Prophesy against the shepherds

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yahuah warns the shepherds (priests/teachers) who receive knowledge but then keep the word to enrich themselves.

Yahuah instructs Ezekiel to prophesy about these shepherds and how He will send His own Shepherd to teach, heal and save His people.

Ezekiel 34:2 “Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Yisrael, prophesy and say to them, ‘Thus said the Master Yahuah to the shepherds, “Woe to the shepherds of Yisrael who have been feeding themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the flock?

Jeremiah also speaks about the shepherds.

 

Jeremiah 2:8 “The priests did not say, ‘Where is Yahuah?’ And those who handle the Torah did not know Me, and the shepherds transgressed against Me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after matters that did not profit.

Jeremiah 10:21 For the shepherds have become brutish, and they have not sought Yahuah. Therefore they did not understand, and all their flock scattered.”

Jeremiah 12:10 “Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard, they have trodden My portion under foot, they have made My pleasant portion become a deserted wilderness.

Many so-called shepherds have caused many people to follow man-made religion, making them walk on the path of destruction. This is confirmed by Jeremiah in verse below.

 

Jeremiah 50:6-7 “My people have been wandering sheep. Their shepherds have led them astray, turning them away on the mountains.They have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their resting place. “All who found them have devoured them. And their adversaries have said, ‘Weare not guilty, because they have sinned against Yahuah, the Home of righteousness, and the Expectation of their fathers: Yahuah.’

Is this not what’s happening in our time? Jeremiah was correct when prophesying about teachers leading people astray with false doctrine. Timothy speaks of the time when the teachers will teach lies and false doctrine.

2 Timothy 4:3-4 For there shall be a time when they shall not bear sound teaching, but according to their own desires, they shall heap up for themselves teachers tickling the ear, and they shall indeed turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to myths.

Most teachers today preach a gospel that makes a person feel good, tickling the ear, example once saved, always saved and the commands are no longer required to follow.

 

2 Peter 2:1-3 But there also came to be false prophets among the people, as also among you there shall be false teachers, who shall secretly bring in destructive heresies, and deny the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction on themselves. And many shall follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of, and in greed, with fabricated words, they shall use you for gain. From of old their judgment does not linger, and their destruction does not slumber.

The above says everything: we just need to look around and see the destruction caused by false teachers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Below Ezekiel speaks further of the prophesy against the shepherds in Ezekiel 34:3-6.

Verse 3 “You eat the fat and you put on the wool. You slaughter the fatlings – you do not feed the flock.

Verse 4 “You have not strengthened the weak, nor have you healed the sick, nor bound up the broken, nor brought back the straying, nor sought what was lost; but you have ruled them with might and harshness.

Verse 5 “And they were scattered because there was no shepherd. And they became food for all the beasts of the field when they were scattered.

Verse 6 “My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high hill. And My sheep were scattered over all the face of the earth, and no one was seeking or searching for them.”

In Ezekiel 34:7-16, Yahuah says He is against the shepherds not attending to the flock. Yahuah, then will seek the flock Himself, to bring them to the truth and to teach them the word.

 

Verse 7-9 ‘Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of Yahuah: “As I live,” declares the Master Yahuah, “because My flock became a prey, and My flock became food for every beast of the field, from not having a shepherd, and My shepherds did not search for My flock, but the shepherds fed themselves and did not feed My flock,” therefore, O shepherds, hear the word of Yahuah!

Verse 10 ‘Thus said the Master Yahuah, “See, I am against the shepherds, and shall require My flock at their hand, and shall make them cease feeding the sheep, and the shepherds shall feed themselves no more. And I shall deliver My flock from their mouths, and they shall no longer be food for them.”

Verse 11-16  ‘For thus said the Master Yahuah, “See, I Myself shall search for My sheep and seek them out. “As a shepherd seeks out his flock on the day he is among his scattered sheep, so I shall seek out My sheep and deliver them from all the places where they were scattered in a day of cloud and thick darkness. “And I shall bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the lands, and shall bring them to their own land. And I shall feed them on the mountains of Yisrael, in the valleys, and in all the dwellings of the land. “In good pasture I shall feed them, and their fold shall be on the high mountains of Yisrael. They shall lie there in a good fold and feed in rich pasture on the mountains of Yisrael. “I shall feed My flock and make them lie down,” declares the Master Yahuah. “I shall seek out the lost and bring back the strayed. And I shall bind up the broken and strengthen what was sick, but the fat and the strong I shall destroy. I shall feed them with right-ruling.”

Teachers today must spread the good news and teach the true word. Do not be deceived by man and his doctrine but teach only from Yah. The word is not complicated and not heavy as Yah made it easy to understand and to follow.