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The predicament of the false prophet Hananiah was not just He was a false prophet but rather he taught to the people that which He wasn’t supposed to teach or say to Jeremiah
Some of us speak and teach rebellion against The Lord to people unknowingly.. we tell people a message which The Lord hasn’t given us just because we need their favours
It’s important for us not to contradict the word of God or the message that the Lord has given us to pass to the people howbeit in like matter so that we don’t experience the judgement of the Lord
Prophet Hananiah gave a false message saying that the yoke of Babylon would be broken in two years which wasn’t a message that had come from the Lord and because He spoke falsely The Lord said He would die that same year and just as The LORD said on how He would die that same year so He died that same year Jeremiah 28:1-3[1]IN THAT same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year and the fifth month, Hananiah son of Azzur, the [false] prophet, who was from Gibeon [one of the priests’ cities], said [falsely] to me in the house of the Lord in the presence of the priests and all the people:2]Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.3]Within two [full] years will I bring back into this place all the vessels of the Lord’s house that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place and carried to Babylon.
Jeremiah 28:15-17
[15]Then said the prophet Jeremiah to Hananiah the prophet, Listen now, Hananiah, The Lord has not sent you, but you have made this people trust in a lie. [16]Therefore thus says the Lord: Behold, I will cast you from the face of the earth. This year you will die, because you have uttered and taught rebellion against the Lord.[17]So Hananiah the prophet died [two months later], the same year, in the seventh month.
Reflective questions about the teaching
a) According to our teaching in view, Who spoke rebellion against The Lord?
b) Who is prophet Hananiah as realised upon to context? Was He a true prophet of the Lord or He was a false prophet in making?
c) Underline some of the lessons you learn in view concerning our matter of word
Confession prayer
Dear Lord Jesus I come before you today and I choose that I will not speak rebellion against you amen