Today,
reply is on those who are the flock and sheep of Jesus Christ. The
many multitudes that have received atonement, forgiveness, and
reconciliation to divinity through the ministries of Jesus Christ
include those in covenant with GOD from the days of Adam, the
Patriarchs, the tribes of Jacob in Canaan, and the developing
believers of the present age. As members of his body and his fruit
from many cultures, languages, places and times, those who will be
the harvest of Christ at his appearing will display great diversity
as well as oneness without sameness. All these will
come together for sacred service and worship within the holy city,
the New Jerusalem. One of the fighters
in the “Yahoo! Answers” public forum on Religion and Spirituality
who uses the ID “Anonymous” (no profile information shared)
posted the following:
What
does it mean to be Jesus' sheep?
Matthew
25:35-46 has Jesus telling Christians to feed his sheep.
Who
are Jesus' sheep?
Are
Jesus' sheep those who are loyal to Jesus and his God Jehovah?
Are
Jesus' sheep those who do not know Jesus or Jehovah?
Who
and what are Christian's supposed to feed?
THE
GOLDEN ARROW: They are not of the world, even as I am not of the
world. Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. As thou
hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the
world. And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might
be sanctified through the truth. Neither pray I for these alone, but
for them also which shall believe on me through their word; That
they all may be one; as thou, Father, art
in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the
world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou
gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are
one: I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in
one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast
loved them, as thou hast loved me. (John 17: 16-23, King James
Version, KJV)
THE
DOUBLE DAGGER: According To Divine Purpose (06/09/2019); On
Diversity and Equality (05/22/2018); From Glory to Glory
(11/14/2017); Will There Be Diversity? (10/22/2017); My Sheep Hear My
Voice (11/16/2016); Sheep of His Pasture (09/09/2016); The Sheep Who
Lost Their Way? (11/18/2014); Restoring The Lost? (11/19/2014)
“Anonymous”,
in the same way Jacob maintained the flocks of Laban, his father
in-law, and had to develop his own separate flock, Christian
believers understand that divinity appeared Incarnate on the earth as
Jesus Christ (the Son) to gather and maintain the scattered flocks of
the Father in heaven, and has developed his own separate flocks
through sacred works of atonement, spiritual adoption, inheritance,
rebirth, and new creation.
Consider again the following that uses language from the Bible:
1.
Ezekiel 34: 11-17, King James Version (KJV): 11 For thus saith the
Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, will both
search my sheep, and seek them out. 12 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, and will deliver them out of
all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
13 And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from
the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and feed them
upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited
places of the country. 14 I will feed them in a good pasture, and
upon the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be: there shall
they lie in a good fold, and in a fat pasture shall they feed
upon the mountains of Israel. 15 I will feed my flock, and I will
cause them to lie down, saith the Lord GOD. 16 I
will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven
away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will
strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the
strong; I will feed them with judgment. 17 And as for you, O
my flock, thus saith the Lord GOD;
Behold, I judge between cattle and cattle, between the rams and the
he goats.
2.
Ezekiel 34: 26-31, KJV: 26 And I will make them and the places
round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come
down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing. 27 And the
tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall yield
her increase, and they shall be safe in their land, and shall know
that I am the LORD, when I have broken the
bands of their yoke, and delivered them out of the hand of those that
served themselves of them. 28 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, and none shall make them afraid. 29
And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no
more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the
heathen any more. 30 Thus shall they know that I the LORD
their God am with them, and that they, even the
house of Israel, are my people, saith the Lord GOD.
31 And ye my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men, and
I am your God, saith the Lord GOD.
There
is far more that should be said, correctly examined, and spiritually
apprehended. (For example, 3. 1st
Peter 5: 2-4, KJV: 2 Feed the flock of God which is among you,
taking the oversight thereof,
not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a
ready mind; 3 Neither as being lords over God’s
heritage, but being examples to the flock. 4 And when the chief
Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth
not away.) Even so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be
it unto you according to your faith.
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