Jesus Christ delivers the flock from the earthly ministers. 

Ezekiel 34:9-10

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“…therefore, O shepherds, hear the word of the Lord! Thus says the Lord God: “Behold, I am against the shepherds, and I will require My flock at their hand; I will cause them to cease feeding the sheep, and the shepherds shall feed themselves no more; for I will deliver My flock from their mouths, that they may no longer be food for them.” Ezekiel 34:9-10

How did God deliver His flock from the mouth of the earthly ministers? By sending His Son Jesus Christ to atone for sin and to give us a personal relationship with God by making us the temple of 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

We are no longer fed by the spirit of earthly ministers, and they are no longer able to claim a special relationship with God. Jesus Christ is our minister, and He has caused the need for earthly ministers to cease and has taken away their ability to keep the word of God to themselves. Today, we live by every word that comes from the mouth of God, not by every word that comes from earthly ministers, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’” Matthew 4:4 The earthly ministers will be held responsible for the influence they hold over the flock.

The true sanctuary of God is not the earthly churches erected by the hands of people, but His sanctuary is our body as the home of the Holy Spirit with Jesus Christ as the minister. “Now this is the main point of the things we are saying: We have such a High Priest, who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, a Minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle which the Lord erected, and not man.” Hebrews 8:1-2

If Jesus Christ was on this earth, He would not be a minister of the churches, “For if He were on earth, He would not be a priest…” Hebrews 8:4

“For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second.” Hebrews 8:7 Jesus Christ is referred to as the New Covenant, which means there was an Old Covenant, and that Old Covenant was through written laws and enforced by earthly ministers. The New Covenant is within our spirit and soul, not according to the ordinances of people but according to the Spirit. “For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.” Romans 8:3-4

The entity that gives people what to think, feel, do, and say wants to replace Jesus Christ as the minister over the temple, our body. It is an earthly minister that discards the Spirit and is 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 for a post on the “man of sin”. God will hold this entity responsible for corrupting His flock with its power over physiology and cause it to cease, “…whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming.” 2 Thessalonians 2:8

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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