Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
The question asked about the workers of iniquity means they have no true knowledge of God. They consume His people as easily and habitually as eating bread, and they do not call upon the Lord. They are those who have received abundant light and evidence yet follow a false form of Christianity, losing communion with God. Instead of receiving the Son of God, they make strife and falsehood their sustenance, their light goes out, and they distort the gospel.
Together with the verses before it, the verse portrays the present condition of the world and the church as marked by ignorance of God, sinfulness and wrongdoing, and disregard and irreverence toward Him. This terrible condition has been brought about by making void the law of God.
The question asked about the workers of iniquity means they have no true knowledge of God. They consume His people as easily and habitually as eating bread, and they do not call upon the Lord. They are those who have received abundant light and evidence yet follow a false form of Christianity, losing communion with God. Instead of receiving the Son of God, they make strife and falsehood their sustenance, their light goes out, and they distort the gospel.
Together with the verses before it, the verse portrays the present condition of the world and the church as marked by ignorance of God, sinfulness and wrongdoing, and disregard and irreverence toward Him. This terrible condition has been brought about by making void the law of God.