During Jesus’s time in Jerusalem, He visited the temple. There, inside His father’s house, Jesus saw various merchants doing business. Jesus was appalled to see a place of worship being desecrated and turned into a “den of thieves” (Mark 11:17). Speaking with unmistakable authority, He commanded the merchants and moneychangers to leave.

I help clean the Palmyra Temple once a week and have found that I think about Him while dusting, vacuuming or other tasks. This cleaning is not drudgery, it is inspiring! I would not want this or any other temple desecrated. It is His House.