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"Behold, the
virgin shall be with child and bear a son, and they shall name him Emmanuel,"
which means "God is with us." (MT
1:23)
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While browsing on facebook I chanced upon
this comment: "Of all the mothers on earth why do Protestants hate the
mother of Jesus the most?"
I mulled over the statement and thought; the
commentator may be vulgar and harsh but nonetheless brutally frank. He’s got a point there too. Stirred by that comment from the social media
post I decided to expound on it.
According to dialectics of Satan, “Born Again
Christians do not hate Mary, the mother of Jesus. What they hate are the unbiblical doctrines
of Mary taught by the Church of Rome.”
One of
the so-called “unbiblical doctrines of Mary taught by the Church of Rome” is
the Theotokos or the Mother of God.
In my previous post, IS MARY THE MOTHER OF
GOD? BY CYRUS, Jesus Christ appeared to Maria Valtorta in 16th August
1944 and confirmed that Mary is indeed the Mother of God. His pronouncement is the fulfillments of His
own prophesy through the prophet Isaiah:
For a child is born to
us, a son is given us; upon his shoulder dominion rests. They name him
Wonder-Counselor, God-Hero, Father-Forever, Prince of Peace. (ISA 9:5)
With that affirmation coming from the Lord
Jesus Christ Himself, the Catholic Church’s Dogma of Mary as the Mother of God was
once and for all confirmed by God as the faithful and true biblical doctrine.
Therefore, the accusation of the dialectics
of Satan falls flat in their faces. The
graver implication of their false teaching was that many Protestants unknowingly
hate the biblical Mother of God for a mistaken reason and destructive consequences.
Denying Mary is the Mother of God is tantamount
to denying Christ is God. Denying Christ
who is God became flesh is the spirit of the antichrist [1]. The Protestants’
denial of Mary as the Mother of God is a destructive heresy as their denial is more
importantly, a denial of Christ, the Master who ransomed them [2], bringing
swift destruction on themselves [3]. The deniers of the Mother of God even go to
the extent of distorting the Scriptures just to deceive their unwary victims believe
in their false teaching to their destruction [4].
SO,
WHY DO MOST PROTESTANTS ABHOR THE MOTHER OF GOD?
The
biblical answer is obvious and inescapable:
MOST
PROTESTANTS ABHOR THE MOTHER OF GOD BECAUSE THEY ARE THE FULFILLMENT OF THE SEED
OF THE DEVIL OR SATAN WHO HARBORED ENMITIES WITH MARY AND HER SEED.
I will put enmities
between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall
crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel. (GEN 3:15, Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible)
THE
MOTHER OF GOD IN GENESIS 3:15
God who is omnipotent, omnipresent and
omniscient had, in eternity, eons before His Creation Project got underway,
foreseen in the very remote future of earth time the emergence of His enemies
and of His foreordained Mother [5].
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The LORD God then asked
the woman, "Why did you do such a thing?" The woman answered,
"The serpent tricked me into it, so I ate it." (GEN 3:13)
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Thus, after Eve and Adam were deceived by the
Enemy into committing the original sin [6] which
affects all human beings through the one blood of Adam [7], God
installed in place His factor of safety to undo the work of the Devil in the
future [8].
In order to implement and realize His safety
net, God needs a human partner as the species involved were the human
race. God’s human cooperator must be
totally and completely at odds with the devil, thus, He delivered His very
first decree below for the redemption of mankind [9] which was enslaved by Satan and his minions – the elemental
powers of the world [10]:
I will put enmities
between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall
crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel. (GEN 3:15, Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible)
[GEN 3:15] She
shall crush: Ipsa, the woman; so divers of the fathers read this place,
conformably to the Latin: others read it ipsum, viz., the seed. The sense is
the same: for it is by her seed, Jesus Christ, that the woman crushes the
serpent's head.
WHO
ARE THE WOMEN OF GENESIS 3?
Contrary to the ancient belief that Eve was
the only woman mentioned in Genesis 3, God had another woman in His eternal mind. Let’s read and understand the appropriate
verses:
And the Lord God said to
the woman: Why hast thou done this? And she answered: The serpent deceived me,
and I did eat. (GEN 3:13)
Q1: Who is the
Lord God confronting the woman?
A1: The Lord
God confronting the woman is the Spirit and the prehuman existence of the Lord
God Jesus Christ [11].
Q2: Who is the
woman who conspired with the serpent?
A2: The woman
who conspired with the serpent is Eve [12].
Q3: Who is the
serpent who deceived Eve?
A3: The
ancient serpent who deceived Eve is the Devil or Satan [13].
I will put enmities
between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy
head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel.
(GEN 3:15)
Q4: What is
enmity?
A4: Enmity: noun: positive, active, and typically
mutual hatred or ill will. Synonyms:
ENMITY, HOSTILITY, ANTIPATHY, ANTAGONISM, ANIMOSITY, RANCOR, ANIMUS
(Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary).
Q5: Who are the
antagonists decreed by the Lord God (Christ)?
A5: The
antagonists decreed by the Lord God are: the serpent (the Devil or Satan); the
woman (the spirit of the foreordained Mother of the Lord God, Mary); the seed
of the Devil or Satan; and the seed of Mary.
Q6:
Who are the
seed of the Devil or Satan?
A6: The seed of
the Devil or Satan are those who are opposed to Christ and his Mother Mary. First and foremost of the serpent’s seed is
the Beast (the Antichrist) and then the second Beast (the False Prophet) [14], and the
rest of its seed: the antichrists, false prophets, false teachers,
superapostles, false messiahs, weeds of the evil one, children of the father of
lies, brood of vipers, deserters, etc.
Q7: Who are the
seed of Mary?
A7: The seed of
Mary is first and foremost Jesus Christ (the human existence of Christ) and
those who are beholden to her [15] who keep
God's commandments and bear witness to Jesus [16] and all children of God.
Q8: Who shall
crush the head of the Devil or Satan?
A8: Mary shall
crush the head of the Devil or Satan: for it is by her seed, Jesus Christ,
that the woman crushes the serpent's head [See footnote of GEN 3:15, DRV, supra].
The rest of Mary’s offspring are also empowered 'to tread upon
serpents' and scorpions and upon the full force of the Enemy [17], but the
Ultimate Trampler is the Father and the Lord God Jesus Christ [18].
IS
MARY REALLY THE WOMAN IN GENESIS 3:15 AND NOT EVE OR ISRAEL?
1. The woman of
GEN 3:15 cannot be Eve as she had already conspired with the serpent. It is too late for God to put enmities
between the serpent and Eve. As a matter
of fact, the firstborn of Eve, Cain, belonged to the evil one [19].
2. Let’s read
and understand GEN 3:16:
To the woman he said:
"I will intensify the pangs of your childbearing; in pain shall you bring
forth children. Yet your urge shall be
for your husband, and he shall be your master." (GEN 3:16, NAB)
a.
Bear in mind that God meted out His judgment to Eve (GEN 3:16)
AFTER He had put enmities between Satan and the spirit of His future Mother
Mary (GEN 3:15), thus exempting Mary from the stain and punishment of the
original sin. Mary is indeed the Immaculate Conception. The Lord God (Christ) said to Eve, “I will
intensify the pangs of your childbearing… ” And since Mary was spared from the
original sin and its consequences, she was the one prophesied in this passage
(Who else can she be? Any
conjectures? Anyone?):
Before she comes to
labor, she gives birth; before the pains come upon her, she safely delivers a
male child. (ISA 66:7)
As a matter
of fact, two verses ahead in Isaiah’s thread, we find prophesy on the perpetual
virginity of Mary: the closure of her womb after conception:
Shall I bring a mother to
the point of birth, and yet not let her child be born? Says the LORD; Or shall
I who allow her to conceive, yet close her womb? Says your God. (ISA 66:9)
Mary
is indeed the Perpetual Virgin.
Lest some
will react that the spirit of Christ’s foreordained Mother, “wailed aloud in
pain as she labored to give birth [5],” please understand
that the great wonder in heaven showed to John does not envision the birth of
Christ into the world but of His painful birth into death and rebirth into
Paradise as the firstborn of the dead [20], which was
clearly revealed in the same book of Revelations:
She gave birth to a son,
a male child, destined to rule all the nations with an iron rod. Her child was caught up to God and his
throne. (RV 12:5)
The
foregoing verse was expounded further in The Letter to the Hebrews [21].
And why did
Mary “wailed aloud in pain as she labored to give birth?” Because it was the fulfillment of Simeon’s
prophesy when the Holy Spirit was upon him:
And Simeon blessed them
and said to Mary his mother, "Behold, this child is destined for the fall
and rise of many in Israel, and to be a sign that will be contradicted (and you
yourself a sword will pierce) so that the thoughts of many hearts may be
revealed." (LK 2:34-35)
b.
The Lord God (Christ) said to Eve: “Yet your urge shall be for
your husband.” Since Mary was spared
from the original sin and its consequences, she never had urge for her
betrothed and future husband Joseph. In
fact, she was bothered at the prospect of getting deflowered for she had taken
the vow of abstention from sexual intercourse as can be gleaned in her
conversation with God through the angel Gabriel:
And in the sixth month,
the angel Gabriel was sent from God into a city of Galilee, called Nazareth, to
a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and
the virgin's name was Mary. And the
angel being come in, said unto her: Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee:
blessed art thou among women. Who having
heard, was troubled at his saying, and thought with herself what manner of
salutation this should be. And the angel
said to her: Fear not, Mary, for thou hast found grace with God. Behold thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and
shalt bring forth a son; and thou shalt call his name Jesus. He shall be great, and shall be called the
Son of the most High; and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of David
his father; and he shall reign in the house of Jacob forever. And of his kingdom there shall be no
end. And Mary said to the angel: How
shall this be done, because I know not man?
(LK 1:26-34, Douay Rheims Version)
At this
point, God through the angel Gabriel assured Mary that she will be the
consecrated vessel of God’s Son (the Ark of the New Covenant) and she will not
be touched by any man [22]:
And the angel said to her
in reply, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most
High will overshadow you. Therefore the
child to be born will be called holy, the Son of God. And behold, Elizabeth, your relative, has
also conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month for her who
was called barren; for nothing will be impossible for God." (LK 1:35-37)
And with
that heavenly assurance from God Himself, Mary heard the word of God, and she
obeyed it practiced it and she observed it [23] by giving her unconditional consent with her own free will:
Mary said, "Behold,
I am the handmaid of the Lord. May it be done to me according to your
word." Then the angel departed from
her. (LK 1:38)
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And the angel said to
her in reply, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the
Most High will overshadow you. Therefore the child to be born will be called
holy, the Son of God." (LK 1:35)
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At the
moment Mary gave her Fiat, the Most Holy Trinity immediately formed the Holy
Zygote of God in her immaculate womb [24]
and Its fertilization
and infusion of life-giving Spirit was completed before the angel departed from
Mary. Thus, Mary trampled upon the head
of Satan through Jesus and began the Redemption Era as promised by the Lord God
(Christ) in Genesis 3:15.
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The Holy Embryo of
Jesus Christ looks like this, six weeks after the Most Holy Trinity has done
great things for Mary.
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FOOTNOTE:
[1] Beloved, do not trust every
spirit but test the spirits to see whether they belong to God, because many
false prophets have gone out into the world.
This is how you can know the Spirit of God: every spirit that acknowledges
Jesus Christ come in the flesh belongs to God, and every spirit that does not
acknowledge Jesus does not belong to God. This is the spirit of the antichrist
that, as you heard, is to come, but in fact is already in the world. (1JN 4:1-3)
[2] Do not be called 'Master';
you have but one master, the Messiah. (MT 23:10)
[3] There were also false
prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who
will introduce destructive heresies and even deny the Master who ransomed them,
bringing swift destruction on themselves.
(2PT 2:1)
[4] In them there are some
things hard to understand that the ignorant and unstable distort to their own
destruction, just as they do the other scriptures. (2PT 3:16b)
[5] A great sign appeared in
the sky, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her
head a crown of twelve stars. She was
with child and wailed aloud in pain as she labored to give birth (REV 12:1-2)
[6] Now the serpent was the
most cunning of all the animals that the LORD God had made. The serpent asked
the woman, "Did God really tell you not to eat from any of the trees in
the garden?" The woman answered the
serpent: "We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden; it is only
about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden that God said, 'You
shall not eat it or even touch it, lest you die.'" But the serpent said to the woman: "You
certainly will not die! No, God knows
well that the moment you eat of it your eyes will be opened and you will be
like gods who know what is good and what is bad." The woman saw that the tree was good for
food, pleasing to the eyes, and desirable for gaining wisdom. So she took some
of its fruit and ate it; and she also gave some to her husband, who was with
her, and he ate it. (GEN 3:1-6)
And
the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and
the harvesters are angels. (MT 13:39)
Behold,
I have given you the power 'to tread upon serpents' and scorpions and upon the
full force of the enemy and nothing will harm you. (LK 10:19)
[7] And He made from one
[common origin, one source, one blood] all nations of men to settle on the face
of the earth, having definitely determined [their] allotted periods of time and
the fixed boundaries of their habitation (their settlements, lands, and
abodes). (ACTS 17:26, Amplified Bible)
[8]. [But] he who commits sin
[who practices evildoing] is of the devil [takes his character from the evil
one], for the devil has sinned (violated the divine law) from the beginning. The reason the Son of God was made manifest
(visible) was to undo (destroy, loosen, and dissolve) the works the devil [has
done]. (1JN 3:8, Amplified Bible)
[9] In him we have redemption
by his blood, the forgiveness of transgressions, in accord with the riches of his
grace. (EPH 1:7)
He
entered once for all into the sanctuary, not with the blood of goats and calves
but with his own blood, thus obtaining eternal redemption. (HEB 9:12)
[10] In the same way we also,
when we were not of age, were enslaved to the elemental powers of the
world. But when the fullness of time had
come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to ransom those
under the law, so that we might receive adoption. (Gal 4:3-5)
[11] In the beginning [before
all time] was the Word (Christ), and the Word was with God, and the Word was
God Himself. (JN 1:1 Amplified Bible)
No
one has ever seen God. The only Son, God, who is at the Father's side, has
revealed him. (JN 1:18)
Who
alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, and whom no human
being has seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal power. Amen. (1TM 6:16)
"I
am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, "the one who is and
who was and who is to come, the almighty." (RV 1:8)
The
one who gives this testimony says, "Yes, I am coming soon." Amen!
Come, Lord Jesus! (RV 22:20).
[12] The man called his wife
Eve, because she became the mother of all the living. (GEN 3:20)
Further,
Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and transgressed. (1TM 2:14).
[13] The huge dragon, the
ancient serpent, who is called the Devil and Satan, who deceived the whole
world, was thrown down to earth, and its angels were thrown down with it. (RV
12:9)
He
seized the dragon, the ancient serpent, which is the Devil or Satan, * and tied
it up for a thousand years. (RV 20:2)
[14] Then I saw a beast come
out of the sea with ten horns and seven heads; on its horns were ten diadems,
and on its heads blasphemous name (s)… Then I saw another beast come up out of
the earth; it had two horns like a lamb's but spoke like a dragon. (RV 13)
I
saw three unclean spirits like frogs come from the mouth of the dragon, from
the mouth of the beast, and from the mouth of the false prophet. (RV 16:13)
The
beast was caught and with it the false prophet who had performed in its sight
the signs by which he led astray those who had accepted the mark of the beast
and those who had worshiped its image. The
two were thrown alive into the fiery pool burning with sulfur. (RV 19:20)
The
Devil who had led them astray was thrown into the pool of fire and sulfur,
where the beast and the false prophet were. There they will be tormented day
and night forever and ever. (RV 20:10)
[15] Then he said to the
disciple, "Behold, your mother." And from that hour the disciple took
her into his home. (JN 19:27)
[16] Then the dragon became
angry with the woman and went off to wage war against the rest of her
offspring, those who keep God's commandments and bear witness to Jesus. (RV 12:17)
[17] Behold, I have given you
the power 'to tread upon serpents' and scorpions and upon the full force of the
enemy and nothing will harm you. (LK
10:19)
[18] Then the God of peace will
quickly crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you. (ROM 16:20)
“The
Father and I are one.” (JN 10:30)
[19] Unlike Cain who belonged
to the evil one and slaughtered his brother. Why did he slaughter him? Because
his own works were evil, and those of his brother righteous. (1JN 3:12)
[20] He is the head of the
body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the
dead, that in all things he himself might be preeminent. (COL 1:18)
And
from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead and ruler of
the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by
his blood. (RV 1:5)
[21]In times past, God spoke in
partial and various ways to our ancestors through the prophets; in these last
days, he spoke to us through a son, whom he made heir of all things and through
whom he created the universe, who is the refulgence of his glory, the very
imprint of his being, and who sustains all things by his mighty word. When he had accomplished purification from
sins, he took his seat at the right hand of the Majesty on high. (HEB 1:1-3)
[22] He said to me: This gate
is to remain closed; it is not to be opened for anyone to enter by it; since
the LORD, the God of Israel, has entered by it, it shall remain closed. (EZEK 44:2-3)
[23] He replied, “Rather,
blessed are those who hear the word of God and observe it.” (LK 11:28)
[24] And the angel said to her in
reply, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will
overshadow you. Therefore the child to
be born will be called holy, the Son of God.”
(LK 1:35)
For
this reason, when he came into the world, he said: "Sacrifice and offering
you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me. (HEB 10:5)
