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Podcast: Thy Strong Word from KFUO Radio
Episode: Matthew 21:1-22: WWJD? Whip the Temple into Shape
Description: Jesus enters Jerusalem as a humble king, riding on a donkey in fulfillment of Zechariah's prophecy, as crowds shout "Hosanna!" He immediately goes to the temple and cleanses it by force. He turns over the tables and cracks a whip while driving out the moneychangers and declaring, "My house shall be called a house of prayer, but you make it a den of robbers." The next day, He curses a barren fig tree, a living parable of the judgment to come upon a fruitless Israel that has rejected its King.Â
The Rev. Dr. Curtis Deterding, senior pastor of Zion Lutheran C...