Jesus Rebukes the Pharisees - Matthew 23

Jesus rebukes the Pharisees (the arrogant people who THINK they know God)

Matthew 23 is the lesson of today.

I have been facing the same opposition Yeshua faced. Narcissistic people using the shroud of God as their weapon but they DO NOT KNOW HIM. They question the very words Jesus spoke. Those who swear they speak for God but only repeat lies, and rebuke his own words. Yeshua assured us he was the same as us time and again, yet you insist he was something else that actually keeps us from the beauty of his teachings.

Just as he was trying to teach the word of God, with the divine gift of knowledge and sight, so do I, as well as what he's taught me about him.

He wants those who do love him to know the truth, because believing in him is not enough to get you into heaven (thru the veil, end your suffering), and he told you so. He is NOT your savior unless you FOLLOW HIS TEACHINGS and KNOW HIM. You save yourself! And do not throw john 3:16 at me. That was not Jesus. He was not God's "only begotten son" and that's how a lot of this mess started and people started a cult. It was NEVER about HIM, it was his TEACHINGS that were important... And those... Most of you have missed. Sorry to say. Too focused on idolatry of a man as your get out of hell free card. Hell isn't what you were told either. It's cutting YOURSELF off from truth and love. You can choose that path. No one is stopping you... But you will suffer in the end.

Jesus told you that you can claim works in his name all day long, know he exists, but if you are lawless (idolatry included), at the gates of heaven he would tell you he does not know you.

God told us the veil is so "only the purest pass through" BUT ALSO "The path of ascension is open to anyone" you only have to choose it, and God. The light. Rebuke the darkness. It's not you.

It's against the commandments to worship any creation above the creator, or equal to. God told us "No man is a God"

We are ALL ONE in the body of Christ, and to put Jesus above any man or to claim no one could ever do the things he did is to rebuke his teachings, the very word of God in the Bible, and you are not teaching the word of God.

The entire catholic religion normalized this idolatry once they couldn't kill the message. So they corrupted his messages. Corrupted all Christians... and they KNEW what they were doing. It totally worked to cut you off from YOUR PERSONAL CONNECTION to God and WHAT YOU ARE.

I said what I said. If you're offended (or a narcissist), this applies to you.

Matthew 23

1 Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples:

2 "The teachers of the law and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat.

3 So you must obey them and do everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach.

4 They tie up heavy loads and put them on men's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.

5 "Everything they do is done for men to see: They make their phylacteries wide and the tassels on their garments long;

6 they love the place of honor at banquets and the most important seats in the synagogues;

7 they love to be greeted in the marketplaces and to have men call them `Rabbi.'

8 "But you are not to be called `Rabbi,' for you have only one Master and you are all brothers.

9 And do not call anyone on earth `father,' for you have one Father, and he is in heaven.

10 Nor are you to be called `teacher,' for you have one Teacher, the Christ. (not referring to himself here, the Christ is the holy spirit, wisdom/the word of God)

11 The greatest among you will be your servant.

12 For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

13 "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men's faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to. (THIS RIGHT HERE. READ IT AGAIN)

15 "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are.

16 "Woe to you, blind guides! You say, `If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.'

17 You blind fools! Which is greater: the gold, or the temple that makes the gold sacred?

18 You also say, `If anyone swears by the altar, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gift on it, he is bound by his oath.'

19 You blind men! Which is greater: the gift, or the altar that makes the gift sacred?

20 Therefore, he who swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it.

21 And he who swears by the temple swears by it and by the one who dwells in it.

22 And he who swears by heaven swears by God's throne and by the one who sits on it.

23 "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices--mint, dill and cummin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law--justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.

24 You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.

25 "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.

26 Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside also will be clean.

27 "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men's bones and everything unclean.

28 In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

29 "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous.

30 And you say, `If we had lived in the days of our forefathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.'

31 So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets.

32 Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your forefathers!

33 "You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell? (not the "hell" you were taught, btw)

34 Therefore I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify; others you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town.

35 And so upon you will come all the righteous blood that has been shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berekiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

36 I tell you the truth, all this will come upon this generation.

37 "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing.

38 Look, your house is left to you desolate.

39 For I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, `Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.'"

The Lord, was GOD to Jesus. He wasn't saying come in HIS name, he was referring to all those who speak for God. LIKE HE DID.

He knew even until the days when the Father himself comes, in his "only begotten son" that we who speak the TRUE word of God would be mocked by those who THINK they know, but do not.

Yeshua isn't "coming back". He never left and will always be. He comes to those who call to God from their heart, still as a servant to God. He helps to guide us if we ask. He still teaches us. To be focused on "his" return is to miss the message. You're to learn NOW how to save YOURSELF from illusion and darkness, corruption. Look to the light, whatever you call it, but know that God is far greater than a man, and we are ALL, like pieces of a broken mirror, reflections of God.

Yeshua realized this, and they killed him for it.