Because we're not used to going to temples to worship we often miss the significance of them throughout the Bible...
Joyful Christianity
Holy Spirit & the Imagination
Elementary Christianity
Lady Wisdom
The Wisdom of God
Across Denominational Lines
The Already But Not Yet
Resurrection: The Final Afterlife
The Prevailing Church
Sociology & the Cross
Lead Like Jesus
The Fourth Cup
The Delayed Return of Jesus
Jesus' Birth Date
Scribes & Widows
Jesus said death was ahead of him at Jerusalem and now it almost seems like he's calling it out to come fight him. First he flips tables full of money at the temple; then he calls the Pharisees out on their hypocrisy; then he tells the Saducees that they're, "Quite wrong"; and now he calls the Scribes out on their oppression and pride...