"Woe to the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! Says the LORD."

A "christ-ian" friend said this to me yesterday...
"Whenever you are a Pastor, the one thing you have to realize is that it's about the people, making sure you take care of the people."

My thoughts are this...
What "church" have you EVER been in where the pastor "took care" of the people? AND... Why aren't you still there???

There is no such place in existence today -- and more specifically -- DEFINITELY not in a church!

The rules set in place for the "ChurchGame" DO NOT include caring for the sheep...

The "ChurchGame" rules are founded and grounded in MONEY, POWER AND PRESTIGE!

Listen to what the Word of YAHWEH says in Jeremiah Chapter 23...

"Woe to the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! Says the LORD."

"Therefore the LORD God of Israel says against the pastors that feed my people;

You have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them:

Behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, says the LORD.

And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries where I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase.

And I will set up shepherds over them who will feed them: and they will fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither will they be lacking, says the LORD.

Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will raise up for David a Righteous Branch, and a King will reign and prosper, and will execute judgment and justice in the earth.

In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell safely: and this is His name whereby He shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.

Therefore, behold, the days come, says the LORD, that they shall no more say, The LORD lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;

But, The LORD lives, who brought up and led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries where I had driven them; and they will dwell in their own land.

My heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man who wine has overcome, because of the LORD, and because of the words of His Holiness.

For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mournes; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, their course is evil, and their force is not right.

For both prophet and priest are profane; yes, in my house have I found their wickedness, says the LORD.

Therefore their way will be to them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, says the LORD.

And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.

I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, so that none return from their wickedness: they are all of them as Sodom to me, and the inhabitants are as of Gomorrah.

Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land.

Thus says the LORD of hosts, Hearken not to the words of the prophets that prophesy to you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD.

They say still to them that despise Me, The LORD has said,
You shall have peace; and they say to every one that walks after the imagination of his own heart, no evil shall come upon you.

For who has stood in the counsel of the LORD, and has perceived and heard His word?

Who has marked his word, and heard it?

Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.

The anger of the LORD will not return, until He has executed, and till He has performed the thoughts of His heart: in the latter days you will consider it perfectly.

I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran:

I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.

But if they had stood in My counsel, and had caused my people to hear My words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.

Am I a God at hand, says the LORD, and not a God afar off?

Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? says the LORD.

Do not I fill heaven and earth? says the LORD.

I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.

How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies?

Yes, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart; Who think to cause my people to forget My name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten My name for Baal [ jesus / christ ].

The prophet that has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that has My word, let him speak My word faithfully.

What is the chaff to the wheat? says the LORD.

Is not My Word like a fire? says the LORD; and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?

Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, says the LORD, that steal My Words every one from his neighbor.

Behold, I am against the prophets, says the LORD, that use their tongues, and say, He says.

Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, says the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness;

Yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they will not profit this people at all, says the LORD.

And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask you, saying, What is the burden of the LORD?

You will then say to them, What burden? I will even forsake you, says the LORD.

And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that will say, The burden of the LORD, I will even punish that person and their house.

Thus will you say every one to his neighbor, and every one to his brother, What has the LORD answered? And, What has the LORD spoken?

And the burden of the LORD will you mention no more: for every man's word will be his burden; for you have perverted the words of the Living God, of the LORD of hosts our God.

Thus will you say to the prophet,
What has the LORD answered you? and, What has the LORD spoken?

But since you say, The burden of the LORD; therefore thus says the LORD;

Because you say this word, The burden of the LORD, and I have sent to you, saying, you shall not say, The burden of the LORD;

Therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you, and I will forsake you, and the city that I gave you and your fathers, and cast you out of My presence:

And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten."

The response of my "christ-ian" friend was typical of those who are still in the "churchgame". Although, many have not come to knowledge of the truth. MANY of the so-called "pastors" DO know the truth and CHOOSE not to tell the people, because it would lighten their pockets/pocketbooks considerably.

What he said was...
"The problem with the baptist churches in general is [the are] stuck in tradition."

What he fails to realize is that the "church" IS a TRADITION...