Boy, While reading the Holy Bible through again I started noticing all the Donkeys references....God's plan I am sure. I was to about Leviticus and went back to Genius and started rereading and recording each one of the donkey references I found. I did find it amazing that Abraham loaded up his donkey when he was off to sacrifice his only son Issac and knowing that the Lord Jesus had ridden into Jerusalem for the last supper, just before the crucification, God's only son (John 3:16).

You can read the story of Christ coming into Jerusalem riding on a donkey in Zechariah 9:9, Matthew 21:1-11, Mark 11:1-11, Luke 19:20-44, John 12:12-19. It must be important for us to read if you can find it in four of the gospels, and the old testament.

Notice it says "gentle and riding on a donkey". In my Bible study on Donkeys, Horses and Mules, I found that folks that rode donkeys were not necessarily poor and many of the same folks owned horses and or mules. It was a humble, sometimes submissive means of transportation; read I Samuel 25. In fact the term "got off her ass and did something" probably came from this passage....Abigail got off her donkey and...".

I found it a miracle in itself that Jesus rode a young jack, that had never been ridden before, into a parade type atmosphere as people crowded and were setting palm tree leaves, coats and jackets down before unbroken colt jack. Ever try to train a donkey to walk over things. <grin> If not, give it a try, go for manholes or water.

Make no mistake, when the Lord of lords, King of king comes again it will be on a White Horse and it will not be "gentle and riding..." Revelation 19:11 & 14.

There are many stories in the Holy Bible that include donkeys. One Donkey actually talked in human words (Numbers 22:21-34). I can only think of one other animal in the Bible that talked in human terms, a raven.

I would like to encourage you to do a "read through" in your Holy Bible, if you do not have an NIV version (New International Version) I would encourage the average reader to get one, the King James Version is a bit hard for the average reader to "stay with" and to understand. Wal-Mart and other discount stores sell NIV version Bibles for under $10.00. Not only will you read about donkeys, horses, and mules, but also all types of other animals, adventures, wars, sex scandals, kingdoms, and glories. You will find many "old sayings" came from the Bible such as "Get your house in order", "skin of my teeth", "can a leopard change it's spots?", and "hung like a horse" (only it was really "hung like a donkey"). There is talk of make up and tattoos way back in the early books of the Old Testament, we are also told in Ecclesiastes 1:9 "....there is nothing new under the sun.". The Holy Bible is an exciting book......and you may say that there is a test in the end...and I mean the end. <grin>