Matthew 21b, vs.12-45, AD 70 prophecy, Fig Tree, vineyard, all things, ask receive, Authority, slaves, fruitfulness, Stone, rock,

1. Matthew 21:12-
46
After The Triumphal Entry
Jesus, The King Of The Jews,
Confronts The Leaders Of The Jews

2. If Christ is risen, nothing else
matters. And if Christ is not risen-
nothing else matters.
Jaroslav Pelikan

3. Jesus, The King Of The Jews, Examines The
Temple And Leaders Of The Jews
• Matthew 21:12…Jesus entered the temple…
• Zephaniah 1:12 "It will come about at that
time That I will search Jerusalem with
lamps, And I will punish the men Who are
stagnant in spirit, Who say in their hearts, 'The
LORD will not do good or evil!'

4. In Matthew 21:1-11 We Examined
• My Time Is Not Yet
• “daughter of Zion”
• Zechariah 9:9…Even on a colt, Literal Fulfillment
• Spreading their cloaks =royal homage
• Palm Branches
• the Son of David
• Hosanna [hosanna= save, we pray]
• Psalm 118, A Hallel Psalm
• "Who is this?“
• HE NAME OF THE LORD

5. Matthew 21:12, Jesus Entered The Temple
• Matthew 21:12…Jesus entered the temple…
• Mark 11:12 On the next day, when they had
left Bethany…
• Luke 19:41 When He approached
Jerusalem, He saw the city and wept over it,

6. Luke 19:42, Jesus Condemns
Jerusalem
• Luke 19:42 saying, "If you had known in this day, even
you, the things which make for peace! But now they have
been hidden from your eyes. 43 "For the days shall come
upon you when your enemies will throw up a bank before
you, and surround you, and hem you in on every side,
• 44 and will level you to the ground and your children
within you, and they will not leave in you one stone upon
another, because you did not recognize the time of your
visitation.”
• Daniel 9:24 "Seventy weeks have been decreed for your
people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to
make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to
bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and
prophecy and to anoint the most holy place.

7. Israel Was Destroyed In AD 70,
Fulfilling Christ’s Words, Literally
• “will level you to the ground”
• will not leave in you one stone upon another
• Why? “because you did not recognize the time
of your visitation.”
• You mean Jesus held them accountable to
know and understand Bible prophecy?
• Absolutely!

8. Matthew 21:12, Drove Out Sellers
• Matthew 21:12 And Jesus entered the temple
and drove out all those who were buying and
selling in the temple, and overturned the
tables of the money changers and the seats of
those who were selling doves.

9. Matthew 21:12, Drove Out Sellers
• John 2:14 And He found in the temple those who were
selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the
moneychangers seated. 15 And He made a scourge of
cords, and drove them all out of the temple, with the
sheep and the oxen; and He poured out the coins of
the moneychangers, and overturned their tables; 16
and to those who were selling the doves He said, "Take
these things away; stop making My Father's house a
house of merchandise." 17 His disciples remembered
that it was written, "Zeal for Thy house will consume
me.“
• This is not some temper tantrum. Making a whip, takes
time, forethought, purpose, and planning.

10. Psalm 69:6, Zeal For Thy House
• Psalm 69:6 May those who wait for Thee not be
ashamed through me, O Lord God of hosts; May
those who seek Thee not be dishonored through
me, O God of Israel, 7 Because for Thy sake I have
borne reproach; Dishonor has covered my face. 8
I have become estranged from my brothers, And
an alien to my mother's sons. 9 For zeal for Thy
house has consumed me, And the reproaches of
those who reproach Thee have fallen on me. 10
When I wept in my soul with fasting, It became
my reproach.

11. Matthew 21:13, Stop Sinning; Healed
• Matthew 21:13 And He said to them, "It is written, 'MY
HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED A HOUSE OF PRAYER'; but
you are making it a ROBBERS' DEN." 14 And the blind
and the lame came to Him in the temple, and He
healed them.
• First He stops the sinning, then He puts things right;
• There’s a pattern here that we see in our own
sanctification, and also in the redemption of the
planet.
• Revelation the 2nd Coming, and before The Millennial
Kingdom

12. Matthew 21:13, House Of Prayer
• Isaiah 56:7 Even those I will bring to My holy mountain
And make them joyful in My house of prayer. Their
burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be acceptable
on My altar; For My house will be called a house of
prayer for all the peoples.“
• For gentiles also; Isaiah 56:6 "Also the foreigners who
join themselves to the LORD, To minister to Him, and
to love the name of the LORD, To be His servants…
• Millennial Temple will be for “for all the peoples, And
make them joyful ” not the 3rd Temple it will be defiled
(Matt 24:15)

13. Matthew 21:15,
Wonderful Things= Indignant
• Matthew 21:15 But when the chief priests and
the scribes saw the wonderful things that He
had done, and the children who were shouting in
the temple, "Hosanna to the Son of David," they
became indignant
• Wow! Hardened hearts
• Isaiah 5:20 Woe to those who call evil good, and
good evil; Who substitute darkness for light and
light for darkness; Who substitute bitter for sweet
and sweet for bitter!

14. Psalm 8:2, Children Are Saying
• Psalm 8:1 …O LORD, our Lord, How majestic is Your
name in all the earth, Who have displayed Your
splendor above the heavens! 2 From the mouth of
infants and nursing babes You have established
strength Because of Your adversaries, To make the
enemy and the revengeful cease.
• Has “the enemy and the revengeful cease” happened
yet?
• “infants and nursing babes” established what?
• "Hosanna to the Son of David," …children are saying?"

15. Matthew 21:17, Back to Bethany
• Matthew 21:17 And He left them and went
out of the city to Bethany, and spent the night
there.

17. Matthew 21:1, Bethphage
• Matthew 21:1 When they had approached
Jerusalem and had come to Bethphage, at the
Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,
• Bethphage is close to Bethany
• Mark 11:1 As they approached Jerusalem, at
Bethphage and Bethany, near the Mount of
Olives, He sent two of His disciples, [Luke 19:29]

18. Matthew 21:19, Lone Fig Tree
• Matthew 21:19 Seeing a lone fig tree by the
road, He came to it and found nothing on it
except leaves only; and He said to it, "No
longer shall there ever be any fruit from you."
And at once the fig tree withered. 20 Seeing
this, the disciples were amazed and
asked, "How did the fig tree wither all at
once?"

19. Matthew 21:19, Lone Fig Tree
• Isaiah 5:7 For the vineyard of the LORD of
hosts is the house of Israel And the men of
Judah His delightful plant. Thus He looked for
justice, but behold, bloodshed; For
righteousness, but behold, a cry of distress.
• Holladay 3927
• …: vineyard …kerem, land suitable for
planting a vineyard …; kerem zayit, olive
orchard Ju 155 …

20. Matthew 21:19, Lone Fig Tree
• Proverbs 27:18 He who tends the fig tree will eat
its fruit, And he who cares for his master will be
honored.
• Have they been tending “the fig tree”
• Isaiah 34:4 And all the host of heaven will wear
away, And the sky will be rolled up like a scroll; All
their hosts will also wither away As a leaf withers
from the vine, Or as one withers from the fig
tree….their land will be soaked with blood… 8 For
the LORD has a day of vengeance, A year of
recompense for the cause of Zion.

21. Matthew 21:19, 1st Mention; Fig Tree
• Judges 9:8 "Once the trees went forth to
anoint a king over them, and they said to the
olive tree, 'Reign over us!' 9 "But the olive tree
said to them, 'Shall I leave my fatness with
which God and men are honored, and go to
wave over the trees?' 10 "Then the trees said
to the fig tree, 'You come, reign over us!' 11
"But the fig tree said to them, 'Shall I leave my
sweetness and my good fruit, and go to wave
over the trees?'

22. Jeremiah 8:5, The Fig Tree Judged
• Jeremiah 8:5-14 "Why then has this
people, Jerusalem, Turned away in continual apostasy?... they
have rejected the word of the LORD, And what kind of
wisdom do they have? 10 "Therefore I will give their wives to
others, Their fields to new owners…From the prophet even to
the priest Everyone practices deceit….At the time of their
punishment they shall be brought down," Says the LORD. 13 "I
will surely snatch them away," declares the LORD; "There will
be no grapes on the vine And no figs on the fig tree, And the
leaf will wither; And what I have given them will pass away."'“
14 …the LORD our God has doomed us And given us poisoned
water to drink, For we have sinned against the LORD…

23. Matthew 21:19, God Told Israel
• Isaiah 1:14 "I hate your new moon festivals and your
appointed feasts, They have become a burden to Me; I
am weary of bearing them. 15 "So when you spread out
your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you;
Yes, even though you multiply prayers, I will not listen.
Your hands are covered with blood. 16 "Wash
yourselves, make yourselves clean; Remove the evil of
your deeds from My sight. Cease to do evil, 17 Learn to
do good; Seek justice, Reprove the ruthless, Defend the
orphan, Plead for the widow. 18 "Come now, and let us
reason together," Says the LORD, "Though your sins are
as scarlet, They will be as white as snow; Though they
are red like crimson, They will be like wool.”

24. Matthew 21:19, God Told The Church
• Revelation 2:4 'But I have this against you, that you
have left your first love.
• Revelation 2:14 'But I have a few things against
you, because…the teaching…
• Revelation 2:20 'But I have this against you, that you
tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a
prophetess, and she teaches and leads My bond-
servants astray …
• Revelation 3:16 'So because you are lukewarm, and
neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth.
• 1 John 5:16…There is a sin leading to death;

25. Matthew 21:22, God's Omnipotence
• Matthew 21:22 "And all things you ask in
prayer, believing, you will receive."
• How often do we attempt work for God to the
limit of our incompetency, rather than the
limit of God's omnipotence? J. Hudson Taylor
• Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through
Him who strengthens me.
• Psalm 57:2 I will cry to God Most High, To God
who accomplishes all things for me.

26. Matthew 21:22, All Things You Ask
• Matthew 21:22 "And all things you ask in
prayer, believing, you will receive.“
• John 16:23 "In that day you will not question Me about
anything. Truly, truly, I say to you, if you ask the Father
for anything in My name, He will give it to you. 24 "Until
now you have asked for nothing in My name; ask and
you will receive, so that your joy may be made full. …
26 "In that day you will ask in My name, and I do not say
to you that I will request of the Father on your behalf;
27 for the Father Himself loves you, because you have
loved Me and have believed that I came forth from the
Father.

27. Matthew 21:22, All Things You Ask
• 1 John 3:21 Beloved, if our heart does not condemn
us, we have confidence before God; 22 and whatever
we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His
commandments and do the things that are pleasing in
His sight. 23 This is His commandment, that we believe
in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one
another, just as He commanded us. 24 The one who
keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in
him. We know by this that He abides in us, by the Spirit
whom He has given us.
• James 4:3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask
with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your
pleasures. (Matthew 21:22; John 14:14, 16:23;
Luke 11:9)

28. Matthew 21:23, By What Authority
• Matthew 21:23 When He entered the temple, the chief
priests and the elders of the people came to Him while
He was teaching, and said, "By what authority are You
doing these things, and who gave You this authority?“
• Good question, chief priests and elders!
• They should have listened;
• Matthew 9:6 "But so that you may know that the Son
of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins "-- then
He said to the paralytic, "Get up, pick up your bed and
go home." 7 And he got up and went home. 8 But when
the crowds saw this, they were awestruck, and glorified
God, who had given such authority to men.

29. Matthew 21:23, By What Authority
• Matthew 28:18 And Jesus came up and spoke to
them, saying, "All authority has been given to Me in
heaven and on earth.
• Luke 5:21 The scribes and the Pharisees began to
reason, saying, "Who is this man who speaks
blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?"
22 But Jesus, aware of their reasonings, answered and
said to them, "Why are you reasoning in your hearts?
23 "Which is easier, to say, 'Your sins have been forgiven
you,' or to say, 'Get up and walk '? 24 "But, so that you
may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth
to forgive sins,"-- He said to the paralytic-- "I say to
you, get up, and pick up your stretcher and go home."

30. Matthew 21:35 Beaten And Stoned
• Matthew 21:35 "The vine-growers took his slaves and
beat one, and killed another, and stoned a third.
• Hebrews 11:35 Women received back their dead by
resurrection; and others were tortured, not accepting their
release, so that they might obtain a better resurrection; 36
and others experienced mockings and scourgings, yes, also
chains and imprisonment. 37 They were stoned, they were
sawn in two, they were tempted, they were put to death
with the sword; they went about in sheepskins, in
goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated 38 (men of
whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and
mountains and caves and holes in the ground. 39 And all
these, having gained approval through their faith, did not
receive what was promised,

31. Matthew 21:35
Branding Iron For Runaway Slaves
• Matthew 21:35 "The vine-growers took his slaves
and beat one, and killed another, and stoned a third.

32. Matthew 21:43, Israel Was Rejected
for Unfruitfulness
• Matthew 21:43 "Therefore I say to you, the
kingdom of God will be taken away from you
and given to a people, producing the fruit of
it.
• Israel’s unfruitfulness resulted in the end of
their ministry, and the start the start of the
church’s ministry.
• Luke 18:8 …when the Son of Man comes, will
He find faith on the earth?"

33. Matthew 21:44, Who Is ‘This Stone’?
• Matthew 21:44 "And he who falls on this stone will be
broken to pieces; but on whomever it falls, it will
scatter him like dust.“
• Isaiah 8:13 "It is the LORD of hosts whom you should
regard as holy. And He shall be your fear, And He shall
be your dread. 14 "Then He shall become a sanctuary;
But to both the houses of Israel, a stone to strike and a
rock to stumble over, And a snare and a trap for the
inhabitants of Jerusalem. 15 "Many will stumble over
them, Then they will fall and be broken; They will even
be snared and caught."

34. Matthew 21:44, Who Is ‘This Stone’?
• Matthew 21:44 …this stone…
• Isaiah 28:16 Therefore thus says the Lord
GOD, "Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a
tested stone, A costly cornerstone for the
foundation, firmly placed. He who believes in it
will not be disturbed.
• ‘This Stone’ will crush all the kingdoms of the
world; Daniel 2:34 …a stone was cut out without
hands…But the stone that struck the statue
became a great mountain and filled the whole
earth.

35. Matthew 21:44, Who Is ‘This Stone’?
• Matthew 21:44 …this stone…
• Acts 4:8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy
Spirit, said to them…by the name of Jesus Christ
the Nazarene, whom you crucified, whom God
raised from the dead.… 11 "He is the STONE
WHICH WAS REJECTED by you, THE
BUILDERS, but WHICH BECAME THE CHIEF
CORNER stone. 12 "And there is salvation in no
one else; for there is no other name under
heaven that has been given among men by which
we must be saved."

36. Matthew 21:44, Who Is ‘This Stone’?
• Matthew 21:44 …this stone…
• Romans 9:32 …They stumbled over the stumbling
stone, 33 just as it is written, "BEHOLD, I LAY IN ZION A
STONE OF STUMBLING AND A ROCK OF OFFENSE, AND
HE WHO BELIEVES IN HIM WILL NOT BE
DISAPPOINTED.“
• Ephesians 2:20 …Christ Jesus Himself being the corner
stone,
• 1 Peter 2:4 And coming to Him as to a living stone
which has been rejected by men…
• 1 Corinthians 10:4 …a spiritual rock which followed
them; and the rock was Christ.

37. Matthew 21:45, They Understood Him
• Matthew 21:45 When the chief priests and
the Pharisees heard His parables, they
understood that He was speaking about them.
• So they tore their clothes, threw dust on their
heads, begged for mercy, and repented
• No! Too bad.
• 46 When they sought to seize Him, they feared
the people, because they considered Him to
be a prophet.

38. The Potter And His Clay
• That the Potter should die for His clay is a
stupendous miracle. Lynn Landrum
• Jesus… He came not to a throne, but to a
manger. He lived not as a king, but as a
servant. He chose not an earthly kingdom, but
a cross. He gave not just a little, but
everything. Holley Gerth

39. THE END

40. Matthew 15:13, Plant = Them
• Matthew 15:13 But He answered and
said, "Every plant which My heavenly Father
did not plant shall be uprooted. 14 Let them
alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And
if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into
the ditch.

41. Matthew 22:6, Seized, Mistreated, And
Killed His Slaves
• Matthew 22:6 and the rest seized his slaves and
mistreated them and killed them.
• Matthew 21:35 "And the vine-growers took his slaves
and beat one, and killed another, and stoned a third…
37 "But afterward he sent his son to them… 38 "But
when the vine-growers saw the son, they said among
themselves, 'This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and
seize his inheritance.‘… 39 "And they …killed him.
• Matthew 23:34 "Therefore, behold, I am sending you
prophets and wise men and scribes; some of them you
will kill and crucify, and some of them you will scourge
in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city,