Why Catholics Make Such a Big Deal about Mary

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To a lot of non-Catholics, it seems obvious that Catholics go overboard when it comes to Mary, and a lot of people assume this is just because of traditions or something. But what if there's a biblical basis for treating Mary as an indispensable part of authentic spiritual warfare?
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00:00 - Intro
02:57 - Who Is the Woman
07:05 - Deborah or Jael
09:34 - Judith
11:59 - Mary
18:58 - Who Crushes the Head
24:11 - The Spiritual War

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@primepossum6997 3 месяца назад

I am a Protestant and am often met with condescension and rudeness when I ask questions about Mary. Thank you for taking the time to refer to scripture and answer in an informed and logical way.

@shamelesspopery 3 месяца назад

I'm sorry you've had that experience, and glad I could be of some help!

@Davidjune1970 3 месяца назад

If Jesus told Saul to stop abusing his body, and made him blind to change his heart …. How do you think he will treat people who attack his mother that then say the love him and only him even though Mary’s unquestioning obedience was necessary for God’s plan … would God see those who disrespect the body as being people who love him?

@mitchellosmer1293 3 месяца назад

@@Davidjune1970 quote----If Jesus told Saul to stop abusing his body, and made him blind to change his heart ….. unquote No one was abusing Jesus' body. Saul was killing Jews, and Christians ---quote---How do you think he will treat people who attack his mother that then say the love him and only him even though Mary’s unquestioning obedience was necessary for God’s plan … would God see those who disrespect the body as being people who love him?.. unquote Who is doing that??? Is it the ones that state facts ??? Or ask questions?

@Davidjune1970 3 месяца назад

@@mitchellosmer1293 you clearly didn’t read the bible because that’s exactly what Jesus said to Paul. This is why Paul in his epistles related to the church as the body of Christ where each person had a role in the body. Jesus taught the apostles that we were all part of his body. The fact you thumbs up your own posts is hilariously pathetic

@chissstardestroyer 3 месяца назад

Well, the rudeness really would be of profoundly poor taste; but the proper image of her is that of an adoptive stepmom. The foundation thereof is derived from the Nativity Gospels and the first two words of the Lord's Prayer... put them together and those teachings, and you'll understand the foundation of Marian Devotion, and how that practice is really profoundly Christocentric in nature!

@bibleman8010 3 месяца назад

Oh I don't Know Maybe Because She Is the Mother Of My lord Mary is the only person that can say Jesus, flesh of my flesh. Bone of my bone. And that is VERY special👍👍

@UrielAngeli147 3 месяца назад

Yes, but, that's not the greatest reason: And it came to pass, as he spoke these things, a certain woman from the crowd, lifting up her voice, said to him: Blessed is the womb that bore thee, and the paps that gave thee suck. But he said: Yea rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God, and keep it. Our Lord was directly complimenting His mother, for who else among the race of men can say that they perfectly heard the Word of God and kept it?

@bibleman8010 3 месяца назад

@ngeli147 Yea rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God, and keep it well that would be Mary Mary as the first Person To say Yes to Gods plan for redemption Mary Was the First person to say thy will Be done Mary thru who the WORD was made Flesh Who was Blessed All generations will call her blessed for she is blessed among women. Of all women, our Lord chose her holy womb, full of grace, as His own dwelling. The power of the Most High overshadowed the mother of our Redeemer and she was found to be with child of the Holy Spirit. Our Lord Himself honoured her as His own mother and we must honour whom the Lord honours. Blessed be her name, Mary, and blessed be the name of the fruit of her womb, Jesus. The Lord will honour His own mother, blessed Mary, for all eternity & we cannot but follow His example and honour her as He does: hail, Mary, the Lord is with thee! He is flesh of her flesh & bone of her bone. We are born of Him & He is born of Her and of the Father. The blood which was poured out for us was blood of her blood. A spear pierced His side & a sword pierced her heart. Unless we eat His flesh, which is of her flesh, we have no life within us. Hail Mary, who gave birth to incarnate Love and Salvation and who raised for us sinners the Hope of Israel. The Lord is with her. With her is Redemption, with her is Forgiveness for all iniquities. Blessed be her name by all generations! ”🤣🤣

@marlena. 3 месяца назад

For protestants, it is not neccesarily about her being the mother of God. Many protestants attest to that. The main issue for 'mainstream' protestants is her veneration and certain catholic marian doctrines like her not having other children, and the immacualate conception. (I'm just mentioning what I notice, not here to discuss or fight)

@michaeloakland4665 3 месяца назад

Nailed it! #MicDrop

@rbnmnt3341 3 месяца назад

That's interesting. Scripture doesn't say much about Mary. It says she is blessed, and highly favoured by God. Scripture doesn't say she is the queen of heaven or the queen mother. Scripture does call her the "handmaiden of the Lord."

@Michael-pw2td 3 месяца назад

Blessed Mother Mary, please pray for the Protestants.

@GodSoLoved.Yeshua 3 месяца назад

I understand it sounds nice and all, but the apostles or Jesus did not teach us to do this. Actually nobody asked for prayer from anyone who had passed in the new or old testament.

@Michael-pw2td 3 месяца назад

@GodSoLoved.Yeshua The apostles are alive and well. And yeah, they teach us that's a good thing to do.

@Michael-pw2td 3 месяца назад

@@GodSoLoved.Yeshua But one thing definitely not taught: sola scriptura

@GodSoLoved.Yeshua 3 месяца назад

Again, the apostles or Jesus did not teach us to do this. Actually nobody asked for prayer from anyone who had passed in the new or old testament.

@lellachu1682 3 месяца назад

@@GodSoLoved.Yeshua So you don't believe that those in heaven are part of the Body of Christ? Because Scripture clearly tells us to pray for each other.

@Bina6019 8 дней назад

This video is one of the best teachings on Mary. Definitely worth watching again and again! Blessings to you.

@almacarminaa 3 месяца назад

“We never give more honour to Jesus than when we honour his Mother, and we honour her simply and solely to honour him all the more perfectly. We go to her only as a way leading to the goal we seek - Jesus, her Son.” -St. Louis de Montfort

@cbooth151 3 месяца назад

We go to [Mary] only as a way leading to the goal we seek." Jesus' Father is "the only true God." (John 17:3) Also, Jesus is the Mediator between God and humans, not Mary. As 1 Tim 2:5 says: "For there is one God, and there is one who brings God and human beings together, the man Christ Jesus."

@Joe-gi3nj 3 месяца назад

Christ is the only mediator between us and the Father, but we all (including the saints) mediated for each other between us and Christ. Also, The one true God is a triune God. Saying only the Father is the true God and not the son, nor the Holy Spirit, misses divine revelation entirely and is textbook heresy. If you actually believe God is only the Father, go to a Unitarian “church” and be Christian in literally name only

@stevesawicki2062 3 месяца назад

@@cbooth151 prayers of a righteous man availeth much. No one is more righteous. All generations will call her blessed - that's not just hopeful talk

@josephsabu4355 3 месяца назад

Well we respect her but Jesus is the one we should give more respect and honor because suppose if one of your family member or someone you love, will you not attend give them respect for what they did in life and Jesus should be given respect.

@alhilford2345 3 месяца назад

@@josephsabu4355: We respect Our Lady, Mary. We adore and worship Our Lord, Jesus.

@gentlegiants1974 3 месяца назад

It was almost 20 years ago when I began my journey out of protestantism and learning about these scriptural references, seeing the dots which I had somehow never been able to connect, were what helped propel me along. Protestant doctrine began to hold less and less water to more I learned Catholic doctrine.

@Dienekes678 3 месяца назад

Praise God! Welcome home 😊

@get_answered5157 3 месяца назад

I had the opposite effect. The more I learned about Catholicism, the more I saw how pagan it was

@Dienekes678 3 месяца назад

@@get_answered5157 the narrow road puts many off, it is understandable.

@danielcristancho3524 3 месяца назад

''...seeing the dots which I had somehow never been able to connect'' There's a reason you weren't able to ''connect the dots''. The dots are not connectable unless you suspend all logic and common sense and turn your mind into a papal pretzel.

@Dienekes678 3 месяца назад

@@danielcristancho3524 you don't want to connect the dots Daniel, that is why you can't see the Truth. You have grown accustomed to the wide, easy road of Protestantism. I get it. But your faith will only ever be half-baked without the Sacraments and everything else Catholicism has to offer.

@MrPhilipmen 3 месяца назад

May God bless you with profound wisdom of God to unravel the truth about the divisions in the world today.

@ToddJambon 3 месяца назад

Father Mike Schmitz had an episode where he talked about how, when he was younger and dating, his girlfriend wanted him to meet her mother. Why was that important? Because to know the mother is to know the daughter more intimately. How much more, then, should we strive to know Mother Mary?

@get_answered5157 3 месяца назад

But Jesus isn’t a woman

@ToddJambon 3 месяца назад

@@get_answered5157 no. But we should know Mary to know Jesus better.

@danielcristancho3524 3 месяца назад

''Because to know the mother is to know the daughter more intimately. How much more, then, should we strive to know Mother Mary?'' No need for Mary to know Christ intimately. I can know Christ through the Word of God.

@canibezeroun1988 3 месяца назад

"The hand cannot say to the arm I have no need for you." You need Mary, the saints, your shepherd, and your brethren to know the Lord. "For what you have done to the least of these, you have done for me." You can't know the head without knowing the body and the Blessed Virgin Mary is one of the more important parts.

@danielcristancho3524 3 месяца назад

@@canibezeroun1988 You need Mary, the saints, your shepherd, and your brethren to know the Lord.'' No, I need the bible to know the Lord. It tells me where I came from, who God is, how we got in this mess, what He likes, what His plan is, how it works, who my Savior is, how I can be saved and what the future entails. That's pretty exhaustive. What more is there to know?

@chelseahealingtoheal 3 месяца назад

WOW WOW WOW!!! The more I learn of the Bible the more I am in awe of our God! No man could have possibly thought of such a powerful, holy and true story made of stories! We are blessed to have the Blessed Mother Mary, and for our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! I sincerely appreciate you for this video! I have been raised Protestant, but have started learning so much MORE and deeply by Catholics teaching. My soul has always felt a lack by the way I have been taught about the Bible. It has always seemed like a show with dramatics and flare. I would often be left always confused or conflicted. I have really struggled reading and understanding the Bible, my adhd brain just gets so confused. That’s what I love about catholic teachings. You guys have a way of teaching with no dramatics or “fluff”, just clearly and powerfully sharing the word of God in ways my brain can grasp and my soul can feel the power and meaning behind those words. I am very close to deciding to become Catholic, I only have a bit more to find out and search for. Thank you, thank you, thank you!! for helping me to see and feel the power of God’s word and taking the time to show your references and connections I would have never made on my own ❤❤❤ I love and am honored by the Blessed Mother

@mitchellosmer1293 2 месяца назад

If all what you said is true, then WHY can NO Catholic answer my questions about Catholicism???? All I get is condemnation for even asking!!!

@erickperez2538 3 месяца назад

Many times I see in Protestant arguments a kind of zero-sum thinking, in which if we involve works of faith, we take away from the grace of God, if we ask for intercession from the Virgin and the saints, then we take away from Jesus, if We make comments on tradition and teaching, we take away from the written word of the Bible, the Catholic vision is not antagonistic, it does not speak of adding to one and subtracting another, but rather incorporating faith with logic and foundations into a whole, there is not always exclusions or false dichotomies. I understand and admire all the love and zeal that Protestants have for God, that makes them think in those terms of one adds, the other subtracts, but arguments like that are not the answer to everything that happens in the Catholic position.

@gideondavid30 3 месяца назад

Mariology detracts from the Gospel. No way around it.

@WC3isBetterThanReforged 3 месяца назад

@@gideondavid30 How does Mariology detract from 1 Cor 15:1-11? How does your view of Mariology enhance the events of 1 Cor 15:1-11?

@jimmalloy7279 3 месяца назад

@gideondavid30 Mariology is part of the Gospel. There's no way around it!

@basedsigma5634 3 месяца назад

1 THESSALONIANS 4 .. tells us very clearly that mary , paul, the others cannot possibly be alive in heaven , like the 1st saints, who were asleep in death ,who were resurrected the very hour jesus died. Since mary and paul etc were ALIVE ON EARTH for decades after the 1st resurection, they have to wait , asleep in death, like everyone else , until the 2nd resurection. Unless...you want to blaspheme and say paul is lying?

@katiestover8954 3 месяца назад

You have eyes, but you will not see.

@cribedadabecri5764 3 месяца назад

Thank you, Jo. That was awesome.

@R.C.425 3 месяца назад

Have to rewatch ❤ Enjoyed so much!

@ggmorris71 3 месяца назад

Connecting the biblical doctrine weaving is one of the hardest things. Thanks for helping connecting the dots, what a blessing.

@eddardgreybeard 3 месяца назад

Precisely why "Scripture alone" is a foolish doctrine. Expecting any common layman to figure out on his own what the Church has done over thousands of years is outlandish

@KingdomInterest 3 месяца назад

⁠@@eddardgreybeardsola scriptura is about infallibility, that only Scripture is infallible and as such church authority is subject to the text. It does not mean “figure it out for yourself”. This is a common misconception among Catholics and Orthodox, at least in your lay apologetics.

@eddardgreybeard 3 месяца назад

@@KingdomInterest *sola scriptura is about infallibility, that only Scripture is infallible and as such church authority is subject to the text.* You're missing the loophole so wide an aircraft carrier can sail through: Who determines the correct authority of the interpretation of scripture? Nobody is going to disagree that the bible is inerrant (I would never use infallible since books are inanimate objects and cannot speak) so the entire "AcKsHuAlLy" discussion around sola scriptura is, above all things, a red herring: It all comes down to the interpretation of scripture and who has the correct interpretation. There is only one. It isn't a subjective experience where there's multiple valid interpretations and all of them can be correct at the same time. *It does not mean “figure it out for yourself”* Not even what I was trying to say. What I'm saying is the idea that any common layman can read scripture with the same insight and understanding as the Church of whom has thousands of years of tradition and teaching is absolutely laughable.

@andrewharmon2157 3 месяца назад

Yes. And this man is contriving analogy from the text and declaring his analogy to be infallible and the foundation of doctrine. But other analogies can be drawn from these same scriptures. And for many scriptures, no analogy is intended. It is a doctrine of the Catholic Church that doctrine cannot be drawn from analogy, but only be confirmed by it. The Medieval exegetes taught that the Ark of the Covenant is the Incarnation of Christ by analogy. If it were Mary, Christ need not be born. It is Christ who contains in Himself the law and the priesthood, and is Himself the manna. To hand this off to Mary is ridiculous. It is in fact saying that the human race in Mary is to be given credit for the salvation of the world, because without a human, Christ could not come to us. Outrageous!!!!!!! He also says the early church believed Mary is the new Eve. This is absurd. In the huge volume Against Heresies, written by Irenaeus in only one paragraph does he make an analogy of Mary with Eve and Christ with Adam. This hardly represents the devotion of the early Church. The Marian obsession entered the Church as Gnostic revelations, and these were condemned by the Pope Gelasius. Over many centuries these gained ground until now in our lifetime we have two popes who have consecrated the Holy Catholic Church to Mary. Wha does this mean?So much more could be said on this catastrophe. @@eddardgreybeard

@eddardgreybeard 3 месяца назад

@@andrewharmon2157 This is not simply Catholic Church doctrine, this is all of pre reformation Christianity. All of pre reformation Christianity teaches this about Mary. And your point is "I'm capable of seeing it differently and beholden of the capacity to disagree." Yeah, I suppose you are. So what?

@Jfloyd 3 месяца назад

Huge fan of this! Great work, Joe!

@mlp023 3 месяца назад

This was a fantastic video. Thank you Joe!❤

@atgred 3 месяца назад

Catholics: BOTH/AND Protestants: EITHER/OR

@canibezeroun1988 3 месяца назад

Learning this dichotomy was critical to getting people to understand "muh inconsistencies" in Scripture.

@adelbertleblanc1846 3 месяца назад

yes, very smart thoughts! Thank You !

@paisano777 3 месяца назад

This is fascinating, very well explained

@jmdionishow 3 месяца назад

Excellently concise!

@pattyserrano9339 3 месяца назад

Loving this! Thanks Joe🎉

@HumanDignity10 3 месяца назад

Beautifully done, thank you Joe.

@SheelaBara-bv9zx 3 месяца назад

Amazing unfolding of Mary's role in human salvation. Thank you Mama Mary. Lead us Jesus your devine. Amen Amen

@anitasez 3 месяца назад

Because she is the mother of OUR Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! 🤍✨✝️🤍

@randumgaming 3 месяца назад

Such a fantastic video. God is so good.

@mariadeabreu8551 3 месяца назад

Brilliant explanation! Thank you!

@christianbryce 3 месяца назад

This is powerful!!

@CDM1234 3 месяца назад

Wow, thany you so much, this is just such an awesome and powerful explanation of the role of Mary, our Mother and Queen🙏🙏👐

@Scb30476 3 месяца назад

WOW my friend AMAZING VIDEO SO SMART geeeeez this was amazing thank youuuu

@josephc9963 Месяц назад

Amazing content as usual!

@user-zf6vo6cs5l 3 месяца назад

excellent exposition as always!

@ChaRles-me3bb 3 месяца назад

Big thank you for this video and sharing your ideas. I get your point and I coudn't agree more.

@ardfry 3 месяца назад

Humility crushes pride. Mary crushes satan. Humility pleases Our Lord. He detests pride. Mary is the ideal instrument of His will. Joe thank you for instructing us in our beautiful faith. God reveals Himself in so many thoughtful and surprising ways. We truly benefit from your scholarship.

@mikekayanderson408 3 месяца назад

Mary does not crush Satan! Jesus crushes Satan. Read your Bible and stop swallowing RC lies

@danielcristancho3524 3 месяца назад

Mary crushes satan.'' You've been misinformed, friend. Mary doesn't crush the serpent's head, Christ does. Mary is not your savior. Christ is.

@Mariam-mn7xe 3 месяца назад

Mary crusehd Satans heat...through HER SON JESUS CHRIST. is this sooo difficult to understand? Why do you Potestants can't think and feel in relationships? MARY wanted to give birth to this very speciall SON for a reason. She knew, that this SON WILL CONECT us humans again with our Creator. For this reason she was even ready, to become this SON, WITHOUT beeing married. She was a very clecer lady also and knew, that in her jewish culture, she could have been killed for becoming pregnant. Still, she agreed immediatly even without asking her fiance, Joseph. How enger and bold she was, to serve GOD in this way. And...please go through her MAGNIFICAT. You will find a youngh woman, who wanted to see the POOR uplifted and the rich coming down from there opresssing positions. What a lady ? She was willig and able to bring thks SON for many different reasons into this world. Don't tell me, I made somthing up. What I tell you is all written in the BIBLE. ONLY for this reasons, you as Protestants should feel ashame, to sisturbe us catholkcs sins years and years with your shameless respectlessness against the MOTHER OF JESUS. Its shocking to understand, how stupid stubbern you can be against the MOTHER, who gave Barth also to your Salvator. Please lern to think and to okay and to respect MARY the way, she deserve all our respect. Please stopp this endless time consuming Diskussions. PLEASE !

@sherwindsouza6599 3 месяца назад

@@danielcristancho3524do yu even read your Bible? The very first prophecy in the Bible is about that. That there will be enmity between the 'Woman and the serpent'. God has made Mary the instrument of Satan's demise

@danielcristancho3524 3 месяца назад

@@sherwindsouza6599 do yu even read your Bible? '' In scripture, the church is represented as a chaste woman and an unfaithful church as a whore. The woman in Genesis 3:15 is not Mary. It's the church of God and yes, the church does have a war like relationship with the evil one. And the woman DOES NOT CRUSH THE SERPENTS HEAD, LIKE THE DOUHY RHEIMS BIBLE STATES, it is THE SEED OF THE WOMAN THAT CRUSHES THE SERPENT'S HEAD, AND THE SERPENT BRUISES HIS HEEL. Christ is the one that will destroy the devil. That the bible CLEARLY STATES. If you need a text, I will be glad to provide it. No where in scripture does the bible EVER TELL US MARY WILL DESTROY THE DEVIL. That's a papist fable.

@cpaka9661 3 месяца назад

Thank you Joe!!🙏

@mulaloo 25 дней назад

Wow , praise be to God and God bless you Joe. You have an amazing gift.

@damnedmadman 3 месяца назад

This is excellent 👌

@IRISHBee4 3 месяца назад

Joe is amazing!

@simonyim6211 3 месяца назад

Thanks. This is one of the best explanations i have ever heard

@mayannsteinbeisser5228 3 месяца назад

Love it! Thank you!

@Americanheld 3 месяца назад

This was the best, most succinct explanation about Mary’s centrality in Catholicism. Outstanding work, Joe!

@rexlion4510 3 месяца назад

You wrote "about Mary’s centrality in Catholicism." You just pinpointed why the Roman Catholic Church is in deep doctrinal doo-doo. You see, GOD is central to Christianity, but MARY is central to Catholicism! 😛Christianity follows God the Son and communicates the Gospel of Jesus Christ's propitiation for our sins, but Catholicism follows His earthly mother Mary (a created, finite being) and wastes time on their false gospel of Mary, the RC co-Mediatrix and co-Redemptrix.

@masterchief8179 3 месяца назад

It always impresses me how Protestants, but mostly Protestant pastors, who presumably have some theological and exegetical training, don’t understand (or refuse to do so) the typological connection between Our Most Blessed Mother, the redeemed Israel and the Church triumphant. If one misses Mary as what bridges the other two in the history of salvation, he entirely misses the operativeness of God’s promises to Israel and he misses that redemption is not the mere overcoming of the ruptured order of sin, but the reversal of it (Genesis 3, 15), or the biblical story would come to lack a lot of connection dots, because God’s “Logos”, which is God himself, willed so from all eternity. As we know from St Gregory Nazianzen, “quod non est assumptum, non est sanatum” (cf. S. Gregorii Nazianzeni “Ep. 101 ad Cledon”), therefore God assumed a human nature - in that very womb - to redeem it. Whatever was not assumed, was not redeemed. And he did it with and to that woman. In this particular exegetical and theological field, the reason Protestants invariably get this connection wrong is because, for ecclesiological motives (built into the revolution’s pretexts), their understandings concerning Israel and its history of battles and struggles with sin is excessively “carnal” and their understandings concerning the Church is excessively “spiritual” - or Gnostic (the ecclesiology of “invisibility” defended by Luther, Calvin and tutti quanti). The antidote for it is accepting the Marian dogmas with docility, which can and will “spiritualize” Israel in the biblical sense and make truly meaningful the descriptive binomial “Heavenly Jerusalem”, and to “incarnate” or “make it truly Incarnational” the Church to all of its consequences - not to a mere cherry picking of some. In other words: “de-Gnostify” Protestant theology is the way to get there. For me the greatest biblical parallel reference for Our Mother is as the “Daughter of Zion”, which is the epithet for the city of Jerusalem, which is over Mount Zion. “Hail” is to greet with enthusiasm and joy. It is the translation from the original Greek word “Χαῖρε”, which means literally to greet with both joy and respect. It is EXACTLY the same word used in the Septuagint (the Greek Old Testament of ancient times that the Apostles and early Christians used) in a lot of passages in which God salutes the “Daughter of Zion”. In Latin this greeting was translated to “Ave” as we see in the Vulgate of St Jerome, the first Bible (OT and NT) ever translated from their originals. What impresses is the core parallels (I am so sorry that many non-Catholics simply miss those) just starting with the word “Hail” that can be made between the first chapter of St Luke’s Gospel and a prophecy in the book Zephaniah: it reveals, in one of the many typologies applied to her, the “Daughter of Zion” is a type of Mary (type-antitype is the theme for typology, obviously) from which Our Savior would come to us. She is not strictly associated with the earthly city of Jerusalem (situated on Mount Zion in Israel) since the Messiah would be born in Bethlehem, but to the Heavenly Jerusalem (!), which was the promise for Zion. Mary, among many other mysteries linked to her, is a kind of prototype of the Church Triumphant. Once one gets to that then it comes clearer the true meanings of Revelation 12, identifying that pregnant woman with the crown from whom came to birth the One eternal king, a male child who will rule all the nations with an iron scepter, she who is the mother of all those who give testimony to her Son, Jesus (Revelation 12, 17). Then you see the interpolation of the titles “Mater Dei” (Mother of God) and “Mater Ecclesiae” (Mother of the Church). Mary is therefore the inter-testamentary point of connection; she is the bridge that connects Israel (OT) and the Church (NT) in indissolubility. So Israel recovered from its infidelity (1), Mary (2) and the Church realized in celestial joy (3): the three are intertwined necessarily. Throw away one of the three and the story of our salvation wouldn’t be shown at its fullness. Just take a look at these 3 (three) parallels I would make with that word “Hail”/ “Rejoice” (Χαῖρε) between the Gospel of Luke (1, 28-31) and the book of Zephaniah (3, 14-17). Please check the Greek Bible all you want: ______________________ *1)* _“Rejoice (Χαῖρε), daughter of Zion! (…) Be glad (…)! The King of Israel, the LORD, is in your midst”_ (Zephaniah 3, 14-15) _“Hail (Χαῖρε), favored one, The LORD is with you”_ (Luke 1, 28). Commentary: Mary and the Daugher of Zion are greeted exactly with the same word of joy and respect (= ‘hail’ or rejoice). The reason for this specific joy is the Lord being with/in the midst of them. _____________________ *2)* _“(…) Do not fear, Zion, do not be discouraged”_ (Zepheniah 3, 16) “(…) _Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God”_ (Luke 1, 30) Commentary: Both Mary and Zion are called for a mission and must not be afraid to face it. ______________________ *3)* _“The LORD, your God, is in your midst, a mighty savior (…)”_ (Zephaniah 3, 17) _“Behold, you will conceive in your womb (…) and you shall name him Jesus”_ (Luke 1, 31). Commentary: Jesus is announced to be prophetically in the ‘midst’/in the womb of the Daughter of Zion/Mary. Literally, the name “Jesus” (Yəhôšua in Hebrew) means “Yahweh saves”; He is nothing but the promised savior. ______________________ I really hope this is more for food for spiritual thoughts. God bless you all!

@ponderwoodtimes 3 месяца назад

@masterchief8179 This gives a lot of food for thought as a Protestant! I wish you tube had a way for me to save such insightful comments! One thing I still have great concerns over are the Marian apparitions. The real Mary would never seek honor or glory for herself, yet these apparitions command people to do things that only fuel further devotion to her. Even if Mary is to have a greater role in our lives, and we are to honor her, many, (though not all) apparitions still stand in direct contrast to the biblical Mary who proclaims: "My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior." All Christ's servants point to Him. The real Mary points to Jesus. Demonic spirits, on the other hand, seek to rob Christ of His glory and point us away from Him towards other things and people. Please pray for a discerning spirit regarding this matter. Blessings to you!

@jeffscully1347 3 месяца назад

Marian apparitions are not about Mary. They are about bringing people to her son. She doesn't show up unless she is sent by Jesus.

@billdavis5483 3 месяца назад

@@ponderwoodtimesi think the church does not require belief in any marian apparition.

@masterchief8179 3 месяца назад

@@ponderwoodtimes Hum, I guess you implicitly assume a Protestant framework in your considerations: that if anyone receives honor and veneration under a pretext of faith, then it means it robs from God’s honor. That’s clearly to misunderstand what veneration means, which is almost co-existential to the Protestant “ethos”. Also, it expresses the Protestant version of the zero-sum game theory. It’s not necessary to say that, according to Catholics, Assyrians, Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox (that means all apostolic churches with historical heritage of apostolic succession), that is gravely anti-biblical and counter-apostolic, my friend. God exults in the exaltation of His blessed sons and daughters, like He did throughout all Old Testament in many core passages I couldn’t even try to pick one. And a similar spiritual dynamics happens among ourselves: in the mystical Body of Christ, which is the Church, whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with him; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with him (1 Co 12, 26). In a sense, Protestantism gets to be one of the pieces that ignited Philosophical Modernity (skepticism and individualism being two of the core expressions of it). That doesn’t mean some popular devotions are not out of measure/ proportion or that uneducated people should be better catechized. I understand it and, as a faithful Catholic, accept some criticism as having valid points. Particular revelation is not required to be believed; some are obscure and either unapproved or proscribed by the Church. But some apparitions are massively documented as miraculous events, like Guadalupe/Mexico as one example, which was followed by a massive conversion of the most vicious pagan child-sacrificing people to Christianity those days. Curiously enough, their highest divinity was… a serpent (!). If one accuses that as coming from the devil, which is blasphemous and calumnious, then someone is deceived by the accuser himself, like the Pharisees that accused Jesus of driving out demons “on the power of Beelzebul” (Lk 11, 14-26). Pray that God helps you see truth in front of your eyes, my friend. For that to happen, one needs to open his/her heart. “And you will know truth, and truth will set you free” (John 8, 32). God bless your journey! From 🇧🇷 Brazil with love.

@suge6969 3 месяца назад

@@masterchief8179Master Chief your comments are fire. Screenshotting this completely

@vanzealotbush2244 3 месяца назад

What an excellent explanation Joe! How I wish your subscribers will multiply a hundredfold so that more people can watch your great videos.

@enerdingal7029 3 месяца назад

Simply amazed❤

@rsissel1 3 месяца назад

Yeah, the worst thing I've done as a husband is getting close to my wife's mother and the rest of her family. Sheesh. Getting to know the Theotokos and the saints dramatically improved my understanding and relationship with our Lord. As a Protestant for much of my life (now EO), my view of Mary was more about being as non-Catholic as possible.

@danielcristancho3524 3 месяца назад

''Getting to know the Theotokos and the saints dramatically improved my understanding and relationship with our Lord.'' If you really want to get to know God, I suggest the Word of God. Those reflect the thoughts and character of God.

@geoffjs 3 месяца назад

Mary always leads souls to her son!

@danielcristancho3524 3 месяца назад

@@geoffjs ''always leads souls to her son!'' Really? Cause what I sense is that Mary leads many Catholics to Mary. More prayers are written to Mary. More pilgrimages are made to Marian sites, there are more images of Mary than of Christ. You can see them in the front yards of papists' homes with NO IMAGES OF CHRIST nearby. Have you read the prayers of Popes to Mary? There are books out there that have them compiled. Not fanatical Marian cults but Popes! You should read them. I have. You'd think Mary was the 4th person of the Godhead, the prayers are so blasphemous. Whatever.

@lukejohnson1274 3 месяца назад

@@danielcristancho3524 Why do you assume he doesn't? I don't understand why this is always beyond Protestant comprehension but it is not an either or. One does not take away from the other. Original Christianity is the fullness of the faith. I wish you knew how much you are giving up by following Luther.

@danielcristancho3524 3 месяца назад

@@lukejohnson1274 I wish you knew how much you are giving up by following Luther.'' I don't follow Luther except when he's in line with scripture, Mr. Luke. It's not about following Luther, it's about following scripture. One does not take away from the other.'' Actually, one does take away from the other. Mary is way more popular than Christ. In fact, having read many prayers of Popes to Mary, it seems Christ is left in the background and Mary becomes center to grace and salvation. That's an abomination. The bible barely mentions Mary outside of the gospels and Acts 2. Peter and Paul never ascribe the kind of importance to Mary that the Roman church does.

@treeckoniusconstantinus 3 месяца назад

Why? Because I think she's pretty neat!

@randomname-es3cb 3 месяца назад

- Chad

@aglenrios 3 месяца назад

Excellent biblical exposition.

@khosrowgyalog4571 3 месяца назад

You nailed it!!!!!

@TheForgivenessandMercyofJesus 3 месяца назад

Another great and in-depth video, Joe. Love your content, especially for someone new to Catholicism. Are there any books you recommend for someone new like me? I have no opposition nor disagreement towards anything of the Catholic faith, just falling more in love with it. Thank you.

@Scb30476 3 месяца назад

THE WHOLE WORLD HAS TO SEE THIS VIDEO 🙏🏻

@aubreygmcghee 27 дней назад

Love it!

@jvlp2046 2 дня назад

Blessed Mary is one of the most important human beings in the Holy Scripture... However, we must love, respect, and honor her in the Biblical Way/manner. St. Paul said, "DO NOT GO BEYOND WHAT IS WRITTEN (in the Scriptures)... (ref. 1 Corin. 4:6)... Praise be to God in Christ Jesus... Amen.

@davidcaldarola5188 3 месяца назад

Catholics tend to view themselves as the offspring of Mary, since she is the mother of the church. Yet, in Revelations, the dragon went off to make war of the rest of her offspring who "keep the commandments of God and bear testimony to Jesus." This is pretty much the same as saying Protestants, who often have disdain for Mary, are not her offspring and od not keep God's commandments nor bear testimony to Jesus --- especially where the Eucharist is concerned. How far the protestants keep falling away, especially when one considers that Luther, Calvin and Zwingli had strong love and devotion to Mary.

@lellachu1682 3 месяца назад

I can't help but think of Catholics as David and Protestants as Michal when I read II Sam 6. "As the ark of the Lord was entering the City of David, Michal, daughter of Saul watched from a window. And when she saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, she despised him in her heart." "David said to Michal, "It was before the Lord, who chose me rather than your father or anyone from his house when he appointed me ruler over thanks LORD's people Israel ---- I will celebrate before the Lord. I will become even more undignified than this, and I will be humiliated in my own eyes. But by these slave girls you spoke of, I will be held in honor." "And Michal daughter of Saul had no children to the day of her death."

@davidcaldarola5188 3 месяца назад

@@po18guy - Can't your quote apply to Protestants? They have multiplied bibles, translations, interpretations and denominations almost endlessly. "His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction." Seems to fit the ever-changing Protestants much more than the Catholics.

@johnbrowne2170 3 дня назад

Protestants do not disdain the Mary of the Bible, just the Catholic version of Mary with all its lies about her. We call her blessed but not a co-redeemer. Only Jesus saves.

@MathAdam 3 месяца назад

Just listened to this on Spotify. Gotta go back now and take notes. Awesome study of Marian typology!

@Wokabaut 3 месяца назад

❤Wonderful light into Mother Mary in the history of Salvation.

@alan-muscat 3 месяца назад

Awesome!

@lynne9768 3 месяца назад

I choose Team Mary 😊. Queen of the Angels 😇. My mother and my Queen. Queen of Heaven and earth, by order of God our Father and Creator of the Universe. If she is good for Him, She's good for us ! Thank you Joe for this teaching. May Mary keep you under Her Mantle ❤

@johnbrowne2170 3 дня назад

None of those titles come from the Bible.

@mariofernandez9313 3 месяца назад

Question? Is your mother special? Jesus mother is our mother and she is special.

@tristenwilliams1943 2 месяца назад

I tried explaining this to my mom and she said “well, I agree with you, but I don’t know what to do with this information.” She is de facto Jewish, only reads the first half of the Bible. So many people have a mental block on accepting Mary as their loving mother. It makes me saf

@jonatasmachado7217 3 месяца назад

"Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel." Isaiah 7:14 (we just have to pay attention to the sign...)

@gerardogilsanz1171 3 месяца назад

The picture is by Velázquez. It is incredibly beauty. A joy to watch in the Prado museum.

@jamesmonahan9408 3 месяца назад

Incredible!! Hail Holy Queen. Great explanation.

@aceaceron1026 3 месяца назад

I mean, she's the Queen of Heaven and the Mother of God. People make a big deal about the British royal family and all they rule is England!

@TXM33 2 месяца назад

Awesome

@marcoaguilar2394 13 дней назад

Wow! Thanks for the great explanation for how we should understand The Blessed Mother's place in our faith. Thank GOD for the well educated Catholic apologists that are helping us know and understand our faith so that we can share why we should believe what we believe and also to defend JESUS's true church.

@jonatasmachado7217 3 месяца назад

"Through Eve yet virgin came death; through a virgin, or rather from a virgin, must the Life appear: that as the serpent beguiled the one, so to the other Gabriel might bring good tidings." Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Letter 12, 15.

@ekatrinya 3 месяца назад

Interesting that God said the serpent's head will be crushed by the seed of the woman...and in abortion the seed of a woman has it's head crushed. Not that there's a direct connection but I know Satan likely loves abortion and I heard "head crushing" so many times during this video I couldn't help but think of abortion 😕 Great video, very informative 👍🏻

@deutschermichel5807 3 месяца назад

Let us pray for the murdered babies

@michaelbeauchamp22 3 месяца назад

Oh, that's a really good connection. He has been a murderer from the beginning

@bjvaskejr Месяц назад

Joe ,you have a wonderful gift . Thank you for sharing. Also. Our blessed mother is the only human that could say while pregnant or nursing. "Take eat this my body given up for you. "

@garyr.8116 Месяц назад

wow - great point!

@macmedic892 2 месяца назад

“All generations will call me blessed.” Luke 1:48 It’s right there in the Bible. We’re doing as we’re told to do.

@abba2746 3 месяца назад

Excellent video and well presented ❤ Mother Mary, please intercede for us Thank you Lord for giving us our Mother. Praise the Lord!!

@mitchellosmer1293 3 месяца назад

1 Timothy 2:5 KJV - For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; mary is DEAD and in the grave!!! She CAN NOT hear you

@GarthDomokos 3 месяца назад

actually, the one I like is Judith 11 verse 17, where we see Mary's answer the way Judith did, but as far as I know we see how holy Mary really is . Judith responds "Your handmaid (same word Mary responds the angel) is indeed a God-fearing woman, serving the God of heaven night and day". Judith was chosen exactly because she was the handmaid of God. Judith later says "I will lead you through the heart of Judea until you come to Jerusalem, and there in its center I will set up your throne." Who in the new testament is the handmaid of the lord, and will set up a throne?"

@josemariademanila677 3 месяца назад

Thanks for this wonderful, comprehensive Mariology video. Keep it up!! God bless your work!

@Bree2024 3 месяца назад

Because she is the mother of Lord Jesus Christ & she is without any sin,pure . ❤ I adore our Lady 💐

@rexlion4510 3 месяца назад

You wrote: "I adore our Lady" You also adore the Eucharist. In other words, you worship the object enclosed in the monstrance as Almighty God, and you worship Mary. There are your problems. You are not supposed to worship creations.

@Bree2024 3 месяца назад

@@rexlion4510 Well that's your opinion,i have mine too. Whatever she is the mother of God. And her intercessions are powerful, like in the wedding feast of cana . I can tell you many miracles through her intercessions, so in my own life.peace to you

@michaeloakland4665 3 месяца назад

Probably because Mary and the Holy Spirit had a baby together Who happens to be God in human flesh. He got that human body from Mary. Nobody can claim to be that Blessed before or since.

@stcolreplover 3 месяца назад

Yeah, it always seems silly when there is a great downplaying of the woman who Bore the God-man.

@jimnewl 3 месяца назад

Mary and the Holy Spirit did not have a baby together. Mary and the Father had a baby together, through the instrumentality of the Spirit (i.e. love). Jesus explicitly refers to "the Father" as "my Father" many times in the Gospels (Matt 11:27 is a great example, where the use of both makes it clear that "my Father" does not refer to the Spirit). That is to say, the Father does not simply bear the relation of Father to Son as between two Persons of the Trinity, but also as Father to Son between the Father and the incarnate Christ. So, if you really want to appreciate Mary's holiness/blessedness, consider that she was, in some real sense, God's chosen bride--not in every sense, because the husband-wife relation is a product of the corporeal world only. But looking at it from the corporeal, human perspective, that was the relation that existed: the Father, through the Spirit, was the source of the seed--whether corporeal or virtual--that impregnated Mary, having chosen her from among all other women to be the mother of his son.

@michaeloakland4665 3 месяца назад

@jimnewl Wow. That was deep. I had in mind something simpler: The Holy Theotokos is the daughter of the Father, the mother of the Son, and the spouse of the Holy Spirit. In this sense, Mary was overshadowed by the Spirit even as the Ark was overshadowed by the Spirit in the OT. I may not have said it well. Your nuances are brilliant. No argument here. #GraciousBow

@MrsYasha1984 3 месяца назад

Dear Joe This was an amazing lecture! First of all, I love our dearest Mother, and it always amazes me to hear about her typographies throughout scripture. But the words at the end also helped me put my situation in perspective. There is a huge battle at my parish going on, and to my surprise, God seems to place me in this battle and even removes people so I can get in position. This really confused me, since I'm really just a woman with a wounded heart, that is actually very bad at fighting and conflict. But now it makes sense. If He defeats schemers through a weak individual like me, the humiliation is enormous. And that is... that is amazing and wonderful. And it gives me hope! Thankjyou for all you do!

@matthewfarrelly5749 3 месяца назад

Thank you for these last two episodes. I think you’ve done excellently in both. As a recent revert who has had to ask these questions (and arrived at the compelling conclusions you draw here), I think a keystone in my understanding of Mary (and even ecclesiology), is how the earliest Christians (including St. Paul, eg Galatians, 1 Corinthians 10, not to mention the hermeneutical lens of the author of Hebrews, all following Jesus, particularly in Luke 24, and the “Acts of the 40 days” between his resurrection and ascension) are capturing the New Covenant TYPOLOGICAL fulfillment of the Old. Typology does not only apply to Jesus Messiah, but also to Mary, the Church, the Apostles, etc. Perhaps you’ve done it, but I wonder if it might be helpful to do a series of videos on the hermeneutics/exegesis of the early Church? As an example of how it could be fruitful even in this episode: the woman can be both Eve AND Mary AND the Church (here I’m thinking of Revelation 12 // John 19) and that does not detract from either. Both can be fulfilled, “filled up” with each and the other. Like how you said about the paintbrush and painter. Agency, instrumentality, can be shared - especially as we consider Eve, Mary’s, and the Church’s mystical union as the Body with Christ the Head. Thank you for your ministry!!

@matthewfarrelly5749 3 месяца назад

To follow up: maybe an historical overview of the changes in biblical interpretation throughout history. For example, more Protestants are having to wrestle with these questions due to what has been called “the theological interpretation of Scripture” movement in the evangelical world. I got my MA at Wheaton when this was burgeoning and it was fascinating to see the kind of tensions (sadly) between exegesis departments and theology departments in this point. It was as if the historical sense and spiritual sense (including typology) were rent asunder unnaturally. But it was clear that that rupture was being healed too and I think the healing of that is one reason many Protestants are taking more interest in Catholicism and Orthodoxy.

@rexlion4510 3 месяца назад

Just goes to show how quickly the post-Apostolic fathers went off the rails with some of their ideas. Mary, a finite created being, was LUCKY to be be given the _privilege_ of bearing the incarnation of God the Son. Any female that God chose would have sufficed. Get over her.

@MikePasqqsaPekiM 3 месяца назад

Love these recent episodes! I’d caution not to bring up new concepts. Before the conclusion you didn’t really articulate the Queenship of Mary, but I’m just being cautious for our Protestant viewers. This was fantastic.

@ModernLady 3 месяца назад

Go team Mary!!

@mitchellosmer1293 11 дней назад

quote---Go team Mary!!.. unquote A false team!!! A man made team!!!

@Huskerguy316 8 дней назад

Go Team Semiramis and Tammuz!

@CamiloSoares87 3 месяца назад

#TeamMary

@vanzealotbush2244 3 месяца назад

Because Mary is the mother of our Lord Jesus. As a former protestant, I was guilty of being hypocrite when I acknowledged that I love Jesus but despised his mother. Another reason is because Jesus himself reminded us that Mary is our mother too... John 19:26-27: Jesus said, "Woman, here is your son," to his mother and, "Here is your mother," to the disciple (John) who was standing next to her at the foot of the cross in Calvary.

@johnbrowne2170 3 дня назад

You despised Mary? That's bizzare. Protestants do not despise Mary. Clearly you weren't born again.

@divinadicuaten9952 3 месяца назад

We cannot say we love Jesus if we despise Mary His Mother! That’s how she is blessed among women, because she bore the Son of God! Holy Mother of God, pray for us 🙏

@raymk 3 месяца назад

This video deepens my understanding about Marian doctrine!

@bonjour98 3 месяца назад

Very good. The catholic churches are closing in Québec. We could need your book on the Eucharist in french.

@alisterrebelo9013 3 месяца назад

Very astute Mr. Heschmeyer! When talking about Mary and/or Jesus crushing the head of Satan, and using the various analogies you did, eg. Jesus or the servants turning the water into wine, Michaelangelo or his paintbrushes, the fundamental categories are God (uncreated) and a created being (servants, paintbrushes, Mary). Excellent, and thank you!

@billdavis5483 3 месяца назад

Fundamentalist protestants have beliefs about salvation that if kept prevent them from getting close to Mary.

@rexlion4510 3 месяца назад

@@po18guy You wrote: "Two words: EGO." "Ego" is ONE word, o bright one. I hope you learn how to count to 2 someday. 😁

@vanzealotbush2244 3 месяца назад

I wonder which of the two teams they belong.

@MichElle-zc9tu 3 месяца назад

Orthodox honour Mother Mary too.

@D0csavage1 3 месяца назад

So do Muslims.

@bengoolie5197 3 месяца назад

"I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel." Douay-Rheims Gen. 3:15

@gideondavid30 3 месяца назад

Where is Mary in this?

@Scb30476 3 месяца назад

The women is Mary

@StringofPearls55 3 месяца назад

@@gideondavid30 That's why Jesus always refers to Mary as 'woman'. He's telling us who she is.

@aalekhadearaujo 27 дней назад

‭Genesis 3:15 GNBUK‬ I will make you and the woman hate each other; her offspring and yours will always be enemies. Her offspring will crush your head, and you will bite her offspring's heel.” This is the correct verse

@bengoolie5197 27 дней назад

@@aalekhadearaujo The only correct verse is the Douay-Rheims, all others are as babble.

@arlindodossantos2305 3 месяца назад

Very Good teaching, we must remember too that the Ark if the Covenant was not worshipped and when Aron sons thought that they could use it how they thought fit and not according to Gods will and purpose the whole of Israel suffered.

@bibleman8010 3 месяца назад

The Ark became the dwelling place of the presence of God [Exodus 40:34-35] Now notice how God the Holy Spirit overshadowed and then ind welled Mary. At that time Mary's womb became the dwelling place of the presence of God [Luke 1:35] Then The Ark contained the Ten Commandments [the words of God in stone], a pot of manna, and Aaron's rod who was the high priest that had a bulb on the end of it which when they pulled it out the bulb bloomed which represents Jesus's resurrection [Deuteronomy 10:3-5; Hebrews 9:4] Now look what the womb of Mary contained : Jesus who is the Word of God made flesh , the true bread from heaven , Jesus is the high priest who resurrected to life. So you can clearly see why the Church teaches typo logically that Mary is the New Ark and it gets worse for you the very same ARK had passed King David and when he saw this he danced and leapt for joy! just as with Mary when Elizabeth saw her and at the voice of Mary the baby in Elizabeth's womb Leapt for Joy! then David also said David asked, "How is it that the Ark of the Lord comes to me?" [2 Samuel 6:9] and then notice what Elizabeth asks, "Why is this granted unto me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?" [Luke 1:43] then The Ark remained in the house of Obed-edom in the Jude-an countryside for 3 months [2 Samuel 6:11] Mary traveled to the Jude-an countryside and stood with her cousin Elizabeth for 3 months!! Luke 1:56 Mary remained with her about three months and then returned to her home. !!!😎😎

@NachoManBoy4 3 месяца назад

Ave Maria

@ChrisBurton-mf3gk 3 месяца назад

Maybe I’m delusional, but it seems that Genesis 3:15 is the backdrop of Revelation 12. The woman is at once Mary and the Church inasmuch as she is the mother of Jesus and his mystical body.

@shamelesspopery 3 месяца назад

Quite right! When Revelation 12:9 refers to the devil as "the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent," that's a pretty explicit reference to Genesis 3.

@evelynkerubo7398 Месяц назад

Yes, the woman in Revelation 12 is Eve, Israel, Mary, and the Church, all at once.

@seanneal9406 3 месяца назад

The most comprehensive study of Our Lady is the 4-volume work called "The Mystical City of God" by St. Mary of Agreda. This book contains the most astonishing data and clears up a thousand difficulties in Scripture. The Blessed Mother mentions the war that Lucifer and his demons wage against humans and the many thousands of years that Lucifer diligently searched the surface of the earth seeking the birth of Christ. He was always deceived and was uncertain until the very moment of the crucifixion. She mentions the unmeasured and indescribable torments of hell, of the hidden warfare against souls, the hatred that he has against Mary since she is a creature yet given such power over him and the other demons, his horrible blasphemies against God at the end of the 24 hour long probation in heaven prior to the fall, his damnation and the long reign of sin, the ordering of the demons into squadrons to bring some order in this chaos of hate. She mentions that she loved St. John more than the other apostles because of his dove like humility and virginity, also the wonderful character of St. Joseph. She describes the desperate effort she made to save the soul of Judas, who actually excelled in the beginning of his calling some of the other apostles, the reason for his gradual fall from grace, the despair of this most unfortunate man and his horrible perdition. She gives the exact dates of the gospels, of the exact number of years that had elapsed since the creation of the world when Christ was born, and many other details. She gives the most excellent advice on the spiritual life. It is the only spiritual book I read. She is Our Lady and, after Christ, the glory of the human race, the one that God chose from all eternity to His mother and who He loves above all creatures. And if God wishes to honor Our Lady, I can only say against those who take issue with it, the words that St. Michael spoke long ago "who is like unto God?"

@bourbonrebel5515 3 месяца назад

How are we able to reasonably trust the book?

@paisano777 3 месяца назад

This sounds very interesting. Just not sure how only Mary of Agreda was given this information in the 17th century

@RenegadeCatholic 3 месяца назад

This book series is the result of private revelation, which no Catholic is required to adhere to, and which no Protestant on the planet is going to believe. I don't mean to be dismissive, but as a convert to Catholicism, it gets tiresome when people who have spent decades or their entire life as a Catholic knows every jot and tittle ever written pertaining to Marian revelations and apparitions, yet are completely ignorant of scripture. If you want to reason with Protestants on these types of beliefs, you need to do so from scripture because that is our common language.

@HumanDignity10 3 месяца назад

@@RenegadeCatholicYour comment sounds presumptuous to me. Plenty of Catholics read a lot, and read both Scripture and books about private revelation, along with many other books. These things aren’t mutually exclusive. It sounds to me like the person who posted the comment reads Scripture because he explained that reading these private revelations helped him to understand Scripture better.

@RenegadeCatholic 3 месяца назад

@@HumanDignity10 my comment wasn't presumptuous, as I was referring to a specific group of Catholics that actually exists, not the Catholics who study both scripture and revelations. I realize there are plenty who fall into the latter group, like you mentioned. We shouldn't study scripture through the lens of private non-binding revelations. Rather, we should do the complete opposite.

@CrushingSerpents 3 месяца назад

Everyone here should read Fr. James Mawdsley's book "Crushing satan's head". I am not affiliated with him financially, but certainly when it comes to Our Blessed Mother!

@samtatge8299 3 месяца назад

Satan tortured, humiliated and murdered her son in the most heinous manner. She will do justice to him.

@michaelbeauchamp22 3 месяца назад

In all the OT head crushing incidents, the pronunciation of blessedness happens after the head crushing. So, does the same follow with Mary? I'd say yes, just based on the pattern, but also recognizing that Mary's defeat of Satan better parallels Satan's victory over mankind in the Garden of Eden. When Satan murders Adam and Eve, he does so through the temptation, and the death was not immediate although the blow was. When Mary said "yes" to the angel, that was the death blow to the serpent, even though the death would not come until later. It's both by Mary that God crushed the serpent and by the seed that Mary enacts the woman's victory.

@danielswartz6818 3 месяца назад

Every time you mock the mother of Jesus, you commit a grave sin. There is a Comandment that says we must honor our mothers and fathers. Now listen up. All Christians become adopted sons of God, brothers of Jesus, and as a brother of Jesus Mary is our mother, and she comes under the umbrella of the commandment that says honor, your mother and your father. Well that is the only commandment that says if you do not follow it, you will be cursed down to the fourth generation. So your choice is the curse or honor your mother Mary, the mother of Jesus, your brother, according to God in the Bible. It’s your choice heaven or hell.

@GodSoLoved.Yeshua 3 месяца назад

I understand where you are coming from, but it's not biblical.

@bibleman8010 3 месяца назад

@oved.Yeshua Martin Luther wrote the veneration of Mary is inscribed in the very depths of the human heart September 1522.The veneration of Mary is inscribed in the very depths of the human heart." [Martin Luther, Weimar edition of Martin Luther's Works (Translation by William J. Cole) 10, III, p.313.] "Is Christ only to be adored? Or is the holy Mother of God rather not to be honoured? This is the woman who crushed the Serpent's head. Hear us. For your Son denies you nothing." [Martin Luther...🤣🤣

@GodSoLoved.Yeshua 3 месяца назад

Neither reply makes sense. Again, I understand where you are coming from, but it's not biblical.

@jeanneschray1976 3 месяца назад

Alleluia

@TheLilragu 3 месяца назад

is there a worksheet on this?

@soteriology400 3 месяца назад

Mary is to be blessed, not idolized.

@bibleman8010 3 месяца назад

Martin Luther... The Blessed Virgin Mary... "The great thing is none other than that she became the Mother of God; in which process so many and such great gifts were bestowed upon her that no one is able to comprehend them. Thereupon follows all honor, all blessedness, and the fact that in the whole race of men only one person is above all the rest, one to whom no one else is equal. For that reason her dignity is crowded into a single phrase when we call her the Mother of God; no one can say greater things of her or to her, even if he had as many tongues as leaves and blades of grass, as the stars in heaven and sands on the seashore. It must also be meditated in the heart what it means to be the Mother of God." - Die Erklarung des Magnificat - 1521. The first Protestant loved and honored the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of GOD. Why haven't all of the rest of Protestantism followed his example in honoring her? Martin Luther wrote the veneration of Mary is inscribed in the very depths of the human heart September 1522.The veneration of Mary is inscribed in the very depths of the human heart." [Martin Luther, Weimar edition of Martin Luther's Works (Translation by William J. Cole) 10, III, p.313.] "Is Christ only to be adored? Or is the holy Mother of God rather not to be honoured? This is the woman who crushed the Serpent's head. Hear us. For your Son denies you nothing." [Martin Luther Even Martin Luther preached after his break with Rome on the Feast of the Visitation (July 2, 1532) -- "She, the Lady above heaven and earth, must have a heart so humble that she might have no shame in washing the swaddling clothes or preparing a bath for St. John the Baptist, like a servant girl. What humility! It would surely have been more just to have arranged for her a golden coach, pulled by 4,000 horses, and to cry and proclaim as the carriage proceeded: 'Here passes the woman who is raised FAR ABOVE all women, indeed above the WHOLE human race.'" Five years later, preaching on the same feast day, Luther said -- "She was not filled with pride by this praise...this immense praise: 'No woman is like unto thee! Thou art more than an EMPRESS or a QUEEN....blessed above all nobility, wisdom, or saintliness!'" (LUTHER'S WORKS 36:208; 45:107 as cited in REFUTING THE ATTACK ON MARY by Fr. Mateo available from Catholic Answers) Heinrich Bullinger, Cranmer's brother-in-law, Zwingli's successor said: "What pre-eminence in the eyes of God the Virgin Mary had on account of her piety, her faith, her purity, her saintliness and all her virtues, so that she can hardly be compared with any of the other saints, but should by rights be rather elevated above all of them..." French Reformed pastor Charles Drelincourt said in the 17th century -- "We do not simply believe that God has favoured the holy and blessed Virgin more than all the Patriarchs and the Prophets, but also that He has exalted her above all Seraphim. The angels can only qualify as servants of the Son of God, the creatures and workmanship of his hands; but the holy Virgin is not only the servant and the creature but also the Mother of this great and living God." (from MARY, MOTHER OF ALL CHRISTIANS [p. 89] by Calvinist theologian Max Thurian who later converted to the Catholic faith) The titles of "Mediatrix" or "Co-Redemptrix" for Mary have not been officially defined so those dates are wrong. They do reflect the Marian piety and devotion of many great Popes, Saints, and Doctors of the Church 🤔🤔

@soteriology400 3 месяца назад

@@bibleman8010 Mary did not bruise the head of the serpent, it was Jesus as prophesied in Genesis 3; ”And I will make enemies Of you and the woman, And of your offspring and her Descendant; He shall bruise you on the head, And you shall bruise Him on the heel.”“ ‭‭Genesis‬ ‭3‬:‭15‬ “He” does not refer to Mary. She is the mother of Jesus, not God. God is a spirit that always existed, before His own creation, and is not limited by His own creation, such as human life, including Mary.

@bibleman8010 3 месяца назад

@@soteriology400 right whatever the Bible expert in buffooneries says😜😜

@GodSoLoved.Yeshua 3 месяца назад

Yes, I agree. ✝️🥳

@lellachu1682 3 месяца назад

The Catholic Church agrees. Mary is to be honored, not idolized.

@GizmoFromPizmo 3 месяца назад

It's BIBLICAL to call Mary "the Queen of Heaven"??? I mean, "Queen of Heaven" is indeed used in the bible but it's never used to describe Mary. That was what they called the goddess Asherah. God hated that religious observance.

@michaelbeauchamp22 3 месяца назад

Yes, because she is described as a queen in Revelation 12

@GizmoFromPizmo 3 месяца назад

@@michaelbeauchamp22 - The word, "queen" is used once in the Book of Revelation. It's what the Whore of Babylon called herself as she declares her innocence of the blood of the myriad saints she has killed. Rev. 18:7 - As much as she hath glorified herself, and lived in delicacies, so much torment and sorrow give ye to her; because she saith in her heart: I sit a queen, and am no widow; and sorrow I shall not see.

@michaelbeauchamp22 3 месяца назад

@@GizmoFromPizmo What do you normally associate with crowns dude? Royalty. What do you call the mother of a davidic king? Queen. It's a pretty simple conclusion to come to

@GizmoFromPizmo 3 месяца назад

@@michaelbeauchamp22 - Dude, "The Queen of Heaven" is a term used by PAGANS in the Old Testament. Do you SERIOUSLY want me to think that John, a Jew, would use such terminology or even typology in his teaching? Get real. Catholicism uses terminology such as "Queen of Heaven" because she is basically a pagan religion - with "Christian" names attached, of course. You'll never convince me that putting a Christian skin on paganism automatically changes it into something God would approve of. That's not how this works. All Rome did was Christianize what was already there. She baptized Satan and made nice-nice with the Prince of Darkness. Any casual observer can see that I'm right. The church government is upside down from what was set forth in the scriptures. Paul told Titus to appoint bishops (plural) in every city. This implies multiple bishops over one congregation. In Catholicism, that model is turned on its head. Now we see multiple congregations under a single bishop. We also see a hierarchy of bishops over each other. The Papacy is exhibit A. This is a governmental structure, which is very familiar to the Roman way. Even the term "diocese" comes from Rome herself. It's how Rome ruled individual territories. We don't read about any of this in the New Testament. Instead of "patron gods" over individual cities, now we have "patron saints". Where is that in the bible? Nowhere. It's not a Christianization of Rome, it's a Romanization of Christianity. She ceased being Christian (if indeed she ever was) when she threw off the constraints and structure of her original God given roots. This was ON PURPOSE! She imposed her will, her structure, over the word of God. On purpose. It wasn't an accident. What do you call someone who goes against the will and word of God? A rebel, right? An apostate. The Roman religion is not now nor was she ever, the church of Christ.

@michaelbeauchamp22 3 месяца назад

@@GizmoFromPizmo I'm not even gonna read your comment after that first paragraph. What do you think the word 'theos' was used for before the Jews started using Greek? It was a term used in pagan philosophy. Were the gospel writers pagan for using it? No! They used appropriate language toward an appropriate object/referent. The theology of "Queen of Heaven" is entirely distinct from the pagan religion you think Catholicism comes from, and there's actually no evidence you're offering to say that the Marian veneration does come from paganism. What you're doing is no different than atheists who say that Jesus is a copy of Thor, or Hercules.

@harley6659 3 месяца назад

Mind blown

@johnmathews4698 3 месяца назад

Hey Joe! Love it. Can you address the argument about the woman being Israel/church/anyone but Mary in Revelation?

@bibleman8010 3 месяца назад

Revelation 12 has nothing to do with Mary, but is simply and solely about the Church. He may even, as countless Fundamentalists do Fundamentalists do, inform me that the book of Revelation is actually Church history forecast in symbols. Such reasoning reminds me of a paradox. Fundamentalist exegetes can see invading Muslim hordes, Soviet helicopters, European economic communities, Bill Clinton and Mikhail Gorbachev in the book of Revelation. It’s all crystal-clear, and it was certainly obvious to John. But when the text speaks of a woman closely linked to the Ark of the Covenant (Rev. 11:19), a woman who is pregnant and gives birth to a male child who will rule all the nations with an iron scepter (Rev. 12:5), it, of course, can’t possibly be connected in the writer’s mind with Mary. Nor can it mean that this same woman and mother is understood as an image of the Church. Nah. That’s an absurd meaning foisted on the text by Catholics. The woman spoken of in Revelation 12 is Mary. A few observations: • The woman is a great sign and appears in heaven. This is the Catholic view of Mary--that she has an important role in heaven and in the plan of redemption. • She is clothed with the sun, has the moon under her feet, and a crown of 12 stars. In the passage in Gen 37:9-10 the sun, moon and stars bow down to Joseph. This point is often missed by commentators. Therefore, Mary has a role similar to Joseph's in providing redemption to God's people. Joseph "saved" the Israelites and ruled over them just as Mary "saves" the church and rules over it. • Mary gives birth to the Messiah. This is the only literal meaning of the text. • Satan was cast down to earth as a result of events surrounding Christ's birth. Satan went after the child Jesus with a vengeance as we see in Herod's decree to kill the children. • Mary escapes to the desert--to Egypt, for safety and to protect Jesus. She was there for three and a half years. • Jesus was snatched up to God and His throne at His ascension. • Satan was unable to harm the child Jesus so he went off to destroy the rest of Mary's offspring. Notice who these are--those who obey God's commandments and hold to the testimony of Jesus. Mary's other offspring are the church. She had no other children other than Jesus. She is the spiritual mother of the church. Some might object to this interpretation, but it the most obvious and literal meaning of the text. To interpret it otherwise is to allow a preconceived belief to guide the interpretation. The pangs of the woman, however, need not have been physical pain. St. Paul, for example, used birth pangs to describe his own agony until Christ be formed in his disciples (see Gal 4:19). Thus, the suffering of the woman could describe the suffering of a soul--the suffering that Mary knew, at the foot of the cross, as she became the mother of all "beloved disciples" (see Jn 19:25-27)" She should concede to what she does not by the convictions of her Catholic beliefs and true devotion to Mary what she does not agree with, so as not to risk appearing disingenuous to those of Faith backgrounds who do not acknowledge the full glories of Mary, The Virgin Mother of God? All Marian Doctrines are based on solid, not loose, Scriptural grounds; some of the understanding of which is blocked by the hardness of our hearts, how could we remain blind to the relation of the Assumption of Mary to the Ascension of The Lord Jesus? How could we error in believing in The Immaculate Conception of The Lord Jesus but deny the same of His own Mother? Especially, when the messenger Angel Gabriel who stood before the throne of The Most High God calls her "Full of Grace", how do we depreciate what God has spoken? As He has spoken so it has been written, in the Scriptures, in the hearts of all mankind, that we are to call her: Blessed! Mother! please pray for us! As our Mother she herself tells us to do this in the Scriptures...what scripture do you read that tells you that if Mary pleads for you as her son which you are, that the Triune all loving and all Merciful God will shun her? Where have you people gotten these ideas? Most of them were unheard of until, who came along? Was it a new prophet foretold of in Scripture? Luther? William of Orange? You or I as long as we claim sola scriptura?😍

@Scb30476 3 месяца назад

I will never understand how people think this is anything else but Mary when this is obviously Mary

@johnchung6777 3 месяца назад

Tremendously great awesome video of our Holy And IMMACULATE MOTHER MARY,for everything that you have presented is true to THE T.For indeed our Holy Mother did carry the Arch Of the Covenant in her Immaculate Womb,and to me she also carried the Eucharist also.Please correct me if I’m wrong,I’d appreciate your feedback back thank you 🙏 🐑🕊️✨🌈

@jenniferdsouza2861 3 месяца назад

Never thought of it this way. You are right. God is showing not just Satan but all creation that the humble will lead the way. Mary is so great but in her own eyes she is lowly. Imagine that! All the proud people who scorn her should be very careful.