these abominations?” (vs. 9, 10). “We are saved; we are safe; we’ve been to church!” God’s comment on that is verse l i : “Has this house which is called by My name, become a den o f rob bers in your eyes? Behold, I My self have seen it, says the Lord.” “Our external religion is ade quate,” thought the Jews, “ so we can go on sinning if we want to.” This is worse than no religion at all. The heathen temples were places where the most vulgar and vile sins were committed. And it was considered all right, because it was done in the temple. Be as lust ful as you want to, as long as you do it in the temple. And even the Jews felt they were ail right in their temple. Condoned by reli gion, almost like the heathen while in their temple, they sinned as they wished. Now picture the New Testa ment parallel. Here is the crowd in the temple again, everyone is there, but they were there for the wrong purpose. They were there for some bargains in forgiveness. They were there for a cheap way out o f their bad feelings. And we read in Matthew chapter 21, verses 12 and 13: “ Jesus entered the temple of God and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and He overturned the tables o f the money changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. He said to them, ‘It is written, My house shall be called a house o f prayer,’ but you make it a den o f robbers.” Notice that Christ quotes from Jeremiah. Then, again note that the Lord Jesus was not very complimentary as He spoke to the religious lead ers. He said: “Woe to you, scribes and Phari sees, hypocrites! for you cleanse the outside o f the cup and of the plate, but inside they are full o f extortion and rapacity. You blind Pharisee! first cleanse the inside of the cup and o f the plate, that the outside may be clean” (Matt. 23:25, 26).
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