Jeremiah 15:1

Then said the Lord unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.

Some people think they can just spin up a prophet and all of a sudden have God’s favour.  The people of the kingdoms of Judah and Israel thought they could. The outcome is an open secret.

Others try to create the impression but they are committed to toeing the line, convince themselves that they have climbed the highest hill,  and are thriving in the lowest valley, while in fact everything about them is mediocre.  Know a guy like that? Know some folks like that?

Listen to me, then read your Bible

God impressed Jeremiah that even if the greatest prophets of Israel’s history, Moses and Samuel, were mediators on behalf of Jeremiah’s people, there would be no favour. God’s response would be, “Out of my sight; get them out of here”. I do not know that either Moses or Samuel stood before Yahweh as mediators, but I do know that twice they were “out of there”  and “out of sight”