Presents
Pamphlet #4026
Presents
Pamphlet #4026
My Note: Shepherds, feed my flock, not yourselves! Ref. Scripture Ezekiel 34:2
Preachers, you are to teach my people the difference between what is Holy and what is profane; don't just sing songs and pass the collection plate!
Scripture: Ezekiel 34:2
Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say
unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto the shepherds; Woe
be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the
shepherds feed the flocks?
3 Ye eat the fat, and
ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not
the flock.
Sounds like the Lord will see to it that his sheep, us, are feed, taught His word "the bread of life", but I don't believe He's very happy with our preachers who aren't teaching us word for word, line by line, chapter by chapter, from His little Book.
Ezekiel 34:1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying
2 Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds
of Israel, prophesy, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD
unto the shepherds; Woe be to the shepherds of
Israel that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks?
3 Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them
that are fed: but ye feed not the flock.
4 The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed
that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither
have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought
that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.
5 And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd: and
they became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered.
6 My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every
high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth,
and none did search or seek after them.
7 Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;
8 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely because my flock became
a prey, and my flock became meat to every beast of the field, because there
was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my flock, but
the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flock;
9 Therefore, O ye shepherds, hear the
word of the LORD;
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against the shepherds;
and I will require my flock at their hand, and
cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds
feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth,
that they may not be meat for them.
11 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold,
I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out.
12 As a shepherd seeketh out his flock
in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek
out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been
scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
13 And I will bring them out from the
people, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their
own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and
in all the inhabited places of the country.
14 I will feed them in a good pasture,
and upon the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be: there shall
they lie in a good fold, and in a fat pasture shall they feed upon the
mountains of Israel.
15 I will feed my flock, and I will
cause them to lie down, saith the Lord GOD.
16 I will seek that which was lost,
and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which
was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy
the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.
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