And these also stagger from wine and reel from beer: Priests and prophets stagger from beer and are befuddled with wine; they reel from beer, they stagger when seeing visions, they stumble when rendering decisions. All the tables are covered with vomit and there is not a spot without filth. Who is it he is trying to teach? To whom is he explaining his message? To children weaned from their milk, to those just taken from the breast? For it is: Do this, do that, a rule for this, a rule for that; a little here, a little there. (Isaiah 28:7-10 NIV)
False prophets are mocked in the verses above. They lack understanding. Either they are literally intoxicated and so unable to state the Word of the LORD accurately, or they are out of their league. They presume to be true prophets, but they are not. When they presume to speak the Word of the LORD it comes out as meaningless repetition of religious platitudes—a rule for this, a rule for that, etc.
To me this is another indication that a life of faith cannot be reduced to one’s attempt to obey “the rules.”
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