If Jesus wanted to start his own church, why did he create a scene at the synagogue by turning table upside ..

Question

down. Wouldn't it have been better to live those people with their "wordly follies and start his parallel but heavenly church?

I meant "leave"

Answer 1

Mol: Jesus believed they were desecrating the Temple...the Jewish Temple.

Lets look at Jesus the human being. He had spent years traveling around and telling people about the "Good News". He carried no food and had no fancy clothes, just believed that his needs would be met. He has lost his cousin John. People are all around him begging to be healed or helped.

He is a Jew but many Jewish leaders do not believe in him (not all and no one better say the Jews killed Jesus because that is simply NOT TRUE). At this point, he knows already what is to happen over the next few days. He is stressed, tired and probably even a little afraid and hurt at the knowledge that his followers will betray and deny him.

He gets to the Temple and people have set up a craft fair (I am using a lot of liberty here) on the steps. He just cannot take anymore, he has done all he can to bring the word to the people. He is still very human and he just gets mad...PO'd.

In the scheme of things, this is part and parcel of God's whole plan. The Jewish leaders decide they must do something about this man, he has gone too far...thus all things were set into motion for the trial and crucifixion. MG

Answer 2

Jesus was acting out of righteous anger, as his father in heaven has done many times throughout the Bible. The reason why he didn't leave those people to their "worldly follies" is because it was those type of people that he was sent to preach to-people who didn't know any better about how God operates or how the Church operates, unlike the Pharisees. And Jesus WILL start his heavenly church when he comes back and reigns the world for 1,000 years.

Answer 3

there's a scene interior the gospel of John the position Jesus says, "earlier Abraham became, i'm." i became further as a lot as believe that Jesus became figuring out himself as God, it truly is what the scribes and Pharisee's interior the tale also concluded. i'm no longer so confident of that end anymore. What I see the following, alongside with the miracles he carried out interior the temple, is probable a kind for the anti-christ. i'm questioning if Jesus might want to be prophecying interior an same way as Ezekial. i do not understand if there's a recognition for it, even though it type of appears like some type of prophetic performance. that is my information that the Temple will be rebuilt sometime around the time the messiah returns so i imagine he might want to more effective in all probability be heading to the Temple. i imagine each of the gentile international locations are going to be heading that way, and that i might want to wager that incorporates many christians besides. interesting question.

Answer 4

It was prophesied in Psalm 69:9 that the Messiah would be "eaten up with the zeal" for his Father's house. It also brings out that the reproach that the merchants were bringing upon the temple was also falling upon him(Jesus). He removed them from the Synagogue, which by far made a stronger point: that taking advantage of his father's people would not be tolerated. Jesus loves his Father very much and was not going to allow a mockery to be made of the earthly place of worship.

Answer 5

He turned the tables upside down and dumped the money on the floor in the Temple. He viewed the Temple as his Fathers house. A similar analogy would be if you had a Father you loved very much and came home one day to find other people living in your father's house and they wore their muddy shoes and tracked all over the carpet and spit on the floor and stole from your Fathers fridge and other guest pockets. Of course these are only material things and Jesus saw the pollution of his Fathers house as more spiritual damaging.

Answer 6

Really a good question!

Firstly
If you look a few verses on he talks about his body being the Temple. Like just about everything else in Judeism Jesus claims to be the True temple (God dwelling with his people). Anyone who is in Jesus (the fulfillment of all that it meant to be Jewish) has God dwelling in him (ie the Holy Spirit) so their bodies are the Temple (as quoted by Paul in 1 Corinthians as well as Arnald Swatzinegger!!!)

Secondly the temple structures were keeping people out of God's presence... women, non-Jews, people who were unclean etc etc etc. Jesus was announcing the time of fulfillment of all that was at the heart of Judeism - nolonger would only some people get to be close to God with God technically dwelling in their capital city and only some of them would get to get closer to him by sacrificing a lamb for their sins - but everyone would get to have God dwelling in their own bodies through the sacrificial lamb of Jesus. Grace!

Interestingly Matthews Gospel also quotes Jesus taking the OT word for the assembled people of God - quahal - which, when the Jews were under Greek occupation they had to translate their scriptures they translated this word into the Greek word EKKLESIA (where we get english words like ecclesiastical) and Jesus used it about all people who were his followers (which by the time Matthew's gospel was written would have included gentiles).
So Jesus is using the OT word for the assembled people of God and saying that the new/true meaning is "the church".
So he took the heart of Judeism and through the undeserved favor of him taking all our gunk and all the bad stuff made it possible to have Judeism with out any of the compromises.

Hope that's helpful - I'm not really a geek - I'm doing a postgrad in theology at Oxford UK training to be a vicar/minister.
Good question though!

Hope that's helpful

Answer 7

The Bible is a novel. The author(s) at all times were thinking of its marketability as a movie project. In order to counter the generally wimpy Jesus in most of the book, it was necessary to write an action scene with a self-righteously angry Jesus. The author's were correct. That's the best part of the movie.

Answer 8

because the people used the temple a market place.Luke 19:45..Then He entered the temple area and began driving out those who were selling.v.46."it is written,he said to them,"My house will be a house of prayer,but you have made it a den of robbers".
Jesus could not just leave those people.He cares for them.The reason why Jesus died on the cross is to redeem us from sins.people now and then are wicked.Jesus was teaching the people and yet many of them did not believe Him.We are so blessed that even we did not see Jesus face to face,we took the step of faith to believe and accept Him as our personal Lord and Savior.
The Greek word of church means ecclesia.it refers to all who have been "called-out" of the world to become members of our Heavenly Father's family (the church).the church is made up of those who have had their sins forgiven because of the shed blood of Jesus at Calvary.and He said upon this " rock" i will build my "church".
(Matt.16:15-20)the name Peter is a small stone.It is not Peter himself who is the foundation of the church,but his confession of Jesus,the "huge rock".The acknowledgment of Jesus as Christ is the issue
Before the world was made,God chose to make us his children through Jesus Christ.He planned that all things in heaven and on earth would be joined together under his power.God purposed to do this by making Christ..to be the head of the church-which is his body.and in that body,both the Jews and non-Jews have become one people
yes,our Father's unchanging plan has always been to make us his children.this has ever been the desire and pleasure of his heart..

Answer 9

When Jesus was on earth, the temple was the center of true worship. But businessmen had set up shop there. Also, others were taking shortcuts through the temple grounds to get to other places in the city. By his reaction to what was going on there, Jesus showed how the temple was being used for inappropriate reasons. That's why he said at Matt. 21:13: "My [God's] house will be called a house of prayer, but you are making it a cave of robbers."

Answer 10

Who said he wanted to start a church? He wanted people to believe in his beliefs and thought it was a good way to get attention. He ,like many others often do totally irrational things to try to get their point across. He was like a pushy door to door salesman, it wasn't right and in the end it cost him his life. He ,if he were truly divine knew this.