"Go and tell Hananiah that YHWH says, 'You have indeed broken the wooden yoke. But you have only succeeded in replacing it with an iron one!'" (Jeremiah 28:13)

Many often wonder why the people did not listen to the #prophets

But the people did listen to the prophets: primarily the false prophets. 

Rarely do we get to hear their messages as clearly as we do with Hananiah's in Jeremiah 28:1-17. 

#Hananiah promised the people YHWH would break the yoke of the king of #Babylon and restore the exiled Judahites to the land within two years. 

We can understand why the people would rather have listened to and believed Hananiah over #Jeremiah.  But it would not be the case.
 

Why would the people listen to the false prophets?  What should we learn from this?