"Ah, Lord GOD!" I said, "Look, the prophets are telling them, 'You will not see the sword nor will you have famine, but I will give you lasting peace in this place.'" Then the LORD said to me, "The prophets are prophesying falsehood in My name. I have neither sent them nor commanded them nor spoken to them; they are prophesying to you a false vision, divination, futility and the deception of their own minds."
The prophets of Jeremiah's day were saying a lot of things about God, but none of them were true. They were promising prosperity and safety from trouble, but God was saying just the opposite to Jeremiah! Jeremiah asks God about this problem and God's response is simply that He didn't send them. Later, He predicts that they will die by the very things they were predicting wouldn't come. Guess who was right? The point was the false prophets were promising good things, even though the people were in rebellion to God. Jeremiah was warning of problems because of their rebellion. One was a false message of comfort and security in sin, the other was a warning of the consequences of staying in sin. Never forget that God loves us and His grace is what saves us for eternity, but there is no safety or security promised for us in the temporal world when we are in sin. God will not speak words of comfort or love when you are slapping Him in the face and rebelling against Him. He desires to love you, but if you will not accept it, then beware of the consequences of your sins. You might be saved from hell, but if you stab yourself in the leg, you will still bleed. This is the difference between the words of false prophets and the words of God; God seeks to keep you from stabbing yourself, the world attempts to cover the wound and allow you to bleed to death.
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