10.30.2014 Old Testament: Jer 28.1–2

To read the Bible in a year, read Jeremiah 27–28 on October 30, In the year of our Lord 2014

By Don Ruhl

Someone contrary to the word of God always seems to show up. Remember that God created Adam and Eve, and sometime thereafter, the devil worked through the serpent to contradict the word of God, and so it happened in the days of Jeremiah,

And it happened in the same year, at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year and in the fifth month, that Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet, who was from Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of the Lord in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying, “Thus speaks the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, saying: ‘I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon’” (Jeremiah 28.1–2). 

You will discover that Jeremiah gave an Amen to what Hananiah said, but Jeremiah also sounded a cautionary note, because the prophecy of Hannah did not sound right to Jeremiah. He wanted it to be true, but with everything that the Lord had already told Jeremiah and with everything that he observed in Judah and Jerusalem, he doubted the prophecy of Hananiah, and sure enough, the man was a false prophet.

Watch out for false prophets and false teachers, because the devil will send them your way. Keep your nose in the Book of God, and you shall not go astray.