A church is a special place for prayer and worshipping God. After King Solomon built the temple of God, God said
to him," My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to prayer made in this place. 16 For now I have chosen and
sanctified this house, that My name may be there forever; and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually."
(2 Chronicle 7:15
Once, when Jesus came to Jerusalem with the Virgin Mary and His disciples, He went into the temple of God and
found the people inside selling oxen, sheep, doves and exchanging money. Jesus was angry because the temple was a
holy place, and it was not a place for selling anything or exchanging money. So, He made a bundle of small cords and
drove those that abused the house of God, and their belongings out of the temple.
He said to them, Take these out, do not make my Father's house a house of merchandize. My house shall be called
a house of prayer. But you have made it a den of thieves.
The people were astonished at His teaching, because He spoke of the truth with authority. But the scribes and the
chief priests were jealous and they sought to find a false cause to accuse Him. Jesus stayed in Jerusalem, teaching in the
temple everyday.
Kesis solomon
