Palm Sunday In Jerusalem!
It was lamb selection day
Just like any other year
Five days before Passover
a lamb would be chosen here.
Into the city came Jesus
Riding a donkey’s son
“Hosanna in the highest”
They shouted! Deliver us from Rome.
Then Jesus went into the temple,
And rebuked a den of thieves, they
Were buying and selling in the house of prayer.
Our Lord was sorely displeased.
Five days before the Passover feast
The Lamb to be slain arrived,
Carried by a beast of burden
God gave His Son to die.
Exodus 12: 3b
“In the tenth day of this month they shall take
to them every man a lamb, according to the
house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:”
Exodus 12: 6
“And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth
day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the
congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.”
1 Corinthians 5: 7b
“For even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us:”