In 3 Days!

The wedding at Cana - “This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him” John 2:11. The miracle of turning the water into wine was called a sign, and the effect of the sign was to reveal the glory of Jesus and the effect of that revelation was to bring about belief in the disciples. 

Scipture: John 2:13–22

Jesus drove the money-changers out of the temple. He was asked for a sign. He told them He would raise the destroyed temple in three days.

22 When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this; and they believed the scripture and the word which Jesus had spoken.

John 20:31, “These are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.”

13 The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

14 In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers at their business.

Inside the temple court, a place meant for prayer, there were money-changers, cages of pigeons, oxen and sheep and sellers sitting for someone to make a purchase.

15 And making a whip of cords, he drove them all, with the sheep and oxen, out of the temple; and he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables.

16 And he told those who sold the pigeons, "Take these things away; you shall not make my Father's house a house of trade."

Jesus did not approve of what He saw.

Matthew 21:13 says, He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer’; but you make it a den of robbers.”

Jesus says that they have turned His Father’s house into a market place.

The disciples saw Him make a whip of ropes and He loosened the oxen, He dumped boxes of money on the ground and turned over tables. 

17 His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for thy house will consume me." Also (Psalm 69:9)

Jesus was consumed with zeal for His Father’s house.

The anger is all directed at those who were selling and handling the currency. 
John 2:25 “He himself knew what was in man”
Matthew 23:25 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you cleanse the outside of the cup and of the plate, but inside they are full of extortion and rapacity.“  

Jesus tells them, you put up a fine display of religiosity. But you are driven by the love of money, not the love of God.  

Mark 7:9-12 Jesus to the scribes and Pharisees,

And he said to them, "You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God, in order to keep your tradition!
For Moses said, 'Honour your father and your mother'; and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him surely die'; but you say, 'If a man tells his father or his mother, What you would have gained from me is Corban' (that is, given to God) then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother, ((ALL ABOUT THE MONEY.))

What Jesus saw in the temple was not an isolated instance of questionable worship. It was greed cloaked with religion.

“‘This people honours me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the precepts of men.’” Matthew 15:8-9.

Money is being worshipped in My Father’s house.

  

18 The Jews then said to him, "What sign have you to show us for doing this?"
They asked for a sign to prove Himself.

Matthew 12:38-39 Then some of the scribes and Pharisees said to him, "Teacher, we wish to see a sign from you." But he answered them, "An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign; but no sign shall be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. 

Jesus says that the sign will be the sign of Jonah: Jonah's restoration after three days inside the belly of the whale prefigures Christ’ own resurrection. Matthew 12:40 For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so will the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

They ask for a sign and they’re trying to turn a problem of greed into a problem of knowledge. So Jesus takes their question and….

19 Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up."

20 The Jews then said, "It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days?"

21 But he spoke of the temple of his body.

So what did Jesus mean when he said, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up”? 
Jesus knew all, He knew what was in man. He said, He will be killed and three days later He will rise from the dead. They asked for a sign, they did not understand.23 Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover feast, many believed in his name when they saw the signs which he did;

24 but Jesus did not trust himself to them,
25 because he knew all men and needed no one to bear witness of man; for he himself knew what was in man.

  
But Jesus was saying, I and my Father are one.
If you destroy His house, you destroy Me.
If you treasure money more than my Father, you will treasure my destruction and buy it with 30 pieces of silver.

Destroy this temple, the building; and Destroy this temple, my body. 

“In Three Days I Will Raise It Up” 

John 10:17-18 - “I lay down my life that I may take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again.”

He lays His life down for our sins. When they Crucify Jesus to a death on the Cross, HE, Rises from death to Glory In 3 Days!

The material temple that would be destroyed, Jesus builds in three days. He now replaces this temple and becomes the new Place where everyone meets God. Remember what He said in Matthew 12:6, I tell you, something greater than the temple is here. And it is Jesus.

21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. (Woman at the well)
23 But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for such the Father seeks to worship him. John 4:21&23

When Jesus died for our sins and rose from the dead, He replaced the temple with Himself.

Please continue to read…

In 3 Days Part 2