Virgin Mary
…continuation about Virgin Mary… Gabriel; Their
Guardian Angel. It is not unlikely that her own Angel,
Gabriel, also was Josephs and Mary’s mentor in raising Jesus. When Jesus was
born, and Herod was about to kill all male children, something interesting
happened; 13 And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream,
saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into 14 When he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night, and
departed into Did
you notice that? “The” Angel of the Lord appeared again! We can perhaps feel
quite certain that this Angel, Gabriel, had a special calling to take care of
the little family, to inform them, to protect them, and to tell them the will
of the LORD, until the day when Jesus had grown in wisdom and stature before
men and God, and He himself could reveal the mind of God to his mother. How
hard that must have been. She had to be a mother to teach Jesus. And that had
to go on for years, but when does a mother of God stop teaching and start
obeying. Perhaps that quality was the reason why Virgin Mary was blessed among
women! One
thing is sure. However great she was, the fair Mother of Jesus, praying to her
is a gross wickedness that must cause her great sorrow in heaven. Jesus never,
The Father never, the Apostles never, and Virgin Mary certainly never did or
said anything to encourage man to turn unto her for spiritual guidance. Praying
to her is as much idolatry as it was to dance around the golden calf. How
come we know as little about Virgin Mary as we do? I
know the answer to that question; because God, Jesus and Mary wanted it that
way. They are a family. They want their own privacy. So, we should not drag Virgin
Mary out in public by making her an object of worship. She was the kind of
woman who hid things in her heart. She was a private person. And she still is.
The world should respect this. Jesus, on the other hand, cannot be private,
since he is the light and life of the world. He never asked to be a super-star,
but he was the only one qualified to save mankind. The Father is the origin of
everything, directly or indirectly. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid.
But God has chosen to let Virgin Mary stay private through the scriptures, and
we should do wisely not to go against the will of the mother of the Judge of us
all, and his Father… From The Lexicon: Maria {mar-ee'-ah}
or Mariam {mar-ee-am'} Greek: personal noun
feminine Mary or Miriam
meaning "their rebellion",
was the mother of Jesus. There is no person perhaps in sacred or profane
history around whom so many
legends have been grouped as the Virgin Mary; and there are few whose authentic
history is more concise. She like Joseph was of the tribe of Correction
of the Lexicon: Most everything in the Lexicon is correct, but there is one thing that
needs to be put right (after all, linguists aren’t necessarily theologians);
write they: “but before her
marriage she became with child of the Holy Ghost, and became the mother of
Jesus Christ”. The Holy Ghost had nothing to do with the conception of Virgin Mary.
Jesus is the Son of God, not the son
of the Holy Ghost. When the Holy Ghost gives his seal of approval, it is a
divine guarantee that the act that has taken place, or is about to take place,
is holy, and ratified by God the Father. So, what the scriptures are telling us
about the pregnancy of Virgin Mary is that the Holy Ghost guarantees to the
entire world that no unclean act had led to her pregnancy. That’s it! The same
happened at the baptism of Jesus. The fact that the Holy Ghost did appear in a
bodily shape at that time didn’t mean that the Holy Ghost baptized Jesus. No,
but it meant that the Holy Ghost ratified that the sacrament of baptism
performed by John the Baptist was done in all holiness before the LORD.
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