And ye My flock, the flock of My pasture, who have derived all their spiritual food and strength from the Lord alone, are men, enrolled under His banner and standing up for the truth of His Gospel, and I am your God, saith the Lord God. This is the preliminary restoration of tile Garden of Eden, in the Church of Christ here on earth, the full consummation and glory being reserved for the Church Triumphant.
Verse Ezekiel 34:31. _AND YE MY FLOCK_] That is, under the allegory of a _flock_ of _sheep_, I point out _men_; under that of a _pasture_, my _Church_, and under that of a _shepherd_, the _Messiah_,...
Yahweh having promised to be a Ruler of His people, the administration of the divine kingdom is now described, as carried on by One King, the representative of David, whose dominion should fulfill all...
Ezekiel 34:1. The shepherds of Israel were the kings and princes and all who had authority over them. The prophet Jeremiah had received a similar message Jeremiah 23:1. These shepherds of Israel were...
In the coming days, while Yahweh will indeed be chief Shepherd, there will still be an earthly shepherd, to correspond to the old order of evil shepherds: in plain words, the monarchy will continue, b...
FLOCK. The 1611 edition of the Authorized Version omitted these two words "flock, the". ARE. ye [are] MEN. Hebrew. _adam_, App-14. I: i.e. human beings, not "sheep", as spoken of in this chapter. Y...
_ye my flock … are men_ Omit "are men" with LXX. and read: _and ye are my flock … pasture, and I am your God_....
AND YE, MY FLOCK, &C.— These words at the close of the chapter, explain the metaphor which runs through the whole: that which was said of a flock and its shepherd, is to be understood of men and their...
C. The Future Shepherd 34:23-31 TRANSLATION (23) And I will raise up over them one shepherd, and he shall feed them, even My servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd. (24) An...
And ye my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, saith the Lord GOD. YE MY FLOCK, THE FLOCK OF MY PASTURE, ARE MEN - not merely an explanation of the image, as Jerome represent...
THE NEW ISRAEL (EZEKIEL 33-48) So long as the Jewish kingdom remained in existence Ezekiel's prophecies (those in Ezekiel 1-24) dealt almost exclusively with the nation's sin, and with the certainty o...
EZEKIEL: “THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM GOD” GOD’S PLANS FOR *ISRAEL AND THE NATIONS EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 25 TO 39 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 34 THE FALSE *SHEPHERDS OF *ISRAEL – EZEKIEL 34:1-10 v1
THE FLOCK OF MY PASTURE. — The chapter closes with the strongest and tenderest assurance that the object of its figurative language is to point out the renewed and close communion which is to come abo...
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THE MESSIANIC KINGDOM Ezekiel 34:1 The term "Messianic" as commonly applied to Old Testament prophecy bears two different senses, a wider and a narrower. In its wider use it is almost equivalent to t...
“SHOWERS OF BLESSING” Ezekiel 34:17-31 Though God now often seems to make no difference between the oppressors and the oppressed, the time is fast coming when He will make momentous and lasting dist...
The next prophecy dealt ultimately with the one Shepherd. It opened with an indictment of the false shepherds through whom all these evil things had happened to the people. Their sin had been that the...
_Men. What has been said of sheep (Menochius) relates to you. --- Am the Lord. This is not in Hebrew or Protestants. (Haydock) --- But it is found in one Hebrew manuscript and Septuagint, as this vers...
That there might be no possible mistake made by the Church, from this preaching of the Prophet, he is directed in the close of his sermon to drop the figure, both of the shepherd and the sheep, and in...
REFLECTIONS OH! ye shepherds in the fold of Christ's Church by whatever name or rank ye are distinguished among men; here read the solemn declarations of the Lord, and behold the awful and tremendous...
_THE STRAY SHEEP_ ‘And ye My sheep, the sheep of My pasture, are men, and I am your God, saith the Lord God.’ Ezekiel 34:31 I. I HAVE LITTLE DOUBT THAT WHEN YOU READ IN THIS BOOK OF THE SHEPHERDS W...
The end of Jeremiah has given us an account of the fulfilment of Ezekiel's words; but all these judgments give room for the intervention of God in behalf of His people by means of sovereign grace acco...
AND YE MY FLOCK, THE FLOCK OF MY PASTURE, ARE MEN,.... This is observed, to show that all that had been said in this chapter concerning sheep, and a flock of sheep, was to be understood, not in a lite...
And ye my flock, the flock of my pasture, [are] men, [and] I [am] your God, saith the Lord GOD. Ver. 31. And ye my flock … are men.] Sheep ye are, but rational sheep, having your spiritual "senses ha...
_And ye my flock, &c., are men_ These words at the conclusion of the chapter, explain the metaphor which runs through the whole of it; namely, that what was said of a flock and its shepherds, is to be...
17-31 The whole nation seemed to be the Lord's flock, yet they were very different characters; but he knew how to distinguish between them. By good pastures and deep waters, are meant the pure word o...
Now, that neither you nor any else mistake the allegory, note, saith God, this flock of my pasture are not sheep literally, but they are men expressed by this emblem, and these men are those I am a Go...
Ezekiel 34:31 You H859 flock H6629 flock H6629 pasture H4830 men H120 God H430 says H5002 (H8803) Lord...
The former part of the chapter contains a prophetic denunciation against the evil shepherds, the men who fed not the flocks, but fed themselves, who fouled, with their filthy feet, the waters where th...
CONTENTS: Message to the faithless shepherds of Israel. Promise of restoration of Israel, and setting up of the kingdom. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel. CONCLUSION: Those will have a great deal to answer...
Ezekiel 34:2. _Woe to the shepherds of Israel._ The character of the pastors which follow, distinguishes the industrious from the idle shepherds: the words apply to magistrates and ministers. A magist...
_And ye My flock, the flock of My pasture, are men, and I am your God._ MAN’S DESTINY Every breath of the autumnal wind brings down hundreds of faded leaves: they lie thick under the fast baring tree...
_Shall know that I am the Lord, when I have broken the bands of their yoke._ THE YOKE REMOVED AND THE LORD REVEALED But do not all men know that God is the Lord? They should know it, for He is clearl...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 34:1 As the move toward restoration continues, Ezekiel describes the nation and its leaders as sheep and shepherds. He addresses the shepherds (vv. Ezekiel 34:1) and then the s
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 34:17 The remainder of the chapter is addressed to the flock: vv. Ezekiel 34:17 condemn victimization within the flock; vv....
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 34:25 The COVENANT OF PEACE announced in v. Ezekiel 34:25 extends to the renewal of the natural world. Compare...
THE REPROOF OF THE FALSE SHEPHERDS AND A PROMISE OF THE GOOD AND TRUE SHEPHERD (Chap. 34) EXPLANATORY NOTES.— Ezekiel 34:1. “PROPHESY AGAINST THE SHEPHERDS.” “The trouble which the prophet here encoun...
EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 34:1 AND THE WORD OF THE LORD, etc. As no date is given, we may infer that what follows came as an almost immediate sequel to that which precedes it. The kernel of the chapter is f...
Ezekiel 34:11. _For thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I come (I, the proprietor of the sheep, now appear on the field in their behalf), and seek after my flock, and search them out._ Ezekiel 34:12....
Now in chapter 34, God speaks out against those faithless shepherds of Israel. Those men that were the spiritual leaders, those men to whom the people looked for spiritual guidance, who had left the r...
1 Peter 5:2; 1 Peter 5:3; Acts 20:28; Ezekiel 34:24; Ezekiel 36:38;...