Day2
Mark11:15-19
“When they came into Jerusalem, Jesus went directly into the temple area and overturned all the tables and benches of the merchants who were doing business there. One by one he drove them all out of the temple courts, and they scattered away, including the money changers and those selling doves. And he would not allow them to use the temple courts as a thoroughfare for carrying their merchandise and their furniture. Then he began to teach the people, saying, “Does not the Scripture say, ‘My house will be a house of prayer for all the world to share’? But you have made it a hangout of thieves!” When the chief priests and religious scholars heard this, they began to hatch a plot as to how they could eliminate Jesus. But they feared him and his influence, because the entire crowd was totally captivated by his teaching. So he and his disciples spent the nights outside the city.”
Mark 11:15-19 TPT
Cross references
Matthew 21:12 -17,
Luke 19:45–48,
John 2:13 -22, Isaiah 56:7, Jeremiah 7:11,
Matthew 7:28, Mark 12:12, Mark 11:11, Luke 21:37
A Clean Temple
In John’s account of this story he tells us that the elders ask for a sign from Jesus to prove His authority.
He answered telling them to tear the temple down and in 3 days He would rebuild it.
Jesus was referring to His physical body as the temple.
I find it interesting that it took 46 years to build the temple in Jerusalem and our body has 46 chromosomes in every cell. Mind blown!
Since Jesus was very passionate about the purity of the temple, then we can deduct that He is just as passionate about us keeping our bodies( the temple for the Holy Spirit)
Pure.
The, 46 years in the making, temple was double the size of the original. A double portion!
46 represents new birth or new beginning.
Purify yourself and get ready for a new, double portion.
See what God will do in 2022!
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