but what about the ninety-nine!?
you know you’re reading GOD’s words when the same passage you’ve already read a dozen times before reveals a glaring obvious truth. glaring, i do declare!
how many of you have read this parable from luke 15? at least two of you, right? okay good. and myself makes three.
did you ever notice what happens to the ninety-nine sheep!?
be honest.
they get left in the “open country” – which is a really fancy way of saying, the wilderness!
the wilderness/eramos/open country carries the meanings of solitary, lonely, desolate, uninhabited. and wouldn’t you know it, leaving sheep in the wilderness untended is a sheep-herding no-no from day 1. rattlesnakes, wolves, and just the fact that sheep are dumb, is enough for any shepherd to know better.
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