Hananiah the son of Azzur, one of the false prophets with whom Jeremiah had to contend, made a lying statement about the prospect before Judah (chapter 28). He dared to say that he spoke for Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, announcing that "within two full years" all that Nebuchadnezzar took away Would be returned, his yoke being broken.
The "modernist" of our day has learned his trade in the same school, we fear. He, too, would set aside the plain statements of God's holy Word about man's condition and judgment to come, with the still offered gospel of His grace. We recall that early day in the world's history when Satan said to Eve, giving the lie to what God had said, "Ye shall not surely die, etc." (Genesis 3:66And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. (Genesis 3:6)).
No doubt it looked very fine when Hananiah took and broke the yoke which Jeremiah wore in token of what God had said concerning the king of Babylon, but be shortly learned that an unbreakable yoke of iron would be laid on the neck of all those nations, and himself was marked for death before that year was over. God is not mocked.