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Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion!  Shout in triumph,<\/em> 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.  (Zechariah 9:9, NASB)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is another prophecy to Israel about God’s Christmas gift to them and the whole world of the coming of the Savior of the world!\u00a0 This one is from the book of Zechariah.\u00a0 The Prophet Zechariah wrote during the end of the Babylonian exile.\u00a0 Seventy years had passed since Judah was defeated by Babylon and carried into exile.\u00a0 The Persian Empire in turn had defeated Babylon, and was now in power.\u00a0 God spoke through Zechariah to heal the hearts of the Jewish exiles, reconcile them to Himself, and prepare them to return to the land of Judah.\u00a0 (Zechariah 1)<\/p>\n\n\n\n


The prophet says that Israel should rejoice.\u00a0 Indeed!\u00a0 The arrival of Messiah would fulfill hundreds of years of waiting and hoping for their Savior King to arrive.\u00a0 Zechariah describes the future King as “just and endowed with salvation.”\u00a0 Jesus fulfilled this description.\u00a0 He walked among us, and taught justice and mercy, that we should love God and love other people.\u00a0 Messiah would also be humble.\u00a0 He left His heavenly home and humbly took the form of a man to deliver His message of salvation and gospel of love.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Further, their future King would arrive “mounted on a donkey.”\u00a0 Jesus would fulfill this prophecy during His triumphal entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday.\u00a0 We’ll talk more about this during Lent.\u00a0 Zechariah’s prophecies would come true later, but they gave God’s people reason to hope as they prepared to reenter and inhabit the Promised Land.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jesus Messiah fulfilled 108 prophecies from the Old Testament.\u00a0 God spoke through His prophets to tell Israel Whom to expect that would lead them to salvation.\u00a0 The long-expected King came to the earth on that first Christmas.\u00a0 He still calls us today.\u00a0 God’s Gift to us is most precious.\u00a0 Have you received Him?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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