Terry’s Take… The Living Stone

As mentioned last week…Jesus is the new and living temple, “for in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily.” (Colossians 2:9)  To come into God’s presence, one no longer needs to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and enter the temple.  Rather, Jesus is the Word made flesh, and therefore, God now tabernacles among humankind.

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Terry’s Take… Two Temples

Jesus went to Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover, the feast that commemorated both the Israelites’ passing out of slavery in Egypt and the covenant that God made with the Jewish people in the wilderness. “In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers at their business.”  Jesus

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