OUR FATHER IS ONLY KNOWN BY THE SON OF GOD AND THOSE TO WHOM THE SON REVEALS HIM TO

Mathew chapter 11 continues in verses 25 - 27 where Jesus, having explained the hazards of having the truth presented to people who then reject it, continues on to thank God the Father for His strategy of concealing the great mysteries of the kingdom of God  from the elite people of society but revealing  them to the unsophisticated people. 

The access gates into the knowledge of the kingdom of God are regulated by criteria set by the Father and the societal uppercrust is automatically screened out and only by exceptional intervention of God are any people from these higher strata let into the fold. This is why Jesus said in Mark chapter 10 verse 25, that it was harder for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God than a camel to go through the eye of a needle and that all things are possible with God if exceptions were needed.

25 At that time Jesus answered and said, “I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and have revealed them to babes. 26 Even so, Father, for so it seemed good in Your sight. 27 All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father. Nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him. 

The Lord Jesus then reveals more gates that regulate access into the kingdom of God.

Jesus has been given all things pertaining to the administration of the kingdom of God and at that point in time, Jesus' status as the Son of God was only known by the Father. In the same way, the Father was only known by Jesus the Son of God.

The knowledge of the Father is revealed only to those who Jesus, by His own authority, choses to reveal Him to and thus, the access gates to the knowledge of the kingdom of God are generally regulated by the restrictions placed on the  elite and then more specically, by those whom Jesus hand-picks to have access to that knowledge.

Amen.

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