Christ finds the temple filled with money changers: Today, souls are filled with worldly desires

John 2:13-14

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 “Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. And He found in the temple those who sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers doing business.” John 2: 13-14 

The Passover represents the blood of Jesus Christ being applied to the soul for the remission of sin and eternal life. Our soul is the temple of God where the Spirit of Christ is supposed to live within us through the remission of sin. Today, everything except the Holy Spirit lives within the soul of the masses of people around the world. Where are the sheep of the Good Shepherd? Where is the dove-like nature of the Spirit? Where is the willingness to sacrifice our life to live for the Lord Jesus?

If Jesus Christ came today, He would find the temple, our body, filled with money changers doing business. The people of today desire the prosperity of this world more than the Holiness found in the Spirit of Christ. They reject Jesus Christ, deny God, and blaspheme the Holy Spirit in exchange for money and possessions. In fact, we live in a world where humanism uses behavior modification to entice people to reject the spiritual in exchange for living by the thing which forms what people thinks, feels, does, and speaks. Humanisms is “…an outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters.”

Behavior modification is a way to mandate or force people into a specific behavior. It is used to reward desired behavior with things that can be had in this world and to make belief in God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit a very unrewarding and hurtful experience. It modifies people’s behavior to be receptive to the thing which forms what they think, feel, and do to enable the image of the beast to live and speak through them. As it lives and speaks through people, they are conformed to their place in life by what they say and do. What they say and do is very worldly and earthbound. They are conformed to their mark in life as they are groomed to the mark of the beast.

The soul is being corrupted with worldly things in order to make the temple of God, our body, a place for the thing which forms thoughts, behaviors, and feelings,

…it opposes and exalts itself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that it sits as God in the temple of God, showing itself that it is God.

Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;

2 Thessalonians 2:4 and also 1 Corinthians 6:19

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:1