GOD'S MINUTE!!!

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SO THEY CAME TO JERUSALEM. THEN JESUS WENT
INTO THE TEMPLE AND BEGAN TO DRIVE OUT THOSE
WHO BOUGHT AND SOLD IN THE TEMPLE, AND OVER-
TURNED THE TABLES OF THE MONEY CHANGERS, AND
THE SEATS OF THOSE WHO SOLD DOVES.
( MARK 11:15 *NKJV )

Dear Charles,
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 Charles, 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. Amen.
( 1 CORINTHIANS 5:7 )

With My Love & Prayers,
your servant Allen
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