573 - God explains why some people love to listen to lies and fables

God explains why some people love to listen to lies and fables

God exposed prophets who spoke lies as “an astonishing and horrible thing” and noted that “the prophets prophesy falsely . . . and My people love to have it so” (this was God’s word through the prophet Jeremiah in chapter-5: verses 30-31) of his book. 

Why would people listen to them?

Well, before the apostle Paul’s death, he predicted that some brethren would be easily led astray by false teachers. 

“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables” From Paul’s 2nd letter to Timothy chapter 4: verses 3-4.

Now, this is God’s warning to false prophets

So harmful were false prophets to the nation of Israel that God warned through Moses, “But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in My name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die” (Deuteronomy 18:20).

And as we have already noted, Peter explained that false prophets had come in the past and that false teachers would continue to come with harmful messages filled with lies. “But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction” (2 Peter 2:1).

A final test from God

It is important to consider one additional point regarding people who claim to be a prophet. God said that even if a prophet’s predictions were to come true, people were not to follow this person if he or she advocated the worship of another God.

“If there arises among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams, and he gives you a sign or a wonder, and the sign or the wonder comes to pass, of which he spoke to you, … but then he says, ‘Let us go after other gods’—which you have not known—‘and let us serve them,’ …you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams, for the LORD your God is testing you, to know whether you love the LORD your God, with all your heart and with all your soul” 

This was God’s warning in the book of Deuteronomy chapter 13: verses 1-3. This same test could occur in our day. The apostle John warned, “Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God” (this is from the 1st letter of John to the believers chapter 4: verses 1-2.

God is merciful and kind to reveal the future in advance, through His true prophets. Use the information above to make sure you are not deceived by false ones.

This is God’s word for all of God’s people.

Praise be to God! 


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