Good to know.
How many from your list came before Jesus, and how many were hirelings?
John 10:7-16 "Jesus said therefore again to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you -- I am the door of the sheep; all, as many as came before Me, are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them; I am the door, through me if any one may come in, he shall be saved, and he shall come in, and go out, and find pasture.
`The thief doth not come, except that he may steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they may have life, and may have [it] abundantly. `I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd His life layeth down for the sheep; and the hireling, and not being a shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, doth behold the wolf coming, and doth leave the sheep, and doth flee; and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep; and the hireling doth flee because he is an hireling, and is not caring for the sheep.
`I am the good shepherd, and I know My [sheep], and am known by Mine, according as the Father doth know Me, and I know the Father, and My life I lay down for the sheep, and other sheep I have that are not of this fold, these also it behoveth Me to bring, and My voice they will hear, and there shall become one flock -- one shepherd."
The Anointed……. JHWH is our God, who said to Moses; “I will send them a prophet like you from among their own people; I will put
MY WORDS into his mouth and he will tell the people everything that I command him. Anyone who does not heed
MY WORDS that he will speak in my name.
Peter confirms that Jesus was that that prophet, when in reference to Jesus he said in Acts 3: 22; For Moses said; "The Lord your God will send you a prophet, Just as he sent me, and he will be one of your own people, etc."
Did the people of his day believe that he was the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The God of our ancestors? No, they did not, for on the day of his triumphant entry into Jerusalem, the people escorting him cried out, "
Blessed is he, who comes in the name of the Lord." Verifying that they believed Jesus to be the one that God had promised that he would choose from among the Israelites, and send to the people to speak in his name.
Other Sheep wrote…… John 10:7-16 "Jesus said therefore again to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you -- I am the door of the sheep; all, as many as came before Me, are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them; I am the door, through me if any one may come in, he shall be saved, and he shall come in, and go out, and find pasture.
The thief doth not come, except that he may steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they may have life, and may have [it] abundantly. `I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd His life layeth down for the sheep; and the hireling, and not being a shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, doth behold the wolf coming, and doth leave the sheep, and doth flee; and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep; and the hireling doth flee because he is an hireling, and is not caring for the sheep.
I am the good shepherd, and I know My [sheep], and am known by Mine, according as the Father doth know Me, and I know the Father, and My life I lay down for the sheep, and other sheep I have that are not of this fold, these also it behoveth Me to bring, and My voice they will hear, and there shall become one flock -- one shepherd."
The Anointed……. Our Lord God and saviour, who chose the man Jesus from among the Israelites to speak the words that he was commanded to speak in HIS name, said through his chosen prophet in GNB John 10: 7-16; “I am telling you the truth; I am the gate for the sheep. All others who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. I am the gate. Whoever comes in by me; he will come in and go out and find pasture. The thief comes only in order to steal, kill, and destroy. I have come in order that you might have life----life in all its fullness.
The Lord God our saviour, who put his words into the mouth of his chosen prophet Jesus, continues to speak through his obedient servant
“I am the good shepherd, who is willing to die for the sheep. When the hired man, who is not a shepherd and does not own the sheep, see a wolf coming he leaves the sheep and runs away; so the wolf snatches the sheep and scatters them. The hired man runs away because he is only a hired man and does not care about the sheep. I am the good shepherd; As the Father knows me and I know the Father, in the same way, I know my sheep and they know me. And I am willing to die for them. There are other sheep which belong to methat are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them too, they will listen to my voice, and they will become one flock with one shepherd.
So said the Lord through his chosen heir and successor, who was his physical image on earth. And Just as Moses lifted up the bronze IMAGE of the serpent, whose venom was coursing through the veins of God people and destroying them, in like manner the earthly IMAGE of ‘The Son of Man’ had to be lifted up, in order that all those who turn their eyes to the one who was lifted up, would be saved.
The Son of Man, The Only Begotten Son of the Most High, who filled Jesus with his spirit on the day he was baptised, could not die, but he ceased to be an individual entity, when he abandoned his chosen heir on the cross, and released all the righteous spirits who had been gathered to him in his ascension to the ends of time, these were they who came out of their graves and three days later, entered into the city and revealed themselves as the risen body Of Christ, the only man to have ascended to the very throne of the MOST HIGH in the creation, where he was
ANOINTED as the successor to that throne, and translated in order that he should never experience death.
The Son of Man, who came down and was chosen by Abraham as his God. Was the only exception of all mankind to have ascended to the ends of time and witness the universe burn up and fall as massive columns of fire beyond all measure in height and depth into the Great Abysss/Black Hole, which he described as the prison of all the stars and the host of heaven.