7. Have you neglected your duties in maintaining the house of the Lord and its surrounding?

“Thus says the Lord of the Host: these people say the time has not yet come to rebuild the Lords house. Then the word of the Lord came by the prophet Haggai saying: Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins? Now therefore thus says the Lord of Hosts: consider how you have fared, you have own much and harvested little; you Drink, but you never have enough, you eat but you never have your fill; you clothe yourselves but no one is warm, and you that earn wages to put them into a bag with holes. Thus says the Lord of hosts: consider how you fared. Go up to the hills and bring wood and built the house, so that I may take pleasure in it and be honored, says the Lord. You have looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? Says the Lord of Hosts. Because my house lies in ruins, while all of you hurry off to your own houses. Therefore the heavens above you have withheld the dew, and the earth has withheld its produce. And I have called for a drought on the land and the hills, on the grain, the new wine, the oil, on what the soil produces, on human beings and animals, and on all their labors.” (Hagai 1:2-11)

“The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the temple he found the people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and the moneychangers seated at their Tables. Making a whip of cords, he drove all them out of the temple, both the sheep and the cattle. He also poured out the coin of the money space changes and over turned their tables. Out of here! Stop making my father’s houses a marketplace!” His disciples remembered that it was written, zeal for your house will consume me.” (John 2:13-17)