“‘Zeal For Your House…’ Of Worship & Hostile Barriers”

John 2:16 He told those who were selling the doves, “Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father’s house a marketplace!” 

John 2:17 His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will consume me.”

Mark 11:17 He was teaching and saying, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a den of robbers.” 

Eph. 2:12 remember that you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. 

Eph. 2:11 ¶ So then, remember that at one time you Gentiles by birth, called “the uncircumcision” by those who are called “the circumcision”—a physical circumcision made in the flesh by human hands— 

Eph. 2:14 For he is our peace; in his flesh he has made both groups into one and has broken down the dividing wall, that is, the hostility between us.