Front Matter

Front Matter

One Flock, One Shepherd

The Scriptural Test of Shepherds Before the Return of the King

The Word · The Flock · The King

Tom Fahy

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Unless otherwise marked, Scripture quotations and controlling biblical language are from the Ferrar Fenton Translation, The Holy Bible in Modern English, Master Public Reference Edition (FFT). The governing rule of this book is simple: Scripture must be permitted to keep its own order. No doctrine, tradition, geographical reconstruction, prophetic system, ecclesiastical claim, or interpretive habit is allowed to override the words of Scripture as they stand in the governing source.

Contents

Introduction — One Flock, One Shepherd

Part I — The Beginning of the Line

1. The Sacred Line

2. The Breath and the Shadow

3. The Chieftain at Babel

Part II — Covenant, Land, and the Houses

4. The Land Is Mine

5. Israel and Judah

6. Not Lost to God

Part III — One Flock and One Shepherd

7. From the Father, Through the Son, in the Spirit

8. No Parenthesis in the Kingdom of God

9. Not Taken From the World

10. He Who Endures to the End

Part IV — The Shepherd’s Tests of Doctrine

11. The Commandments Are Not Abolished

12. No Return to Sacrifice

13. Come Out of Her, My People

Part V — Wolves, Beasts, and False Signs

14. Many Antichrists Have Come

15. Upon the Hand and Forehead

Part VI — Judgment, Resurrection, and the End of the Hope

16. Two Canonical Witnesses

17. Two Resurrections

18. The Second Death

Appendix

A. The Way by the Desert of the Sea of Weeds

Editorial Note

The body of the book contains eighteen numbered chapters. Appendix A treats the Sea of Weeds with restraint: useful as a subordinate study, never as a governor over the core argument.