Earthly shepherds cause the sheep to be scattered and to become prey in the world. 

Ezekiel 34:5

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“So they were scattered because there was no shepherd; and they became food for all the beasts of the field when they were scattered.” Ezekiel 34:5

God wants everyone to be gathered to Him through Jesus Christ. When people are not being gathered to Him, then they are being scattered because there is not a shepherd to bring people together through the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Without hearing the Good News of repentance and new life, people become prey for the lion that is looking for someone to devour, “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.” 1 Peter 5:8 Today’s culture is devouring Christianity and Israel.

The Jewish people have no shepherd to gather them to God through Jesus Christ. Because they have no Christian leadership, the Jewish people are scattered away from the Gospel of Jesus Christ, “How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?” Romans 10:14

As God has shown us today, the Israelis are “food for all the beasts of the field.” They have been in 18 wars since the year they were established as the State of Israel in 1948, Click for a list of those wars and scroll close to the bottom of the page. The members of the United Nation have opened a case of genocide against the government of the State of Israel, World Court to hear Genocide Case Against Israel. They have also opened a war crimes investigation against leaders of Israel, etc. With that, the global culture riot and protest against the existence of the State of Israel, and even the United States has determined it to be illegal for the Israelis to reside in the West Bank, Click here for news article on “White House reverses West Bank policy, calling Israeli settlements illegal.

All of the hostility coming against the Jewish people is due to their rejection of Jesus Christ, which includes their dying and suffering in the Holocaust during WW2. They had no shepherd 2000 years ago to lead them to accept Jesus Christ, they were scattered around the globe (between 70AD and 1948) and became prey for the beasts of the field. If they had accepted Jesus Christ, they would not be Jewish, they would be Christian. As Christians, they would not have suffered as a nation of people during the Holocaust. As Christians, the State of Israel would never have existed because as Christians we do not have a nation on this earth to call our own. Our nation is the New Jerusalem in the new heaven and earth.

Coming to Jesus Christ gives our life a whole new direction, just like how different the Jewish destiny would have been if they would have had shepherds to lead them to Jesus Christ. Coming to Jesus Christ would have spared them the suffering of the Holocaust and the constant conflict in the Middle East. Today, the people have no shepherd to lead them to a life-changing direction through Jesus Christ because the churches have abandoned His Gospel. People suffer, die, and live a life filled with conflict because they do not have shepherds to lead them to Jesus Christ. They are food for all the beasts of the field.

“How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!” Romans 10:14-15

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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