The Lord Said: "I Am Against Fakes"

Ezekiel 13:3 Thus says the Lord God, Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing! 4 Your prophets have been like jackals among ruins, O Israel. 5 You have not gone up into the breaches, or built up a wall for the house of Israel, that it might stand in battle in the day of the Lord. 6 They have seen false visions and lying divinations. They say, ‘Declares the Lord,’ when the Lord has not sent them, and yet they expect him to fulfill their word. 7 Have you not seen a false vision and uttered a lying divination, whenever you have said, ‘Declares the Lord,’ although I have not spoken?” 8 Therefore thus says the Lord God: “Because you have uttered falsehood and seen lying visions, therefore behold, I am against you, declares the Lord God.

Besides the hard-heartedness of the people, Ezekiel had to deal with all the false prophets of his day. They went around saying that everything was fine just the way it was, trying to gain a following of people who wanted them to say what they wanted to hear.  God held these false prophets doubly accountable. They were not only failing to support the words He gave to Ezekiel; they contradicted them and proclaimed that they were speaking for God. God was adamant: He had not spoken to or through them. Yet today we have those who proclaim things and blame God for them, expecting the power of their own words to bring them to pass.   They will not; God is against them.