The message of the overturned tables is, in reality, a singular message.

It is that religion is not a business; it is a relationship with the Living God. Whatever business is necessary to define and develop that relationship, God honors.

Whatever goes beyond that and becomes self-serving and self-perpetuating God loathes. Thus we see Jesus in the temple demonstrate more righteous indignation than at any other time as He drives the money changers from the temple.

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