The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms # 157
157. Internal Meaning of Ezekiel, Chapter 34
1-4 Respecting teachers who regard their own good only, and not the good of the church. (2)
5-6 In consequence those who are of the church come into an evil life. (2)
7-10 Being such, everything of the church is taken from them. (3)
11-16 When the Lord comes into the world He will gather the church together, and will teach it Divine truths. (11, 11)
16-17 The evil among them He will separate. (3, 11)
18-20 Evil shepherds destroy everything of the church, (3)
21 and destroy the simple. (3, 6)
22-25 When the Lord comes He will teach and save these. (1, 11)
26-31 He will both teach them and protect them from falsities, and they will acknowledge Him. (11)
Exodus 23:20-23
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"Behold, I send an angel before you, to keep you by the way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.
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Pay attention to him, and listen to his voice. Don't provoke him, for he will not pardon your disobedience, for my name is in him.
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But if you indeed listen to his voice, and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to your adversaries.
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For my angel shall go before you, and bring you in to the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I will cut them off.
