THE TEMPLE.....
"AND JESUS WENT INTO THE TEMPLE OF GOD, AND CAST OUT ALL 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 YOU HAVE MADE IT A DEN OF THIEVES" (MATT. 21:12, 13).
OBVIOUSLY MORE WAS GOING ON HERE THAN MATTHEW WRITES ABOUT; THERE MUST HAVE BEEN AN ATTITUDE AND PRACTICE BY THOSE IN THE BUSINESS OF SELLING AND MONEY-CHANGING, THAT WAS FAR AWAY FROM BEING RIGHTEOUS.
BUT I WANT YOU TO REMEMBER THIS WAS BEING DONE IN THE TEMPLE, NOT OUTSIDE THE TEMPLE, BUT IN THE TEMPLE.
NOW IF YOU GO TO A BIBLE ENCYCLOPEDIA YOU WILL FIND ALL OF THIS WAS JUST INSIDE THE VERY FIST WALLS, WHERE THE JEWS AND GENTILES COULD FREELY MIX.
MANY THINK OF "THE TEMPLE" AS THE HOLY PLACE AND THE MOST HOLY PLACE. AGAIN LOOK IT UP IN A BIBLE ENCYCLOPEDIA...... THE TEMPLE WAS WAY WAY MORE THAN THE HOLY PLACE AND MOST HOLY PLACE.
THE ENTIRE STRUCTURE FROM THE OUTSIDE WALLS ALL AROUND, WAS IN JESUS' DAY TERMED "THE TEMPLE." IT WAS HELD BY ALL JEWS, GENTILE CONVERTS, AND BY JESUS, AS "THE TEMPLE."
THIS IS IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER WHEN WE COME TO MATTHEW 24 AND JESUS' PROPHECY.
Keith Hunt
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