When you think about the Messiah’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem on the back of a donkey without the usual pomp and circumstance that accompanied a Roman General coming back home after victory in battle, why do you suppose we call it a “Triumphal Entry?” After all, Jesus Christ:
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Jesus wasn’t a military general or commander of any rank;
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Jesus wasn’t even entering the journey victorious, not by the world’s standards, anyway. I mean, he hadn’t defeated any human army that we know of, certainly no army that was the enemy of Rome;
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Jesus was not even a Roman citizen, or an ally of Rome, or someone the Roman government would have wanted to celebrate…since we know what the Roman government did to Jesus later in the week.