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Pamphlet 1190 ezek kc 64

"Judgment Begins at the House of the Lord!"

It seems that finding good, trustworthy, reliable shepherds
has always been a big problem.

There just aren't many shepherds who are, or have been,
willing to do the labor required to continually prepare fine meals
to feed the sheep
when it is so easy and effortless to just tell them fairy tales
and sing lullaby songs while shearing off their wool for fun and profit.

(Of course that doesn't speak well about the mentality of the flocks
who eagerly flock to be fleeced, does it?)

Any person with an ounce of common sense
and access to Sunday morning TV
can easily document the ease to which sheep can be shorn.

It works, big time!

Of course that should come as no surprise
to those who have eaten from the table of the Lord
for He foretold us in Mat. 24 and Mark 13
that there would many false shepherds
who would come in His name and deceive mass audiences.

And so it has come to pass, exactly as He said it would!

One would think that spotting these phonies
should be as easy as reading an elementary school primer.

See the shepherd.
See the shepherd prance and dance.
See the sheep.
See the sheep raise their hands in the air.
See the shepherd say, "Praise the Lord".
See the sheep say, "Baa, Amen".
See the shepherd say, "Give $ and you'll be blessed".
See the sheep say "Must be so".
See the shepherd say, "You are going to fly away."
See the sheep say, "If you say so!"

The part that is not publicly shown
is the actual physical "shearing" of the sheep,
where the shepherd's helpers pass little feeding baskets around
for the "hungry sheep" to feed on the fish and bread...
no, no, I'm wrong!

What was I thinking?

It was Christ's disciples, His helpers,
who passed around baskets with food in them!

Really though, false shepherd's are easy to recognize,
for they are mostly takers not givers.

Now some may think that we are unfairly criticizing
or making fun of our Christian brothers and sisters,
but such is not the case.

We love and pray for those who are misled
by traditions of men
and fed make believe stories by so called ministers of Christ.

There is nothing more serious than willfully and deceitfully
taking advantage of God's children.

Check out the 13th chapter of Ezekiel where God
"dressed down" the false prophets of our people
who claim that God speaks to them,
like "God just told me someone out there has a bad lower back ache.
God is healing you right now.
Just call 1 800 GIVE2ME to confirm the word."

God calls them "liars" because He DOESN'T speak to them like that.

Here is an excerpt from God's admonishment to false prophets in Ezekiel 13:

Ezekiel 13:7 Have ye not seen a vain vision, and have ye not spoken a lying divination, whereas ye say, The LORD saith it; albeit I have not spoken?
God is against that fast food "junk"
and He's against those who do serve it to His hungry,
undernourished sheep.
[8]Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have spoken vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I AM against you, saith the Lord GOD.
They pollute the truth of God's Word for self gain
by lying to His people!

The "I AM" is against them.
WOE!

He continues:

Ezekiel 13:19 And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hear your lies?
"You guys (and gals), who claim to represent Me,
lie to My children to make a fast buck?"

WOE!

In the very next verse (Ezek. 13:20) God exposes their biggest fairy tale,
their favorite lie of the final generation called the "Rapture Theory",
where they lie to people
and tell them they are going to "fly" away to save their souls.

The fact is that the king of Babylon is coming
and the people will not "escape".

They will face his sword and be slain (spiritually)
because as it is written in that same 13th chapter,
their shepherds have not prepared them for the battle!
WOE!

Ezekiel 13:4 O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.
Sneaky and crafty little critters, they are!
[5] Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD.

Note: Day of the Lord shows
we are talking about Chrisrian preachers
during these end times.

The day of the  Lord is coming soon.

Therefore, since the shepherds and the prophets
have failed to feed and protect the sheep,
God says He will take of it Himself!
How?
He will send the Chief Shepherd!
Ezekiel 34:11 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out.
God holds the false shepherds and lying prophets
grossly negligent and largely responsible
for the scattering of the House of Israel and Judah.

Nevertheless, He knows exactly where they all are
and He will take care of His own, "and seek them out".

Has He found you?

[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.
Our Father will send the True Shepherd
to do that which the hirelings have failed to do.

And as it is written, there shall be two advents.

So God will seek out His sheep
and lead them out of "all the places"
where they have been scattered,
"all" meaning physically and spiritually, nationally and individually!

It is now a record of history that the nations of Israel,
called the lost tribes of the House of Israel,
were gathered following their seven times (2520 year) punishment
which began with their captivity by Assyria.

However, even though they are physically gathered,
though they know not who they are,
and they have become the "head of nations"
and not the "tail",
as God said they would be in Deut. 28:13
(Who is the greatest superpower in the world today?),
they are nevertheless spiritually scattered (confused)
and held captive in spiritual bondage by the teachings
of the polluted garbage,
the traditions of men,
perpetuated by the false shepherds of churchianity.

That is going to stop!

Ezekiel 34:13 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.
This applies both nationally and individually
as we have read throughout this fine dining Book of Ezekiel.

Again, has He brought you out of the scattering,
the confusion you were once in?

[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.
Here is a song for the national blessings:
"Oh Beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood,
From sea to shining sea!"

[15] I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord GOD.

Here is a song for the individual blessings:
Psalm 23:1-2
A Psalm of David.
The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.

[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.

God promises that He will gather His sheep
and heal their broken spirits
and "strengthen" their spiritual sickness.

Remember how EZEK-I-EL
(whose name means "whom God strengthens") was made strong?
By "feeding" on the scroll, the Word of God.

And what will happen to those fat cat preachers
who feed themselves instead of feeding the Word
to the lost sheep?

WOE BABY!

That is what we are reading and learning about
in this 34th chapter of Ezekiel.

God promises to remove all the false shepherds
and raise up the good Shepherd.

So in total fairness to them,
He tells it like it is without mincing words,
because as it written,
judgment begins at the house of the Lord!
 

To study the Bible is the noblest of all pursuits; to understand it, the highest of all goals.
We pray that with the guidance of the Holy Spirit, you accomplish both.



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