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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.