You have profaned Me among My people for handfuls of barley and scraps of bread. By lying to My people who would listen, you have killed those who should not have died and spared those who should not have lived.
God's name is truth itself; abolish truth and He becomes a ghost. These women have done worse than murder souls, they have made His word a lie, profaning His holiness and justice where He had chosen to dwell with His people. The crime is not merely among the Gentiles, who never knew Him; it is among those He called His own.
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The devil works through prophetesses no less than through male false prophets, and their sex neither excuses their sin nor shields them from God's rebuke. These women prophesy from their own hearts, saying whatever comes uppermost, and they find eager listeners among people who prefer pleasing lies to hard truths. When sinners grow bold, reprovers must be bold as well.
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Commenting on Ezekiel 13:17-23
Your kerchiefs also will one tear,.... From their heads; discover their tricks, and expose them to the contempt of the people, and destroy both them and their works: and deliver my people out of your hand; from being hunted, ensnared, and deceived by them: and they shall be no more in your land to be hunted; but should either flee into Egypt, and other countries...