Friday, 11/19/16
The temple in Our Lord’s time was a series of ever-larger
courts. At its core was a twenty-by-ten foot building of two rooms. The inmost room
was the curtained Holy of Holies. The outer one was the Holy Place, where
Zachariah burned incense.. Extending twenty feet out from that on three sides
was the Courtyard of the Priests.
Extending seventy-five feet out from that on all sides of
the Courtyard of Israel. A barbeque pit In its center was the altar on which
sheep, rams and bulls were roasted by the priests.
On all sides, extending a hundred feet out from the enclosed
Courtyard of Israel, was the Courtyard of the Gentiles where the cattle were
sold and the Roman coins exchanged for coins supposedly acceptable to Yahweh.
Devout Jew brought their choice beasts to be offered in sacrifice,
but temple employee often found them lacking the perfection the priests
demanded. This rejection of the beasts brought by believers, along with the replacement
the temple people sold, made for a great throng of bleating, and roaring
beasts.
It’s great for you to picture Jesus twining ropes together
for making a great whip, then swinging it overhead, driving out the beasts. His
was such a righteous manner that no one dared to stop him.
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