BLESSINGS UNCOVERED

My Dear Precious Child,
    Jesus Christ's teachings about the coming to the earth of My kingdom of God to live in people who seek My kingdom and My righteousness were treated with some spiritual insights that they were only partially able to understand.  He told them that from the laws and the prophets came many prophesies about John the Baptist.  In His lecturing about John the Baptist Jesus told His disciples that they must be willing to accept the fact that John himself was Elijah who was to come to earth again before My kingdom came into the world. (Malachi 4:5; Matthew 11:13-14; Matthew 17:10-13)  Jesus was telling the disciples that John the Baptist was the spirit of Elijah in other flesh, coming to usher in My kingdom of God through the death, descent into hell, being raised from the dead, and ascension into My heaven of Jesus Christ.   He told the disciples that they must have spiritual ears to hear and then perceive that truth.
    Referring to the disciples' ability or lack of ability to understand the truths that He was telling them, Jesus compared the Jewish nation at the time like little children in the marketplace who call to their friends, but the prophets began to play wedding music and  they paid no attention to the prophets in order to dance to their music.  He was indicating that when He and John the Baptist taught about My kingdom of heaven soon coming into the earth that their followers found no occasion to celebrate the Good News.  Jesus said that when they talked about the horrible things that were going to come into the earth when He was crucified, the people failed to identify the funeral music, suggesting that they were ignoring the prophets.  He told the disciples that the Jews had not mourned, beat their breasts and wept out loud at His prophesies about his leaving them. (Matthew 11:17)
    Jesus compared John's actions in the earth with His own actions, saying that they were opposite in practice, but people did not accept the truth from any of their words because John and Jesus were not walking around in the flesh that people were expecting the Messiah to appear.  He said that John the Baptist came neither eating nor drinking what other people ate or drank and the Jewish people said that he had a demon, and the Son of Man came eating and drinking with people and He, Himself, was identified by the Jewish people and leaders as a glutton and a wine drinker, a friend of tax collectors and wicked sinners.  He was indicating to the disciples and His followers that the Jews were judging both John and Jesus by their flesh, not by the spiritual wisdom coming from their mouths.  He said that wisdom is justified and vindicated by her deeds and her children's deeds, indicating that the words of Jesus and John were what was important, not their physical flesh or their eating habits. (Matthew 11:18-19)
    Continuing in His teaching He began to speak about the cities in which He and John taught and where there were no spiritual reactions of faith in the people.  He said that the people in the cities in which He had done mighty works people should have repented in sack cloth and ashes  and their hearts would have been changed.  Instead, they were like the children to whom He had earlier referred who had heard the words of Jesus and also John the Baptist and the people refused to celebrate the coming of the kingdom of God and they also refused to show any emotion about the future of Jesus which was prophesied that He was going  to the cross for the sins of the world.  
     Jesus Christ was lamenting about the Jews who were waiting so patiently for their Messiah to come to earth, and their anticipated Savior of the world was already, at the time, teaching them, preaching to them, healing their sick and diseased and casting out the demons who were harassing them and possessing their bodies.  They did not recognize Him as their Savior because He did not come in elegant clothing, give firm authoritative edicts like their kings, and He and John didn't have an adoring and finely dressed entourage of princes following them around like their earthly kings. Yet, Jesus was My Son in human flesh whom they failed to acknowledge as who He was, and John was the spirit of Elijah who the prophets said would precede the Christ.  If they had recognized Him, the people in the towns who rejected Him would have been spared the horrors of the coming days when Jesus suffered for the sins of the whole world because they would have followed His guidance and waited in Jerusalem for My promise of My Holy Spirit to come upon them and be in them.  They would have become unspeakably joyful like the disciples and His other followers who became filled with My Holy Spirit and baptized by My Kingdom of God on the day of Pentecost.  They would have had authority over the works of the devil in their own lives and in their families.  The religious and political Jews and their followers already had their rewards, the adoration of people which is addictive and leads to hypocrisy.  They missed out on the most glorious day in the history of the world, when My kingdom of God came to earth.
    Your Father of Everlasting Salvation