The warnings in the Bible about false prophets are not subtle. They are not inconspicuous. They are not infrequent. Both Old and New Testaments hold for us multiple cautions about the existence and activities of people who claim to speak on behalf of God but do not. No other passage of Scripture has more intensity on this crucial issue than Jeremiah chapter 23. God Himself is doing all the talking as He pulls back the curtain on false prophets in the ancient Israel. From what God says then about the false prophets, we are greatly equipped to mark false prophets in our own generation and to avoid ever coming under their dangerous influence.