"My House Shall Be Called A House Of Prayers"

Dr Skye

And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all of them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money changers,  and the seats of them that sold doves. Matt 21:12

The temple courts were filled with cattle, sheep, oxen, and doves. Above the noise of the lowing of cattle, the bleating of the sheep, and the cooing of the doves could be heard the voice of the traffickers as they offered for sale their animals and birds, at the highest rates, to those who had come to the Passover to offer sacrifice. Jesus said,"It is written, My house shall be called the house of Prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.

This act on the part of Christ was deeply significant, more significant then we can realize. When the priests and the Pharisees had recovered from the terror that had taken possession of their guilty souls at the words of Christ, they returned to the temple. They were not converted mind me, or even humbled, instead they were determined to challenge Christ as to His authority for expelling them from the temple courts. When they reached the temple they found that a wonderful work had been done during their absence. The sick and the dying had been restored to health. They were astonished, but they would not yield their stubborn unbelief. They had already determined to put Christ to death, and Lazarus also, who had been raised from the dead and was a testimony to Christ's powers. They knew that the people would still believe in Christ as long as there lived among them one who had been raised from the dead by His power.

The evidence Christ had given was calculated to convince every sincere mind, but it was not evidence, that these people wanted. It was rejection and condemnation of Christ by the people for which they were seeking.  Evey additional evidence given, only increased their aversion to Christ. To have Christ in the world performing His wonderful works, to have Him live before the people His life of goodness and most importantly self-denial and sacrifice, to have this Man exercise for others the tender compassion that had since long departed from their life and their life of luxury, was the very thing they didn't want. Condemnation was knocking at their door...

Christ was fulfilling the commission given Him of His Father. "The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; He hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and the opening of the prison for them that are bound; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord." Luke 4:18

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