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Prophets, False

 

Prophets, False

Pretended to be sent by God - Jer 23:17,18,31

Not sent or commissioned by God - Jer 14:14; 23:21; 29:31

Made use of by God to prove Israel - De 13:3

DESCRIBED AS

• Light and treacherous
- Zep 3:4
• Covetous
- Mic 3:11
• Crafty
- Mt 7:15
• Drunken
- Isa 28:7
• Immoral and profane
- Jer 23:11,14

Women sometimes acted as - Ne 6:14; Re 2:20

Called foolish prophets - Eze 13:2

Compared to foxes in the desert - Eze 13:4

Compared to wind - Jer 5:13

Influenced by evil spirits - 1Ki 22:21,22

PROPHESIED

• Falsely
- Jer 5:31
• Lies in the name of the Lord
- Jer 14:14
• Out of their own heart
- Jer 23:16,26; Eze 13:2
• In the name of false gods
- Jer 2:8
• Peace, when there was no peace
- Jer 6:14; 23:17; Eze 13:10; Mic 3:5

Often practised divination and witchcraft - Jer 14:14; Eze 22:28; Ac 13:6

Often pretended to dreams - Jer 23:28,32

Often deceived by God as a judgment - Eze 14:9

THE PEOPLE

• Led into error
- Jer 23:13; Mic 3:5
• Made to forget God's name by
- Jer 23:27
• Deprived of God's word by
- Jer 23:30
• Taught profaneness and sin by
- Jer 23:14,15
• Oppressed and defrauded by
- Eze 22:25
• Warned not to listen to
- De 13:3; Jer 23:16; 27:9,15,16
• Encouraged and praised
- Jer 5:31; Lu 6:26

Mode of trying and detecting - De 13:1,2; 18:21,22; 1Jo 4:1-3

PREDICTED TO ARISE

• Before destruction of Jerusalem
- Mt 24:11,24
• In the latter times
- 2Pe 2:1

Judgments denounced against - Jer 8:1,2; 14:15; 28:16,17; 29:32

Involved the people in their own ruin - Isa 9:15,16; Jer 20:6; Eze 14:10

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