OUR FATHER SENDS PROPHETS TO GUIDE IN RIGHTEOUSNESS BUT THE REBELLIOUS RESIST THEM

The book of Isaiah chapter 30 verse 9 - 11 says this;

For these are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to listen to the Lord’s instruction.

They say to the seers,  “See no more visions!” and to the prophets, “Give us no more visions of what is right!

Tell us pleasant things, prophesy illusions.

Leave this way, get off this path, and stop confronting us with the Holy One of Israel!”

To preserve righteousness, the Lord sends seers and prophets to alert the people of the hazards of their conducts and to guide them in the way they should go but the people, comfortable in their ways, suppress the voice of the prophets by instructing them not to speak up.

 They demand that they only hear encouraging and happy things even if they are false.

This condition that the prophet Isaiah documents is mirrored in the Apostle Paul's second letter to Timothy in chapter 4 verses 3 - 4,

For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. 

They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.

The unrighteousness in the human heart comes with a tendency to reject even the counsel that is sent to bring knowledge to us that would save us.

Built into our sinful nature is an inclination that causes our race to reject the very truth that would be beneficial in favor of the deception that comforts but leaves us in harms way.

False teachers are accumulated in large numbers to drown out the voices of the people who are sent to bring righteous reproof.

The ones who insist on proclaiming the truth are marginalized and silenced.

This is an important tactic that the kingdom of darkness uses to keep the Lord's people drifting away from the righteous path that would make them strong against the kingdom of darkness.

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