In the end times people will become lovers of themselves, only interested in what benefits them personally or their immediate families. The way of truth, in Christ Jesus, the suffering servant, no longer will apply to the masses that call upon His name. If it were not for the mercy and grace of God who placed His only Son in the gap created by mankind we would all be without hope and consumed by greed.
These prophets were involved in “whitewashing” the sins of the nation’s leaders. If the proper antecedent for them is “princes”, then the priests were also guilty of approving murder.
Ezekiel 22:27-31
27 Her princes in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, to shed blood, to destroy people, and to get dishonest gain. 28 Her prophets plastered them with untempered mortar, seeing false visions, and divining lies for them, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord God,’ when the Lord had not spoken. 29 The people of the land have used oppressions, committed robbery, and mistreated the poor and needy; and they wrongfully oppress the stranger. 30 So I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one. 31 Therefore I have poured out My indignation on them; I have consumed them with the fire of My wrath; and I have recompensed their deeds on their own heads,” says the Lord God.
23 Your princes are rebellious, And companions of thieves; Everyone loves bribes, And follows after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, Nor does the cause of the widow come before them.
Isaiah 1:23
6 “Look, the princes of Israel: each one has used his power to shed blood in you.
Ezekiel 22:6
9 Now hear this, You heads of the house of Jacob And rulers of the house of Israel, Who abhor justice And pervert all equity, 10 Who build up Zion with bloodshed And Jerusalem with iniquity: 11 Her heads judge for a bribe, Her priests teach for pay, And her prophets divine for money. Yet they lean on the Lord, and say, “Is not the Lord among us? No harm can come upon us.”
Micah 3:9–11
33 ‘And if a stranger dwells with you in your land, you shall not mistreat him.
Leviticus 19:33
9 tribulation and anguish, on every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek;
Romans 2:9
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