Actually, folks with a lick of sense recognize it as a fairly common poetry technique. Folks with a lick of sense also recognize that there are other folks who look for things to bristle about.
Once again,
When someone presumes to speak for the Lord in the first person
then other folks with a lick of sense might tend to bristle a bit.
Very good point. What if North Korea does not fall soon? He then puts himself in the place of a false Prophet...(Deut 13 & 18)
Actually, folks with a lick of sense recognize it as a fairly common poetry technique. Folks with a lick of sense also recognize that there are other folks who look for things to bristle about.
Once again,
It was God who said these things, Jeremiah who delivered the message. I understand your concern about false prophecy. The Lord has a very dire penalty for those who would presume to speak for Him, saying “Thus sayeth the Lord” when He has not told them to do so. They are to be stoned to death. Jeremiah was not one of these false prophets. His words are true, his prophecies were for his time and for ours. Jeremiah said and wrote all that the the Lord commanded him to say and write; nothing more and nothing less.
No one presumed to speak for God. Credit for the text was printed clearly. It couldn’t have been more obvious.