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Jeremiah 27:12 - False prophets oppose Jeremiah - Day 212

Manage to get this out of order.  Sorry for confusion.

Observations:

1. Who is  King Zedekiah?

His name means "Jehovah is righteous"

the last king of Judah renamed from 'Mattaniah' by Nebuchadnezzar; (2 Kings 24:17)

How strange that a pagan king would rename the king of Judah.  Mattaniah = "gift of Jehovah"

2. What are the choices?

According to Jeremiah: Submit to Nebuchadnezzar and live or rebel and die by sword, famine and pestilence.

According to false prophets: resist Nebuchadnezzar because God is going to restore the captives already taken away.

3. What does God say?

The false prophets are telling a lie so that the king will believe them and the king and prophets die as a result.  

Thoughts:

1. God's ways are not man's ways.  From human perspective, surrender is humiliation.  Better to die free than submit to another superior power. But from God's perspective, surrender is obedience to God.  Obeying God is always the best path.

2. The false prophets are not being forced by God to speak falsely.  They are freely choosing to say that their message is from God even though they have never actually heard from God.  Men wanted to use God's name to get the king to do what they thought was best.  We have seen that the true prophets never give Israel or Judah a pass on ungodly behavior.  They are always demanding a return to the law.  The false prophets never warn Israel or Judah of judgment.

3. God uses the false prophets to lure Zedekiah to his death.  Some will say that this in unfair of God to not keep the false prophets from misleading Zedekiah.  But Jeremiah was actively trying to convince Z of his folly and the prophets false words.  

Application

Anybody who preaches human wisdom is a false prophet. 

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