Why Did Jesus Destroy The Temple

responded "destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." It was not the temple that Jesus was referring to, but “he spoke of the temple of his body.” Jesus cleansing of the temple demonstrated “a prophetic sign of what he wants to do with each of us.” And this would be by dying on the cross, with the weight of mans sins on his shoulders. The “dramatic cleansing of the temple was seen by his disciples as a prophetic sign of God’s action.” Jesus’ action in the temple was “ a clear symbol of judgment to come” foreshadowing his death on the cross for mankind’s sins.

The last supper was “Jesus’ own chosen way of expressing and explain to his followers, then and ever since, what his death was all about.” The last super took place a few hours before Jesus’ crucifixion. Sitting at the table, Jesus knew that this was the night he was going to die. The supper “commemorates His death on [the] cross as a sacrifice for our sins, so that we might live.” It

No writer argues that Jesus’ death was solely due to historical contingency. Paul exclaims,

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed

The death of Christ “was in the predetermined program of God - planned before the foundation of the world.” Jesus’ death was prophesied in the Old Testament, long before it actually happened. Anselm of Canterbury suggests it was “God’s set purpose and foreknowledge.” In Martin Luther’s, “The Babylonian Captivity of the Church,” he promotes that “Jesus died to transform his promises into a