The Image Of The Shepherd

27 “You will all fall away,” Jesus told them, “for it is written:

“‘I will strike the shepherd,
and the sheep will be scattered.’

If satan can take out the man, he knows from experience the aftermath of an absent father, a disconnected husband, or the effects of a poor leader. Strike down the shepherd, the flock will flee and eventually be left to ruin. Satan thought he could strike the great Shepherd and for a few days His flock fled and lived-in fear expecting arrest or even death. But with the rod of the great Shepherd, He defeated both sin and death and with His staff he leads those who hear His voice, into redemption. Satan may try to tempt or distract us in the flesh, but we did not take the image of a failure, we took the image of Christ, the great Shepherd. We lead our flock in His image!

1 Corinthians 15:57
New International Version
57 But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

I'm confused. Your Biblical text says that God will strike the Shepherd, but you say that it is Satan who does the striking. Is it God or the Devil who "strikes" Christ?

It is God who speaks, and it is God who smites His Shepherd at the cross. And He brought down His sword of wrath against Christ. But because the Shepherd was smitten, His sheep were scattered. However, after Christ's resurrection, He brought them all back and gathered them together to teach them for forty days before His ascension.

It is amazing how prophecy after prophecy was fulfilled by Christ. Yet all the Jews did not become His sheep at that time.

God is sovereign as in even within evil God uses it within His will. It was Satan who took over Judas. It was the nonbelievers or children of Satan who arrested Jesus, tortured, and killed. But prophetically this was the will of God.

Who strikes Jesus?

Jesus strikes Jesus. Jesus is God. God allowed Satan and the unbelievers to complete the prophecy. So yes Satan and the unbelievers like Judas can and are to this day still hold the sin of that day. But it wasn't without victory. God allowed it to happen.

John 13:2 ESV
During supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him,

Luke 22:3-6 ESV
Then Satan entered into Judas called Iscariot, who was of the number of the twelve. He went away and conferred with the chief priests and officers how he might betray him to them. And they were glad, and agreed to give him money. So he consented and sought an opportunity to betray him to them in the absence of a crowd


Acts 1:16-20 ESV
16 “Brothers, the Scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke beforehand by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide to those who arrested Jesus. 17 For he was numbered among us and was allotted his share in this ministry.” 18 (Now this man acquired a field with the reward of his wickedness, and falling headlong[a] he burst open in the middle and all his bowels gushed out. 19 And it became known to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the field was called in their own language Akeldama, that is, Field of Blood.) 20 “For it is written in the Book of Psalms,
“‘May his camp become desolate,
and let there be no one to dwell in it’;
and
“‘Let another take his office.’

Mark 14:18-21 ESV
And as they were reclining at table and eating, Jesus said, “Truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me, one who is eating with me.” They began to be sorrowful and to say to him one after another, “Is it I?” He said to them, “It is one of the twelve, one who is dipping bread into the dish with me. For the Son of Man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born.”

Sorry. I'm familiar with the text. I was questioning a statement above that was in total contradiction of itself.

I was just reading that prophesy, or what I believed is referred to as that prophesy and it is brutal. I mean, seriously brutal.

Zechariah 13:7 Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.

It is a good question as people often claim the Bible has contradictions. But as shown there is either more context or a deeper understanding. The Bible is fluent in truth.

I was pointing out the contradiction between what the Bible said and what the commentator said. Two totally different things.

But . . . one of the weirdest oppositions of "truth" that I have found so far, is the discrepancy of the story of Judas and how the "Field of Blood" was bought and paid for, and by whom. The two different accounts are not the same . . . at . . . all. I couldn't believe it when I discovered it.

Post it so people can help you understand.

Thanks, but the understanding needs to be for the poster. I'll point out the contradiction below with bold text.

27 “You will all fall away,” Jesus told them, “for it is written:

“‘I will strike the shepherd,
and the sheep will be scattered.’

If satan can take out the man, he knows from experience the aftermath of an absent father, a disconnected husband, or the effects of a poor leader. Strike down the shepherd, the flock will flee and eventually be left to ruin. Satan thought he could strike the great Shepherd and for a few days His flock fled and lived-in fear expecting arrest or even death."

This has already been explained by me and multiple people. Read back through the posts. As for Judas and his money, that is not a contradiction either but explained right in the context a few verses down in Matthew 27:3-7 then Acts 1:15-19 gives it more detail.

Yep. So why keep dragging me through it?

Dragging? You are asking the question over and over expecting a response. A nagging the question type of tactic.

Oh . . . ok.