Comments on: Cleansing the Temple – MONDAY https://comefollowmestudy.com/cleansing-the-temple-monday/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cleansing-the-temple-monday Unlocking the simple and super relatable lessons in every scripture through powerful study Sat, 11 Apr 2020 18:55:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: caliblack25 https://comefollowmestudy.com/cleansing-the-temple-monday/#comment-172 Sat, 11 Apr 2020 18:55:49 +0000 https://comefollowmestudy.com/?p=1021#comment-172 In reply to Tabitha Wells.

Thank you so much for this response! And what a great perspective. I agree, and I think that’s part of the sneakiness of it all – it probably started off with good intentions for convenience, but then grew into something much worse. And great connections to the current situations today!

]]> By: Tabitha Wells https://comefollowmestudy.com/cleansing-the-temple-monday/#comment-150 Tue, 07 Apr 2020 05:27:04 +0000 https://comefollowmestudy.com/?p=1021#comment-150 I’ve thought long and hard about this instance my whole life. Christ…angry? In Ukraine (where I served my mission) people also travel QUITE a ways, nearly a whole day by train (or more depending on where from…Russia, or Armenia, etc.) They too, MUST buy things that are needed while there. They wish to worship right, and yet, have NO OTHER WAY to purchase the necessary clothing and materials to enter, other than in the temple (buying things online is EXTREMELY COMPLICATED to non-westernized nations). The clothes/garments are generally made within the temple or holy places, by the hands of sweet, temple-worthy, volunteer members and by means of tithes and sacrifice. Then they are offered to those who come through the doors in a humble, out-of-the way basement room at an extremely modest price to the members who have put MUCH into simply making the trip to the temple and being able to stay for a week. I get Christ’s righteous indignance all the more with the world’s current situation. People hoarding water, toilet paper, sanitizing products and wipes and other critical essentials only to later increase the prices at ridiculous rates to those who actually desperately need them. Perhaps making them even out of the reach of the especially poor–those who probably needed them most. When lives are on the line, this IS NOT okay. When spiritual lives are on the line, this IS NOT OKAY. Christ called this place a den of thieves for a reason. I imagine, perhaps the selling of items began honestly enough. But then the prices slowly rose, and began to be unreasonable, as the greed of the sellers grew, and they saw the possibility of riches and profit soar. The poor and humble who came through the doors probably struggled bit by bit and eventually became unable to get what they needed–became unable to complete these soul-saving rituals. Many who could still buy most likely began to be downright cheated because of seller’s unrighteous desires for wealth and unfair prices. Perhaps there was a number slip here, a misleading nudge of the scale there. All this, not even outside the House of the Lord, but WITHIN THE WALLS. Truly it had become a “den of thieves”, otherwise He might have let it pass as an necessary inconvenience. Instead of a place of sacrifice, humility, love and service (as are the temples of Ukraine), it had become a place of dishonesty, noise, filth (physically and spiritually) and profit. Where the temple is the epitomy of HIS love and ATONEMENT and SACRIFICE (becoming all to real in Christ’s heart and mind at the moment), THE MOST IMPORTANT KEY of us reaching home, of us finding hope and light in this world and the world to come…they were disgracing it. Here they were beyond just missing the point. They had let Satan and his tempations of the world TAKE OVER this most holy of places. This was too horrid to let abide. Satan had snuck his wiles into this Holy place, and had taken over till the sacredness of the place was covered in worldy sludge and the temple NEEDED cleansing!! I like your note of ease. Rarely is the right path easy, it’s true. However, I feel like His cleansing went far beyond that. This was HIS HOUSE. THE PLACE THAT CONNECTS US TO HOME. THE PLACE THAT MAKES HIS ATONEMENT COMPLETE THROUGH SACRED COVENANTS. I can’t imagine his disappointment and sorrow, having it weigh on His sacred shoulders what He was about to do. So, He did what needed to be done. It probably outraged the religious leaders who were fine with the ways things were–even most likely profitted from this pit of filth, and this outrage was probably one of the last straws leading up to Christ’s condemnation and death. Yet this was eternal life, salvation itself at stake. This HAD to be done.

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