September 15, 2013 – Jeremiah 44 – 45

We see that Israel is not just listening to God and disobeying, but they are telling Jeremiah that they are choosing to disregard God’s advice because they believe they are better off offering sacrifices to the “Queen of Heaven”. I can’t remember a time where Israel stood up and told the prophet specifically that they heard what you said but we are going to this our way because it is better. Jeremiah basically concedes and says “you do it your way and we will see where we end up.

I also thought about the Israelites being in Egypt and not seeing their homeland ever again. It sounded a lot like when Moses was bringing them out of Egypt the first time. The generation that choose to not trust God did not see the promise land and those Israelites that are choosing not the listen to God are not going to get back to the promised land they left.