Verse 3
"And it shall come to pass that, when they shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of Jehovah; and his father and mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth."
"They shall yet prophesy ..." No stretch of imagination can apply this to God's true prophets; for it is categorically stated here the prophets under consideration were those who spoke "lies."
The utmost detestation of the false prophet is indicated here by the fact that his own family are represented as hating him and actually putting him to death. Of course, there is no commandment in this for parents to execute their own sinful children; but rather the lesson is that, "We must hate and forsake our nearest relatives when they come in competition with our duty to God (Luke 14:26)."[8] What is taught here is that, "Merciless extermination should be the fate of all such deceivers."[9] "These are actually men in the service of God's enemy, a foreign spirit, who would lead people to a false and unclean worship."[10]
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