Hoshiana!


Yesterday, many people celebrated what is known in churches as "Palm Sunday". What they were celebrating is an event that falls on the 10th day of the First Month on God's calendar. This year that date falls on Monday, April 15th: today!  This is the day that Yeshua (Jesus) rode into Jerusalem on a donkey, and the people waved palm branches and cried, "Hoshiana!"  This was very symbolic and significant, and you can read about it in your Bible in Matthew 21, Mark 11, Luke 19, and John 12.  Yeshua was fulfilling a prophecy found in Zechariah 9:9, which says:
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; He is just and endowed with salvation, Humble, and mounted on a donkey, Even on a colt, the foal of a donkey. 
The word "hoshiana" is transliterated in our Bibles as "hosanna". Don't ask my why. I'm not a linguist, so I don't know. But what I do know is this: if you look this word up in a lexicon, you will find that it means "please save!" Please save. All of my years of singing the songs that say, "hosanna in the highest", I thought I was singing praises, and I was, but also so much more! The people who were crying "hoshiana" to Yeshua were crying "please save" to the one whose very name means salvation! 

And there's more.

The 10th day of the first month is a significant day on God's calendar. It's the day the lambs are selected for Passover.  The lambs were very thoroughly examined because they must be perfect, and they were kept until the 14th day of the month when they were sacrificed for Passover. Do you see the correlation? Yeshua rode into Jerusalem on the 10th day, when the people selected him to be their king and salvation. He was then thoroughly questioned and examined.  He was perfect, and they could find no fault in him. And he became our Passover Lamb. 

Passover is this Friday evening. Each time I celebrate Passover, it becomes more meaningful and more profound. God's holidays are an amazing part of the unbelievably detailed work of art that is His plan. 



Comments

  1. HaleyApril 15, 2019 at 2:15 PM

    You should check out those verses in The Passion Translation! They give you a better picture than most of the English translations of this account.

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