“In that day,there shall no longer be a Canaanite (‘merchant’) in the house of Yehovah of Hosts.” (Zech 14:21b; Jn 2:16-17)
While Israel’s prophets prophesied the restoration of God’s kingdom to Israel, when all things will be HOLINESS TO YEHOVAH, we who already have been redeemed and saved can recognize that the particular reference to Jerusalem’s sanctity is also applicable to the whole of the people and land, and ultimately to the entire Earth and peoples. These things will be when the Lord Jesus Christ returns in great power and glory to establish God’s Kingdom on Earth. Then will the Father’s will be done on Earth as in Heaven.
Meanwhile. . .the house/land of the LORD is filled with Canaanites, traders merchandizing religion at great profit to themselves. There is much use of the rich religious history here throughout the land of Israel to capitalize on the Biblical record, which is seen everywhere.
Pedlars from all the religious interests here exploit what God has done here, having left a record written in the rocks and human structures lying in ruins as witnesses of the truths written in the Bible. Sceptics, cynics, opportunists, unbelievers in the God of the Bible make money off His fame; business men and women come up with schemes to capture the wealth of the nations; religionists sell their versions of history and truth in competition with the others. Praise the Lord for those who serve Him with meekness and integrity!
It is wonderful to travel around Israel and see so much evidence of the events recorded in the Old Testament and in the New. Our faith is not based on fables, but on concrete eyewitness accounts, and on the witness of the Holy Spirit. (2Pt 1:16)
For those in Messiah now, we are the field and the House and Temple of God. Are we selling ourselves and enriching our own selves and houses, or are we faithfully representing and serving the Lord Yeshua/Jesus with holy zeal for the Father’s honor and glory?
“…You cannot serve God and mammon.” (Mt 6:24)
“For the love of money is a root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.” (1Tim 6:10)
May we see in our generation the cleansing of YHVH’s House, His land, His people! Even so, Come, Lord Jesus!