Queen

 Solemn promises to the Queen of Heaven

Jeremiah 44:24-25

This chapter, like Revelation chapter 12, has starkly different interpretations depending on whether you are Protestant or Catholic/Orthodox. Catholics argue that Jesus is the Prince of Peace (Protestants agree with that bit) so his mum Mary is Queen of Heaven, as in a Queen Mother. Protestants see this 2nd title as pagan, and still condemned as it is here in Jeremiah. As an Anglican, I'm free to take either view: High Church Anglicans side with the Catholics and venerate Mary & the Saints, Low Church Anglicans usually side with Protestant suspicions regarding Mary. Your Mariology is pretty important. It boils down to authority. Who speaks correctly on this issue? I have to admit at 51 I still don't really know. This is why I still haven't left the Anglicans. I see good in Catholicism, Orthodoxy and evangelicalism, so I'm unwilling to say categorically that any of them are wrong. There's no question in my mind that Jeremiah himself had no thought to condemn Catholics when he wrote this, as the Church hadn't begun. So aren't Protestants taking a line that Jeremiah himself wouldn't take? The question is tho, what line does Jesus take? In the New Testament, He calls Mary 'Woman' (John 2:4) But then again, He is God, so uniquely entitled to look down on a mere Creation of His. Which one of us is so entitled as to look down, not up, at the Mother of God's Only Son?