Why is ensuring the prophecies we have tried to intemperate are correct? Because if we have misidentified these things then we are in error and may be searching after a false god. I realize that is a bold statement, Jeremiah writes in chapter 16;20, “ Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods?” When we try to force our own concepts onto the pages of the Bible we may (although unintentionally) make our own god that can not hear and will not answer. In other words, unless we diligently search for the face and the words of our Creator, we may be praying to our own idols.