"If There Arise Among You A Prophet, Or A Dreamer Of Dreams...."

Common Sense Commentary:   These offences are not done without the Holy Spirit of God objecting and warning that offending soul to stop and repent before their conscience is seared over as with a hot iron.   "Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron...."  1Tim.4:2.


 Deuteronomy 13:1 If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder.... Deuteronomy 13:2 And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them....
  Deuteronomy 13:3 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

Deuteronomy 13:4 Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him.

Deuteronomy 13:5 And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee. 
Deuteronomy 18:20 But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.

Leviticus 10:1 And Nadab and Abihu.... took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not.
Numbers 3:4   And Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD, when they offered strange fire before the LORD....

Playing with fire is bad enough.... but "coming before the LORD" ... praying with strange fire, "which He commanded not", is ten thousand times worse.  Espousing false doctrine, teaching it to others and perverting God's word is a terminal occupation. RB