Matthew 23:27-28
Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, Hypocrites, for you are like unto white sepulchres, 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 unto men, but within you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
Growing up in a Great Lake State, I attended Sunday School and Church. Many good memories do come from that experience. What was missing was being trained for spiritual battle. I sat not in the direct light of Yahuah Elohiym, but under the administration of the church. The administration kept a nice little flock of spiritual sheep. What the flock wasn't was Dragon slayers. Out in the world with stunted spiritual growth, spiritual sheep bled out for the entertainment of spiritual dragons.
As the years passed, from that flock came those not welcomed into the church administration. Only those hand picked for the continuation of passive lukewarm sheep administration were encouraged to be pastors or be part of the administration. Where are the Prophets of Yahuah Elohiym? Where are those with spiritual gifts? Where is the fruit of the spirit? Keeping to the tradition of manipulated church sheep brings no fruit. It only provides more food for the dragons.
The question is, how do you recognize true spiritual light?
True Spiritual Light comes from Yahuah Elohiym. Yahusha Hamashia called Jesus Christ is the light of the World. Satan is not the light of the world, not a morning star. Only Yahuah of Hosts, now called Yahusha Hamashia is the Morning Star. Satan was the Cherub called Heylel son of the howling morning. The name Lucifer was a name change by translators.
The problem begins with adding and taking away from spiritual light. It then becomes unrecognizable by manipulation. Scripture can be proclaimed in the church, but if the flock is not mature enough in spirit to digest it properly, no fruit is harvested. Discernment of spiritual light starts with praying. Yahusha Hamashia gave us an example how to pray.
1 Take heed that you do not do your charity before men, to be seen of them: otherwise you have no reward of your father which is in heaven.
But yet we file our charity on our taxes for a tax refund. Churches demand tithing to be seen by men. Do you know the story of Ananias and his wife Sapphira?
2 Therefore, when you do your charity, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the Hypocrites do, in the Synagogues, and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Truly, I say unto you, they have their reward.
I'm reminded of signs saying don't feed the animals. Once you start feeding them, they obey the administration. Like the Swedish cattle call song, they all come running to her. It's a beautiful melody with a beautiful voice, but the cattle is submissive to her, they belong to her The administration doing charity for all to see and hear is the same thing. The people don't belong to Yahuah Elohiym, they belong to the administration.
3-4 But when you do charity, let not your left hand know, what your right does: That your charity may be in secret: And your Father which sees in secret, Himself shall reward you openly.
Yahuah Elohiym sees in secret. Yahuah is a multidimensional Deity. If we give someone a box full of food, the pastor of your church doesn't need to know about it. Not even your mom. If the administration does charity, government doesn't need to know. It's not the light of the church, it's the light of unseen compassion that is the light of Yahuah Elohiym. Light is unseen untill it's reflected.
5. And when you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the Synagogues, and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of people. Truly I say onto you, they have their reward.
Public prayer at graduation ceremonies is spiritually useless. It's seen by the community for the purpose of coming together under the administration. It would be better for the Pastor or Priest to pray silently over the people. Hebrew Priests would raise both their hands, spreading their fingers like Spock on Star Trek and pray.
6 But when you pray, enter into your closet, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father which is in secret, and your Father which sees in secret, shall reward you openly.
The key thing here is in secret. Our actions that are in secret are visible to Yahuah Elohiym who is outside our universe. Yahuah Elohiym prepares a table of spiritual food in the midst of spiritual dragons on Earth. Praying is something like quantum entanglement. (Matthew 6:10 Your kingdom come. Your will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.). This verse shows an entanglement.
7 But when you pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do. For they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
Long winded praying can be said in a nutshell. Anything more than a short prayer places manipulation, spiritual shadows and divided light in both directions.
8 Be not therefore like onto them: For your Father knows what things you have need of, before you ask him.
Yahuah Elohiym is outside our space time continuum. He sees before it began. His light is the same way. Light passing outside our space time continuum takes no time at all. Light inside our universe can bend and be swallowed up. Our prayers travel in a moment, outside our universe. Yahusha Hamashia's return is the same thing. He will be in Heaven and in less than a moment, He will be over the Earth about to set foot in Jerusalem Israel.
9-13 After this maner therefore pray you: Our Father which are in Heaven, Holy be your name. Your kingdome come. Your will be done, in earth, as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgiue us our debts, as we forgiue our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For your's is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever, Amen.
We need to pray for the continuation of His Kingdom. We need to pray for our sanctification. We must hand over to Yahuah Elohiym the kingdom and all the power and glory. If we don't, power and glory in our hands becomes corrupted. If pastors and administration wants to be respected, first they must be respectful. They must become as a servant and prepare the flock as a servant would.
14-15 For if you forgive people their trespasses, your heavenly father will also forgive you. But, if you forgive not people their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
Everyone makes unintentional errors. Everyone has faults in their character. If you cannot forgive these things of others, Yahuah Elohiym cannot forgive you. This is because of the Hypocrisy you set up in your own life. If the church administration cannot forgive and give everyone an equal chance, that administration has hypocrisy in them. Then you become like that of the church in Sardis.
Hypocrisy is Spiritually damaging.
And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; (John is told to write this down. Angel here is a messenger. We are not to call anyone father or priest. Church administration are messengers or elder messengers.) These things says he that has the seven Spirits of Elohiym, and the seven stars; (The seven spirits of Elohiym is the Holy Spirit. This is Yahusha Hamashia talking.) I know your works that you have a name that you lives, and are dead. Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found your works perfect before Elohiym. Remember therefore how you have received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore you shall not watch, I will come on you as a thief, and you shall not know what hour I will come upon you. You have a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy. He that overcomes, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out their name out of the book of life, but I will confess their name before my Father, and before his angels. He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says unto the churches. Revelation 3 1-6
This is the dying church of today. A few believers still sit among the Hypocrites. Once children was willing to learn of the Bible. Hypocrites took over the classrooms. These children are now parents who haven't been taught Spiritual Armor. They keep their children home because all they heard was babysitting in Sunday school when they could be playing. The spiritual garments today have been defiled by sports, eastern exercise, selling things on church property, alcohol and carnivals. The administration adopted more hypocrisy to bring back the numbers into the church before the hypocrisy.
Proverbs 11:9 - An hypocrite with his mouth destroys his neighbor: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.
The just are the justified in Yahusha Hamashia. Delivered is to equip them with Spiritual Armor.
A Hypocrite is a person who puts on a false appearance of virtue or religion. Satan himself has a false appearance of light. If you shine a light on a burning match, the fire has no shadow. The matchstick does. Light of Hypocrites is the same. Shine your light on them and you cannot see their darkness. The only way to detect hypocrisy is to see the fruit of it or the foundation of it.
Quote: A hypocrite demands respect from students without respecting them in return.
What happens is that a teacher, pastor or priest is seen as good until the proverbial matchstick or fruit of evil shows. Even then the hypocrisy is dismissed as a bad day. When a pastor gives a pointed message to single out one of the congregation before many, or when a teacher embarrassed a student in front of others in the class, this is aggression or hatred. But yet the administration requires respect.
Hypocrisy is a major player in counterfeit spiritual light. Like that of Sodom and Gomorrah, once true spiritual light goes below a certain point, Yahuah Elohiym well bring judgement upon the nation or city.
Biblical Operation System
It is said that computer systems have a declaration, the function and a closure. In the the Bible this could be represented in three verses. They are as following.
And Elohiym said, Let there be light: and there was light. Genesis 1:3
For Elohiym so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16
And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, Elohiym shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book. Revelation 22:19
So you see, management of spiritual light is knowing Elohiym's declarations, downloading His Word into our spiritual hard drive and exciting by saving our spirit, our spiritual files in Elohiym's Lifebook. Not following the spiritual program, even your good works is not saved because you lost your spiritual address. Satan is a virus corrupting your spirit.