Naked Bible 423: The Queen of Heaven

Naked Bible 423: The Queen of Heaven

The Queen of Heaven with Dr. Peter Goeman

The “queen of heaven” is an enigmatic deity figure that appears in Scripture in a handful of verses (Jer 7:18; 44:17-19, 25). Who was the queen of heaven to whom the people of Judah were offering idolatrous sacrifice? What can be known of her? Can she be identified with a named ancient Near Eastern goddess? This episode of the podcast entertains these and other questions with our guest, Dr. Peter Goeman.
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[inTruthbyGrace]

As a devout, cradle Roman Catholic who picked up the Bible and started reading one day alone in my kitchen bc I wondered why my Catholic education had taught me to read all the classics of western civilization, even translate Virgil for myself, yet I could not even _name_ the prophets of the Bible, let alone recall every having been taught about them or reading their words, I am grateful the message about the "Queen of Heaven" is smack dab in your face in chapter 7 of Jeremiah, the very book of the Bible I started reading for myself. That means it only took me seven pages of reading the Bible for myself to be confronted with the very serious problem of why would the Romans Catholic Church refer to Mary by a name of a demonic idol worshiped by the Jews.... and not just any idol but the very straw that broken the camel's back idol that finally got them kicked out of the Mike and his buddy can pretend that there is no cross-over between the "Queen of Heaven" who eclipsed and intercepted the glory due unto God in the days of Jeremiah and the "Queen of Heaven" who has eclipsed and intercepted the glory due unto the Lord Jesus Christ in *_our days as Roman Catholicism_* but as a current John 8:31-32 disciple of Jesus Christ, I am absolutely certain God meant for Jeremiah to include that narrative to get us in the year 2000+ to question the lying priests who can not profit us... after all, "They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy." and the Queen of Heaven is a title for a devil, not the "mother of God"!

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[Baltic_Hammer]

This discussion was super interesting. For the past 60 years I only associated the title with Roman Catholicism. In the last couple years I was moved to deep dive into the "mysterious" or "hard sayings" or seemingly random comments of Apostle Paul concerning women. I knew from another video done on passages connected to Corinth that Paul references local customs, whether social or religious.

So I decided to dive into the activities of Ephesus, especially focused on the goddess cult of Artemis. Wow!! That turned into a maze of rabbit trails. I knew from Derek & Sharon Gilbert's the ANE and Med Sea region borrowed and/or renamed another's deities which can get pretty wild criss-crossing across regions, cultures and time. Same story for goddess Artemis, which was a radical feminist cult to put it mildly in today's term.

The Queen of Heaven title surfaced back in Babylon many centuries or longer before the Artemis cult became a thing. It could go back further and in a different place but the arrows pointed to Babylon so far. In Ephesus the goddess Artemis kept morphing, adding and shedding attributes over time until we get to Paul's time. The history was hard to find but to line it up with known historical events got really muddy.
ADD:: In Babylon the goddess Ishtar was the Queen of Heaven. Ishtar was widely known for a long time in the ANE.


What I found fascinating and disturbing at the same time, was how today's radical feminism has so much in common with the Artemis cult. The female followers were aggressive, mouthy and would get in your face if you challenged their views. Artemis created the universe & Earth and the Hebrew God himself was created by Artemis. Men were 2nd class and totally inferior to women in every way or at very best.

Everything Paul comments on, regarding women's behavior, is all directly pointed at the Artemis cult in Ephesus. Paul is not sitting around thinking "we gotta shut all women up and keep them in line." That "traditional" idea is polar opposite of the truth why Paul wrote what he did. Its pretty obvious there's plenty of men in the world who LOVE the "traditional" dogma handed down about keeping women in their place.

All that's missing today is a temple labeled as a 7th Wonder of the World. I can see why Paul went there and spent there, the place was the epicenter of everything anti-God & anti-Christ. The further I dug the darker and more demonic the "hidden" side of Artemis became very apparent.

The long history of Artemis's morphing and origins lie in the alleged myth of the Amazon women who were north of the Black Sea. Scythian culture shared some cultural traits like extensive horse riding and war. Not a lot was written in antiquity but there's enough pieces scattered throughout history, even archeology, to piece together a good overall understanding of the cult.

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[misskim]

I don’t think people are trying to “tar and feather Mary”, they simply point out that Mary is NOT the “Queen of heaven”, (the only “Queen of heaven” is an abomination to God, a pagan goddess, doesn’t matter which (we are not to even repeat their names, actually), nor is she anyone’s “blessed mother” except for Jesus Christ himself and his siblings, which also points out that Mary is also NOT a “perpetual virgin", either. She is only a servant of God, like Moses, Abraham and others. That’s all she is. She did a wonderful thing for us all, but she most certainly is NOT a deity, nor an intercessor, nor are any saints “intercessors”.

We are also not to commit necromancy by trying to conjure up the dead, and harass them for help. Look how well that went for Saul when he tried it. There's a reason why God tells us to leave them alone. So it's actually satanic to go around trying to harass Mary. Hasn't she done enough, and suffered enough? Do you want to keep trying to disturb her rest, like Saul did to Samuel?

God won't likely let that happen, (demons are happy to play the role), but nonetheless, it's extremely disrespectful to say the least.

Jesus Christ is the one and only intercessor. It is written. That means trying to go to anyone else is “whoring around”, not to mention extremely disrespectful to Jesus Christ. (Like trying to get around God and his clear rules).

Also, I don’t care what anyone says, Jesus Christ is the only head of his church, it is also written. Any other humans claiming to be so are putting themselves as middlemen, and also insulting Jesus Christ. It’s no coincidence that Rome did it’s very best to torture, imprison, and viciously murder the real Christians to stop the real Gospel, and failing that, they just happened to pretend to join them, but all those Roman gods and goddesses just happen to play the same roles as Mary and the saints. Coincidentally. God is the God of lost causes, and safe travel, and everything else attributed to "saints". He doesn’t have little saints to do that sort of thing. They're dead, not deified to help you. Any attempts to make contact is necromancy.

As if it wasn't a screaming clue enough, the vatican audience hall is shaped like the head of a serpent, with serpent eyes for windows, red carpet for the tongue, a horrid statue supposedly of Jesus rising up, but there's such an obvious serpent head in the flowing hair that even atheists spot it immediately, and fangs as columns flanking the “throne” of the pope, so the pope literally and figuratively speaks from the mouth of the serpent, while the audience literally, and figuratively are deeper in the head of the serpent, being consumed, while they mindlessly chant “amen” to anything song to them in Latin….go ahead and check what some of those things are… Definitely not godly.

Coincidence Theorists may theorize that this is all “accidental” and “coincidental”, like the vatican naming a joint project L.U.C.I.F.E.R., (oh, they backpedal hard here, and claim they had no influence at all, no control over the project name) for a very interesting project (I’ll let people do their own homework, see their own obvious observations and draw their own conclusions).

And then there’s the Egyptian obelisk, homage to the Egyptian fertility god, rising up like a giant middle finger (or phallus) to God right there in Vatican Square. Don't catholics know how God feels about Egyptian gods?

I could go on for hours. Make no images of anything in the heavens, or beneath the Earth, or in the waters beneath the Earth. Don’t make them at all. And then don’t bow down to them. That would include images of angels, demons, mermaids, trolls, gnomes, and certainly no “man of God“ would keep statues depicting acts of pedophilia, bestiality, and self pleasuring, but the Vatican does. There’s absolutely no excuse. None.

No one is against Mary herself, we just refuse to “revere” her, or make statues and shrines to her, or engage in any other Roman pagan activities disguised as (fake) Christianity. “Call no man ‘father’, for I am your Father”. What do they do?

“Go to *your closet* and confess *to me* and I am *quick to forgive*”. What do they do?

Jesus Christ paid for your sins. What do they do? Insult Jesus and “pay penance”. God isn’t interested in the repetitive prayers of the heathen. Conversation is his thing. Jesus paid for your sins. Don’t insult him by acting like he didn’t pay enough and that you think your lame contributions will make up for his nonexistent shortcomings.

Speaking of nonexistent—purgatory. It’s bad enough to tell people that there is such a thing, but to con them into thinking they can bribe God to get people out of there, or “pray people out of purgatory”, that’s evil.

The temple veil was torn in two, ending the use of priests as intermediaries to talk to God (and the Jews are silent on this matter, surely they know that was very significant, on the day of crucifixion).

I don’t know how they pretended that it didn’t happen and pretended to talk to God the Old Testament way until the destruction of the temple in 70 A.D…. did anyone else notice that they demanded the curse for killing Jesus be on their own heads and that of their generations, and they don’t seem to know why they’ve been cursed for 2, 000 years? Only they apologize and get rid of the curse.


What exactly do they think the curse would be for killing their own Messiah, and then speaking evil of him for 2, 000 years, and then, according to newly Messianic Jews who live in Israel, cursing him and his followers three times a day, starting with the earliest school teaching?

Of course, they don’t believe they killed their own Messiah, but they should consider the coincidence of when they demanded his death, and when they began to really be cursed.

Christians don’t hate them for it, like they sometimes believe. Christians we know it was necessary, it’s just painful to watch them be so stiff necked when it has now been 50 times longer than they wandered in the desert, also for their stiff necked rebellion. 50 times longer than the 40 years. 50 is the number of jubilee. Time for them to apologize and break the curse. We can’t do it for them.

Or did anyone notice that in 79 AD, during the big festival, honoring false gods, when people had come from far and wide to gather for this big event, the town swollen with idolaters, including Romans, Vesuvius went off and buried that little celebration too?

God exacted some vengeance on both parties fairly close together, imo.

Rome (Pilate) tried 6x to let Jesus go, and didn’t write the sign to mock him as some say, but to point his finger at the Jews. He washed his hands of t, and refused to change the sign. Clearly he was a believer. Only the blackmail from the Jewish authorities that they’d accuse him of treason to Caesar himself did he realize they’d have him crucified for treason and kill Jesus anyway, only this caused him to cave in when he realized his attempts at protecting Jesus from them were futile. Clearly that’s why he wrote the sign.

But Rome did take over and displace them, so…still they had to pay. Both had to pay. The Jews for killing their Messiah and spitting in his face and the face of God, and Rome, for their treatment of God’s people.

So, temple veil torn, destroyed. Formal organizations try to put it and/or it’s significance right back. Mormons make a literal and spiritual veil, and put in the middleman, they both put the middleman in and lots of them, as if Jesus didn’t do what he did, or say what he said, and left commands that apply to all his followers equally.

Anyone that says they have a direct line to God that any other Christian doesn’t have is a liar, and they are calling Jesus Christ a liar.

Anyone calling their organization “the one true church” is also a liar.

Organization takes it out of the kingdom of God, and put it in the kingdom of man. Also, no one can say they have all their members following all the teachings, amd to the exclusion of everyone else in the world.

The “one true church” could only ever been a spiritual collective of every individual worldwide who reads, studies, follows, and most importantly takes action upon the teachings. There’s no other way to fit the definition of the “one true church“. It cannot be a formal organization. It has to be informal.

It’s really an easy IQ test. There is no human head of Jesus’s one true church, his church is a collective of every individual who is true and loyal to him, neither adding or taking away from his Gospel. So simple a child can see it. And I did, when I was 4 or 5 and my own parents were being deceived by this formal organization “one true (formal) church” rubbish. Anything else doesn’t even make sense. Title it and put a human in charge and it’s not Jesus’s true church anymore. Can’t be. Becomes a counterfeit.

[thetrumpcard]

JT, Hope all is well. Keeping you in 🙏🏻. Much ❤️&🙏🏻s my friend. Keeping Dr. Heiser in 🙏🏻 as well. God bless you!