He Came as a Thief in the Night

The drink offerings and cakes of Jeremiah ch. 44 are the inversions of understanding and righteousness, what the NT refers to on the positive side as "the wine of His new testament"; which is itself a veiled reference to the marriage or association between bread and wine, eating and drinking, behaviour and understanding be it good or evil internally or externally. If someone is proud and has an associated poor understanding like the "proud men" who said to Jeremiah, who spoke truly, "Thou speakest falsely" they therefore, being interpreted, made cakes to worship her and poured drink offerings to her. The Queen of Heaven herself is a figure that signifies the sum of all spiritual errors, for stars signify the knowledges of righteousness and understanding; lest this crucial matter seem at all obscure, these knowledges are what divide and multiply when fructified by the presence of God's love and wisdom in a conjunction relationship within the believer wh...

  Isaiah 1:21 - King James Version (KJV) <21> How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers. This is the basic coatrack on which all of the prophecies are hung like so many hats in their appropriate places. This is the Full and Empty of the Lord's Churches, which rise and fall in a predictable cycle akin to the course of daylight or the change in seasons. Hence does the Word frequently refer to the rise and degeneration of the charity in the Church using imagery of day to night and spring to winter. As to this charity or love "upon which the law and prophets hang" (Matthew 22:40), charity is doing good because it is good to do so, and telling the truth because it is true, while doing the work of one's calling sincerely, faithfully and well in a spirit of service towards God and the neighbour. But when people no longer have charity, what they do instead is called  "murder", "theft...