Yesterday afternoon, as I was
preparing worship for Christ The King Sunday, I received a surprising DM
(Direct Message) from @ManhattanProphet forwarding to me 12 tweets.
The original tweets came from
@RealLORD, here they are all:
@Ezekiel34, Prophesy against
the shepherd-leaders in the #BrightHouse and on #TheHill. Damn to you,
shepherds, I am watching you!...
...You only pretend to care
for my sheep! Aren’t shepherds supposed to care for sheep? You don’t feed my
sheep, you just feed my sheep...
...with your bigotry,
prejudice and racism and then sell my sheep for cheap to your wealthy cronies.
Not only you don’t care...
...for the wounded, you
actively try to take away their affordable sheep-care, not once, not twice, for
the third and fourth time...
...and I am not going to be
silent, says the Lord! You pretend to care for sheep, but you threaten to
divide them...
...by your ever taller walls
as if my pasture was some kind of a prison! You aren’t building bridges upon
which my sheep...
...could safely and
peacefully walk. You are the ones who are actively misleading my sheep to dangerous swamps of your
own making...
...And when you train
sheepdogs, it is not to guard and protect my sheep, you train them to
shoot-to-kill...
...And what have you done to
the meadows of my pasture! Half of it you pricked and poked with your fracking
rigs...
...so that the very ground is
shaking like in fever. The other half you want to under-mine, pollute with
bursting pipes...
...or turn to a waste-heap,
taking away protection from soil, water and air. Therefore, listen to my
message you pseudo-shepherds!...
...Watch out! I’m coming and
will take my sheep back. I will rescue my sheep from your greed!
Of course this cannot be an
authentic divine message. The Omniscient would certainly have known that the
limit of characters had risen to 280! With all likelihood these prophetic
tweets are another falsification from the workshop of the Manhattan Gospel of Henry Rutgers. Nevertheless this modern paraphrase of Ezekiel 34 clearly
illuminates why so many biblical scholars think that many, if not all,
otherwise bucolic biblical psalms and parables about sheep and shepherds
contain a soothing personal message but also an explosive political rebuke to the powers that be.
