Bible ~~- Older Testament ~~- JeremiYAH ~~- chapter 44 of 52 (30 verses.)

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YHVH Condemns The Judeans Living In Egypt
1 Then [YHVH] sends a message to JeremiYah concerning all [his fellow] Judeans living in the land of Egypt, [including the refugees] staying at Migdol {Tower}, at Tahpanhes {Suez-Canal}, at Noph {Memphis}, and in the land of Pathros {Upper-Egypt}.
Tahpanhes, including the Jews' brickwork, was discovered by Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie in 1886; it was known by natives as the "Castle of the Jew's Daughter".
2 YHVH-commander-of-armies (Israel's Elohim) says, โ€œYou [Israelis] have seen all the destruction I [let] rain upon Jerusalem and all the other cities of Judea. Look: today they're wastelands where no human lives!
3 The [Jews constantly] wreak wickedness. They whip up my grieving-fury, ๐Ÿ˜‡. They run to cremate [bodies] to serve retard-gods that neither they, you, nor your fore-fathers knew anything about.
4 So I send you all my servants the prophets. I rise early [every day] to send them. [The prophets] say, โ€˜Oh, stop committing these horrible [crimes] that [make me your] enemy!โ€™
5 Yet the [Jews refuse to] listen or even incline their ear to turn from their sabotage. [They never] stop smoking [sacrifices] to [appease] retard-gods.
6 So, ๐Ÿ˜‡, my fire-breathing fury pours forth. It enflames the cities of Judea. It leaves the streets of Jerusalem wasted and desolate, as they [lie] today.โ€
7 So now YHVH-Elohim-over-armies, Israel's Sovereign, says, โ€œWhy do you [Rogue Jews] keep waging this great suicidal ruin? You're amputating your every man and woman, child and suckling from Judaea! [War] chases [you]! It leaves none of you [alive] here [in Egypt]!
8 [Why do] you keep provoking my fire-rage with the works of your hands, smoking [stuff] to [appease] retard-gods in the territory of Egypt where you've run to live? You're cutting off your own lives! You're turning [your names] into curse-words and insults among all the nations of the earth!
9 Have you forgotten [the destruction caused by] the wickedness of your forefathers, including the ruin-wreaking kings of Judea, and their vile wives? You and your disastrous wenches [commit] the same damages! [You've defiled] the land of Judea, even in the streets of Jerusalem!
10 To this very day, [you fakers] refuse to humble yourselves, to fear Me, to walk in my laws and instructions which I set before the faces of you and your fore-fathers.โ€
11 So YHVH Commander-Of-Armies, Israel's Elohim, decrees: โ€œWatch me set my face against you [infidels,] to destroy you, to amputate [you treasonous] Judeans [from the planet].
12 I come to seize [all] Judean stragglers who set their [stubborn] faces to emigrate into the land of Egypt to live [as aliens]. [Death] comes to consume them all. They fall in the land of Egypt. Sword and famine consume them. They die, from the least all the way to the greatest. War and hunger [rob their lives]. They end up a curse-word, a stunning disgusting insult [to humanity].
13 I punish the [Judeans] living in the land of Egypt as I punished Jerusalem: by sword, by famine, and by plague.
Jews Insist On Celebrating Christmas & Easter
14 Judea's survivors (who fled to live in the land of Egypt) fail to escape or even remain alive to return [north]. Even if they lift up their life-breath, [praying] to return home to live in Judean territory, [only a few fugitives] come to escape [disaster] to return [to Judea].โ€
15 Then all the men, aware that their wives smoke [sacrifices] to [appease] retard-gods, and all the women standing by, a great multitude, including all the people living in the land of Egypt, in Pathros {Upper-Egypt}, repudiate JeremiYah {YAH-Rises}:
16 [The hypocrites scream,] โ€œ[We reject] the word you've spoken to us in the name of YHVH! None of us will [ever] listen to you.
17 โ€”We're gonna' keep on doing whatever [plan] shoots out of our own mouth[s]. We'll smoke [whatever we want] to [appease Easter,] the Queen of heaven. We'll pour out drink offerings to her, as we always do, we, and our fore-fathers, our kings, our leaders throughout the cities of Judea, including in the streets of Jerusalem. [Easter-worship is how we get] plenty of food, and stay well, and avoid seeing disaster.
Even today, Catholic women make hot-cross buns explicitly devoted to the โ€˜Queen Of Heaven.โ€™ There is no indication of the observance of the Easter festival in the New Testament, nor in the writings of the apostolic Fathers.โ€”Encyclopedia Britannica
18 Ever since we stopped smoking [sacrifices] to [appease] the queen of heaven, and pouring out drink offerings to her, we've lacked everything. We've been consumed by the sword and by the famine.
Easter is โ€˜Astarteโ€™, one of the titles of Beltis, the [misnamed] โ€˜queen of heaven,โ€™ whose name is found on Assyrian monuments as โ€˜Ishtarโ€™. โ€˜Easterโ€™ is not a Christian name. The hot cross buns of Good Friday (and the dyed eggs of Easter Sunday) figured in the Chaldean rites just as they do now.โ€”(The Two Babylons, by Alexander Hislop, pp. 103,107,108.) The cross was a pagan symbol long before [Christ]. Bread and cakes were marked with [the cross] in pre-Christian times.โ€”Easter and Its Customs
19 Yes, we smoke [bodies] to [appease] the queen of heaven. We pour out drink offerings to her. We make cakes to worship her, and [we] pour molten-idols to [honor] her, all with our men's [participation and authority].โ€
Julius Caesar's Rome celebrated the Saturnalia (named after their god Saturn), on the Winter Solstice (December 25), marking the โ€˜birth of the sun-god's sonโ€™. Romans called Christmas: Saturnalia (Dies Natalis Solis Invicti), celebrated by exchanging gifts, placing lights on trees cut from the woods, hanging circular wreaths, and burning Yule logs. Romans taught that 9 months earlier, the Mother of God (aka Queen of Heaven, Madonna, Mother Earth, Astarte) was impregnated by the sun-god on Easter (the Sunday nearest the Spring Equinox). This pagan Easter holiday featured (then as now) a bunny laying colorful eggs, ham feasts and hot cross buns. Try to get churchgoers to trade Easter for Passover, and Christmas for Sukkot {Tent-Fest}, and you'll feel what Jeremiah felt.
Jeremiah Condemns Believers Mixed Up W/ Egypt
20 Then JeremiYah answers the whole group: the men, women and all the [sinners] attacking him:
21 โ€œYou [heretics have always] burned sacrifice-smoke in Judea's cities, even in the streets of Jerusalem! You, your ancestors, your kings, your leaders, and the people of the land [all continue to team up to commit atrocities]. Do you think YHVH forgets [your crimes]? [Does your cloaked-satanism] fail to enter his mind?
22 YHVH can no longer support your ruinous actions. The abominations you commit make your land a stunning desolation, a cursed [waste] devoid of inhabitants, as it [lies] today.
Sin destroys the planet. Ecological-conservation programs are just bandaids. The human race will die unless we repent of ignoring the Hebrew scriptures.
23 You smoke [sacrifices] in YHVH's face. You keep sinning against YHVH. You refuse to obey his voice. You never walk in his law[s]. You ignore his statutes and his histories. That's why destruction falls on you to this day.โ€
24 Then JeremiYah {YAH-Rises} says to all the people, especially to all the women, โ€œHear the word of YHVH, all [you] Judeans [shacked up] in Egyptian territory:
25 YHVH-commander-of-armies (Israel's Elohim) decrees the following order: โ€˜You and your wives have spoken [your death-sentences] with your [own] mouths. [You] wreak [your doom] with your own hand[s]. You brag, โ€˜We will completely perform the [disastrous] vows we've pledged. We'll keep smoking [food] to [honor] the queen of heaven. We'll keep pouring out drink offerings to her.โ€™ So you definitely will accomplish your vows. You'll surely execute the actions [you pledged].โ€™
26 So hear the word of YHVH, all [you] Judeans squatting in the land of Egypt: โ€˜Watch. I swear by my great Name,โ€™ YHVH foretells, โ€˜My Name will never again [pass] from the mouth of any [now living] Judean man in the whole land of Egypt. No longer will the [hypocrites] swear, โ€˜The Adonai YHVH lives.โ€™
Despite traditionally wrong interpretations, this verse does not at all imply that we should avoid using YHVH's name.
27 Watch me surveil [you hypocrites. I come to rain on you] ruin, not help. All the Judean men in the land of Egypt end up consumed by sword and by famine, completely annihilated.
28 Yet, ๐Ÿ˜‡, a small number [of fugitives] who escape the sword eventually return [north] from the land of Egypt into the land of Judea. Then the whole [dead] Judean remnant (who've emigrated to sojourn in the land of Egypt) come to know whose words stand: mine, or theirs.
29 I give you the following sign,โ€ YHVH warns, โ€œto convince you that I'm coming to punish you in this place. [Imminent assassination will] confirm that my order of destruction irrevocably stands against you:โ€
30 YHVH decrees: โ€˜Watch me hand Egypt's king (Pharaoh Hophra {Ra-Lives-Forever}) into the hand of his enemies, into the power-fists of [tyrants] who seek his life; as I gave Judea's [evil] king ZedekYah {YAH's-Right} into the hand of Emperor Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, his enemy, who hunted his life-breath.โ€™โ€
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