23<\/strong>. The judgment of God is at hand which shall make an end of all false prophecy and divination. Ch. Eze 12:24<\/span>; Mic 3:6-7<\/span>; Amo 8:11<\/span>. The issue of these judgments shall be that Jehovah shall be known in truth.<\/p>\n Verse 23<\/span>. Ye shall see no more vanity<\/B><\/I>] They pretended visions<\/I>; but they were empty<\/I> of reality<\/I>.<\/P> <\/P> Nor divine divinations<\/B><\/I>] As God would not speak to them, they employed demons<\/I>. Where God is not, because of the iniquity of the people, the devil<\/I> is, to strengthen and support that iniquity. And if he cannot have his priests<\/I>, he will have his priestesses<\/I>; and these will have a Church like themselves, full of lying doctrines, and bad works.<\/P> <\/p>\n See Eze 12:24<\/span>. Either these prophetesses with the prophets of the same stamp shall perish in the day of calamity, and of the miseries that they persnaded others to slight and contemn. Or else, if they live, they shall live to see all their predictions of prosperity vanish, to see the righteous, whom they threatened, escape, and the wicked, whom they spake good of, fall under miseries; this shall so confound them, they shall cease for ever, and pretend no more visions. Your credit shall be gone, and you found false dreamers, you shall never more be able to keep up any power over or interest in my people. Not one just, righteous soul shall ever grieve, or apprehend cause of fear, from what you threaten, and the unrighteous shall no more joy in the expectation of these lying promises. All shall know that I am the Lord, who fulfil promises to the just and execute threats on the bad. <\/P> <\/p>\n 23. ye shall see no more vanity<\/B>Theevent shall confute your lies, involving yourselves in destruction(Eze 13:9<\/span>; Eze 14:8<\/span>;Eze 15:7<\/span>; Mic 3:6<\/span>).<\/P><\/p>\n Therefore ye shall see no more vanity, nor divine divinations<\/strong>,…. They should not be suffered any longer to impose upon the people; and they should be so sufficiently exposed, that the people would not give heed to their vain visions and lying divinations any more; and no gain coming to them hereby, they would not be disposed to make pretensions to them, as they had done: or the sense is, that they should perish in the siege and destruction of Jerusalem; and so they and their false prophecies would cease together:<\/p>\n for I will deliver my people out of your hand, and ye shall know that I [am] the Lord<\/strong>; see Eze 13:21<\/span>.<\/p>\n It follows, you shall not see a lie any more. He has hitherto explained the reason why God grew so warm against these women, because they destroyed miserable souls either by their cruelty or their flatteries, and thus were like false prophets: now he adds, you shall not see a lie any more. This ought not to be understood as if God promised these women a sound mind, so that they should cease to hurt the people by their lies: but he confirms the sentiment previously expressed, namely, that they should be subject to the taunts of all men, as boys themselves acknowledge that what they boasted to be oracles were mere imposture. It is just as if he had said — I will make you ashamed, so that hereafter you may be deprived of the use of the prophetic name, as you have hitherto used it. Although these women persisted in their madness, yet they saw vanity no more, since it became openly apparent that those wretched ones who trusted in them were deceived. Lastly, this thought to be adapted not to any change of feeling in these women, but rather to a failure in the effect. It is just as if any one were to say to a foolish fellow boasting himself to be a Lawyer or a physician, — I will take care that you profit no more as either a Lawyer or a physician; and yet that foolish person should not be able to put away the opinion which he had ever formed of his own skin. But this is said, because the mere vanity of his boasting should be evident to all. So also God now speaks. This addition has the same meaning: you shall not divine divination any more. And yet there is no doubt that they desired by all means to invent new prophecies, and to boast in new revelations: but they were despised, because God had detected their lies when Jerusalem was taken, and the people dragged into exile: then because they promised the people a speedy return, when the same God refuted them by prolonging their exile. When, therefore, any one suffers the just penalty of his impiety, then the vanity of those women was detected: in this way they ceased to divine. He repeats — I will free my people from your hand: and you shall know that I am Jehovah. Since I have lately explained this phrase I now pass it by. It follows — <\/p>\n (23) Ye shall see no more vanity.<\/strong>As so often the judgment is expressed in the same form with the Sin. These false prophetesses had sinned by their lying visions, and they should see them no more, because the event should soon expose their utter falsity to the eyes of all. The result would be the deliverance of Gods people, whom they sought to ensnare, and their own conviction, not in penitence, but under judgment, that He is the Lord.<\/p>\n REFLECTIONS<\/p>\n<\/p>\n READER! what a mercy is it, in our day, that amidst all the false prophets and heresies; which have come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord hath lifted up, and doth continue to lift up, a standard against them; so that if any precious child of God is at a loss to know the truth, amidst the multitude of pretenders to it, there is a promise, which, if duly attended to and regarded, cannot fail to preserve from error. Though the Lord give you (saith one of the Prophets) the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner anymore; but thine eyes shall see thy teachers, and thine ears shall hear a word behind thee saying, this is the way, walk ye in it when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left. And, as if this was not enough, there is another absolute promise made by the Lord to all the children of Christ, namely, that they shall all be taught of God. Here therefore the Lord engages for them, that they shall be kept from false prophets, and be brought under true teachers; and the Lord Jesus makes this a standing testimony or mark, that all that are truly taught of God come to him. Reader! I beseech you, let this be your improvement and mine from the perusal of this chapter. Do we dread lying prophets? Are we earnest to discover the chaff from the wheat? Is it a momentous concern to know the truth, that the truth may make, us free? What then are we taught of Christ? What do the present prophets, I mean the preachers of the present generation, tell us of Jesus? Do they hold Him up as the Scriptures reveal Him, the way and the truth and the life? Do they delight to speak of the glories of His person, and of the everlasting and eternal merit and efficacy of His blood and righteousness, as God the Holy Ghost delights to glorify him? If so, these are the true Prophets, because they lead, as the star guided the wise men, unto Christ; and hereby know we, saith the Apostle, the spirit of truth from the spirit of error.<\/p>\n Eze 13:23 Therefore ye shall see no more vanity, nor divine divinations: for I will deliver my people out of your hand: and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.<\/p>\n Ver. 23. Therefore ye shall see no more vanity.<\/strong> ] By rendering you not only contemptible, but ridiculous. Or by redding the world of such pestilent people.<\/p>\n ye shall see: Eze 13:6-16, Eze 12:24, Deu 18:20, Mic 3:6, Zec 13:3, 2Ti 3:9 <\/p>\n for I: Eze 13:21, Eze 34:10, Mat 24:24, Mar 13:22, 1Co 11:19, Jud 1:24, Rev 12:9, Rev 12:11, Rev 13:5, Rev 13:8, Rev 15:2 <\/p>\n and ye: Eze 13:9, Eze 13:21, Eze 14:8, Eze 15:7 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Deu 13:1 – a prophet Jer 14:14 – divination Jer 20:6 – thy friends Jer 23:14 – strengthen Jer 23:16 – a vision Jer 27:14 – they Jer 29:31 – Because Eze 6:7 – and ye Eze 11:10 – and ye Eze 13:14 – and ye shall know Eze 17:21 – shall know Eze 21:29 – they see Eze 22:28 – seeing Zec 10:2 – the diviners Zec 13:2 – cause<\/p>\n Eze 13:23. Shall see no more vanity means that an end was to be made of their vain (empty or false) predictions. Divine is a verb and the phrase means they would not be permitted to deliver any more divinations or false visions.<\/p>\n Therefore ye shall see no more vanity, nor divine divinations: for I will deliver my people out of your hand: and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD. 23. The judgment of God is at hand which shall make an end of all false prophecy and divination. Ch. 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