Bible Study Course Lesson 3 – 14
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The daughter of the beast is the queen of heaven. Ancient Israelites baked cakes to her for which they
were justly and soundly condemned. But does it really matter to us today? Who really cares about an
ancient, pagan belief which has no relevance to modern Christianity?
The fact is, as you’ve no doubt guessed, practically all of Christendom worships her to this day, just as
confidently as those foolish Jews worshiped Anat as consort of Yahweh. But Anat purported to be the
wife of God, and surely no one worships a divine wife today.
Christianity disagrees about a great many things today, but they all agree that God is single. Jesus is
planning to marry the church, the bride, at His return, but everyone knows for certain that the Father is
a confirmed old bachelor. That’s what they say… but is that really what they believe?
As I’ve said many times, Jesus did not prophesy that people would be deceived by Baal today. He
prophesied that many false Christs would arise (Matthew 24:24). Paul didn’t worry about Corinthians
being deceived by Diana and Apollo, even though they were surrounded by their paganism! He
worried that they would be deceived by another gospel, another Jesus, another holy spirit!
(2 Corinthians 11:4).
Think about that last thing; there would be another holy spirit. What does that really mean? We know
that there are two only holy spirits – that is to say, two beings made of spirit who are incorruptibly
righteous – Jesus and the Father. But Paul worried that a third holy spirit would be taught to his people,
a third member of the Godhead!
So who is that third holy spirit Paul feared they would be deceived by? What do we call him today?
SETBACK AND OPPORTUNITY
Everyone knows that Christianity handed Babylon a great setback, the power of God, the miracles, the
first-hand testimony was hard to fight. People left Diana and Isis in droves for Christianity, and she
couldn’t stop them, though she did try at first (Acts 13:8-10, Acts 19:23-28 for instance).
But just like the flood, too many people had been there, and the stories spread too fast – she couldn’t
successfully deny the event itself, or even the writings of the apostles. But then, she didn’t need to
deny them, she could use them to her own advantage!
Just like with Noah, Moses, and Jeremiah, she made the strength of Christianity her own by
insinuating herself into the new religion! The son of Babylon tried for several more centuries to
exterminate Christianity, but failed – even as she was conquering it from within.
Because the great mother was wiser than her brother-husband Rome, and the daughter of Babylon
realized she couldn’t destroy the religion of the martyred Jesus. In fact, she didn’t have to… she didn’t
even want to! Because she realized that hidden within that setback was great opportunity!
See, the OC was about keeping rituals according to the letter of the law, so to deceive Israel she had to
have similar practices that could replace the religion of Israel; because it didn’t really matter what
Israel believed, as long as they simply did what God said – even if a false prophet told them to do it!
(Jeremiah 23:21-22).
So in order to pull Israel away from God, she had to provide a counterfeit set of works that was far
enough from the truth to make them anger God, yet close enough to the truth to deceive the people.
Instead of sacrificing at the temple, she would sacrifice on a hilltop (Ezekiel 20:28); instead of
sacrificing a goat, sacrifice a pig (Isaiah 66:3), and so on.
The problem with this was, at the end of the day, it was pretty easy to see that sacrificing a pig is not
the same as offering a lamb! Sacrificing on a high hill is not the same as sacrificing in God’s temple!
So God could always send a prophet, scare people, and get them to back up and see their sins because
there was a clear difference in actions between His way and her way!
So while she was always able to eventually get Israel deceived, all God usually had to do was send a
prophet, or a good king, and they would be back on track in a few weeks, ruining decades of her work
of deception. Not that their obedience lasted, but still (Jeremiah 2:20).
But NC Christianity was a spiritual religion, so the definition of a NC Christian was no longer
something that could be seen! No longer simply a matter of external, visible obedience to the letter of
the law! This means that a Baal-worshiper and a true Christian could stand side by side and you
couldn’t tell the difference! (2 Corinthians 11:13-15).
For as long as the Baal-worshiper does good deeds, feeds the hungry, and makes a show of obedience
to God, how can you tell he isn’t just like you? When the defining characteristics of a religion are
almost entirely internal, who can tell the brethren from the tares? Welcome to modern
Christianity!
So even as her brother the beast was fighting against Christianity, the queen of heaven was learning
from it. She pored over the new scriptures, seeking a weakness… and she found in them her greatest
opportunity of all time.
THE NEW QUEEN
One of her greatest weaknesses in the OC was that there was no one, at all, that she could credibly cast
as herself in the story of God. Asherah had to totally invent her own character, using non-canon works
like the epic of Baal, to write herself into the story of God.
There was no one in the OC that she could become, no one she could elevate and cast as God’s wife,
queen of heaven. Most women in the OC didn’t fit the profile; Miriam, who was cursed? Eve, who
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committed the first sin? Sarah, who laughed at God? None had sufficient scriptural support to pass off
as the wife of God, the queen of heaven.
But Christianity gave her the perfect candidate. Someone praised in the Bible in glowing terms, who
was in exactly the right place at the right time, one who was everything she needed her to be to pass
her off as the queen of heaven… and the false church started grooming her for the position even
while Jesus was alive!
Read Luke 11:27. Without having studied the last lesson, her statement seems benign enough. But
now you can see that what she was really doing was trying to exalt the mother over the Son and His
Father! Just like Asherah did!
She was already trying to transfer the authority from Him to His MOTHER, and He wasn’t even
dead yet! Knowing that the real power was with the queen of heaven, not her Son, they wanted to
BLESS and EXALT her, so they could pray to Mary as the queen of heaven, mother and spouse of
God! And get her to intercede with her Son on their behalf! (John 2:3).
“Early Christians in the Middle East assimilated elements of Ishtar into the cult of the Virgin Mary.
[Early writers] wrote laments in which the Virgin Mary describes her compassion for her son at the
foot of the cross in deeply personal terms closely resembling Ishtar’s laments over the death of
Tammuz.” (Wikipedia, Inanna)
But Jesus immediately put a stop to that and said the true rulers of heaven were those who heard the
word of God and kept it! (Luke 11:27 and Matthew 5:19). But He didn’t really stop it, did He?
Because too many people loved the great mother goddess to abandon her, even when they adopted
Christianity. No, I should say especially when they adopted Christianity.
Because this time she was armed with a ready-made character to impersonate and exalt; one who was
impregnated by the Father, and thus was His consort – in a sense, the wife of God. One who gave birth
to the Son, and thus was His mother. One who was “highly favored” and “blessed among women”.
So when they adopted Christianity, they no longer had to choose between her and God; at last she had
found the perfect way to allow people to be Christian… and worship her at the same time!
THE FALSE MARY
Initially, and officially, the great whore worshiped the true Jesus, just like everyone else. But ever so
gradually she changed who Jesus was! (2 Peter 2:1, Romans 16:18, Acts 20:29-30, etc). And she
subtly reinterpreted the things He said (Psalms 56:5).
She made Jesus seem weak and effeminate, the Father seem disinterested and distant, and slowly put
herself at the forefront of worship, as the compassionate mother. As time passed, under her new name
of Mary, she was able to exalt herself above Jesus, and with each step the new religion became
closer to the religion of ancient Babylon!
The following are the high points of a Catholic-approved prayer to Mary: “Holy Mary, MOTHER
AND SPOUSE OF CHRIST, pray for me… Holy Mary, QUEEN OF HEAVEN… Holy Mary,
brightest Star of Heaven… Holy Mary, Our Advocate… Holy Mary, Immaculate Virgin.” (Catholic
Encyclopedia “Litany of Loreto”)
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These are the same names Israel was kicked out of the Promised Land for worshiping! How does
Mary “mother and spouse of Christ” differ from Asherah, mother of Yam and also his lover? How
does Mary interceding with Jesus differ from Asherah interceding with Yam? Or Ishtar interceding
with Enlil?
We have ONE advocate in the Bible (1 John 2:1). But the Catholic Mary carries the prayers of men to
the Father, just as she, in a former life under a different name, carried the prayers of man and angels to
El/Anu! And she argues with her son/lover Yam/Enlil/Jesus on our behalf just as the queen of heaven
always has!
Like Mary, the planet Venus (brightest star in the sky) was specifically the star of Ishtar and most
other fertility goddesses. Every single one of Mary’s titles can be traced to the original queen of
heaven because they literally just pasted a new name over the same old goddess.
The fact that the Bible gives plenty of mentions about the real Mary gave them lots of plausible
arguments to support their belief; just apply a few symbols like Revelation 12 which sort of looks like
it might be describing Mary as queen of heaven (it’s not, but…).
Then deliberately misinterpret verses like “that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ”
(2 Corinthians 11:2), to conclude the “chaste virgin” is not only Jesus’ mother, but also His wife, and
you have “proof” that this is what the Bible teaches.
But the vast majority of my readers aren’t Catholic, and you might be thinking “this is all good, but it
doesn’t matter to me; I don’t worship the queen of heaven!” Well, remember how Israel baked cakes
to the queen of heaven? Jeremiah 44:19. Christians still do!
“Jesus in the blessed sacrament [the Eucharist] is the bread of life produced from Mary with the flour
of Her immaculate flesh, kneaded into dough with her virginal milk. She has made this for us, Her
children. And we realize more fully our brotherhood with one another as we all partake of this
delicious and fragrant bread of our mother.” (Jesus Our Eucharistic Love, Stefano Manelli)
Jesus was the bread of life, and if Mary is seen as the queen of heaven – as she dogmatically is by the
Catholics – then literally, Jesus was a loaf baked BY the queen of heaven!
From the official Catholic catechism “…In communion with and commemorating the Blessed Virgin
Mary and all the saints, the Church offers the Eucharistic sacrifice….” So the loaves of Communion
are, quite literally, cakes baked to honor the queen of heaven – by their own words!
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And notice the sign of the sun-god prominently placed on all of them? The sign that is, quite literally,
the sign of Babylon? You’re looking at cakes baked to honor the queen of heaven, something that
almost every Christian on Earth is guilty of using!
Your church may not be willing to state that these honor the queen of heaven, but they learned how to
do it from the Catholic Church. They have HER sign stamped on to it. Whether they give her the credit
or not… they’re for her
benefit, not God’s.
(For the record, there IS
a time when Christians
should eat bread to
represent Jesus’ body…
but it doesn’t look like
this. More on that
another day.)
THE MOTHER AND
CHILD
In each of the pagan
myths you read (and in
many others I didn’t
cite), the daughter of
Babylon acknowledges
the power and deity of
the true God and Jesus –
even as she slanders
their character and
exalts herself above
them. That’s why the
worship of Mary and her
perpetually-infant Son
Jesus is portrayed in
precisely the same way
as the worship of Isis
and Horus, or Ishtar and
Tammuz.
Right, clockwise from top left, you have Greece, Egypt, Sardinia, Egypt again – these artifacts are
mostly from around 600-1500 BC – and then two renaissance paintings of Mary and Jesus. Practically
every culture has art like this.
But notice the unrealistically mature size and faces of the child in most of these panels. Sure, it might
be natural to have statues of nursing mothers, but why nursing mothers and their 10-year-old sucklings?
Who have strangely adult faces even given their unusual nursing age?
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That’s not something that every culture would portray, unless they all had
a common origin. In fact, it’s another way that Mary casts herself as the
one in true power – yes, her Son
Jesus is the Savior, but no matter
how old He gets, He’ll always be
her little boy and thus loving and
obedient to her! Because “Blessed
is the womb that bare thee, and the
paps which thou hast sucked”
(Luke 11:27).
THE SACRED DOVE
We can see more connections
between Mary and Ishtar in their
favorite symbol – the dove. In fact,
the Greek word for dove, peristerá,
likely derives from the Semitic
phrase perah Ištar, literally, bird of
Ishtar.
“In the Near East
the dove was the symbol par excellence of the
goddesses Ishtar, Astarte, Asherah, Tanit and
many others, and in the classical period the
association continued with Aphrodite and
Venus.” (The Culture of Animals in Antiquity,
Di Sian Lewis, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones)
“Images of doves were used to designate the
sanctuaries of love goddesses: at Babylon the
doorway of the temple of Nimah was adorned
with the image of a dove and a ninth century
clay model of a temple to an unnamed levantine
goddess (found in Palestine) had a dove
prominently placed over the doorway.” (ibid.)
The temple model referenced above is pictured
at right. Though the author is reluctant to name
her, it is almost certainly Asherah’s temple, for
she was worshiped as the queen of heaven in
that area, at that time. Compare how the dove is
above that temple, to how the dove is nearly
always above paintings of Mary.
In the picture at right, notice how Mary’s hands
are crossed. This pose is found in a huge number
of Marian paintings, and it’s an uncomfortable,
unnatural pose, so why is it so common?
Aphrodite with dove,
6th century BC.
Mary with a dove over her head. The Virgin
Annunciate from the Ghent Altarpiece, 1432 AD.
Iron Age clay house shrine, likely
dedicated to Asherah.
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Notice how her hands mimic the wings of the dove? If you’re trying to mime a bird flying, crossing
your wrists and moving your hands up and down is one intuitive way of doing it! Remember, the
woman works secretly, through mysteries. What you and I see as crossed hands, the initiated false
Christian can see as the dove!
So rather than having a Greek fertility goddess – an obvious idol that wouldn’t deceive anyone – they
take a minor Biblical character, Mary, and put her name on their idols and “deceive the whole world”!
And rather than having her HOLD the dove, they have her hands SUGGEST the dove that Aphrodite
and so many other goddesses held! Why does that matter?
THE IMPORTANCE OF THE DOVE
The image of the dove offered a somewhat rational validation for an enormous deception of the false
Church. Remember what Ishtar’s goal always was: to write herself into the true religion as the wife,
daughter, and mother of God.
See, Satan’s religions have often had a holy trinity. Osiris-Isis-Horus, Brahma-Shiva-Vishnu, and so
on. Usually Male-Female-Male, but there are significant exceptions.
Of course, there is no trinity, male or female, taught in the Bible – but with enough work, you can
force one to fit. The entire world does just that, after all. That’s why every Christian on the planet
believes it. So early on, the idea was fitted into Christianity – step one.
That allowed people to get used to seeing the Father pictured as an old man; the Son pictured as a
young man; and the Holy Spirit pictured as a dove. There are enough Biblical references to make a
strong case for all of
these symbols. Step two.
In the pictures, the holy
spirit is nearly always in
the central position, and
is nearly always elevated
above the rest of the
trinity. Coequal may be
the dogma, but in
practice the holy spirit is
the most important arm
of the trinity. In practice,
the Father created, Jesus
died, but the holy spirit
is what DOES things for
us!
Again, there are plenty
of scriptures that
chronicle what the real
holy spirit does for us,
more than enough to
support this idea
From the Room of the Immaculate Conception by Francis Podesti (1865).
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(especially if you don’t read the context). So the holy spirit, that “other spirit” Paul spoke of, is exalted
above the true Gods. Step three.
Step four is portrayed in the picture at right. See, for most of the Catholic period people were illiterate.
They couldn’t even read their own language, much less the Bible which was written in Latin. So to
convey the doctrine and beliefs of the Church, artists were hired to “tell” the stories of the Bible, and
the articles of faith that were most important to the priests.
These incredibly detailed frescoes are full of intense imagery, and minute detail containing symbolism
meant to convey deep secrets when studied by the faithful week after week. Things that they would
never dare teach, but that if your heart was right you could learn for yourself from a painting – that
way, if it backfired, they could deny your interpretation of the mystery!
And so when the Catholic Church was finally ready to officially state that Mary was immaculate (born
without original sin), this fresco was painted to officially commemorate the event in 1854. The official
position is, to this day, that Mary is not a God. Not divine. And yet… what do we see in this, and
MANY other paintings like it?
God the Father sits at her left hand and Jesus at her right hand. Above, and centered on her, you see the
dove representing God the Holy Spirit. But notice how she occupies the space God the Holy Spirit
should occupy? He seems content to be behind her, coming down and filling her.
This is exactly how you saw Astarte and Ishtar portrayed in myth; El/Anu to one side, Yam/Enlil on
the other; her in the middle, standing on the Earth, interceding for the humans she loves and protects
from Their tyranny. All the rest of the angels, hovering around like her children, worshiping her.
What’s more, if you look closely, even though she stands lower than the sitting Gods – because she
came from the Earth – she actually is taller than They are, showing she is more powerful than either
one! After all, don’t both of Them listen to her, and forgive mortals through her intercession? Doesn’t
that give her the true power?
In the picture at right, you see a
dove carrying a crown that is
LARGER than the one God the
Father and Jesus (right and left,
respectively) wear! Because God
the Holy Spirit, pictured as a dove,
is giving this crown… HIS
CROWN… to her!
So here is revealed one of the
greatest secrets of the mystery
religion of Babylon. Perhaps their
deepest, most sacred mystery; that
the third member of the
Godhead, God the Holy Spirit…
the other “holy spirit” Paul warned
us about… is none other than
Mary, the queen of heaven! Coronation of the Virgin Mary by Georg Pencz (1540).
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No Catholic would state such a thing, nor do most rank-and-file Catholics understand it. But these
pictures are in their most holy churches, these beliefs are reflected in the icons they pray to day in, day
out.
If you take issue with it, they can plausibly deny your interpretation of these images – and keep
believing them in secret until it’s safe to believe them in public. That’s why it’s called a mystery
religion!
The explanation of these mysteries that I’ve given you is only taught to the initiated, understood only
by those who devote their lives to meditating on the mysteries of their God. Every so often one of
them lets something slip, and when they do the Church watches for reaction, and if it seems like the
right time they publicly proclaim what has been believed in secret since the time of Babel – that the
queen of heaven is the third member of the trinity.
“She has been called the ‘dove of God.’ This symbol wasn’t used just to describe her purity and beauty,
her gentleness and humility, but according to Scheeben, precisely to indicate her similarity and
intimate unity with the Holy Spirit: his symbol became her symbol.” (Holy Spirit and Mary,
Sister M. Jean Frisk)
Looking at the first picture of Mary on the previous page, when you think about it, Mary effectively
replaces him in heaven. She sits where he should sit! Now that’s not official Catholic dogma – but it is
what those who best know her mysteries believe, and occasionally, state publicly:
“For all these reasons Mary, as well as the Church, is called after the creature which is the symbol of
the Holy Spirit, that is, the dove… under this name Mary also appears as resembling the Holy
Ghost and connected with Him, or rather informed and inspired, as it were, by Him; thus, as one
moral person with him.” (Mariology, M. J. Scheeben)
No Catholic would say that Mary is the third arm of the trinity… but they’ll paint it. They hide these
truths inside their art, their prayers, in their lengthy, Latin-heavy books, so that only the initiated can
see their true beliefs until it’s too late for the rest of the world to stop them.
That’s why they are hesitant to dogmatically state these things. If they’d said in say, the 5th century,
that Mary was in fact God the Holy Spirit, few would have believed them, and they’d have lost their
grip on the people. If they made a dogma of it even today, many Catholics would object and even
leave the Church.
But they’ve been building up to this for literally millennia. And it keeps creeping forward – it was only
in 1952 that the Catholic Church officially, dogmatically stated that Mary was in fact the Queen of
Heaven.
Are you starting to understand how Satan works? He started with Mary – yes, Mary existed. Yes, she
was very righteous. But then over the centuries he ever-so-slowly exalted her with flattering titles,
blending her character with that of Ishtar and Venus and Isis, and gradually promoted her above Jesus,
and no one saw it happen!
Yet for those who had eyes to see, the truth of what they believe was summed up in almost any
painting in almost any Church in the world, long before they were willing to proclaim it to the world.
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ONE-SIDED RELATIONSHIP
Like women, there are many different churches in the world. Each has their own beauty they show the
world and, once you get to know them, their flaws – some bigger than others. Some actually are fairly
pretty, in that they have some goodness in them – but most are old hags who hide their ugliness behind
caked-on layers of makeup.
Most churches have their small piece or two of truth and pursue their relationship with the divine in
their own way, ignoring the true Jesus and He mostly ignores them. But there is only one true church
that Jesus will marry upon His return (Revelation 19:5-9). Only one woman worthy of His love – one
who doesn’t have to pretend about what she is.
So there is Jesus’ true love, and there are thousands of women who don’t even know He exists. But
there is one Church that is different. She is obsessed with Him, even though He loathes her. You might
call her Jesus’ psycho stalker.
She’s makes shrines in her bedroom around locks of His hair and toe-nail clippings. She cuts His real
girlfriend out of pictures and pastes herself into them instead. She writes “Mrs. Jesus Christ” over and
over in her notebook in really tiny handwriting. She’s even legally changed her name to Mary, like His
mom, to get close to Him. Creepy, right?
She is nothing like Him, and they have nothing in common, yet because of her psychotic obsession she
can think about nothing else. This, in itself, is simply sad. Well, and a little disturbing if you were
Jesus.
But what makes this appalling is that this counterfeit bride and obvious psycho who clearly gives Jesus
chills has managed to convince the entire world that she IS His fiancée, and that they are going to be
married at His return.
She sees herself as a beautiful, chaste virgin; Jesus sees her as a slutty goth chick covered in tattoos; a
mouthy drunk and borderline psychopath who needs a straight-jacket, not a ring, and certainly not a
crown!
So when you see a Catholic shrine to a bleeding, pathetic Jesus; when you see a crypt full of the bones
of alleged saints proudly displayed; the instruments of torture they used to punish heretics in the most
sadistic way possible for questioning their relationship with the object of their obsession…
When you see all of the deeply disturbing things that the Catholic Church does, remember: the queen
of heaven lives. And if she suspects that Jesus loves someone else more than her, she’ll eat them alive.
She’s done it before, and called it love.
SUM-MARY AND CONCLUSION
Mary as worshiped by the Catholic Church is a false goddess, a symbol of false Christianity. As the
patron saint of Catholicism, identified with the Church herself, it’s no stretch to say that one name of
the great whore is simply Mary.
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And it’s easy to shake your head in wonder that anyone could be duped by her. It’s fun to mock
ancient Israel for being so easily seduced by the queen of heaven. And bashing what are, to us, obvious,
absurd lies told by Ishtar or Aphrodite is loads of fun.
But the point of this isn’t Catholic bashing, because the enormous majority of Catholics are deceived.
They don’t look at that painting and see Satan handing Mary the rule of heaven. They don’t see Ishtar
saving man from Enlil’s irrational anger and Anu’s indifference. They see a beautiful painting of a
holy, righteous woman being given a crown of life.
That doesn’t make them right; it simply makes them no worse than you. For the fact is you are almost
certainly guilty of worshiping her just as much as the most devoted Catholic. Because if your church
believes in the trinity, then they pray to God the Holy Spirit. And God the Holy Spirit is just the
Queen of Heaven in drag.
The Protestant Churches are her daughters; rebellious in name only, for they retained all of her core
doctrines – the trinity, heaven, hell, abolition of the law, and so on. So if they have the doctrines of the
queen of heaven… aren’t they still serving her?
So what if they don’t pray to her by her name Mary. If they pray to her as God the Holy Spirit, is that
really any different? If they eat communion bread instead of the Eucharist, does it change the fact
they’re still baking cakes to the queen of heaven, even as they mock the ancient Jews for the same sin?
It’s funny, because Protestant Churches refuse to keep the Feast of the Assumption of Mary, but every
last one keeps the Feast of Ishtar.
Didn’t know you kept the Feast of Ishtar? You pronounce it “Easter”. But that’s the next lesson.