Amen. Where do those ideas come from?Paganism, Babylonian Mystery Religion, plain and simple. Study this profane thing, sitting in a crescent moon atop the Mercy Seat of YHWH. Look at the cherubim, cringing and unable to look at her in her power. The crescent moon doubles as the horns of the bull. Look at all the sun disks. This is not dedicated to YHWH. It is dedicated to the Queen of Heaven, Astarte/Isis/Ishtar/Semiramis, with all of her symbolism present, SITTING upon the Throne, the Mercy Seat of Yeshua!!!
ALL Christians, those STRONG in the Word, should study the profane, it's symbolism and rites, and be familiar with the character of it's gods. What you will find, not only in this picture, but in your own churches, will curl your hair.
Amen. Where do those ideas come from? he practice of praying to departed saints and Mary was one that developed, helped by pagan influences, for Scripture provides no example of any believer praying to anyone in Heaven by the Lord, and reveals that doing otherwise was a practice of pagans, including to the “Queen of Heaven.” (Jer. 44:17,18,19,25). The Catholic Encyclopedia admits that a further reinforcement of Marian devotion, “was derived from the cult of the angels, which, while pre-Christian in its origin, was heartily embraced by the faithful of the sub-Apostolic age. It seems to have been only as a sequel of some such development that men turned to implore the intercession of the Blessed Virgin. This at least is the common opinion among scholars, though it would perhaps be dangerous to speak too positively. Evidence regarding the popular practice of the early centuries is almost entirely lacking...,” (Catholic Encyclopedia > Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary)
Yet, as expected, it imagines this practice came from the apostles and NT church, but which never exampled or instructed it, and instead showed that the believer has immediate access to God in the Divine Christ, (Heb. 10:19), who is the all sufficient and immediate intercessor between God (the Father) and man. (Heb. 2:17,18; 4:15,16) To the glory of God More .