My Dear Precious Child,
After the birth and growth into adulthood of Jesus and John the Baptist, in the recordings of the Instruction Book, commonly called the Bible, during the first record of the ministry of John the Baptist he spoke the first of the identifying characteristics of the Pharisees, Sadducees and scribes, calling them broods of vipers. telling them of their need to repent because My kingdom was soon to come into the earth. (Matthew 3:7-12)
The religious and political leaders were accustomed to being revered and honored by people for their being religious and political leaders, claiming to be descendants of Abraham, to which they proudly attributed their heritage. John told those who came to him to be baptized that I could raise up stones to be children of Abraham, indicating that it was no big honor to claim to be Abraham's children. In fact, John even told them that the ax was already laid at the root of their tree because every tree that does not bear My fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire, indicating that the old religious and political laws did not produce good fruit in My children.
What a blow it was to the egos of the religious and political leaders, to be compared to a tree that was soon to be cut down and lose its proud heritage. After his strong criticism, John told them that he baptized for repentance but that there was One coming after him who would baptize people in the Holy Spirit and fire. He told them that My fork of separation was already in His hand and that He would gather His wheat into His storehouse and the chaff He would burn with fire, speaking about My children of promise being the wheat and the devil's demons as being the chaff.
Almost immediately, after John's prophetic utterance to the Pharisees and Sadducees, Jesus came to John to be baptized by John for repentance. When Jesus rose from the water, My Holy Spirit descended on Him, as having the appearance of a dove, and I identified Him as My Son who pleases Me.(Matthew 3:13-17) My kingdom of heaven came upon Jesus Christ at that moment.
Jesus was led into the wilderness where He was tempted by the devil, just like Adam was. Because Jesus was empowered with My Holy Spirit, He was able to refuse the temptations. One of the temptations with which the devil tempted Jesus was that he showed Jesus all the nations of the world and told Jesus that he would give to Jesus all the nations of the world if He would worship the devil. That offer by the devil to Jesus is a clear indication that he is the lord of the nations of the world, as given to him by Adam, or the devil would not have had the authority to offer them to Jesus. Of course Jesus refused to worship the devil. That instance is a clear indication of why John called the political and religious leaders a brood of vipers, because of their loyalty to the devil through the political and religious demons who motivated them and still motivate them. The pride of the political and religious leaders was already revealed. They had already been told that My ax had already been laid at the base of the tree of the old covenant because of the absence of any fruit, meaning that the old laws were soon to be null and void because of the lack of freedom they were meant to bring; but instead of freedom for My children they brought more bondage and the increased bondage was instituted by the religious and political leaders.
In Jesus' first sermon He told about the marvelous things that were to come in the lives of My children when My kingdom came to the earth as it is in My heaven. He even told his followers that they would be the light of the world which would shine to others. However, He told them that their virtues must far surpass any virtues of the political and religious leaders or they would never enter into My kingdom of heaven while they lived in the earth. (Matthew 5:20)
In the same sermon, Jesus told in His instructions about the actions and behavior of My children after they become citizens of My kingdom of heaven while they still live in the earth, compared them to the actions of the religious and political leaders and their followers, the Jews. He told them that My children of My kingdom of God would have the power and ability to refuse to be angry, that they would have the power to make peace with everyone, that they would be able to refuse to yield to lust, that they would refuse to take an oath, that they would be able to love their enemies instead of hate them, that they would neither parade their alms giving in public nor would they pray in public to be seen by people like the religious leaders do, and that they would fast in secret instead of openly to be seen as being holy, like the religious leaders do.
When His followers asked Jesus to teach them how to pray, He instructed them to pray for My kingdom to come in their lives on earth as it is in My heaven so that they would be able to do My will in the earth, of which He had told them about previously as saying that not one dot of His teachings would pass away.
Every teaching of Jesus was attended by some of the Pharisees, Sadducees, scribes, chief priests and elders in the temple in order to trap Jesus into saying something for which they could accuse Him, They were eager to trap Him so that the political and religious leaders would see that His ministry in the earth ceased because it was a threat to their domination over people.
Jesus eventually called the religious and political leaders a brood of vipers, just like John the Baptist did. That label identified the spiritual demons who were motivating those leaders, those being demons from hell sent to curse the earth and the people in it. (Matthew 12:34)
While Jesus taught His followers about My kingdom coming on earth to live inside of them, the religious and political leaders became more and more determined to bring an end to His ministry because My kingdom was a threat to their own kingdoms on earth that they had set up which produced the adoration and homage of the throngs of people toward them.
Little did the religious and political leaders know that My kingdom eventually becoming present in the world in the lives of My children would change the world, producing fruit of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. The religious and political leaders were concerned about losing the adoration of the people and losing their positions of being royalty in their national kingdom, so they saw that Jesus was crucified. The joke was on them, He rose from the dead, went to hell and took back the authority to the earth from the devil and He gives it back to My children who choose to have My Holy Spirit live in them, giving them My power and My ability to overcome all the evil that is in the world in their own lives on earth.
Adoration and loyalty to political and religious leaders whose fruit in their lives are corrupt and cruel will suck My children right into hell with them while they live in the earth. Adoration and loyalty to My Holy Spirit and My kingdom of heaven, which He ushers into your life, will produce the abundant life and complete peace for your mind. My kingdom is righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit, clear and uncontested.
Your Heavenly Father of Love, Peace and Joy
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