Donald Brian Wood had been a high school math teacher in Nashville for 21 years. One October morning, he tried to get his Algebra II class to calm down but they kept jabbering away. One student even recorded the teacher on his cell phone.
The teacher smilingly jokes with them, asking them to be quiet. It doesn’t work, of course. Still smiling, he turns a classroom table over. The kids cheer. Then he picks up a computer monitor and hurls it on the floor. Then he throws a desk.
At this point the kids are panicking and even the kid with the cell phone runs from his desk. Teacher Wood finally tried to throw a desk out a window. They escorted him from the school in handcuffs. The teacher is now on administrative leave and getting psychiatric treatment.
Of course, the student who recorded it on his cell phone put it on YouTube and it went viral.
On the face of it, Jesus had a day like this. He charged into the temple and started turning things over, even whipping people out of the place. But the cleansing of the temple was a little different than the teacher’s meltdown. Jesus had checked out the temple the night before and so he knew what the situation was ahead of time. His table-turning made the important point that the worship of God is not a carnival or flee market. God has to be taken seriously and reverently. The Savior is also the Judge!
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