One of the major events of the last days is found in Revelation 17. Here an evil goddess, MYSTERY BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH is revealed. She is an evil entity, a system of false religious worship which today is formalized in the worship of Mary, and a great city which reigns over the kings of the earth (Rev. 17:18). I have to preface this with what should be obvious to readers of the Bible. I believe with some ease that the Mary of scripture rejoices in the worship of her Son, yet she is horrified at being worshipped herself. Her name was hijacked by the fallen spirit called Mystery Babylon. Below are some contemporary images of the "Madonna".
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That the Lord was aware of the dangerous false worship of Mystery Babylon as the "Mother of God" in future generations goes without saying. He addressed this error in Hebrews 7:1-3. Here we read that Melchizedek, a priest that appears to Abraham in Genesis 4:18-20, was a type of Messiah. I won't address here whether Melchizek was a "theophany" (an appearance of Jesus Christ before His incarnation) or not, but Melchizedek being representative of a type of Messiah is enough for the point of the point here. Jesus, like Melchizedek, was "withouth father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days nor end of life". So, while Mary was the human mother of the Messiah, she is not the eternal "Mother of God", because Messiah had no Mother in that sense.
The goddess is today worshipped universally by the names "Queen of Heaven" (Jer. 7:18, 44:17-19, 25) and "Mother of God". Her actual name as seen above is not Mother of God, but Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth. The name they attach to her almost universally is Mary, not just by the Roman church around the world, but by other faiths as well. Below is a list of Islamic/Christian sites of Marian worhship.
by Ella Rozett
Related pilgrimage sites:
1. The house in Ephesus, Turkey where Mother Mary lived with the Apostle John after they left Jerusalem because of persecutions. This is where the assumption took place. The occasion and the site are sacred to Muslims and Christians alike. Every Sunday at least some Muslims come here before ‘Hazreti Meryem Ana’, Her Majesty Mother Mary and attend mass. (See more about this place under "Mother Mary and the Goddess".)
2. Another site where Mary is honored and invoked by both Christians and Muslims is the 11th century monastery of Kykkos on Cyprus, an island inhabited by believers in Jesus and Mohammed. Followers of both faiths flock to an ancient icon of Mary, said to have been painted by Luke the Evangelist himself. Many miracles have happened when people prayed before this image. In fact, it is deemed so powerful that it is treated like the Ark of the Covenant: completely veiled from sight, but venerated as the presence of God among his people. (Regarding Mary as the new Ark of the Covenant goes back to the first days of Christianity and is rooted in Revelation 11:19-12:1.)
3. Zeitoun is a town in Egypt where Mary appeared on numerous occasions between April 2nd 1968 and May 2nd 1971. Over one million Muslims, Christians, and Jews came to her apparition site (above St. Mary's Coptic church) and confirmed having seen her. Many were cured of incurable diseases. Even the Egyptian government's police investigation concluded that the apparitions of Mary in Zeitoun are an undeniable fact.
In countless places where Muslims and Christians live together they share a devotion to Mary. Another example is Our Lady of Africa in Algiers, Algeria, Protectress of Muslims and Africans. On the wall behind her statue in the Catholic basilica a big inscription in French reads: "Our Lady of Africa, pray for us and for the Muslims." On any given day one may see Muslims kneeling in the basilica, bringing their petitions to Our Lady, whom they call Lala Meriem. A devout Muslim artist with a deep love for the mother of the great prophet Jesus, crafted the precious robes she wears.
Below are some pictures of different Marian images from around the world. Note the triangular shape representative of all gnostic religions which one can hardly escape in today's corporate and governmental symbols. Also the light of "illumination" coming from her head. The below images are from "Our Lady of Quinche, in Ecuador on the left, and "Our Lady of the Rosary" in Guatemala on the right. |
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Our Lady of the Light, Cuenca, Spain, with the triangle of the trinity above her Photo courtesy of José Hernández Matías
Some images of "Mystery Babylon" from Buddhism
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This woman and the great city will soon be destroyed by those who helped bring her to power (Rev. 17:16). Until that time, let us continue to expose the darkness (Eph. 5:11).
