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Ezekiel condemns prophets who tell the people that all is well when ruin is coming. 1 Thessalonians echoes this rebuke, warning that those who claim safety will face sudden destruction at the day of the Lord.
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Ezekiel 13:10
Hebrew Bible
9 My hand will be against the prophets who see delusion and announce lying omens. They will not be included in the council of my people, nor be written in the registry of the house of Israel, nor enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Sovereign Lord. 10 “‘This is because they have led my people astray saying, “All is well,” when things are not well. When anyone builds a wall without mortar, they coat it with whitewash. 11 Tell the ones who coat it with whitewash that it will fall. When there is a deluge of rain, hailstones will fall and a violent wind will break out.
1 Thessalonians 5:3
New Testament
2 For you know quite well that the day of the Lord will come in the same way as a thief in the night. 3 Now when they are saying, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction comes on them, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will surely not escape. 4 But you, brothers and sisters, are not in the darkness for the day to overtake you like a thief would.
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Notes and References
"... For example, when Paul describes the situation of the world preceding the Parousia in terms of people saying ‘peace and security’ (1 Thessalonians 5:3), the Hebrew scriptures provide a plausible background against which such words could be understood. Both Jeremiah and Ezekiel describe people who will soon experience God’s judgment as saying ‘Peace, Peace’ (Jeremiah 6:14; Ezekiel 13:10). With these words, the people describe their own current reality that will soon end because of God’s impending judgment. But ‘peace and security’ also clearly evoke language commonly found in Roman inscriptions and on Roman coinage (pax et securitas), language that communicated a Roman imperial promise to those living within the empire. This language would be well known to Paul’s Thessalonian audience ..."
Winn, Adam
"The Good News of Isaiah and Rome in Mark 1:1" in Evans, Craig A.; Oropeza, B. J.; Sloan, Paul T. (ed.) New Studies in Textual Interplay
(p. 104) T&T Clark, 2021
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