Cleansing Herod's Temple (Jesus, priests, crucified, virgin, virtual)

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Originally Posted by Deut. 32.8

It was a massive structure, perhaps roughly the size of 20 football fields laid out in a 5x4 grid. Such a structure would demand not only a significant Priesthood, but a complex Jewish and Roman infrastructure. There would be people to service the many thousands of faithful, and people to maintain the area. This was a period of rebelliousness and constant tensions between Rome and the Jews. One can be sure that both the Roman regime and the Priesthood would have committed the forces necessary to maintain order and protect "Herod's" Temple and this single most important location in Judaism.


Meanwhile, I suspect that had anyone actually caused such an uproar, he/they would have been dealt with immediately and forcibly.

(*) The author of gMt apparently felt the need to explain this act of figicide. He positions it after the Temple incident rather than before, and then embellishes it with dialogue. Luke transforms the whole thing into a parable and presents it some 5 chapters before the Temple story.

You will find your answer in the experience of those who came to arrest Jesus just before crucifyimg him. They "fell backwards" just by His speaking the words "I am He"....John 18:6. But yet, He allowed them to arrest Him and scouirge him. He submitted willingly; while <b>they</b> forgot to thy ignored and forgot the power He confronted them with just moments before they arrested Him, the Creator of the Universe.

When He returns "they also which pierced Him" will be allowed to see with their very own eyes" the Creator whom they crucified....Revelation 1:7 but this time will be different....They will be destroyed by the brightness of His coming.....2 Thessalonians 2:8

It was Jesus Himself who said to those who mocked and tortured Him that "Hereafter they shall see Him "sit on the Right Hand of the power of God." And despite His demonstration of divne power and divine origins; He still none-the-less allowed these His created mortals to crucify Him.

It was within the above contexts that those who experienced Him overturnig their corrupt means of merchandising in His Father's house; are like those who will experience Him on His return to earth the second time...and in His words....<b><u> "Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us" </b></u>....Luke 23:30. These are words he would repeat to His disciple, John some forty years later as He described what would happen to those who rejected Him on His return......<font color="red"> "and said to the mountains and rocks 'Fall on us', and hide us from the face of Him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb."</font color="red"> ...Revelation 6:16

<b><u> A warning all would do well to heed! </b></u>


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