·         Pretended to be sent by God
Jeremiah 23:17,18,31

• Not sent or commissioned by God
  Jeremiah 14:14; 23:21; 29:31
• Made use of by God to prove Israel
  Deuteronomy 13:3
• DESCRIBED AS
  • Light and treacherous
    Zephaniah 3:4
  • Covetous
    Micah 3:11
  • Crafty
    Matthew 7:15
  • Drunken
    Isaiah 28:7
  • Immoral and profane
    Jeremiah 23:11,14
• Women sometimes acted as
  Nehemiah 6:14; Revelation 2:20
• Called foolish prophets
  Ezekiel 13:2
• Compared to foxes in the desert
  Ezekiel 13:4
• Compared to wind
  Jeremiah 5:13
• Influenced by evil spirits
  1 Kings 22:21,22
• PROPHESIED
  • Falsely
    Jeremiah 5:31
  • Lies in the name of the Lord
    Jeremiah 14:14
  • Out of their own heart
    Jeremiah 23:16,26; Ezekiel 13:2
  • In the name of false gods
    Jeremiah 2:8
  • Peace, when there was no peace
    Jeremiah 6:14; 23:17; Ezekiel 13:10; Micah 3:5
• Often practised divination and witchcraft
  Jeremiah 14:14; Ezekiel 22:28; Acts 13:6
• Often pretended to dreams
  Jeremiah 23:28,32
• Often deceived by God as a judgment
  Ezekiel 14:9
• THE PEOPLE
  • Led into error
    Jeremiah 23:13; Micah 3:5
  • Made to forget God’s name by
    Jeremiah 23:27
  • Deprived of God’s word by
    Jeremiah 23:30
  • Taught profaneness and sin by
    Jeremiah 23:14,15
  • Oppressed and defrauded by
    Ezekiel 22:25
  • Warned not to listen to
    Deuteronomy 13:3; Jeremiah 23:16; 27:9,15,16
  • Encouraged and praised
    Jeremiah 5:31; Luke 6:26
• Mode of trying and detecting
  Deuteronomy 13:1,2; 18:21,22; 1 John 4:1-3
• PREDICTED TO ARISE
  • Before destruction of Jerusalem
    Matthew 24:11,24
  • In the latter times
    2 Peter 2:1
• Judgments denounced against
  Jeremiah 8:1,2; 14:15; 28:16,17; 29:32
• Involved the people in their own ruin
  Isaiah 9:15,16; Jeremiah 20:6; Ezekiel 14:10