Love This Book - Part 3Sample

Week 34: The readings for this week focus on the narrative of Jesus versus the temple in Jerusalem. In these passages, there is a clear sense of opposition from the temple, which has perverted the worship of Yahweh into a money-making strategy for sustaining power. Jesus enters the scene and declares himself the new authority who has power not only to cleanse the temple, but even to destroy the temple. Now that He is here, prayer no longer needs to take place in a temple and so the old way must go to make way for the new kingdom of God.