Jesus Cleansing the House of God

Before the Passover, Jews were to do an intensive cleaning, searching every room, every crevice, to be certain there was no leaven at all in the house. One symbol of leaven is sin.

"Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days; and there shall no leavened bread be seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen with thee in all thy quarters." - Exodus 13:7

Before the Passover, Jesus went up to the temple in Jerusalem, the house of God, and conducted an intensive cleaning to make sure there was no “leaven” in the house. We become the house of God when we repent of our sins, and are cleansed by the blood of Jesus by water baptism in Jesus name, and are filled with His Spirit. Our “house” must be cleansed spiritually of all sin.

When Jesus cleansed God’s temple, it appeared to be full of mammon (money, treasure). There is only room for one God in His temple.

Our temple, which has become God’s house when we obey the gospel, must be cleansed of mammon and any other god substitutes that we have allowed to enter in.

"What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's." - 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 KJV

"Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates [not standing the test, rejected]?" - 2 Corinthians 13:5 KJV

"No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon." - Matthew 6:24 KJV

"And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, and found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: and when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables; and said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise. And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal [passion] of thine house hath eaten me up [consumed me]." - John 2:13-17 KJV [From: Psalm 69:9]

What is, “The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up”? (“Passion for God’s house has consumed me.” NLT) Jesus with passion suffered and died so that we as God’s house could be cleansed of sin. (Acts 2:38)

"Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." - Matthew 6:19-21 KJV

"And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves; and would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the temple. And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? [Isaiah 56:7] but ye have made it a den of thieves [Jeremiah 7:11]." - Mark 11:15-17 KJV (Also: Matthew 21:12-13)