Religious Leaders Are...
MATTHEW 23: ...
The Savior never quarrel with the flock, OR ANY FLOCK. But was at WAR with the religious leaders.
Then spake Yahushua to the multitude (Jewish people), and to his disciples, THEN HE POINTED HIS FINGER TO THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS Saying, "The Scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses's sit" Matthew 23: 1 (will always control the churches) For this reason whatsoever they tell you to do, do it,( Before you do what they tell you, keep in mind the following words of the Savior, "Beware of the LEAVEN of the Pharisees" Mat 16: 6) but don't do like them, for they say, but do not.
Also they place heavy burdens on the believers, and grievous to be borne, but will not help them with these burdens.
But every thing they do is to be seen by men !
And LOVE the uppermost rooms at the feasts and the best seats in the synagogues,
And greetings in the markets, and (LOVE) to be called by men rabbi !, rabbi ! (teacher or Pastor, Reverend, Bishop, etc.)
Don't let any body call you Rabbi, for one is your Rabbi the MoshiYahu. (A profession of religion has become popular with the world. Rulers, politicians, lawyers, doctors, merchants, join the church as a means of securing the respect and confidence of society, and advancing their own worldly interests. Thus they seek to cover all their unrighteous transactions under a profession of Christianity. The various religious bodies, re-enforced by the wealth and influence of these baptized worldlings, make a still higher bid for popularity and patronage. SPLENDID churches, embellished in the most extravagant manner, are erected in popular avenues. The worshipers array themselves in costly and fashionable attire. A HIGH SALARY is paid for a talented minister to entertain and attract the people. His sermons must not touch popular sins, but be made smooth and pleasing for fashionable ears. Thus fashionable sinners are enrolled on the church records, and fashionable sins are concealed under a pretense of godliness)
Ellen G. White, "The Great Controversy" page 386.
And call no man father upon the earth, for one is your Father, which in heaven.
Don't let anybody call you Master, because you have one Master the MoshiYahu.
But he that is greatest among you, shall be servant of all. And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased, and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted. But woe unto you scribes and Pharisees HYPOCRITES ! for you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither go in yourselves, neither suffer you them that are entering to go in.
Woe unto you scribes and Pharisees HYPOCRITES ! for you devour widows houses, and for a pretense make long prayer; therefore you shall receive the greater damnation.
Woe unto you scribes and Pharisees ! HYPOCRITES ! for you compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, you make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves, Woe unto you, You blind guides ! which strain a mosquito, and swallow a camel !
Woe unto you scribes and Pharisees Hypocrites ! for you make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess. Blind Pharisees clean first that which is within the cup and platter, that the out side of them may be clean also.
Woe unto you scribes and Pharisees hypocrites ! for you are like unto whited sepulchers which indeed appear beautiful outward, but within you are full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. Even so you also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within, you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
Woe unto you scribes and Pharisees Hypocrites ! because you build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchers of the righteous, And say If we had been in the days of our fathers, We would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets" For this you are WITNESSES AGAINST YOURSELVES, THAT YOU ARE THE CHILDREN OF THEM THAT KILLED THE PROPHETS, fill you up the measure of your fathers, YOU SERPENTS ! YOU GENERATION OF VIPERS !, how can you escape the damnation of Hell ? Wherefore, behold I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes, and some of them, you shall scourge in your synagogues, and some of them you shall kill and crucify, and persecute them from city to city, that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel, unto the blood of Zechari-Yahu son of Barachi-Yahu whom you slew between the temple and the altar.
Verily I say unto you, all these things shall come upon this generation.
O Yahusalem, Yahusalem, YOU who kill the prophets, and stoneth them that are sent unto you, how often would I have gathereth you children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her winds, and you would not !
Behold your house is left unto you desolate. For I say unto you, You shall not see me henceforth, till you shall say, blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord !
Taken from the Gospel of Matthew Chapter 23.
Please note that the word Religious Leaders was substituted for the word Jews in the New Testament to promote anti-Semitism by the Catholic translators.
1 And the word of Yahu-Ul came unto me saying,
2 Son of man, prophesy against the Shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say unto them, thus saith of Yahu-Ul unto the Shepherds; Woe be to the Shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks?
3 Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, you kill them that are fed: but you feed not the flock.
4 The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have you healed that which was sick, neither have you bound up that which was broken, neither have you brought again that which was driven away, neither have you sought that which was lost; BUT WITH FORCE AND WITH CRUELTY HAVE YOU RULED THEM.
5 And they were scattered, because there is not shepherd: and they became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered.
6 My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill, yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek after them.
7 Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of Yahu-UL.
8 As I live, saith Yahu-Ul surely because my flock became a prey, and my flock became meat to every beast of the field, because there was not shepherd, neither did my shepherd search for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flock.
9 therefore, O ye shepherds, hear the word of Yahu-Ul:
10 Thus saith Yahu-Ul: Behold I am against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from their MOUTH, that they may not be meat for them.
11 For thus saith YAHU-UL, 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 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 And I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high mountains of Israel 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 Yahu-Ul.
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 Yahu-Ul; Behold I will judge between cattle and cattle, between the rams and the HE goats.
18 Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture, but you must tread down with your feed the residue of your pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but you must foul the residue with your feet?
19 And as for my flock, they eat that which you have trodden with your feet; and the drink that which you have fouled with your feet.
20 Therefore thus saith Yahu-Ul unto them, Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat cattle and between the lean cattle.
21 Because ye have thrust with side and with shoulder, and pushed all the diseased with your horns, till you have scattered them abroad;
22 Therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between cattle and cattle.
23 And I will set up one shepherd over them.
and he shall feed them. even my servant David;
he shall feed them. and he shall be their shepherd.
24 And I the Yahu-Ul will be their God, and my servant David a prince among them; I the Yahu-Ul have spoken it.
25 And I will make with them a covenant of peace and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness. and sleep in the woods.
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.