Continual Burnt Offering: Daily Meditations, April 25 (5:30-31)
“A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and My people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?” — Jeremiah 5:30, 31.
THE false prophets in Jeremiah’s day ridiculed predictions of coming judgment and prated of peace and safety when the Judge stood at the door (6:14; 8:11). It is the same today and will be until the vials of the wrath of God are actually being poured out upon the earth (1 Thess. 5:3). Men prefer these soft-spoken teachers of error who prophesy smooth things (Isa. 30:10), to the faithful men of God who declare unflinchingly the Word of the Lord without fear or favor. But in the day of Christ, when every hidden thing is brought to light, God’s true servants will be recognized and rewarded, and the preachers of falsehood will be dealt with in judgment.
—J. J. P.