Today's Daily Lesson comes from Ezekiel chapter 13 verses 8 through 12:
8 Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you have uttered falsehood and envisioned lies, I am against you, says the Lord God. 9 My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and utter lying divinations; they shall not be in the council of my people, nor be enrolled in the register of the house of Israel, nor shall they enter the land of Israel; and you shall know that I am the Lord God. 10 Because, in truth, because they have misled my people, saying, “Peace,” when there is no peace; and because, when the people build a wall, these prophets smear whitewash on it. 11 Say to those who smear whitewash on it that it shall fall. There will be a deluge of rain, great hailstones will fall, and a stormy wind will break out. 12 When the wall falls, will it not be said to you, “Where is the whitewash you smeared on it?”
The whitewashed wall of lies cannot stand. The LORD will not abide it. In the end the wall falls, its whitewash no longer a defense for the shoddiness of its substance. The whole thing was built on flimflam; and when the storm came it could not stand.
Jesus said in his Sermon on the Mount that anyone who built their lives on the truth would be like a house built upon a firm foundation. The wind blows and the storm comes, but the truth stands.
But all the lies, all the deception, all the prevaricating machinations of the propaganda machine and its court of so-called prophets, they will not stand. The whitewash will be washed away; and so too those who smeared it.
Thus says the LORD to the House of Judah and all others built on either truth or falsehood.
NOTE: We are reading the whole Bible this year. Tomorrow's Lesson will come from Ezekiel chapters 16 and 17.
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