Jeremiah 29:8

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Summary

For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Let not your prophets and your diviners, that be in the midst of you, deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed.

Let

Your dreams

General references

Jeremiah 29:15

Bible References

Let

Then the Lord said to me, “The prophets are prophesying falsehood in My name. I have neither sent them nor commanded them nor spoken to them; they are prophesying to you a false vision, divination, futility and the deception of their own minds.

“I did not send these prophets,
But they ran.
I did not speak to them,
But they prophesied.

So do not listen to the words of the prophets who speak to you, saying, ‘You will not serve the king of Babylon,’ for they prophesy a lie to you;

Then Jeremiah the prophet said to Hananiah the prophet, “Listen now, Hananiah, the Lord has not sent you, and you have made this people trust in a lie.

Also it will come about in that day that the prophets will each be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies, and they will not put on a hairy robe in order to deceive;

And Jesus answered and said to them, “See to it that no one misleads you.

And Jesus began to say to them, “See to it that no one misleads you.

And He said, “See to it that you are not misled; for many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am He,’ and, ‘The time is near.’ Do not go after them.

For such men are slaves, not of our Lord Christ but of their own appetites; and by their smooth and flattering speech they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.

As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming;

Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the

apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction,

But evil men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist.

And he deceives those who dwell on the earth because of the signs which it was given him to perform

in the presence of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who *had the wound of the sword and has come to life.

And the beast was seized, and with him the false prophet who performed the signs

in his presence, by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image; these two were thrown alive into the lake of fire which burns with brimstone.

Your dreams

The prophets prophesy falsely,
And the priests rule on their own authority;
And My people love it so!
But what will you do at the end of it?

“If a man walking after wind and falsehood
Had told lies and said,
‘I will speak out to you concerning wine and liquor,’
He would be spokesman to this people.

Woe to you when all men speak well of you, for their fathers used to treat the false prophets in the same way.

Many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of the truth will be maligned;

General references

“Because you have said, ‘The Lord has raised up prophets for us in Babylon’—