Triumphant Procession
Robert Dawson
Matthew 21:1-11
Rapid Dominance or Shock and Awe is a popular military strategy. The heart of which is to exhibit a focused and overwhelming display of force to disrupt and ''paralyze the enemy's perception of the battlefield and destroy its will to fight.''
One of the strategists who promoted and advocated for this military tactic describes what it might look like in its implementation. He said, imagine you are the general and are in the city where your main headquarters are located and you receive word that ''30 of your division headquarters have been wiped out, the city in which you are located has lost power and water. It has been cut off.'' Within days, the resistance becomes physically, emotionally, and psychologically exhausted.
The goal is to overwhelm your enemy, break their spirit and cause them to concede the battle.
Over Jesus' public 3-year public ministry the noise and excitement around Him had grown. How could it not?!
His teaching was unlike anything they had ever heard. It's weight and authority were unparalleled by any of the other teachers, even the best and brightest.
The miracles He performed, if they hadn't been documented by so many eyewitnesses, would have been impossible to believe.
Blind made to see. Lame made to walk. Deaf made to hear. Mute made to speak.
Lepers were made whole. Hemorrhages that were decades old dried up. The demon possessed liberated.
Nature itself was obedient to Him. Storms and seas were calmed.
The laws of physics submitted to His desire and temporarily suspended themselves as He walked on water. He multiplied food, enough for 10,000 people, out of a few fish and loaves of bread. (Like a replicator on Star Trek).
Death itself had proven to be powerless against His command. He had raised the dead to life, even raising His friend Lazarus who had been dead for days. When Jesus spoke, death obeyed.
All this exponentially increased Jesus' notoriety and popu ...
Robert Dawson
Matthew 21:1-11
Rapid Dominance or Shock and Awe is a popular military strategy. The heart of which is to exhibit a focused and overwhelming display of force to disrupt and ''paralyze the enemy's perception of the battlefield and destroy its will to fight.''
One of the strategists who promoted and advocated for this military tactic describes what it might look like in its implementation. He said, imagine you are the general and are in the city where your main headquarters are located and you receive word that ''30 of your division headquarters have been wiped out, the city in which you are located has lost power and water. It has been cut off.'' Within days, the resistance becomes physically, emotionally, and psychologically exhausted.
The goal is to overwhelm your enemy, break their spirit and cause them to concede the battle.
Over Jesus' public 3-year public ministry the noise and excitement around Him had grown. How could it not?!
His teaching was unlike anything they had ever heard. It's weight and authority were unparalleled by any of the other teachers, even the best and brightest.
The miracles He performed, if they hadn't been documented by so many eyewitnesses, would have been impossible to believe.
Blind made to see. Lame made to walk. Deaf made to hear. Mute made to speak.
Lepers were made whole. Hemorrhages that were decades old dried up. The demon possessed liberated.
Nature itself was obedient to Him. Storms and seas were calmed.
The laws of physics submitted to His desire and temporarily suspended themselves as He walked on water. He multiplied food, enough for 10,000 people, out of a few fish and loaves of bread. (Like a replicator on Star Trek).
Death itself had proven to be powerless against His command. He had raised the dead to life, even raising His friend Lazarus who had been dead for days. When Jesus spoke, death obeyed.
All this exponentially increased Jesus' notoriety and popu ...
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