Monday of Passion Week: “Jesus stopped everyone from using the Temple as a marketplace. He said to them, “The Scriptures declare, ‘My Temple will be called a house of prayer for all nations,’ but you have turned it into a den of thieves.”
We visited the Temple Mount in 2017, when this picture was taken.
An area dedicated for non-Jewish followers of God to worship was being used for selling of animals for sacrifice and exchanging foreign currency for Temple currency.
While the intent may have been well founded - easy access to a market to help the pilgrims to serve God - the result was a hindrance to the worshipping the Lord. So Jesus cleared them out.
What in my life may be created around good intentions, but is actually preventing me or others from approaching the Father?
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