Jeremiah 44:18-19 But since we left off making offerings to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything and have been consumed by the sword and by famine.” And the women said, “When we made offerings to the queen of heaven and poured out drink offerings to her, was it without our husbands’ approval that we made cakes for her bearing her image and poured out drink offerings to her?”
The Israelites who fled to Egypt had a wrong interpretation of why they were suffering. Their punishment was not a result of their failure to offer libations to the Queen of heaven but were a consequence of not obeying the Lord. They falsely assumed that their prosperity in Judah was a result of their worship of the false gods. Our experiences must always be judged by the word of God. We can easily be deceived when we rely on our own interpretation. The prophetic words of the many prophets God sent to them to warn them and call them to repentance were rejected and as a result God rejected them.
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