Jeremiah 44:17-18
We're going to go right on offering sacrifices to the Queen of Heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, keeping up the traditions set by our ancestors, our kings and government leaders in the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem in the good old days. We had a good life then-- lots of food, rising standard of living, and no bad luck. 18 But the moment we quit sacrificing to the Queen of Heaven and pouring out offerings to her, everything fell apart. We've had nothing but massacres and starvation ever since.
The Jews who fled to Egypt against God's express words as delivered through Jeremiah.
What is astonishing here is that they came up with the exactly wrong conclusion about their situation. They thought things had turned bad when they stopped being "faithful" to the Queen of Heaven. The truth was that things turned bad because they had abandoned God and turned to idol worship, which was just what Jeremiah had warned them about all along.
Their idol worship had blinded them to the truth.
A sobering truth and one we ought to slow down and think about. What idols do we have that blind us to the truth?
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