FEED MY SHEEP!            DO 233            2/73

         1. We got this rebuke from the Lord just before the "Birthday Warning". Most of us are doing better now, but SOME WILL ALWAYS NEED IT:
         2. (Ezekiel 34:) "AND THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME UNTO ME, SAYING, SON OF MAN, PROPHESY AGAINST THE SHEPHERDS OF ISRAEL, prophesy & say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God unto the shepherds; WOE BE TO THE SHEPHERDS OF ISRAEL THAT DO FEED THEMSELVES! SHOULD NOT THE SHEPHERDS FEED THE FLOCKS?--SHOULD YE NOT PRINT FOR THEM THE MO LETTERS?
         3. "Ye eat the fat, & ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock.--BECAUSE YE PRINT NOT THE MO LETTERS.
         4. "The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force & with cruelty have ye ruled them.--AND YE HAVE NOT GIVEN THEM THE MO LETTERS.
         5. "And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd: & they became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered.--BECAUSE YE DID NOT PUBLISH THE MO LETTERS.
         6. "My sheep wandered through all the mountains, & upon every high hill: Yea, My flock was scattered upon all the face of the Earth, & none did search or seek after them.--FOR YE DID NOT GIVE THEM THE LORD'S LETTERS.
         7. "Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the Word of the Lord; As I live, saith the Lord God, surely because My flock became a prey, & My flock became meat to every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did My shepherds search for My flock, but THE SHEPHERDS FED THEMSELVES, & FED NOT MY FLOCK.--BECAUSE THEY DID NOT PUBLISH THE MO LETTERS. Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the Word of the Lord.
         8. "Thus saith the Lord God; behold, I am against the shepherds; & I will require My flock at their hand, & cause them to cease from feeding the flock; NEITHER SHALL THE SHEPHERDS FEED THEMSELVES ANY MORE; FOR I WILL DELIVER MY FLOCK FROM THEIR MOUTH, that they may not be meat for them.--BECAUSE THEY DID NOT GIVE THEM MY LETTERS.
         9. "For thus saith the Lord God; behold, I, even I, will both search My sheep, & seek them out AND GIVE THEM MY LETTERS. As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out My sheep, & will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy & dark day.--BECAUSE THEY WERE NOT GIVEN THE MO LETTERS.--AND I MYSELF WILL PUBLISH MY LETTERS.
         10. "And I will bring them out from the people, & gather them from the countries, & will bring them to their own land, & feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers, & in all the inhabited places of the country.--And I will feed them My Words.
         11. "I will feed them in a good pasture, & upon the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be; there shall they lie in a good fold, & in a fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel.--AND THEY SHALL HAVE THE MO LETTERS.
         12. "I will feed My flock, & I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord God.--AND I WILL GIVE THEM MY LETTERS.
         13. "I will seek that which was lost, & bring again that which was driven away, & will bind up that which was broken, & will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat & the strong; I will feed them with judgement.--BECAUSE THEY PUBLISHED NOT THE MO LETTERS.
         14. "And as for you, O My flock, thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I judge between cattle & cattle, between the rams & the he goats.
         15. "Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures? And to have drunk of the deep waters, but ye must foul the residue with your feet?--BECAUSE YE KEPT FROM THEM THE LORD'S LETTERS.
         16. "Therefore thus saith the Lord God unto them; Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat cattle & between the lean cattle. Because ye have thrust with side & with shoulder, & pushed all the diseased with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad.--BECAUSE YE GAVE THEM NOT THE MO LETTERS.
         17. "Therefore I will save My flock, & they shall no more be a prey; & I will judge between cattle & cattle.
         18. "And I will set up one shepherd over them, & he shall feed them, even My servant David; he shall feed them, & he shall be their shepherd.--And HE SHALL GIVE THEM THE MO LETTERS. And I the Lord will be their God, & My servant David a prince among them; I the Lord have spoken it.
         19. "And I will make with them a covenant of peace, & will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: & they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, & sleep in the woods.
         20. "And I will make them & the places round about My hill a blessing; & I will cause the shower to come down in his season; THERE SHALL BE SHOWERS OF BLESSING.
         21. "And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, & the Earth shall yield her increase, & they shall be safe in their land, & shall know that I am the Lord, when I have broken the bands of their yoke, & delivered them out of the hand of those that served themselves of them.
         22. "And they shall no more be a prey to the heathen, neither shall the beast of the land devour them; but they shall dwell safely, & none shall make them afraid.
         23. "And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, & they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen any more.
         24. "Thus shall they know that I the Lord their God am with them, & that they, even the house of Israel, are My people, saith the Lord God.
         25. "And ye My flock, the flock of My pasture, are men, & I am your God, saith the Lord God."

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