Last week we celebrated Jesus’ humble entrance into Jerusalem on a donkey colt. Today, on Maundy Thursday of Holy Week, we remember how Jesus humbly washed the disciples’ feet, demonstrating again that His first coming was about selfless sacrifice and not about making everything new. As He continued to teach His disciples on that Thursday night, He shared with them a promise of a new place He would prepare for them.
John 14:1-3 “Do not let your
hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. 2 My
Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that
I am going there to prepare a place for you? 3 And
if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be
with me that you also may be where I am.
At that moment, He personally assured His disciples of a
place He would prepare for them. What He didn’t tell them, was that their names
would be etched on the twelve foundations of the New Jerusalem! This revelation
would come later, through John in Revelation 21.
Revelation 21:9-14 One of the
seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came
and said to me, “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the
Lamb.” 10 And he carried me away in the
Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the Holy City,
Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God. 11 It
shone with the glory of God, and its brilliance was like that of a very
precious jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal. 12 It
had a great, high wall with twelve gates, and with twelve angels at the
gates. On the gates were written the names of the twelve tribes of
Israel. 13 There were three gates on the east,
three on the north, three on the south and three on the west. 14 The
wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the names of the
twelve apostles of the Lamb.
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