OUR FATHER WHO JUDGES FALSE PROPHETS

The book of Ezekiel chapter 13 verse 11 says this;

therefore tell those who cover it with whitewash that it is going to fall. Rain will come in torrents, and I will send hailstones hurtling down, and violent winds will burst forth. 

The Lord, speaking of the walls of defence that were built around Jerusalem, gave warning through the prophet Ezekiel that the wall was going to fall.

Just as the wall surrounding the city was flimsy and deceptively covered in whitewash, so were the prophecies of peace being delivered by the false prophets of Israel at the time.

The Lord declared that the wall would fall under the power of the natural forces the Lord unleashed on it.

First, torrential rain would fall on the wall then hailstones would batter the wall and then violent winds would rush in to blow down any standing walls.

The false prophets would themselves be washed away like the false security they were trying to offer to the people.

Jerusalem would also fall when the judgement of a foreign power came to defeat Israel.

The false prophets promised peace out of their own imaginations but there would be no peace.

This reflects the well known scripture found in Jeremiah chapter 6 verse 14 which says;

“They have treated superficially the [bloody] broken wound of My people, Saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ When there is no peace.

And this is reflected again in 1 Thessalonians chapter 5 verses 1 - 4 which says;

Now, brothers and sisters, about times and dates we do not need to write to you, for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. While people are saying, “Peace and safety,” destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

But you, brothers and sisters, are not in darkness so that this day should surprise you like a thief.

Here, the people of God are advised to be prepared so that even when peace and safety is being declared around them, they would not be caught unawares when destruction comes.

Amen.

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