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Jeremiah

Jeremiah 
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Day 312

"This year you shall die"

Text: Jeremiah 28:16

THE DANGER POSED BY FALSE PROPHETS

Jeremiah faced many problems in his life and ministry. The king opposed him. Some princes also stood against him. Then there were the false prophets and the people they had beguiled! The LORD had to act decisively, lest the problems become worse!

“Then the prophet Jeremiah said to Hananiah the prophet,
‘Hear now, Hananiah, the LORD has not sent you,
but you make this people trust in a lie.
Therefore thus says the LORD:
‘Behold, I will cast you from the face of the earth.
This year you shall die,
because you have taught rebellion against the LORD.”
So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.”
Jeremiah 28:15-17

1. “Then the prophet Jeremiah said to Hananiah the prophet, ‘Hear now, Hananiah, the LORD has not sent you, but you make this people trust in a lie'”

a) Jeremiah had to confront the arrogant false prophet Hananiah.

b) Hananiah had to be rebuked and renounced.

i) He was not a true prophet sent by God.

ii) He had sinned by making the people believe a lie.

iii) The lie was that the yoke of the Babylonian king, would be broken shortly.

2. “Therefore thus says the LORD: ‘Behold, I will cast you from the face of the earth. This year you shall die, because you have taught rebellion against the LORD.'”

a) Hananiah would be cast away.

b) He would die within the year.

c) His sin was to teach rebellion.

d) This was not just rebellion against the Babylonians.

e) It was a rebellion against what the LORD had spoken through Jeremiah.

f) This was a grave sin, for many foolish and simple people followed him.

3. “So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month”

a) The credibility of Jeremiah remained intact.

b) He was the true prophet of God.

c) Hananiah died according to what Jeremiah had spoken against him.