God comforts us by the oath He made to Christ, appointing Him our high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. Christ had said to God in olden times, "I delight to do Thy will!" Very early in Christ's ministry, He exhibited a particular, zealous delight to do God's will, when He cleansed the temple, upset the money changers' table, and let all the animals loose. Christ denounced how the religious rulers and the people had turned the temple sacrifices into a commercial enterprise. Now, instead of bringing your own sacrifice, you could simply buy one on site – much less fuss and trouble then raising your own lamb, growing attached to it, and then bringing it to God's altar as a sacrifice because you sinned against God. This stripped the people of their connection to their sin offerings, and turned the whole thing into the payment of what was essentially a fine. Thus, the people were alienated and separated from their sacrifices, from their bloody substitutes in the temporal judgment of God for their sins. Now, it was merely a market transaction, rather than an offering that propitiated God's wrath for their crimes. In a dramatic way, Christ here acted out God's opposition to their animal sacrifices, in which He took no delight, because the people had so disregarded the offerings of God. After Jesus took this action, the people demanded of Him a sign, and He told them that they would destroy "this temple," by which He meant, His Own body, but that He would rise again in three days. Even as God had no delight in their animal sacrifices, they would shortly show their contempt for the only sacrifice that does delight God, the offering of His Dear Son.