“Zeal for Your house will consume me.” Jesus was zealous for the temple of God His Father. First Jesus sought to drive out pigs and goats from the earthly temple. Then Jesus was so zealous for that other temple of God, which is the actual physical body of Jesus, that it required death of that body before it could be made immortal by the will of Jesus and of God. Now this zeal is applied by Jesus and by those who are true disciples of Jesus to drive out sinners from the fellowship of the circle of the gatherings of believers, sinners like me and maybe you, but then by me and maybe you too driving sin from our human bodies, driving sinful behaviours and untruthful ideas away so our bodies become ready to be temples of God in which Jesus is not ashamed to dwell by spirit. Continuing this way with faith and with our hearts retaining Jesus’ words and fellowship, is the zeal for the temple which leads us to eternal life with Jesus. So we all fulfil the scripture.
