2 Chronicles 24....
Amazing Story....
God spared the young man who was protected and seemingly raised by the Priest (Pastor) and his wife...
They build the Temple of God together...
The Priest Passes on...
The Kings ear is turned...
He kills the Priest's Son...
God tries to send Prophets in to replace the Priest...
They are rejected...
and ultimately the King is destroyed for lack of a Pastor...
23And it came to pass at the end of the year, that the host of Syria came up against him: and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all the spoil of them unto the king of Damascus.
24For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men, and the LORD delivered a very great host into their hand, because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers. So they executed judgment against Joash.
25And when they were departed from him, (for they left him in great diseases,) his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city of David, but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings.
26And these are they that conspired against him; Zabad the son of Shimeath an Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith a Moabitess.
27Now concerning his sons, and the greatness of the burdens laid upon him, and the repairing of the house of God, behold, they are written in the story of the book of the kings. And Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.
I'm am not saying that all Pastor's are perfect examples of what Pastor's Should be...but everybody needs a Pastor in their life.... if you don't have one pray that God will send you One...