Poltiticians and Pharisees (7) - Shutting up the Kingdom

Jesus criticised the Pharisees and Teachers for preventing the people from entering the Kingdom of God.

Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men's faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to (Matt 23:13).

Politicians create human kingdoms. They offer salvation to everyone who joins their kingdom, but there promises always fail, just as human salvation always fails. The kingdom of man always fall short of what it promises.

The worst thing about these human political kingdoms is that they blind people to the kingdom of God. Not only do politicians refuse to enter into the Kingdom of God themselves, but they shut the door in the face of others as well.

Woe to you experts in the law, because you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering (Luke 11:52).