Jesus' Veiled Temple Sign

At Jesus' first cleansing of the temple by his zealous chasing out the marketplace animals, with the sellers and money changers, the temple authorities asked for a sign for the authority by which he was displaying such a drastic action. Jesus gave them a veiled sign based on the concept of type and its fulfillment. "Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up." The leaders did not understand, but they always remembered these words. After Jesus was raised from the dead his disciples remembered his words and its interpretation of Jesus' body as the temple. This message considers what the tabernacle/temple were and how they functioned and how Jesus was the fulfillment of their function. Jesus as the incarnate Word was God dwelling among us as the place where deity and humanity met in his body, and by whic he makes the all sufficient sacrifice for sin.