“And it shall come to pass, that when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of the Lord: and his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth.”
If anyone again prophesies, their father and mother, to whom they were born, will say to them, You shall not live, for you speak lies in the name of the LORD; and their father and mother who bore them will pierce them through when they prophesy. The redeemed community will be so zealous for authentic prophecy that parents themselves will execute children who attempt false prophecy, showing the community's radical commitment to truth and its rejection of spiritual deception. The severity of this judgment—parental execution of false prophets—indicates that the community understands the existential danger posed by lying about God. This verse emphasizes that redemption produces a community so transformed that it will not tolerate false spiritual claims. The inversion of normal parental protective instinct in favor of spiritual purity shows redemption's transformative power.
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