Pray the Word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net.

This week for Pray the Word, we are praying according to different texts that correspond with events during Holy Week.

So today's text, Mark 11, 15 through 19.

And they came to Jerusalem and he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold, those who bought in the temple.

And he overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons.

And he would not allow anyone to carry anything through the temple.

And he was teaching them and saying to them,

Is it not written, my house will be called a house of prayer for all the

nations but you have made it a den of robbers. The chief priest and the scribes

heard it and were seeking a way to destroy him for they feared him because all the crowd was

astonished at his teaching and when evening came they went out of the city.

So for Israel we know like the temple was the place of worship. God had given Solomon back in the Old

Testament, like specific directions for how it should be constructed and

God promised a manifest show his glory to his people in this

impressive building. This is where all the sacrifices were brought.

It's where the arc of God's presence was located.

This is where Israel encountered in a sense

God's covenant love, his atoning mercy where they glimpsed his holiness

so that Jesus would enter the temple on Monday of Holy Week was obviously not a surprise.

What he did and said at that temple

was a huge surprise because this house where

God said he would put his name and had according to Jesus become a den of robbers,

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