"As the sting of a scorpion, conviction of sin pains the flesh."

“Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for 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.”
‭‭(Ezekiel‬ ‭34:10-12‬ ‭KJV‬‬)

We are witnesses of the falling away. The departing from the faith.

“All the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.”
‭‭(Zechariah‬ ‭12:14‬ ‭KJV‬‬)

Scattered and battered. Left bleeding and tattered.

“For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother,
 the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man's enemies are the men of his own house.”
(‭‭Micah‬ ‭7:6‬ ‭KJV‬‬)

“For, behold, the Lord will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind,
to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
For by fire and by his sword will the Lord plead with all flesh:
and the slain of the Lord shall be many." (Isaiah 66:15,16)

As the sting of a scorpion, the conviction of sin pains the flesh.

“And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads. And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man. And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.”
‭‭(Revelation‬ ‭9:1-6‬ ‭KJV‬‬)


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