Jesus Christ replaces the fallible earthly ministers. 

Ezekiel 34:7-8

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“‘Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord: “As I live,” says the Lord God, “surely because My flock became a prey, and My flock became food for every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, nor did My shepherds search for My flock, but the shepherds fed themselves and did not feed My flock— ” Ezekiel 34:7-8

In this verse, God lays the foundation of why He replaces the earthly ministers with His Son Jesus Christ. This includes the Jewish leaders as well as all the ministers of the churches of today. Very simply, God is the Creator of the sheep, but earthly ministers are only “hired” to attend to the sheep, as quoted, “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. The hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care about the sheep.” John 10:11-13

Under the care of the earthly shepherds, God’s flock has become a prey and food for every beast of the field. They have become prey to the entity that sits within the body of a person to give them what to think, feel, say, and do. This entity devours belief in God, scoffs at the need for the forgiveness of sin through Jesus Christ and oppresses the presence of the Holy Spirit. The global culture lives by that entity and by what they say and do they come against the sheep. There are no earthly ministers trying to warn the sheep against living by the entity that gives them what to think and feel to influence what they say and do. Even so, Jesus Christ gives us the Holy Spirit to live within our spirit and soul to make us aware to guard our thoughts, feelings, words, and behaviors.

Jesus Christ makes us His home by the infilling of the Holy Spirit through the forgiveness of sin. No earthly minister on this planet is able to forgive sin and to fill a person with the Holy Spirit, “Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?” 1 Corinthians 6:19 Earthly ministers are not able to guard us from the one “…who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.” 2 Thessalonians 2:4 Click here for a post on the “man of sin”.

We no longer depend on earthly ministers to protect and guard our spirit and soul. Jesus Christ has given us the Spirit so that we know for ourselves the things of God, “For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.” 1 Corinthians 2:11-12

Only Jesus Christ can give us victory within spiritual warfare, earthly ministers cannot win that battle for us, “For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.” Ephesians 6:12 

“For such a High Priest was fitting for us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and has become higher than the heavens; who does not need daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the people’s, for this He did once for all when He offered up Himself. For the law appoints as high priests men who have weakness, but the word of the oath, which came after the law, appoints the Son who has been perfected forever.” Hebrews 7:26-28 “Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption.” Hebrews 9:12

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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, 3:11