Cleaning House
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Transcript
Introduction
Introduction
Sign Act
1 “Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts.
The Gospel of Luke ii. The Cleansing of the Temple 19:45–46
Jesus enters the sacred precincts and drives out the people carrying on trade in the Court of the Gentiles, alleging that they have made the temple into a haunt of robbers rather than a place of prayer.
15 And they came to Jerusalem. And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. 16 And he would not allow anyone to carry anything through the temple. 17 And he was teaching them and saying to them, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a den of robbers.”
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The Gospel of Luke ii. The Cleansing of the Temple 19:45–46
The Court of the Gentiles was occupied by merchants selling the requisites for sacrifice—animals, wine, oil, salt and so on (cf. SB I, 850–852).
Talmud
7 these I will bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer; their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.”
Is. 56:7 I will bring them to my holy mountain, and gladden them in my house of prayer: their whole-burnt-offerings and their sacrifices shall be acceptable upon mine altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations, (LXX)
2 It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it, 3 and many peoples shall come, and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths.” For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. 4 He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide disputes for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.
Luke 9:51–24:53 a. Jesus’ Cleansing of the Temple (19:45–46)
Luke leaves the universal note out and simply addresses the issue that the temple should be a place of appropriate worship. Jesus applies these words rather directly to the current situation to express what the temple is designed to be in the last days. But this is not what this temple was in his day
Missed Messiah’s Visiit
41 And when he drew near and saw the city, he wept over it, 42 saying, “Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. 43 For the days will come upon you, when your enemies will set up a barricade around you and surround you and hem you in on every side 44 and tear you down to the ground, you and your children within you. And they will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know the time of your visitation.”
Second OT citation
Jeremiah’s Temple Sermon
The unrighteous reside in the temple
Jeremiah 7:11 (ESV)
11 Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I myself have seen it, declares the Lord.
8 Peter said to him, “You shall never wash my feet.” Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you have no share with me.” 9 Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, not my feet only but also my hands and my head!” 10 Jesus said to him, “The one who has bathed does not need to wash, except for his feet, but is completely clean. And you are clean, but not every one of you.” 11 For he knew who was to betray him; that was why he said, “Not all of you are clean.”
31 “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, 32 not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the Lord. 33 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 34 And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”
vs 47-48
vs 47-48
Chief Priests, Scribes, Leading People
Their seeking was futile
“hung on his every word”
Luke 9:51–24:53 Summary
Luke 19:45–48 shows that Jesus meets confrontation in Jerusalem. The drama immediately heightens as Jesus cleanses the temple in a prophetic act guaranteed to require the officials’ attention. He compares the temple’s condition to that right before the exile. Jesus has come to confront the nation, and the people are now faced with a choice. Nothing has changed since their house was declared desolate in 13:34–35.
34 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing! 35 Behold, your house is forsaken. And I tell you, you will not see me until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’ ”
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