How many times have you been promised something”¦and it never happened or it did not materialize? How many times have you promised someone something, then promptly forgot it, because it didn”™t mean all that much to you but it did to the other person?

The God of the Bible promised a Messiah, Someone Who would come and have victory over death, sin and Satan. Messiah is promised throughout the Old Testament, beginning with the first sin ever committed against God (see Genesis 3:15).

Messiah would be the One to save His people from their sins. That is what the name of Jesus means. (See Matthew 1:21)

Messiah would be “˜God with us”™”¦Immanuel ““ the name given to Jesus

before He was born. (See Matthew 1:23)

God keeps His promises”¦all of them. He has never made a promise and then reneged upon it.

People make promises and then don”™t keep them”¦when this happens those people are hard to trust or believe. They are untrustworthy.

Not so God. “˜Watch”™ how Jesus fulfilled another prophecy concerning Messiah as He triumphantly entered Jerusalem before Passover the last year of His earthly life.

(NASB) Matthew 21:4-5 “This took place to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet:

5 “Say to the daughter of Zion, “˜Behold your king is coming to you,

Gentle, and mounted on a donkey,

Even on a colt, the foal of a beast of burden.”™”

This prophecy can be found in Zechariah 9:9. Jesus purposely chose to enter Jerusalem as the King of Peace. Kings would ride donkeys as a symbol of coming in peace. If they rode a horse they were declaring war.

Notice the prophecy in Matthew 21:5 ““ it explicitly states how Messiah would come to them as their King”¦the first time.

This was one of the reasons the Jews had a hard time accepting Jesus as Messiah”¦He did not come to overthrow their oppressor ““ Rome. Prophecies are fulfilled by God in His way and in His timing”¦people do not always understand His ways or meaning.

Trusting God:

is more important than making assumptions about His promises.

Trusting God:

is to study His words of promise and watch how He fulfills them.