But notice that at that time when things were pretty much the absolute worst, you had the prophets and the priests, those who are supposed to be on top of things and telling the people what they need to do—they needed to turn back to God, they needed to stop sinning, they needed to renew the covenant, get back to it—they were saying, "Hey, peace! Things are going to be okay. Things are not as bad as you think they are." So they would say this peace, peace, and it was a lie. There was no peace. There was no peace externally or internally. But they tried to soothe and calm everybody, and then what do you know? The Babylonians came. And then there was certainly no peace.
But you have these people in the pulpits trying to put a band-aid on a gaping wound and it was not working. It only helped slightly, but it certainly was not giving the people a realistic look of what was actually going on.
