STRANGERS

By Rick Mathes

John 10:5 “And a stranger they simply will not follow, but will flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers.”

I would be remiss if I didn’t refer to Ezekiel 34. Here’s just some highlights to wet your appetitie:

Ezekiel 34   “As I live,” declares the Lord GOD, “surely because My flock has become a prey, My flock has even become food for all the beasts 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; ⁹ therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD: ¹⁰ ‘Thus says the Lord GOD, “Behold, I am against the shepherds, and I shall demand My sheep from them and make them cease from feeding sheep. So the shepherds will not feed themselves anymore, but I shall deliver My flock from their mouth, that they may not be food for them.”‘

What is the common denominator of these few verses? The so-called shepherds are weak to the enemy. Doesn’t the Word command us to put on the armor, pick up the sword and dig in our cleats for the battle? Sometimes I feel like choking the weak-willed ministers that have drained the blood of Christ from the gospel. It’s not politically correct to feed, clothes, shelter, comfort and visit. Shame on us!

They will be punished in the last analysis. These cowards for Christ have all but rolled out the red carpet for the world to roll on in on it. This apostasy will not escape the notice of a righteous and Holy God. These flaming hell-hounds with a pastor’s mask on will be punished in a hotter place in Hell. It would be better that these minister’s of “another gospel” were never born.

In my humble, blatant and steamingly demanding way, I believe the false prophets should be deported to that Hawaiian island the navy uses for target practice! If this opinion is a sin, I will repent the minute I feel any guiltiness over it. They should be castrated and removed by the sheep who clearly recognize a false shepherd when they see one.

My greatest heartbreak over this whole matter is the sheep who are not being fed the Gospel according to Jesus. They have laid out before them a buffet of garbage and the dimmer switch is going down: the lights are flickering out in most churches. The sheep are not being fed.

Let me talk straight talk to you. These strangers will be destroyed when the Day of the Lord arrives. “Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord” and He really means it!