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NASB | Jeremiah 23:16 ¶ Thus says the LORD of hosts, "Do not listen to the words of the prophets who are prophesying to you. They are leading you into futility; They speak a vision of their own imagination, Not from the mouth of the LORD. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Jeremiah 23:16 ¶ Thus says the LORD of hosts, "Do not listen to the words of the [false] prophets who prophesy to you. They are teaching you worthless things and are leading you into futility; They speak a vision of their own mind and imagination And not [truth] from the mouth of the LORD. |
Subject: Careful Bible Study -- Not Mysticism |
Bible Note: "Why, then, should Christians today -- by contrast with their fathers -- be so thirsty to experience immediate personal revelation from God ('God told me . . .') when His desire for us is the ongoing work of the Spirit opening up our understanding through the mediated revelation of the New Testament? "There seem to be three reasons: "1. It may appear to be more exciting, more obviously supernatural, to have direct revelation rather than Bible revelation. It seems to many people to be more 'spiritual,' more 'divine,' more 'personal.' "2. To many people, it feels much more convincing to be able to say, 'God told me . . .' than to say, 'The Bible tells me. . . .' "3. Direct revelation makes it unnecessary to engage in painstaking Bible study and careful consideration of Christian doctrine in order to know the will of God. By comparison with immediate revelation, Bible study seems -- to be frank -- boring. Although rarely said, underlying all of this is a sinister thought: the Bible is not very clear. By contrast, it is assumed that direct revelation cannot possibly be misunderstood." --Sinclair Ferguson |