Then He went into the temple and began to drive out those who bought and sold in it, saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house is a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of thieves.'” (Luke 19:45-46).
The modern Jesus is not the Jesus of the Bible. The Jesus of wokism never said a harsh word, offended anyone, and preached only love and tolerance for everyone and everything except the status quo of Westernism. His disciples are imagined as effeminate metro-sexuals.
Today, the younger generation of liberals is convinced a woman can be a man simply by saying it is so. She can wear jeans, cut her hair short, and take an injection of testosterone to sprout stubble on her facet , but clothes and hair do not a man make.
On the Monday before His crucifixion, the King of Glory entered the temple grounds in Jerusalem from which the glory of God departed some 600 years earlier because of a corrupt priesthood and the false worship of His people (Ezekiel 10). Within those courts the size of 10 football fields were four markets where wine, oil, salt, grain, and over 250,000 animals were sold at 4 times the usual price at Passover for sacrifices. Imagine the crowds, the sounds, and the smells! There were also tables where for a 25% fee, worshipers would exchange heathen coins from around the Empire into Jewish money for the yearly Jewish temple tax.
There was nothing wrong with making a profit or selling these goods. The problem was the merchants and priests cheating and defrauding those there to worship.
Jesus began His ministry running these profiteers from the temple (John 3), and ended it only three years later doing the same. Neither time He cleansed the temple did He tolerate these con men, but overturned their tables, and chased them violently and mercilessly from the temple. He was no pacifist wandering Palestine in a tie-dye shirt, dreadlocks, and singing “Give Peace a Chance.” The One who confronted a crowd wanting to stone an adulteress, refused public pressure to revolt against Rome, and didn’t revile those who reviled Him, defied those who abused the worship of His Father.
Ecclesia reformata, semper reformanda! How short-lived is the work of genuine religious reformation.
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