Our 15th reference to kingdom is found in Mark 11:10 but we need the immediate context too: 4 They went and found a colt outside in the street, tied at a doorway. As they untied it, 5 some people standing there asked, \u201cWhat are you doing, untying that colt?\u201d 6 They answered as Jesus had told them to, and the people let them go. 7 When they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their cloaks over it, he sat on it. 8 Many people spread their cloaks on the road, while others spread branches they had cut in the fields. 9 Those who went ahead and those who followed shouted, \u201cHosanna!\u201d \u201cBlessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!\u201d 10 \u201cBlessed is the coming kingdom of our father David!\u201d \u201cHosanna in the highest!\u201d 11 Jesus entered Jerusalem and went to the temple. He looked around at everything, but since it was already late, he went out to Bethany with the Twelve.<\/em>. Our 15th reference to kingdom is found in Mark 11:10 but we need the immediate context too: 4 They went and found a colt outside in the street, tied at a doorway. As they untied it, 5 some people standing there asked, \u201cWhat are you doing, untying that colt?\u201d 6 They answered as Jesus had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1743],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kingdom-of-god"],"yoast_head":"\n
\n1. The anticipation of the crowds, including the disciples according to Luke 19:37, is eschatological: they see in Jesus the arrival of the one who comes in the name of the Lord. This is messianic and it is Davidic \u2014 it is the arrival of royalty.
\n2. Jerusalem is the center of this expectation; the expectation is ruggedly earthly. It concerns peace in the Lukan parallel (19:38).
\n3. The one who comes in the name of the Lord is the one who brings what? \u201cThe coming kingdom of our father David.\u201d This, my friends, is the very heart of anything and everything said about kingdom in the Gospels. The expectation of David\u2019s kingdom frames everything the disciples around Jesus expect and Jesus gives them that \u2026 but not as they expect.
\n4. Yet, at some level, they are mistaken for the kind of kingdom expected is not quite what Jesus brings. Instead, the kind of kingdom he brings will not be by way of the sword or the throne, but by way of the cross and a church and a coming kingdom.
\nHere are some themes that arise this week out of the texts we have examined:
\nThe kingdom is the long sought-after kingdom of David as it was expected to come at the close of the Age. That kingdom will come with power by the end of the lifetime of his disciples.
\nThe kingdom is intimately connected to Jesus.
\nThe kingdom is populated by those who are attached to Jesus; by those who receive the kingdom and who enter the kingdom. These people discard anything that hinders their entrance into that kingdom.
\nThe kingdom is connected to the eternal life of eternity.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"