• Advent Devotions

    Day 9 – The Temple

    Scriptures: John 2:13-22, John 4:1-26, Ephesians 2:14-18, Exodus 19:6, 1 Peter 2:9 Not only do the objects in the temple point to Jesus, in John 2 Jesus reveals that his body is the temple. When the religious leaders demanded a sign of Jesus’ authority he answered them, “’Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.’ 20 They replied, ‘It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?’ 21 But the temple he had spoken of was his body” (John 2:19-21). Jesus was pointing the religious leaders to Zechariah 6, which we studied on Day 2, declaring that his authority…