Jesus the King
Zechariah 9:9-16 – New International Version (NIV)
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.
11 As for you, because of the blood of my covenant with
you,
I will free your prisoners from the waterless pit.
12 Return to your fortress, you prisoners of hope;
even now I announce that I will restore twice as
much to you.
13 I will bend Judah as I bend my bow
and fill it with Ephraim.
I will rouse your sons, Zion,
against your sons, Greece,
and make you like a warrior’s sword.
14 Then the Lord will appear over them;
his arrow will flash like lightning.
The Sovereign Lord will
sound the trumpet;
he will march in the storms of the south,
15 and the Lord Almighty will shield them.
They will destroy
and overcome with slingstones.
They will drink and roar as with wine;
they will be full like a bowl
used for sprinkling the corners of the altar.
16 The Lord their
God will save his people on that day
as a shepherd saves his flock.
They will sparkle in his land
like jewels in a crown.
How is Zion’s king coming (verse 9)?
What will the king proclaim “to the nations” (verse 10)?
Why will the prisoners be freed “from the waterless pit” (verse
11)?
Who is to return to their fortress (verse 12)?
What will Zion’s son be made like (verse 13)?
Who will “appear over them” (verse 14)?
What will they use to “destroy and overcome” (verse 15)?
Who will “the Lord their God” save (verse 16)?
In your
opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In your
opinion, what does this passage teach us about Jesus, the King?
Matthew 21:1-11 - New International
Version (NIV)
1 As they
approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage on the Mount of Olives, Jesus
sent two disciples, 2 saying to them, “Go to the
village ahead of you, and at once you will find a donkey tied there, with her
colt by her. Untie them and bring them to me. 3 If anyone
says anything to you, say that the Lord needs them, and he will send them right
away.”
4 This
took place to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet:
5 “Say to
Daughter Zion,
‘See, your king comes to you,
gentle and riding on a donkey,
and on a colt, the foal of a donkey.’”
6 The
disciples went and did as Jesus had instructed them. 7 They
brought the donkey and the colt and placed their cloaks on them for Jesus to
sit on. 8 A very large crowd spread their cloaks on
the road, while others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the
road. 9 The crowds that went ahead of him and those that
followed shouted,
“Hosanna to
the Son of David!”
“Blessed
is he who comes in the name of the Lord!”
“Hosanna in
the highest heaven!”
10 When
Jesus entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred and asked, “Who is this?”
11 The
crowds answered, “This is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth in Galilee.”
Where was Bethphage (verse 1)?
What were the two disciples to do with the donkey and colt (verse 2)?
What were they to say
if someone said something to them (verse 3)?
Why did this take place (verse 4)?
How was
Zion’s king coming to them (verse 5)?
Who did “as
Jesus had instructed them” (verse 6)?
Why did they
place their cloaks on the donkey and the colt (verse 7)?
What did the “very large crowd” do (verse 8)?
Who did the crowd shout was blessed (verse 9)?
What did the city ask (verse 10)?
How did the crowd answer (verse 11)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In your
opinion, what does this passage teach us about Jesus, the King?
In your
opinion, what would the people of Jerusalem who connected Jesus’s entrance on a
donkey in Matthew 21:1-11 with the prophecy of Zechariah 9:9-16 have expected
to happen?
2 Thessalonians 1:6-12 - New International Version (NIV)
6 God is just: He will pay back
trouble to those who trouble you 7 and give relief to you
who are troubled, and to us as well. This will happen when the Lord Jesus is
revealed from heaven in blazing fire with his powerful angels. 8 He
will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of
our Lord Jesus. 9 They will be punished with everlasting
destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the
glory of his might 10 on the day he comes to be
glorified in his holy people and to be marveled at among all those who
have believed. This includes you, because you believed our testimony to you.
11 With this in mind, we constantly pray
for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling, and
that by his power he may bring to fruition your every desire for
goodness and your every deed prompted by faith. 12 We
pray this so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and
you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Who is just (verse 6)?
When will relief be given (verse 7)?
Who will be punished (verse 8)?
How will they be punished (verse 9)?
When will they be punished (verse 10)?
What does Paul pray for (verse 11)?
Why does Paul pray this (verse 12)?
In your opinion,
what is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion, what does this passage teach us about
Jesus, the King?
In your opinion, how are the people who are struggling
after returning from exile who received the prophecy of Zechariah 9:9-16 and those
who receive the message of 2 Thessalonians 1:6-12 similar?
In your opinion, how does the crowd’s perception of Jesus
as “the prophet from Nazareth in Galilee” in Matthew 21:1-11 differ
from the way that Paul portrays Him in 2 Thessalonians 1:6-12?
Revelation 11:15-19 - New International Version (NIV)
15 The seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and
there were loud voices in heaven, which said:
“The kingdom of the world has become
the
kingdom of our Lord and of his Messiah,
and
he will reign for ever and ever.”
16 And the twenty-four elders, who were
seated on their thrones before God, fell on their faces and worshiped God, 17 saying:
“We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty,
the
One who is and who was,
because you have taken your great power
and
have begun to reign.
18 The nations were angry,
and
your wrath has come.
The time has come for judging the dead,
and
for rewarding your servants the prophets
and your people who revere your name,
both
great and small—
and for destroying those who destroy the earth.”
19 Then God’s temple in heaven was opened,
and within his temple was seen the ark of his covenant. And there came
flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake and a
severe hailstorm.
What has the “kingdom of the world” become (verse 15)?
What did the “twenty-four elders” do (verse 16)?
What did they give thank God for (verse 17)?
Who is to be rewarded (verse 18)?
What was opened (verse 19)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion, what does this passage teach us about
Jesus, the King?
In your opinion, how
does John’s prophecy in Revelation 11:15-19 fit into what Zechariah 9:9-16 foretells?
In your opinion, what does Revelation 11:15-19 help us
understand about the kingdom that Jesus entered in to purchase with his blood in
Matthew 21:1-11?
In your opinion, how does Revelation 11:15-19 provide hope
for Christians who are troubled in the same way those who received Paul’s message
in 2 Thessalonians 1:6-12 were?
In your
opinion, how do these passages from Zechariah, Matthew, 2 Thessalonians, and Revelation
bring comfort to Christians in our troubled world?
In
your opinion, how can we glorify the name of King Jesus today?
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