Preachers, Teachers & Shephards
Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and 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?
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INTRODUCTION:
The purpose of this page is to show, with Scriptural references, that preachers and teachers (also known as shephards in Scripture) are held to a much higher standard and are going to be judged quite severely in the end of days.
SCRIPTURE REFERENCES:
21"For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered." (KJV)
22"The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness." (KJV)
1"Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD." (KJV)
2"Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the LORD." (KJV)
3"And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase. " (KJV)
4"And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, saith the LORD." (KJV)
11"For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD." (KJV)
12"Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the LORD." (KJV)
13"And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err." (KJV)
14"I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness; they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah. " (KJV)
6'My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace. ' (KJV)