Cleansing Of The Temple

Question 1

Points of the lesson

Answer 1

1) Man Centered Religion
2) Compartmentalized Religion
3) Ignorant Religion

Question 2

Man Centered Religion points

Answer 2

A. Based on politics not conviction
B. Hates Accountability
C. Hypocritical

Question 3

Great aspects to what the Pharisees did

Answer 3

1) Greeted people
2) Sat in good seats
3) Lengthy prayers

Question 4

7 types of Pharisees (hidden motives behind “good things”)

Answer 4

1. Shoulder
2. Hunched back
3. Bruised and battered
4. Wait a little
5. Ever reckoning
6. God fearing
7. God loving

Question 5

Story of the poor widow who gave everything she had

Answer 5

Jesus is either Lord of all or not lord at all!
Get open about anything hidden in your life… God still wants to use you

Question 6

2 concepts in Ignorant Religion

Answer 6

1) The Day of the Lord, the second coming of Jesus
2) The prophesied destruction of the temple, fall of Jerusalem

Question 7

Luke’s literary device

Answer 7

Matthew separates concepts of the day of the lord, but Luke uses literary device of compression

Question 8

History

Answer 8

Renovated version of Zerubbabel’s temple
- Covered in plates of gold
- Destroyed by Titus in 70 AD, gold melted in wall
- Marble pillars 40 ft high
- Pinnacle of temple was 450 ft

Question 9

Destruction of the temple: deaths

Answer 9

1.1 million Jews died. 97,000 were taken captive by Romans

Question 10

Response to the Day of the Lord

Answer 10

God already knows when he is coming for us… will you be ready?
- Jesus cleansed out the temple, he kept it clean with the Word

Question 11

Journey Section

Answer 11

Jesus drives out those selling doves, who were profiting on people’s sacrifice for God
Temples:
1) Solomon’s temple destroyed in 586 BC
2) Zerubbabels temple in 516 BC
3) 19-20 BC Herod renovated the temple