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• Today's "Moment with Mark" (66)

  26 January, 2013

  Many in the crowd spread their coats on the road ahead of Jesus, and others cut leafy branches in the fields and spread them along the way.  He was in the centre of the procession, and the crowds all around him were shouting, "Praise God!  Bless the one who comes in the name of the Lord!  Bless the coming kingdom of our ancestor David! Praise God in highest heaven!"   (Mark 11:8-10 NLT)

  Our mutual interest in aviation prompted me to ask our 'pilot' son about what he and his fellow pilots understood by the term, "point of no return". He described it by giving me two examples:

  1. It is the point during the takeoff roll when there is no longer enough runway ahead of the aircraft to safely stop; at this point, the aircraft is committed to take off, come what may.

  2.  It is the point on a flight at which an aircraft is no longer capable of returning to its airfield of origin; (usually because of lack of adequate fuel etc).

  The phrase implies an irrevocable commitment regardless of outcome.

  It seems to me that, when Jesus' organized this "parade" and did so in a manner that the implications were patently obvious to any Jew familiar with the Old Testament teaching, He was unequivocally  and deliberately making a claim....a declaration that He was the fulfillment of the Old Testament prophecy found in Zechariah 9/9.

  On His journey to Jerusalem, Jesus now passes the “point of no return”. In a sense, He was announcing His person and his mission which constituted "an irrevocable commitment regardless of outcome".