Road Signs to the Cross - The Temple

The Destination

Road SignsTo the Cross

St. J & B

The Temple

Jerusalem

“Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion! Shout Daughter of Jerusalem! See your King comes to you… riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.” Zechariah 9:9

Jerusalem

“He began to drive out those who sold and 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 shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a den of robbers.”

Mark 11:15-17

The first Temple: Eden?

“The Lord God planted a garden in Eden in the east, and there he placed the man he had made.”

“When the cool evening breezes were blowing, the man and his wife heard the Lord God walking about in the garden.” Genesis 3:8

Genesis 2:8

Eden

Paradise Lost“After sending them out, the Lord God stationed mighty cherubim to the east of the Garden of Eden. And

he placed a

flaming sword that

flashed back and

forth to guard theway to the tree of

life.”

Genesis 3:24

The Temple: Trying to Find our Way Back to God.

From the Garden to The Temple to the

Cross

Jerusalem

Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days." John 2:19

Road SignsTo the Cross

St. J & B

Q #1: Are we a house of prayer?

Q #2: Am I a person of prayer?