As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
The worst apostates on earth in this modern era are the clergy. They have not stood on the Word of God, not drawn the line by the 10 Commandments and have created pulpits of sin as they smile at their rich sinning donors and condone every sin to fill their collection plates.
Jesus the Christ the mould for which all clergy are to govern themselves first in being the leaders by example in the communities they inhabit, but instead the clergy are glory whores, slumming for a paycheck to administer a control fetish by gathering sinners around them like carrion to blow flies.
John 10:14
I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.
Luke 12:32
Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
The responsibility of all who are in pulpits to voluntees in Sunday schools is to always be people above all reproach. They are to be humble men, and yes that means men, and not women usurping that position for their vain glory. Women have their Christian leadership roles, but the pulpit is not one of them.
I personally am loathe of almost every Christian clergy or teacher I have ever come into contact with. The women hated teaching children and spewed the venom on the children to their terror. One woman lusted for the pulpit and dragged her good natured pet of a husband off his family farm so she could gain the leadership. It ended in a disaster, but that woman got what she lusted for in her adultery with the pulpit.
I have been condescended to by clergy in their thinking I was not saved as I did not look the part and I have been threatened and bullied by clergy, as they were working on their control issues. None of that is of Christ as the office of clergy takes many forms.
The best Pastor I ever knew was a Lutheran who shown at visiting grieving families. He simply provided calm and a steady presence in an unfixable situation. He was though the worst preacher for sermons. The clergy have a diverse set of gifts and most are not called.
This is why the Church in America and the West is something Christ would spew out of his mouth as they are luke warm to everything from sin to Him.
God will require every harmed soul and lost person of these clergy who have bided their time for paychecks and primping from pulpits.
Ezekiel 34:2
Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto the shepherds; Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks?
Zechariah 11:8
Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me.
Ezekiel 34:10
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease 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.
Martin Luther set the best example and demanded that Lutheran Pastors, Preachers and Bishops all adhered to the most stringent of moral characters.
His first responsibility is the Word of God.
His second responsibility is the World of God as a living example in him.
His third responsibility the moral compass of his family as an example.
His fourth responsibility is to the people who expect a Christian leader, not a populist in the pulpit.
God is most judicious about the clergy. Eli who Judged Israel was a fat man, who would not discipline his sons, who were priests and the worst abominations from seducing women at the Tabernacle to stealing offerings from the people.To Bishops, Pastors, and Preachers
The overseer must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. He must manage his own family well and see that his children obey him with proper respect. 1 Tim. 3:2–4
He must not be a recent convert, or he may become conceited and fall under the same judgment as the devil. 1 Tim. 3:6
He must hold firmly to the trustworthy message as it has been taught, so that he can encourage others by sound doctrine and refute those who oppose it. Titus 1:9
God had a remedy in wiping Eli and his line from the Priesthood who Christ heads.
The clergy will pay with their lives and they will pay with their eternal death for all of the sin they harbor and all of the sin they promote.'
I Samuel 3
13 For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not.
14 And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor offering for ever.
Aaron who was High Priest, was another weak leader as when Moses went to the Mount, the people started to doubt and demanded something to worship, so he made the a golden calf. God almost wiped out all of Israel over that.
Those who elevate themselves to heights as the Popes of Rome are particularly guilty of the worst rebellion against God from the child rapists, the satanists to the entire cult which abuses authority for lucre or indulging their own position over Christ.
Exodus 32:25
And the LORD plagued the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.
