Matthew 21:12-46

After The Triumphal EntryJesus, The King Of The Jews,

Confronts The Leaders Of The Jews

If Christ is risen, nothing else matters. And if

Christ is not risen- nothing else matters.

Jaroslav Pelikan

Jesus, The King Of The Jews, Examines The Temple And Leaders Of The Jews

• Matthew 21:12…Jesus entered the temple…• Zephaniah 1:12 "It will come about at that

time That I will search Jerusalem with lamps, And I will punish the men Who are stagnant in spirit, Who say in their hearts, 'The LORD will not do good or evil!'

In Matthew 21:1-11 We Examined

• My Time Is Not Yet• “daughter of Zion” • Zechariah 9:9…Even on a colt, Literal Fulfillment• Spreading their cloaks =royal homage• Palm Branches • the Son of David • Hosanna [hosanna= save, we pray]• Psalm 118, A Hallel Psalm • "Who is this?“• HE NAME OF THE LORD

Matthew 21:12, Jesus Entered The Temple

• Matthew 21:12…Jesus entered the temple…• Mark 11:12 On the next day, when they had

left Bethany…• Luke 19:41 When He approached Jerusalem,

He saw the city and wept over it,

Luke 19:42, Jesus Condemns Jerusalem

• Luke 19:42 saying, "If you had known in this day, even you, the things which make for peace! But now they have been hidden from your eyes. 43 "For the days shall come upon you when your enemies will throw up a bank before you, and surround you, and hem you in on every side,

• 44 and will level you to the ground and your children within you, and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation.”

• Daniel 9:24 "Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy place.

Israel Was Destroyed In AD 70,Fulfilling Christ’s Words, Literally

• “will level you to the ground” • will not leave in you one stone upon another• Why? “because you did not recognize the time

of your visitation.”• You mean Jesus held them accountable to

know and understand Bible prophecy?• Absolutely!

Matthew 21:12, Drove Out Sellers

• Matthew 21:12 And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all those who were buying and selling in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who were selling doves.

Matthew 21:12, Drove Out Sellers

• John 2:14 And He found in the temple those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the moneychangers seated. 15 And He made a scourge of cords, and drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen; and He poured out the coins of the moneychangers, and overturned their tables; 16 and to those who were selling the doves He said, "Take these things away; stop making My Father's house a house of merchandise." 17 His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for Thy house will consume me.“

• This is not some temper tantrum. Making a whip, takes time, forethought, purpose, and planning.

Psalm 69:6, Zeal For Thy House

• Psalm 69:6 May those who wait for Thee not be ashamed through me, O Lord God of hosts; May those who seek Thee not be dishonored through me, O God of Israel, 7 Because for Thy sake I have borne reproach; Dishonor has covered my face. 8 I have become estranged from my brothers, And an alien to my mother's sons. 9 For zeal for Thy house has consumed me, And the reproaches of those who reproach Thee have fallen on me. 10 When I wept in my soul with fasting, It became my reproach.

Matthew 21:13, Stop Sinning; Healed

• Matthew 21:13 And He said to them, "It is written, 'MY HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED A HOUSE OF PRAYER'; but you are making it a ROBBERS' DEN." 14 And the blind and the lame came to Him in the temple, and He healed them.

• First He stops the sinning, then He puts things right;• There’s a pattern here that we see in our own

sanctification, and also in the redemption of the planet.• Revelation the 2nd Coming, and before The Millennial

Kingdom

Matthew 21:13, House Of Prayer

• Isaiah 56:7 Even those I will bring to My holy mountain And make them joyful in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be acceptable on My altar; For My house will be called a house of prayer for all the peoples.“

• For gentiles also; Isaiah 56:6 "Also the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD, To minister to Him, and to love the name of the LORD, To be His servants…

• Millennial Temple will be for “for all the peoples, And make them joyful ” not the 3rd Temple it will be defiled (Matt 24:15)

Matthew 21:15,Wonderful Things= Indignant

• Matthew 21:15 But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that He had done, and the children who were shouting in the temple, "Hosanna to the Son of David," they became indignant

• Wow! Hardened hearts• Isaiah 5:20 Woe to those who call evil good, and

good evil; Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

Psalm 8:2, Children Are Saying

• Psalm 8:1 …O LORD, our Lord, How majestic is Your name in all the earth, Who have displayed Your splendor above the heavens! 2 From the mouth of infants and nursing babes You have established strength Because of Your adversaries, To make the enemy and the revengeful cease.

• Has “the enemy and the revengeful cease” happened yet?

• “infants and nursing babes” established what?• "Hosanna to the Son of David," …children are saying?"

Matthew 21:17, Back to Bethany

• Matthew 21:17 And He left them and went out of the city to Bethany, and spent the night there.

Matthew 21:1, Bethphage

• Matthew 21:1 When they had approached Jerusalem and had come to Bethphage, at the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,

• Bethphage is close to Bethany• Mark 11:1 As they approached Jerusalem, at

Bethphage and Bethany, near the Mount of Olives, He sent two of His disciples, [Luke 19:29]

Matthew 21:19, Lone Fig Tree

• Matthew 21:19 Seeing a lone fig tree by the road, He came to it and found nothing on it except leaves only; and He said to it, "No longer shall there ever be any fruit from you." And at once the fig tree withered. 20 Seeing this, the disciples were amazed and asked, "How did the fig tree wither all at once?"

Matthew 21:19, Lone Fig Tree

• Isaiah 5:7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel And the men of Judah His delightful plant. Thus He looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed; For righteousness, but behold, a cry of distress.

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Matthew 21:19, Lone Fig Tree

• Proverbs 27:18 He who tends the fig tree will eat its fruit, And he who cares for his master will be honored.

• Have they been tending “the fig tree” • Isaiah 34:4 And all the host of heaven will wear away,

And the sky will be rolled up like a scroll; All their hosts will also wither away As a leaf withers from the vine, Or as one withers from the fig tree….their land will be soaked with blood… 8 For the LORD has a day of vengeance, A year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

Matthew 21:19, 1st Mention; Fig Tree

• Judges 9:8 "Once the trees went forth to anoint a king over them, and they said to the olive tree, 'Reign over us!' 9 "But the olive tree said to them, 'Shall I leave my fatness with which God and men are honored, and go to wave over the trees?' 10 "Then the trees said to the fig tree, 'You come, reign over us!' 11 "But the fig tree said to them, 'Shall I leave my sweetness and my good fruit, and go to wave over the trees?'

Jeremiah 8:5, The Fig Tree Judged

• Jeremiah 8:5-14 "Why then has this people, Jerusalem, Turned away in continual apostasy?... they have rejected the word of the LORD, And what kind of wisdom do they have? 10 "Therefore I will give their wives to others, Their fields to new owners…From the prophet even to the priest Everyone practices deceit….At the time of their punishment they shall be brought down," Says the LORD. 13 "I will surely snatch them away," declares the LORD; "There will be no grapes on the vine And no figs on the fig tree, And the leaf will wither; And what I have given them will pass away."'“ 14 …the LORD our God has doomed us And given us poisoned water to drink, For we have sinned against the LORD…

Matthew 21:19, God Told Israel

• Isaiah 1:14 "I hate your new moon festivals and your appointed feasts, They have become a burden to Me; I am weary of bearing them. 15 "So when you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; Yes, even though you multiply prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood. 16 "Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; Remove the evil of your deeds from My sight. Cease to do evil, 17 Learn to do good; Seek justice, Reprove the ruthless, Defend the orphan, Plead for the widow. 18 "Come now, and let us reason together," Says the LORD, "Though your sins are as scarlet, They will be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, They will be like wool.”

Matthew 21:19, God Told The Church

• Revelation 2:4 'But I have this against you, that you have left your first love.

• Revelation 2:14 'But I have a few things against you, because…the teaching…

• Revelation 2:20 'But I have this against you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and she teaches and leads My bond-servants astray …

• Revelation 3:16 'So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth.

• 1 John 5:16…There is a sin leading to death;

Matthew 21:22, God's Omnipotence

• Matthew 21:22 "And all things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive."

• How often do we attempt work for God to the limit of our incompetency, rather than the limit of God's omnipotence? J. Hudson Taylor

• Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.

• Psalm 57:2 I will cry to God Most High, To God who accomplishes all things for me.

Matthew 21:22, All Things You Ask

• Matthew 21:22 "And all things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.“

• John 16:23 "In that day you will not question Me about anything. Truly, truly, I say to you, if you ask the Father for anything in My name, He will give it to you. 24 "Until now you have asked for nothing in My name; ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be made full. … 26 "In that day you will ask in My name, and I do not say to you that I will request of the Father on your behalf; 27 for the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came forth from the Father.

Matthew 21:22, All Things You Ask

• 1 John 3:21 Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God; 22 and whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do the things that are pleasing in His sight. 23 This is His commandment, that we believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as He commanded us. 24 The one who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. We know by this that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.

• James 4:3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures. (Matthew 21:22; John 14:14, 16:23; Luke 11:9)

Matthew 21:23, By What Authority

• Matthew 21:23 When He entered the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to Him while He was teaching, and said, "By what authority are You doing these things, and who gave You this authority?“

• Good question, chief priests and elders!• They should have listened;• Matthew 9:6 "But so that you may know that the Son of

Man has authority on earth to forgive sins "-- then He said to the paralytic, "Get up, pick up your bed and go home." 7 And he got up and went home. 8 But when the crowds saw this, they were awestruck, and glorified God, who had given such authority to men.

Matthew 21:23, By What Authority

• Matthew 28:18 And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.

• Luke 5:21 The scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, "Who is this man who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?" 22 But Jesus, aware of their reasonings, answered and said to them, "Why are you reasoning in your hearts? 23 "Which is easier, to say, 'Your sins have been forgiven you,' or to say, 'Get up and walk '? 24 "But, so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins,"-- He said to the paralytic-- "I say to you, get up, and pick up your stretcher and go home."

Matthew 21:35 Beaten And Stoned

• Matthew 21:35 "The vine-growers took his slaves and beat one, and killed another, and stoned a third.

• Hebrews 11:35 Women received back their dead by resurrection; and others were tortured, not accepting their release, so that they might obtain a better resurrection; 36 and others experienced mockings and scourgings, yes, also chains and imprisonment. 37 They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were tempted, they were put to death with the sword; they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated 38 (men of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and caves and holes in the ground. 39 And all these, having gained approval through their faith, did not receive what was promised,

Matthew 21:35Branding Iron For Runaway Slaves

• Matthew 21:35 "The vine-growers took his slaves and beat one, and killed another, and stoned a third.

Matthew 21:43, Israel Was Rejected for Unfruitfulness

• Matthew 21:43 "Therefore I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people, producing the fruit of it.

• Israel’s unfruitfulness resulted in the end of their ministry, and the start the start of the church’s ministry.

• Luke 18:8 …when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth?"

Matthew 21:44, Who Is ‘This Stone’?

• Matthew 21:44 "And he who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; but on whomever it falls, it will scatter him like dust.“

• Isaiah 8:13 "It is the LORD of hosts whom you should regard as holy. And He shall be your fear, And He shall be your dread. 14 "Then He shall become a sanctuary; But to both the houses of Israel, a stone to strike and a rock to stumble over, And a snare and a trap for the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 15 "Many will stumble over them, Then they will fall and be broken; They will even be snared and caught."

Matthew 21:44, Who Is ‘This Stone’?

• Matthew 21:44 …this stone…• Isaiah 28:16 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD,

"Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a tested stone, A costly cornerstone for the foundation, firmly placed. He who believes in it will not be disturbed.

• ‘This Stone’ will crush all the kingdoms of the world; Daniel 2:34 …a stone was cut out without hands…But the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.

Matthew 21:44, Who Is ‘This Stone’?

• Matthew 21:44 …this stone…• Acts 4:8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said

to them…by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead.… 11 "He is the STONE WHICH WAS REJECTED by you, THE BUILDERS, but WHICH BECAME THE CHIEF CORNER stone. 12 "And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved."

Matthew 21:44, Who Is ‘This Stone’?

• Matthew 21:44 …this stone…• Romans 9:32 …They stumbled over the stumbling stone, 33

just as it is written, "BEHOLD, I LAY IN ZION A STONE OF STUMBLING AND A ROCK OF OFFENSE, AND HE WHO BELIEVES IN HIM WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED.“

• Ephesians 2:20 …Christ Jesus Himself being the corner stone,

• 1 Peter 2:4 And coming to Him as to a living stone which has been rejected by men…

• 1 Corinthians 10:4 …a spiritual rock which followed them; and the rock was Christ.

Matthew 21:45, They Understood Him

• Matthew 21:45 When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard His parables, they understood that He was speaking about them.

• So they tore their clothes, threw dust on their heads, begged for mercy, and repented

• No! Too bad.• 46 When they sought to seize Him, they feared

the people, because they considered Him to be a prophet.

The Potter And His Clay

• That the Potter should die for His clay is a stupendous miracle. Lynn Landrum

• Jesus… He came not to a throne, but to a manger. He lived not as a king, but as a servant. He chose not an earthly kingdom, but a cross. He gave not just a little, but everything. Holley Gerth

THE END

Matthew 15:13, Plant = Them

• Matthew 15:13 But He answered and said, "Every plant which My heavenly Father did not plant shall be uprooted. 14 Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

Matthew 22:6, Seized, Mistreated, And Killed His Slaves

• Matthew 22:6 and the rest seized his slaves and mistreated them and killed them.

• Matthew 21:35 "And the vine-growers took his slaves and beat one, and killed another, and stoned a third… 37 "But afterward he sent his son to them… 38 "But when the vine-growers saw the son, they said among themselves, 'This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and seize his inheritance.‘… 39 "And they …killed him.

• Matthew 23:34 "Therefore, behold, I am sending you prophets and wise men and scribes; some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city,