Visions of the Kingdom: Week 15

Ezekiel 13:1-23: The False Prophets

• 13:2 "your own imagination" - their false prophesies were not demonic, but wishful thinking and foolishness. "Hear the word of the LORD" - stop following your heart and follow the LORD.
• 13:6 "yet they wait for the fulfillment of their message" - they believed their own propaganda.
• 13:7 "Thus saith the LORD, even though I have not spoken" - I hear this in churches today, and have grave doubts about the source of the message. Have they read this chapter?
• 13:14 "you will be destroyed within it" - all the false prophets were to die. They claimed "thus saith the LORD", but were lying, and were to be put to death. Deuteronomy 18:20 Jeremiah, on the other hand, was saved alive.
• 13:18 "magic charms ... to hunt souls" - the false prophesies of the women, on the other hand, were occult in origin. Like Nimrod they were hunters of men's souls.
• 13:19 "lying to my people who listen to lies" - the false prophetesses were culpable for lying, but also the people for listening.