Mungu anayeapa ni wa Biblia na Queen wake wa Heaven
The Bible's claims:
Below we'll see GOD Almighty supposedly swearing by the Pride of Jacob. But let us first look at the following verses from the Bibles:
Hebrews 6:12-14
12 We do not want you to become lazy, but to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised.
13 When God made his promise to Abraham,
since there was no one greater for him to swear by, he swore by himself,
14 saying, "I will surely bless you and give you many descendants."
Genesis 22:15-17
15 The angel of the LORD called to Abraham from heaven a second time
16 and said, "
I swear by myself, declares the LORD, that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son,
17 I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies,
Here the Angel reveals to Abraham what GOD Almighty instructed the Angel to reveal to Abraham. GOD Almighty swore upon Himself to bless Abraham, peace be upon him.
Jeremiah 22:4-5
4 For if you are careful to carry out these commands, then kings who sit on David's throne will come through the gates of this palace, riding in chariots and on horses, accompanied by their officials and their people.
5 But if you do not obey these commands,
declares the LORD, I swear by myself that this palace will become a ruin.' "
Jeremiah 44:15-18, 25-27
15 Then all the men who knew that their wives were burning incense to other gods, along with all the women who were present—a large assembly—and all the people living in Lower and Upper Egypt, said to Jeremiah,
16 "We will not listen to the message you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD!
17 We will certainly do everything we said we would:
We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven [1] and will pour out drink offerings to her just as we and our fathers, our kings and our officials did in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. At that time we had plenty of food and were well off and suffered no harm.
18 But ever since we stopped
burning incense to theQueen of Heaven [1] and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have had nothing and have been perishing by sword and famine."
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25 This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: You and your wives have shown by your actions what you promised when you said, 'We will certainly carry out the vows we made to burn incense and pour out drink offerings to the
Queen of Heaven[1].'
"Go ahead then, do what you promised! Keep your vows!
26 But hear the word of the LORD, all Jews living in Egypt: '
I swear by my great name,' says the LORD, 'that no one from Judah living anywhere in Egypt will ever again invoke my name or swear, "As surely as the Sovereign LORD lives."
27 For I am watching over them for harm, not for good; the Jews in Egypt will perish by sword and famine until they are all destroyed.
Jeremiah 49:12-13
12 This is what the LORD says: "If those who do not deserve to drink the cup must drink it, why should you go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, but must drink it.
13
I swear by myself," declares the LORD, "that Bozrah will become a ruin and an object of horror, of reproach and of cursing; and all its towns will be in ruins forever."
Notes:
1-
Queen of Heaven here is not referring to the virgin Mary, peace be upon her. According to Nelson's Compact Bible Commentary, ISBN 10: 0-7852-5249-5, pages 543-544:
"44:15-17 The people countered Jeremiah's words with an argument from experience. They rejected God by saying that when they
worshiped the queen of heaven - that is,the goddess Ishtar or Astarte, they had plenty of food, were well off, and saw no trouble.
44:18
Queen of heaven refers to Ishtar, a goddess of war and fertility who was worshiped with explicit sexual activity. The people reasoned that when they stopped worshiping the queen of heaven in the days of Josiah's reform, their king was killed and their land was overrun and destroyed."
Amos 8:7 (RSV)
7 The Lord has
sworn by the pride of Jacob: “Surely I will never forget any of their deeds