004 The Slaughter of the Shepherds

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Nigh. Welcome, Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to the program. We're your

host Jose and Matthew. Tonight we're going to talk about a very interesting topic

that, as far as I know, has been completely rejected by modern theologians.

And I don't mean a little bit. I don't mean it's regulated to

some deep dark corner at all. I mean period. I mean this is

a topic that God comes out very forcibly and talks about and clearly level threats.

But today's clergy completely and absolutely do not touch this with a ten foot

pole. So most people probably don't even know what I'm talking about when I

say that the slaughter of the shepherds that is coming, because I'm here to

tell you, ladies and gentlemen, your clergy they are accountable. Now,

I said that for a reason, this goes way beyond a pastor. It

takes a whole lot more than a pastor to run any church in any city,

in any state, it takes a whole lot more than that you have.

Of course, the board members. There's always a secretary that takes care

of all the finances. This is a quagmire. This is a literal Leviathan.

It's a seven headed dragon, to be sure. And it doesn't matter

what church you go to, what denomination, what city, what state,

it's done this way. There is a clergy behind every church. Jose,

what's your thoughts about that? Now? Before you ran across this ministry,

had you ever heard that there was going to be a slaughter of these shepherds,

that they were actually going to facilitate a very large, end time entity

group. Had you ever heard that before? No, Matthew. When it

comes to the specific chapter, we're going to cover all the all the study

and the and the preaching. I've heard about this chapter has all beginn has

all been about the beginning of the chapter, you know, the parts that

talk about this king of Babylon. I don't think I've ever heard anyone continue

to the end of the chapter and read about the slaughter of the shepherds,

because there's pretty specific, specific when it's going to happen. It's not very

forgiving of these shepherds, Matthew. We I mean we have read you know,

there's there's various chapters in the detail. There's you know, the Gospels

allude to it about how the standards that a shepherd is held to. But

boy, this Jeremiah twenty five. Let you know what the endgame is,

Matthew, And let you know what God has planned for these bad shepherds.

Yes, it does. And like I said, very forciately, and once

again we're going to have to deal with this issue that and this is another

thing we need to talk about out because anybody who might listen to this audio,

they're basically, if they're in the West, they're going to have to

be one of two things. They're either going to have to be a rapturist

or a prayerist. There really isn't any third option, is there, Jose

No. So with that being the case, ladies and gentlemen, you need

to know that this is what the Lord God himself says. I mean,

I can give you chapter in verses, but there's so many. God is

going to start the tribulation, that's how it starts. That's a shock to

most people's system. But if I don't tell you that right now, you're

not going to understand what's being said. And it's that simple. It's just

that simple. You need to understand that the Great Day of the Lord,

the sick seal event and Revelation that is not the perusia of Christ, and

it never was. The text makes itself perfectly clear. This is the Great

Day of Hugh who sitteth upon the throne. And if you don't, you

don't realize that before we start reading these verses, it is going to confuse

you. But look, ladies and gentlemen, this is what the Lord Jesus

Christ promised you. He promised you before the Great Tribulation there was going to

be birth pains. If you overlay Matthew chapter twenty four with Revelation chapter six,

it overlays perfectly, we are going to go through birth pains until the

Great Day of the Lord. And it's the Great Day of the Lord that

actually starts the Great Tribulation. And if you have never read these verses,

if somebody got you caught up in the prior verse, and I understand that,

I understand the great riddle posed by verse twenty six and Jeremiah chapter five,

the great riddle of Shi shock. That is an app bash cipher for

battlon and you need to know that, you need to know that God is

riddling it. To you. This is the Assyrian false prophet, the shishak

In of Babylon, and he is running lock stock and barrel everything and everybody.

So if you don't realize this, it's quite confusing, if you don't

understand what's going on that it's God that's orchestrating. Jose said it correctly on

the last broadcast we did. Isaiah is very clear about who the Lord acts.

He's very clear about that, and that's what is being described here.

So what's your thoughts before we get to reading this? What you read over

this once? What what stood out to you? I mean, just very

simple verses here, not not very many verses at all. What jumped out

at you? Yeah, I think you kind of hit it earlier, Matthew.

In verse thirty three, it starts, it starts off, and this

is by the Lord on that day, on that day that tribulation trigger that

stick seal event. This is this is what God's talking about. This is

not oh, this is not you know, mid trib This is not you

know, a post trip or anything. Like that, this is right.

This is how God kicks it off, and this is this is what happens

when it kicks off. So you're not giving much of a chance, Matthew

to realize what's going on. And all of a sudden we print because God,

God's here, He's stepped he's stepped foot on this earth, and he's

gonna set things right. And he's starting to here with these shepherds, Matthew,

who have been it's been their charge to lead his flock. That's that's

what they that's what He put them to do, and that's what they accepted.

And and they've been failing in that in that job. They've been leading

his flock astray. And like Jesus says in the in the Gospel of Matthew,

it would be better that a millston't be tied around the neck, and

they were thrown in the season, that they misled one of his little ones.

So that this is where God got tipped that straight. Boy, that's

one way to put it. This is where God sets it straight. That's

a good way to put it. I think I'm gonna jump right in here

and read this from the New American Standard Bible of ninety five update. As

is the mainstay of this ministry, Ladies and gentlemen, you might want to

get yourself a copy if you're going to be participating in this program. So

Garami, Chapter twenty five, starting in verse thirty three, those flame by

the Lord on that day will be from one end of the earth to the

other. They will not be lamented, gathered, or buried. They will

be like dung on the face of the ground. Wail you, shepherds,

and cry and wallow in ashes, you masters of the flock, for the

days of your slaughter and your dispersions have come, and you will fall like

a choice vessel. Flight will perish from the shepherds and escape from the masters

of the flock. Hear the sound of the cry of the shepherds and the

wailing of the masters of the flock, for the lou Lord is destroying their

pasture, and peaceful fools are made silent because of the fierce anger of the

Lord. He has left his hiding place like a lion, for their land

has become a horror because of the fierceness of the oppressing sword, and because

of his fierce anger. Oose your thoughts, boy, God can't be more

clear than what he gets said there, Matthew. And this should chill everyone

who's in any kind of shepherding position, whether that be a children's ministry,

whether that be administration in the church, any type of overseer role in the

church. I mean, we should be reading this every day, Matthew,

just the gentle reminder for what God is telling us, what the consequences of

us strain off the path our Matthew. So we can kind of tide us

in through what we're reading on Sunday, Matthew. If I take us back

to Matthew chapter three, where John the Baptist references Isaiah chapter forty, and

I go again to where he's talking to the Sparencies and the Sadducees, which

are the shepherds of the Jews in that time. And so he tells him,

you root of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath,

to come therefore bear fruit and keeping with repentance. Do not suppose you can

say to yourself, we have Abraham for our fathers. For I say to

you that from these stones God is able to raise up children to Abraham.

The axe is already laid at the root of the tree. Therefore every tree

that does not very good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

And that to me was a warning that John the baptiss was given giving those

shepherds Matthew, and of course the warning that he's given to all shepherds di

sence. And and again God repeats himself over and over. But he's really

being specific here and really putting the the shepherds on on point of what they're

supposed to be doing. They're supposed to be leading his flock. And that

doesn't mean that they're gonna be prosperous, that doesn't mean that they're gonna,

you know, have all these nice ideas. It means that they're they're they're

supposed to put themselves on the line, quite possibly sacrificing themselves for the flock

of God, because if they don't Matthew, if they take advantage, and

if they feed on his slock. This is what God told them, that

He's gonna do them. And you know who who would you hear amongst the

clergy that would admit this. I mean, I have barely heard any preachers

or teachers ever mentioned James chapter three, verse one. Let not many of

you become teachers, my brotherren, knowing that as such we will incur a

stricter judgment. They don't let the congregations know that, do they. Nope?

Nope, they absolutely do not want the congregations to know this. But

let's pull apart the particulars. Ladies and gentlemen. He started out verse thirty

three for the standard for a reason. You see, he's telling you that

the shepherds are illicitly he's not going to kill on that day. That's what

he come out and said. He said, now listen, because you're not

one of the ones that gets killed. Listen to what they do. They

well and cry and wallow in ashes. It says, for the days of

your slaughter and your dispersions have come, and you will fall like a choice

vessel. He doesn't kill him quick, does he, Jose, No,

Matthew. He promises them that they will be dispersed and they will fall by

selection. That's why it states a choice vessel. Ladies and gentlemen go to

the sixth seal event. What's the group he's talking about, Jose, There's

only one group he could be referencing here. If you go to the to

the text in question, Ladies and gentlemen, go to Revelation chapter six and

look for yourself. Go to the fifth seal. Go to the fifth seal.

These martyrs cry out and say, how long, o Lord, Holy

and True, will you refrain from judging and avenging our blood on those who

dwell on the earth? Verse eleven. And there was given to each of

them a white robe, and they were told that they should rest a little

while lumbered longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brethren who

were to be killed, even as they had been, would be completed.

Also, what's the next group, Ladies and gentlemen, you can't turn the

page into the book of Revelation from the great day of the now, Look

what did Jeremiah just say? On that great day? Everything stops and these

shepherds are singled out, and what happens they get numbered. If you were

wondering who the one hundred and forty four thousand was from Revelation Chap. Seven,

it's the shepherds, and they've been marked for death. We can absolutely

prove this because they're sealed. Because verse three of Revelation chapter seven says,

do not harm the earth or the sea or the trees. Until we have

sealed the bond servants of our God on their foreheads. They're marked for death.

Ladies and gentlemen, you can go to Revelation chapter twenty and find out

exactly what happens to them. It's very plain to the text what happens.

Go to Revelation chapter twenty, verse four. Then I saw thrones, and

then that settled them. Judgment was given to them. And I saw the

souls who had been beheaded because of their testimony of Jesus and because of the

word of God, and those who had not worshiped the Beast or his image,

and and not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand,

and they came to life and rad with Christ for a thousand years. Of

course, they couldn't take the mark of the beast. God had sealed them

on their foreheads. Correct. Whose correct? So when you realize this is

the rhyme to the reason, you're going to see it everywhere. If you

think that Jeremiah chapter twenty five is the only time he comes out and talks

about, you're seriously mistaken. Has anybody ever bothered to read Ezekiel chapter thirty

four, because he comes right out and gives massive details there. There is

no mistaking what God's intentions are. But it's just amazing that people won't follow

through with eschatology. It really does amaze me. It amazes me that they

will not follow suit with eschatology. If he said this and Jeremiah chapter twenty

five, you would think that it would behoove people to look for other instances

of that, don't you, Josey? Yes, they would, Matthew.

So why do you think they don't do it? It's just right now they're

caught up in a different doctrine that does repeats that. They're caught up in

one saved alway, save they're caught up in some form of justifying Antinomianism.

That's the only they wouldn't search it out, because it's very clearly here.

If I was the shepherd, Matthew, this would be a chapter that I

would I would be breaking down in the Hebrew and the Greek and trying to

figure out what God's trying to tell me, because he, like you said,

given us a warning. And if you don't take this to heart,

and you don't, if you don't, you know, drink of it and

eat of it every day, you're you're gonna you're gonna fall, fall,

fall to it, Matthew. There's just again that the the devil is aiming

at the shepherds and and he's gonna throw every temptation that you, just like

you threw all the temptations at Jesus. And so boy, it's a hard

it's a hard hell to climb, Matthew, to be a shepherd. And

so so like you said, they need to be really they need to be

looking. That's what they need to be studied. There's there's just if it's

there, there's salvation at that risk, Matthew, if they don't do that.

Because yeah, we know a large group of the shepherds are numbered,

but I guarantee you, Matthew, there's some that that that aren't gonna be

up to task and that and are not fieled, and you you don't want

to be in that group. You know what amazes me is what else God

says he himself is going to do on this day. And of course we

covered it last time with Isaiah chapter forty. He comes right out and tells

you what he himself is going to do. So it's not like the woman,

well, let's rephrase that it's not like the church, which according to

Romans chapter nine, verse eleven, is Israel. Yes, it is.

The church has nothing to worry about. The Church is going to be going

to be protected, going to be elevated physically. So, ladies and gentlemen,

you have to understand what's going on here. God steps in and just

like for the forty years in the wilderness, he is personally going to be

taking care of you. That is what Isaiah chapter forty said. Correct,

hose we did read it last week, yepes he did. So listen to

this, ladies and gentlemens. I read a little bit from Isegon chapter thirty

four, starting with the top of the chapter. Just listen, just listen.

He's going to tell you exactly what He's going to do. Then the

word of the Lord came to me, saying, son a man, the

PROPHESI against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy and say to those shepherds, says

the Lord God, woe shepherds of Israel, who have been feeding themselves.

Should not the shepherds feed the flock. You eat the fat and close yourselves

with wool. You slaughter the fat sheep without feeding the flock those who are

sickly. You not strengthened the disease. You have not healed the broken,

You have not bound up the scattered. You have not brought back, nor

have you sought the loss. But with force and with severity you have dominated

them. They were scattered for lack of a shepherd, and they became food

for every beast of the field. And were scattered. My flock wandered through

the mountains and on every high hill. My flock was scattered over the surface

of the earth, and there was no one to search or sink for them.

Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord. As I

live, declares the Lord. Surely, because my flock has become prey.

My flock has even become food for the beast of the field for lack of

a shepherd. And my shepherds did not search for my flock, but rather

the shepherds fed themselves and did not feed my flock. Therefore, you shepherds

hear the word of the Lord, that says the Lord God. Behold,

I am against the shepherds, and I will demand my sheep from them and

make them cease from feeding sheep. So the shepherds will not feed themselves anymore,

but I will deliver my flock from their mouth, so that they will

not be food for them. For them, said the Lord God Behold,

I myself will search for my sheep and seek them out as a shepherd cares

for his herd in the day when he is among his scattered sheep. So

I will take care of my sheep, and I will deliver them from all

the places which they were scattered on a cloudy and gloomy day. Now I

can keep reading. God just said he's going to do this. He's going

to get back and he's going to take all the congregations. He's going to

take the congregations from the clergy. Huge different phraseology here. He said he's

going to take his flocks from the shepherds. This is what he's going to

do. This is exactly what the Book of Revelation says. Well, it's

it's what everything says. Everything says this. Now, I mean, I

just have a flood of verses coming to my mind right now, and it

just reminds me of Ezekiel chapter twenty. And everybody's probably sitting there too,

like, what is Matthew talking about ladies and gentlemen. God describes again exactly

what he's going to do in Ezekiel chapter twenty, verses thirty three through forty

four. We don't have time to cover that. It's enough for you to

believe what I just read from Ezel chapter thirty four, and I could keep

going. He listen verse thirteen. I will continue. I will bring them

out from the people's and gather them from the countries and bring them to their

own land, and I will feed them on the mountains of Israel by the

streams, and then inhabited places of the land. I will feed them in

a good pasture, and their grazing gown will be their grazing ground will be

on the mountains of heights of Israel. They will lie down in good grazing

ground and feed in Okay, Jose, was there a question about who he

was talking about? No, there wasn't the Matthew. The think we said

that he's gonna put throw Shepherd out of a job. He's gonna come down

and do it himself. And it's no secret when he's done this before.

He How is it that the church has amnesia from the forty years of wandering

in the wilderness. It blows me away. How they have amnesia? Ladies

and gentlemen, God did this very He was there for it. Look,

this wasn't just at the Red Sea crossing. Ladies and gentlemen. The pillar

of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night was there for forty

years. Hose how long did they eat mena old the whole time they were

there? Matthew, I don't understand why this is it preached from all the

pulpits because God literally says in Revelation chapter fourteen, this is exactly what He's

going to do with his with the woman with the bride. This passage is

referring to the church as a flock. Revelation chapter twelve states illicitly there's birth

pains, and during the birth pains, she flees into the wilderness, and

then an event happens and she is taken to a place prepared for her by

God. Ladies and gentlemen, did you not hear what I just said?

What I just read? Did not God just say, Jose, how He's

going to prepare a place for you? Yes? He did? I mean,

is that not exactly what he said? Yeah's exactly what he said in

Isaiah forty Matthew, like a shepherd. He will attend and slock in his

arm. He will gather the lamb and carry them in his bosom. He

will gently lead the nursing ews. You know, give us some commentary,

jose Well, Matthew, I think I think that when we go back to

Revelation twelve, it comes to that that we use to to discuss these antime

entities. And we've discussed how you have the male child that's taken up to

heaven, and that tells us about Revelations fourteen, and various chapters in the

Old Testament tells us that this this group is called the Musha. Those are

the ones that are replacing the heavenly hosts that fall with Satan. And we're

told about the woman that's taken to a place prepared. That's who this These

shepherd are both to be taken care of, but they're not doing their jobs.

So God has to step in and take care of that woman himself.

Shepherd, shepherd his flock. You know this is sometimes just heard too sometimes

just for to have the techno epigelia right. That children of the promise,

those that that have given, those that God has given his promises to and

he will fulfill those promises. But also in Revelations chapter twelve, you have

what's described as the rest of her children, and we're told that the dragon

goes after them. We're told that they have to endure until the end.

And then from there we jump right into Revelations chapter thirteen, wherefore we see

what happened to them, because, like you said, Matthew, they've been

sealed by God. But for whatever reason, they were knuckleheads, they fell

into whatever whatever reason is they at that point in time, on that great

day when the Lord kicks off the stick deal, they were not where they

should be. They were not doing what they should be doing, and so

therefore they have to endure the tribulation. And we're told in Revelation thirteen that

what that is that they do hold of the law and they do hold of

the testimony, and because of that they have to lose their head. They're

killed by the beast, and of course they have a reward because of that,

because they've been sealed by God, and because they do not worship the

beast the image of the beast, they do not take the mark. They

have their reward in Revelations chapter twenty. You know, Matthew, that's that's

not that's not the group you want to be in, Matthew. That's that's

what's severe tempting that faith. Our faith is going to be tempted in those

ten days before we're taking to a place that's been prepared and the woman is

going to be tested in the wilderness. There's there's still a process that has

to go through coors rebellion that has to occur in the wilderness. But boy,

Matthew, those that those that have to endure the tribulation, those that

have to give up their life for the law and the testimony, Matthew,

that that's just not where you want to be in these end times. You

know, it bags the question. I mean, I understand that you referred

to it as a reward, and certainly ruling and reigning with Christ is a

reward, right or is it a job? It is a job also happening,

absolutely, so, I mean we know that the church, every tear

is going to be wipe from our eye, right, yes, but I

have no more worries anymore, right, correct? You do realize that's diametrically

opposed to the aspect of ruling and reigning. They're not anywhere similar. And

it amazes me how people don't get that, It really does. It amazes

me how people do not get that. But ladies, the church gets to

be the bride of Christ, this group that we're talking about, they don't,

do you understand? They're the ones that create the atmosphere that we enjoy

the marriage supper of the Lamb. This is this is common knowledge. I

mean, is that not common knowledge that when we enter the kingdom of EVM

it's supposed to be bliss right right, Matthew. There I hear a lot

of Christian commentators and when they start discussing this, I just can't help I

mean, I can't help but saying, but think in my head that how

how could you say that the bridegroom is going to put the bride to work

when they say stuff like we are going to rule and ring with Christ.

If you're the bride, Matthew, the bridegroom is not going to put you

to work. You're gonna enjoy. You're there for for his employment and his

love. So it's just it creates a conundrum when you you corner clergy with

with these with these conundrums, it amazes me that the sometimes dead, you

know, look in the eye that you get like they have no idea what

you're talking about. Well, what are you talking about? So you know,

if you have a degree to be in that pulpit, you're telling me

you've never read Jeremiah or Ezekiel. How could you not know of the slaughter

of the shepherds, Because well, I appreciate you have that master's degree.

It's referring to you, and it it just shows me. It shocks me

that people do not know this. They don't even understand why it's happening.

And to me, there's absolutely no excuse for not knowing. I mean,

don't many many many Christians say that they read through the Bible every year?

Yep. Do they even have apps for that? Matthew? That people you

now? I mean, I don't know. It's just it's just bothersome to

me that people just they're disconnected from these realities. I mean, we can

jump over there real quick and read it, because it's just it's just pounding

this this hole in my head. I just can't can't get away from it.

So listen very carefully, ladies, gentlemen, does this sound like you're

reigning and ruling. Is this what this says? Okay? Verse three,

Revelation, chapter twenty one. And I heard a loud voice from the throne

saying, the Tabernacle of God is among men, and he will dwell among

them, and they shabell his people, and God himself will be among them,

and he will wipe every tear from their eyes. And there will be

no longer any death. There will no longer be any mourning or crying or

pain. The first things have passed away. I don't understand how administration of

the whole planet could equate to that. I just I don't get it.

It's obvious that he is speaking about two different groups here. I mean,

it even states in verse six of Revelation, chapter twenty it says, Blessed

than Holy is the one who has part in the first resurrection over these the

second death. There's no power, but they will be priest of God and

of Christ and will reign with him for a thousand years. Hold they Does

it sound like they're married to him? No, that's not what he said.

That's not what he said at all. I mean, I don't ladies

and gentlemen, It does not take a rocket scientist to figure this out.

This group that gets numbered in Revelation chapter seven, they're beheaded because they can't

take the mark of the beast. It's obviously they are not the bride.

You can't be a priest and a bride at the same time. So you

know, once you start having this conversation with people and you start just showing

them some elementary passages relating to this, they're like, oh, my goodness,

how could this be an entire group? And I don't know about it.

I don't know you you obviously never read at least Jeremiah chapter twenty five,

because Jeremiah chapter twenty five even comes out and tells you who the beast

is by the at Bash stiper. It calls him Shishak. That is an

at Bas cipher. It's a substitution cipher where you substitute the first for the

last. You substitute the last for the first, So you take the first

letter of the Hebrew alphabet and swap it with the last letter in the Hebrew

alphabet. It's an at Bat sipher. So you know, these couple of

chapters that we've covered, You know, I certainly didn't read all the verses

from is it your chapter thirty four? But oh my goodness, it is

plain, isn't it, Jose? Is he not making himself perfectly clear?

Yeah? He is, Matthew. Absolutely, Can I read from one Peter

Chapter five, He's got some interesting things here to say about shepherds. Absolutely

so from verse one, Therefore, I exhort the elders among you, as

your fellow elder and witness of the sufferings of Christ, and a partaker also

of the glory that is to be revealed, shepherd the flock of God among

you, exercising oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily according to the will

of God, and not persordid gain, but its eagerness, nor yet assarding

it over those allotted to your charge, but proving to be examples to the

flock. And when the chief shepherd appears, you will receive the unsating crown

of glory. And I'm going to jump down the verse six. Therefore,

humble yourself under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you at

the proper time, casting all your anxiety on him, because He cares for

you. Be a sober spirit, Be on alert your adversary. The devil

crowds around like a roaring lion seeking someone to devour, but resist. Confirm

in your face, knowing that the same experiences of suffering are being accomplished by

your brethren who are in the world after you have suffered for a little while.

The God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in

Christ wild himself perfect, Confirm, strengthen, and establish you can him be

dominion forever and ever. Amen, Matthew. If that doesn't sound like Revelations

chapter twelve and the Revelation chapter twenty, I don't know what does. You

certainly are right about that, but people's probably never read those verses in that

context. They've never read it in that context. Having well, if they've

at least read Jeremiah chapter twenty five or Ezekiel chapter thirty four, either they

didn't understand it or they just blew right through it. And I don't see

how the Holy Spirit would lead someone to let that just go over their heads,

do you, no, Matthew. He's supposed to be there to comfort

and edify us. Yes, And if that's not happening, then then you're

not You're not fulfilling what was in the initial verses there of verse Peter five.

So once people see that this is facilitating a major function in the Kingdom

of Heaven, it really will get your gears turning in a different way.

And you know, going back, there's something I wanted to bring up.

Let me jump back over there. I uh, I seen it, and

I didn't say anything when I read it, And now I'm gonna lost my

place. I was, ah, present some commentary, Why I get this

straightened out? Please? Sure? So when I read verse Peter, chapter

five, I'm reading this of God telling the elders what they're supposed to be

doing. And so again, and that's your warning, that's God giving you

your marching orders. This is how a shepherd is supposed to act. And

yeah, we're going to face tribulation in this world. Now there are even

shepherds that are martyred now. But to me, from verse six through eleven,

it's very clearly God again emphasizing what's going to happen in the end time

after that great day. These are going to be those shepherds that don't leave

their flock that God got to come down himself and lead their flock. And

so you're you're you're talking about that the devil here prowling like a warring lion.

In Revelation twelve, we're told about the dragon seeking to devour the rest

of her children. I mean, we're very clearly verses ten and eleven he's

talking about when when he raises these martyrs, those that are talked about in

the fifth steal. Right, So after the rest of your brother that number

of the rest of your brethren are accomplished, That's who this is talking about.

And now God raises that group, strengthens him and established him to rule

with him, to be that dominion forever and ever that we're told about in

Revelation chapter twenty. So to me, you're getting two sides of the same

coin. Here in First Perio chapter five, you're getting the warning, and

then you're also being told when you miss that warning that you still need to

endure. A lot of the shepherds, I know, even though they may

not be leaving their flock correctly, they may be in then that matter.

They've been through seminary, they've studied their Bible, they probably grew up in

church. These shepherds are not ignorant of the word, they're just choosing to

ignore it. And so all of that is going to hit them once they

realize that God's word is true and everything that he said is going to happen

is true, and it's happening exactly the way he laid it out in his

word, and they just missed the bus. And so now they have to

endure the beast. They have to endure the events of Revelations chapter thirteen.

They have to humble thoselves and they have to endure. So, boy,

I read One Peter five many times, but this is the first time that

I'm reading it in this context. And again, it's beautiful. It's it's

overwhelming, isn't it. It is, Matthew, because once absolutely, once

you see it, you can't escape it, can you. Nope. I

mean it's just like when I tell people that, by the way, Firstsalonians

chapter five comes out and tells you exactly what's going to happen, they don't

see it until I showed them, and they're like, well, that can't

be right. Well, yeah, that's what he states. That's what it

says. You know what blows me away that people. Look, let's go

back to Ezekiel chapter thirty four, Ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to read

it again. Verse eight. But he's going to say something that should trigger

a remembrance or in you, because this is one of the most important phrases

in the history of mankind that's really made God mad, really made him mad.

Verse eight. As I live, declares the Lord, surely, because

my flock has become pray. Uh oh, let's go back to numbers fourteen.

Does anybody remember that verse three? And wherefore hath the Lord brought us

into this land to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children

should become pray wear it not better for us to return to Egypt. Deuteronomy,

chapter one, verse thirty nine. Moreover, your little ones, which

you said would be his prey, and your children, which in that day

had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither and to

them I will give it and they shall possess it. So when I was

reading that, if you didn't catch auto, that's what God was saying,

that the shepherds had done to his church. This is one of the worst

things that anyone has ever said that made God mad. Whenever the children of

Israel said our children will become pray and he used the same phraseology here towards

the shepherds, and you should know in your heart that means it's endgame for

somebody, and that somebody is detailed Ezekiel thirty four. In Jeremiah twenty five,

it is the shepherds, and they are duly marked for death. You

know, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out. If you go

back to the inception, who was counted at the beginning of numbers? It

amazes me. It was all the look numbers and chapter one. Then the

Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai in the tint of meeting in

the first of the second month and the second year, after they had come

up from the land of Egypt, saying, take instant of all the congregation

of the sons of Israel, by their families, by their father's households,

according to the number of names, every male, head by head. So

when the Book of Revelations starts numbering people, and it's very clear from numbers

chapter one, what's going on, ladies and gentlemen, who's being numbered at

the beginning of the tribulation is the same exact group. It's all the leaders,

and multiple prophetic chapters tell you exactly who it is. It's the shepherds.

There's going to be a slaughter of the shepherds. They do not get

taken to a place that's prepared. They're marked for death. I mean,

he made himself perfectly clear in all the narratives that we read. He's going

to take his flock, right, jose Yes, and the shepherds he hammers

them out. That's plain what he was saying. That's plain what he meant.

So if these bullet points are not on your end time timeline, you

need to rethink your eschatology. And as a reminder, this ministry is neither

rapturist nor preyerist. We cannot possibly give you our entire eschatological viewpoint in a

few short minutes. But if you didn't know the slaughter of the shepherds was

coming, now you do. On the day of the Lord, it's going

to be a bad day for the clergy. I don't care what church you're

in. So we're talking about the Presbyterians, the Baptist, the Wesleyans,

the Methodist, Lotti Dottie, everybody, the Catholics, the Orthodox, all

of God's Sheep, all of God's Church, and all of the clergy is

in for a very bad day because the aforementioned reasons that God himself gave.

I don't need to in commentary on what God himself said. He gave you

a list as to why he was doing this to the clergy. One thing

is for sure. Jeremiah chapter twenty five made it perfectly clear that they were

going to be willing because he didn't exterminate him with everybody else that he destroys

when he comes. You know, Jose, get back to Jeremiah chapter twenty

five, and this time you read it. It's not very long, just

a few short verses start from verse thirty three. And this time, ladies

and gentlemen, let us sink in the clergy don't get to die. Read

it for us, Jose. All right, those put to death by the

Lord on that day will be from one end of the earth to the other.

They will not be mourned, gathered, or buried. They will be

like done on the fates of the ground. Wail you shepherds, and cry

out wallow in the dust, you masters of the flock, for the days

of your slaughter and your dispersions have come, and you will fall like a

precious vessel. There will be no sanctuary for the shepherds, nor escape for

the masters of the flock. Hear the sound of the cry of the shepherds

and the wailing of the masters of the flock, for the Lord is destroying

their pasture, and the peaceful grazing places are devastated because of the fierce anger

of the Lord. He has left his hiding place like the lion, for

their land has become a horror because of the fierceness of the oppressing sword,

and because of his fierce anger. You put that in context, ladies and

gentlemen, and everything makes sense. You have to you have to categorically establish

the end time entities and know this in your heart. The shepherds are marked

for death, and they are slaughtered because there's nowhere to run from. The

beast is their jose, No, there is it, Matthew. Can you

can you hide from an angel? Jose? No, servant. Is it

not true that if you do not take the mark of the beast, what

happens you will lose your head? Period? That's what God word says,

right, there's no escaping. Look, we're not talking about just the beast,

Ladies and gentlemen. It clearly states in multiple occasions and it also stated

it in Isaiah chapter forty one third of the angels are gonna be here.

Maybe you can evade one How on earth do you contemplate in your mind you're

going to be able to evade one third of the entire host of heaven.

And God just gave intimate details about what He's going to do to the clergy,

because I assure you I've been to midnight Mass many times. I have

the secret access code to synagogues. I've been to Baptist churches, I've been

to Lutherans, and I'm here to tell you every single place that i went,

no matter what the building was, I found Christians there in every single

one of them. And the ones who have divided us and fed off of

us, have taken our tithed and done whatever their want and pleasures was.

They're going to be marked for death. It's their fault that we've been divided.

It was always the clergy's fault. If you think that just because you're

a let's say, a Pentecostal, if you actually think that you couldn't go

to a place where many Catholics were gathered and just open up a conversation and

not mention the word Catholic and not mention the word Protestant, and talk with

him. Hey, do you follow the ten Commandments? Hey? Do you

believe in the Lord Jesus Christ? Hey, and you have this conversation with

him, guess what You're going to find out? That God's flock is everywhere,

and it is the shepherds that has divided them and conquered them and butchered

them to nothing. And God just told you in multiple chapters what he's going

to do about it. And the Lord seems out he's God. I assure

you that is what's going to happen. Jose, you're closing comments, Please

no, Matthew. I think it's it's detrimentally important to shepherds of any kind

to reread these verses and to understand these chapters, understand what they're actually signing

up for. Much better for you to be in the flock and to be

that woman that's taken to a place prepared, because if you're if you're one

of those shepherds, boy, there's there's just so many words that that God

tells us that's gonna happen to us if we don't know what we're supposed to

be doing, Matthew, And so I exhort the listener to pray for their

shepherds, whether that, whatever clergy, whatever church you attend, pray for

them. Exhort the Lord to be with them, Exhort the Lord to lead

them, because if they don't do their job and the Lord's got to replace

them and take their flock, it's going to be a rough, rough time

for them in that great day. So that those are kind of my closing

thoughts, Matthew, God doesn't mess around. God tells us what he's going

to do. He tells us over and over, and he makes it and

he makes it clear. So I just pray for the shepherds out there,

and I pray that they listen to God's word. I'm not done yet.

Can you go to Revelation chapter twelve and read verse seventeen for me? Please?

Yes, they can. So the dragon was enraged with the woman and

went off to make war with the rest of her children, who keep the

commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus. So now you know

the shepherds have a name. Now they're designated as the rest of her children.

Let's go to Isaiah chapter twenty six, and verse seventeen. As a

pregnant woman approaches the time to give birth, she rises and cries out in

her labor pains. Thus we were before you, Lord, We were pregnant,

we writhed in labor, we gave birth. It seems only to win.

We could not accomplish deliverance for the earth, nor were the inhabitants of

the world born. Now the next first it begins to talk about the rest

of her children. Your dead will live, their corpses will rise you,

who lie in the dust, awake and shout for joy, for your do

is as the do at the dawn, and the earth will give birth to

departed spirits. So the rest of her children is those of the first Resurrection

from Revelation chapter twenty. So now you can lay hold to one of these

in time entities, ladies and gentlemen. It is referred to as the rest

of her children. They are referred to as the shepherds, and they will

be slaughtered. It's referred to as the first group of the one and forty

four thousand. Revelation chapter seven and Revelation chapter fourteen is talking about two different

groups. It's not the same group of one hundred and forty four thousand.

But right here Isaiah chapter twenty six was very blunt. It's said that one

group was going to be children, much like God talked about in Deuteronomy chapter

one, and the rest of the children are the clergy. So I hope

you've learned something. I truly hope you've been Edifiedjse. Can you take us

out in prayer? Please? Yes, I can you're have any Father,

I thank you again for allowing us the time to gather. Lord. There's

much worries of the world, much responsibilities, and much duties that we have,

but we are eternally grateful that you've set aside time for us to gather

together at the study your word. Father. Today I pray for the family

of my friend. They have lost him. He has passed away, Lord,

and I just asked that they remember the love that he shared with everyone

around him, and that they are reminded that that love comes from you and

from your Son and from the Holy Spirit. Father. Please let this time

be it time to gather more people to you, Lord, that in their

morning they may be blessed by your Holy Spirit. And I asked this in

the name of your Son, my Lord and Savior. Jesus Christ. Amen,

Amen and Amen un till next time, ladies and gentlemen, God bless,

God speed. Thank you for listening to Marinath the Ministries with Matthew Miller.

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