Do we have A Cave of Robbers Today and will a world money Stimulus Plan by way of the U.N. change that?
Posted on January 27th, 2010 by admin
A Cave of Robbers
JESUS had ample reason to say that greedy merchants had turned God’s temple into "a cave of robbers." (Matthew 21:12, 13) To pay the temple tax, Jews and proselytes from other lands had to exchange their foreign money for acceptable currency. In his book The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah, Alfred Edersheim explains that money changers used to set up their businesses in the provinces on Adar 15, a month before Passover. Beginning on Adar 25, they moved into the temple area in Jerusalem to capitalize on the tremendous influx of Jews and proselytes. Dealers ran a thriving business, charging a fee for every piece of money exchanged. Jesus’ reference to them as robbers suggests that their fees were so excessive that they were, in effect, extorting money from the poor.
Some could not bring their own sacrificial animals. Anyone who did so had to have the animal examined by an inspector at the temple—for a fee. Not wanting to risk having an animal rejected after bringing it a long distance, many bought a Levitically "approved" one from corrupt dealers at the temple. "Many a poor peasant was well fleeced there," says one scholar.
There is evidence that onetime high priest Annas and his family had a vested interest in the temple merchants. Rabbinic writings speak of "the [temple] Bazaars of the sons of Annas." Revenue from the money changers and from the sale of animals within the temple grounds was one of their main sources of income. One scholar says that Jesus’ action in evicting the merchants "was aimed not only at the prestige of the priests but at their pockets." Be that as it may, his enemies surely wanted to do away with him!—Luke 19:45-48.
Pope calls for peace in 2010 USA TODAY News of Religion. Will the Pope talk about the Bible basic need for peace or just secular money laws? And does he back God’s kingdom or the human U.N. for peace? Are they one in the same or in conflict with each other? He give teeth to the U.N. for peace or just a world secular money fix? Who will the U.N. bite with those teeth? Counterfeit clergy? The Bible says yes! Revelation 17:16 "And the ten horns [nations] that you saw, and the wild beast [U.N.], these will hate the harlot [counterfeit clergy and their church fraud business] and will make her devastated and naked, and will eat up her fleshy parts [money and belongings] and will completely burn her with fire. [put them out of business completely as illegal fraud counterfeiters]" Same in Jesus day!
Just as American culture secularized [pagan] Christmas, it’s secularizing [pagan] Easter." Another counterfeit holiday putting on a show of being Christian! And the clergy get rich from people going to their church and stores [they own!] Note Matthew 6:24 “No one can slave for two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will stick to the one and despise the other. YOU cannot slave for God and for Riches." Time to look into who your clergy really love, God and you or your money only? A counterfeit bill religion will not buy anything from God! He is not fooled, are you? Back tax the fraud clergy and their money making secular businesses since it is not a genuine religion, make it a world money Stimulus Plan by way of the U.N.! We will not get life by fraud customs and teachings of counterfeit Christian clergy! So tax them this time!
Jesus would agree with that plan John 2:16, 17 "And he said to those selling the doves: “Take these things away from here! Stop making the house of my Father a house of merchandise!”
How many other counterfeit teachings do they feed us? Look into it! January 13, 2010
Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski, Religious Fraud Counterfeiters will be punished soon! Governor Ted Kulongoski Fax: 503.378.6827 you are the first to need to know that fact!
I don’t look to the UN to save us from church corruption, if it exists.
January 28th, 2010 at 2:44 am
I don’t look to the UN to save us from church corruption, if it exists.
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