Look, your house is left to you desolate
13 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to. [14]
They are hypocrites, actors and they have an agenda which is to prevent those who are trying to enter from entering the kingdom of heaven. They literally shut the door of heaven in people's faces.
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 you have succeeded, you make them twice as much a child of hell as you are.
They are hypocrites, actors, and they have another agenda which is to win converts and make them twice the child of hell that they are.
16 “Woe to you, blind guides! You say, ‘If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but anyone who swears by the gold of the temple is bound by that 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 anyone who swears by the gift on the altar is bound by that oath.’ 19 You blind men! Which is greater: the gift, or the altar that makes the gift sacred? 20 Therefore, anyone who swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it. 21 And anyone who swears by the temple swears by it and by the one who dwells in it. 22 And anyone who swears by heaven swears by God’s throne and by the one who sits on it.
I think it is wonderful if you don't know what this is talking about. When you descend into the depths of their wickedness you discover all their compromise is about gold. Think about the Vatican helping the Nazis, how despicable, and yet it was all about gold. You cannot serve God and Mammon for either you will love the one and hate the other or else you will hate the one and love the other. These ones are loving and serving Mammon.
23 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices—mint, dill and cumin. 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.
This is the expression of one who loves gold instead of God. They are precise to the point of being meticulous when it comes to tax, but when it comes to justice, mercy and faithfulness they are negligent! They do all of this while acting like they are guides to the blind! They can swallow the biggest, nastiest and most unclean judgements yet when it comes to the tax they collect they are fastidious.
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.
Seriously, can anyone claim that the inside of the cup of the worldly celebration of Halloween is not filthy? So why defend it? Because they defend it that is why they are given respect in the marketplace. Attack Halloween and Christmas and they would be reviled like John the Baptist. The same goes for the Pope. Everyone knows the insides of the cup of the Vatican is filthy and disgusting. Yet they have the nerve to tell the rest of the world they will help us clean up our mess? Why don't you first clean up your own mess with your pedophile priests and illuminati bankers.
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 the bones of the dead 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.
The Lord knows where the bones are buried. Most of us have only a cursory understanding of how deep and vile the blood guiltiness is. The Lord is telling us that these religious leaders are all wearing a mask (hypocrites) just like on Halloween. Except their mask is the opposite, on the outside they are holier than thou but on the inside they are covetous and evil.
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 ancestors, 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 Go ahead, then, and complete what your ancestors started!
We saw this recently when the Democrats were attacking the racists past of this country while trying to hide the fact that it was the Democrats. They picked the most obscure date from the Civil war to celebrate the end of slavery when any reasonable person would have selected the Gettysburg address. But they couldn't do that because it would highlight that Lincoln was a Republican and the the south were Democrats. The most ornate and lavish tomb for any president is for Garfield. When I saw that I knew he had to be a FreeMason. They even have swastikas in the floor. This was before the Nazi's in Germany, but that is another sign of the FreeMasons.
33 “You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell? 34 Therefore I am sending you prophets and sages 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 Truly I tell you, all this will come on this generation.
So then don't think it is a strange thing when these "teachers of the law" kill, crucify, flog and pursue you. This is the Lord's doing so that like Noah, a preacher of righteousness, He would have the basis on which to condemn this generation. They worship and embrace demons, fine, after the rapture the demons will be let loose. Earth will very quickly become hell.
37 “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, and 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.’”