Zechariah 9

Verses 9 &10:
9 Rejoice greatly, Daughter Zion! Shout, Daughter Jerusalem! See, your king comes to you, righteous and victorious, lowly and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

10 I will take away the chariots from Ephraim and the warhorses from Jerusalem, and the battle bow will be broken. He will proclaim peace to the nations. His rule will extend from sea to sea and from the River to the ends of the earth.

Zechariah is a prophet, which means he has prophecies, like this one. Verse 9 is a Messianic Prophecy, it points to the coming messiah.

This Sunday is Palm Sunday, the day in the church year where we remember the day that Jesus victoriously rode a donkey into Jerusalem while the people along the streets rejoiced. It is the start of Holy Week. The week conitnues with the betrayal, trial, beating and crucifuxion of Jesus.

What kind of victory is that?

Jesus did not come to battle people, he came to defeat death. Which he did 7 days later on Easter morning.

Death has been defeated for good, for all. That is the greatest victory the world had ever seen!

Unfortunately verse 10 has not happened yet. The world does not know peace.

So we live in between verses 9 and 10... And we wait.

We wait for the end of violence and the need for weapons.

We wait for God to come and make everything ok.

And we know He will... Because he promised us he'd come.