Comments on: Cleaning God’s House

By: Beverly Estes

Beverly Estes — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:18:32 +0000

Animials were there along wiht the whip so Jesus just picked it up and used it.
Blessings
Beverly

By: Beverly Estes

Beverly Estes — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:16:14 +0000

There were already animials there and so there were already whips there. Jesus just picked up one and used it.
Blessings
Beverly

By: Beverly

Beverly — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:13:06 +0000

There were already animals of several kinds so there were whips already there. Jesus just picked up one of them and used it.
Blessings’
Beverly Estes

By: Dr.Bruce

Dr.Bruce — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:16:27 +0000

Rob, my only disagreement with you is about the main point of the passage. The main point is Jesus’ judgment on the Jewish leaders to tolerate the corruption of Temple worship. That is simple and clear.

One application of this to modern faith is that we should not allow the same thing to happen and should instead remain pure in all the areas you mentioned. While the distinction between exegesis and application in this passage is not enormous, it can be significant at times.

Thanks for the encouraging comments.

Blessings!

By: Last Days Call

Last Days Call — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:46:07 +0000

This message made me think that as a new temple of God (our body) we should therefore take care of it and make it spotless as possible. To be holy in the presence of the Lord and should not be a den of thieves (abomination) by lawless deeds and wickedness like drunkenness, prostitution, drug addiction and any acts that defile ourselves.

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:10:24 +0000

I think you have a good message here, but I wonder if you miss the main point of this message: Jesus is emphasizing the importance of the purity of the bride (the church) and the message to take from this is, are we honoring to the bride with our churches/worship. For instance:

- Do the sermons accurately exegete scripture, or do they just share “feel good, self-help” self-righteous post-modernism?

- Do we have pastors/visiting ministers who sell books from the pulpit? Do we have tables with books for sale in the churches we attend?

- Are the hymns we sing Biblically-based, or are just singing songs that “sound good to us?”

- Do we elect men to eldership positions who meet all of Paul’s pastoral qualifications (I-II Tim, Titus) – (e.g. temperate, not divorced, not a lover of money, etc.) Do we hold the elders accountable to those qualifications?

etc…

Jesus clearing the temple is a message about the purity of the bride, and we need to examine the practices of our churches and test them against the Word, to see if God alone is being glorified through our worship, and not man.

By: Third Millennium

Third Millennium — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 06:05:05 +0000

Maybe, it is time to cleanse our Temples, and get ready for the “abundant harvest”
Jesus promised for all of us, for our eternal Salvation. (John 5/34-36 & 6/27, 40-45)

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:47:23 +0000

Are you sure Jesus “gather[ed] the materials and assemble[ed] them carefully” ?? Or are you trying to make a mountain out of a molehill by taking a menial phrase to make your own point out of it…? Couldn’t he have made a whip out of a rope or simply grabbed a chord where there was no assembly required? Please be more careful in adding your own interpretation to Scripture where it’s obviously unnecessary. That is not to discourage you from reading the Bible but to keep you exegetically accurate.

By: Willem Kooijman

Willem Kooijman — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:47:57 +0000

I have always found it a bit hard to understand why Jesus became so extremely angry at what was going on in the great temple in Jerusalem in his days. Jews from all over the world came to the great religious festivals, like the Passover festival, and offering God animal sacrifices had been part of the way the festivals were celebrated for many centuries.
How could the people offer God animal sacrifces if there were no people around who sold animals that could be sacrifced?
And if a lot of Jews came from countries that were far away from Israel and had their own money which was different from the money that the Jews used …. then those foreign Jews simply needed money changers who were willing to change their foreign money into the generally accepted Jewish money.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:03:50 +0000

I like your application of this verse, but I wonder if maybe it didn’t take Jesus as long as you suggest to make the “whip.” 2 weeks seems like a long time to weave together a good whip, but since the text doesn’t really say much about it, it could have easily been a very crude whip, which could have only taken a few minutes- just something to get the job done. As you said, I don’t think Jesus had to “cool off” since his anger was justified and I don’t really see any reason to think that he sat and planned out everything he was going to do. Of course this isn’t really the point of your article or the text, so no big deal- thanks for the insight into Jewish culture during Passover.