Clearing the Leaven

God's Word is so amazing! When the Holy Spirit shines His light on the scriptures, our eyes are opened to see great truths. One of the events during the Passion week of Christ, was clearing the Temple of the money changers. To me, this was a strange event and hard to understand. Christ had visited the Temple many times during His 33 years here on earth. The money changers had always been there in the past. Why did Jesus choose to make the money changers leave now?
Please remember Jesus' words, "Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am come not to destroy but to fulfill (Matthew 5:17)." According to God's will, Christ had to be a fulfillment of the Law.
Remember, way back in Exodus on the day of the death of all the firstborn of Egypt? God instructed Moses about the Seven Feasts of the Lord. "Seven days shall ye eat unleaved bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses...(Exodus 12:15)."
Before Passover could begin, all the leaven had to be cleaned from all the Israelites homes. Remember Leaven in scripture always is symbolic of sin. Jesus told the disciples to "Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees..." The children of the household hepled in the removal of the leaven from the house. Now, look, right after Jesus entered the Eastern Gate of Jerusalem and the people cried, "Hosanna to the Son of David," Jesus went into the Temple, into His Father's house. Just like His ancestors had cleansed their homes of all leaven before Passover, Jesus begins to clean His Father's house of all leaven.
"And Jesus went into the Temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of them that sold doves, and said unto them, 'It is written, My house shall be called a house of prayer, but ye have made it a den of thieves (Matthew 21:12-13)."
Jesus was fulfilling the law. He was helping His Father clean the leaven from the house before Passover.
How awesome is God! Jesus our Passover, was sacrificed for us.