Ezekiel 34-36

[wolfpurplemoon]

Another analogy that equates the people who follow God with sheep, I'm still not sure this is a good thing to be seen as. Also, it's a little odd, he is saying that there were some bad shepherds who didn't feed their sheep (yet, ate the meat and wore the wool, not sure how you get those things if you don't look after your sheep, but anyway) and now God is going to gather all the lost sheep/people and protect them. But if God is their shepherd then does that mean he's the one with the terrible sheep-herding skills?

God seems to be punishing one of Israel's enemies for killing them, but didn't God just send them after Israel?

God isn't rescuing his people from their enemies for their own good, he's concerned that they've all been bad mouthing him and setting a bad example to the people of other nations and he needs to protect his reputation by making everything liveable again and providing everything his people need.

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[wolfpurplemoon]

I am actually reading a modern translation on an online bible reading site, at this point I'm really just skimming the annotations from the SAB and not paying them much mind as they mostly ridicule the KJV way of phrasing things which is unnecessary as I've given up reading the KJV.