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These financial experts were no mean men. They were the
astute religious, social economical and political juggernauts of their day. Men
of them occupy positions which we in our days would call Captains of
Industries. These men include the scribes, the Pharisees, Sadducees and members
of the priestly class.
From the physical point of view, what these men did would be
seen as noble and lofty. There was nothing wrong in bringing the materials
needed for sacrifice from infinity to the close reach of the people. No one can
fault that act. It is a noble act, perhaps it deserves a noble peace prize.
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Lofty as this idea or principle of conducting financial
transactions in the temple is, how does the LORD GOD ALMIGHTY view this act?
1 Sam 16:7
7 but the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his
countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for
the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but
the LORD looketh on the heart.
And what is HIS response?
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John 2:13-16
13 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.
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When men sit down to devise mischief in their hearts so that
they can orchestrate wickedness against the children of GOD, they disguise their
true intentions and make use of scriptural terminologies as an alibi to cover up
their wickedness, they feel happy that no one is sees them.
Had they be more diligent to study the word of GOD, they should
have known the injunction which says: Bread stolen and eaten in the dark places
is sweet but they do not consider that the spirits of the dead are there watching
them.
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