Jesus wept (4/5/2020)

Today is Palm Sunday. 

Remember the flannel-graphs of your youth? Shouts of joy. Palm branches. Jesus on the colt. Jesus was finally getting the praise He deserved. Everything about this day was happy.  

What did Jesus do next?  Jesus wept. 

Luke 19:38-42

saying, “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!” And some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples.” He answered, “I tell you, if these were silent, the very stones would cry out.”

And when he drew near and saw the city, he wept over it, saying, “Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.

Why did he weep?  He wept because the people declared something that had yet to occur — “Peace in heaven”.  Peace in heaven could only come after a war. 

If you would, sometime this Holy Week, read Revelation 12:7-11 and take note of what weapons were used in this war to defeat Satan. 

But yes, today join with the shouts, because victory is about to be won.