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Most dangerous of all to the cause of true faith and religion
were the pseudo-prophets, who conducted the divine services
in the temple as well as in the Misphas and pretended to
deliver the oracles of God to the people. No prophet, per-
haps, received at the hands of these impostors more of
persecution and hardships than the Prophet Jeremiah.
While still a young man, Jeremiah began his prophetic
mission about the latter quarter of the seventh century before
the Christian era, when the Kingdom of Judah was in great
danger of invasion by the armies of the Chaldeans. The
Jews had entered into alliance with the Pharaoh of Egypt,
but as the latter had been badly defeated by the troops of
Nebuchadnezzar, Jerusalem's doom was merely a question of
time. In these critical days, during which the fate of the
remnant of the people of God was to be decided, the Prophet
Jeremiah was stoutly advising the king and the leaders of the
were the pseudo-prophets, who conducted the divine services
in the temple as well as in the Misphas and pretended to
deliver the oracles of God to the people. No prophet, per-
haps, received at the hands of these impostors more of
persecution and hardships than the Prophet Jeremiah.
While still a young man, Jeremiah began his prophetic
mission about the latter quarter of the seventh century before
the Christian era, when the Kingdom of Judah was in great
danger of invasion by the armies of the Chaldeans. The
Jews had entered into alliance with the Pharaoh of Egypt,
but as the latter had been badly defeated by the troops of
Nebuchadnezzar, Jerusalem's doom was merely a question of
time. In these critical days, during which the fate of the
remnant of the people of God was to be decided, the Prophet
Jeremiah was stoutly advising the king and the leaders of the