And the ransomed of the LORD shall return and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. Isaiah 35:10 ESV
Get you up to a high mountain, O Zion, herald of good news; lift up your voice with strength, O Jerusalem, herald of good news; lift it up, fear not; say to the cities of Judah, "Behold your God!"Isaiah 40:9 ESV
How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, "Your God reigns." Isaiah 52:7 ESV
[The Coming King of Zion] Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.Zechariah 9:9 ESV
"Fear not, daughter of Zion; behold, your king is coming, sitting on a donkey's colt!" John 12:15 ESV
But what God does in His Son, Jesus, not all understand and believe. For some, Jesus is an offensive person who is a stumbling block for their lives. He doesn’t fit the self described ideas of a Savior and Lord. For what Savior and Lord would stoop so low as to be ridiculed, tortured and crucified on a cross?
For some, this humbling of God in the person of Jesus doesn’t fit their idea of a majestic god who only involves himself in pleasing himself.
Rather, our God is one who shows His divine love and mercy by the incarnation of His Son, Jesus Christ into the flesh of mankind. But God was not done with just providing the birth of His Son. Rather, He grew up and ministered to the creation revealing the rightness of the kingdom of God that the world had forgotten. Eventually, Jesus buys creation back for God by His innocent suffering and death on the cross.
as it is written, "Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense; and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame." Romans 9:33 ESV
For it stands in Scripture: "Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious, and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame." 1 Peter 2:6 ESV
But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering, Hebrews 12:22 ESV
[The Lamb and the 144,000] Then I looked, and behold, on Mount Zion stood the Lamb, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads.Revelation 14:1 ESV
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