It was started as a correction of the corrupt practice of veneration of Mary which is clearly not sanctioned in scripture. The truth of Proverbs 15:12 as Catholics have been showing is evident.
-— It was started as a correction of the corrupt practice of veneration of Mary which is clearly not sanctioned in scripture. -—
Mary is Jesus’ mother, and the Queen of the eternal, redeemed Davidic Kingdom. She is the Queen of Heaven. See the Bible.
1)
Historically, upon leaving the palace on a journey, the Davidic king would sometimes bestow an oversized key on the majordomo of the king’s palace. The majordomo would keep the key in a pouch worn around his neck.
The key symbolized the majordomo’s full plenary authority in the king’s absence (the power to “open and shut”).
This historical practice is reflected in Isaiah 22:
I will depose you from your office, and you will be ousted from your position.
“In that day I will summon my servant, Eliakim son of Hilkiah.
I will clothe him with your robe and fasten your sash around him and hand your authority over to him. He will be a father to those who live in Jerusalem and to the people of Judah.
I will place on his shoulder the key to the house of David; what he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.
2)
Jesus is the King of the new, eternal and redeemed Davidic Kingdom since He holds the “Key of David.”
Rev. 3:7
“To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write:
These are the words of him who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.
3)
The “Gebirah,” Queen Mother, or mother of the king in the Davidic kingdom held an exalted position (even above the position of the Queen[s]), sitting at the King’s right hand. This was mainly because the king had many wives.
This can be seen in 1 Kings 2:
When Bathsheba went to King Solomon to speak to him for Adonijah, the king stood up to meet her, bowed down to her and sat down on his throne. He had a throne brought for the king’s mother, and she sat down at his right hand.
Other references to her authority:
Jeremiah 13:18
Tell the king and the Queen mother (Gebirah), “Sit in a lower place, since your glorious crown has fallen from your head.”
2 Kings 10:13
“We are kinsmen of Ahaziah,” they replied. “We are going down to visit the princes and the family of the queen mother”
4)
Mary is the Mother of Jesus, the King of the eternal, redeemed, Davidic Kingdom.
5)
Mary is the Queen Mother of the eternal, redeemed, Davidic kingdom, the Kingdom of God.
Rev. 12
A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head.
She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth.
Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on its heads.
Its tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that it might devour her child the moment he was born.
She gave birth to a son, a male child, who “will rule all the nations with an iron scepter.”
6)
Yes, the “woman” of Revelation also represents Israel, since Scripture is polyvalent, but in a secondary sense.
7) As the Queen of Heaven, Mary is due veneration.
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