Jesus Christ feeds us in the rich pasture among the good fold. 

Ezekiel 34:14-15

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“I will feed them in good pasture, and their fold shall be on the high mountains of Israel. There they shall lie down in a good fold and feed in rich pasture on the mountains of Israel. I will feed My flock, and I will make them lie down,” says the Lord God.” Ezekiel 34:14-15

When the Bible speaks prophecies about rich blessings for Israel, we have to recall that there are no blessings for the Jewish people mentioned in the New Testament. The blessings of Israel are transferred to those who receive Jesus Christ. Christianity is the younger of God’s children and Israel the older. The blessings of God are given to the younger as His heirs instead of given to the “rightful” older heirs. As quoted, “…it was said to her, “The older shall serve the younger.” As it is written, “Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated.” Romans 9:12-13

The Holy Spirit speaks to us through the Old Testament of how Christians (the younger) receive the blessings of the Jewish people (the older). As already mentioned, there is Jacob who received Esau’s blessing, Genesis 27. Before that, there was Able who received Cain’s blessing, Genesis 4:1-9. There was Zerah who received Perez’s blessing, Genesis 38:27-30. There was Ephraim who received Manasseh’s blessing, Genesis 48:8-20. And there was Moses who became God’s leader and not his older brother Aaron, Exodus 7:7. This is known as the “scarlet cord” that points to Jesus Christ as the Messiah, whom the first-born Jewish people rejected, but the younger Christianity receives Him.

When God says that He will feed them in good pasture, and their fold will be on the high mountains, that they will lie down in a good fold, be fed in rich pasture, and that He will feed His flock, all those blessings have been transferred to Christians. When the Jewish people rejected Jesus Christ, they forfeited their inheritance, and the inheritance of the New Jerusalem was transferred to those who receive Jesus Christ. There is only one “seed”, not two “seeds”, there is not one for the followers of Christ and the other for the Jewish people. “Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made. He does not say, “And to seeds,” as of many, but as of one, “And to your Seed,” who is Christ.” Galatians 3:16

We who receive Jesus Christ are fed in the good pasture where the fruit of the Holy Spirit blossom. Our fold includes everyone who will be on the high mountain of the New Jerusalem in the new heaven and earth. We lie down in the good fold among everyone who lives for God through Jesus Christ by the Holy Spirit. We feed on the rich pasture where the Bread of Life grows and the Water of Life flows. God feeds us Himself through Jesus Christ and we will feed in the New Jerusalem on the eternal fruit of the Tree of Life.

“The Lord is my shepherd;
I shall not want.
He makes me to lie down in green pastures;
He leads me beside the still waters.
He restores my soul;
He leads me in the paths of righteousness
For His name’s sake.”
Psalms 23:1-3

“For they are not all Israel who are of Israel, nor are they all children because they are the seed of Abraham; but, “In Isaac your seed shall be called.” That is, those who are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are counted as the seed.” Romans 9:6-8 “He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” John 1:11-13

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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