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Cleansing the Temple Complex

John 2:13-16 The Jewish Passover was near, so Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 

In the temple complex He found people selling oxen, sheep, and doves, and [He also found] the money changers sitting there. 

After making a whip out of cords, He drove everyone out of the temple complex with their sheep and oxen. He also poured out the money changers' coins and overturned the tables. 

He told those who were selling doves, "Get these things out of here! Stop turning My Father's house into a marketplace!" (Emphasis added) 

Then His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for Your house has eaten Me up” (John 2:17).

What you are going through these days is not something strange. You are in the process of a deeper cleansing. This is the season in which God is purifying His temple.

You are the end-time BODY OF JESUS. You are that temple in whom the Lord will reveal His Glory.

God will not tolerate any un-Christlike nature or behavior in His temple for long. He is therefore, commanding every work that is contrary to His Word and Spirit which has been going on for all these years in your personal life to cease right now.

In verse 19, Jesus answered and said to them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." And, when He had risen from the dead, His disciples remembered that He was speaking of the temple of His body (John 2: 22).

'In three days' signified His resurrection.

He would purify His temple, which is His body and raise it up on the third day. We are NOW in the third day period after the death of Jesus. (For a thousand years is one day with the Lord - 2 Peter 3:8). The time has come again; as God raised the body of Jesus, He will also raise His people up with His resurrection power and fill them with His glory. The glory that came into the tabernacle of Moses and the temple of Solomon was just a small foretaste of the glory of God which will be revealed in and through His church, through His Body and Bride before His return.

“….. all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose" (Romans 8:28).

So, take courage, for you are being purified to be the co-ruling Bride of Christ.