The Kingdom of Heaven and the Kingdom of God

We have been in the zone where Jesus charges the Priesthood with absolute corruption because of the Priesthood's many false stands of heresies and absolute hypocrisies, to reinforce what has already been spoken of them. Jesus as LORD of lords and King of kings and yes the FATHER of all mankind is about to level the corruption of the Priesthood upon them. He is doing as Malachi did in the curse which Malachi through the LORD's own words did as seen in (1:14, 2:2, 3, 9) for their unfaithfulness and those who had robbed Him, He would cut them off at their knees and consume the wicked (4:1, 3). As the God of Grace He would bless the faithful remnant for His love and forbearance with the sons of Jacob, and His covenant with Levi. He would extend Grace to the unfaithful stewards in the book of remembrance through the sun of His righteousness when the promise of the return of Elijah would happen (4:5-6). Yet between the lines can be found the words of grace: “Turn from your wickedness and evil ways, for in them you will die, O house of Israel," as seen in Ezekiel 33:11. What saddens me the most is the fact that the worlds church remains within the confines of this curse through the same deceptions and wicked practices of the early Priesthood and especially more so of those who profess a faith and trust in Christ by using His name.

Eight Woes that Condemn the Religionists of Judaism

and all who follow after suite of them.

Matthew 23:13-36 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for you neither go in yourselves, neither suffer (allow) you them that are entering to go in.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayer: therefore you shall receive the greater damnation.
Woe to 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.
Woe to 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 fools and blind: 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? Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, swears by it, and by all things thereon. And whoso shall swear by the temple, swears by it, and by Him that dwells therein. And he that shall swear by heaven, swears by the throne of God, and by Him that sits thereon.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you pay tithe of mint and anise and cumin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought you to have done, and not to leave the others undone. You blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within you 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 to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are like to whited sepulchers, 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 to men, but within you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchers 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. Wherefore you be witnesses to yourselves, that you are the children of them which killed the prophets. You fill up then the measure of your fathers. You serpents, you generation of vipers, how can you escape the damnation of hell? Wherefore, behold, I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them you shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye 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 to the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom you slew between the temple and the altar. Verily I say to you, All these things shall come upon this generation. (parallel passages Mark 12:38-40, Luke 11:37-52, 20:45-47, 48-54)
This seems to be bar none the far harshest and sternest language used to describe those caught in the Religion of Judaism and indeed all others who follow suite, in like fashion. GOD, in the person of the LORD came to set mankind free from not only sin and death but also the sin of sins, mans own religion as found in Galatians 5:1. Where in the KJV it says liberty and the ASV, ESV, WNT and ISV translates it as freedom both of which means to set aside all things that have no relationship to Salvation. Paul picks up on this in many of his Epistles when heard as the LORD intends, just as He measures it out here.

But as mans sins (in Religion) keep him in darkness, in the knowledge of the tree of good and evil and the practice of forms of crimes and evils against God, even those carried out in the name of Christ they remain as lawless and a greater darkness is upon them. And like the Grace extended to Israel through Ezekiel, God offers them the book of remembrance if they would but commit a true repentance of heart. And thereby enter His Covenant of Grace which still remains open for all and since the days of Paul places all mankind on level ground because God is no respecter of man's person. This is seen where Jesus says in, Matthew 12:31-37 "Wherefore I say to you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost (Spirit) shall not be forgiven men. And whoever speaks a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whoever speaks against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come. Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit. O generation of vipers (this is placing all back to Gen. 3:1-6, 7 and 15 as sons of Satan with the poison of asps under the tongue*), how can you, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. A good man out of the good treasure of the heart brings forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things. But I say to you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by your words you shall be justified, and by your words you shall be condemned." *John the baptist id the same in Mat. 3:7, Luke 3:7; Jesus again in Mat. 23:33, John 8:44 and John again in 1John 3:10 where he says this; “In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever does not righteousness is not of God, neither is he that loves not his brother.” All this being said my question is this, how does the practice of mans self imposed religious holidays in their many forms and masking over effect man and his spiritual state? For me the answer is within the words of Jesus as stated here, “grieve or speak not against the Holy Spirit” because this is blasphemy. Blasphemy is the act in word or deed of an injury offered to God, by denying that which is due and belonging to Him, or attributing to Him that which is not agreeable to His nature.

This is why mans religion is so dangerous for us all because within it are the ceremonies, rites and rituals of offense against God's own nature, as found within Christmas, Easter, Halloween, and other such days. Within these days have been buried the true meanings of the ancients practices that God forbade Israel to do, all in the guise of, or veiled as, righteousness. Many of these same practices where not known by those of Noah's day to be crimes because at those times there was no law and where there is no law there is no charge against man.