Read Through the Bible in a Year 2018 Day 244: False Prophecies

Good morning, everyone!

Today I read Ezekiel 13-15.

In today's reading, God tells Ezekiel about the false prophets in Israel and how their prophecies benefit evil men, telling them that what they are doing is right and blessed.

God then details the destruction He will bring upon these prophets and the elders who will not listen to Ezekiel and stop their disobedience.

He then goes on to say something that amazed me.

He says that even though Noah, Daniel, and Job pleaded for Israel they could not save it. Their righteousness could only save themselves.

Do you remember in Abraham's story where he pleads with God for the city of Sodom? God agreed that if He found fifty righteous there that He would spare the whole city. Abraham continued to plead, and the number went down. Until the number reached ten. But if you remember the end of this story, the city was not spared. There were not even 10 righteous people there.

Now, God is saying that even if three very righteous men - Noah, who was one of the only righteous people left in the whole earth; Job, who never lost faith in God despite the horrible things that kept happening to him; Daniel, who kept God's laws and did not conform even though he was a slave and could have been beaten or killed for it - plead for the whole nation of Israel, their righteousness would only be able to save themselves.

Wow. Israel is in big trouble.

But God still promises Ezekiel that He won't destroy everyone. He will keep a remnant for Himself, and the righteous men He finds will be spared because of their own righteousness. Though in previous chapters He also said that these righteous could be in other countries, rather than actually in Israel.


But all of these false prophets are about to be in big trouble.

Did you know there are false prophets even today? False prophecies even today? We have to be careful to read God's word and know what He says about everything, so that we aren't fooled by what someone else says.

And we have to be careful of what we say, especially if we say it is from God.

We don't want to get in big trouble with God like the Israelites did.

I hope you'll join me tomorrow when I read Ezekiel 16-17.