The two rods of Beauty and Bonds are broken and the global rise of the foolish shepherd appears.

Zechariah 11

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Open your doors, O Lebanon, that fire may devour your cedars. Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen, because the mighty trees are ruined. Wail, O oaks of Bashan, for the thick forest has come down. There is the sound of wailing shepherds! For their glory is in ruins. There is the sound of roaring lions! For the pride of the Jordan is in ruins.

Zachariah 11:1-3

• The church congregation is fed for the slaughter and global tribulation approaches.
• The staffs of Beauty and Bonds.
  • The Church was initially fed with grace and unity of God through Jesus Christ.
  • Ministers of the churches are loathed by God and He is abhorred by them.
  • The church ministry of today is not fed by God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit.
  • The Beauty of God’s grace is cut in two.
  • The Bonds of God’s unity are cut in two.
• A global shepherd arises who is cold-hearted towards those against the global culture.

The church congregation is fed for the slaughter and global tribulation approaches. “Thus says the Lord my God, “Feed the flock for slaughter, whose owners slaughter them and feel no guilt; those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the Lord, for I am rich’; and their shepherds do not pity them.” Zachariah 11:4-5

In today’s world, that is exactly what is happening, the flock is being fed for the slaughter. The churches of today have thrown out the Gospel of Christ and are feeding the congregation with something to fatten them up for the slaughter. The slaughter includes those dying to God, dying to Jesus Christ, and dying to the Holy Spirit. They are dying because they are fattened with the food of the thing which forms thoughts, feelings, words, and behaviors. It enables the image of the beast to live and speak through people. By what they say and do they deny the existence of God, reject the need for the remission of sin through Jesus Christ, and ridicules the Holy Spirit. The churches have become an extension of the global culture. The churches are being used to conform the flock to the anti-Christian society as they are groomed to the mark of the beast.

“For I will no longer pity the inhabitants of the land,” says the Lord. “But indeed I will give everyone into his neighbor’s hand and into the hand of his king. They shall attack the land, and I will not deliver them from their hand.” Zachariah 11:6

What is happening in the churches is what is happening in every city around the world, inside and outside of the churches. The churches have become one with the worldly community instead of being set apart for God through Jesus Christ. The human spirit has become hardened to the Holy Spirit as a wall is built against Jesus Christ. For that reason, the Lord tells us that He will no longer pity the masses of people around the world, “Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man (humanity) was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his (humanity) heart was only evil continually.” Genesis 6:5

We already see an enormous amount of conflict in the world between people everywhere, and it progressively gets worse, like watching a pan of water going from simmer to a full boil. Each person is raising their hand against another and there is an enormous amount of infighting between brothers, sisters, parents, etc. With that, we see an enormous number of riots against governments around the world. The chaos we are seeing today is to demand conformity to the goals of the United Nations which is conformity to the global government of the beast. Even so, the chaos doesn’t let up once the United Nations comes into their full power and authority, it continues to get worse. The world will be thrown into global tribulation, the land will be attacked globally and there will be no salvation coming.

The staffs of Beauty and Bonds.
The Church was initially fed with the grace and unity of God through Jesus Christ. “So I fed the flock for slaughter, in particular the poor of the flock. I took for myself two staffs: the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bonds; and I fed the flock.” Zachariah 11:7

The flock that now is being fed for the slaughter was at the beginning fed with Beauty and Bonds, beauty referring to grace, and Bonds referring to unity. Grace refers to the forgiveness of sin trough Jesus Christ and unity refers to being reconciled to God through Jesus Christ. By the remission of sin, we are brought into fellowship with God by the Holy Spirit. The poor of the flock draws the compassion of the Lord Jesus. Jesus Christ came for the downtrodden, as quoted below,

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed; To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”

Luke 4:18-19

Ministers of the churches are loathed by God and He is abhorred by them. “I dismissed the three shepherds in one month. My soul loathed them, and their soul also abhorred me.” Zachariah 11:8

Today, the shepherds are supposed to be feeding the flock with the three people of the Godhead, who are God the Father, God the Son (Jesus Christ), and God the holy Spirit. The ministry of the churches is not doing that today, so God has dismissed them as being ministers of the Gospel of Christ. God loathes them and they abhor the idea of His existence, abhor the idea of the remission of sin through Jesus Christ, and abhor the presence of the Holy Spirit.

The deterioration of the church ministry seems to have happened in “a month.” I’m a 1959 Baby Boomer so I remember how the Gospel of Christ had good roots in this nation. I also have witnessed how the testimony of Jesus Christ has been corrupted decades ago, and now there is the virtual prohibition of the teachings of the Bible in all sectors of society. Daniel 8 describes how the global government of the beast was established immediately after WW2 through the United Nations, which was initially referred to as the New World Order. Since then, there has been an enormous falling away from the holy Bible.

The church ministry of today is not fed by God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit.“Then I said, “I will not feed you. Let what is dying die, and what is perishing perish. Let those that are left eat each other’s flesh.” Zachariah 11:8-9

As it stands today, the Holy Spirit tells us that we have seen the end of the churches as a light shining with the Good News of Jesus Christ. The ministry of the churches is not fed with the three persons of the Godhead. That is obvious to see because their worship songs nor their ministry includes all three of God the Father, His Son Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit. They blaspheme God as they make a ritual of hardening the human spirit to the Holy Spirit to build a wall against Jesus Christ. As a result, the dying is left to die, what is perishing is left to perish, and those who remain are “at each other’s throat”. We are seeing that globally today, and it increases to a rolling boil in the days ahead.

The churches and the community of the global culture has become one in their social agenda. They serve the thing which forms thoughts, feelings, words, and behaviors as it enables the image of the beast to live and speak through them. They require the flock to feed from that same food source. People in every city around the world are being conformed to the global culture as they are groomed to the mark of the beast.

The beauty of God’s grace and Holiness are cut in two. “And I took my staff, Beauty, and cut it in two, that I might break the covenant which I had made with all the peoples.” Zachariah 11:10

When the Holy Spirit is blasphemed, there is no longer access to the Beauty of God through Jesus Christ. The grace, or beauty, of God is cut in two and the covenant made with us is broken. Because of the hardness of the heart, the promise of the following verse has been broken, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” John 3:16

“Therefore I say to you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven men.” Matthew 12:31 “O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness: fear before Him, all the earth.” Psalms 96:9

“So it was broken on that day. Thus the poor of the flock, who were watching me, knew that it was the word of the Lord.” Zachariah 11:11 As followers of Jesus Christ, we are watching the hand of God working in this world through Jesus Christ. We know where the churches are in Bible prophecy because we look at where Jesus Christ is within the churches. Likewise, we know where the world is in Bible prophecy because we look at where Jesus Christ is within the world. “The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.” Revelation 19:10 We see how the world and the churches come against the Holy Spirit and we know it is according to the word of the Lord.

The bonds of God’s peace and unity are cut in two. “Then I said to them, “If it is agreeable to you, give me my wages; and if not, refrain.” So they weighed out for my wages thirty pieces of silver.” Zachariah 11:12 This world considers money and possessions to be the rewards for those who assist in betraying belief in God, betraying the Gospel of Christ, and betraying the goodness of the Holy Spirit. Zachariah was speaking a parable when talking about the spiritually wicked ministers being removed from God’s favor and the promise of God’s grace and forgiveness being broken. It’s a parable of prophetic meaning for us today and also prophetically pointed to Judas who betrayed the Lord Jesus Christ for thirty pieces of silver, as quoted below,

Then one of the Twelve—the one called Judas Iscariot—went to the chief priests and asked, “What are you willing to give me if I deliver him over to you?” So they counted out for him thirty pieces of silver. From then on Judas watched for an opportunity to hand him over.

Matthew 26:14-16

“And the Lord said to me, “Throw it to the potter”—that princely price they set on me. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the Lord for the potter.” Zachariah 11:13

The potter was the person who shaped the pots into a useful vessel and had a living place within the house of the Lord. When the thirty pieces of silver were thrown into the House of the Lord, the Holy Spirit is revealing to us how spiritually wicked the churches of today have become.

The potters within the churches are those shaping the hearts and minds of the flock. They want to make the House of God, our body, the living place of the thing which forms thoughts, feelings, words, and behaviors. (Click here for a post on the “man of sin”) It allows the image of the beast to live and speak through people. People are being shaped to conform to the “democratic” anti-Christian society as they are groomed to the mark of the beast. The churches and the world outside the churches are one in their purpose of shaping the hearts and minds of people against God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. In exchange for betraying Jesus Christ, they receive social acceptance, physical comforts and pleasures, as well as possessions and money.

“Then I cut in two my other staff, Bonds, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.” Zachariah 11:14 That one verse applies on several different levels. Cutting in two “Bonds” refers to severing the unity this world has with God as conflict is created against Jesus Christ who gives us the Holy Spirit. It also refers to the breach of the State of Israel from the Judean Valley as Judaea is part of the West Bank, a place of disunity and violent conflict. The broken unity also refers to the breach in the relationship between Christianity and the Jewish people. When the Jewish people rejected Jesus Christ, they refused to accept His followers.

A global shepherd arises who is cold-hearted towards those against the global culture. “And the Lord said to me, “Next, take for yourself the implements of a foolish shepherd.: Zachariah 11:15 The implements of the foolish shepherd is the thing which forms the thoughts, feelings, words, and behaviors of people in every city around the world. It is considered a foolish shepherd because it leads people by enabling the image of the beast to live and speak through them. As seen in today’s world, it is shepherding people through the gates of the global culture of the beast. By what it leads people to say and do they are conformed to the anti-Christian society as they are groomed to the mark of the beast. (Click here for a post on the “man of sin”)

‘For indeed I will raise up a shepherd in the land who will not care for those who are cut off, nor seek the young, nor heal those that are broken, nor feed those that still stand. But he will eat the flesh of the fat and tear their hooves in pieces.” Zachariah 11:16

The global foolish shepherd is no longer something that will arise in the land, it is already here. Daniel 8 explains how the United Nations was established immediately after WW2 and brought the government of the beast with it. It is the foolish shepherd referred to in the previous paragraph, which points to the “man of sin.” The foolish shepherd is also the fulfillment of Revelation 13. The foolish shepherd cares nothing for those who are cut off from its anti-Christian “democratic” society, a society which dominates every city around the world. With that, they have no concern for restoring people to God through Jesus Christ.

The foolish shepherd has no intention of allowing the young to come to Jesus, but instead indoctrinates the youth to the standards of the global culture. That indoctrination includes practices of casual sex, changing gender identity, living a transexual life, living in homosexuality, teaching abortion as a norm, etc. Especially, the youth are indoctrinated to allow the image of the beast to live and speak through them by welcoming the thing forming their thoughts and feelings.

They youth are indoctrinated in such a way as to completely keep God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit out of the conversation. They practically have no realization nor belief in God, no realization or knowledge of sin, no understanding of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and no comprehension of the Holy Spirit as a person in the Godhead. The foolish shepherd has no intention of healing those who are broken in spirit and struggling to live for God through Jesus Christ. The foolish shepherd has no intention of helping those who are still standing and refuse to acknowledge the need for the anti-Christian global culture.

The foolish shepherd ‘…eats the flesh of the fat and tears their hooves in pieces.” The “fat” are those living in the riches of the Holy Spirit by the remission of sin through Jesus Christ. “Tearing the hooves in pieces” refers to prohibiting the Gospel of Jesus Christ from moving and spreading through the anti-Christian “democratic society. The global flock of the foolish shepherd are those who eat and tears apart those who believe in God, who accepts Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, and who lives in the presence of the Holy Spirit.

“Woe to the worthless shepherd, who leaves the flock! A sword shall be against his arm and against his right eye; His arm shall completely wither, and his right eye shall be totally blinded.” Zachariah 11:17

The arm of the global government of the beast withers and its eye is totally blinded. That means it will not be able to do what it wants to do and will no longer have the uncanny ability to know things or to see. That is described in Revelation 16:8-16.

The destruction of the worthless and foolish shepherd happens when the power center of the beast is plunged into total darkness in the Fifth Plague, as described here, “Then the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom became full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues because of the pain. They blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and did not repent of their deeds.” Revelation 16:10-11 When that happens, the thing which forms thoughts, feelings, words, and behaviors will no longer be active. There will no longer be uncanny knowledge, heightened intuition, extraordinary talents and skills, no amazing physical abilities, etc. The image of the beast will no longer be living and speaking through people and the mark of the beast will no longer be defining people’s role in life.

The blackout of the power center of the beast corresponds to global warming, which is the Fourth Plague, as described here, “Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and power was given to him to scorch men with fire. And men were scorched with great heat, and they blasphemed the name of God who has power over these plagues; and they did not repent and give Him glory.” Revelation 16:8-9

The Battle of Armageddon comes in the Sixth Plague which can be read about in Revelation 16:12-16. That ushers in the end of this world’s system and Jesus Christ comes back soon after that.

Then Jesus said to them again, “Most assuredly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. All who ever came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them.  I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.

“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep. But a hireling, he who is not the shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them.

John 10:7-12

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:1