you,
ye shall say, The Lord hath need of them; and straightway he will
send them. Now this is come to pass, that it might be fulfilled
which was spoken through the prophet, saying,
Tell ye the daughter of Zion,
Behold, thy King cometh unto thee,
Meek, and riding upon an ass,
And upon a colt the foal of an ass.
And the disciples went, and did even as Jesus appointed them, and
brought the ass, and the colt, and put on them their garments; and
he sat thereon. And the most part of the multitude spread their
garments in the way; and others cut branches from the trees, and
spread them in the way. And the multitudes that went before him,
and that followed, cried saying, Hosanna to the son of David:
Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the
highest. And when he was come into Jerusalem, all the city was
stirred, saying, Who is this? And the multitudes said, This is the
prophet, Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee.--Matt. 21:1-11.
Here was a democratic procession! No caparisoned charger, but a
burro--though a young and frisky one, carefully selected--no military escort
with a brass band and a drum major, but a throng of peasants, shouting the
psalms of their fathers and the hope of a good time coming; no costly rugs
to carpet the way of the King, but the sweat-stained garments of working
people and branches wrenched off by Galilaean fists. What was he, this King
of the future, ridiculous or sublime?
If Jesus is ever to make his entry into the spiritual sovereignty of
humanity, will the social classes line up as they did at Jerusalem?
Seventh Day: The Final Test for All
But when the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the
angels with him, then shall he sit on the throne of his glory: and
before him shall be gathered all the nations: and he shall
separate them one from another, as the shepherd separateth the
sheep from the goats; and he shall set the sheep on his right
hand, but the goats on the left. Then shall the King say unto them
on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the
kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: for I
was hungry, and ye gave me to eat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me
drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me in; naked, and ye clothed
me; I was sick, and ye visited me; I was in prison, and ye came
unto me. Then shal
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