You have not gone up into the breaches, or built up a wall for the house of Israel, that it might stand in battle in the day of the LORD.
These false prophets stand marked off from God's true servants by one crucial fact: they never went up to the breach, never built up a hedge to protect Israel so it could stand firm in battle on the Day of the Lord. Their teaching must be rejected entirely because they aimed at nothing but their own desires, when every faithful servant of God aims at the public safety and seeks to meet God's wrath before it falls.
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False prophets everywhere, in Jerusalem, in Babylon, speak the same lies, driven by one spirit of error, just as true prophets preach the same truth guided by one good Spirit. Though they are hardened beyond hope of repentance, Ezekiel must testify against them so the people may be warned and they left inexcusable.
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Commenting on Ezekiel 13:1-9
These men saw a vain vision, the product of their own fancy, not God's; they delivered out a known lie, claiming the Lord said it when He never spoke to them at all. The proof of their deceit lies in their own mouths: they say 'the Lord saith it,' yet God never spoke.
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