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The Virgin and the Child
The Virgin and the Child
  • Aquino Bayani 
    Aquino Bayani
    THE BOTTOMLESS STUPIDITY OF BORN AGAIN-BAPTIST PASTOR JC SANCHEZ ON MARY THE MOTHER OF GOD
    JC Sanchez’ vicious tirades against the Mother of God are in square brackets.
    [John 1:1-3
    In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
    God was existing since the beginning… Mary was nowhere.]
    Of course, Mary was nowhere in the beginning, physically that is. But spiritually, she is ever present in the eternal thought of God when He foreordained her motherhood of the destroyer of the works of the ancient serpent which is the devil:
    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. (Gen 3:15, Douay-Rheims Version)
    DRV Footnote on Genesis 3:15: She shall crush: Ipsa, the woman; so divers of the fathers read this place, conformably to the Latin: others read it ipsum, viz., the seed. The sense is the same: for it is by her seed, Jesus Christ, that the woman crushes the serpent’s head.
    Whoever sins belongs to the devil, because the devil has sinned from the beginning. Indeed, the Son of God was revealed to destroy the works of the devil. (1 Jn 3:8)
    The ignoramus Protestants will rebut: No, the woman in Genesis 3:15 is Eve and not Mary.
    No, it cannot be Eve because she has no seed. She only gets pregnant when Adam has sexual intercourse with her and plants his seed on her egg cell (cf Gen 4:1, 25). Man has the seed and woman has the egg cell. In the entire Bible, or in the entire human race for that matter, the Blessed Virgin Mary is the only woman who has her seed. Mary did not became pregnant due to the seed of a man but due to the coming of the Holy Spirit upon her and the overshadowing of the power of the Most High on her (cf Lk 1:35). That is why the Holy Child Jesus has been conceived in her through the Holy Spirit (cf Mt 1:18-20) and not through any man.
    [Mary was a creation of God… not the other way around.]
    Correct. Mary is a creation of God. Mary was MADE BY GOD. No dispute on that. But the eternal Word which is the Spirit of Jesus Christ who was God (cf Jn 1:1) was sent to Mary to be MADE OF HER into a human being:
    But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent his Son, made of a woman, made under the law: (Gal 4:4, DRV)
    In the beginning [before all time] was the Word (Christ), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God Himself. (Jn 1:1, Amplified Bible)
    And the Word (Christ) became flesh (human, incarnate) and tabernacled (fixed His tent of flesh, lived awhile) among us; and we [actually] saw His glory (His honor, His majesty), such glory as an only begotten son receives from his father, full of grace (favor, loving-kindness) and truth. (Jn 1:14, AMP)
    [God does not need a mother.
    But the human part of Jesus needed a mother… this is when Mary comes into play.]
    Who said: “God does not need a mother?” You, Protestant Pastors? Are you making your thoughts on a par with the thoughts of God for you to say, “God does not need a mother?” You idiots, read this:
    Seek the LORD while he may be found, call him while he is near. Let the scoundrel forsake his way, and the wicked man his thoughts; Let him turn to the LORD for mercy; to our God, who is generous in forgiving. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the LORD. As high as the heavens are above the earth, so high are my ways above your ways and my thoughts above your thoughts.
    For just as from the heavens the rain and snow come down And do not return there till they have watered the earth, making it fertile and fruitful, Giving seed to him who sows and bread to him who eats, So shall my word be that goes forth from my mouth; It shall not return to me void, but shall do my will, achieving the end for which I sent it. (Is 55:6-11)
    This is one of the words that go forth from the LORD’s mouth:
    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. (Gen 3:15, DRV)
    And those words of the LORD achieved the end for which He sent it when the Blessed Virgin Mary hear the word of God and observe it leading to its fruition:
    But Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I have no relations with a man?” And the angel said to her in reply, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore the child to be born will be called holy, the Son of God. And behold, Elizabeth, your relative, has also conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month for her who was called barren; for nothing will be impossible for God.” Mary said, “Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord. May it be done to me according to your word.” Then the angel departed from her.
    During those days Mary set out and traveled to the hill country in haste to a town of Judah, where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the infant leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth, filled with the Holy Spirit, cried out in a loud voice and said, “Most blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb. And how does this happen to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?” (Lk 1:34-43)
    Who is the Lord mothered by the Blessed Virgin Mary? Remember that the Holy Spirit filled Elizabeth and inspired her to say to Mary, “mother of my Lord.”
    The Lord referred to by the Holy Spirit is the Lord who created the heavens and the earth with His own hands and who was called God twice by the Father in this wise:
    For to which of the angels did God ever say: “You are my son; this day I have begotten you”? Or again: “I will be a father to him, and he shall be a son to me”? And again, when he leads the first-born into the world, he says: “Let all the angels of God worship him.” Of the angels he says: “He makes his angels winds and his ministers a fiery flame”;
    But of the Son: “Your throne, O God (SON), stands forever and ever; and a righteous scepter is the scepter of your kingdom. You loved justice and hated wickedness; therefore God (SON), your God (FATHER), anointed you with the oil of gladness above your companions”; and: “At the beginning, O Lord (SON), you established the earth, and the heavens are the works of your hands. (Heb 1:5-10, emphasis mine)
    Therefore, God needs a mother because the Lord mothered by the Blessed Virgin Mary is the Lord God who created the heavens and the earth with His own hands.
    [After Jesus died and went up to Heaven… where is Mary?]
    Here’s where Mary is:
    The Ascension of Jesus.
    When they had gathered together they asked him, “Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?” He answered them, “It is not for you to know the times or seasons that the Father has established by his own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, throughout Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” When he had said this, as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him from their sight. While they were looking intently at the sky as he was going, suddenly two men dressed in white garments stood beside them. They said, “Men of Galilee, why are you standing there looking at the sky? This Jesus who has been taken up from you into heaven will return in the same way as you have seen him going into heaven.” Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a sabbath day’s journey away.
    The First Community in Jerusalem.
    When they entered the city they went to the upper room where they were staying, Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of James. All these devoted themselves with one accord to prayer, together with some women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers. (Acts 1:6-14)
    [Again, she is nowhere in Heaven. She is left on earth with everybody else.]
    Wrong. Mary was assumed body and soul into heaven. When the beloved disciple John was whisked into heaven (cf Rv 4:1-3), he saw the Blessed Virgin Mary in her glorified body but he was forbidden to reveal it so he aptly called her as the Ark of God’s Covenant in this wise:
    Then God’s temple in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant could be seen in the temple. There were flashes of lightning, rumblings, and peals of thunder, an earthquake, and a violent hailstorm. (Rv 11:19)
    Those flashes of lightning, rumblings, and peals of thunder, an earthquake, and a violent hailstorm in heaven serves as a transition to the identity of the Ark of God’s Covenant:
    A great sign appeared in the sky, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She was with child and wailed aloud in pain as she labored to give birth. (Rv 12:1-2)
    She gave birth to a son, a male child, destined to rule all the nations with an iron rod. Her child was caught up to God and his throne. (Rv 12:5)
    The male child, destined to rule all the nations with an iron rod that the woman gave birth to is Jesus Christ aka the Word of God aka the “King of kings and Lord of lords”:
    He wore a cloak that had been dipped in blood, and his name was called the Word of God. The armies of heaven followed him, mounted on white horses and wearing clean white linen. Out of his mouth came a sharp sword to strike the nations. He will rule them with an iron rod, and he himself will tread out in the wine press the wine of the fury and wrath of God the almighty. He has a name written on his cloak and on his thigh, “King of kings and Lord of lords.” (Rv 19:13-16)
    Thus, the woman clothed with the sun aka the Ark of God’s Covenant is the Blessed Virgin Mary.
    God has two covenants: the old and the new. With the advent of the New Covenant, the old covenant was made obsolete and to be discarded:
    When he speaks of a “new” covenant, he declares the first one obsolete. And what has become obsolete and has grown old is close to disappearing. (Heb 8:13)
    The obsoleted first or old covenant was contained in an ark made of acacia wood:
    “At that time the LORD said to me, ‘Cut two tablets of stone like the former; then come up the mountain to me. Also make an ark of wood. I will write upon the tablets the commandments that were on the former tablets that you broke, and you shall place them in the ark.’ So I made an ark of acacia wood, and cut two tablets of stone like the former, and went up the mountain carrying the two tablets. The LORD then wrote on them, as he had written before, the ten commandments which he spoke to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly. After the LORD had given them to me, I turned and came down the mountain, and placed the tablets in the ark I had made. There they have remained, in keeping with the command the LORD gave me.” (Dt 10:1-5)
    The ark made of acacia wood and the stone tablets it contain and other stuffs therein are made of matters and are subject to rot, thus, it is corruptible and are not fit for heaven. Heaven is not a place for corruptible matters but rather it is a habitation for incorruptible spirits and glorified bodies:
    This I declare, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does corruption inherit incorruption. (1 Cor 15:50)
    Thus, the Ark of God’s Covenant seen by John in the temple of God in heaven cannot be the old ark made of acacia wood and the old covenant which has become obsolete and made to disappear.
    God’s New Covenant is the precious blood of Jesus Christ:
    For I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you, that the Lord Jesus, on the night he was handed over, took bread, and, after he had given thanks, broke it and said, “This is my body that is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” In the same way also the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.” For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the death of the Lord until he comes. Therefore whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord unworthily will have to answer for the body and blood of the Lord. (1 Cor 11:23)
    Because His blood is the New Covenant, Jesus Christ is the means or the mediator of the New Covenant, that is, Jesus Christ is the New Covenant of God:
    For if the blood of goats and bulls and the sprinkling of a heifer’s ashes can sanctify those who are defiled so that their flesh is cleansed, how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from dead works to worship the living God. For this reason he is mediator of a new covenant: since a death has taken place for deliverance from transgressions under the first covenant, those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance. Now where there is a will, the death of the testator must be established. For a will takes effect only at death; it has no force while the testator is alive. (Heb 9:13-17)
    In becoming Man, Jesus Christ, whose precious blood is the New Covenant, was conceived and gestated in the immaculate womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary, where He partook of her mother’s unblemished flesh and blood:
    But we do see Jesus “crowned with glory and honor” because he suffered death, he who “for a little while” was made “lower than the angels,” that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone. For it was fitting that he, for whom and through whom all things exist, in bringing many children to glory, should make the leader to their salvation perfect through suffering. He who consecrates and those who are being consecrated all have one origin. Therefore, he is not ashamed to call them “brothers,” saying: “I will proclaim your name to my brothers, in the midst of the assembly I will praise you”; and again: “I will put my trust in him”; and again: “Behold, I and the children God has given me.” Now since the children share in blood and flesh, he likewise shared in them, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, and free those who through fear of death had been subject to slavery all their life. (Heb 2:9-15)
    Therefore, the Ark of God’s Covenant seen by John in the temple of God in heaven is the assumed glorified body and soul of the Blessed Virgin Mary:
    Then God’s temple in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant could be seen in the temple. There were flashes of lightning, rumblings, and peals of thunder, an earthquake, and a violent hailstorm. (Rv 11:19)
    [Kaya Mary WAS the mother of Jesus (presently speaking of course).
    Sa kuwento sa Bibliya talagang IS ang gagamitin. Kasi nangyayari habang kinukuwento.]
    English translation:
    [That’s why Mary WAS the mother of Jesus (presently speaking of course). In the Bible story for sure IS will be used. Because it was happening while narrating.]
    Wrong again. By the time the four Gospel were composed and published by the four Evangelists, the Lord Jesus Christ and His mother Mary were already in heaven, body and soul. If the principle of Protestant Pastor JC Sanchez is followed by the sacred authors, they should have used the past tense: MARY WAS THE MOTHER OF JESUS.
    But the problem is that those Gospel writers have the mind of Christ (cf 1 Cor 2:16), which mind was deprived to JC Sanchez, that is why they used the present tense: MARY IS THE MOTHER OF JESUS, to the chagrin of the idiotic Protestant Pastors JC Sanchez and his ilk.
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