When Jesus Flipped Tables – The Righteous Anger of Holy Monday
- Jose Vicenty
- Apr 14
- 2 min read
Holy Monday wasn’t quiet.
It wasn’t peaceful.
It wasn’t passive.
It was righteous.
“Jesus entered the Temple and began to drive out all the people buying and selling animals for sacrifice. He knocked over the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves.” - Matthew 21:12 (NLT)
The same Jesus who gently rode into Jerusalem on a donkey just the day before now flipped tables in the temple courts. Why? Because worship had been turned into a business. Because prayer had become a profit. Because the House of God had become a den of thieves.
Holy Outrage
Let’s not paint Jesus as soft. He wasn’t passive about sin. He wasn’t indifferent about injustice. He was moved to holy anger—the kind that defends God’s glory and protects the purity of worship.
“He said to them, ‘The Scriptures declare, My Temple will be called a house of prayer,’ but you have turned it into a den of thieves!” - Matthew 21:13 (NLT)
He didn’t lose His temper. He used it—to cleanse.
And the question for us is: What tables need flipping in our lives?
Personal Cleansing
Too many of us want a gentle Savior but reject the refining fire. We welcome His grace but avoid His correction. But true worship begins when the clutter of compromise is removed.
Holy Monday reminds us: Jesus doesn’t just want to enter your heart—He wants to cleanse it.
What distractions have crept into your prayer life?
What sin have you excused in the name of busyness?
What idols have taken over the sacred places of your soul?
Let Him flip the tables.
Let Him sweep the corners.
Let Him restore your temple to what it was always meant to be—a house of prayer, not performance.
A Call to Purity
Let today be a cleansing. Let today be a confrontation. Let today be the moment you stop pretending and start surrendering.
Holy Monday wasn’t a day of comfort—it was a day of conviction. But conviction leads to change. And change leads to freedom.
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