Earthly shepherds feed themselves and not the congregation

Ezekiel 34:1-2

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“And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, “Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God to the shepherds: “Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the flocks?” Ezekiel 34:1-2

We can envision a sheep herder sitting in a lawn chair, eating, and drinking while the sheep wander away, goes astray, becomes lost, or are eaten by wolves. That sheep herder should be feeding and caring for the sheep instead of sitting in a lawn chair and feeding self. That is what the Pharisees were doing when Jesus Christ walked on the earth and is what the leaders of the Jewish culture and the ministers of the churches of today are doing.

Shepherds refer to those who preach, teach, and guide a congregation of people. Today, the Jewish culture have shepherds over their flock, but they are doing it to satisfy their own self-interests instead of feeding the flock with the will of God. The will of God for the Jewish people is to accept Jesus Christ as their Messiah. Instead, the Jewish leaders have discarded the entire Gospel of Christ, the entire New Testament. The Jewish culture live only by the Old Testament. The Jewish shepherds are feeding their own self-interests for the Jewish culture as they refuse to feed their people with the testimony of Jesus.

Today, the ministers of the churches have abandoned the Gospel of Jesus Christ. They should be preaching, teaching, and guiding their congregation with this description of the Gospel, “For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures, 1 Corinthians 15:3-4 Instead, they stand before the congregation, not according to the will of God, but according to their own motivations, to feed themselves.

The ministers of today’s churches stand in front of their congregation and are being led by the entity that gives them what to say, feel, think, and do. This entity makes war with the testimony of Jesus Christ. This is the entity that enables the image of the beast to live and speak through people and by what they say and do they oppose the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The ministers of the churches, along with the masses across the globe, are groomed to the mark of the beast by what they say and do.

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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, 3:11