in the noontime.
In the thirty-first verse he says, "And he shall send his angels with a
great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from
the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other." These are the angels
that are shouting, "Come out of her, my people." They are gathering out of
God's kingdom all things that do offend and them that do iniquity. This is
the work of God in the time of the end. "Deliver thyself, O Zion, that
dwellest with the daughter of Babylon." Zech. 2:7. "Behold, I will send
for many fishers, saith the Lord, and they shall fish them; and after will
I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and
from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks." Jer. 16:16.
"Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!
saith the Lord. Therefore thus saith the Lord God of Israel against the
pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them
away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evils
of your doings, saith the Lord. And I will gather the remnant of my flock
out of all countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again
to their fold; and they shall be fruitful and increase." Jer. 23:1-3.
In the evening of time God will gather the scattered remnant of his
people, but woe be to the pastors that scattered them. Let the proud lords
of sectism repent of their evil doings ere God visits his woe upon them.
"For thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I, even I, will both search my
sheep, and seek them out. As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day
that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my
sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been
scattered in the cloudy and dark day [sectism]. And I will bring them out
from the people, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them
to their own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the
rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the country. I will feed them
in a good pasture, and upon the high mountains of Israel shall their fold
be: there shall they lie in a good fold, and in a fat pasture shall they
feed upon the mountains of Israel. I will feed my flock, and I will cause
them to lie down, saith the Lord God. I will seek that which was lost, and
bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was
broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: b
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