In Ezekiel 1 nowhere does it say that Ezekiel is sleeping or in deep prayer.
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Instead he seems to be wide awake and at the point when he saw the likeness of God he fell facedown and in Ezekiel 2 a spirit had to come to him and raise him to his feet. So your first vision vs prophecy point is null. Any other conjecture you arrive at is solely your own. As far as it being evident that they lied on their own the burden of proof rests on you to prove that it was evident that they were doing this on their own for their own reasons and not according to what is clearly in the text.
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God does not take advice and God does not agree to be behind a lie. God does have a council as clearly shown in many passages in the Bible where he refers to it or an assembly. God has lied and confused according to passages in the Bible. It begs the question, if there is one exception why not two or three and so on. As Connie pointed out this is not the only time God has given permission or sent harmful spirits to torment men like Saul or Job and even his own son Christ. The Bible says in the New Testament that he would send them strong delusions to believe a lie and be damned because they received not the love of the truth…so I do believe God is all powerful and can and will do whatsoever to bring his will to pass amen.
Thank you so very much for publishing this I feel as well that this may be the appropriate way to interpret the passage as I have been struggling with it. So the prophecy is in a sense ironic. Another way to possibly understand the passage is to look at it as being representative of the fact that noone can do anything without God allowing it, so at first God is inquiring, in story fashion, who will entice the king. Then God sees that the lying spirit will and since God allows people to have free will God knows that this can only lead to disaster for the king.
A simpler interpretation is that when people insist on going their own way sin or selfishness eventually God gives them what they want. What about Job, chapters one through four?
That seems a very similar idea. This is a very long winded over-complicated article to explain away the obvious hook in the story, that god lies. The prophets were false prophets. They were already used to prophesying what the king wanted to hear. They were doing what they wanted to do: God was just making sure it would happen.
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According to the story, the prophets correctly heard the lie of god delivered to them. It would be the reliability of the prophets to correctly identify and deliver the message that made them ideal targets of the lying spirit sent by god. However one prophet saw the lie of god and explained in great detail of how it was all some elaborate scam to send the king to his death, he however was inclined to believe that the story was made up… and according to the story it was not made since in the end, he was killed.
Even if you find none of that agreeable, it still does not explain away the fact that god sent an angel to lie, therefore god is a liar, regardless of what the prophets did. What they were prophesying was false. That alone would make them false prophets. Nor, even if you accept the vision as literal, does it say anything about the spirit speaking with the prophets, or it being an angel delivering a message from God.
Nor in that case would God be limited to speaking only to true prophets. This only happened after Pharaoh had hardened his own heart, and was an example of God working with a choice and a character that Pharaoh had already chosen and showed to make his plan work. In the same way here, these prophets seem highly representative of the group of false prophets spoken against in the books of the prophets.
They wanted to make pleasant prophecies so they would be rewarded for it. It then seems reasonable to me that God works with the choices they have already made. I think perhaps we are looking at the story differently.
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I think you see it is a figurative representation. I see it as a story that was intended to be taken literally. To me this raises very severe questions like: Do these prophets have no choice? How come Zedekiah seems so confident in his message if it is really not him who is really saying it, but a spirit inside his mouth? If you conclude this, then it is not hard work to make people do what they already want to do.
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