Ezequiel 34 does show that has to take over his flock when those who have called themselves pastors fail to care for them. I once had known of a young man who wrote a very disturbing note indicating he wanted to do physical harm to his legal guardians. His mother was caught off guard, not knowing he had so many disturbing thoughts, but it would have foolish to ignore those thoughts. His mother and her husband sought advice from a Baptist leader in the community rather than turn him over to the police since the problem seemed demonic and not consistent with his past behavior. Would tossing him out of the household improved his condition of alleviated his mother's fear that he would attack her spontaneously or in a planned offense? The fact is that tossing him out of the household would have aggravated his anger, putting all involved in even more danger.
The Baptist man was concerned and offered some of his time to speak with the couple he had presided over in their marriage ceremony, and no person involved ever found out why the young man had written such a threatening angry note. the young man stayed in his mother's home until her husband threw him out of the household because he believed the young man was lying about his mother. The mother cried during and after the confrontation between her husband and her son, but could not overrule what her husband demanded, namely that her son evacuate her household.
After the young man left the household, his mother was actually in more danger in a household with her husband's anger problems. Others had seen his temper flare up over some chickens and at events when his family did not align with him in the custody maters of his children, yet seemed unwilling to believe the mother was in more danger after her husband evicted her son.
What human plan was designed to cause the failure of the family? It could have been the plans made with the Baptist leader to join the couple in marriage. Would tossing the young man out of the family when he was hurt, confused and considering violence toward his mother and her husband have restored him to sanity or erupted even more anger in him?
I didn't use any names, but these events actually did occur in a family I had cared for intensely for many years. If my 'crying out' in what might seem to be anger and frustration after years of being intentionally isolated from family members I have wanted to be with has caused others to view me as failing , dangerous or cruel and harsh, continuing in the plan to isolate me from the family I want to be with will lead to more behavior some might view as the emotional collapse of a mother..... again. However, is crying out in writing a collapse and failure of a person or is completely losing the desire to be with family members who isolated a divorced mother from them a failure?
I suppose if the divorced mother loses her desire to be with the family members who thrust her out of their Christian circle it was because the plan to isolate her was a plan designed to cause failure ; such plan is very unlike the actions taken toward the young man who wrote frightening notes about violence toward his mother and her husband when some sort of past trauma was disturbing his typically reasonable demeanor. How many success stories are there after a divorce? How many success stories are there when a parent abandons a spouse and child to pursue another sexual partner? How many success stories are there when adult children refuse to spend time with one or both of their parents? How many success stories are there when a person quits trying various ways to get through to a person who has been very uncooperative and unresponsive to even very basic common lines of family questions?
How many success stories will there be when the events of Ezequiel 34 actually occur? Is it unreasonable risk to trust the name of יהוה after paid pastors referred to a 'shepherds' have not cared for those of us who got injured and tossed out of staged and profitable Christian societies with the expectation that the injured flock of ישראל stays far more than 6 feet away during the 7th month appointed rehabilitation times of יהוה? According to the lawfulness of יהוה , a wounded albeit clean animal cannot be appointed for slaughter when a sin offering has to be offered for atonement.
For 7th year students of logical word progression, H2339 is described as a rope or cord. A life preserver is usually attached to a cord so the person afloat in troubled waters can be pulled toward a lifeguard or good neighbor for follow-up care. A life preserver is not designed to fail and typically lasts longer than the rope attached to it. A life jacket is designed to keep a person afloat long after the water ski boat ropes have departed for a casino or toward harmful drug dealers.
Joshua 2:15 is not a smirking matter. Jericho failed because of blatant and open sin and immoral depravity, not because of the scarlet cord. "The rope hath gone after the bucket'. Why was that phrase an important communication from Rachel's son יסף to a father who has not been with him? Atlanta and other cities are failing due to revolts against lawfulness and such news was not good news from Mikell Clayton even though it is accurate news. Dangerous wicked people are not interested in expressing their thoughts with extremely safe chalk and instead cause real damage to flesh and property. G. Steven Simons rightly described the world as heaving in his 'No Mixture' presentation to assist the scattered flock, many of whom are actually injured.
The scarlet cord of the Thrashers jersey left Atlanta many years ago. Sidney Rice, Ronnie Bass and Mr. Notice wore South Carolina Gamecock scarlet in college. A garnet is also a scarlet color. The bracelets designed by Lucretia Garfield were scarlet and in rope form not designed to handcuff a reliable servant nor a lady mourning losses. A cord is not a scarlet worm.
The scarlet cord does not succeed only if a 'black life' is attached to it. The scarlet cord is blind as an umbilical cord. A thorny stem with or without a rose does not qualify as a scarlet cord.
I suppose some people might think what I wrote today or the editing I did to some recent posts was poisonous and unhealthy, but a few might have a more favorable opinion of my anti-violence anti-drug options during times of war on earth and possibly in heaven.
You should now proceed to Psalm 7 in my opinion while I observe the beautiful art work of my hospitable friend Richard H. Willer.
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