**Don’t you find it odd to be part of the Body of Christ and not acknowledge your own mother as such? Seriously, this isn’t the greatest logical leap in history.**
Face to face, the Lord addressed her as ‘woman’, and placed her no higher than anyone that hears the word of God and keeps it. So, we are to elevate her higher than He does?
She was used (quite willingly) to help bring forth the earthly man; that wept, hungered and thirsted, required sleep, didn’t want to die but did. His body is now a glorified body. Mary didn’t perform that change to his body.
**The woman of Revelation is Israel... and Mary.**
Would that be because your catechisim teaches that?
**Just as “my Son” in Hosea 11:1 refers to Israel in the particular and Christ in the fulfillment.**
Well, maybe you should write Hosea 11:1 in this fashion: “....called my son AND his mother out of Egypt.”
**She was placed upon the throne because it was her right and station.**
While the KJV calls it a ‘seat’, I agree that the hebrew word in both cases in that passage is ‘throne’. But, she apparently didn’t have a throne beside Solomon, but for that moment (which, as I said before, her request was denied). Bathsheba was Solomon’s mother, and David’s wife, yet never referred to as ‘queen’ in the Word.
**Your analogy fails utterly because Christ is not the Ark... He is its contents.**
He is all of it, and high priest as well. The pure gold candlestick-the Light that lighteth all men. The table of shewbread-the bread of life. The Ark-perishable wood (remember...he did die for a short time) covered with gold (non-perishable), in which there is bread from heaven, life from the dead (Aaron’s rod was dead), and the words of God (John 14:10). The Ark symbolizes the Holy Ghost filled man Christ Jesus; “IN HIM was life, and the life was the light of men”. The Spirit also dwelt upon him at his baptism.
**In short, there is only one person who has born Christ within Her and had the Holy Spirit overshadow Her... and Her name is Mary.**
Yet, all that are born of the Spirit are told by Paul that they have Christ in them, the hope of glory.
Really closing this post in haste. This discussion could be continued, but as a truck driver, my ‘steed awaits’.
til next time, Lord bless