Jeremiah 23:23

"Am I a God at hand, saith Jehovah, and not a God afar off?. Can any hide himself in secret places so that I shall not see him? saith Jehovah. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith Jehovah. I have heard what the prophets have said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed. How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceit of their own heart? that think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbor, as their fathers forgat my name for Baal."

"Am I a God at hand, and not a God afar off ..." (Jeremiah 23:23) This is a warning to the false prophets that they cannot hide from God. "He is not like some localized deity whom it is easy to avoid; he is inescapable, the immanent, transcendent, ubiquitous, omnipotent, omnipresent, and eternal God; and he has heard all the lies of the false prophets."[25]

"That think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams ..." (Jeremiah 23:27). There are two things of importance here. Note that the false prophets are enemies of God and that they have a purpose, that of causing the people to forget even the name of God. There is nothing innocent about such men, whether in the days of Jeremiah or at the present time.

"Forget my name by their dreams ..." (Jeremiah 23:27). "The superstition that attaches importance to dreams keeps God as entirely out of men's minds as does absolute idolatry."[26] It is true that God, of old times, did speak to some men in dreams; but he "has now spoken unto us through his Son" (Hebrews 1:2). This, of course, forbids our paying any attention whatever to dreams; and, if this is true of dreams, which indeed at one time were utilized by God in bringing messages to men, how much more is it mandatory that men pay no attention whatever to phrenology, palmistry, the signs of the Zodiac, etc., etc., which were never utilized by God in such a manner!