Category: Quote of the Day

When Jesus cleansed the Temple (Matthew 21:12-17), the blind and the lame were healed, the children cried, “Hosanna,” and everybody was happy-except the chief priests and scribes, who were sore displeased. When there is revival, as indeed there was in this case, something like this always takes place. When the Temple is cleansed and the Lord is in control, there is healing. The children and the childlike rejoice. And the Pharisees always complain. There will always be those religionists who do not want the dead status quo disturbed. But along with the hatred, there will be healing and hosannas. First, however, there must be the cleansing that changes God’s house from a den of thieves to a place of prayer.

When the body of Jesus was laid away in the tomb, it looked as if sin and death and the devil had had their way. It looked as if Herod and Caiaphas and Pilate and all the enemies of God had triumphed. But three days later, Jesus came out of that tomb! He had His way! So today it looks as though communism and secularism and atheism and lawless-ness are having their way, but they don’t have the last move. Khrushchev quoted the old proverb, “He who laughs last laughs best” but the last laugh will be God’s. “He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision” (Psalm 2:4). “The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth. The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming” (Psalm 37:13-14).