The Prophetic Significance of the Ritual

The cleansing of the temple action was a very specific thing it wasn't saying okay there are times when we have to have a riot let's have one now. Jesus did stop the regular flow of daily sacrifices for a short time but that was enough to say prophetically that actually this whole system is under God's judgment. The more extreme black power leaders after Martin Luther King's death said oh well he had it coming to him he was you know trying to be a softy and a lot of us felt no actually he was right because violent revolution only breeds more violence.