MARY WORSHIP:
DEVOTION TO THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN

Men, like Nimrod, built temples and kingdoms in honor of their gods. The kingdom of Babylon was one such kingdom, and the worship of gods and goddesses was predominant in that kingdom. And, it didn't stop there. Babylonian customs and practices of godworship spread throughout the land to other cities and kingdoms. In fact, much of the pagan worship of gods practiced thousands of years ago, can still be seen today.

Babylon Mystery Religion, Ancient and Modern, by Ralph Woodrow, pages 13-19, shows some interesting facts about the worship of Mary and the mother goddesses.

One of the most outstanding examples of how Babylonian paganism has continued to our day may be seen in the way the Romish church invented Mary worship to replace ancient worship of the mother goddess.
  The story of the mother and child was widely known in ancient Babylon and developed into an established worship. Numerous monuments of Babylon show the goddess mother Semiramis with her child Tammuz in her arms.
  When the people of Babylon were scattered to the various parts of the earth, they carried the worship of the divine mother and her child with them. This explains why many nations worshiped a mother and child^__in one form or another^__centuries before the true savior was born into this world. In the various countries where this worship spread, the mother and child were called by different names... By the Druids, she was worshiped as Virgo-Patitura. By the Greeks, she was worshiped as Aphrodite/Ceres. By the Israelites, she was worshiped as Ashtaroth (the Queen of Heaven). In Ephesus, she was worshiped as Diana. By the Romans, she was worshiped as Venus/Fortuna and her son was Jupiter. In Asia, she was worshiped as Cybele and her son was Deoius. In India, she was worshiped as Indrani, who was also represented with son in arms. The mother and child were also known and worshiped by the names Devaki and Crishna. In Egypt, she was worshiped as Isis and her son was Horus. One writer said, "Regardless of her name or place, she was the wife of Baal, the virgin queen of heaven, who bore fruit although she never conceived."
  This false worship, having spread from Babylon to the various nations, in different names and forms, finally became established at Rome and throughout the Roman Empire... Inscriptions prove that the two (the mother and the child) received divine honors...not only in Italy and especially at Rome, but also in the provinces, particularly in Africa, Spain, Portugal, France, Germany, and Bulgaria.
   By the third or fourth centuries... much paganism was mixed with Christianity. ... One of the best examples... may be seen in the way the professing church allowed the worship of the great mother to continue^__only in a slightly different form and with a new name! ...many pagans had been drawn to Christianity, but so strong was their adoration for the mother goddess, they did not want to forsake her. Compromising church leaders saw that if they could find some similarity in Christianity with the worship of the mother goddess, they could greatly increase their numbers. But who could replace the great mother of paganism? Of course, Mary, the mother of Jesus, was the most logical person for them to choose...
  Little by little, the worship that had been associated with the pagan mother was transferred to Mary. ...it was not until the time of Constantine^__the early part of the fourth century^__that anyone began to look to Mary as a goddess.
  ...Epiphanius (d. 403) ...denounced certain ones...for worshiping Mary as a goddess and offering cakes at her shrine. Yet, within just a few more years, Mary worship was not only condoned by what is known today as the Catholic Church, it became an official doctrine at the Council of Ephesus in 431.
  At Ephesus? It was in this city that Diana had been worshiped as the goddess of virginity and motherhood from primitive time...

Please notice what has just been shown. In Ephesus, Diana was worshiped as the divine mother, the goddess of virginity and motherhood, which had originated in Babylon. This false mother goddess worship spread from Babylon to the various nations, and finally became established at Rome, where it was allowed to continue; only now, it was being transferred to the worship of Mary, the mother of god. In fact, Mary is worshiped as a goddess and the people offer cakes at her shrine, just as they did for the queen of heaven (Yeremyah 7:18).

Looking at various other sources, we are able to find much more information. A Dictionary of Mary, page 295, shows this:
...When in 431 the Council of Ephesus (q.v.) vindicated her also to be the Mother of God, the way was open to all the subsequent developments of Mariology (q.v.) and cultus.
  This veneration of our Lady in the East was already reaching full stature in the sixth century, and it gradually attained a degree of intensity from which it has never gone back. In the West its progress was for long not consistent and unbroken, but was subject to ups and downs. But there was a great revival in the eleventh century, and its impulsion lasted through the ages that followed, liturgy (q.v.) and on one another. Another period of development began with the mystics and spiritual writers of the seventh century, which in turn had deep effect on the notable intensification of Marian veneration in modern times. A testimony to this is the fact that, of eleven lesser Marian feasts today celebrated throughout the West, ten have been extended to the whole Western Church since 1683.

Mary Worship Identifies With The Mystery Religion

The worship of Mary has definitely intensified throughout the years. Lucifer has created a great deception by twisting one of the Prophecies of Yahweh written about Yahshua Messiah, in order to steal worship from Yahweh for herself. It is true; Miriam, the mother of Yahshua, was a woman blessed by Yahweh, a young woman raised up in the Laws of Yahweh and chosen by Yahweh to carry and give birth to the Messiah. However, Yahweh never ever meant for anyone to worship her. Regardless, this is exactly what the world has done through the influence of Lucifer herself. Reverence and honor is given to the queen of heaven daily, simply by calling upon the name, Mary.

Andrew M. Greely, a Catholic priest, sociologist, writer, and author, illustrates in his book, The Mary Myth, On The Femininity of God, how (and we quote) "Mary is part of a magnificent tradition of female deities.'' In his book, Greely goes on to say:
  As one pours over the history books of the early church, it is not really clear how Mary emerged as the new symbol of the feminine component of God. However, it is clear that by the early second century, Christian writers were speaking of her as the new Eve; by the late second or early third century, drawings of her appeared in the catacombs, and by the middle or early fourth century, direct and explicit devotion to her was well under way.
  Whatever was good was Christian. If the good was somehow mixed with the bad, that was no problem; the bad could be swept away and the Christian remain whole and clean. So the various local deities were transformed into saints, and the feminine goddesses were integrated, rehabilitated, and transformed into Mary. Whatever was good in the worship of the goddesses was already Christian and ought to be saved... Did there seem to be some similarity between Mary and Diana or Juno or Athene or Aphrodite? The early Christian shrugged his shoulders. So what?
  We know very little of the precise history of the transformation of the pagan Queen of Heaven into a Christian Queen of Heaven. It was certainly linked with the decision of the early church to absorb all that was good, useful, and beautiful in paganism... And we do not know precisely how this decision was made either. However, once that was determined, the popularity of the Queen of Heaven was such that she surely was going to emerge in Christian dress.
  It might well be argued that the fertility rites prepared the way for Easter, that Nut (the tender Egyptian goddess of the underworld) prepared the way for Mary. Humankind had to know the paschal lamb of the pre-Sinai Semitic tribes and the Passover of Pharisaic Judaism before it could know the risen Jesus of Easter. It had to know the tender Nut and the life-giving Demeter before it could know Mary the virgin mother. Mary, indeed, is part of the tradition of feminine deities... One need only compare the art inspired by Mary with that inspired by her predecessors to see both the similarities...
  It would be wrong to think that there was no anticipation in the pagan worship of the Queen of Heaven to the Christianization of that cult in the honoring of Mary. On the contrary, despite the sexual excesses and the persistence of human sacrifices beyond boundaries of the empire, there were strains in the pagan cult of the Queen of Heaven which almost seemed to demand transformation. One can almost go so far as to say that if Mary had not come along, the pagans might have had to invent her.

Greely then quotes Theodore Roszak's remembrance of Catholic background:
The early medieval Church remained pliable enough to accommodate to some degree the widespread need for myth. The major manifestation of this was the cult of the virgin, which elevated the inconsequential figure of Mary to a stupendous symbolic stature. Here was the mother goddess Christianity lacked, worked up out of the meagerest historical material by the mythic imagination^__a triumph of collective visionary power at times so sweeping that the virgin nearly crowded out the official trinity. Of course, the theology of the church deftly delimited mariology; but that had little meaning at the level of popular worship or artistic creation, where the virgin rapidly occupied the psychic ground that had always been held by Isis, Cybele, Magna Mater, and their ageless sisterhood. After all, how poor and unbalanced a religion it is that does not find a place for the Divine Mother.

Yes, the church leaders did remain flexible enough to accomodate the widespread need for a myth. The major manifestation of this, and we quote again, "...was the cult of the virgin which elevated the inconsequential figure of Mary to a stupendous symbolic stature.'' Yes, the pagan worship of the queen of heaven was christianized, and changed to a cult honoring Mary. Yes, Mary is reverenced as the mother of god and queen of heaven, and prayed to as such. And yes, this is yet another example of Lucifer's attempt to deceive mankind into giving her worship, rather than Yahweh.

Of course, we know from Scripture that Miriam, mother of Yahshua, is dead, and she waits for the resurrection. Therefore, we know Miriam is not the one who is actually receiving the worship coming from the woman that sits on seven hills. Who is receiving the worship? The original queen of heaven, of course. She is not dead, and as we can see from the following, she is the original Mary.

Mary Called By Various Names

A further indication that Mary worship developed out of the old worship of the mother goddess, may be seen in the titles that are ascribed to her. Quoting from Babylon Mystery Religion, Ancient and Modern, by Ralph Woodrow, pages 13-17, we find this information:
    The Madonna
Mary is often called Madonna. According to Hislop, author of The Two Babylons, this expression is the translation of one of the titles by which the Babylonian goddess was known. In deified form, Nimrod came to be known as Baal. The title of his wife, the female divinity, would be the equivalent of Baalti. In English, this word means, "My Lady;" in Latin, "Mea Domina," and in Italian, it is corrupted into the well-known "Madonna!"
    The Lady of the Sea
This title is applied to Mary, although there is no connection between Mary and the sea. The mother goddess of Phoenicia was called by this name.
    The Queen of Heaven
Mary is often called the Queen of Heaven, which is a title of the mother goddess that was worshiped for centuries before Mary was ever born. (Yeremyah 7:18-20)
    The Mediatrix
The Mediatrix or mediator has become one of Mary's names, and Roman Catholicism teaches that Mary is a mediator, although Scripture makes it plain that there is only one mediator between the Father and men (Yahshua).

The Dictionary of Mary, pages 285-286, shows us more about the titles of Mary:
    Titles of Mary: The official title (if the expression may be allowed) of Mary in the Western Church is simply the Blessed Virgin Mary (Beata Maria Virgo). But in ordinary speech and writing she is of course referred to in a variety of ways, by titles of dignity and honor or more familiar expressions of love and reverence, and these vary from country to country.
  Italians speak of la Santa Vergine, and very commonly, la Madonna (q.v.); ...The classical expression for Mary in the East is Theotokos (q.v.); ...But apart from all these there is an almost endless series of Marian titles properly so called, designating particular feasts, images, shrines, and dedications of churches.
  Canada: ...(Quebec) Our Lady of the Fields; Cyprus: the Panagia of Aphrodite; ...Egypt: Mother of Light; Greece: the Panagia who sees-all; ...Italy: our Lady of the Bed, Our Lady under the Organ; ...United States: Our Lady of the Airways, ...Our Lady of the Knobs...

Some of the titles just mentioned, which are used to refer to Mary, are interesting because they are titles that are also used to refer to some ancient pagan mother goddesses, or they indicate specific characteristics that are applied to these mother goddesses. For instance, the title "Our Lady of the Airways'' brings to mind a Scripture concerning the princess of the power of the air:
Ephesians 2:2—
In which you walked in times past according to the course of this world, according to the princess of the power of the air: the god (el) that is now at work in the children of disobedience.

Another title used to refer to Mary is "Our Lady of the Fields.'' A Woman's Dictionary, by Barbara G. Walker, page 486, tells us some interesting information about grain, and the mother goddesses associated with it:
  Wheat was the "plant of truth" cultivated on the mummy-cases of Osiris and made into communion cakes, to be eaten by worshipers so they could partake of the god's divinity and become immortal like him. Egyptians were among the first to eat their god in the form of bread...but the cults of many other savior-gods followed suit. Adonis too was worshiped as a savior-god and cultivated as sprouting grain in the famous "gardens of Adonis"... Grains gods represented the wheat or barley crop at Eleusis and other pagan shrines, where the cycles of growth were controlled by the Great Mother (Demeter/Ceres/Ops/Terra Mater)...
   Christianity also took over the Roman festival of purification of the sprouting grain, originally an invocation of the earth Mother to protect the crop from blight. In pagan times, it was the Robigalia, transformed by the church into a pseudo-Christian Rogation Day (April 25), which employed the same rituals but changed the name of the deity.

Another title used to refer to Mary is the Panagia of Aphrodite. Remember, in Greece Aphrodite was worshiped as mother goddess.

Continuing on with other names and titles that are applied to Mary, we find the following information on page 193 of The Dictionary of Mary:
Morning Star: Latin, Stella matutina, an invocation of our Lady in the Litany of Loreto, first used by St. Peter Damian (d. 1072); by her merits, said Pope Urban IV in 1476, she, like the morning star, outshines all other constellations. "It is Mary's prerogative to be the Morning Star, which heralds the sun.''

These sources show various similarities between the mother goddess and Mary, specifically concerning the titles that today's Mary now holds that were once titles of the ancient pagan mother goddesses. However, there are other similarities, which we will now cover.

Similarities Between Ancient Mother Goddesses 
And Virgin Mary

It is interesting to compare various similar characteristics of the mother goddess to today's Mary; the Mary worshiped by the Catholic Church and most persons of the Christian faith. The Catholic Church teaches the assumption of Mary^__the false doctrine that Mary arose from her grave (just as her "son" did) three days after she died.

Ralph Woodrow, author of Babylon Mystery Religion, Ancient and Modern, pages 18-19, comments in his book on this very subject:
Representations of Mary are seen exactly the same way many of the pagan mother goddesses were pictured: Isis and Horus enclosed in a framework of flowers; Ashtarte associated with the crescent moon; Isis standing on the crescent moon with stars surrounding her head. The accompanying illustration below (as seen in Catholic catechism booklets) pictures Mary with twelve stars circling her head and the crescent moon under her feet!
  Juno, Ashtarte, Cybele, and Isis were also (as Mary) represented with a dove on their heads.
   As the pagans had statues of their goddesses, so statues were made of Mary. In fact, it is said that in some cases, the very same statues that had been worshiped as Isis (with her child) were simply renamed as Mary and the Christ Child.

Andrew M. Greely, author of The Mary Myth, On The Femininity of God, included in his book, a quote from Geoffrey Ashe, author of The Virgin, pages 192-193, as additional proof of this transformation of mother goddess worship to the worship of virgin Mary. While you read this passage, please notice the similarities between the Christian virgin mother Mary and the mother goddesses in ancient times:
  The citadel had fallen. Proclus, who had launched the attack, became Patriarch of Constantinople. Rome itself took the lead in a proliferation of Marian churches, new or rededicated. Its own Santa Maria Maggiore quickly acquired a vast mosaic on the triumphal arch, depicting the Virgin enthroned and glorified. Almost every large city throughout the Empire followed suit in architectural homage. Predictably perhaps, several of Mary's churches stood on ground once sacred to female divinity. Santa Maria Maggiore replaced Cybele's temple on the Esquiline hill. In due course Santa Maria in Arocoeli, on the Capitoline, succeeded to a temple of the Phoenician goddess Tanit. Another Roman church adjoined Isis's sanctuary near the Pantheon, another was on a site which had long been consecrated to Minerva, the Roman form of Athene. This last goddess, virgin daughter of Zeus, handed over to the new Virgin in a number of places, notably the Greek city of Syracuse, and Athens itself.
   The lingering popular cults made the same transition. Rustic shrines of Aphrodite in Cyprus turned painlessly into shrines of Mary, where she is hailed to this day as Panaghia Aphroditessa.
  Goddesses surrendered their functions to her. Like Cybele she guarded Rome. Like Athene she protected various other cities. Like Isis she watched over seafarers, becoming, and remaining, the Star of the Sea. Like Juno she cared for pregnant women. Christian art reflected her new attributes. She wore a crown recalling Cybele's. Enthroned with her Child she resembled Isis with Horus. She even had touches of Neith about her. The title and office of Queen of Heaven passed to her naturally from Isis, Anath and Astarte, and preserved her own Collyridian character.

The similarities are astounding! The proof is abundant! The truths are self-evident! A rose, by any other name, is still a rose. Lucifer, by any other name, is still Lucifer, The queen of heaven. But, there is still more.

Doctrine Of The Assumption: Virgin "Mary" Is Crowned "Queen Of Heaven"

In Ralph Woodrow's, Babylon Mystery Religion, Ancient and Modern, pages 25-26, we find the following information concerning Mary worship:
Further attempts to glorify Mary may be seen in the Roman Catholic doctrine of the perpetual virginity.
  Some have taught that Mary's body never saw corruption, that she bodily ascended into heaven, and is now the queen of heaven. It was not until this present century that the doctrine of the assumption of Mary was officially proclaimed as a doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church. It was in 1951 that Pope Pius XII proclaimed that Mary's body saw no corruption, but was taken to heaven (Ibid., vol. 2, p. 632, art. "Assumption, Feast of").
  The words of St. Bernard sum up the Roman Catholic position: "On the third day after Mary's death, when the apostles gathered around her tomb, they found it empty. The sacred body had been carried up to the Celestial Paradise... the grave had no power over one who was immaculate... But it was not enough that Mary should be received into heaven. She was to be no ordinary citizen... Mary was to be crowned Queen of Heaven by the eternal Father: she was to have a throne at her Son's right hand..."

The Catholic Church accepts this doctrine, and teaches its members to pray to Mary as the queen of heaven, when there is absolutely no Scriptural proof for proclaiming such a thing! In fact, it is totally unscriptural! The Holy Scriptures plainly state that the dead know nothing. Miriam, the wife of Yahseph who gave birth to Yahshua Messiah, died and was placed in her grave. As a matter of fact, we know that she died due to the fact that she lived almost 1,900 years ago, but there is no Scripture which records her death. Knowing that she is dead, we know that she will be resurrected, but not until the first resurrection, just as Scripture shows.
Ecclesiastes 9:5—
For the living know that they will die; but the dead do not know anything...
Romans 8:18-19—
18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the Glory which will be revealed in us.
19 For the earnest expectation of the creation waits for the revealing of the Sons of Yahweh.
Hebrews 11:13,39-40—
13 All these died in the Faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were convinced of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth;
39 And all these, having obtained a Righteous report through the Faith, have not received the promise;
40 Yahweh having provided some better thing for us, that they, without us, would not be made perfect.
Revelation 20:4-6—
4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and Judgment was given unto them. And I saw the souls of those who were beheaded for their Witness of Yahshua and for the Word (Laws) of Yahweh, and who had not worshiped the beast, nor her likeness, neither had received her mark in their foreheads nor upon their hands; and they lived and reigned with the Messiah a thousand years^__
5 But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This isthe first resurrection^__
6 Blessed and Holy is he who has part in the first resurrection; on such the second death has no power, but they will be priests of Yahweh and of the Messiah, and will reign with him a thousand years.

Even so, the Catholic Church teaches that Mary is alive and well, and has been crowned queen of heaven. Poems have even been written to her as such. The Catholic National Series, The New Fourth Reader, by Richard Gilmour, has contained within its pages (pages 101-102), a poem dedicated specifically to the queen of May. We show below, only the first two of the four verses in this passage:

The Queen of May
Oh! Wake me up tomorrow morn,
so early, mother dear!
Tomorrow will be May-day,
the gladdest of the year:
At early Mass we'll welcome in
the summer's brightest day,
For Mary is the Queen of Heaven,
mother, and also Queen of May.
We've decked our Lady's altar
with flowers fresh and fair,
And crowned her with a diadem
of the choicest and most rare:
So at her shrine I long to kneel,
and invoke her as I pray,
"Oh, Mary, Queen of Heaven!
Oh, Mary, Queen of May!"

The Christian Doctrine Of The Immaculate Conception

Continuing our reading from Ralph Woodrow's, Babylon Mystery Religion, Ancient and Modern, pages 21-23, we find more information concerning Mary worship:
  Perhaps the most outstanding proof that Mary worship developed out of the old worship of the pagan mother goddess may be seen from the fact that in pagan religion, the mother was worshiped as much or more than her son. ... Roman Catholicism in many ways exalts the mother also.
  Further attempts to exalt Mary to a glorified position within Catholicism may be seen in the doctrine of the immaculate conception. This doctrine was pronounced and defined by Pius IX in 1854^__that the Blessed Virgin Mary "in the first instant of her conception...was preserved exempt from all stain of original sin."

So far, we have covered two doctrines accepted and taught by the Catholic Church concerning Mary:
1. The assumption: That Mary was resurrected and ascended into heaven to be crowned queen, three days after she was placed in her grave; and
2. The immaculate conception: That, upon her conception of the "messiah", Mary was sinless. We will begin by discussing what Scripture says about the assumption.

The Scriptures do not talk about Miriam's resurrection, because she hasn't been resurrected yet. As we stated earlier, her death is not even recorded in the Holy Scriptures. Nowhere in Scripture does it say that Miriam would also be in the grave three days and three nights, to be resurrected afterward. Again, the time is coming when she will be resurrected, but not until the first resurrection.

The Savior's death and resurrection, however, are recorded in Scripture. And it was written for us so that we could know the identity of the True Savior. Unless the Savior fulfilled everything that was written about Him, He would not be the True Savior. The only sign that Yahshua gave concerning His death and resurrection, was that He would be in the grave three days and three nights, just as it is written in the Prophecies.
Yahchanan Mark 8:31—
Then He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed; and after three days, raised up.
Mattithyah 12:40—
For as Yahnah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

Secondly, we will discuss what the Catholic Church calls the immaculate conception. Although this doctrine was pronounced and defined in 1854 by the Pope himself, the Catholics admit that this doctrine is not Scriptural. The Catholic Encyclopedia itself states: "No direct or categorical and stringent proof of the dogma can be brought forward from Scripture." That's right. There is no Scriptural proof, because it's not Scriptural! Scripture does say:
Romans 3:23—
For all have sinned, and come short of the Glory of Yahweh.

The Catholic Church knows this. In fact, they state within The Catholic Encyclopedia itself that these ideas were a gradual development within the church.

The Scriptures tell us, however, there is One and only One aside from Yahweh, Who was without sin—the True Messiah, Yahshua Messiah our High Priest.
Hebrews 12:2—
Looking to Yahshua, the First Who was led and perfected by the Faith, Who, for the joy that was set before Him: endured the sacrifice, despising the shame; bosheth: baal, lord, and is set down at the Right Hand of the Throne of Yahweh!
Hebrews 4:15—
For we do not have a High Priest Who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all ways tempted as we are—yet was without sin.

The Worship Of Today's Mary
Honor And Devotion Given To The Queen Of Heaven Thousands Of Years Before The Savior

Catholic theologians believe a special veneraton is due to Mary. In fact, they even have a word for this special veneration. Please notice what is written under the word hyperdulia in The Dictionary of Mary, page 115:
  Hyperdulia: In the technical language of the theologians that...the veneration and honor given to angels, saints, and all the blessed in Heaven is called dulia; and the special reverence accorded to the Virgin Mary is called hyperdulia. ...Many theologians hold that hyperdulia differs from dulia not only in its greater degree, but in kind as well; they argue that a specific veneration is due to our Lady in accordance with her unique position as Mother of God.

These questions come to mind: What Mary are they speaking of, and what god was she a mother to? The Savior was never identified as a god, not by Yahweh or by His Disciples, and He never identified Himself as such. So then, the Mary they speak of is definitely a Mary other than Miriam, the wife of Yahseph and mother of Yahshua Messiah.

Reading from The Dictionary of Mary, page 66-67, we find more information about devotion to Mary:
  Devotion to Mary: Devotion to the Blessed Virgin is here understood as the religious attachment of individual persons to Mary, in herself and her various aspects. ...Early in the fifth century a writer declared rhetorically that she was "reverenced throughout the whole universe." ...But it was during the middle ages that public veneration (q.b.) of our Lady by the Church and the personal devotion of the faithful, acting and reacting on one another, together produced and spread Marian Devotion of an enthusiasm and extent not known before.
  ...Every serious Catholic loves and honors the Mother of God... Says Pope Pius XII in Adcaeli Reginam, "Let no one consider himself exempt from this tribute [reverence for the Queen of Heaven and earth] of a grateful and loving soul."
  ...True devotion to Mary may be summed up in terms of three fundamental Christian virtues. Through faith in her motherhood of God, she is to be honored and venerated above all other creatures: through hope, she is to be relied on with complete trustfulness; through charity, she is to be loved with all one's heart.

This brings to mind, Yahweh's Words written for us in:
Deuteronomy 6:4-5—
4 Hear, O Israyl, Yahweh is our Father. Yahweh is One.
5 And you must love Yahweh your Father with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.

It also brings to mind, Yahshua's Words written in:
Mattithyah 4:8-10—
8 Again, the devil took Him up into an exceedingly high mountain, and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and the magnificence of them,
9 And said to Him; I will give You all these things, if You will fall down and worship me.
10 Then Yahshua said to her; You get away, Satan! For it is written: Yahweh your Father you must reverence, and Him only you must serve!

These Scriptures are plain and clear. Yahweh only is to be worshiped, served, reverenced, prayed to. Miriam, Yahweh's Servant, worshiped Yahweh and she would not have wanted anyone to worship her, no true Servant of Yahweh would want to steal that from Yahweh.

Still, many people believe the lies that are taught by these false preachers who tell them, "Let no one consider himself exempt from this tribute [reverence for the queen of heaven and earth] of a grateful and loving soul." The Dictionary of Mary, pages 271 and 53, shows more interesting facts about the religious relation of devout Christians to the "mother of god:"

Slavery To Mary: An attitude or relation to the Mother of God expressed in terms of "slavery" or "servitude" is particularly associated with three holy men, Cardinal Peter de Berulle (d. 1629), Henry Boudon, Archdeacon of Evreux (d. 1702), and St. Louis Grignion de Montfort (d. 1716). Archdeacon Boudon explained it as a "sacred transaction made with the Queen of Heaven and earth whereby a person dedicated his freedom to become her slave, recognizing her as absolute mistress of his heart, giving up to her the rights arising from good actions, devoting himself entirely to the service of her majesty, which he will ever uphold."

Consecration To Mary: The consecration of oneself to our Lady is commonly understood in a general sense of dedication to her service and example... The most common example of consecration of someone...is the usage in many places of the priest, on behalf of the parents, offering a newly baptized child before the Lady's altar or statue...
  Personal consecration to Mary is particularly associated with the name of St. Louis Grignion de Montfort, who in his True Devotion (q.v.) gives a form for this consecration: "As your slave, I give up and consecrate to you my body and my soul, all my goods, interior and exterior, and the worth of my good deeds, past, present, and to come. I give you the full and complete right to dispose of me and of everything whatever that belongs to me according to your good pleasure...now and forever." The outward practices recommended by the saint in support of this consecration include the frequent saying of the Magnificat (q.v.). The inward dispositions are that all things should be done through Mary, with Mary, in Mary, and for Mary...

Please remember, Miriam (the mother of Yahshua) is dead, and she is not receiving worship. The worship is actually going to another being: Mary, the virgin mother goddess, The Queen of Heaven. The Abingdon Dictionary of Living Religions, page 465, shows us more on this subject:
  3. Veneration of Mary: Veneration of Mary and the Saints developed in the first centuries. ...the Christians called on them for their prayers...and the custom was extended to other holy people...
  In subsequent centuries a much expanded Marian piety developed, e.g., the prayers and meditations of Anselm (d. 1109), and the lyrical sermons of Bernard (d. 1153). The place of Mary was strengthened in the liturgy. From the East the classic feasts spread to the West: Mary's birthday (Sept. 8) and Assumption (Aug. 15); and joint feasts of the Savior and his mother, i.e. Presentation of the Lord, often called the Purification of Mary (the English Candlemas) on Feb. 2, and Annunciation (Mar. 25), the great springtime feast of Incarnation. Alcuin of England introduced the custom of dedicating Saturday to Mary at the time of Charlemagne (A.D. 800). The first Reformers continued to venerate Mary even while eliminating practices they condemned as abuses.
  4. Current ecumenical interest. ...her place grew greater in Roman Catholicism. ...In recent years an ecumenical reconsideration of the role of Mary has begun, thanks to the activity of Orthodox Churches within the World Council of Churches, through the Faith and Order Conference (1927 onward), and on the Roman Catholic side due to the Second Vatican Council. The Ecumenical Society of the Blessed Virgin Mary was founded in England in 1967, with participation from Anglicans, Methodists, Orthodox, and Roman Catholics, and meets regularly in a number of cities. It has sponsored three international conferences (1971, 1973, and 1975). On similar lines the Ecumenical Society of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the United States began in 1976, and has been meeting twice yearly in the Washington, D.C. area, with membership cutting across denominational lines.
  For Mary's role in Islam see Maryam.
Maryam. Mary, the mother of Jesus, mentioned frequently in the Qur'an in early as well as late passages. In Sura 19:20 ff., which is named "Mary," the doctrine of Virgin Birth is mentioned, as also in Sura 66:12 and 3:47. The Qur'an also knows a version of the Immaculate Conception (Sura 3:36), where Mary and Jesus are kept clean from Satan's touch, giving rise to the Islamic doctrine of impeccability. The Qur'an also attributes to some a belief that Mary was part of the Trinity (Sura 5:116), which has led Western scholars to search for Marist sects in pre-Islamic Arabia...

Not only is devotion given to Mary, but altars, shrines, churches, and even whole countries are dedicated and devoted to her. As The Dictionary of Mary, page 115, tells us, "It is well known that the sixth Provincial Council of Baltimore dedicated the United States of America to Mary Immaculate in 1846. ...It is a matter of history that since that moment the growth of devotion to and of shrines of the Blessed Virgin in the United States has been very marked."

One particular church dedicated to Mary, is called Santa Maria In Ara Caeli. Reading from The Dictionary of Mary, page 66-67, we find the following information about this church:
  The name given to an ancient church on the Capitoline hill at Rome. It derives from a legend that Octavian Augustus, who was Roman emperor... here saw a vision of our Lady upon an altar in Heaven. The growth of the legend apparently owes something to Virgil's fourth eclogue, which was often interpreted as a prophecy of the coming of the Savior:

  Come are those last days that the Sybil sang:
        The ages' might march being anew.
        Now comes the Virgin;
        Saturn reigns again:
        Now from high heaven
        comes down a wondrous race.
        Thou on a new-born babe^_
        who first shall end
        That age of iron, bid a golden dawn
        Upon the Broad world^__chast Lucina, smile...

This prophecy based upon legend makes obvious reference to at least three gods and goddesses: Sybil, Saturn, Lucina. Calling upon the names of gods is a blatant SIN! See for yourself what Yahweh says:
Exodus 23:13—
In all things I have said to you, be careful to do them, and make no mention of the name of hinder gods (elohim), neither let it be heard from your mouth.

You can resist this godworship. You do not have to partake in pagan mother goddess worship, or the worship of Mary, the mother of god, which is nothing more than worshiping Asherah (Satan). Just remember what Yahweh spoke about certain men who fell into this same trap, in:
II Chronicles 33:1-3,5,7—
1 Menasheh; Making to Forget, was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five years in Yerusalem.
2 But he did evil in the eyes of yahweh; serving the gods (elohim), following the abominable practices of the nations whom Yahweh had driven out from in front of the children of Israyl.
3 He rebuilt the houses with the High Places, which his father Hezekyah had broken down. he raised up altars for the baalim; the lords, gods (elohim), and goddesses, made asherah poles; the sacred poles representing the goddess asherah, and worshiped all the host of the heaven, and served them.
5 He also built altars for all the host of heaven in both courts of The House of Yahweh.
7 He even set a carved image of the goddess asherah; the sacred pole, in The House of Yahweh...

Forms Of Devotion To Mary

The Catholic Church openly admits that they pray to Mary, in fact, that they pray to all the "blessed in heaven" (all the host of heaven). The church states, in The Dictionary of Mary, page 225, that they pray to the Father, but they "pray also to the blessed in Heaven, especially the Blessed Virgin" that the virgin and the blessed in heaven may intercede for them.

Again, Miriam (the mother of Yahshua Messiah) is dead. She has not lived for centuries, but still, the false preachers are teaching lies to the whole world, saying that Mary and all the Saints have been resurrected, and are alive to hear your prayers.

The whole world has been taught, and they believe that their dead ancestors are still alive, only in another form. What they have actually been taught, is that it is acceptable to worship the dead. However, the worship of dead ancestors is nothing more or less than worshiping demons, gods, and Lucifer herself, the queen of heaven, in the form of mother/child image. As the following Scriptures show, it is not possible to worship both, Yahweh and demons. Yahweh knows those who are His, by their obedience to Him.
I Corinthians 10:18-21—
18 Consider Israyl after the flesh: are not those who eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?
19 What am I saying, then? That a god (el) is anything, or what is offered to gods (elohim) is anything?
20 But I say that the things which the gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to Yahweh; and I do not want you to have fellowship with demons.
21 You cannot drink the cup of Yahweh and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of Yahweh's table and of the table of demons.
II Timothy 2:19—
Nevertheless, the Foundation of Yahweh stands sure, having this Seal: Yahweh knows those who are His, because: everyone who reverences the Name of Yahweh departs from iniquity.

Forms Of Devotion
-The Rosary-

Closely connected with the idea of praying to Mary is an instrument called the rosary. The rosary consists of a chain or a string of beads used for counting prayers to Mary and the saints; prayers that are repeated over and over. The ends of this chain are joined by a medal bearing the imprint of Mary. From this hangs a short chain at the end of which is a crucifix.

The most often repeated prayer and the main prayer of the rosary is the "Hail Mary," and it is recited as follows: "Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of death, Amen.''

The Dictionary of Mary, page 231, shows this information:
  Psalter, Our Lady's: This name is sometimes given to the rosary (q.v.) because in its full form it has 150 Hail Mary's, which corresponds to the Psalter with its 150 psalms. Before the rosary received its present form there was a custom of reciting 50, 100, or 150 Aves, often accompanied by a deep bow or prostration at each one.

Some interesting information about this was also found in Babylon Mystery Religion, Ancient and Modern, by Ralph Woodrow, pages 27-28:
  For centuries, among the Mohammedans, a bead-string consisting of 33, 66, or 99 beads has been used for counting the names of Allah. Among the Phoenicians a circle of beads resembling a rosary was used in the worship of Ashtarte, the mother goddess, about 800 b.c.e. (Seymour, The Cross in Tradition, History, and Art, p. 21).
  Beads for counting of prayers were known in Asiatic Greece. Such was the purpose, according to Hislop (The Two Babylons), for the necklace seen on the statue of Diana.

According to A Dictionary of Mary, the origin of the rosary is extremely obscure. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7, pages 250-253 and 653-655, shows the following information:
  There is little or no trace of the Hail Mary as an accepted devotional formula before about 1050.
...According to the tradition of the Order of Preachers, accepted by a number of popes since 1495 and referred to in the Roman Breviary, the rosary, much as we know it, was devised by St. Dominic, and used by him in his missionary work among the Albigensian heretics, in consequence of a vision in which our Lady revealed it to him. No tradition of the kind has been more passionately supported... The use of beads or similar objects as a device for aiding the memory and keeping count is not only pre-Dominican but pre-Christian; and the custom of saying a number of Paters or Aves and keeping count of them on a string of beads was widespread in the West before the thirteenth century. (The famous Lady Godiva, of Coventry in England, had a string of precious stones for that purpose circa 1075)... No form of prayer is so widely and frequently used among Catholics of all sorts and conditions (and by some non-Catholics), or so warmly and often recommended to the faithful by their pastors, from the popes downward, and its use is continually increasing. Indeed, the popularity of the rosary is so great that there is sometimes a tendency to forget that there are other forms of everyday prayer, and accordingly both church services and private prayer may be narrowed in scope... "Let us then," says the Roman Breviary, "honor the most holy Mother of God by this devotion which is so acceptable to her; so that she, who has so often been moved by the rosary prayers of Christ's faithful to bring their earthly adversaries to naught, may likewise grant that they may overcome the powers of Hell."

Additional information can be found in A Dictionary of Mary, page 285:
  Three Hail Marys, The: A series of seven prayers to our Lady, one for each day of the week, written by St. Alphonsus Liguori (d. 1787).
  Each prayer is followed by the Hail Mary, said three times in reparation for impieties spoken against her. This devotion, indulgenced by the Holy See, has been widely popularized... There is also a devotion of three Hail Marys daily in honor of the power, wisdom and loving mercy of the Blessed Virgin...

Yahweh, our Father and Creator, is the only one Who can answer our prayers. In fact, Yahweh pleads with His people to call upon Him, with His Name (Yahweh).
II Chronicles 7:14—
If My people, who are called with My Name, will humble themselves, and pray, and seek My Face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sins, and heal their land.
Yahyl 2:32—
And whoever will call with the Name of Yahweh will be delivered; for in Mount Zion in Yerusalem there will be deliverance, as Yahweh has said, among the remnant who has escaped of those whom Yahweh calls.

These Scriptures are very clear! We are to call only upon the Name, Yahweh, in prayer. For more information on this subject, please write for our free bookley, Why Aren't Your Prayers Answered Today?

Various Forms Of Devotion To Mary - The Queen of Heaven

Throughout this issue, we have shown the various forms of devotion and worship that are offered to Mary as the mother of god and the queen of heaven. Altars, churches, shrines, poems, prayers, and even countries have been dedicated or rededicated to her, although the Holy Scriptures strictly state that this practice is an abomination.

We will now look at various other forms of worship for Mary, which are defined in detail.

The Liturgy Of Mary:

Quoting from A Dictionary of Mary, pages 151-152, we find this information:
  Liturgy, Our Lady In The: Eastern: The All-holy Mother of God has a very striking place in all liturgies of the East... the following examples may be noticed in the "ordinary" parts of the Byzantine (q.v.) Mass.
  When the celebrant approaches the sanctuary to make ready the bread and wine before Mass begins, the curtain of the screen is drawn aside and he says, "Open the door of mercy to us, blessed Mother of God..." and then turns to that of Mary: "Mother of God, look down upon a sinful people and show thy power as of old..." Then, during the preparation, an altar-bread is set forth in honor and memory of our Lady, as of other saints. ...and several times during the Mass the celebrant or singers refer to the prayers of the Mother of God. The principal reference to our Lady, however, comes at once after the invocation of the Holy Spirit at the consecration: "Moreover we offer thee this worship in spirit on behalf of our forefathers...and [the priest sings aloud] especially our all-holy, stainless, most blessed and glorious lady, mother of God and ever-virgin Mary"; and the Magnifical Hymn(q.v.) is then sung to her.
  But it is in the rhythmical chants of the Office "propers" that Byzantine liturgical celebration of our Lady reaches its height. ...And the other Eastern rites do not fall behind the Byzantine in the richness of their Marian content. The following short quotations must suffice as examples.
  "Hail, Mary, fair dove who didst bear God the Word for us! We greet thee with the angel Gabriel, and say: Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee! Hail, ever virgin and very queen...'' (Coptic: when incense is offered to the icon of Mary at Mass).
  "Hail, Mary ever-virgin, mother of the Almighty who fills Heaven and earth. Hail..., mother of the Ancient of days whose name was before the sun was created. Hail...Mother of Him who made Adam from the dust of the earth. Hail..., mother of Him who formed Eve and gave her to Adam...'' (Maronite and Syro-Malabar: prayer from the Mass in honor of our Lady).

The Months Of Mary:

Quoting from A Dictionary of Mary, pages 191-192, we find the following information, and as you read, please recall the poem we quoted earlier in this Chapter called, The Queen of May.

Month of Mary. As a personal name, May is now used as a familiar form of Mary, but as the name of the fifth month of the year it is derived from the Roman goddess Maia. From early times this season of the year was marked by merry-making and various customs having reference to the spring. Some of these customs persisted through the middle ages, and even down to our own time... The Benedictine monk John Lydgate (d. c. 1450) began a May-day poem with an invocation of "Mighty Flora! goddess of fresh flowers..." Individuals here and there adapted one or other of these observances to religious ends: for example, Bl. Henry Suso (d. 1365) sometimes set up a May-garland in honor of our Lady. But the custom of dedicating the month to her, putting up temporary shrines, having processions and other special services in her honor, is quite a late development.
  The first certain book of May devotions was published by an Italian Jesuit, Father Annibale Dionisi, about 1726; in it he says; "When we make an offering we ought to give of our best, so that among all the months of the year we choose the most beautiful, May, the season of flowers, which invites us to crown [Mary] with the blossoms of good deeds." He then suggests putting up of a little shrine in the home, and saying the rosary or the Loreto litany before it, and other devotions.
  In lists of devotions for the months (which do not always agree with one another) May is not the only one during which Mary is specially honored: there is August, her Immaculate Heart; September, her Seven Sorrows; October, the rosary. Special observances in May and October have been given official recognition, and are (with other popular devotions) specially referred to by Pope Pius XII...

The Feasts Of Mary

Quoting from A Dictionary of Mary, pages 84-85, we find this information:
  Feasts Of Our Lady: St. Sergius I, a Syrian who was pope from 687 to 701, ordered the solemn observance of four feasts that were already kept every year at Constantinople, namely, Mary's Birthday, the Annunciation, the Purification, and her Falling Asleep (Assumption). On these days the pope used to walk in procession barefooted (that is, in sandals) to celebrate Mass in St. Mary Major (q.v.). From then on, feasts of our Lady have continually increased in number and extension, especially in the Western Church. There are at the present time five universal Marian feasts, in the sense that they are observed everywhere in both East and West: the Immaculate Conception, Birthday, Presentation, Annunciation, and Assumption (qq.v.). Then there are thirteen feasts that are observed everywhere where the general calendar of the Western Church is in force... Finally, there is a very large number of feasts of limited observance, some of wide extension, others confined even to one place or church. ...others are noted in F.G. Holweck's Calendarium liturgicum festorum Dei et Dei Matris Mariae (St. Louis, 1925): traced more than 2,000 Marian feasts and memorials, including various names and dates...

On page 253 of this same source, we find the following information about the feast of the rosary. As you read, please remember what was quoted earlier in this chapter, from Geoffrey Ashe, author of The Virgin, pages 192-193: "Like Cybele she guarded Rome. Like Athene she protected various other cities. Like Isis she watched over seafarers, becoming, and remaining, the Star of the Sea."

Rosary, Feast of the: It was through a series of victories in battle that feast of our Lady under the name of her rosary was inaugurated and extended in the Western Church.

On pages 200, and 277-278, of the same source, we find more information:
Name of Mary:
...A feast of the Holy Name of Mary was granted to Cuenca in Spain in 1513 and extended to the whole country and southern Italy in 1671. Twelve years later Pope Innocent XI decreed it to the whole Western Church in thanksgiving for the driving back of the Turks from Vienna by the king of Poland, John Sobieski; it is now kept on September 12, the date of the victory and only four days after our Lady's birthday. ...the name Mary was revered long before there was a feast. "In time of danger, of difficulty, of uncertainty, think upon Mary, call upon Mary. Do not let her name depart out of your mouth or out of your heart;" thus St. Bernard in a sermon wherein, as he said, he spoke "for a little about this name."

Star of the Sea:
...This is probably the most popular interpretation of Miryam, the Hebrew original of the name Mary. It appears to be due to St. Jerome, writing about the year 400, and the expression, stella maris in Latin, passed into the Western Christian vocabulary and maintains to this day its popularity as an epithet of our Lady.
  The English scholar Alcuin (d. 804), in an inscription for an altar, refers to her as lux et stella maris, light and star of the sea. St. Bernard (d. 1153) expatiates on "this name, which is said to mean star of the sea, so well and aptly applied to the Virgin Mother... Whoever you are, if you find yourself being tossed about in the gales and storms of this world's waters..., fix your eyes on the brightness of this star...look to the star, call to Mary." ...The anonymous author of The Mirror of Our Lady (c. 1440) writes that it is appropriate to praise Mary early in the morning because "Some say that at Matins time there appeareth a star in the firmament whereby shipmen are guided on the sea and bring themselves safely to port, and it is our Lady that succoureth mankind in the troublous sea of this world and bringeth her lovers to the haven of salvation." The expression is familiar in hymnody, ...Dr. Lingard's "Hail, Queen of Heav'n, the ocean star."
  In the Litany of Loreto, Mary is invoked as the Morning Star.

At this point, it is worthy to call your attention to the fact that Lucifer was also called the morning star, as were many of the ancient pagan goddesses. The similarities between Mary, the ancient pagan mother goddesses, and Lucifer herself, are quite abundant. It is no coincidence that the titles that are given to these goddesses, and the characteristics that each one has, are so similar. Again, the proof is self-evident. These goddesses are one and the same.

Continuing in this study of Mary and the devotions offered to her, we find much more.

Hymns To Mary:

Quoting from A Dictionary of Mary, pages 3-4, we find this:
  Akathistos Hymn, The: The most famous Marian devotion of the Eastern Church. ...sung in churches...it is also used, whole or part, at all times of the year for private devotion. It consists of twelve sections: each consists of two stanzas, of which the first always ends in "Alleluia" and the second is followed by thirteen...apostraphes of Mary... The Akathistos Hymn has several times been published in English: the following is an example of one section (no. ix):

"The most eloquent are dumb as fish before you,
O Forth-bringer,
for they cannot tell how you,
a maiden, were able to bear a Son.
But we,
also wondering at the mystery,
cry out in faith:
...Hail! ship of salvation.
Hail! harbour of the tempest-tossed.
Hail! Maiden Bride!"

Anthems To Mary:

Quoting from A Dictionary of Mary, page 5, we find this information:
  Alma Redemptoris Mater: The opening words and title of the first of the anthems of our Lady said or sung from the first Vespers of Advent Sunday to the Purification inclusive. The following translation is from the Primer of 1706:

"Bright parent of our Lord,
whose prayers display
the heavenly gates;
whose light directs our way;
Bright ocean's star,
with sacred influence guide
Our straggling course in spite of nature's tide.
Thou in whom nature
stood amazed to see
Both God and man;
thy Maker born of thee;
In whom alone the maid
and mother meet;
Remember sinners at thy Infant's feet."

Dedications in honor of Mary are almost endless. And, they are not so different from those offered to the woman whom Yahweh Himself calls in Scripture, the queen of heaven. The people of the world offered little cakes to the queen of heaven in the days of the Prophets, and today they offer sacrifices of little cakes to Mary. The Dictionary of Mary, page 170, shows this fact:
  Mariolatry: The classical historical example of Mariolatry is the obscure fourth-century sect in Arabian called Collyridians; they offered sacrifice to Mary in the form of little cakes. ...From time to time, ...charges of Mariolatry have been brought by opponents against the Catholic Church, and also against the Orthodox and other dissident Eastern Christians.

What Does Yahweh Say About This?

In the days of the Prophet Yeremyah, Yahweh said it was an abomination for the people to offer their sacrifices and offerings to the queen of heaven, yet they refused to listen to the warnings given to them by the Prophets. And it is no different today. Sacrifices and offerings are still being made to the queen of heaven, as all of this research plainly shows, yet the people refuse to listen to Yahweh's warnings. Notice what the people said to Yahweh's Servant Yeremyah when Yahweh warned them through him:
Yeremyah 44:4-5,9-12—
4 However, I have sent all My Servants the Prophets to you, rising early and sending them, saying: Oh, do not do this abominable thing that I hate!
5 But they did not obey nor incline their ear; pay any attention, to turn from their wickedness and cease burning incense to hinder gods (elohim);
9 Have you forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, the wickedness of the kings of Yahdah, the wickedness of their wives, your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they committed in the land of Yahdah and in the streets of Yerusalem?
10 To this day, none are humble, nor show Reverence; they have not walked in My Laws, nor in My Statutes that I set before you and your fathers.
11 Therefore, this is what Yahweh our Father, the Father of Israyl, says...
12 I will take the remnant of Yahdah, that was determined to go into the land of Egypt to settle there, and they will all be consumed. they will fall in the land of Egypt by sword and by famine. They will die, from the least to the greatest, by the sword and by famine; and they will be an execration, an astonishment, a curse, and a reproach!
Yeremyah 44:15-19,23—
15 Then all the men who knew that their wives had burned incense to hinder gods (elohim), together with all the women who stood by, a great multitude in all, and all the people who lived in the land of Egypt and in the country of Pathros, answered Yeremyah, saying;
16 Concerning the word that you have spoken to us in the Name of Yahweh, we will not listen to you!
17 Instead, we will certainly do what we have vowed to do. we will burn incense to the queen of heaven and pour out drink offerings to her, just as we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, used to do in the cities of Yahdah and in the streets of Yerusalem; for then we had plenty of food, were successful, and experienced no trouble.
18 But since we stopped burning incense to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything, and have been consumed by the sword and by famine.
19 The women then said; When we burned incense to the queen of heaven and poured out drink offerings to her, it was not without our husbands' knowledge and consent that we made cakes for her, to worship her, and poured out drink offerings to her.
23 It was because you have burned incense, and because you have sinned against Yahweh; and have neither obeyed the Voice of Yahweh, nor walked in His Laws, nor in His Statutes, nor in His Testimonies; therefore this disaster has come upon you, as it is this day.

Yahweh pleaded with the people in those days to stop worshiping gods, and He is pleading with the people of the world today. He even showed the people, as He shows us today in Prophecy, that curses were going to come upon them as a result of worshiping the queen, rather than Yahweh the Creator. However, Lucifer with the help of her followers (angels, demons), will do whatever it takes to deceive and convince mankind into following and worshiping her.

Remember, Yahweh tells us that Satan (who is a spirit being) works with all lying signs and wonders, and her angels are able to appear to mankind, disguising themselves to look like anybody they choose, even Mother Mary herself!
II Thessalonians 2:9-10—
9 ...Satan, who works with all power, and signs, and lying wonders,
10 and with all deceivableness of sin in those who are perishing, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
II Corinthians 4:4—
For the god of this world (Satan) has blinded the minds of those who do not believe, so that the light of the Message of the Glory of the Messiah, Who is the Image of Yahweh, should not shine unto them.
II Corinthians 11:14-15—
14 And no marvel; for Satan herself is transformed into an angel of light.
15 Therefore, it is no great thing if her ministers also are transformed as the ministers of righteousness^__whose end will be according to their works.

Do not be fooled by these lying signs. Many believe the deceptions of Satan, but Yahweh says that we are to trust in Him and seek Him only.
Isayah 8:19—
And when they say to you; Seek those who have familiar spirits, and for wizards who peep, and who mutter—should not a people seek their Father? Should they seek the dead on behalf of the living?

It may seem like many blessings come as a result of following the ways of the nations, but these so-called blessings are not what they seem to be. The final result of godworship (and this includes Mary worship), will be that of the curse of destruction. And all the host of heaven, who are so diligently prayed to now, will be dissolved at the appointed time.
Isayah 34:4—
4 And all the host of heaven will be dissolved, and the heavens will be rolled together like a scroll; all their host will fall down, as the leaf falls from the vine, and as figs falling from the fig tree.
 Revelation 20:10—
And the devil, who deceived them; seduced and led them astray, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet had been cast, and will be tormented a day and a night because of the ages.

However, Yahweh tells us how we can receive true and lasting blessings. Blessings come only by obedience to Yahweh and His 613 Perfectly Righteous Laws, not by calling upon gods and goddesses (or Mary) for deliverance. All the prayers one could pray to mother Mary or to all the host in heaven, will not bring benefit or deliverance. Yahweh, our Father and Creator, is the Only One Who can save and deliver. So why would anyone call upon gods or goddesses who cannot save?
Deuteronomy 10:12-13—
12 And now, O Israyl, what does Yahweh your Father require of you, but to reverence Yahweh your Father by walking in all His Ways, by loving Him, by serving Yahweh your Father with all your heart, and with all your soul,
13 By keeping the Commandments (613 Laws) of Yahweh, with His Statutes, which I command you this day, so that you may be blessed?
Deuteronomy 11:21—
So your days and the days of your children may be numerous—like the days of the heavens above the earth—in the land which Yahweh vowed on oath to your fathers to give them.
Isayah 33:22—
For Yahweh is our Judge, Yahweh is our Lawgiver, Yahweh is our Heavenly Father; He will save us!
Isayah 45:18-22—
18 For this is what Yahweh, Who created the heavens, Who is the Father, Who formed the earth and made it, Who has established it, Who did not create it in vain, Who formed it to be inhabited, says: I am Yahweh, and there is no other source of power!
19 I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth; I did not say to the seed of Yaaqob: Seek Me in vain. I, Yahweh, speak Righteousness! I openly speak things that are right!
20 Gather yourselves together and come; draw near together, you who have escaped from the nations. They have no knowledge, who set up the wood of their graven images, and pray to a god (el) which cannot save.
21 Speak out, bring your proofs near; yes, let them take counsel together. Who has declared this from ancient time? Who has foretold it from that time? Have not I, Yahweh? and there is no source of power except Me, a Just Father and a Savior; there is none but Me.
22 Look to Me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am Yahweh, and there is no other source of power.

The purpose for showing all of this information about the virgin Mary, is to show the relation between the woman (the church) who sits on the beast, spoken of in Revelation 17, and the woman (the queen of heaven) who gives the woman (the church) its great power, and its seat and authority over the beast.

We have seen that the Catholic Church worships and venerates the virgin Mary. They pray to her, they seek her protection, they exalt her as queen of heaven, and they look to her for guidance. The Catholic Church claims they worship the Father, but in actuality, they worship a goddess, whom they claim is the virgin who gave birth to the Savior. However, Miriam, the mother of Yahshua Messiah, was not a goddess. Miriam lived in the flesh, she fulfilled the Prophecies written about her, and she is now in her grave until she will be resurrected in the first resurrection.

Extreme Pressure And Force From The Queen Of Heaven

During the next few months you will see and feel the extreme pressure that will be put on every nation. Great power, signs, and lying wonders will be used to turn the people to the worship of the queen of heaven, whom they call Mary. Make no mistake, this is not Miriam, the mother of Yahshua. She is dead and buried. There is nothing in the Inspired Scriptures telling us to worship the dead, Miriam or anyone else. In fact, we are told explicitly not to worship the dead. It is an abomination to Yahweh.
Leviticus 19:31—
Do not turn to mediums nor familiar spirits. do not seek after them, to be defiled by them. I am Yahweh.
Deuteronomy 18:10-11—
10 Let there not be found among you one who sacrifices his son or his daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft,
11 Casts spells, or who consults familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
Isayah 65:2,4—
2 I have spread out My Hands all the day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way which is not right, after their own thoughts; devices;
4 Who assemble and spend the night keeping memorials for the dead...
Psalm 115:17—
It is not the dead who praise Yahweh, nor any who have gone down into silence.
Ecclesiastes 9:5—
For the living know that they will die; but the dead do not know anything...
Luke 16:30-31—
30 Then he said: No, father Abraham! For if one came back from the dead to them, they would repent!.
31 But he said to him; If they will not listen to Mosheh; the Laws; and the Prophets, they would not be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.
Isayah 8:19—
And when they say to you; Seek those who have familiar spirits, and for wizards who peep, and who mutter—should not a people seek their Father? Should they seek the dead on behalf of the living?

The Mary they worship and want you to worship is the queen of heaven, spoken of by the Prophets, warning us to stay away from her lying deception. (For a thorough study of the queen of heaven, write for our book Unveiling Satan, Her True Identity Revealed. This book gives you full details of the queen of heaven and the Prophecies she will fulfill.) The great deception brought on by these powers, and lying signs and wonders, has already started in these Last Days.

The Prophets show that the queen of heaven was expelled from heaven. The Catholic Church is carrying her message far and wide. The pressure to bring all nations into the Catholic Church and force the people to worship her is increasing. Your own Scriptures say that through this great deception, all nations, languages and peoples will worship her, whose names are not found in the Book of Life. Prepare youself now, for you will see all these things take place in the next few months.

The Great Deception

During the last few months, there has been a certain phenomenon taking place in the Catholic Church. It's an explosion of reported apparitions of what they refer to as the virgin Mary, but who is really the queen of heaven. The Prophets were inspired to write warnings about her thousands of years ago. Appearances (apparitions) of this woman are being seen and heard all over the world. We will discuss more on these visions as we continue, but first notice what the Prophets say about this being, and what they faced in trying to guard the people against what the Catholic Church wants all the world to do now:
Yeremyah 7:18—
How the children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, while the women knead dough to make cakes for the queen of heaven, and how they pour out drink offerings to the hinder gods (elohim)...
Yeremyah 44:17-25—
17 Instead, we will certainly do what we have vowed to do. we will burn incense to the queen of heaven and pour out drink offerings to her, just as we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, used to do in the cities of Yahdah and in the streets of Yerusalem; for then we had plenty of food, were successful, and experienced no trouble.
18 But since we stopped burning incense to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything, and have been consumed by the sword and by famine.
19 The women then said; When we burned incense to the queen of heaven and poured out drink offerings to her, it was not without our husbands' knowledge and consent that we made cakes for her, to worship her, and poured out drink offerings to her.
20 Then Yeremyah spoke to all the people—the men, the women, and all the people who had answered him in this way— saying;
21 The incense that you burned in the cities of Yahdah and in the streets of Yerusalem, you and your fathers, your kings and your princes, and the people of the land—do you think that Yahweh did not remember it? Do you think it did not enter into His Mind?
22 No, it was because Yahweh could no longer bear the evil of your doings, because of the abominations which you committed, that your land has become a desolation, an astonishment, a curse, and without an inhabitant, as it is this day.
23 It was because you have burned incense, and because you have sinned against Yahweh; and have neither obeyed the Voice of Yahweh, nor walked in His Laws, nor in His Statutes, nor in His Testimonies; therefore this disaster has come upon you, as it is this day.
24 Yeremyah also said to all the people and to all the women; Hear the Word of Yahweh, all Yahdah who are in the land of Egypt!
25 This is what Yahweh our Father, the Father of Israyl, says: You have spoken with your mouths, and fulfilled your promises with your hands, saying; We will surely perform our vows that we have made, to burn incense to the queen of heaven and pour out drink offerings to her. So you will surely fulfill your vows and perform them!

A recent article in the December 1996 issue of Life magazine, told of the ever-increasing popularity of Mary worship in the world today. The following excerpts are from this article:

The Mystery of Mary
by Robert Sullivan
  "You could copy on an eight-and-a-half-by-eleven sheet everything there is about Mary in the New Testament,'' says Jaroslav Pelikan, president of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences and author of Mary Through the Centuries.
  The "idea'' of Mary, so sparely drawn and therefore so open to interpretation, has roller-coastered through 2,000 years of Christian history, alternately elevated and demoted by the Catholic hierarchy, shunned and praised by the Protestant. But if her official standing has been in constant flux, her public image has been on a two-millennium rise. Mary belongs not to the priests but to the people. No matter what has been decreed in a given era, the popular passion for her has remained resolute. Her disciples—her congregation, her soldiers—have adamantly refused to let Mary recede.
  Why? What do they so vitally require from this most famous of mother figures? How has she, once an unknown, grown to be such an immense personality? Why are two billion Hail Marys said daily? Why did five million people, many non-Christian, visit Lourdes this year to drink the healing waters? Why did more than 10 million trek to Guadalupe to pray to Our Lady? Why is it thought that more girls have been named for Mary than for any other historical figure? Why are Mary hymns creeping into Methodist songbooks? How can it be that Mary adorns the banners of liberals who seek a greater role for women in all churches, and also those of conservatives who would keep ministries all-male?
  What is it about Mary?

In the 12th century the great theologian Bernard of Clairvaux wrote, "If you fear the Father, go to the Son, if you fear the Son, go to the Mother.''

The Mary of today started not with Christ's birth, nor with the Gospels, but with a 2nd century document called The Book of James. The text filled in details of Mary's birth, marriage, Annunciation. It was not then—and never has been—accorded canonical authority, but that didn't prevent it from inspiring the tradition of devotion to Our Lady.
  But even with James, Mary was barely formed. In the 2nd century the concept of Jesus's virgin birth was fiercely debated, and the notion that Mary remained a virgin her entire life wasn't on the table. By the 5th century, however, Mary's perpetual virginity was part of who she was. The Council of Ephesus in 431 accorded her, against much opposition, the title Mother of God. This boosted Mary toward being, as historian Karen Armstrong puts it, "a major celebrity.''
  Which meant a figure worth shaping. The Bible offers no other human so useful in this way: extremely significant in the Christ story, yet so inscrutable that she can be known—and used—in various ways through subtle amendment. "Mary is continuously reinvented," says Armstrong, author of A History of God and the recent In the Beginning: A New Interpretation of Genesis. "In each age, people have changed their definition of her to fit their own circumstances." With each new incarnation, however, the old "inventions" do not slip away. They accrue, they pile up.
  In medieval times a metaphysical concept attached itself to Mary, that of the Immaculate Conception—often confused with the virgin birth of Jesus—which held that she was free of Original Sin from her first moment in the womb of her mother, rendering her saintly even before birth. Mary herself is said to have confirmed the doctrine in a 14th century visitation to St. Bridget of Sweden and this added to the growing number of Marys: human; docile and handmaid-enly; smart and strong; saintly and capable of supernatural appearances. "She even becomes a military figure," says Pelikan. "She is a warrior against the devil. In Constantinople they went to war with the Virgin on the sails of their warships. Onward Christian soldiers!"
  Pope John Paul II has been the leader of the world's Catholics since 1978. He has also been the standard-bearer for the world's classical Marians.
  His motto is Totus tuus (All yours—referring to Mary). When he survived the would-be assassin Mehmet Ali Agca's bullets on May 13, 1981, he noted that the attack occurred on the anniversary of the 1917 Church-approved apparition at Fatima, Portugal, and he credited his survival to intercession by the Blessed Virgin. When godless communism fell in the Eastern bloc, which included his beleaguered homeland, the pope said this, too, was thanks to Mary.

Miraculous Mary

In January 1993, retired bread-truck driver Ray Doiron, 58, was getting ready for bed in Renault, Ill. A lovely woman appeared to him, "a very beautiful lady, very young and regal. She was dressed all in white." He felt a breeze and heard her speak. She delivered the first of many messages—"pray for peace,'' "reject evil,'' "welcome God"—that she would continue to offer subsequent visitations.
  "I come to you as a loving mother," she said. Doiron, a humble man, wondered, Why me? She said: "I picked you because you are the least apt instrument. Therefore, people that know you will know this is not your word."
  Doiron had already been, for 20 years, a regular visitor to Our Lady of the Snows shrine over in Belleville. After experiencing this initial vision at home, he began to be visited at the shrine. People heard about this, and soon the crowds grew too great for the shrine's Lourdes Grotto. Today, pilgrims begin arriving at nine a.m. at a nearby amphitheater to get the best seats.
  In Italy, 50 weeping Madonna statues have been reported in the past two years. Across the world, countless Polaroids purport to show the Virgin. "Some of the apparition stuff approaches the bizarre," says Jaroslav Pelikan.
  Theologians and even Catholic clergy are decidedly uneasy about the sightings. "Sure, there's no doubt that the apparitions have multiplied," says Father Thomas Thompson of the International Marian Research Institute in Dayton, "but I think it has a lot to do with the Medjugorje thing, which has still received no approval."
  The Medjugorje thing: In 1981, six young peasants reported a visit by the Virgin. She has been delivering messages to them and others almost nightly ever since, attracting no fewer than 11 million believers to Medjugorje.
  Mary's role as intercessor and ally is certainly the largest part in the Story of Mary. Why? Because in a world asked to be God-fearing, humankind requires someone or something to help us fight the fear.
  "Bernard had a sermon in which he portrayed not only God but also Christ as judges of the quick and the dead," says Pelikan. "And then Bernard says, `Therefore you should hide behind Mary, who by showing her breast to Christ reminds him of where he received his life.' She mitigates divine wrath."
  Many would pray to Mary. She, they could pray to—for support and nurturing. And I mean nurturing in a strong, not a weak way. She would put their tough questions to God on their behalf. She would lift them up and help them move forward."
  One of the intriguing aspects of the latest rise of Mary is this: The emotional need for her is so irresistible to a troubled world that people without an obvious link to the Virgin are being drawn to her. It's not news that Muslims revere Mary as a pure and holy saint—she's mentioned 34 times in the Koran, which upholds her virginal conception of Jesus—but to see large numbers of Muslims making pilgrimages to Christian Marian shrines is a remarkable thing. Interdenominational Marian prayer groups are springing up throughout the world. Many Protestants, even some who still reject notions of a supernatural Virgin, miss Mary.
  Forrest Church has a dream—of a middle-ground Mary, an Everymary who can transcend ideologies and give this tumultuous world the mother it needs. "I would like to think that she could be a bridge between religions," he says. "Not right now, perhaps. Those hymns to her in Protestant hymn books—I wonder how many times they get sung. But someday, if we could get back to a human Mary who is like us, who represents our mothers, I think we can come together through Mary. Think about it.''

Go to any Catholic book store, I am told there are at least twenty-five books on the subject of Mary and her so-called "last days message to save the world. She won't save the world though, so be on guard. She is the one you need to know and beware of, although she doesn't want you to know that. Her true identity and her works are fully exposed in our books Unveiling Satan, Her True Identity Revealed and Devil Worship, The Shocking Facts!

One book that was recommended to me, for the message she is now sending to earth through her demons and priests (I Yahchanan 4:1), was written by Ted and Maureen Flynn, entitled: Thunder of Justice, The Warning, The Miracle, The Chastisement, The Era of Peace. Malachi Martin, a well known writer of the Catholic Church and a Jesuit Priest, wrote the foreword. This book shows the apparitions to be:
  ...a wake-up call of the Virgin Mary, occurring so frequently now that they cannot be ignored any longer. Each appearance is the same. A vision is seen of a woman usually dressed in white, declaring herself to be the prophetess of our times. She says she is going to pilot us through these waters—the great tribulation—until the second coming of the Lord. Before the second coming of Christ, Mary more than ever, must shine in mercy, might, and grace in order to bring unbelievers into the Catholic faith. The power of Mary in the latter days will be very conspicuous."

The warning written in this book is not meant to make us aware of Yahweh, as the writings of all the Prophets, Apostles and Yahshua did. The warning written in this book, given in these sightings, is:
  The warning to make us aware of God. Everyone, unbelievers as well as believers, will declare that God has touched us with his immeasurable power.

What they mean by immeasurable power is curse. In other words, what they want you to believe is that the Creator has brought the Great Tribulation upon us, instead of believing what the Prophets have shown over and over: that mankind is bringing these troubles on himself because of the deception the Catholic Church and her daughters have caused by changing the Laws and teaching all the world to sin. That is what the Prophets of Yahweh say. Read it for yourself:
 Isayah 24:1-6—
1 Before Yahweh's very Eyes the earth is made empty and waste, the face of it is perverted and its inhabitants scattered abroad;
2 And it will be: as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his owner; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with him who takes usury, so with him who gives usury to him:
3 The land will be utterly emptied and utterly plundered, for it has come to pass that this judgment has been pronounced.
4 The earth mourns and fades away, the world mourns and fades away, and the haughty people of the earth languish.
5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants of it, because they have transgressed the Laws, changed the Ordinance, and broken the Everlasting Covenant.
6 because of this, the curse has devoured the earth, and they who dwell therein are desolate; therefore, the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.

Continuing in this book about Mary, the authors write:
  Mary's warning will be followed by the miracle within a year. The warning and the miracle will make the intervention of God seem to the world to be much greater than the parting of the Red Sea and the sending of manna to the children of Israyl. Together they will effect every man, woman and child on earth. Never before has God acted directly and universally to make every person in the world completely aware of his or her sins before His Holiness.

I remind you that sin, to the Catholic Church and the world, is to disobey the laws of the Pope. Of course, keeping the Laws of Yahweh as they are written in the Holy Scriptures is as sin to the Catholic Church and to all Christianity; it is sin even to the Jews today. Remember, it was the Catholic Church who changed the Laws in your bible:
Daniyl 7:25—
And he will speak great words against Yahweh, and will wear out; mentally attack to cause to fall away, the saints of Yahweh, and think to change times; Yahweh's Feast Days, and Laws...

The Holy Scriptures tell us something much different than what the Catholic Church teaches about sin. Notice:
I Yahchanan 3:4—
Whoever commits sin, transgresses also the Laws; for sin is the transgression of the Laws.

According to the Flynns' book:
"The miracle will support the truth...''
  (Referring to the truth as it is defined by the Catholic Church—obedience to the Pope and not Yahweh)
...that all men are to enter the Catholic Church and to submit to it's discipline, it's teachings and sacraments.

The Truth, according to your own bible, is the Laws of Yahweh:
Psalm 119:142—
Your Righteousness is an Everlasting Righteousness, because Your Laws are the Truth!

I remind you again, the Catholic Church (who even admits it) changed the Laws of Peace (Daniyl 7:25) that the Creator Yahweh gave to mankind for Salvation. This means that the Catholic Church's teachings are against your bible!

Now notice what the authors of this book say about the woman in these apparitions:
The warning and the miracle will assert the glory of the mother of God, so that all Christians will give up their objections to her role...
  (Her role as the queen of heaven)
...and pay her the honor that God Himself gives her.

Now I ask you, where does one find such a statement in the Inspired Scriptures? You can't find it, because it's simply not there! The only queen of heaven we find in Scripture is the one who rebelled against Yahweh and His Laws, and brought chaos in heaven and on the earth. The fact is, the queen of heaven wants honor that does not belong to her. It is for this reason that she has been expelled from heaven.
Isayah 14:12-15—
12 How you have fallen from heaven, O Hillel; Lucifer, Aphrodite, Venus, child of the light! How you are cut down to the ground, you who weakened the nations!
13 For you have said in your heart; I will ascend above the heavens; I will raise my throne above the stars of Yahweh. I will sit in the highest place on the holy mountain of the congregation.
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most high.
15 Yet you will be brought down to Sheol; the grave, to the sides of the pit.

Next Comes The Curses

Mankind is bringing destruction upon himself, and will actually continue in these wars until the Creator puts a stop to them7after four-fifths of the earth's population has been destroyed.
Mattithyah 24:29-31—
29 Immediately, but after the tribulation of those days will the sun be darkened, and the moon will not give her light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
30 And then will appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven; and then will all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
31 And He will send His malakim with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of earth to the other.
Zecharyah 14:5—
...Yahweh my Father will come, and all the saints with Him.

The woman who is giving the warnings in these visions, wants you to believe that the Great Tribulation is the vengeful punishment of God, and that He is bringing this punishment because the people won't become a part of the Catholic Church and obey the Pope in his changing of the Laws of Yahweh. This woman is quoted in Ted and Maureen Flynn's book, as saying:
Apostasy has now been spread into every part of the church, betrayed even by part of the bishops, abandoned by many of it's priests, deserted by so many of it's children, violated by my adversary.

The real adversary is not any one who turned away from the Catholic Church, as this woman would like you to believe. The real adversary, according to your bible, is the one who changed Yahweh's Laws and now teaches the world god worship. According to Mary:
  The chastisement for this will be catastrophic. It will be worse than a thousand earthquakes, worse than the flood of Noah's time, it will make mankind realize that God... (NOT YAHWEH) ...exists, and that salvation should be our focus.

Of course, this salvation taught by the Catholic Church is false, because it is not based on Yahweh's Laws, the Laws of the Holy Scriptures. The Catholic Church preaches a salvation based on laws the gods gave to the Catholic Church, the mixture of Righteousness and evil, which do not, and cannot bring peace or Eternal Life. And these laws of the gods are practiced by the world to this very day.
Genesis 3:4-5—
4 And the serpent said to the woman; you will not surely die.
5 For He knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be as gods (elohim), knowing Righteousness and evil.

Everyone has the right to check the teachings of any church to see if they are different from what Yahweh inspired the Prophets and Apostles to write in the Holy Scriptures. In fact, if you find that those teaching are different, you are warned by the Prophets, the Savior and the Apostles not to follow them.
Mattithyah 7:15, 20-23—
15 Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
20 Therefore, by their fruits you will know them.
21 Not everyone who says to Me; Teacher! Teacher! will enter into the Kingdom of Yahweh, but only he who does the Will of My Father Who is in heaven.
22 Many will say to Me in that day; Teacher! Teacher! Have we not prophesied in Your Name, and cast out demons in Your Name, and in Your Name performed many wonderful works?
23 But then I will declare to them; I never knew you. get away from me, you who practice iniquity; you who break the Laws of Yahweh!

Based upon these reported apparitions, Ted and Maureen Flynn write in their book:
  Heaven apparently intends very soon to use powerful means of persuasion on a scale never before witnessed in the history of the world.

The powerful means of this persuasion, as they call it, will be the use of the armies of the earth, whose kings, presidents and church leaders obey the Pope's orders. Their orders will be to make war against all people and nations who will not submit to Mary, the queen of heaven.

There are prophesied events, lying signs and wonders, that the world will refer to as miracles—as this book states:
...miracles that will be a confirmation of the apparitions and a stimulus for the CONVERSION OF THE WORLD. After God has chastised the world...
(Remember, she wants us to believe that the Great Tribulation is chastisement from the Creator)
...the SECOND PENTECOST will be brought by Mary, and she will usher in THE ERA OF PEACE.

Predictions From The Diary Of Pope John The 23rd

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