Day 269 - Zechariah 9-14

ONE-YEAR JOURNEY OF THE BIBLE
Day 269 - Zechariah 9-14 (Key Evidence Proving Jesus is the Messiah)
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       "Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! 
        Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem! 
        Behold, your King is coming to you; 
        He is just and having salvation, 
        Lowly and riding on a donkey, 
        A colt, the foal of a donkey."     (Zechariah 9:9) 

Fulfilled prophecy remains the strongest evidence for the validity of the Bible and in particular, the validity of Jesus as the Messiah of Scriptures.  There are over 300 prophecies about the Messiah that Jesus fulfilled.  The mathematical probability of all those fulfilled prophecies happening by chance is absolutely impossible and anyone who denies it is simply out of touch with reality.

One great example of those hundreds of fulfilled prophecies is found in our text above concerning the triumphal entry of the Messiah as prophesied by the prophet Zechariah written about 550 years before it actually occurred.  

An impostor who wanted to "fulfill" the triumphal entry would have simply fetched a donkey but not Jesus. As the three gospel writers record, Jesus instructed two of His disciples to go into a certain village and there there will find a donkey which has never been sat on and if the owner asked why they were taking it, they just had to say "the Lord has need of it."  Jesus not only fulfilled a the donkey part of the prophecy about the triumphal entry; He made the process miraculous in itself!

Here's something an impostor would have found impossible to do - unless the one riding on the donkey was Messiah Himself, the other prophecies associated with the triumphal entry such as the huge crowd welcoming Jesus and shouting "Hosanna!  Blessed is He Who comes in the name of the Lord!" in fulfillment of Psalm 118:26.

"So what?" you might say.  I'm glad you asked.  Here's where this whole prophecy thing really applies to everyone of us.  Because Jesus fulfilled every prophecy about Him until the day of His death and resurrection, it is absolutely certain that He will also fulfill all the remaining prophecies about Him that has yet to be fulfilled including His second coming into Jerusalem, this time not on a humble donkey to be sacrificed as the Lamb that takes away the sins of the world, but as conquering King who will destroy His enemies into everlasting punishment in hell.

Who is Jesus to you - just another religious leader among many or the Messiah of the Bible who alone is the only God and Savior?  Your relationship or lack thereof with Jesus will determine your eternal destiny.