Geoffrey Grider
The Catholic Church's traditions about the "Madonna and Child" originated in the stories of Nimrod, Semiramis, and little Tammuz in pagan Babylon.
"The children gather wood, the fathers make fire, and the women leaven the dough, to prepare sacrificial cakes for the queen of heaven, and to pour out floods to other deities; and to arouse Me to anger." Jeremiah 7:18 (NBG)
Until I turned 30, I was a typical product of the Roman Catholic system. I was sprinkled as an infant, received "first holy communion," confessed my sins to a "priest," and received the Catholic sacrament of "confirmation," all by the time I was in fifth grade. If anyone had asked me then who the "Queen of Heaven" was, I could have answered immediately and accurately. "The Queen of Heaven" is the same person as the ever-virgin Mary, whom I had been taught to pray to and seek salvation from my entire life. What I did not know, however, was that God says in the Bible that the "queen of heaven" is a pagan disgustingthat provokes His wrath.
In order to douse the torrent of criticism that falls on Catholics for the idolatrous reverence they give to ordinary people like the biblical Mary, we have been trained to respond: "No, we do not worship Mary, but simply show her a special reverence derived from our respect for her." But the more "initiated" among us knew differently. We were taught to pray to Mary more than to anyone else with prayers such as the following:
"Act of Personal Consecration to Our Lady
Holy Mary, Virgin Mother of God, today I choose you to be my Lady, Advocate, Patron, Protector and Mother. I firmly resolve and promise that I will never leave you, never say or do anything against you. I will never allow others to do anything that would offend Your honor. I beg You, accept me forever as Your servant and child. Be my help in all my needs of soul and body and in my priestly work for others. I give myself entirely to you, Mary, in slavery, and as your slave I consecrate my body and soul to you, dobra wewnętrzne i zewnętrzne, nawet wartość dobrych uczynków moich, zarówno przeszłych jak obecnych i przyszłych, pozostawiając Ci całkowite i zupełne prawo rozporządzania mną i wszystkim bez wyjątku, co do mnie należy, według Twego upodobania, ku większej chwale Boga, w czasie i w wieczności. Pragnę przez Ciebie, z Tobą, w Tobie i dla Ciebie stać się niewolnikiem całkowitym Syna Twojego, któremu Ty, o Matko, oddaj mnie w niewolę, jak ja Tobie oddałem się w niewolę. Wszystko, cokolwiek czynić będę, przez Twoje Ręce Niepokalane, Pośredniczko łask wszelkich, oddaję ku chwale Trójcy Świętej – Soli Deo! Maryjo Jasnogórska, nie opuszczaj mnie w pracy codziennej i okaż swe czyste Oblicze w godzinę śmierci mojej. Amen.”
If you think that saying such a thing is not worship and that it is not prayer, then you are greatly deceived. And it was just one of many prayers to Mary approved by the Vatican. Catholic schools and churches love to put statues of the Virgin Mary and the baby Jesus in classrooms or chapels. Everywhere you go, the Madonna and Child appear before your eyes like phantoms. As I have grown older, however, I have discovered that such statues do not originate in the figures of Mary and Jesus, nothing of the sort. The Catholic Church's traditions about the "Madonna and Child" had their origin in the stories of Nimrod, Semiramis and little Tammuz of pagan Babylon.
In his excellent book Babylon - The Secret Religion, Ralph Woodrow shows us where the Roman Catholic worship of the "Mother and Child" came from.
Nimrod, the mighty hunter against God was the first to unite the cities into a kingdom under human rule (Genesis 10:8-10). This much we know from the Bible. The name Nimrod comes from the word "marad" meaning "he rebelled." Legend has it that Nimrod married his own mother, Semiramis. When he died, Semiramis claimed that he was the sun god. She then had a child, Tammuz, whom she claimed was a reborn Nimrod, supernaturally conceived, being the promised seed, "the savior." Semiramis created a religion based on the worship of mother and child. Symbols were used to develop this "mystery" religion. Since Nimrod was believed to be the sun god (Baal), fire was thought to be his earthly representation. In other forms, Nimrod was symbolized by images of the sun, fish, trees, pillars, and animals. Tammuz, the son of the sun god, was represented by a golden calf. And thus mankind followed a religion that worshiped the creature rather than the Creator (Romans 1:21-26).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ha7x2IR0Qyc
Rome, the largest and longest existing human empire ruling the world, assimilated religions from many of the territories it conquered. All of these religions had elements in common because they all originated in Babylon. These practices infiltrated and mastered the Christ-following Church, which in time was dominated by Rome itself. Many pagan religions included the worship of mother and child - in India it was Devaki and Krishna, in Egypt Isis and Horus, in Rome Venus, or Fortuna, and Jupiter. Each nation gave different names to essentially the same gods and goddesses.
The mother goddess, or "queen of the heavens," was said to have miraculously given birth to a son. Ancient Israel sometimes followed this false religion with disastrous results . In Judges 2:13 we read of the Israelites that: "They forsook the Lord and served Baal and Ashtartom", and in Judges 10:6: "Then the Israelites began again to do what was evil in the sight of the Lord. They served the Baals, Ashtartom, jak również bogom Aramu, Sydonu i Moabu oraz bogom ammonickim i filistyńskim, a opuścili Pana i nie służyli Mu”. W 1 Księdze Samuela 7:3-4 jest napisane: „Wtedy Samuel tak powiedział do całego domu Izraela: ‘Jeśli chcecie się nawrócić do Pana z całego serca, usuńcie spośród siebie wszystkich bogów obcych i Ashtarty, a skierujcie wasze serca ku Panu, służcie więc tylko Jemu, a wybawi was z rąk Filistynów’. Synowie Izraela usunęli Baalów i Ashtarty i służyli tylko samemu Panu.”, a w 1 Sm 12:10: „Wołali wtedy do Pana: ‘Zgrzeszyliśmy, bo opuściliśmy Pana, służąc Baalom i Ashtartom. Teraz jednak wybaw nas z ręki naszych wrogów, a będziemy Tobie służyli.’”. Z kolei w 1 Księdze Królewskiej 11:5 znajdziemy następujący werset: „Zaczął bowiem czcić Ashtart, goddess of the Sidonians, and Milkoma, the abomination of the Ammonites", while in 2 Kings 23:13 we have it written that: "Moreover the king defiled the heights which stood opposite Jerusalem, south of the Mount of Olives, and which Solomon king of Israel had built for Asztarty – ohydy Sydończyków, dla Kemosza – ohydy Moabitów, i dla Milkoma – obrzydliwości Ammonitów.” Wreszcie w Księdze Jeremiasza 44:17-19 napisano: „’Raczej wprowadzimy w czyn wszystko, co postanowiliśmy sobie: make incense offerings to the queen of heavenWe offered liquid sacrifices in her honor, just as we did, our ancestors, our kings, and our leaders in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. Back then we had plenty of bread, we prospered, and nothing bad happened to us. Since we stopped making offerings to the queen of heaven kadzielne i płynne, cierpimy niedostatek wszystkiego i giniemy od miecza lub głodu’. A kobiety powiedziały: ‘Ilekroć składamy królowej nieba ofiary kadzielne i płynne, czyż nie za wiedzą naszych mężów przygotowujemy dla niej ciastka z jej wizerunkiem albo wylewamy płynne ofiary?’” Semiramidzie oddawano w Efezie cześć jako wielkiej matce Dianie, bogini o wielu piersiach. Owa forma kultu matki i dziecka rozprzestrzeniła się po całej Azji i świecie, o czym również wspomina Biblia: „Grozi niebezpieczeństwo, że nie tylko rzemiosło nasze upadnie, ale i świątynia the great goddess Artemis będzie za nic miana, a ona sama, której cześć oddaje cała Azja i świat cały, zostanie odarta z majestatu” (Dz 19:27).
Mary worship had no place in the early Christian Church. Even the "Catholic Encyclopedia" (article entitled "The Virgin Mary" pp. 459-460) admits that there was no trace of Marian worship in the first centuries AD. By the fourth century A.D., the time of Emperor Constantine, the worship of Mary as a goddess and the offering of cakes at her shrines had begun to creep into the Church professing Christ. At the Council of Ephesus in 431, Marian devotion became official. The so-called "fathers" of the Church reasoned that they would be able to get more converts by mixing beliefs already practiced at the time (Diana of Ephesus worshipped as a goddess) with nominal Christianity. It's the same chant as always. The deviants think that lowering God's standards results in a better form of religion, more acceptable and popular with the masses.
The Bible is clear that there is only one the mediator between God and man - the man Jesus Christ (1 Tim 2:5). Yet Roman Catholicism teaches that Mary is also a "mediatrix." Catholics offer their prayers to Mary, light candles to her, and have statues of her, all of which derive directly from their pagan counterparts. The Egyptian goddess Isis was known as the "mother of God." a This is exactly how Catholics address Mary. Weigall, in his book The Paganism of Our Christianity, writes on page 129: "When Christianity triumphed, these paintings and figurines came to represent the Madonna and Child without breaking continuity: in fact, no archaeologist today can tell which of these objects represent the mother and child and which represent something else."
In pagan religions, a mother was revered as much as her son, if not more! Acclaimed Roman Catholic writer St. Alphonsus Maria Liguori emphasized that prayers addressed to Mary are far more effective than those addressed to Jesus. Marię definiuje się jako „królową nieba”, urodzoną bez grzechu (Niepokalane Poczęcie), „Matką Boską” – dokładnie w taki sam sposób, w jaki pogańscy czciciele robili bóstwo z Izydy, Wenus, Asztarte itp. Jezus nie nauczał, jakoby Maria była lepsza od innych istot ludzkich. W Ewangelii wg św. Mateusza przeczytamy o reakcji Pana, kiedy ktoś wspomniał o Jego matce i braciach: „Lecz On odpowiedział temu, który Mu to oznajmił: ‘Któż jest moją matką i którzy są moimi braćmi?’ I wyciągnąwszy rękę ku swoim uczniom, rzekł: “Oto moja matka i moi bracia. For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, sister and mother‘” (Mt 12:48-50) . Każdy, kto czyni wolę Bożą jest na tym samym poziomie, co Maria.
Closely associated with prayers to Mary is the rosary, a chain of 15 sets of small beads separated by a larger bead. The ends of the chain are joined by a medal with a print depicting Mary, from which hangs a short chain with a crucifix. The use of beads as a prayer counter is an almost universal custom in pagan religions. From Nineveh to India to China, beads have been used as part of worship. The Phoenicians used a circle of beads resembling a rosary in the worship of Ashtarte, the mother goddess, as early as 800 BCE. Francis Xavier was amazed to see that rosaries were widely known to Japanese Buddhists.
The main prayer of the rosary is the "Hail Mary." A full rosary requires this prayer to be prayed 53 times, the Lord's Prayer 6 times, and several other recitations. "Hail Mary" combines the angel's biblical statement about Mary with an unbiblical blasphemy: "Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord be with thee, blessed art thou among women (a loose translation from Luke 1:28) and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen." Mary was not the mother of God, she was not a saint. She was a virtuous woman who lies dead in the tomb, awaiting resurrection to eternal life Along with all others who have died in Christ.
The Catholic Encyclopedia states that: "There is little or no trace of the use of the 'Hail Mary' as an accepted devotional formula before about 1050" ("Hail Mary" article, p. 111). Jesus instructs us not to use vain repetitions when we pray (Matthew 6:7-8). The so-called Lord's Prayer (verses 9-13) is a model prayer, not one to be monotonously repeated. In effect, Jesus said: "Ye therefore so pray." Prayer should be spontaneous; it should not be a memorized formula without heartfelt content.
You now know where the idea of Marian devotion comes from, because it certainly isn't in the Bible.
There is not a single verse in all of Scripture that gives any weight to praying to Mary, worshipping her, or putting her on any privileged position. The Acts of the Apostles show that Mary is in the Upper Room on the day of Pentecost, but only as a silent witness. No one asks her anything, and she has not shared any comments with anyone. Rather strange, given the exalted position accorded her by the Catholic Church, don't you think?
"I heard also another voice from Heaven, which said: Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her trespasses, and that ye take not of her blows." Rev 18:4 (NBG)
The Roman Catholic Church is the Babylonian Harlot foretold by the prophetswhich we read about in the 17th and 18th chapters of Revelation of John. This is the system that God hates and which He will destroy in the time of trouble for Jacob. The Lord saved me in 1990 and took me out of this false system. He will do that for you as well, as long as you desire to know the truth.
"And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free" JOHN 8:32 (NBG)
Translated by Jacek. Thank you in the name of Jesus.
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Supplemental Material:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgqsw23RpEs
That's why on May 4, 2016 there will be a REPEATED ACT of Surrender of Poland to the Queen of Heaven.
SO LET US PRAY FOR GOD'S PROTECTION OVER POLAND. LET US GIVE POLAND TO GOD THE FATHER.
I think quite a few people already know about it, but for newcomers this text will definitely be helpful.
O kurcze patrzcie co wyłapałem – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZtbusqdYhA
Kwasniewski does at a Jesuit university
Módlmy się do Boga Ojca w Jego Duchu i przez wstawiennictwo Jego Pierworodnego Syna Jezusa Chrystusa o to, by skrzętnie skrywana od setek lat przez satanistyczny kościół rzymski straszna prawda o rzeczywistej tożsamości “królowej niebios” dotarła przed 4.5.2016 r. do uszu wszystkich tych, których Pan sobie wybrał, by otworzyła ich oczy na to ogromne zwiedzenie i skruszyła ich serca tak, by odwrócili się od tego ohydnego bałwochwalstwa, z odrazą usuwając z domu wszelkie związane z nim dewocjonalia i wreszcie, by zwrócili się przeciwko zwodzącym ich hierarchom korporacji watykańskiej, głosząc o jej brudach tak głośno, odważnie i niezłomnie, jak my to czynimy. Niech to przebudzenie nastąpi przed odrażającym aktem duchowej prostytucji, jakim szczycą się polscy purpuraci, że wkrótce do niego dopuszczą. Przeklinajmy w imieniu Jezusa Chrystusa to wydarzenie i zwierzchność demoniczną za nim stojącą. Przeklinajmy kult maryjny tak, by wreszcie upadł, a jego obrzydliwości stały się jawne. Panie Jezu Chryste, Synu Boży, zmiłuj się nad nami grzesznymi, zanieś nasze pokorne prośby do Twojego Ojca, a nam daj moc, by niestrudzenie gromić ten podły kult i dawać świadectwo prawdzie, która jest tylko i wyłącznie w Tobie. Niech tak się stanie. Hallelujah!
Nasz kraj i społeczeństwo oraz emigranci-wychodźtwo są takie nędzne i słabe przez “opiekę” jaką nad nad nami roztacza królowa niebios, kłamliwie zwana Marią…
Z tego kultu wynikły i wynikają same “korzyści”: Powstanie Chmielnickiego, Potop ruski i szwedzki, epidemie, susze, rebelie chłopskie, zgnilizna saska, rozbiory, I wś, sejmokracja, sanacja, II wś, zbrodnie niemiecko-sowieckie, komuna, grabież kraju po 1989, kryzys, pijaństwo, złodziejstwo, sodoma i gomora, tragedie osobiste i społeczne… To tak pokrótce…Rozkład duchowo-moralny całego narodu…
W tych czasach większości jest wszystko jedno w co wierzą, byle by im było dobrze…
ooo paan dear, you reminded me of a good sermon, see for yourself
http://przyjdzpaniejezu.pl/james-jacob-prasch-kaszrut-i-glod/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lkjh1V4hKtY
It's hard to talk to Catholics about Jesus and the Bible. I try to talk to them about these things and they think I am a Jehovah, which I am not.
to są uroki i efekty sekciarskiej mentalności wpajanej w KRK (który wyuczył nasz naród w czasie historii takiej megalomanii religijnej – my Polacy zawsze z Bogiem i Maryją i mesjaństwo polskie dla narodów, Polska wyswobodzi narody etc wprzęgnęli się w kulturę narodową tak jak islam na wschodzie) którą poznacie w każdej sekcie : albo z nami albo …(wpisz w kropeczki jakikolwiek epitet chcesz, u nas popularne to: jehowi) bez względu na fakty. Podczas gdy Bóg przewyższa Sobą caaały k,atolicyzm razem wzięty, caaały ewangelicyzm razem wzięty, caaały nasz układ słoneczny razem wzięty 🙂 trzeba być wąskim umysłowo (bez urazy) żeby sprowadzać Najwyższy Byt do ziemskich ram organizacyjnych, grupek ludzkich, tego co stworzył człowiek w jakikolwiek sposób (w tym bałwochwalstwo – sprowadzanie Boga do materialnych postaci stworzenia) – to tak jakby program, środowisko komputerowe które stworzysz chciało dyktować tobie, programiście (masterowi systemu) warunki i zmieniać samowolnie kod programu nieposiadajac narzędzi masterskich jak programista (nie mamy boskiej wszechmocy,a z trudem poznajemy kod zawarty w stworzeniu, budujemy z tego modele naukowe w różnych dziedzinach etc).
Ja wczoraj znów usłyszałam, że jestem świadkiem 😀 Nie przejmuj się bracie, niech sobie trwają w tym swoim kłamstwie jeśli chcą, a Ty najlepiej się za nich módl bo uświadomienie ich chyba graniczy z cudem…
Najłatwiej nawraca się wątpiących/poszukujących…ateistów i agnostyków, a nie babilończyków wszelkiej opcji…
The fact that it is easier to put a stereotypical atheist on the right path than a Catholic perfectly shows what a dangerous sect the KKK is.
Hello I have a question: is the trinity dogma consistent with the Bible and is Jesus God equal to his Father or the same.
Hej. Rafcio9 czytaj przede wszystkim Słowo Boze – Warszawska, Tysiaclatka bez przypisów katolickich (mozesz je wykreślić), Uwspółcześniona Gdańska, Gdańska, uważaj na przekłady jehowych i inne
dla ogólnego rozeznania – http://www.tiqva.pl/zdrowa-nauka/212-ojciec-syn-i-duch-wity-jeden-bog
Adi, and what do you think of the Poznan Bible?
I don't know, but I've heard other people's good reviews, but beware of footnotes added
For something like this to be accepted they had to abrogate God's Commandments.
"Ye neglect the commandments of God, and hold to the doctrine of men. And he said unto them, Ye slyly abrogate the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own doctrine." Mark 7:8-9
Paul was already warning against this abomination.
"And they exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images representing mortal man, and even birds, four-legged animals, and amphibians;" Romans 1:23
Their idols are of silver and gold, They are the work of human hands. They have mouths and do not speak, They have eyes and do not see. They have ears, and do not hear; They have nostrils, and do not smell. They have hands, and do not touch, They have feet, and do not walk, Nor do they give voice with their larynx. Let their makers be like them, All who trust in them!" Psalm 115:4-8
https://napoczatkuslowo.wordpress.com/2016/01/22/dekalog-a-dekalog/
Przez ten kult bogini-matki i wiążące się z nim przekleństwo, Polacy niewieścieją, a Polki szmacą się z kim popadnie, przeważnie ze śniadolicymi “księciami” z pustyni…itd. itp.
Polacy zamiast wyrzucić tą watykańską szarańczę, cieszą się jeszcze, iż Bóg za zbrodnie tej nierządnicy jeszcze ich przeklina, pozwalając im być parobkami i dziwkami Europy i okolic…Szkoda na ten obłęd słów…Boże bądź nam miłościw.
The spiritual state of our nation caused by the Church kills me very much, hence these harsh words. It takes Divine intervention for this people to wake up from centuries of deadness and marasm.
Let us pray for the Polish nation to cast off the fetters of Catholic shackles and Vatican idolatry and to become a Christian chosen church, a priestly people. Through Your Son Jesus Christ we humbly beseech You, Father God. May it be so.
Stan Tutaj – Bida ci da https://youtu.be/CE0zkDUsWo0. Something bittersweet for a good night.
Antichrist technology-blue flux is the topic, they can create different revelations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrsMfJdCq1c
I saw it and posted it on a blog, I think it was still the old one, but I withdrew it when someone suggested it was a photoshop
I read somewhere that Esau killed a nimrod, then returned home after the hunt and gave up his inheritance for food.
“Panie ulecz nasz kraj,
Ojcze zbuduj nasz dom…”
https://youtu.be/S4MG0RUCyg0
gwozdz do trumny idei papieskiej ekumenii z islamem: greckie 666 wygląda jak arabskie “w imie allaha” http://infidels-deutschland.de/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/666-and-bismallah1.jpg