Spring flowers are out.
Sunday School window at Staunton Alliance Church.
Sanctuary window at Staunton Alliance Church.
Passover and Easter are almost here! This is a time to think of G-d's deliverance and redemption. Sunday we celebrated Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem. Yesterday I read of how he drove the money changers out of the temple court.
The place was the Court of the Gentiles to be specific. Jesus says that the temple was to be a "house of prayer" but they had made it "a den of thieves." The whole of the verse he references is "house of prayer for all nations." Abraham was told that through his seed all nations would be blessed. How could the nations come in if their courtyard was taken over by the money changers?
"Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people." - Isaiah 56:7
Flags of many nations.
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