PART ONE — PALM SUNDAY & PASSOVER
As sundown arrives on Wednesday, April 1, 2026 (Hebrew year 5786), Passover begins, a sacred remembrance of God’s deliverance of Israel from slavery in Egypt.For over 3,500 years, Jewish families have gathered to remember how God redeemed His people through the blood of a lamb, marking their homes for protection as judgment passed over them.
Passover is a story of:
Yet Passover was never only about the past. It was prophetic.
As Jerusalem prepared for Passover during the first century, pilgrims filled the city remembering Moses and the Exodus. Lambs were being selected for sacrifice — and at that very moment, Jesus entered Jerusalem riding on a donkey.
Palm Sunday happens inside the Passover story.
The crowds cried, “Hosanna!” not fully realizing they were welcoming the fulfillment of what Passover had always pointed toward.
Jesus entered not as a political conqueror but as the Passover Lamb.
Just as families once examined their lambs before sacrifice, Jesus would be examined publicly in the days that followed, questioned, tested, and ultimately declared without fault.
Palm Sunday reveals a profound truth:
God’s redemption unfolds according to His covenant timing.
The Lamb had come.
BY DOUG STRINGER
