PROPHETS

PROPHETS, False

1. Pretended to be sent by God # Jer 23:17,18,31
2. Not sent or commissioned by God # Jer 14:14 23:21 29:31
3. Made use of by God to prove Israel # De 13:3
4. DESCRIBED AS 4a) Light and treacherous

   # Zep 3:4

4b) Covetous # Mic 3:11 4c) Crafty # Mt 7:15 4d) Drunken # Isa 28:7 4e) Immoral and profane # Jer 23:11,14 5) Women sometimes acted as # Ne 6:14 Re 2:20 6) Called foolish prophets # Eze 13:2 7) Compared to foxes in the desert # Eze 13:4 8) Compared to wind # Jer 5:13 9) Influenced by evil spirits # 1Ki 22:21,22 10) PROPHESIED 10a) Falsely # Jer 5:31 10b) Lies in the name of the Lord # Jer 14:14 10c) Out of their own heart # Jer 23:16,26 Eze 13:2 10d) In the name of false gods # Jer 2:8 10e) Peace, when there was no peace # Jer 6:14 23:17 Eze 13:10 Mic 3:5 11) Often practised divination and witchcraft # Jer 14:14 Eze 22:28 Ac 13:6 12) Often pretended to dreams # Jer 23:28,32  13) Often deceived by God as a judgment # Eze 14:9 14) THE PEOPLE 14a) Led into error # Jer 23:13 Mic 3:5 14b) Made to forget God’s name by # Jer 23:27 14c) Deprived of God’s word by # Jer 23:30 14d) Taught profaneness and sin by # Jer 23:14,15 14e) Oppressed and defrauded by # Eze 22:25 14f) Warned not to listen to # De 13:3 Jer 23:16 27:9,15,16 14g) Encouraged and praised # Jer 5:31 Lu 6:26 15) Mode of trying and detecting # De 13:1,2 18:21,22 1Jo 4:1-3 16) PREDICTED TO ARISE 16a) Before destruction of Jerusalem # Mt 24:11,24 16b) In the latter times # 2Pe 2:1 17) Judgments denounced against # Jer 8:1,2 14:15 28:16,17 29:32 18) Involved the people in their own ruin # Isa 9:15,16 Jer 20:6 Eze 14:10