Did you ever wonder why there were money changers, and
other merchants in the Temple?
Well, the Passover was almost at hand, and Jews came
from all over the World to take part in the Passover Festival
each year, and to pay their Temple taxes. Those from foreign
Countries had to have their money changed into Temple
currency, because it was the only money accepted to pay for
the purchase of sacrificial animals and pay for their taxes as
well.
Often the inflated exchange rate enriched the money
changers, and the exorbitant prices of animals made the
merchants wealthy. Further, their stalls were set up in the
Temple's Court of the Gentiles, frustrating the intentions of
the Non-Jews who had come to worship God as well.
(see ISAIAH 56:6-7)
Thus Jesus became angry because God's House of Worship
had become a place of extortion, and a barrier to Non-Jews who
wanted to worship there as well.
For; “THEN JESUS TAUGHT,
SAYING TO THEM, "IS IT NOT WRITTEN, MY HOUSE SHALL
BE CALLED A HOUSE OF PRAYER FOR ALL NATIONS?
BUT YOU HAVE MADE IT A DEN OF THIEVES."
AND THE SCRIBES AND CHIEF PRIESTS HEARD IT AND SOUGHT HOW THE MIGHT DESTROY HIM; FOR THEY FEARED HIM, BECAUSE ALL THE PEOPLE WERE ASTONISHED AT HIS TEACHING.” (MARK 11:17-18 )
Finally, if you are wondering why we don't follow
the sacrificial laws anymore, please know that Christ became
our Sacrificial Lamb to pay for our sins once and for all!
“FOR INDEED CHRIST, OUR PASSOVER, WAS SACRIFICED FOR US.
THEREFORE LET US KEEP THE FEAST.” (1 CORINTHIANS 5:7)
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