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)
Ezekiel 34:26-31
26
I will make them and the places around my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in its season; there shall be showers of blessing.
27
The tree of the field shall yield its fruit, and the earth shall yield its increase, and they shall be secure in their land; and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have broken the bars of their yoke, and have delivered them out of the hand of those who made slaves of them.
28
They shall no more be a prey to the nations, neither shall the animals of the earth devour them; but they shall dwell securely, and none shall make them afraid.
29
I will raise up to them a plantation for renown, and they shall be no more consumed with famine in the land, neither bear the shame of the nations any more.
30
They shall know that I, Yahweh, their God am with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are my people, says the Lord Yahweh.
31
You my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, says the Lord Yahweh.
