Easter Week- Cleansing The Temple

Monday- The Last Week Of Jesus' Life

" Now, within four days of the cross. He cleared the courts again by casting out all "them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves."

         

    The cleansing of the temple had strong emotion. This was Jesus' Father's house but it was also His house. Worldly commerce was not allowed because in this house the power of godliness was manifest. By that I mean, the sacrifices made, the prayers uttered, the promises entered into within these walls were done in similitude of the atonement, showing that only in Jesus could sins be made "white as snow' and all brought back into correct alignment with Heavenly Father.

Matthew 21:12 

And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves,

 And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.

     After the indignation came the calmness of healing. Into the courts of the temple came those who were blind, lame and otherwise afflicted. His power was always used for binding, healing, and connecting. 

Who brought the blind to the temple to be healed?
Who carried the lame?
Who can we bring to Jesus?

    As the common people gathered around him, the enraged officials were silenced by the press of the crowd. Little children. who perceived his power, spontaneously burst onto praise, calling him truthfully, the Son of David. 

   That evening he left Jerusalem and retired to Bethany. His hour was near, but not yet.

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