Matthew 2:13 his Father's house is a house of prayer - not a cave of robbers.
Mark 11:17 they made a house of prayer into a cave of robbers. ( form of extortion by charging exorbitant prices )
Luke19:46 .... a house of prayer, they made it a cave of robbers.
John 2:16 ... they were making...
First, I want to say - I don't know much about yours views on Christianity - except from what I can understand about reading what you are saying here.I would however like to say something about what you are saying.
You are quoting Luke 19, which comes right after Luke 18 and right before Luke...
This gets really interesting then. There has been discussion in this thread about the titles or designations 'son of man' and 'Son of God.' Now we have 'son of David.' Lets examine this:
There are numerous verses in the New Testament describing Jesus as the “son of David.”
Jesus could not...
Some of these verses specifically say that David is the Messiah appointed by God at the beginning of the Messianic age (Revelation and Isaiah say line of David): Ezekiel 34:23-24, Jeremiah 23:5, Ezekiel 37:24-25, Jeremiah 30:8-9, Hosea 3:5, Isaiah 55:3, Isaiah 22:22, Isaiah 9:6-7, Revelation...
” My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations?” The court of the Gentiles is what the Lord Jesus meant by “all nations” –Read Isaiah 56:7
The Court of the Gentiles was a kind of symbol and foreshadowing of this, and it is from this that Christ expelled the traders, using the...
The context of my replies reflects my belief the New Covenant was given exclusively to Jacob's descendants--Israelites (Jer 31:31-33; Heb 8:8-10), Israel was a divided kingdom. The house of Judah consisted of Benjamin and Judah. The house of Israel (aka Ephraim) made up the remaining ten. The...