Message: To Judah: Don't you understand God yet? He warns, He sends people to speak to you, you then flee to where He has told you not to go and after ignoring all that, you continue to worship idols and burn incense, and then you wonder why bad things are happening to you. These folks were trying to serve the one true God and worship "the queen of Heaven"--the goddess Astarte--at the same time.
Time: The people of Judah are in Egypt and Jeremiah is with them telling them their fate.
What the Lord is Saying: The Lord does not like idol worship. His message is to those still left after Jerusalem was destroyed. So why do they continue to ignore God? They should know better and they should know that God means business.
The people thought that without God they had plenty to eat, were well off, and had no troubles. And with God (so they say) they have war and famine. Jeremiah tells them they are bad off because they ignored God's words. They thought God was to blame for their bad circumstances.
Promise: The people of Judah living in Egypt will find out again that God's word is true. All will die there except a few that will return to Egypt. And they will die because their chose their own path.
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