Daughter of Jerusalem
“As I waited for Ruth to come out of the house with her family, I chatted with Lazarus and tried not to show how uneasy I was. I had come a long way from the girl who had stood on the Mount of Olives and regarded the beauty of the Temple with awe and respect. It might still be a beautiful building, but now I had serious doubts about what went on inside its walls.
The Temple had driven Daniel away, and he was the most deeply religious person I knew. Daniel loved the Lord with all his heart, yet h...e had turned his back on the heart of Jewish worship. I still remembered every word he had said to me: “Our religious leaders have been corrupted by money. Animal sacrifice, and the money it brings in, is the business of the Temple these days, not prayer. We need to be saved from ourselves as well as from the Romans.”
During the years I dutifully accompanied Aaron to the Temple, I had seen the truth of Daniel’s words for myself. I hated the selling of animals. I hated the stench of the burned offerings that engulfed the city as the priests, for a price, slaughtered hundreds of thousands of lambs and burned their entrails and fat in supposed sacrifice to the Lord.MoreLess
The Temple had driven Daniel away, and he was the most deeply religious person I knew. Daniel loved the Lord with all his heart, yet h...e had turned his back on the heart of Jewish worship. I still remembered every word he had said to me: “Our religious leaders have been corrupted by money. Animal sacrifice, and the money it brings in, is the business of the Temple these days, not prayer. We need to be saved from ourselves as well as from the Romans.”
During the years I dutifully accompanied Aaron to the Temple, I had seen the truth of Daniel’s words for myself. I hated the selling of animals. I hated the stench of the burned offerings that engulfed the city as the priests, for a price, slaughtered hundreds of thousands of lambs and burned their entrails and fat in supposed sacrifice to the Lord.MoreLess
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