False prophecies in the old testament thread 📜I'll be making a few tweets then adding to it so it doesn't delete like yesterday. So without further adu, bismillah,
False prophesy #1, Ahab's blood. The bible states in 1kings that Ahab's blood will be licked up by dogs in the same place that Naboth's blood was. Ahab's blood was licked by dogs, but 20 miles away from where Naboth died ( in samaria instead of outside the walls of jezreel)
False prophesy #2, josiah's death, 2kings states josiah was told by a prophetess of god ( huldah) that he would die in peace. Problem is, he was either killed by Pharoah necoh in the battle of megiddo or was assassinated. So the prophetess of yahweh was dead wrong ( pun intended)
False prophesy #3, jehoiakim's fate. Jehoiakim was prophesied by jeremiah that he would be denied an honorable death and no heir of his would sit on the throne. Problem is, the most natural reading of what happened to jehoiakim is that he was given an honorable burial and his son
And brother, who were both legitimate davidic kings. So jeremiah gave 2 False prophesies.
False prophesy #4, false prophesy or false promise of god. In genesis 8:21 god promises to never do to humanity what he did to the people in Noah's time ( wipe them out) then, Zepheniah states in the beginning of thw first chapter of his book, that god promises to do the exact
Same thing he did to the generation of Noah. Wiping out all human, and beast on earth, the sky, and sea. So either Zephaniah gave a false prophesy seeing God said he'd never do that again or god lied or, both
False prophesy #5, isaiah's revenge prophesies. Isaiah prophesies falsely that God would reunite the 2 israelite kingdoms to rule over their neighbors philistia, aram ( syria) edom, moab, and ammon. Here's the problem, it never happened and it can never happened seeing those
Civilizations don't exist anymore. So it was a false prophesy which never came to pass and can never come to pass anymore
False prophesy #6, Obadiah states that the house of Jacob would take revenge on Esau and wipe them out and their lands would never be repudiated again. Problem is, the area of the edomites ( jordan) is still and has always been populated and this massacre against them never
Happened
False prophesy #7, the destruction of " assyria" isaiah states that althe yoke of the people living of that time by the "assyrians" will be free from the " assyrians". This didn't happen until over a century later after everybody living in the time of isaiah died...... Whoops
False prophesy #8, Nehemiah states israelites will never be conquered again even for punishment from God. Problem is, a century later, the babylonians which jeremiah states were used as a tool of punishment from God for his sinful people.
False prophesy #9, isaiah states the medes will turn babylon into Sodom and Gomorrah totally destroying it and that it will never recover. Problem is, medes never conquered babylon, babylon was rebuilt from the damage of the medes, and babylon became the capital of the neo
Babylonian empire and to then, be conquered by the Persians without any violence. So it wasn't conquered violently, and the medes weren't the ones to conquered them
False prophesy #10, Egyptian conquest by Nebuchanezzar. Jeremiah and Ezekiel make a number of prophesies about the conquest of Egypt by Nevuchanezzar. Prophesies such as Memphis being devastated, Egyptian temples being burned, Pharoah and the gods of Egypt being handed over to
Nebuchanezzar and that he ( nebuchanezzar) will " pick clean Egypt like how a sheep picks clean vermin from his cloth", and that the nile would dry up. None of this ever happened. Egypt was never conquered, there's no record of this, and in the annals of the achievements of
Nebuchanezzar, we see his greatest achievements but the conquest of Egypt, the rival superpower of thw world of that time, is absent
False prophesy #11, enrichment of the temple. Haggai states that the temple will be rebuilt with the treasures of the nations and that the temple will surpass Solomons temple in grandeur. Herod rebuilt the temple but never to the standards of Solomon's and herod didnt use the
Treasures of the world. He use the money from his province. So it never happened
False prophesy #12, haggai makes another false prophesy saying zerubabbel will be the king and " ring signet" of god and will shake the nations and install zerbubbel as his chief representative. We never hear of zerubabbel after this. He is MIA after this referance of him
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