It is a dangerous to be in a place or situation that God had no intention of you being in ....He is the Lord our God and false gods including the need for wealth, power and control He will not tolerate. He is all seeing, all knowing and all powerful and everything is under His control. I have no desire to be out of the will of God for my life, intentionally or unintentionally, do you? Only by His mercy and grace do we have the shield of His protection....like Jacob hold on for dear life and don’t let go! We need to know Scripture under the tutelage of the Holy Spirit to know what Jesus would do? Faith is our shield Ephesian 6:10!
Luke
4 Then Jesus, being filled with the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, 2 being tempted for forty days by the devil. And in those days He ate nothing, and afterward, when they had ended, He was hungry.
3 And the devil said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.”
4 But Jesus answered him, saying, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.’ ”
5 Then the devil, taking Him up on a high mountain, showed Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. 6 And the devil said to Him, “All this authority I will give You, and their glory; for this has been delivered to me, and I give it to whomever I wish. 7 Therefore, if You will worship before me, all will be Yours.”
8 And Jesus answered and said to him, “Get behind Me, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only you shall serve.’ ”
9 Then he brought Him to Jerusalem, set Him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down from here. 10 For it is written:
‘He shall give His angels charge over you,
To keep you,’
11 and,
‘In their hands they shall bear you up,
Lest you dash your foot against a stone.’ ”
12 And Jesus answered and said to him, “It has been said, ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God.’ ”
13 Now when the devil had ended every temptation, he departed from Him until an opportune time.
shield (Heb. magen) (18:30, 35; Gen. 15:1) Strong’s #4043: The Hebrew noun for shield is derived from the verb ganan, which means “to defend” and signifies the protective guardianship of God. The shield is a common biblical symbol for protection. Kings and rulers are described as “shields” protecting their people (47:9; 89:1, 8), and the Bible frequently depicts God as a shield protecting those who trust in Him (18:30). This imagery has its roots in the Abrahamic covenant, where God describes Himself as Abraham’s shield (Gen. 15:1). David praises the Lord for being his “shield,” “stronghold,” and “refuge” (2 Sam. 22:3).
The focus here is on the stubbornness of the women who persisted in their idolatry. Nothing could make them abandon their vows to worship Ishtar. The name of God reveals His quality and character in dealing with humankind.
A small remnant would survive and see the fulfillment of God’s word as revealed through Jeremiah. Their own hopes of prosperity in Egypt would vanish, and the sign of God’s work against them would be the fall of Pharaoh Hophra of Egypt. In 570 b.c. Hophra was overthrown in a military coup by his own general Amasis. Three years later he was executed in fulfillment of Jeremiah’s prophecy.
Jeremiah 44:24-29
24 Moreover Jeremiah said to all the people and to all the women, “Hear the word of the Lord, all Judah who are in the land of Egypt! 25 Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, saying: ‘You and your wives have spoken with your mouths and fulfilled with your hands, saying, “We will surely keep our vows that we have made, to burn incense to the queen of heaven and pour out drink offerings to her.” You will surely keep your vows and perform your vows!’ 26 Therefore hear the word of the Lord, all Judah who dwell in the land of Egypt: ‘Behold, I have sworn by My great name,’ says the Lord, ‘that My name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, “The Lord God lives.” 27 Behold, I will watch over them for adversity and not for good. And all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by famine, until there is an end to them. 28 Yet a small number who escape the sword shall return from the land of Egypt to the land of Judah; and all the remnant of Judah, who have gone to the land of Egypt to dwell there, shall know whose words will stand, Mine or theirs. 29 And this shall be a sign to you,’ says the Lord, ‘that I will punish you in this place, that you may know that My words will surely stand against you for adversity.’
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