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"My house shall be called a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves". Matthew 21:13.
The teaching of Brother Eli has given us the historical backup of Jesus' declaration from the scripture. He made connections with the book of Isaiah 56:7, and Jeremiah 7:11.
This scripture illustrates how Christ was fulfilling the commandment of God, which was also in John 12:49_50. This trace back to the Old Testament. The prophecy of the Old Testament. And in order to rebuke the corruption that is happening around the temple.
The temple was meant for a place for worship, but people decided to turn it to marketplace. Where thieves profit by exploiting people who engage in religious practice. He gave us this historical note about this wrong Roman calendar that keeps preaching the birth of Christ around 5-6 BC. And with this depth teaching, he challenged the traditional timers and made more emphasis on the need of having a scriptural precision history. This is a historical lesson.
So we ask ourselves as believers, are our places of worship really the place or really the house of prayer or we are just using it to commercialize it for our personal gain and not for the gospel of Christ. We are being taught to be vigilant and to make sure that our place of worship is sanctified and is for God's house and place of prayer only.
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