The Christmas Story — The Birth of Jesus ChristBibilium
The Christmas Story tells the story of the first Christmas over 2000 years ago, when Jesus Christ, our redeemer, was born in this world. Visit us at bibilium.com, a Wholesome Christian Blog that caters to the need of every member of the family. Spread the Love and Share the Joy. Celebrate the amazing goodness of God in your lives.
Sermon Slide Deck: "A King Like No Other" (Luke 19:28-44)New City Church
Jesus is a king like no other—a king you would willingly give your life for because he willingly gave his life for you to give you true peace.
This message was given on January 22, 2017 at New City Church in Calgary by Pastor John Ferguson. For more info, please visit: www.newcitychurch.ca.
The Christmas Story — The Birth of Jesus ChristBibilium
The Christmas Story tells the story of the first Christmas over 2000 years ago, when Jesus Christ, our redeemer, was born in this world. Visit us at bibilium.com, a Wholesome Christian Blog that caters to the need of every member of the family. Spread the Love and Share the Joy. Celebrate the amazing goodness of God in your lives.
Sermon Slide Deck: "A King Like No Other" (Luke 19:28-44)New City Church
Jesus is a king like no other—a king you would willingly give your life for because he willingly gave his life for you to give you true peace.
This message was given on January 22, 2017 at New City Church in Calgary by Pastor John Ferguson. For more info, please visit: www.newcitychurch.ca.
Mark 11, Jesus' Triumphal Entry Into Jerusalem, Jesus' Cursing of the Fig Tree, Jesus' Cleansing Of The Temple, Jesus' Lesson Of The Fig Tree, Jesus' Authority Challenged, Doubting, doubt, forgive, Bethphage and Bethany, Time Is Not Yet, Zechariah 9, Literal Split Fulfillment, Jesus Condemned Jerusalem, the time of your visitation, lone fig tree, Jesus drove out sellers, Psalm 69 applied to Jesus, thinking testing examining is good in the Bible, God Is Able
Encountering Jesus: Through the Holy SpiritRuel Guerrero
Jesus breathe on the disciples after his resurrection to receive the Holy Spirit. But he also told them before he ascended to wait for the Father's gift, the infilling of the Holy Spirit. When Pentecost came, the prophecy of Joel was fulfilled and the disciples were empowered to preach the Gospel throughout the world (Acts 2:1-21).
Matthew 21, Palm Sunday, Triumphal Entry, The triumphal entry is the story ...Valley Bible Fellowship
Matthew 21, Palm Sunday, Triumphal Entry, The triumphal entry is the story of Jesus, the Creator of the universe, the King of Kings, the King of the Jews, entering into Jerusalem on a borrowed donkey’s colt, Prophecy Fulfilled, Hosanna to the Son of David, Hallel Psalm, Triumphal Entry, Bethphage, Bethany, Time Is Not Yet, Palms, Hosanna, Hallel, 2013
Mark 11, Jesus' Triumphal Entry Into Jerusalem, Jesus' Cursing of the Fig Tree, Jesus' Cleansing Of The Temple, Jesus' Lesson Of The Fig Tree, Jesus' Authority Challenged, Doubting, doubt, forgive, Bethphage and Bethany, Time Is Not Yet, Zechariah 9, Literal Split Fulfillment, Jesus Condemned Jerusalem, the time of your visitation, lone fig tree, Jesus drove out sellers, Psalm 69 applied to Jesus, thinking testing examining is good in the Bible, God Is Able
Encountering Jesus: Through the Holy SpiritRuel Guerrero
Jesus breathe on the disciples after his resurrection to receive the Holy Spirit. But he also told them before he ascended to wait for the Father's gift, the infilling of the Holy Spirit. When Pentecost came, the prophecy of Joel was fulfilled and the disciples were empowered to preach the Gospel throughout the world (Acts 2:1-21).
Matthew 21, Palm Sunday, Triumphal Entry, The triumphal entry is the story ...Valley Bible Fellowship
Matthew 21, Palm Sunday, Triumphal Entry, The triumphal entry is the story of Jesus, the Creator of the universe, the King of Kings, the King of the Jews, entering into Jerusalem on a borrowed donkey’s colt, Prophecy Fulfilled, Hosanna to the Son of David, Hallel Psalm, Triumphal Entry, Bethphage, Bethany, Time Is Not Yet, Palms, Hosanna, Hallel, 2013
The colt represents a former sinner who came to the LORD JESUS, the colt needs to pay homage to His LORD and MASTER and then the LORD JESUS "sat" reigning and ruling in the heart of the young colt.
Joshua 9-10, Long Day Of Joshua; Gibeonites; typology, Moses a type; Destroy ...Valley Bible Fellowship
Joshua chapters 9-10, Long Day Of Joshua; The Gibeonites = Survivors; typology, Moses as a type; Destroy Every Man, Woman, And Child; “Jerusalem” Jebusites, Yerushalaim; Bible cross reference charts; Y’all; Hebron; Valley of Ayalon
Sermon Slides: "Moving Out Of Our Comfort Zone" (Luke 9:1-9)New City Church
To be a follower of Jesus is to move out of our comfort zones
and participate in the mission of Jesus.
The message was given on February 23, 2014 at New City Church in Calgary by Pastor John Ferguson. For more info go to: www.newcitychurch.ca.
Matthew 6, 9 13,thy kingdom come, john the baptist, position “in christ”, hei...Valley Bible Fellowship
Matthew 6;9-13,
Thy Kingdom Come, What Does The Bible Say It Will Be Will It Be Like,
Many Christians Fail To Understand Their Position “In Christ” and Try To Put Themselves Back Under The Law.
So If We’re Not Living In The Kingdom Of God Now, Who’s Kingdom Is This?
Numbers 9-11, Second Passover, aliens among you, the trumpets, Paran, garlic,...Valley Bible Fellowship
Numbers chapter 9-11, Second Passover, no broken bones, not eating is sin, aliens among you, the trumpets, leaving Sinai, the march begins, the cloud, shekinah, the murmurings increase, Paran, garlic, cucumbers, Rabbi gives the name of Messiah, Yehoshua, Yeshua, Joshua, Jesus, tachu, quickly
President John Kennedy once observed, “The history of man is the history of war?” Why is this statement true? Jesus prophesied, “You shall hear of wars and rumors of wars” (Mt. 24:6). Why is world peace so elusive and seemingly unattainable?
Why is Messiah called the “Prince of Peace”? (Isa. 9:6) How does Jesus bring “peace on earth”? (Psa. 46:9; Lk. 2:14) What is peace? What are the different kinds of peace? Are you at peace with yourself and others? How did you find peace? Is there anyone with whom you have had difficulty being at peace with? What do you suppose is the cause of your conflict? What can you do to be at peace with this person? (Rom. 12:18)
Why did some at the Jerusalem Church, known as “they that were of circumcision”, criticize Peter for being with Cornelius? (11:1-3; 10:1-22) Was their contention based on prejudice against the gentiles, false doctrine or ignorance? How did Peter respond to this criticism? What was the result? What were the three characteristics of the church at Antioch? (11:12-15) What impact did this church have? (11:21-26) Compare and contrast FBC to the Antiochian church. What are your observations?
How can real change occur in a culture, a country, a community or within ourselves?
Slides to accompany the y GRWP podcast in the series 'The Christian Experience of God - Self Control' found here:
http://WelshRev.buzzsprout.com
(please allow 24 hours to produce & upload)
Slides to accompany the #sundayatgrace podcast - use the link in slide 2 or go to https://www.buzzsprout.com/47879/400009-christian-experience-of-god-19-gentleness
Check the website www.yGRWP.com for more!
These slides accompany the thirty minute radio podcast for 29/11/2015 from Grace Rural Wales Partnership at
https://www.buzzsprout.com/47879/328835-grwp-radio-podcast-2015-11-29-the-lord-s-prayer
which examines the recent furore about the rejection of a cinema advert featuring the Lord's Prayer.
The podcast features a 15 minute expose of this 2,000 year old prayer's controversial contents and some controversial responses from members of the public to the prohibition.
Slides to accompany the video on the y GRWP Youtube channel and WelshRev podcast on Buzzsprout on Mark 16:1-8 ... The Pastorally Purposeful (broken?) Ending of Mark
Slides to accompany audio on WelshRev's Buzzsprout podcast webpage on Mark 16:1-8 and the pastorally purposeful (broken?) end of Mark
It's all about persevering faithfully through DARK days!
Slides to accompany the audio of the sharp point of discipleship to Christ in Mark's Gospel from Simon Bowkett to be found on Archive.org under 'Missional Mark'
In Jude 17-23 Jude shifts from piling up examples of false teachers from the Old Testament to a series of practical exhortations that flow from apostolic instruction. He preserves for us what may well have been part of the apostolic catechism for the first generation of Christ-followers. In these instructions Jude exhorts the believer to deal with 3 different groups of people: scoffers who are "devoid of the Spirit", believers who have come under the influence of scoffers and believers who are so entrenched in false teaching that they need rescue and pose some real spiritual risk for the rescuer. In all of this Jude emphasizes Jesus' call to rescue straying sheep, leaving the 99 safely behind and pursuing the 1.
What Should be the Christian View of Anime?Joe Muraguri
We will learn what Anime is and see what a Christian should consider before watching anime movies? We will also learn a little bit of Shintoism religion and hentai (the craze of internet pornography today).
Lesson 9 - Resisting Temptation Along the Way.pptxCelso Napoleon
Lesson 9 - Resisting Temptation Along the Way
SBs – Sunday Bible School
Adult Bible Lessons 2nd quarter 2024 CPAD
MAGAZINE: THE CAREER THAT IS PROPOSED TO US: The Path of Salvation, Holiness and Perseverance to Reach Heaven
Commentator: Pastor Osiel Gomes
Presentation: Missionary Celso Napoleon
Renewed in Grace
The Good News, newsletter for June 2024 is hereNoHo FUMC
Our monthly newsletter is available to read online. We hope you will join us each Sunday in person for our worship service. Make sure to subscribe and follow us on YouTube and social media.
Homily: The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity Sunday 2024.docxJames Knipper
Countless volumes have been written trying to explain the mystery of three persons in one true God, leaving us to resort to metaphors such as the three-leaf clover to try to comprehend the Divinity. Many of us grew up with the quintessential pyramidal Trinity structure of God at the top and Son and Spirit in opposite corners. But what if we looked at this ‘mystery’ from a different perspective? What if we shifted our language of God as a being towards the concept of God as love? What if we focused more on the relationship within the Trinity versus the persons of the Trinity? What if stopped looking at God as a noun…and instead considered God as a verb? Check it out…
The PBHP DYC ~ Reflections on The Dhamma (English).pptxOH TEIK BIN
A PowerPoint Presentation based on the Dhamma Reflections for the PBHP DYC for the years 1993 – 2012. To motivate and inspire DYC members to keep on practicing the Dhamma and to do the meritorious deed of Dhammaduta work.
The texts are in English.
For the Video with audio narration, comments and texts in English, please check out the Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF2g_43NEa0
The Chakra System in our body - A Portal to Interdimensional Consciousness.pptxBharat Technology
each chakra is studied in greater detail, several steps have been included to
strengthen your personal intention to open each chakra more fully. These are designed
to draw forth the highest benefit for your spiritual growth.
The Book of Joshua is the sixth book in the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament, and is the first book of the Deuteronomistic history, the story of Israel from the conquest of Canaan to the Babylonian exile.
1. Welcome to Grace!
God delivers me and exalts me;
God is my strong protector
and my shelter.
Psalm 62:7
5 For there is one God and
one intermediary between God and humanity,
Christ Jesus, himself human,
6 who gave himself as a ransom for all,
revealing God’s purpose at his appointed time.
4. Mark 11
• Introduction
• Authority Acclaimed, vv. 1-10
– The donkey, vv. 1-7
“they brought the colt to Jesus, threw their cloaks
on it, and he sat on it.
8 Many spread their cloaks on the road and others
spread branches they had cut in the fields.
9 Both those who went ahead and those who
followed kept shouting, “Hosanna! Blessed is the
one who comes in the name of the Lord! 10 Blessed
is the coming kingdom of our father David!
Hosanna in the highest!”
5. Donkey riding in the Old Testament
• Zechariah 9:9-10
“Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion!
Shout, daughter of Jerusalem!
Look! Your king is coming to you:
he is legitimate and victorious,
humble and riding on a donkey—
on a young donkey, the foal of a female donkey.
10 I will remove the chariot from Ephraim
and the warhorse from Jerusalem,
and the battle bow will be removed.
Then he will announce peace to the nations.
His dominion will be from sea to sea
and from the Euphrates River to the ends of the earth.”
6. Donkey riding in the Old Testament
• Genesis 49:10-11
“The sceptre will not depart from Judah,
nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet,
until he comes to whom it belongs;
the nations will obey him.
11 Binding his foal to the vine,
and his colt to the choicest vine,
he will wash his garments in wine,
his robes in the blood of grapes.”
7. Donkey riding in the Old Testament
• 1 Kings 1
“King David said, “Summon Zadok the priest, Nathan the
prophet, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada.” They came before
the king, 33 and he told them, “Take your master’s servants
with you, put my son Solomon on my mule, and lead him
down to Gihon. 34 There Zadok the priest and Nathan the
prophet will anoint him king over Israel; then blow the
trumpet and declare, ‘Long live King Solomon!’
35 Then follow him up as he comes and sits on my throne.
He will be king in my place; I have decreed that he will be
ruler over Israel and Judah.”
8. Mark 11
• Introduction
• Authority Acclaimed, vv. 1-10
– The donkey, vv. 1-7
“they brought the colt to Jesus, threw their cloaks
on it, and he sat on it.
9. Mark 11
• Introduction
• Authority Acclaimed, vv. 1-10
– The donkey, vv. 1-7
– The crowd, vv. 8-10
“Many spread their cloaks on the road and others
spread branches they had cut in the fields.
9 Both those who went ahead and those who
followed kept shouting, “Hosanna! Blessed is the
one who comes in the name of the Lord! 10 Blessed
is the coming kingdom of our father David!
Hosanna in the highest!”
11. Hosea 9
The time of judgment is about to arrive!
The time of retribution is imminent!
Let Israel know!
Israel Rejects Hosea’s Prophetic Exhortations
The prophet is considered a fool—
the inspired man is viewed as a madman—
because of the multitude of your sins
and your intense animosity.
8 The prophet is a watchman over Ephraim on behalf of God,
yet traps are laid for him along all of his paths;
animosity rages against him in the land of his God.
The Best of Times, the Worst of Times
9 They have sunk deep into corruption
as in the days of Gibeah.
He will remember their wrongdoing.
He will repay them for their sins.
10 When I found Israel, it was like finding grapes in the wilderness.
I viewed your ancestors like an early fig on a fig tree in its first season.
Then they came to Baal-Peor and they dedicated themselves to shame—
they became as detestable as what they loved.
12. Mark 11
• Introduction
• Authority Acclaimed, vv. 1-10
• Authority Exercised, vv. 11-26
• To purify worship, vv. 11 & 15-19
• Right up to the Temple, v. 11
13. The first day of the Feast …
A – First visit to the Temple
B – Cursing of the Fig Tree
A – Jesus takes direct action in the Temple
B – The fig tree is found to be dead
A – Jesus returns to the Temple
Barren Temple … withered fig tree
14. Mark 11
• Introduction
• Authority Acclaimed, vv. 1-10
• Authority Exercised, vv. 11-26
• To purify worship, vv. 11 & 15-19
• Right up to the Temple, v. 11
• The Court of the Gentiles, vv. 15-16
15. Mark 11
• Introduction
• Authority Acclaimed, vv. 1-10
• Authority Exercised, vv. 11-26
• To purify worship, vv. 11 & 15-19
• Right up to the Temple, v. 11
• The Court of the Gentiles, vv. 15-16
• The nature of the objection, v. 17
• The nature of the objection, v. 17
–Dodgy dealing
16. Mark 11
• Introduction
• Authority Acclaimed, vv. 1-10
• Authority Exercised, vv. 11-26
• To purify worship, vv. 11 & 15-19
• Right up to the Temple, v. 11
• The Court of the Gentiles, vv. 15-16
• The nature of the objection, v. 17
– Dodgy dealing
– Exclusion of the Nations from prayer
17. Mark 11
• Introduction
• Authority Acclaimed, vv. 1-10
• Authority Exercised, vv. 11-26
– Right up to the Temple, v. 11
– The Court of the Gentiles, vv. 15-16
– The nature of the objection, v. 17
– The response of the ‘Authorities’, vv. 18-19
19. Mark 11:27-33
“They came again to Jerusalem. While Jesus was walking in
the temple courts, the chief priests, the experts in the law,
and the elders came up to him 28 and said, “By what
authority are you doing these things? Or who gave you this
authority to do these things?” 29 Jesus said to them, “I will
ask you one question. Answer me and I will tell you by
what authority I do these things:30 John’s baptism—was it
from heaven or from people? Answer me.”
31 They discussed with one another, saying, “If we say,
‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Then why did you not believe
him?’ 32 But if we say, ‘From people—’” (they feared the
crowd, for they all considered John to be truly a prophet).
33 So they answered Jesus, “We don’t know.” Then Jesus
said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I am
doing these things.”
This Gospel began in 1:1 with the assertion of the identity and consequent authority of Jesus Christ as God the Son.Having established his credentials as the One Who was to come, heralded by John the Baptist and acknowledged by the Heavenly voice at His baptism as Go’s beloved Son with Whom the Father was well pleased He broke the tempting power of the devil throughout forty days in the Wilderness and established Himself as the Second Adam … spotless and undefiled, on Whom sin could get NO traction.
His public ministry then begins with the agenda being set out in Mark 1:15f …
Something cosmic has changed – the Kingdom of God has arrived
The appropriate response is to repent & believe the Gospel
The consequence of repentance and faith is following the great End Time Fisher of Men
…Who alone exercises the Divine Authority to forgive sin – and PROVES it!
From that point on, throughout Act 1 of Mark up until the end of chapter 8 Jesus (ministering in Galilee) acts like God the Son come to take up His Kingdom again.Jesus is presented and finally acknowledged by Peter as ‘the Christ’, the long awaited anointed King over God’s restored Kingdom.
Act two starts immediately with Jesus spelling out for the first of three times what sort of King He is and what sort of choices He will make in exercising His authority.
It’s all about that exercise of authority – the exercise of the authority of the King over His Kingdom as it begins to be restored and just what te exercise of that authority will and won’t look like.
It is UTTERLY relevant to the suffering Christians at Rome for whom this Gospel is written!The journey takes Jesus and His followers up to Jerusalem and today – with Mark 12 – the third act begins with Jesus arriving at Jerusalem.
And what is the big issue that rears up again immediately?
The authority of Jesus Christ as King!
Jesus and His followers were at home in Act 1 in Galilee – it was home turf.
Throughout Act 2 they travelled towards Jerusalem and now at the start of Act 3 we find that they have come to Bethany & Bethphage by the Mount of Olives …
They are now in an area that would feel very foreign and where Galileans could expect at best to be tolerated as fellow Jews rather than welcomed as fellow citizens of the place.
All the references to Jerusalem in Acts 1 are negative and throughout Act 2 it has been a place to be afraid of, the place where the Messiah will be crucified.
The preaching of Act 1 gave way to private teaching in Act 2 but now in Act 3 we move into a phase of public confrontation.
Miracles have declined rapidly in frequency since Act 1, with only the highly symbolic healings of the blind people in Act 2 and in the final section of Mark the only miracle will be the ever so negative withering of the fig tree.
There is no faith and there are no miracles … just as there hadn’t been in Jesus’s home town of Nazareth in Mark 6 where we’re told: “He was not able to do a miracle there, except to lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them. 6 And he was amazed because of their unbelief.”
So – the whole thing starts off with Jesus and His followers arriving at Jerusalem.
There was a festival on.
Loads of people were turning up for the feast.
Jesus and His followers could easily have turned up un-noticed if they’d wanted to.
But they didn’t want to …
By two dramatic actions (the royal procession outside the city walls and the clearing of the Temple) Jesus makes sure His arrival gets noticed.
More than that, by these two actions Jesus claims a unique status and authority.
Neither will win over the Jerusalem authorities.
Mark is introducing the idea that this third act of the Gospel is the start of a decisive confrontation …
And it starts with a donkey!
There is a DELIBERATE seeking out of a previously un-ridden donkey’s colt and what turns out to be a deliberate prophetic enactment takes place.So WHY a donkey?You see, nowhere else do we read of Jesus riding … He walked everywhere … and there is an expectation in the Jewish literature that Passover pilgrims should WALK into the city (M. Hag. 1:1 exempts from the obligation to go up to the festival only those ‘who cannot go up [to Jersalem] on his feet’.)
Why a donkey?
Because it MEANT something in the OT to do this!
This is clearly a Messianic passage and the crowd – judging by the things they shout – clearly take this event to have a Messianic significance.
This is clearly a Messianic passage and the crowd – judging by the things they shout – clearly take this event to have a Messianic significance.
This is clearly a Messianic passage and the crowd – judging by the things they shout – clearly take this event to have a Messianic significance.
At the end of the last section it was blind Bartimaeus who so clearly identified Jesus as the Son of David … and here He comes, riding on that donkey – ‘she mule’ … it’s hard to be specific!
So Jesus exercises the royal right to requisition a donkey.
It is so far unridden – there is special value placed in the OT on hitherto unused animals for religious purposes …
And it is conventional that no-one else may ride the King’s mount, which is what gives significance to David’s actions in relation to Solomon.
The specific mention of the donkey being tied up echoes the Genesis 49 passage where the beast is tied to a vine.
But whatever the specific background to all of this in the Old Testament, the action is seen by contemporaries as an indication that as Jesus rides into Jerusalem He does so as her rightful King.
Their actions, first of all, are quite telling …
Clothes get laid on the road as a ‘red carpet’ for a dignitary in (e.g.) 2 Kings 9:13.
You notice this is not a description of the lulav waved at the Feast of Tabernacles but – the word used is στιβάδας
στιβάς1) branch, leafy limb
It’s the non-specified sort of vegetation you might cut and strew on the floor as animal bedding.
Then there’s their even more telling words …
‘Hosanna’ comes from Ps. 118:25 – the last of the great Hallel Psalms recited at festivals in Jerusalem … and certainly used at Passover.
It wold be a great idea to read the Great Hallel – Pss. 115-118 – on Thursday night and just contemplate what the Lord was thinking as they went through the last Passover meal reciting these!
It meant ‘save us now’ but became a rather general ascription of praise to God due to its common use in festival worship.
This is evident from the way it’s used in Matt. 21:9 & 15 where the following dative reveals it is just a way to say something like: ‘Hallelujah’.The big question is … Who are they addressing his to?
The title ‘Son of David’ heard at Jericho from no-longer-blind Bartimaeus recurs here … they are expecting Jesus to re-establish and reign on David’s throne.
Jesus is now – after this incident outside the walls of Jerusalem being acclaimed NOT by the Jerusalem crowd but by the Galilean crowd on pilgrimage – well in the frame to be seen as the King of the Jews.
When Jesus enters Jerusalem He exercises His authority in the barren Temple and against the barren fig tree.
In the first instance, He uses His authority to address the corruption of Israel’s worship ….
And Jesus comes to the centre of their religion with a fig tree in the frame ad a passage like THAT in the background!
When Jesus made that trip up to Jerusalem for the Passover He wasn’t actually heading up to Jerusalem … the goal of His journey was actually the Temple at Jerusalem and – it appears – He was specifically motivated to get to the Court of the Gentiles.
Given what we know of the role of the Messiah to bring all nations together under the headship of the Christ … that seems significant.
It was by then late in the day – a long and arduous journey of a day.
He looked around the Temple but left for the hospitality of the home of Mary and Martha outside Jerusalem in a little village out on the slopes of the Mount of Olives.
An odd incident arises early the next day on the way back into the city but we’ll hold that thought for a moment until we’ve looked at the events of that first full day at the Feast, because then it will make more sense to us at this distance in time.
The narrative on that day goes like this:
All leaf – no fruit.
It seems that of the many factor that led to Jesus’s death, the one that most united the people of Jerusalem against Him was His being perceived as an opponent of the Temple.
So Jesus returns to the Temple that first day and focuses on the outer court that even Gentiles were allowed into …
He has two major objections to what He was seeing there …
What Antiochus Epiphanes had done by blatant idolatry, the Jewish leaders themselves achieved by means of blatant commercial interest … Temple worship had lost its true focus and must again be purified.
Now, that is something which was expected of the Messiah …
But Ezek. 37:26-28 makes it clear that the Gentiles destiny is to be incorporated into what happens at that time: “I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be a perpetual covenant with them. I will establish them, increase their numbers, and place my sanctuary among them forever. 27 My dwelling place will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be my people. 28 Then, when my sanctuary is among them forever, the nations will know that I, the Lord, sanctify Israel.’”
Zechariah describes those days like this (Zech. 14:21): “There shall no longer be traders in the house of the Lord …”
Barren Temple – withered fig tree …
Jesus CONFRONTS.