Here is a prime example of the love The Messiah had for the religious ones, those "who love this world and their own life in it", during the time He walked upon the face of the earth. ------- Mat 23:13-35 - "But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you shut up The Kingdom of Heaven against men, for you don't go in yourselves, and when others try to enter in, you seek to prevent them. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer, therefore you shall receive the greater (*)(*)(*)(*)ation. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you compass sea and land to make one convert, and when he is made, you make him twofold more the child of hell that you yourselves are. Woe unto you, you blind guides, which say, "Whoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing, but whoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor! You blind fools, for what is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold? And, whoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty. You fools and blind, for what is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift? Whoever therefore shall swear by the altar, swears by it, and by all things that are on the altar. And whoever shall swear by the temple, swears by it, and by HIM that dwells in the temple. And he that shall swear by heaven, swears by The Throne of G-D, and by HIM WHO sits upon The Throne. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith, these you ought to have done, and not to leave the other undone. You blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess. You blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are liken unto whitewashed tombs, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. Even so you also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the tombs of the righteous, And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. Therefore you are witnesses unto yourselves, that you are the children of them which killed the prophets. You are but filling up the measure of your fathers. You serpents, you generation of vipers, how can you escape the (*)(*)(*)(*)ation of hell? Therefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them you shall kill and crucify, and some of them you shall scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city. That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom you slew between the temple and the altar." ------- Yes! The Messiah LOVED them! He loved them enough to tell them The Truth even though He knew they wanted to kill Him! And so it remains unto this day ;-( The religious ones, and the systems of religion that bind them in the chains of strong delusion, but carry on the legacy of the pharisee's ;-( They still seek and desire to crucify The Truth ;-( Yet, Thankfully Truth Will Always Rise Again! HalleluYAH! Sadly, multiplied millions have been killed and enslaved by pagan catholicism and her harlot christian daughters, as well as the other systems of religions ;-( For all systems of religion are of this wicked, evil world(babylon)! And The Call of The ONE and ONLY TRUE GOD yet resounds; "Come Out of her(babel>confusion<>babylon<>world<religion), MY people!" "Come Out!" of the systems that are of this wicked world(babylon) and especially it's systems of religion! For The Faithful will not create a religion, because The Faithful ARE Family....... The Family of "Our Father and GOD", "of WHOM the whole Family in Heaven and ON EARTH is named"! (Eph3:15) And NEW "Jerusalem above is the mother of us all"! (Gal4:26) So is is that the brethren of The Messiah choose to remain but "aliens and pilgrims while on the earth" for our "citizenship(Life) is in Heaven" and soon, and very soon, they will be taken Home, Home at last....... Till then: HOPE IS! For TRUTH IS! Father Help! and HE does....... www.asimpleandspirituallife.org
