The Kingdom of Heaven and the Kingdom of God

I skipped over a word used by Jesus to describe the religious leaders who where with Him in Matthew 16:3-4, this word is “hypocrites.” Webster's 1828 Dictionary describes it this way: One who feigns to be what he is not; one who has the form of godliness without the power, or who assumes an appearance of piety and virtue, when he is destitute of Truth. A dissembler; one who assumes a false appearance. 

To get an understanding and some insight into this I will turn to Job 8:1-7, 8-10, 11-22, which states the following and again listen closely to the words;
“Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, How long will you speak these things? and how long shall the words of your mouth be like a strong wind? Does God pervert judgment? or does the Almighty pervert justice? If your children have sinned against Him, and He has cast them away for their transgression; If you would seek God betimes, and make your supplication to the Almighty; If you were pure and upright; surely now He would awaken you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous. Though your beginning are small, yet your latter end should greatly increase.

For enquirer, I pray you, of the former age, and prepare yourself to the search of their fathers: (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:) Shall not they teach you, and tell you, and utter words out of their heart?

Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water? While it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withers before any other herb. So are the paths of all that forget (Deuteronomy 8:14, 19, Psalm 9:17, 10:4, 50:22) God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish* (Deuteronomy 13:1-3, 1Kings 22:22, Job 11:20, 13:16, 15:34, 20:5, 27:8; Jeremiah 23:14-15, Ezekiel 13:10-16, Matthew 24:24; 2Corinthians 11): Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be like a spider's web** (house, as a church house; Isaiah 51:13, 59:5-6, Matthew 7). He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure. He is green before the sun, and his branch shoots forth in his garden. His roots are wrapped about the heap, and sees the place of stones. If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen you. Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow. Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will He help the evil doers: Till he fill your mouth with laughing, and your lips with rejoicing. They that hate you shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to naught.” 

*The list here revealed is but a partial one, picking up with 2Corinthians 11:13, 2Timothy 3:8, 2Peter 2:1-3, 1John 4:1, and then Revelation 19:20. With each referenced passage remember to read those before and behind the passage to get the full flow of thought.

**The spiders web is likened by Jesus to a house built on sand in Matthew 7:24-27 and Luke 6:47-49. I know that there are many who will not take to heart what I am saying about mans religion as it is the snare which holds them, as the chains of the demoniac or the grave clothes of Lazarus but that is okay, it is their right.

I could include religion as God's binding us to Himself but because of the evil connotation behind this word I prefer to use it. But rather use relationship, communion and unity with Him as our LORD and Father. For the French and Latin forms mean to bind, or hinder, as a policeman binds a violator of the law and Satan binds man to sin and the fear of death by the chains of our unredeemed imagination, by the knowledge of the tree of good and evil, as the strongman. We must keep in mind that we are looking at the warnings of Jesus and the heresies of the Jewish priesthood in Judaism, which were corrupt from Ezra forward.

The Pharisees test Jesus Concerning Divorcement

Matthew 19:1-2, 3-9, 10-12 It came to pass, that when Jesus had finished teaching, He departed from Galilee, and came into the coasts of Judea beyond Jordan; And a great multitudes followed Him; and He healed them there. 

The Pharisees also came to Him, tempting Him, and saying to Him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? He answered them, Have you not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they being two shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder. They say to Him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away? To this He said, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so. And I say to you, Whoever shall put away his wife, except for fornication, and shall marry another, commits adultery: and whoever marries her which is put away does commit adultery.
 
His disciples asked Him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry. But He said to them, All cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given. For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive this, let him receive it. (parallel passages Matthew 5:27-32 Mark 10:1-12, Luke 16:18, Romans 7:1-3, 1Corinthians 7)