The Disciples were Anticipating an Earthly Kingdom (TMF:295)

Friday, November 20, 2015
Peace to Live By: The Disciples were Anticipating an Earthly Kingdom (TMF:295) - Daniel Litton
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       So, Peter had his mind on earthly things. He wasn’t thinking about what God was actually doing through Jesus, but he was thinking about what he wanted to happen. He was hoping to have a place in Jesus’ earthly kingdom, which he thought was going to be established very shortly. And Peter’s hopes were encouraged all the more when one day Jesus made a triumphal entry into Jerusalem. John recorded the event in John 12, and it states the following: “The next day the large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, crying out, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel!” And Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, just as it is written, “Fear not, daughter of Zion; behold, your king is coming, sitting on a donkey's colt!” His disciples did not understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about him and had been done to him” (John 12:12-16, ESV). But the disciples believed that this event was the beginning of Christ taking Jerusalem and becoming king of Israel, as it also appears that that was what the crowd thought as well.