Hellow guys welcome back to my new blog, today my topic was palm sunday. 

The meaning of Palm Sunday was lost on me as a child. I suspect it is lost on most Christian adults as well. My first memories of Palm Sunday were sitting patiently in Sunday school next to friends holding palm leaves. When the signal was given, we waved them high, singing “Hosanna! Hosanna in the highest!" to a slightly controversial piano. As a child, I understood enough about Palm Sunday to know that it was the day Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey and was hailed as King of the Jews. But it wasn't until a few years ago that I began to understand the significance of what happened that day and why it was so profound for the followers of Jesus. (Note that I wrote "date" not "day". On "the tenth day of this month" (the 10th of Nisan, the first month of the Israeli calendar) each family was to choose a one-year-old "blameless" lamb. (without blemish), bring it home and take care on the 14th day of Nisan, they were to kill it just before sunset and spread its blood on the roof and doorposts of their homes. It was an act of obedience and faith. That same night, the Lord "walked" him with blood in every house he saw: Since the new Hebrew day begins at dusk, the "same night" would be the 15th of Nisan. It was the day Israel left Egypt and crossed the Red Sea, the day God redeemed the Israelites from slavery. Passover has been a transformative event for Judaism ever since. It is celebrated every year until the 15th of Nisan - March or April according to our Gregorian calendar. Now let's go back to the scene in John 12 and connect some dots. Six days before Passover, on the 9th of Nisan (15th of Nisan minus 6 days), Jesus settled in Bethany. The "next day" would be the 10th of Nisan, the same "date" on which the Israelites were to bring "lambs without blemish" into their homes. Almost 1,500 years after the first Passover in Egypt, Jesus arrived in Jerusalem on the 10th of Nisan riding a donkey. The multitudes who celebrated the Passover in Jerusalem met him with palm branches and shouted: "Hosanna! (Save now!) Glory be to him who comes in the name of Jehovah, the King of Israel!