Passion Week: Monday

This morning we read and talked about Jesus cursing the fig tree.
(Mt. 21:12-22, Mk 11:22-26)
Thankfully, our pastor just preached on this passage a few weeks ago, so I was all ready to explain it! I learned that Jesus cursed the fig tree because it did not have fruit as it should, and it was a symbolic judgement on Israel. The tree was not doing what it was created to do, and neither were the Jewish people. They were created to worship and glorify God, and instead were about to reject His Son. So Addie and I talked about this a little bit this morning. We talked about how to be a fruitful tree today and do what God created us to do.
Then Jesus went to the temple and cleansed it, calling it a "den of robbers."
(Lk 19:45-46)
(That's a picture of the temple back there in the picture) :)