The Hosannas and The Crucify Him

 



The entire Holy Week may be summarised into a single word, Fickle-mindedness. In a strange act of humanity, an entire history changes. Today on Palm Sunday we see the entire city crying out Hosanna to a Carpenter's Son seated on a donkey. A man who lay His Feet as a Babe in a donkey's food trough, a manger. He hasn't a crown of gold or rich clothes to wear and not even a place to "lay His Head". But yet people have seen Him raise Lazarus from the dead, exorcise demons, raise a dead girl to life, heal a man born blind, cleansed lepers, heal a man who couldn't walk for 36 years, feed 5000 men, and cleansed the Temple with a whip made of cords. "They had seen all that he had done in Jerusalem". Now they know, He is their King, The Davidic Messiah, The Son of David. But wait....Is this "Hosanna to The Son of David" and the "Blessed in The Name of The Lord, is the One Who comes" the culmination of The Kingdom of Jesus, Son of Mary and Joseph. Nope, His Kingship isn't merely for The House of Israel, it is for all The Children of Adam. But  this incident is the beginning of that Great Event, The Climax of Human Salvation. It is the very beginning where a fickle-minded people call Him King and in a moment of merely 4 days, change their minds and say, "Crucify Him".



It is here that these men and women who hail Jesus as The Messiah singing aloud "Hosanna to The Son of David", change their minds and cry out, "Give us Barabbas" and then "Crucify Him". And this is also the plot twist of The God who punished Israelites 40 years in the wilderness of Sinai and Canaan, for their sins actually show Himself to be more Merciful than ever when God The Son with His outstretched Arms on The Cross forgives Man's fickleness. 



Question remains, are we still fickle? Do we hail Him King at one time and Crucify Him the next?

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