MERCY BRINGS FORGIVENESS, NOT WOES

My Dear Precious Child,
   Jesus was very emphatic about the woes that come upon politicians and religious leaders who are judgmental instead of being merciful.  He said that they should not only tithe their herbs, mint and seeds, which was required under Jewish law, but that they had neglected the most important actions which are justice, mercy and faith. (Matthew 23:23) The laws were judgmental, declaring punishment and even death for anyone who broke the laws.  Remember that those Jewish laws were given by Me to identify the works of the devil so that people would avoid them; but instead the devil caused the religious/political leaders to use them to condemn and punish the people.  My ways to handle sin is to forgive them because I am merciful instead of judgmental. (Galatians 3:19-29)  The laws were judgmental instead of merciful under the actions of the political/religious leaders.
   The laws were for training about the identity of evil actions so that when My children were tempted to do evil by the devil, they would remember that I said it was the devil who was tempting them and they would refuse to act upon the temptation.  However, under training by the devil himself, the politicians and religious leaders used the laws to condemn and punish people for the tiniest infractions, making them feel guilty for their wrongdoing instead of their remembering that I am merciful and forgiving.  My reputation in the world was negatively affected by the actions and reactions of the Jewish people to the transgressions of people.  Instead of My being known as being merciful and forgiving, I was erroneously known, because of the Jews, as being judgmental and condemning, which is blasphemy.  (Matthew 12:31; Mark 7:11-23)
   In Jesus' teaching about how to avoid woes coming into your life, He admonished the religious/political men to be merciful instead of being punitive, which they were by their always eagerly watching for any breaking of the laws in order to do what they did best, which was to punish people for wrongdoing. That is what they did to Jesus, accuse Him of wrongdoing to the Roman authorities which led to His being crucified. (Psalm 117:2; Psalm 119:76)
   In the instructions of Jesus Christ to the politicians and scribes, who were the political lawmakers, He told them that they had neglected to be merciful toward all human beings by forgiving infractions of the law instead of their desiring to punish people for the tiniest infraction.  David, the king and prophet, wrote that a merciful person does good to his or her own soul.  In other words the merciful person obtains mercy from other people, but the person who is punitive and judgmental is also cruel and troubles his own flesh. (Proverbs 11:17)
   In even more compelling truth, when Jesus was telling his disciples the benefits of following My words, He said that the merciful person will always obtain mercy from other people.  In fact, He said that a merciful person is blessed and so fortunate that they are often envied by judgmental people.  (Luke 6:36)
   Religious people in your day are always bound to religious laws and so they become judgmental to everyone instead of being merciful and forgiving, like Me.  Everyone has sinned and fallen short of My glorious actions, but My love and mercy cover all sins.  (James 5:20; I Peter 4:8)
    I told the political Pharisees that they strain at a gnat and swallow a camel.  That means that they hide in their hypocrisy their own camel sized sins of cruelty that they do to other people, but they still declare other people deserving of strict judgment and punishment over a simple infraction of the laws.  (Matthew 23:24)  I called them blind guides, meaning that they were leading other people down the wrong paths to judgment instead of leading them to become merciful and forgiving of the sins of other people. 
   Because of My being merciful and forgiving of you, you must return the same degree of mercy to other people.  The rewards for being merciful are magnanimous because they further My kingdom of love in the earth and the acts of mercy reverberate back more love and mercy to you from other people.
   Your Merciful, Forgiving Father