New Torrey's Topical Textbook: Rev. R. A. Torrey

Prophets, False

• Pretended to be sent by God Jer. 23:17, 18, 31
• Not sent or commissioned by God Jer. 14:14, 23:21, 29:31
• Made use of by God to prove Israel Dt. 13:3
• Described as
  • Light and treacherous Zeph. 3:4
  • Covetous Mic. 3:11
  • Crafty Mt. 7:15
  • Drunken Isa. 28:7
  • Immoral and profane Jer. 23:11, 14
• Women sometimes acted as Neh. 6:14; Rev. 2:20
• Called foolish prophets Ezek. 13:3
• Compared to foxes in the desert Ezek. 13:4
• Compared to wind Jer. 5:13
• Influenced by evil spirits 1 Ki. 22:21, 22
• Prophesied
  • Falsely Jer. 5:31
  • Lies in the name of the Lord Jer. 14:14
  • Out of their own heart Jer. 23:16, 26; Ezek. 13:2
  • In the name of false gods Jer. 2:8
  • Peace, when there was no peace Jer. 6:14, 23:17; Ezek. 13:10; Mic. 3:5
• Often practiced divination and witchcraft Jer. 14:14; Ezek. 22:28; Acts 13:6
• Often pretended to dreams Jer. 23:28, 32
• Often deceived by God as a judgment Ezek. 14:9
• The people
  • Led into error by Jer. 23:13; Mic. 3:5
  • Made to forget God's name by Jer. 23:27
  • Deprived of God's word by Jer. 23:30
  • Taught profaneness and sin by Jer. 23:14, 15
  • Oppressed and defrauded by Ezek. 22:25
  • Warned not to listen to Dt. 13:3; Jer. 23:16, 27:9, 15, 16
  • Encouraged and praised Jer. 5:31; Lk. 6:26
• Mode of trying and detecting Dt. 13:1, 2, 18:21, 22; 1 Jn. 4:1-3
• Predicted to arise
  • Before destruction of Jerusalem Mt. 24:11, 24
  • In the latter times 2 Pet. 2:1
• Judgments denounced against Jer. 8:1, 2, 14:15, 28:16, 17, 29:32
• Involved the people in their own ruin Isa. 9:15, 16; Jer. 20:6; Ezek. 14:10