My Dear Precious Child,
I warned you through Jesus to beware of the doctrines of the Pharisees, Sadducees and the scribes. (Matthew 16:6, 11, 12, 18, Mark 8:15, 38) I emphasized the warning many times because I know the poison that comes from their mouths in an effort to lead you astray from the narrow path that leads to righteousness. Their doctrines lead you onto the wide path that leads to destruction. I said that they shut the doors of My kingdom to people, neither going in themselves nor allowing My children to enter and be healed. (Mathew 23:13)
The religious leaders and politicians opposed Jesus in every city and they opposed every truth that He taught. They chided Him for healing on the Sabbath. Their emphasis was on keeping the laws instead of having mercy for My children. It was because of My mercy and compassion that I healed people. but the religious and civil laws were gods to the Pharisees instead of mercy and compassion being their attitudes toward the ill and the infirmed people.
Jesus said that the Pharisaical hypocrites go from town to town making converts and the converts are more children of hell than they are. (Matthew 23:15)
Another reason to beware of the doctrines of religious and political leaders is their beliefs of swearing by the altar, the gold in the temple, the gifts on the altar, swearing by heaven or My throne. I told them through Jesus not to swear at all, lest they swear falsely and cause the devil to rain guilt and condemnation upon them. (Matthew 23:16:22)
In the lecture by Jesus on the woes that are on the Pharisees and hypocrites He said that their emphasis is an intent on people paying tithes and offerings but they neglect the more important things in their laws such as justice, mercy and faith in Me. (Matthew 23:23-24) He said that they strained at a gnat and swallowed a camel in placing their own righteousness in their paying tithes instead of how they treat My other children through justice and mercy. He said that they are more concerned with outwardly keeping of laws instead of having faith in Me through a one-on-one relationship. They believed that keeping the letter of the political and religious laws placed them in My kingdom. Instead, it kept them out.
My Son became more descriptive of the dangers of the leaven or doctrine of the hypocritical Pharisees when He said that they clean the outside of their bodies to make an impression of being righteous but inside they are full of extortion and excess. (Matthew 23:25-26) He called them blind, referring to the veils over their minds. He said that their emphasis is backward, that they must clean the inside first and then the outside will also be clean.
Jesus continued His identity of hypocritical Pharisees and scribes and the demonic veils upon their minds when He said that they are whitewashed tombs which are clean on the outside but inside contain the bones of dead men and all manner of uncleanness. He said that they appear to be righteous to people but inside they are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. (Matthew 27-28)
Jesus chided the hypocritical religious and political leaders for building tombs to the prophets and statutes to the people they consider righteous and then saying that if they had lived in the time of the prophets that they would not have taken part in the blood shedding of the prophets. He said that their sons are some of the people who murdered the prophets. He called them serpents, a brood of vipers, referring to the demons who motivated them. Jesus said that He was sending to them prophets and wise men and that they would scourge them in the churches, persecute them and even crucify them, doing the same thing to His prophets that their forefathers did to the prophets of their day. He even said that all of their carnage would come upon their generation.
In His lectures on the evils of the religious and political hypocrites, the Pharisees, Sadducees and scribes, Jesus was warning you to avoid their doctrine and teachings because they are poison to your mind and will lead you quickly into the gate that leads to destruction. (Matthew 7:13-14)
After warning My children about the doctrines of hypocrites, I showed the depth of My compassion for them by saying that even though their ancestors killed the prophets that I sent to them, I desired often to gather their children together as a hen gathers her brood of chicks under her wings but they would not come to Me. Jesus prophesied that because of the hypocritical thoughts placed in their minds by the devil which motivated them to refuse to obey Me, their houses become desolate and forsaken. Jesus told them that they would not see Him again until they could welcome Him into their hearts.
My compassion was amplified by Jesus when He told the Pharisees that even though their fathers killed the prophets, I was waiting for them to return to Me so that I could welcome them and gather them under My protective arms.
Hypocritical veils are still resident in the minds of some of My children in the earth. The people who listen to the doctrines of the hypocritical religious and political leaders, who meditate upon their words and allow their lies to become part of their belief systems in their minds, those people will become desolate and forsaken when, all the time, I am waiting to gather them into My loving arms.
The same discernment is available to My children in your day. You must be conscious of their fruits of love, peace, goodness, kindness, mercy, joy, patience and faith. If those fruits are not apparent but if discord, division, strife, anger, hatred, jealousy, envy, prejudice, abuse and bitterness are evident, then avoid their poison like the curse that it is, sent from hell to make your life forlorn and desolate. (Matthew 23:38) Love will overcome every sin, every iniquity, every transgression and every misdeed. The greatest cure for every sin is My love.
Your Loving, Protective Father
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