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[ Created: 2021-01-10 07:00:10  Updated: 2023-03-26 17:31:30 Owner: rl ]
Title: Enemies of Truth    
     
     
     
     
 
    
 
     
     
     
     
 

 

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 damnation.
religious pretense is an abomination.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!     for you compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, you make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
love,.     Joy, peace, faith and freedom should be the hallmarks of a person in relationship with the Lord.     Any religious leader who is not producing this kind of fruit is a child of hell.

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, kindness, and faith: these ought you to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
This is because they were disconnected from the the Lord whom they purported to serve.     Hence, they did not value what He valued.

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.
The Lord looks at the heart.     Men look at the facade.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!     for you are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!     because you build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,
We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brothers.     He that loves not his brother abides in death.     -

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!     for you are as graves which appear not, and the men that walk over them are not aware of them.
You trap people into falling into the same deception which has hold of you.

Why were Scribes, Pharisees and Hypocrites lumped together in these very harsh criticisms by our Lord?   

There must have had some common mindset or agenda.   What was it?   Let's take a look at each of the charges Jesus levied against them.   They...   
shut up the kingdom of heaven against men
devour widows' houses
make long prayer
make him [proselyte] twofold more the child of hell than yourselves
omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith
are full of extortion and excess
are like unto whited sepulchres
are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness
build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous
are as graves which appear not, and the men that walk over them are not aware of them

These all add up to the fact that Scribes Pharisees And Hypocrites were Carnal Minded people who, though disconnected from God, made pretense to represent God for the purpose of gaining Wealth and Power over the people.   

The Scribe was an Authority on the Scriptures being a copier of them.   They were experts at Law and so were able to effect legal documents for the people.   

The Pharisee was overtly Religious in appearance and were Mosaic fundamentalists.   

The Hypocrites were people who profaned the things of God by operating in them for ungoldly purposes.   

Jesus began each of His criticisms with the word, Woe, which means 'ruinous trouble: calamity, affliction'.   Jesus was pronouncing judgment upon them.   

Essentially, the Scribes Pharisees And Hypocrites worked together to promote and ensure the continuation of the System.   

Do we have a group of people today from various professions who support a System which is contrary to the Kingdom Of God?   

Political Tyrants, Media Tyrants and Tech Tyrants are the modern day equivalent of Scribes Pharisees And Hypocrites.   

Political Tyrants have redefined Good and Evil.   Media Tyrants have promoted the new definition.   Tech Tyrants have enforced the new definition.   

The ScribesPhariseeAndHypocrites of Jesus day were Fascists whose System Jesus came to undermine.   Remember, He came saying Repent for the Kingdom Of Heaven is at hand.   The people of His day were Brainwashed by the Scribes Pharisees And Hypocrites.   

Today whole generations of people have been Brainwashed by the Political Tyrants, the Media Tyrants and the Tech Tyrants.   If there is a Revival we will have to come against these Children Of Satan.   

The Gospel Truth is how we attack them.   We must be Bold as Jesus was.   We must Speak as Jesus spoke.   We will need the Power of His Holy Spirit to do so.   

And just as Jesus was Persecuted and eventually murdered by them, we must be willing to "love not our lives unto death".   We will then Overcome by the blood of the Lamb!