Section 2
sinful things. This is the reason that the house of God needs cleansing.
Jesus cleansed the temple at a time when "the Passover of the Jews was near" (v. 13). The Pass over at that time was a remembrance of God's salvation (Exo. 12:2-11; Deut. 16:1-3), through which remembrance the Jews worshipped God in their temple. But when the Lord Jesus went up to Jerusalem, their temple was filled with oxen, sheep, doves, and money-changers. Thus, the tem ple needed a cleansing, and the Lord Jesus did it.
The Passover was a prefigure of our remem brance of the Lord (1 Cor. 11:24-25). And we are the temple of God (3:16). It is very possible that when we come to the Lord's table meeting to remember Him, we are filled with earthly things. Thus, we also need a cleansing so that we may be the proper temple of God.
THE CLEANSING OF THE TEMPLE
Let us read John 2:14-16: "He found in the temple those selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the moneychangers sitting there. And having made a whip out of cords, He drove them all out of the temple, as well as the sheep and the oxen, and He poured out the money of the money changers and overturned the tables. And to those