MATTHEW
RECORDS THE LAST CALL TO HIS OWN
AS
JESUS THE KING CLAIMS MOUNT ZION HIS THRONERIDING A COLT AMIDST SHOUTS FROM THE CROWD
“HOSANNAH! SON OF DAVID!” IN HONOR THEY BOWED.
HISTORY AND PROPHECY CONVERGE NOW IN TIME
FULFILLING THE WORDS OF ZACHARIAH 9:9
“SEE, YOUR KING COMES ON THE FOAL OF AN ASS!”
TRIUMPH AND VICTORY WOULD SOON COME TO PASS!
BUT SAD IS THE STORY WHEN VISION IS BLURRED
AND CRIES FOR A CROSS BEGIN TO BE HEARD
THE FIG TREE NOW WITHERED PRODUCES NO FRUIT
LIKE ISRAEL REJECTED, DESTROYED AT ITS ROOT.
THE TEMPLE THAT ONCE HELD THE GLORY OF GOD
WAS BUSY WITH MERCHANTS CORRUPTING ITS SOD
BY FILLING THE COURTYARD WITH LIVESTOCK AND DOVES
HIS HOUSE WAS NOW PRAYERLESS AND EMPTY OF LOVE.
AFTER HE CHASED ALL THE MERCHANTS AWAY
THE PHARISEES ASKED WHY HE DID IT THIS WAY.
HIS STORIES EXPOSED THE SINS THEY HAD DONE
LIKE LEASING A VINEYARD AND KILLING THE SON.
THE STONE THAT THE BUILDERS REJECTED WAS CHRIST
AS RULERS TOOK COUNCIL TO SHORTEN HIS LIFE
THE STORY HE TOLD OF A KING'S WEDDING FEAST
WAS MEANT TO CONDEMN EVERY SCRIBE, EVERY PRIEST.
SOME QUESTIONS WERE GIVEN TO TRAP HIM ONE DAY
LIKE MARRIAGE IN HEAVEN OR TAXES TO PAY
HE ANSWERED DISCRETELY FROM GOD'S WRITTEN WORD
EXPOSING THEIR MOTIVES HE CLEARLY OPPOSED.
JESUS THEN ASKED WHO MESSIAH WOULD BE?
“THE
SON OF KING DAVID THE PROPHET'S DECREE!”
SO
WHY DID THE KING CALL MESSIAH HIS LORD?SINCE THAT'S WHAT THE PSALM MAKES SO CLEAR IN THE WORD?
THE RULERS REFUSED TO ACKNOWLEDGE HIS CLAIM
THAT HE WAS MESSIAH, EMANUEL WHO CAME
THEIR HEARTS BECAME HARDENED, REFUSING TO SEE
THAT HE WAS BOTH MAN AND SUPREME DEITY.
THE PHARISEES TAUGHT ALL THE LAW MOSES WROTE
YET FAILED TO APPLY WHAT GOD SAID WHEN THEY SPOKE
THEY GREEDILY SOUGHT APPROVAL AND FAME
BUT ALL OF THEIR DEEDS SHOWED DECEPTION AND SHAME.
THE KING THEN PRONOUNCED SEVEN WOES THEY DESERVED
CONDEMNING THEIR ACTIONS AND WORKS HE EXPOSED
YET FULL OF COMPASSION HE PLEADS ONE LAST TIME
THAT ISRAEL AGAIN LIKE A BEACON WOULD SHINE.
---B. PENT
1 comment:
Well done, Dad! :)
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