BLESSINGS INSTEAD OF WOES

My Dear Precious Child,
   The most prevalent theme of the lectures to His disciples that Jesus spoke was about My kingdom of God which was soon coming into the world to live inside of people with the same power that Jesus Christ had in His life on earth.  The second most prevalent theme of the lectures to His disciples that Jesus spoke was about the kingdom of the devil which was in operation in the lives of the religious and political leaders, those being the Pharisees, the Sadducees, the lawyers, the chief priests, the priests and the elders of the synagogues.  He warned His disciples time and again about the spirit of antiChrist which He said was always with them in the world.  Their attitudes, words and actions were diametrically opposed to the attitudes, words and actions of Jesus Christ who came to earth to save people, not to oppress them like the religious and political leaders at the time of the ministry of Jesus Christ in the world. 
    For a while Jesus was subtle about His disdain for those leaders in order to be able to prolong His life on the earth to do My loving and good will in the earth.  He knew that the religious and political leaders' self appointed duty was to see that Jesus Christ was crucified and buried in order to do away with His criticisms of them, His complaints about them and their evil ways, and to destroy the influence of His church which was beginning to be more effective in the lives of people than the temple devotees.  But as the time came closer for Him to be arrested and then crucified, Jesus Christ became more and more emphatic about the evils that were being done by the leaders. 
    Because of their evil deeds toward people Jesus told the religious and political leaders that destructive grief would come into their lives because they shut my kingdom of God in the faces of men because they did not enter themselves nor did they allow other people to enter and do so.  He called them hypocrites.   He said the grief coming into their lives would cause them to be woeful people.
   In that session of His pouring out His righteous anger at the religious and political leaders, He called them hypocrites and said that they travel over sea and land to make a single proselyte and then they make him doubly a child of hell as they were.  That is an identification in plain words that the leaders were children of the devil who do anti-Christ actions in the world.  Jesus could not be more plain than that summation of the works of the devil in the world. (Matthew 22:13-31)
    Another accusation by Jesus Christ was that the leaders were blind guides who say that anyone who swears by the sanctuary of the temple are guilty of nothing, but if anyone swears by the gold in the sanctuary that he is a debtor, bound by his oath.  He said that they were blind fools for making the gold greater than the sanctuary when it was the sanctuary that made the gold sacred.  Jesus had advised His disciples and followers not to swear at all about anything because situations might change, people might change, incidents might change and their oath would be null and void simply by those changes. (Matthew 23:17; Matthew 5:33-37; Exodus 30:29)
    Jesus went on to say more about swearing an oath by saying that the religious leaders say whoever swears by the altar is not duty bound to do what he or she has sworn to do, but whoever swears by the offering on the altar is bound by his oath.  He called them blind men, asking which is greater, the gift or the altar which makes the gift sacred? He told them that anyone who swears by the altar swears by everything on the altar and anyone who swears by the sanctuary of the temple, swears by it and by Him Who sits upon it. (Matthew 23:18-21; Psalm 26:8)  He also said that anyone who swears by heaven is swearing by My throne and by Me, who sits on the throne.
    Then Jesus Christ gave a clear identification of what is important to Me and to Him.  He said that the religious leaders were diligent in keeping their sacrifices current, giving a tenth of their herbs but they had neglected what is more important in their Law which is justice, mercy, fidelity and righteousness.  He said that they should have done those actions as well as their giving their sacrifices.  That effort at labeling what is most important to Me was contrasted with His knowledge of what was more important to the religious and political leaders.(Matthew 23:23)   Later My Holy Spirit wrote that My kingdom is not meat and drink but righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit, making it perfectly clear what is important to Me.  (Romans 14:17)  He also wrote that I do not desire sacrifices, but what I desire is a body through whom to do My works in the earth. (Hebrews 10:5)
    In Jesus' dissertation about the griefs that were coming upon the leaders, He said that they were blind guides for the people.  He said that they filtered out a gnat but gulped down a camel.  They swallowed lies, false prophesies and watered down truths that tickled their ears, and they still do the same thing in your generation in the earth.  The religious and political leaders still lead people astray and foolish people believe their lies because they don't know Me.  They only know facts about Me which are only unproven theories, not truths.
    As My child you must always be cognizant of this teaching by Jesus Christ and the other warnings about the griefs which come upon religious and political leaders who are dedicated to having control over the masses in order to elevate their own importance in your world.  Becoming servants of people is My desire for true leaders, not becoming great and powerful over people in your world.
   By their kind, loving and merciful attitudes, speech and actions you know them.
   Your Father of Straight Forward Words of Truth