In the 8 Woes Christ is showing us who the leaders of the one united world leader system is. They lay heavy burdens at your feet, thru their policies of laws, finance, jobs, The children of Cain is in control of today's market. 
 
Matthew 23:13 "But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in."

 "Hypocrites" is a theatrical term that means "you claim you are something that you are not." They are play actors, and they are everywhere in the religious community. People play church and acting their parts out in a role that there not aware of.

Christ is saying that you twist their paths by your translation and your traditions, and the path that you lead them down never reaches the throne of God. Your lies and deceptions will prevent them from entering into that kingdom of God, as is related in

II Thessalonians 2 by Paul. They will have no part of Christ, at His coming.

 Matthew 23:14 "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation."

 Jesus is accusing them of trying to make their acts of ripping off the widows houses right, by using their self-righteous words that are lies, in their pretence that it was of God, and for God's work. They coat their evil deeds in long prayers. For the actions of these Pharisees and scribes, and all that do such in any generation, God is sending His curse upon you. Today we are in the last days and it is time to wake up, before you burn in hell and turned to ashes for all eternity. The place of the "greater damnation" is in hell, and the judgment on those that claim to set in the seat of Moses starts the moment that they took the widows property.

 This poor widow that sits in her church and is bribed by the price of a vow for this modern day Pharisee will say a prayer for you. This is lunacy for God doesn't charge for answering prayers. God answers prayers for those that serve Him, Love him. obey his Words, Did you ever wonder why the church leaders beg for money ? God will not support a beggar from satan's camp.

 Matthew 23:15 "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves."

 Christ is saying, they go out for converts, and when they finally get one, they take him more into their own demon doctrine, and thievery then they have become them self. Just look around you in our modern day religious orders, the rip-off artist demand a high price in this day and age. They don't even want to settle for a tenth, as then lay their schemes to demand your vows, and by hammering on your emotions, steel you blind. These people quote the scripture, however they never teach the scripture. For the blind lead the blind.

 They create the name for the cause and then attach that name to themselves, and then convince you that they are the only ones that can perform that service for God. If you are part of this activity, God has curse's in line for you, and you shall not escape that greater damnation. Friend it is time to repent to God, in Christ name, and make things right if you are part of such an activity.

if you don't understand, you yourself, need to make it right with God, thru Christ. How do you make it right ?
Christ finds you worthy when you pick up the Bible and read the thoughts and emotions of his Father. Doing what is right to others and loving his righteous ways.

 Matthew 23:16 "Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say," Whosoever shall swear by the Temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the Temple, he is a debtor!"

 What is the "Temple" in this final generation? It is the body of Christ. Many member people of righteous. This verse is directed to those that say that if you swear by the body of Christ, the Almighty, that is nothing, but if you just swear by the gold of the temple, then God will answer your prayers. Does this sound familiar. Send your tithe, or send a gift and God will bless you if you do, when in the process they have taught you nothing. vain words leads to nothing as far as blessings go from God.

 It is the temple that is the many member body of Christ, that Christ calls the church today. We are to be debtors to Christ, and our Heavenly Father, and these modern day Pharisees make you a debtor to them when they make you make vows to them, for what rightly belongs to God. Then when you do as they say, the obligation is not to God, but to that man, and what he has created. The debtor is bound by the oath that he takes, and this creates in your mind the guilt. Thus instead of the giving freely to God, as the tithe should be given, it is given under a penalty of requirement. When this happens, the giver is robbed of the blessings of the tithe.

Matthew 23:17 "Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the Temple that sanctifieth the gold?"

 Christ is asking you, which is the greater, Christ or the thousand dollar of worthless money.

 Matthew 23:18 "And, 'Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty."

 This is the same application as we say in verse sixteen, The act of swearing the oath to the alter, places the guilt, or obligation in your mind, so when the gift is given it is by the force of the oath, and not of the freedom of the heart. 

Matthew 23:19 "Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?"

 You better know the answer to that question. Christ is telling you that there is a time coming when all you are going to hear these religious ones, is the gift, for the altar will be forgotten. This started way back in Ezra's day, when the Kenites (satan children thru Eve) took over from the Levitical priesthood, and started to twist teachings to merchandise the temple. It has grown today to the point where the modern day ministry spend most of it's focus on the gift, and not the altar, or the Word's of God.

To most persons today in the modern church, the blessings come for the gift that was given, when in fact that gift had nothing to do with whatever blessing you received. God gives that blessing, and all blessing that you have is from God, including the very air that you breath. The gift is the card of appreciation to God the giver of that gift to you. Show him you love him. by reading his Words. its makes his day.

 Christ is telling you that you are a fool if you place any hope in your gift.

Matthew 23:20 "Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon."

 In other words, if you live by Christ, then all gifts are automatically given, for that is where they come from. You just cannot buy your way into His kingdom, or bribe Him to bless you.

Matthew 23:21 "And whoso shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by Him That dwelleth therein."

 Matthew 23:22 "And he that shall swear by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by Him That sitteth thereon."

 Christ is telling you that vow's and gift's don't buy you anything. He is asking you what is more important, swearing you by the body of Christ, or the very Throne of God in heaven? Christ is telling us to pray to the Father, and give Him what is due Him, and He will take care of the blessing. When the request for vows come to you, recognize them for what they are, not of God, but an obligation to a man, and what ever that man has created. When you give give from the heart, as direct by His Holy Word. Christ is telling you that God will not bless you for having been played the fool by these people. When you play the fool, do you really expect give you gifts when you show Him that you are incapable of treating His property with respect.

Matthew 23:23 "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone."

 The Pharisees of all generations, including today, pay special attention to the actual money that comes in, and to the details of earthly matters of frills, and human affairs arise and cummin, They have overlooked the matters that count in the eyes of God. Of tending to the matters of scripture, mercy of God's people and their needs, and the faith of those in the body of Christ. What should matter is the spiritual growth of each member of the church.

To "pay tithe the mint", meant that you actively paid attention to the smallest unit, or person to make sure that it was attached. In other terms, it meant that the pastor sought out each person in that church, and personally verified from that individual himself, that the needs and growth in the Word was taking place. That that person understood the important things of the Word. Christ is warning them that when they take that person's money and count the last penny of the tithe, they had better be getting around to instilling the knowledge of God's Word in them. Why do we pay tithe money ?  If a man of God, teaches God words, then that person is worth paying to understanding the knowledge of what Father wants you to know.

Matthew 23:24 "Ye bind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swollow a camel."

 The camel is a unclean animal. Christ is saying that you strain at a gnat size thing in your doctrine, and when something large and unclean enters your church, you look the other way. The prime example of this today are things are small matters of dress, and smoking are elevated, where the major items of idolatry, Sodomy, and killing your babies is overlooked.

Matthew 23:25 "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within thy are full of extortion and excess."

 These scribes and Pharisees paid such detail to their religious forms, words, and motions they went through, and they overlooked what God's Word said to do. These religious sorts could care less of pleasing God, of their form is for the merchandising (To make money) of a religious form.

Matthew 23:26 "Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and Platter, that the outside of them may be clean also."

 Christ is telling these Pharisees to go and clean up their own doctrine, and make sure it lines up with God, rather then trying to please the traditions of men. Christ is taking aim at those church services that never quite get around to teaching the laws and truths of Gods word, because they are to deep in forms that please men.

Matthew 23:27 "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto white sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness."

 Christ is telling them that they look like grave sites that are beautiful on the outside, but inside the grave is a decaying smelly bones of man, and all sorts of uncleanness. You can see this type every Sunday on their way to and from church, they look beautiful all dressed up, yet on the inside, ( spiritually they are dead in there mind ) and just waiting for the judgment on their souls. Their mind is not set on God and the teaching of His Word, but the vanities of life, along with the problems that they refuse to allow Christ to shoulder for them.

In most church houses today the religious form to the passer-by appears to be friendly, and quite concerned for their fellow man. They appear to be interested in the social, and physical needs of the people, Yet the sitting in the pews inside are the bones of the spiritual dead. Within them most of them are the unrepented sins of all sorts of uncleanness, spiritual.

We are in that valley of dry dead bones, that the prophet Ezekiel spoke of in Ezekiel 37:1-14, and as he prophesied to them, the Spirit of the four winds, or breath came into them, and form came back on the bones, and life came in to them. This is a spiritual analogy, and God's elect is coming alive, they understand the time that we are in. Yet most of the Christian world is not being taught from the scriptures, as the modern day Pharisees and scripture lawyers continue, just as they did in Jesus day.

 Matthew 23:28 "Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity."

 These Scribes and Pharisees took pride in showing themselves to be righteous and proper in outward appearance, yet inwardly they were like their father, satan, cain, full of hypocrisy and all sorts of evil. You are nothing but robbers.

 Matthew 23:29 "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,"

 This is probably the most dangerous of their practices. They would send flowers to the tombs of the prophets, and decorate their grave site, when it was their forefathers that murdered them in the first place. They build the tombs of the Prophets, because they never teach them, they place their teachings in the tomb. These Kenites so twist and distort the words of the Prophets, that their message from God doesn't exist. The word  " Kenites " means the son's of Cain.

 The modern day Pharisee will place flowers before the altar of the church house, and make sure everything is prim and proper, and garnish their traditions with all sorts of religious form. They set days aside, and develop the heathen customs of their doctrines to where the people simply don't know what to believe. This has nothing to do with those churches that are truly servants of the Living God. What Christ is talking about here, are those play actors playing church, while they try to impress each other. with there words of wisdom, and not from God.

 Matthew 23:30 "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.' "

 These Scribes and Pharisees know that their forefathers were the murderers of the Prophets, and the distorters of the truth, and yet they deny having any part in the murders. This is a lie, for in their minds and hearts, they will do the same thing, as then will plot to take the life of Jesus Christ the Messiah.

Today their type in the churches admit that Christ was crucified, and they don't want nothing to do with a bloody message.

Christ is about to identify who the Kenites are, so pay close attention.

 Matthew 23:31 "Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets."

 Christ identifies them as the Children of the Kenites that killed the prophets. In Matthew 13 we read of the parables of the sower and the tares, and Christ explained who the seed, and the tares were. In case you are still thinking in terms of seeds, and wheat stocks, Christ is bringing you to reality. The Pharisees and the scribes [those priests] are the children of those that killed the prophets. They are the children, physically of the Kenites race, not of Israel, nor Judah, but of their father Cain. Cain was the first born of Eve, and he was conceived from the sexual relations between satan and Eve in the Garden of Eden. 

Question, what part of Adam and Eve was covered up ?  if Eve at an apple, then her mouth would had been covered up,  but the both of them cover there private parts up with fig leaves, Why ? because they both was naked if you don't understand read the parable of the fig tree. This is the sin they both committed with satan

 Friend that wasn't a tree that Eve partook of in the garden, it was a man called the "tree of good and evil", and that man's name is Satan. That sin did not happen in a apple orchard, but in a fig grove, and that is why we are told by Jesus in Matthew 24:32 to learn the parable of the fig tree. It is important, for it is a matter of being deceived in the latter days, or not being deceived when the Antichrist, Antigod comes to earth to rule. Over Who ?   " YOU "

 Matthew 23:32 "Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers."

 Christ is telling these Pharisees that they are just like their fathers, just a bunch of hypocrites that have not changed one bit. Christ is saying there is no difference in them then as of now.

 Matthew 23:33 "Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?"

 The word "generation", should read "offspring". Children seed in other words   How can they escape it? They can escape the damnation of hell by accepting Christ in repentance. Will they? That is doubtful, for they do not have the eyes to see and the ears to hear and understand. If they did, they would become a son of the Living God, just like any of the elect. Who are the Elect ? the people who took a stand with God and won the victory over the devil in his new world order plan of old.

 So we see that these scribes and Pharisees are the offspring of the serpent. There are a few  with doctorate degrees that claim this serpent has no seed, and they show their devotion to their father the devil also. This is what Jesus Christ is teaching, Satan had children, and those children killed the prophets, and will shortly kill Him.

If you have trouble identifying just who the "serpent" is, Jesus told John to write it down, and that identity is found in Revelation 12:9; "And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil and Satan, which deceived the whole world: he was cast out to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him." "The serpent of old", is the serpent from the garden of Eden, and the time of Satan's being cast out of heaven to the earth, will be very shortly, for when the political beast that now rules the world falls, then the religious beast or system will rise, and Satan, his children the Kenites, and the fallen angels will all rule together, and most of the church will think it is Christ come to rapture them away.

Rodofiron <> Bible Studys