Mark 2:27
“The Sabbath was made for MAN, not man for the Sabbath
I think you need to explain why a day made for the benefit of man had been replaced by a day that pagan Rome dedicated to the sun god.
And this is yet another example of your complete and total dishonesty.
You're used this picture before - and I had to correct you.
It is simply a photograph of a papal mass with other bishops as concelebrants. It is an incomplete photo because it doesn't show everybody else involved in the Mass. Doesn't even show ll of the altar servers.
In other words - it's just another dishonest, counterfeit attempt to paint a picture of something that doesn't exist.
Don't you ever get sick of being caught in lies??
It doesn't matter who or what else is missing from the picture. The imagery presented is sufficient for anyone who has a modicum of Biblical understanding to appreciate the blatant attempt to copy the throne room of God, albeit with obvious imperfections, beginning with the guy on the throne.
- great white throne, Revel 20:11
- two cherubims of gold on either end of the mercy seat Exodus 25:18
- four living creatures with the likeness of men Ezek.1:5 Revel.4:8
I am not lying and accusing everyone of lying who you disagree with is your only defense...oh, and to also accuse them of being "anti-Catholic", knowing full well that it is Catholicism, not individual catholics, that we oppose. After all, many of us were catholics at one stage of our lives until Christ shone His light into our hearts. So the reality is that you are the one lying.
Soooooo, Jesus, the "child" being born in Rev. 12:1-5 wasn't born of Mary??
The Gospels tell a different story. Rev. 12:1-5 is a reference to the prophecy in Gen 3:15.
The term "woman", throughout prophetic literature never referred to any individual woman, such as Mary. "Woman" was the church. The antipathy between the devil and the woman was between him and Mary...no, it was between him and the church...or God's people throughout all ages, beginning with the patriarchs, Israel, then the true church. Oh, and again you are lying in the sense that you are deliberately offering the suggestion that I am believing Jesus to be born of someone else other than Mary, as if I am contradicting the gospels. You know that to be a false representation of what I am saying.
As for the "Whore of Babylon" - MOST scholars agree that it is apostate Jerusalem.
WHO is Babylon?? Pagan Rome.
WHO got "into bed" with Pagan Rome against the Early Church?? Apostate Jerusalem.
WHO killed the prophets and persecuted the Early Church?? Apostate Jerusalem. She is "drunk on the blood" of God's holy ones (Rev. 17:6).
WHO sits on 7 Hills?? Jerusalem.
I couldn't care less as to what the majority of so-called scholars teach and believe. Why do you appoint one prophetic prophecy of a "woman" to an individual, Mary when it suits you, but another "woman" in prophecy to a city? God is consistent in His word and doesn't mix and match the symbolism in order to cause confusion...He gave us the prophecies with the specific intention that we understand them. Thus both women, first the pure then the whore, are churches, first the faithful then the apostate. Throughout history there have been 'the tale these two opposing "cities".' But even the cities, Babylon and Jerusalem, were symbolic of the spiritual condition of the people who lived under their reign. Israel as a people were upbraided often by the prophets for playing the harlot...being unfaithful to their Maker, their Husband. Read Hosea; poor guy had to live the symbol.
One more thing. Babylon the Great, mother of harlots and abominations of the earth
is the whore. There is no whore that belongs to another entity called Babylon...they are one and the same. It is the whore whose name is "Mystery Babylon". And she has children...offshoot churches who also live as whores. Unfaithful to their Husband. And what, or who are they being unfaithful with? The kings of the earth. Unlawful relations with the rulers, the kings and queens and presidents of nations. Love for the world...being
of the world instead of simple being in the world.
This is the sin of Babylon. Getting into bed as you put it, with the state power. And this is precisely what the Catholic church did throughout its history, beginning with those bishops and prelates of Rome who lusted after civil power when Constantine abandoned Rome giving it over to the Barbarians. For a while the bishops had to kow-tow to the Goths and a few other tribal rulers who invaded Rome but eventually, again through fornicating with such as Justinian, emperor of the eastern empire, he bishop became a pope...a pontiff (pagan Roman term) who used his relationship with the eastern empire to overcome her enemies, and gain political advantage.
Throughout medieval history this sordid practice continued as she gave dissidents and "heretics" over to the state power to be tortured and executed, then claiming "innocence" as if she had nothing to do with it. But indeed as John reveals, "
in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth".