I would like to start off saying this is not a religious post. I am not Christian, I am more interested in how ancient texts display the truth to us regardless of personal beliefs. So don't worry I'm not going to ask you if your are "saved". And if you are saved, then that is great too.
For those who have never read the story. It is the only time in the bible that Jesus uses actual physical force and anger. I always thought this story should have been studied more by christians. Jesus got angry. I was like "What!? this must be important".
from John
14 vIn the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there. 15 And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen. And he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables. 16 And he told those who sold the pigeons, “Take these things away; do not make wmy Father’s house a house of trade.”
Now this verse doesn't really make "money changing" seem so bad. Jesus seems upset people are conducting trade in a temple. That is understandable. But this verse in matthew makes it completely different.
13 He said to them, “It is written, h‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but iyou make it a den of robbers.”
He is calling the money changers thieves/robbers. That makes all the difference in the world. Jesus wouldn't care about trade outside of a temple. But calling the moneychangers thieves, would make them thieves anywhere. Trade inside a temple is inappropriate, moneychanging is IMMORAL.
And of course the money changers are now called central banks. Jesus tried to warn us I guess. As did other parts of the bible when dealing with money. Did anyone pay attention? Andrew Jackson must have read it. Ron Paul read it for sure.
How did the money changing work? Well, at the time of Jesus, people came from all over to worship at the temple. The temple required a specific silver coin. The moneychangers bought all of them! Then sat in the temple and trading these specific coins for larger amounts of silver from other places. They made money, off of money. They produced nothing. And they did it with poor people.
The bible refers to this as "usury". In the reference at the bottom you can see how most of the bible verses are against even charging interest at all.
Today, the central banks fleece us all with constant inflation. They are not only in the temple anymore. They own the Temple. They cornered the market on money, make the rules and laws preventing us from options. Until Bitcoin that is.
Maybe when Jesus comes back he can kick everyone out of the Federal Reserve or the Bank of England with a whip. Hey, what if Jesus IS Bitcoin. That would blow your mind. You don't get to decide how he comes back.
