophecies in the Bible. And the waves of immigration continue to pour in now that Israel has become an independent state. There will be a time, just as Yeshua predicted, when the Jewish people will call out from the land of Israel to welcome their Messiah, “Baruch ha ba be shem Adonai! – Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!”

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Restoration Of Israel

The Ingathering

By ONE FOR ISRAEL (Messianic Jews In Israel)

“For I will bring them back to their own land that I gave to their fathers. Behold, I am sending for many fishers, declares the Lord, and they shall catch them. And afterwards I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.” (Jeremiah 16:15-16)

The miracles of God’s promises to Israel continue to unfold; the good, the bad and the ugly.

In very many places, the Scriptures prepare us for the fact that God was planning to bring His people back to His land by hook or by crook.

With anti-Semitism spiraling out of all control around the world, many Jewish people are now deciding that they would be safer in war-torn Israel under the protection of the IDF than they are in Europe, and are packing their bags to escape while they still can.

They are being hunted and hounded back to the land given to their fathers, just as the Bible said.

“Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when it shall no longer be said, ‘As the Lord lives who brought up the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt’, but ‘As the Lord lives who brought up the people of Israel out of the north country and out of all the countries where he had driven them.’"(Jeremiah 16:14)

The regathering of God’s people to their land is one of the most frequently predicted prophecies in the Bible.

There have always been Jewish people living in Israel, and several waves of Jewish immigrants arrived long before 1948, buying property and working the land.

And the waves of immigration continue to pour in now that Israel has become an independent state.

In Isaiah 11:11, God promised to stretch out his hand to regather Israel from the four corners of the earth “a second time” (the first time being from the lands of the Babylonian exile).

We know from Hosea 3:4-5 that it would occur in the last days and Amos 9:15 tells us that they will never be uprooted again.

The conflict in Gaza unleashed such international fury that the line between criticism of the Jewish state and hatred of the Jewish people became rapidly blurred and then, in many cases, just vanished altogether.

Now that we are seeing young Jewish men and women beaten on the streets of Canada, a dentist refusing to treat Jews in Belgium, synagogues sieged in France and firebombed in Germany, British supermarkets clearing Kosher foods off their shelves, swastikas appearing in America and a trend on twitter insisting that Hitler was right all along, Jewish people are considering leaving the smashed windows of their Western businesses, and taking refuge in the Jewish State – the one place on earth they can call home.

The centre of Jewish gravity has finally moved from America to Israel, which now houses the largest population of Jewish people in the world.

There are approximately 14 million Jewish people in the world today, around 0.2% of the global population.

Just over 8 million people now live in Israel in total; three quarters of whom are Jewish, with the remaining quarter having Arab or ‘other’ ethnic backgrounds.

Israel continues to have one of the highest standards of living, in terms of education, life expectancy, safety for minorities, and economic prosperity, in the Middle East.

Over three million Jewish people have left their homes and emigrated to Israel since 1948, a move which is known as “making aliyah”.

Biblically, moving to Israel or ascending to Jerusalem is referred to as “going up” and leaving is “going down”; the word aliyah means “going up” or ascending.

And the number of Europeans making this move will also be markedly ascending in the wake of vitriolic and violent outbreaks of anti-Semitism, the likes of which we have not seen since the rise of the Third Reich.

It is quite staggering how quickly the world has forgotten its history. But the people of Israel have vowed never to forget, and are packing up and boarding airplanes back to the land of their fathers.

I heard a rabbi once speculate about this verse in Isaiah, as possibly describing the method of transport by which God will do this – first by ship, and then “flying like a cloud”:

“Who are these that fly like a cloud, and like doves to their windows? For the coastlands shall hope for me, the ships of Tarshish first, to bring your children from afar, their silver and gold with them, for the name of the Lord your God and for the Holy One of Israel.” Isaiah 60:8-9

We see this image again in Hosea:

“When he roars, his children shall come trembling from the west; they shall come trembling like birds from Egypt, and like doves from the land of Assyria, and I will return them to their homes, declares the Lord.” Hosea 11:10-11

The parable of the Dry Bones in Ezekiel 37 is commonly considered to be symbolic of the restoration of Israel after the Holocaust.

However, there is another dimension to this story: the physical resurrection of the return to the Land must take place before the Spirit of God breathes new life into the people, so that they return to their God.

The previous chapter, Ezekiel 36, also presents this order of events; first the physical regathering, then the spiritual renewal:

Stage one: “I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries and bring you into your own land.” (verse 24)

Stage two: “I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you.  And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.” (verses 25-26)

God is faithful to all His promises, and to His covenant people Israel.

As we watch with sadness the events shaking the world, we know that our sovereign God is still in control.

He continues to work out His plans and purposes, drawing all things to Himself.

There will be a time, just as Yeshua predicted, when the Jewish people will call out from the land of Israel to welcome their Messiah, “Baruch ha ba be shem Adonai! – Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!”

ONE FOR ISRAEL (Messianic Jews In Israel) 

We are an Israeli ministry composed of Jewish & Arab followers of Yeshua (Jesus) who are all about blessing Israel through sharing the gospel online, educating the new generation of born-again believers through our one and only Hebrew-speaking Bible College in Israel, and helping holocaust survivors by supplying humanitarian aid.

https://www.oneforisrael.org/bible-based-teaching-from-israel/the-ingathering-2/

THIS IS THE DAY THE LORD HAS MADE - What “day” is Psalm 118:24 referring to? Psalm 118 is talking about the work of God in Christ and the future day when God will lay the foundation Stone that will bring salvation.

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“This is the day the Lord has made”

What “day” is Psalm 118:24 referring to?

This is a good illustration how people use verses from the Bible totally out of context and with the wrong application,

There is the popular chorus, “This is the Day.” It is usually understood as referring to the new day, i.e. today, that God has given us, and so we should rejoice in it.

That is true, but Psalm 118 is talking about the work of God in Christ and the future day when God will lay the foundation Stone that will bring salvation.

Please note the comments on this Psalm from The Bible Knowledge Commentary.

C. Significance of the triumph (Psalm 118:22-29)

Psalm 118:22-24. The psalmist explained that the Lord had taken the stone that the builders rejected and had marvelously made it the capstone of the nation. Therefore the people should rejoice.

In those days great empires easily set up and removed kings. Perhaps those great nations discounted Israel as a nation. Yet the Lord took that “stone” and made it “the capstone” of His rule on earth.

The image of the stone may have suggested itself from the temple construction work going on in the postexilic community. The psalmist, perhaps the congregation’s leader, may have thought of his king as the stone, for in Israel kings often represented the nation.

Certainly in Jesus’ Parable of the Landowner and the Tenants He applied the psalm in that way (Matthew 21:33-44).

Jesus is the Stone and the Jewish leaders, the builders of the nation, had rejected Him. But God made Him the Capstone.

Thus the kingdom would be taken from them and given to others (Matthew 21:43).

The fact that this psalm was probably popular at the Passover festival made Jesus’ use of it all the more forceful.

Psalm 118:25-29. The psalmist prayed then for his people’s

salvation and prosperity.

The words save us (v. 25) and Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord (v. 26) were proclaimed at Jesus’ Triumphal Entry (Matthew 21:9; (“Hosanna” translates the Hebrew for “save”).

The people believed that Jesus was the Coming Savior. In fact the phrase with boughs in hand (Psalm118:27) may have prompted their putting the branches down for Jesus (Matthew 21:8).

The second half of Psalm 118:27, though difficult in the Hebrew, refers to the custom at the Feast of Tabernacles of waving branches before the Lord.

Then later, when the psalm was used in all the feasts, this part of verse 27 became simply an expression in the hymn without boughs literally being in people’s hands.

But the people in Jesus’ day knew that He claimed to be the Messiah, and that this psalm spoke of the Coming One.

So they appropriated its message for the occasion. Fittingly Jesus identified Himself as the Stone who would bring salvation to those who prayed to Him, “Save us.”

Because the psalm is typically prophetic of the Messiah, the earlier references to “cut off” may also have a higher significance in relation to the work of Christ. (vv. 10-12)

   In the Old Testament, circumcision was the means by which a male Israelite was identified with the covenant, but circumcision came to signify “inner circumcision” (cf. Deuteronomy 30:6), belief that set one apart to God. Paul wrote that a true Jew is one whose heart is circumcised (Romans 2:29).

Perhaps Psalm 118 anticipated the time when the Stone, Jesus, would turn to the nations who would receive Him (cf. John 1:12).

If so, His triumph is in a sense different from its meaning when it was historically recorded in Israel.

For the psalmist, Psalm 118:25-29 spoke of the procession coming to the temple to worship, and the one coming “in the name of the Lord” was the worshiper.

At the altar the worshiper would give…thanks (cf. vv. 19, 21) and acknowledge the Lord God for His goodness and loyal love.

In Jesus’ Triumphal Entry this psalm, sung by the people as they moved in the procession to the temple, was most appropriate as He entered Jerusalem to begin His work of salvation for those who would believe.

“This Is The Day”

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cccJhMVFrLskaW

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This is the day, this is the day.
That the Lord has made, that the Lord has made.
We will rejoice, we will rejoice,
And be glad in it, and be glad in it.
This is the day that the Lord has made.
We will rejoice and be glad in it.
This is the day, this is the day
That the Lord has made.

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We are the sons, we are the sons,
Of the living God, of the living God.
We will rejoice, we will rejoice,
And be glad in Him, and be glad in Him.
We are the sons of the living God.
We will rejoice and be glad in Him.
We are the sons, we are the sons
    Of the living God.