EZEKIEL 13 NOTES=FOR MVF Cheryl=and Bobby Boy
5-02-03-2025
Ezekiel 13
AGAINST FALSE and Foolish Prophets
GOD’S WORD=AGAINST FALSE PROPHETS
Lines 1 and 2
THE COMMAND=to speak AGAINST False prophets
IN Ezekiel’s TIME=There were many FALSE POPHETS-
In Israel and Babylonia EXILE
They had an OPTIMISTIC POSITIVE MESSAGE=That
God WOULD DELIVER Jerusalem=And Judah
From Babylonia=and those exiled=WOULD COME HOME SOON
The SOURCE=was not demonic=Just from THEIR OWN HEART
They had=A NEED FOR ACCEPTANCE
The LORD’S MESSAGE to them=was to STOP LISTENING=to your own
HEART
And HEAR=the WORD of God=THE WORD=Of the Lord
LINES 3-7
THESE PROPHETS=Yahweh=did NOT SEND
They were FULFILLED=by their own SPIRIT
They were FALSE PROPHETS=and fulfilled
From their=OWN heart and SPIRIT=and NOT
What GOD had said=They thought=they were
MORE IMPORTANT than God
They were NOT just stupid=BUT MORALLY INSENSITIVE
They were FOLLOWING=their own Spirit=NOT GOD’S HOLY SPIRIT
They were like=FOXES in the desert
Ie. HELPING
NOTHING=adding nothing=DELIGHTING in
Their own
BEST INTERESTS
THESE PROPHETS=lacked courage=NOT like soldiers
They did=NOT have the courage=To stand and STRENGTHEN ISRAEL
In a TIME OF CRISIS
THE LORD=did NOT send these FALSE PROPHETS
They were like=an EMPTY CHAIR=They did not speak=IN
The name=Of the LORD
LINES 8-9
THE NONSENSE=Spoken by the FALSE PROPHETS=
Was self-PROCLAIMED
They spoke nonsense and LIES=In God’s eyes
EVEN though it sounded SPIRITUAL
God was WORKING=against these FALSE PROPHETS
These prophets=WERE NOT GOD’S COVENANT PEOPLE
Ie. NO SHARE=In
Israel’s house or land
LINES 10-12
THE WEAK WALL=And the STORM
The false prophets MESSAGE=was attractive and seducing
They said PEACE=when there was NO PEACE
ISRAEL=was NOT going to win against Babylonia=and
That is=WHAT the false PROPHETS SAID
THIS SEDUCTIVE MESSAGE=Looked great=ON the outside
But HAD NO SUBSTANCE
It was LIKE a WALL=built with POOR MATERIALS
THE STORM WINDS=would tear it down=When Babylonia came=
EVERYONE would know=That they spoke FALSELY
LINES 13-14
THE COMING STORM
A stormy WIND=was coming=That
GOD WOULD SEND
ANYTHING made by God=IS STRONGER
Than man-made things
GOD WOULD BREAK=The self-appointed PROPHETS=and
Their man MADE MESSAGES
The WALL would fall=and take MANY PEOPLE WITH IT
LINES 15-16
GOD’S PURPOSE=IN THE STORM
GOD HATED=The work=of the FALSE PROPHETS=and the false
prophets
WOULD BE Judged and destroyed too
THE MESSAGE of Jeremiah and EZEKIEL=was that
GOD’S PEACE=Was not on the way=JUDGMENT WAS=and
The people=SHOULD ACCEPT
GOD’S CHASTENING AND CLEANSING=The people WERE UNPREPARED
LINES 17-19
AGAINST FALSE PROPHETS
WOMEN FALSE PROPHETS=Ezekiel SPOKE OUT AGAINST
Women false prophets Too
NAMES Miriam=The
sister of Moses=Deborah=Huldah
The wife of Isaiah=Neadria=Anna=and 4 DAUGHTERS of Philip
THE BASIC WEAKNESS=of the FALSE PROPHETS was=INCLUDING the
women
That they spoke=OUT OF THEIR OWN HEART
These women=USED magic charms=and clothing(VEILS)
To speak falsely=sewn
THESE women prophets=Were NOT HARMLESS or innocent=
IN GOD’S EYES=They were HURTING the souls of people
These woman=KEPT THEMSELVES ALIVE=made a LIVING
With FALSE works=Ceremonies=and actions
These women false PROPHETS=Were LYING to God’s own people
LINES 20-21
AGAINST THE MAGIC CHARMS=Of
The female FALSE PROPHETS
God is=AGAINST THESE MAGIC CHARMS=and false prophetesses
WHO TRAPPED VULNERABLE SOULS
God would DEFEAT=These false WOMEN Prophetesses=and RESCUE
Those trapped by them
AFTER God=defeats these women=Theses false prophets
GOD WOULD REVEAL HIMSELF=and they would know=You will KNOW
I AM LORD
LINES 22-23
THE TERRIBLE EFFECTS=of the LIES=of the false prophets
TWO EFFECTS form the false PROPHETS
1
SADNESS TO THE RIGHTEOUS
2
STRENGTHENED THE WICKED
Ie. NO NEED TO TURN
GOD PROMISED TO DELIVER HIS
PEOPLE
From these FALSE
PROPHETS=Including the women
THEY WERE DEGRADING THE NAME OF
THE LORD!
RPW 5-02-2025=9:32 PM MVF Cheryl and Bobby Boy
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