When fishes flew and forests walked
And figs grew upon thorn,
Some moment when the moon was blood
Then surely I was born; With monstrous head and sickening cry
And ears like errant wings,
The devil’s walking parody
On all four-footed things.The tattered outlaw of the earth,
Of ancient crooked will;
Starve, scourge, deride me: I am dumb,
I keep my secret still. Fools! For I also had my hour;
One far fierce hour and sweet:
There was a shout about my ears,
And palms before my feet.The Donkey, by G.K. Chesterton
I heard this poem on a study of the book of John. It is in reference to the Triumphal Entry. The Creator of the universe riding a donkey into Jerusalem. It made me tear up, the power of it and sheer humbleness of the act. It was prophesy fulfilled (Zechariah 9:9) and the people knew it, they were singing Psalm 118: “This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.“ That Psalm we so often hear isn’t about any old day. It is about this one day in particular, they were waiting for. They were declaring Jesus to be the Mashiach Nagid, the Messiah the King.
“He was crucified on a cross of wood, yet he made the hill on which it stood”
The return of Christ won’t be on a donkey friends and he will not be coming in peace. He will be on a white horse, with the armies in heaven. To judge and make war.
“Now I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse. And He who sat on him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and makes war. 12 His eyes were like a flame of fire, and on His head were many crowns. He had[a] a name written that no one knew except Himself. 13 He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God. 14 And the armies in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean,[b] followed Him on white horses. 15 Now out of His mouth goes a sharp[c] sword, that with it He should strike the nations. And He Himself will rule them with a rod of iron. He Himself treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. 16 And He has on His robe and on His thigh a name written:
KING OF KINGS AND
LORD OF LORDS.
Revelation 19:11-16″