Ezekiel 13

Ezekiel 13:1

PROPHECY AGAINST PSEUDO PROPHETS AND PROPHETESSESIn chapter Eze_1:13 we have the prophecy against the false prophets, the pseudo prophets and prophetesses. Notice that the women were also getting involved in this. Have you ever noticed how many cults and isms have been founded by women or how women play a very prominent part in them? It may not be popular to say that, but it was true in Ezekiel’s day and it is true in ours. Ezekiel continues to give the Word of the Lord: What was the problem? These prophets prophesied “out of their own hearts.” God have mercy on the man who stands in the pulpit and gives his own viewpoints and does not give the Word of God. Now it is possible to make a mistake in interpretation, and I have sometimes made mistakes. However, let me make it clear that I am attempting to interpret the Word of God. These men were merely giving what they thought: how to make friends, influence people, think positively, be self-reliant, and think of yourself as a wonderful individual, not as a sinner. This was their message: “Everything is all right in Jerusalem.”

Ezekiel 13:17

Ezekiel is to resist the false prophetesses"Set thy face against the daughters of thy people …and prophesy thou against them." In Gen_10:8-9, Nimrod is called a mighty hunter before the Lord. Actually, he was a hunter of the souls of men. That is also what these false cults dothey hunt out the souls of men. The women were involved in this also. In 2Pe_2:1 Peter said, “But there were false prophets also among the people [that is, Israel], even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.” Today we have many women who are involved in spiritualism with its mediums and fortune tellers and necromancers and witches. There are quite a few in Southern CaliforniaI always thought we had them, but now they openly claim they are witches. “Woe to the women that sew pillows to all armholes.” What these women were doing was giving out amulets, a little something to put on your arm, to keep you from getting sick or to protect you from harm. “And make kerchiefs upon the head of every stature to hunt souls!” They give you a handkerchief which they have prayed over, and it will help you get well (as if there were merit in that rather than in the Lord)! My friend, what you see about you today is not new. It is as old as the human race. When Ezekiel clearly denounced it in his day, it was “the word of the LORD,” not his own word.