Ezekiel
13 – False Prophets
What
if you were called to preach against the preachers! False prophets are
dangerous because they invented their messages and did not get them from the
mouth of God. Instead of being shepherds who faithfully led the flock, they
were foxes living on refuse. Spiritually speaking, the false prophets were
religious scavengers, living among the ruins they made themselves.
This
was also Jeremiah’s word of warning (Jer. 6:14; 8:11), and yet the people
rejected it. Even though he was running away from God, Jonah was able to sleep
in a storm (Jon. 1:5). Having confidence in our feelings is not the same as
having confidence in God.
No
matter how strong the wall looked, it would not survive the storm. God wanted
to wash things white (Isa.1:8), but the false prophets whitewashed things. The
common people rejoiced at the comforting words of the false prophets, but the
“sighers and criers” were saddened by them.
John
asserted, “I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth”
(3 John 4).
Ezekiel
14 – Judgment Inevitable
The
prophet had seen idols in the temple in Jerusalem, but now he saw idols in the
hearts of the elders in Babylon. God had disciplined those men by taking them
from Judah to Babylon, and He had been merciful to them in sparing their lives;
yet nothing brought them to repentance. They pretended to be spiritual by
inquiring of Ezekiel, but God saw their hearts and told His servant the truth.
(Heb. 4:13).
Judgment
was inevitable: famine, hungry beasts, war, and pestilence (Rev. 6:1-8). Noah
saved his family (Heb. 11:7), Daniel rescued his friends (Dan. 2), and Job
prayed for his three friends and delivered them (Job 42:7-10); but nobody’s
intercession would save Jerusalem or anybody in it. A person’s righteousness
could save only their self; it could not save another.
Cherishing
sin in the heart will lead to practicing sin in life; “For as he thinks in his
heart, so is he” (Prov. 23:7.
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