Join us today as we explore Ezekiel 34 and the fall of God's Shepherds of old, and ponder who and where are the Shepherds of today.

Marks going to walk us through a discussion that will lead us to find the Shepherds, the David's and the Warriors for Gods people today.

In preparation for Marks study, I referred to Siri for a few commentaries on the book of Ezekiel. I found an article by Jon English Lee helpful. He serves as Academic Dean and Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology at Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary

"By way of set up, Ezekiel is working at this point in Israel’s history after the kingdom had been split. If you will remember, King David was ruling, then king Solomon. But after Solomon the kingdom splits between the north and the south. And eventually, because of their sin and their unwillingness to obey the word of God, the kingdoms were conquered and taken into exile."

"It is during Ezekiel’s life that the southern kingdom, called Judah, was defeated by Babylon and taken into exile. Ezekiel himself was carried off, and appears to have settled with a colony of Jewish captives in Babylon. Indeed, the theme of exile is all over this book."

"This first section begins very bluntly with an indictment of the shepherds of Israel. Because the people of God in the old covenant were both a religious group and a political nation, the category of shepherds of Israel would have included both religious leaders and political leaders. Priests and kings, Levites and magistrates."

I proposed to Mark that most folks can guess who our political leaders are today, but identifying the Shepherds might be problematic.

Which religion would we default to as the one with voice and influence that could reach all faiths and denominations?

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