12 And Jesus entered into the temple and threw out all the [ones] selling and buying in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money-changers [kollubisthj] and the benches of the [ones] selling the doves. (Matthew 21)
15
And they came to
Jerusalem.
And having entered into the
temple
he started to throw out the [ones] selling and the [ones] buying in the
temple
[again, like he did the day before - see Matthew 21:12 which is parallel to Mark 11:1-11], and the
tables
of the
money-changers
[kollubisthj]
and the
benches
of the [ones] selling the
doves
he overturned;
16
and he would not let anyone carry a
utensil
through the
temple (Mark 11)
14
And he found in the temple [ieron]
those selling cattle and sheep and doves and the money-brokers
sitting [there].
15
So, after making a whip out of ropes,
he drove all [those] with the sheep and cattle out of the temple [ieron], and of the money-changers [kollubisthj]
he poured out the coins and overturned the tables [Greek likes to mess with word order for effect].
16
And he said to those selling the doves: Take these [things] away from here! Stop making the house of my Father a
house of merchandise!
(John 2)
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kollubisth,j
kollubisthj
kollu˛bisth,j,
ou/(
o`, (ko,lluboj) a small money-changer, N.T. From ko,lluboj ko,llu˛boj, o`,
a small coin
A dove stands for a sealed saint or at least a clean saint (with a water baptism). The small coins are saints too, silver money or gold money of God which should be deposited with angelic bankers. So the greater meaning here is the selling of sainthood for a price and even the swapping of changing of saintly covenants for a price. This is a market in sainthood! It applies both to the Roman Catholic Church and to the Watchtower and to Laodicea..
There are people who have swapped from a 1NC to a 2NC or vice versa using these spiritual bureaux de change. These churches have a marketplace for sainthood!
But Jesus overturns their tables and pours out the coins. So all of these transactions are null and void and anyone participating in any of them will lose his angel period.
Overturning the tables of the money changers is the church administration losing its authority over the saints, falling over the saints, becoming the evil slave of Matthew24.
Overturning the benches of those selling doves, is taking away the ability of the church to deal in clean saints. It is therefore the end of a presence, the end of the water baptism of the church.
Driving out those selling sheep and cattle with a whip of ropes, is removing the congregation from the church. This happens after the church has become false.
Not carrying a utensil in the temple is an interesting one. It means that one should not discuss secular work during a congregation meeting.