Righteous Anger definition from Webster's "In some Christian doctrines, righteous anger is considered the only form of anger which is not sinful, e.g., when Jesus drove the money lenders out of the temple (Gospel of Matthew 21)."
John 2:13 says Jesus made a whip, then He cleared the temple. He didn't walk in and blow His top, He had to sit and craft a whip out of available material. Jesus had to use His hands to create an instrument of punishment.
Soon Jesus would have a similar instrument of punishment used against Him at the hands of the Roman soldiers. And His Temple, His body would be desecrated just as this building in Jerusalem was.
Matthew 21:12-13 NLT
Jesus Clears the Temple
12 Jesus entered the Temple and began to drive out all the people buying and selling animals for sacrifice. He knocked over the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves. 13 He said to them, “The Scriptures declare, ‘My Temple will be called a house of prayer,’ but you have turned it into a den of thieves!”
Blessings, Cecilia
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