It happened again. The members of a small town church in Bradford, Pa. have become a center point in the news because 'Mary' has appeared in some sort of visionary miracle. Let us take a look at what the BIBLE SAYS about such things. If we are students of the Bible then we can find the answer Yahweh has for this sort of occurrence.
JEREMIAH Ch. 44 Verse 2-5; V.13;V14-19: 'Then said YAH VAH OF HOSTS, The God of Israel; You have seen all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities of Judah; and, behold, this day they are a desolation, and NO MAN dwelleth therein, Because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke ME to anger, in that they went to burn incense, and to serve other gods, whom they knew not, they nor their fathers. So I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, OH, DO NOT THIS ABOMINABLE THING I HATE. But they did not listen, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods. Wherefore my fury and my anger was poured forth....For I will punish them that dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, and by famine, and by the pestilence (Illness). So that none of the remnant of Judah, which are gone to the land of Egypt to live there, shall escape....for none shall return but such as escape. Then all the men which knew that their wives had burned incense to other gods, and all the women that stood by, said: The Word that Jeremiah has spoken to us in the NAME of YAHWEH, we will not listen to or obey. But we will certainly do whatsoever thing that comes out of our mouth, to burn incense unto the QUEEN OF HEAVEN, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem.....and when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings to her, we did make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings to her, WITHOUT OUR MEN.'
Here we have it all. YAH all mighty told Jeremiah that he hates this false worship. For 1700 years the Catholic church has refered to Mary the Messiah's mother as The Queen of Heaven. I personally have a considerable Catholic library that includeds countless pages calling mary the queen of heaven. But here in the book of Jeremiah, some 627 years before Mary gave birth to Yahshua (Jesus) we see that queen of heaven worship was called false god worship. Need I say more?
But I shall! Because it is the fire of the all mighty Yah The eternal that leads me to tell the truth. Mankind is going backwards to pagan tribal worship of the myths we left the bush and in this country England to escape. In Bradford we have people reporting the sightings of Mary ( who has been dead and buried for 1900 plus years) as if it was the second coming. As the first spiritual criminals of this cult, they do this in direct diobedience to Yahweh God and men. It seems that those who preach this mojo seem to appear every so many years to keep the cult alive. THIS IS NOT BIBLICAL WORSHIP AND SUCH DOCTRINE OF DEMONS SHOULD BE PUT AWAY NOW!
Never once in all the saviour's life did he pray to, or teach to pray to his mother Mary. WHY? because SHE IS NOT GOD IN THE FLESH! She is to be respected and reverenced as the one blessed to be the vessel of the Holy Spirit conception by scriptural commandment. BUT she is not to be worshiped! This trick of satan is the same he pulled on Israel, to get them to worship other gods and not Yahweh.
"YOU CAN NOT SERVE TWO MASTERS" if you worship the queen of heaven then you will befall the same judgment that Israel befell. "by the sword, and by famine, and by the pestilence". Yah is not gracious in this matter, he requires we worship him only. So as a true Christ follower we should repent of this SIN and lead others to the truth. WHO WILL YOU SERVE? The 3000 year old cult of the queen of heaven or Yahshua the Messiah? If you look into HISTORY and the evidence that exsists in stone and word then you as I will turn from this false worship and hold to the BIBLE which says:
I Timothy 2:5 "FOR THERE IS ONE GOD, AND ONE MEDIATOR (GO BETWEEN) BETWEEN GOD AND MEN, THE MAN MESSIAH YAHSHUA (CHRIST JESUS)."
These religious tricks are not for the family of Yahweh God. It is witchcraft and sorcery. REVELATION 9:20-21 "And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and IDOLS of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and wood; which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their SORCERIES, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts." AND that is why this world is about to see destruction from Yah All Might God.
This queen of heaven sorcery started in Babylon many thousands of years ago. A wicth named Semiramis started it setting herself up as 'The Queen of Heaven'. For thousands of years people in the cult reported her appearing here and there. When The Universal church became the state religion in 321 AD in Rome the pagans from this cult wanted to continue their practice of Queen of Heaven or Ishtar worship. Through the years it became the fertility feast of ISTAR (Semiramis's name in Egypt) and in Greek was changed to EASTER. The spring rebirth of creation after winter was the logical season and was used to replace the passover feast of the Bible. The word easter appears only once in the Bible, in Acts 12:4. In the original Greek it is pesach which is passover in english. Paul writes of this practice in
I Corinthians ch. 10 when he speaks of 'sacrifice to devils' V. 12, and in verse 27 telling the Corinthians to 'not bid ' such to the feast. Ch 11 V 20 makes it clear that it was The Lords supper, or passover he was speaking of. Paul teaches this from Ch 4:7-8 where he states "Purge out the old LEAVEN, that you may be a new lump, as you are unleavened. For even Messiah is sacrificed for us: THEREFORE LET US KEEP THE FEAST, not with the old leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and TRUTH." He was writing of the Feast of Passover and Uleavened bread. In fact the whole book of I Corinthians is from Lev. ch 17 and Deut. ch 16 the original law of how to keep this feast.
My prayer for you is that you would repent from queen of heaven and ishtar worship and her un-holy-day easter and keep the commanded feast of passover and Yahshua's supper, and like me REMEMBER HIS DAETH UNTIL HE COMES AGAIN. As for Mary appearing in bradford, it wasn't Mary. Mary has 'fallen asleep' I COR 15:6, and any appearing was either a lie or a demon from satan. Those who hold to such lies and the doctrine of demons shall be plagued as the children of Israel were for worshiping this false goddess.
Bibliography: The Paganization of Christianity & Judaism, Daniel W. Merrick Ph.D., Eternal Lt. & Pwr. Co. Publishing , 1994; Two Babylons, Rev. Alexander Hislop, Loizeaux Brothers, Inc.,1959; Mysteries of the Bible, Hearst, 1994; Who is a True Jew, Robert Young, 1993; Myth & Mystery, Jack Finegan, Baker Book House, 1989; Groilers Eletronic Encyclopedia, 1994; Encyclopedia Judiaica, 1992; Sacred Name Broadcaster, Jacob O. Myer, April, 1995; The Dead Sea Scrolls in English, Vermes,1987; Smiths Bible Dictionary, JOVE/HBJ Book, 1977; Ungers Bible Dictionary, Moody, 1995; Ungers Bible Handbook, Moody, 1967; Hastings Bible Dictionary,Hendricksons, 1989; Strongs Concordance, Nelson,1990; The Ready Research Bible Exegeses, Herb Jahn, World, 1993; Dictionary of Word Origins, John Ayto, Arcade,1990; Baker's Dictionary of Theology, Harrison et al, Baker Books, 1982; Brown-Driver-Briggs-Gesenius Hebrew-English Lexicon, Hendrickson, 1979; Why is Mary Crying, Chick Publications, 1987; King James Bible, Thompson, 1611; Vine's Dictionary of Old & New Testament Words, Revell/Baker,1981; The Septuagint with Apocrypha, Brenton, Hendrickson, 1990.
Written by: Daniel Merrick 1-17-97
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