ROSA MYSTICA Who and/or What Is It?
By David and Lourdes Ben Ya’akov
© 2010 / 2019 David Ben Ya’akov / The Delusion Resistance
Recently my wife became reacquainted with an old friend from Mexico. This friend wanted to continue the friendship which my wife was okay with and it met with my approval too.
Juan is a nice man and he was thrilled that I am a Messianic Jew, and that my wife married me, but he is concerned that my wife left her Catholic upbringing and became a Born-Again Believer in Yeshua Ha Mashiach (Jesus Christ).
This did not bother me until my wife started to receive e-mails telling her that she was in effect an apostate because she wasn’t Roman Catholic anymore and we started to receive rhetoric about the Roman Catholic Church being the only true church; so, on and so forth. Juan told her that he was quite interested in some Catholic prophecies and that he thought that we should check them out. I felt like a Jew that has been pointed to Isaiah 53 or the Book of Daniel in order to prove that Yeshua is the Messiah. In the latter case, this is the truth; but having read what we will present to you shortly left me in disgust and I realized that things like Rosa Mystica are part of the Strong Delusion we are warned about in
For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.2 Thessalonians 2:7-12 KJV
We hold fast that when studying anything we need to see how it measures up to the Holy Scriptures; including the Tanakh (Mosaic Covenant, AKA Old Testament) and the Brit Hadasha (New Covenant). If any thought, practice, ideology or religion is opposed in any way to the rules
that Yahweh has laid down in His Word (The Bible) then it has to be brought into the light and exposed. All Catholics, Christians and Jews who hold to truth that the Word of Yahweh is God breathed and inspired will have to agree that its pages are the only truth that one needs to show what is good and evil and how to discern what we must do to live righteous lives for Yahweh. IF something that we say, think or practice contradicts the Word of Yahweh, we must repent
immediately and ask Yahweh for forgiveness.
At the Delusion Resistance Ministries this is exactly what we do. We find these things and we reveal them to people so that they can see the error (Scripturally speaking) about anything that goes against sound Biblical doctrine. Our aim is certainly not to offend Roman Catholic people or anyone who holds things like Rosa Mystica to be true in their estimation. We merely point out what the Bible says and contrast it to what Rosa Mystica has to say. Some might hold that we are Catholic haters because we question the doctrine of Rosa Mystica or other such things or practices. Well again we assert that we only want to show what the Bible says about things. If the Bible shows Rosa Mystica to be in error and someone is angry then they have issues with the Word of Yahweh and if that is the case, then that person should become
circumspect and start asking themselves a lot of questions along with long and fervent prayer between them and Yeshua only.
With all of the above having been said let us look now at the story and messages of Rosa Mystica and see where it is Biblically accurate and where and if it falters. Please keep in prayer as you read this article and please keep yourself open to Yeshua for what He will want to tell you.
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Apparitions of Our Lady – Rosa Mystica at Montichiari-Fontanelle
Introduction of Booklet by: Franz Sepeckbacher, Author of Booklet
Dear Readers, Our dear Mother of God has been appearing in Montichiari-Fontanelle (Italy) since 1947, at a time when Faith is diminishing more and more, and sins are on the increase at a most alarming speed.
If you ever visited one of the great places of pilgrimage, you will no doubt have returned from it firmly convinced that you visited a place where Heaven touches Earth. The many obvious favours received in answer to one’s prayers are an indirect proof that the apparitions and revelations are genuine.
Perach, on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception of Our Lady, Mary the Mother of God, December 8, 1983.
Apparitions of Our Lady at Montichiari
In the little town of Montichiari, not far from the picturesque Lake Garda, which sit surrounded by mountains live 14,000 people. The town is situated at the edge of these clear mountains from which it drives its name, and close to the City of Brescia in the province of Lombardy, Northern Italy. It is from this podium that our Heavenly Mother requested on December 8, 1947, that H.H. Pius XII be notified of Her request that an Hour of Grace be observed every December 8th henceforth.
In the Spring of 1947, whilst praying in the chapel of the local hospital in Montichiari, nurse Pierina Gilli had an unforgettable experience. Mary, the Mother of God, appeared to her in a wonderful vision and magnificent light, as the exalted Lady, dressed in mauve, very sad and with tears in Her eyes. Pierina noticed that Her heart was pierced by three swords; The first sword means: the unworthy celebration of Holy Mass and Communion unworthly received; the meaning of the second sword is: being unfaithful to, and giving up, the vocation as a priest or a religious monk; and the third sword means: betrayal of the Faith. Our Lady asked for Prayer, Sacrifice, and Penance. These were Her only words.
Second Apparition on 13th July, 1947
Our Lady appeared to Pieina in a white dress. She was adorned with three beautiful roses: white, red and yellow, which Pierina was allowed to see in place of the three swords. The white rose represented the spirit of prayer, the red one represented the spirit of sacrifice, and the yellow rose the spirit of penance and conversion. Pierina had not yet recognized the Mother of God, and she asked the apparition therefore: Please tell me, who are you?. In reply to this question She smiled and said: I am the Mother of Jesus andthe Mother of all of you. Our Lord sends me to bring a new Marian Devotion to all religious orders and institutes, male and female, and to the priests of this world. I promise to protect those religious orders and institutes who will venerate me in this
special way, increase their vocations, and achieve a greater striving for saintliness among the servants of God.
I wish that the 13th of each month be celebrated as a Marian Day. Special prayers are to be said during the proceeding twelve days. With an expression of great joy, She
continued: On this day I shall pour out vocational holiness and abundant graces on those religious orders and spiritual institutes who have honoured me especially.
I wish that the 13th July be celebrated each year in honour of the Rosa Mystica (the Mystical Rose)
Pierina asked whether a miracle would follow. Our Lady replied: The most evident miracle will be this: Those who have given their souls to God – the religious who, for a long time now, have become indifferent thus betraying their vocation and as a result of their offenses have brought about the punishments and persecutions which are raging against the Church at the present time – will stop to offend Our Lord. They will again lead a life according to the original spirit of their saintly founders. The seer, Pierina, interpreted the words Mystical Rose as follows: “Mary is the master teacher of the innermost, mystical life and the Mother of the mystical body of Christ; in other words:
She is the Mother of the Church.”
This interpretation by Pierina was magnificently confirmed by Pope Paul VI in his final speech during the third meeting of the council, on 21st November, l964. Irrespective of the presence of observers from the separated Churches, he declared Mary as the Mother of the Church; finally, he let his heart speak out and said: We want that, in the future, the Most Blessed Virgin is still more honoured under this title, and called by this lovely title by the Christian people. This short, yet spiritually deep declaration, by the supreme office of our Church guarantees that we cannot go wrong, but can only feel once more re- assured when we venerate Mary calling Her by the title ROSA MYSTICA.
Third Apparition on 22nd October, 1947
Pierina saw Our Lady again in the chapel of the hospital, in the presence of many staff members, doctors, and people from the town. This time, Our Lady requested that the desired devotion be realized, and said: I have placed myself as the mediatrix between my Divine son and mankind, especially for the soul consecrated to God. Tired of the
continuous offenses, He already wanted to dispense His justice.
Pierina thanked Our Lady in the name of all present. Our Lady finished Her dialogue with the words; Live out of love!
Fourth Apparition on 16th November, 1947
Our Lady appeared in the Basilica of Montichiari in the presence of some people. Among them were several priests. Pierina heard the words: Our Lord can no longer watch the many grievous sins against purity. He wants to send a flood of punishments. I have interceded that He may be merciful once more! Therefore, I ask for prayer
and penance to atone for these sins. Pierina replied to Our Lady’s request with a willing
“Yes”. The Blessed Virgin added: I lovingly ask the priest to express their great love and stop the people from committing those sins. Whoever will atone for those sins, will receive my blessing and graces. In reply the seer’s question whether we may hope for forgiveness, Our Lady said: Yes, as long as these sins are no longer committed. With these words She went away.
Fifth Apparition on 22nd November, 1947
Our Lady appeared once more to Pierina in the Basilica of Montichiari in the presence of several people, and demanded that the seer make four times the Sign of the Cross with her tongue on the tiles in the center of the church. Our Lady then descended onto the spot and said: I descend on this place, for many great conversions will happen here. And in a sad voice She continued: The Christians of your Italian nation belong to those who offend most my Divine Son Jesus through their sins of unchastity. Our Lord demands, therefore, PRAYER, GENEROUS SACRIFICES, AND PENANCE.
Pierina asked: “What do we have to do to fulfill your demands for prayer and penance?”
Our Lady replied full of tenderness: Prayer. After a short, silent pause, She explained:
Penance means to accept every day all the little crosses and the duties too, in the spirit of penance.
Thereupon She promised solemnly: On the 8th December, at noon, I shall appear again here in the Basilica. IT WILL BE THE HOUR OF GRACE.
Pierina asked: “Please explain to me the meaning of Hour of Grace“.
This Hour of Grace will produce great and numerous conversions. Hardened and cold hearts resembling this marble will be touched by divine Grace, and they will become faithful to Our Lord in loyal love.
This was the only time that Our Lady announced Her next appearance. All other apparitions came unannounced.
Sixth Apparition on 7th December, 1947
Our Blessed Virgin appeared once more at the Basilica of Montichiari Three people were present including the father confessor of the seer. Our Lady, the Mystical Rose, wore a white cloak which was held by a boy at the right-hand side, and by a girl on the left-hand side.
Our Lady said: I shall show my heart tomorrow of which the people know so little. In Fatima I asked that the devotion to my heart be spread. And with an ever sweeter voice She went on: I wanted to bring my heart into Christian families in Bonate: (near Bergamo, Italy) and after a brief pause She added: Here, in Montichiari, I wish to be venerated as the ROSA MYSTICA as already indicated so often, together with
the devotion to my heart which must be specially practiced in religious institutes so that they may obtain more graces through my motherly heart.
Our Lady then confided a secret to Pierina with the promise that She would tell her the time for the secret to be made public. Pierina also wanted to know who the children were.
Our Lady replied: Jacinta and Francisco; they will help you in your trials and suffering.
They too, suffered. I wish from you the simplicity and goodness of these two children.
Our Lady then spread out Her arms as a sign of Her protection, lifted Her eyes to Heaven and disappeared with the words: Praised be the Lord!
Seventh Apparition on 8th December, 1947.
On this great feast countless priest were present. It was only with a great deal of effort that Pierina was able to get into the Basilica. She knelt in the center of the church, just where the other apparitions had taken place. During the recitation of the Holy Rosary, Pierina called out: “O, Our Lady!”
Great silence ensued! Our Lady appeared on a large white staircase, decorated with a white, red and yellow rose. She said with a smile: I am the Immaculate Conception. And descending several steps with great majesty She continued: I am Mary, full of grace, Mother of My Divine Son Jesus Christ. Descending even more, She said: Through my coming to Montichiari, I which to be known as the ROSA MYSTICA
It is my wish that every year, on 8th December, at noon, the HOUR OF GRACE FOR THE WORLD be celebrated. Many divine and bodily graces will be received through this devotion.
Our Lord, my Divine Son Jesus, will send His overflowing mercy if good people will pray continuously for their sinful brother.
One should very soon notify the Holy Father of the Church, Pope Pius XII, that it is my wish that the HOUR OF GRACE FOR THE WORLD be made known and spread throughout the world. If anyone is unable to visit his church, yet will pray at noon at home, he will also receive graces through me. Whoever prays on these tiles and weeps tears of penance, will find a secure heavenly ladder and receive protection and grace through my motherly heart.
Then Our Lady showed Pierina her heart and said: Look at this heart which loves mankind so very much, but most people only shower offenses upon it. If the good and the bad unite in prayer they will obtain mercy and peace through this heart. The Lord is still protection the good and is holding back a great punishment because of my intercession.
Our Lady smiled again and went on: Soon one will recognize the greatness of this Hour of Grace.
When Pierina saw that Our Lady was going to depart, she said: “Dear Lady, I thank you!
Bless my homeland Italy and the whole world, but especially the Holy Father, the priest, the religious, and the sinners.”
Our Lady replied: I have already prepared a flood of graces for all the children who listen to my words and keep them in their hearts. She assured Pierina that she would return at a suitable time when the Secret entrusted to her, would be made public through the Ecclesiastical authority. Our Lady then said ‘good-bye’. Pierina withdrew to a convent where, hidden from the world, she served in the kitchen and where she waited in silence for the hour which, as promised, came after 19 years, on White Sunday (Sunday after Easter), 17th April, 1966, in Fontanelle, a settlement of only a few houses spread around and situated about 2-3 km outside Montichiari. Our Blessed Lady kept her promise.
APPARITION AT FONTANELLE
First Apparition: White Sunday, 17th April, 1966.
The Most Blessed Virgin said:
My Divine Son is total love, and he is sending me to give miraculous powers to this spring. As a sign of penance and purification kiss the top step. Steps made of stone led down from the path to the spring.
Then descend a few steps and kiss the stone again. Our Lady followed the seer. Now, for a third time, kiss the bottom step and have a crucifix placed there. With Her left hand Our Lady indicated the spot. The sick and all my children must kiss the crucifix and ask my Divine Son for forgiveness before they take the water, or drink from it.
Our Lady approached the spring and said: Take mud into your hands. Wash yourself with water! This is to teach the sinners that sin makes the soul dirty, yet the soul will be
cleansed again through the water of grace. Thus, the sinner will once more be pleasing to God. What a clear symbol of the sacramental grace of God!
Our Lady bowed down and touched the water of the spring in two places. She added the following words: The wishes expressed by my Son Jesus in 1947, are to made known to all my children. Then I gave you His messages and mine in the Basilica (Montichiari). It is my wish, and I repeat: the sick should come to this miraculous spring and many of my children should come with them.
Second Apparition: 13th May, 1966.
On 13th May, Our Lady’s anniversary of Her apparition at Fatima, Our Lady brought great joy to Pierina when She appeared once again at the spring, in the presence of about 20 people. It was 11:40 a.m. Our Lady said amongst other things:
One should make known my appearance at this spring. My Divine Son is all love. The world is walking the road to perdition. Once again I have been able to obtain mercy, and Jesus has sent me, therefore, again to Montichiari to bring you the grace of His love… It requires PRAYER, SACRIFICE AND PENANCE in order to save mankind.
Our Lady, pointing to the water at Her right-hand side which She had touched on 17th April, 1966, said: It is my wish that a comfortable basin is built here, in order to immerse the sick in the water… The other part of the spring (She pointed to Her left-hand side) is to be used for drinking.
Pierina wanted to know from the Blessed Virgin what to call the spring. Thereupon Our Lady replied: THE SPRING OF GRACE
And in reply to a further question: “What is your name?”, Peirina was told: ROSA MYSTICA
At these words, the Mother of God spread out Her arms, spread open Her wide cloak, and said with a smile: I have come to bring love, unity and peace to the souls of my children. I ask you, do not throw any mud on the love for your fellow-man.
The seer questioned the meaning of the wide cloak. Our lady answered: This is the meaning of my love which embraces the whole of mankind.
Pierina asked: “What would you like us to do here at Fontanelle? Our Lady replied: Do acts of charity for the sick who will come here.
Third Apparition: The Feast of Corpus Christi, 9th June, 1966
About 100 people were present at the spring on this Day of Obligation. Pierina came to the Shrine after 3 p.m. and asked all those present to recite the Holy Rosary. Suddenly, in the middle of the recitation, Pierina called out: “Look up to the sky!” This time, Our Lady appeared five to six metres above the spring over a wheat field. Those present noticed that, in the direction of the seer’s eyes, Our Lady seemed to touch the ears of the wheat with Her feet. Our Lady said: My Divine Son Jesus Christ has sent me here today, on the Feast of the Body of Our Lord, on the Feast of Unity and Love. Spreading out Her hand She continued: I should like very much that this wheat be transformed into the Eucharistic bread, into countless penitential communions. Majestically, lifting Her eyes to Heaven, Our Lady went on: It is my wish that the Hosts made of this wheat, be taken to Rome, and to Fatima for the 13th October.
Pierina asked: “Should all this wheat be used for it?”
Our Lady replied: May noble hearts fulfill my wish. I wish that a chapel be built here with a statue facing the spring.
Pierina said: “Dear Blessed Virgin, I do not understand.”
Our Lady showed her an image and said: The statue is to be carried here in a procession on 13th October, but prior to it, it is my wish that the people of Montichiari consecrate themselves to my heart. Montichiari is the place which my Divine Son has chosen for me to distribute His graces.
Pierina saw that Our Lady was going to leave, so she asked Her to stay a little longer.
Our Lady lingered, and Pierina was allowed to commend several petitions and to request Our Lady’s blessing for the priests, the faithful, and the sick.
Fourth Apparition: The Feast of the Transfiguration of Our Lord, 6th August, 1966 Pierina came to the spring at about 2:30 p.m. About 200 people had gathered there. At 3p.m. the seer asked all to recite the Holy Rosary. During the fourth mystery she stopped, and called out: “Our Lady is here.” Everyone was silent, and they all listened with emotion to the dialogue with Heaven.
The Mother of God said: My Divine Son Jesus has sent me again, in order to request the WORLD LEAGUE OF PENITENTIAL COMMUNION and this is to be done on 13th October. This Day of Penitential Communion should be spread throughout the world. It is to be held first in 1966, and them to be repeated every year. Those priests and faithful who will spread this devotion, will be given the wealth of my graces.
Pierina inquired again about the wheat. Our Lady instructed her: One should take this wheat to my beloved Son Pope Paul VI with the instruction that it has been blessed by
Our Presence. It is the wheat of his homeland, of Brescia, of Montichiari. Tell him the wishes of my Divine Son… also those concerning Fatima.
Pierina wanted to know what to do with the remaining wheat.
Our Lady answered: Have small bread rolls baked of the remaining wheat.These rolls are to be distributed here at Fontanelle on certain days in memory of my coming. This is to be the sign of gratitude of my sons, who till the soil. After my ascension into Heaven I have always acted as Mediatrix between my Son Jesus and the whole of mankind. How many graces I have been able to obtain in all these centuries! How may graces were shown. How much punishment was prevented. How many dialogues did I hold with souls.
How often have I visited earth to bring my messages to the people, but people continue to offend Our Lord. I have chosen this place of Montichiari because there is still the
humility of poor Bethlehem among my sons who till the soil. Furthermore, this place, where so many prayers are said continuously, will be transformed into a source of rich blessings.
After these revelations of Our Lady, Pierina withdrew once more into a life of peaceful retirement. In addition, the bishop ordered her to remain absolutely silent. Pierina obeyed the bishop’s order.
The things that are forbidden are very tempting, and very soon the message of the apparition of Our Lady spread around the world drawing floods of pilgrims to Montichiari.
We will now endeavor to look at the messages from the Marian Apparition to see if they hold weight when compared to Biblical Scripture. If the messages of this entity align with the Word of Yahweh then they should be accepted. If they do not align with the Holy Scriptures, then should be discarded as doctrines of demons.
Mother of God?
The first thing that will examine is the claim that the entity posing as Mary, Maria or Miriam proudly proclaims. She calls herself the “Mother of God.” Our ministry is quick to note and we believe that Yeshua was the Son of El Elyon (The Most High) and that He is the second member of what is commonly called the Trinity; therefore He is Yahweh; the Lord God of Israel.
If the apparition was to tell the truth, it would say that it was the Mother of the Son of God, which is different. True, Yeshua is God and He’s man too and this is borne out by the fact that a
virgin conceived and gave birth to Him. Somehow, we don’t know how; the Ruach Ha Kodesh (Holy Spirit) created the second 23 chromosomes that made up the body of Yeshua. By sheer deduction we have to conclude that He is God and human both at the same time.
We have the testimony of Yeshua Himself who on numerous occasions called himself,
“The Son of Man.” It is as if Yeshua was going out of his way to identify with his humanity in order to let humankind know that He was one of us.
For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works. Matthew 16:27
Yeshua, although He was God, had many of the limitations of being a man. For instance, because He left his heavenly estate to be a man, He was not privy to some of the information that He might have had if He had remained beside Aveinu (our Father), such as:
But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father. Mark 13:32
And the Apostle Paul sums it up by telling us the following:
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Philippians 2:5-11
The Roman Catholic claim that Mary is the mother of God is not quite accurate. First, we know that Elohim (the triune God) lives outside of space/time in an eternal state. He had no beginning and no end so it is utterly impossible that Mary (a created corporeal being) could be the mother of the Lord of Spirits, who is a spirit Himself:
You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews. But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” John 4:22-24
The inaccuracy that this being gives; claiming that she’s the mother of God is something quite serious. Mary gave birth to Yeshua, who was man and God, not just God alone. So right from the start we see a distortion coming from this entity. If she was truly sent from Yeshua to minister to people then she would have her story correct and she would not present a distorted title. Perhaps there is someone more nefarious at work here.
Magnificent light?
The vision of an apparition that calls itself Mary in this case was seen accompanied by a magnificent light. Many times this “light” has been seen with angelic visitations. One such example occurred when Peter was in prison:
And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light shined in the prison: and he smote Peter on the side, and raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands. Acts 12:7
And:
And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. Luke 2:9
Now the argument could be brought to us that since the two instances above were angelic and that they were Holy angels, that all holy angelic visitations have such lighting, like a
Shekinah glory light. Such an instance was seen at the Transfiguration of Yeshua, as accounted in the Gospel
And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart, And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light. And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him. Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias. While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud
overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him. And when the disciples heard it, they fell on their face, and were sore afraid. And Jesus came and touched them, and said, Arise, and be not afraid. And when they had lifted up their eyes, they saw no man, save Jesus only. Matthew 17:1-8
It has to be noted that the account in Matthew wasn’t an angelic visitation, but it was a portal, so to speak, where the glory of heaven was manifest for a brief moment here on earth.
The same thing happened to Moshe when he spent time with Yahweh:
And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses’ hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him. And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him. Exodus 34:29-30
A natural question would be to ask if that since a light seems to appear with angels of Yahweh; then does the same thing happen when fallen angels appear to people? The Bible answers that question
Now the serpent (Nachash) was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? Genesis 3:1
The Hebrew word rendered “serpent” in Gen. 3.1 is Nachash (from the root Nachash, to shine), and means a shining one. Hence, in Chaldee it means brass or copper, because of its shining. Hence also, the word nehushtan, a piece of brass, in 2 Kings 18.4. In the same way Saraph, in Isaiah 6.2,6, means a burning one, and, because the serpents mentioned in
Numbers 21 were burning, in the poison of their bite, they were called Saraphim, or Seraphs. But when the LORD said unto Moses, “Make thee a fiery serpent” (Numbers 21.8), He said, “Make thee a Saraph“, and, in obeying this command, we read in verse 9, “Moses made a Nachash of brass”. Nachash is thus used as being interchangeable with Saraph. Now, if Saraph is used of a serpent because its bite was burning, and is also used of a celestial or spirit-being (a burning one), why should Nachash be used of a serpent because its appearance was shining, and be also used of a celestial or spirit-being (a shining one)? [Source: The Serpent of Genesis 3 – By Dr.
Bullinger: www.ovrlnd.com/Teaching/serpentofgen.html]
And we see again, concerning the brightness of fallen angels:
Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. Thou art the anointed cherub that
covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned:
therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee. Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick;
therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee. All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more. Ezekiel 28:12-19
And to put the final nail in the coffin, in our assertion that fallen angels can masquerade as holy angels by their appearance, we look at the words of the Apostle Paul. He wanted to warn the church about false apparitions and did so in the following passage:
And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works. 2 Corinthians 11:14-15
Paul tells us quite plainly that Satan can transform himself into an angel of light in order to deceive Christians and anyone else for that matter. His “ministers” in the passage can mean either other fallen angels, demons or humans who work for darkness. But the point in all of this is that just because something shines with a light it doesn’t mean that it is from Yahweh. We’re commanded to test all spirits to see if they are from Yahweh; and we use the Bible to do so and this is done by looking at the message of the apparition and the fruits thereof.
So far, the Marian apparition of Rosa Mystica hasn’t met the critical standards set by Biblical Scripture. Let’s look at some more to see if perhaps the apparition just faltered on a couple of things, or if it fails the whole test.
Her heart was pierced by three swords:
In the veneration of the Marian apparitions one thing that is almost always mentioned is Mary’s Heart. The number of swords piercing the heart differs with each apparition. When one
wonders where the Roman Catholic religion could have possibly gotten any idea that a sword could have pierced Mary’s heart, we can do a study of scripture to see if that is in the pages of Holy Script. There is one scripture that does mention something similar, but we have to study this scripture to see if it is talking about what Roman Catholicism calls the Sacred Heart of Mary, or if it is a perversion of what Scripture is really trying to say. We find a scripture in the Gospel of Luke that says:
And behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon, and this
man was just and devout, waiting for the Consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him. And it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord’s Christ. So he came by the Spirit into the temple. And when the parents brought in the Child Jesus, to do for Him according to the custom of the law, he took Him up in his arms and blessed God and said: “Lord, now You are letting Your servant depart in peace, According to Your word; For my eyes have seen Your salvation Which You have prepared before the face of all peoples, A light to bring revelation to the Gentiles, And the glory of Your people Israel.”
And Joseph and His mother marveled at those things which were spoken of Him. Then Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary His mother, “Behold, this Child is destined for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which will be spoken against (yes, a sword will pierce through your own soul also), that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.” Luke 2:25-35 NKJV
In most Bible translations, including the Douay-Rheims Bible (a translation sanctioned by the Vatican) we see the translation “yes, a sword will pierce through your own soul also.” The only readily available translation that renders the word “soul” as “heart,” is the King James Bible. We know that our hearts are an organ in our bodies, very important indeed because without it we cease to live; but it is not the soul. As noted in the definition below, the soul survives death while the body (and heart) does not.
Heart: psychē Strong’s G5590 1) breath
A) the breath of life
1) the vital force which animates the body and shows itself in breathing a) of animals
B) of men b) life
C) that in which there is life 1) a living being, a living soul 2) the soul
a) the seat of the feelings, desires, affections, aversions (our heart, soul etc.)
b) the (human) soul in so far as it is constituted that by the right use of the aids offered it by God it can attain its highest end and secure eternal blessedness, the soul regarded as a moral being designed for everlasting life
c) the soul as an essence which differs from the body and is not dissolved by death (distinguished from other parts of the body)
In essence, our soul is the part of us where we have intellect, feelings, deduction and problem-solving capabilities. Now when we take that into account and make a proper
presentation of the scripture using the original languages we come up with the following. We know that Miriam had been given foreknowledge of her son’s atoning death. If you are a parent imagine that you have been given a gift from Yahweh and you know that your child was born so that someday he or she would be put to death as a sin offering. Imagine wondering this would happen; will it be when he is in his teens; and if he survives the teen years would it be in his twenties or thirties. Every new year probably brought to memory the words of the angels to Miriam. She must have thought; “is today the day Yahweh, or tomorrow or this week or this month?” So, the sword that would pierce her soul was meant to mean that she would live expecting the death of Yeshua at any time, and she didn’t know just when. That would drive many people over the brink of sanity; but Miriam knew the whole story and that brought her some comfort we can only assume.
As I was writing this my wife Lourdes was used by Yahweh to show me another truth.
Now let’s look at this from another angle. We know from Holy Scripture that the Bible is referred to as the Word of Yahweh, but it is also called a Sword:
And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God…Ephesians 6:17
And we know that it is a special kind of sword by reading in Hebrews:
Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience. For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account. Hebrews 4:11-13
We know that Miriam was of the lineage of David as was Joseph, and she was also of the lineage of Levi, the priestly tribe. Because of this her family most probably studied the scriptures and it is possible that her father might have officiated over some priestly rites at some stage of his life. Because of her priestly heritage, and because all of Israel was waiting for the promised Messiah, Miriam was almost assuredly familiar with the messianic scriptures, especially the scriptures that pointed to the suffering messiah. Her knowledge of these scriptures, coupled with what the angel told her would ensure that Miriam knew the fate of her son from the day of conception until the day that he was laid in the tomb at Gethsemane. That was quite a burden to bear, but for the grace of Yahweh she was able to bear it.
As we mentioned above, there is a special aspect of religious adoration in Roman Catholicism where the heart of Mary is concerned. As a matter of fact, in Catholic circles it is referred to the “Sacred Heart of Mary.” The best way to try to understand this belief is to go to the source; in this case that source being the Catholic Online Encyclopedia, which describes the following:
Just as devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is only a form of devotion to the adorable Person of Jesus, so also is devotion to the Holy Heart of Mary but a special form of devotion to Mary. In order that, properly speaking, there may be devotion to the Heart of Mary, the attention and the homage of the faithful must be directed to the physical heart itself. However, this in itself is not sufficient; the faithful must read therein all that the human heart of Mary suggests, all of which it is the expressive symbol and the living reminder: Mary’s interior life, her joys and sorrows, her virtues and hidden perfections, and, above all, her virginal love for her God, her maternal love for her Divine Son, and her motherly and compassionate love for her sinful and miserable children here below.
The consideration of Mary’s interior life and the beauties of her soul, without any
thought of her physical heart, does not constitute our devotion; still less does it consist in the consideration of the Heart of Mary merely as a part of her virginal body. The two elements are essential to the devotion, just as soul and body are necessary to the constitution of man. [Catholic Encyclopedia: Devotion to The Immaculate Heart of Mary; http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07168a.htm]
Drawing showing typical “Sacred Heart of Mary”
Anyone who knows the slightest bit about internal human physiology knows that the human heart looks absolutely nothing like the tradition icon for the human heart. As a matter of fact, the traditional icon has much more pagan origins:
What the traditional “heart shape” actually depicts is a matter of some controversy. It only vaguely resembles the human heart. Some people claim that it actually depicts the heart of a cow, a more readily available sight to most people in past centuries than an actual human heart. However, while bovine hearts are more similar to the iconic heart shape, the resemblance is still slight.
A coin from Cyrene, depicting a silphium pod.
The seed of the silphium plant, used in ancient times as a herbal contraceptive, has been suggested as the source of the heart symbol.
The “heart” shape could also be considered to depict features of the human female body, such as the female’s buttocks, pubic mound, or spread vulva. The tantric symbol of the
“Yoni” is another example of a heart-shaped abstraction of a woman’s vulva. In the introduction to The Vagina Monologues Gloria Steinem writes, “[The heart] was reduced from power to romance by centuries of male dominance.” [Source: Wikipedia;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_(symbol)
As we see, the icon of the heart probably has origins in the sexuality cults, as do many icons that we see around the world in our modern times. Interestingly enough, Gloria Steinem points out to us that the symbol of the heart is a feminine symbol and it was a symbol of power (feminine power) or perhaps, it was another symbol of goddess worship of such entities as Semiramis, Aphrodite, Diana and Columbia, to name a few. The Egyptians of old had a symbol that was similar to our present icon for the human heart:
If you were to take the symbol of the heart on the left side of the scale and draw a line from each 90-degree angle to the next it would make the symbol of a heart. So we see that the current icon for the human heart has origins far back into the pagan past. Why would someone want to use a pagan symbol on a representation of Mary or one for Yeshua for that matter. Well, either it is done out of ignorance, or it is a deliberate attempt by Roman Catholicism to show us its true foundations.
As we see in the picture of the supposed “sacred heart of Mary” we have pictured above, we see a sword sticking into the heart. Why is the sword there? Well, it could be a perversion of the scripture that we examine above; the one where Simeon tells Miriam that a sword would pierce her soul (not her heart). Or, it could be that the Mary apparition is trying to convey that it’s suffering is on equal par with the suffering of Mashiach Yeshua.
As we mentioned above, the apparition had three swords piercing her heart. According to the ghostly image, the three swords represent:
The first sword means: the unworthy celebration of Holy Mass and Communion unworthily received;
The second sword means: being unfaithful to, and giving up, the vocation as a priest or a religious monk
The third sword means: betrayal of the Faith.
Another “version” of this apparition says something close to what is above, but the wording is a bit different:
The first sword means loss of the vocation as a priest or a monk.
The second sword means priests, monks, and nuns who live in deadly sin.
The third sword means priests and monks who commit the treason of Judas. While giving up their vocation, they often lose also their faith, their eternal beatitude, and become enemies of the Church.
All of the messages by this Marian entity are hard to digest and for the most part defy scriptural truth, but this one can be seen as being true. But one has to say that they are
predictions that almost anyone can prognosticate given the life that priests, nuns and all of the ecclesiastical body are told that they must live. If you tell a man or woman that they must remain celibate then they will most likely break that vow. They are humans and humans have to have sexual relations or they will become perverted in their thoughts. This can be evidenced by the myriads of priests and higher Roman officials who have been found to be child molesters and even homosexuals. If you prohibit a person from doing what Yahweh intended them to be then they’ll turn to perversion or drug abuse or alcoholism or any number of deadly sins.
If a Catholic priest has the desire to marry and have children and you prohibit him from doing that, and he doesn’t become perverted sexually, then he’s going to find a woman to marry and the Catholic hierarchy will take away his priesthood. If you prohibit nuns from marrying they’ll either leave the order and marry or they’ll have secret sex with the priests and/or other nuns. Humans are built as sexual beings and to deny the needs and desires that Yahweh built into us will only lead to chaos.
And finally, that priests and monks that lose their vocation (employment) within the church are often labeled by the Roman Catholic Church as heretics, and the Church
excommunicates them. But what the apparition didn’t mention is that many of those priests and nuns who leave the Roman Church become Christians and that while they might be enemies of Roman Catholicism, they are friends of Yahweh. Any person who seeks the truth will admit that the latter is eternally more important.
Penance and Spirit of Penance:
One of the main areas where Roman Catholicism and Christianity differ is in the area of penance as opposed to repentance. The difference between the two can best be shown by shopping retail versus shopping wholesale. When you shop retail, you buy though a seller that sells a product that they purchased through the wholesaler. When you shop wholesale, you bypass the middleman and you go straight to the buyer. In Roman Catholic “penance,” you have a middleman involved; his name being the priest. You confess to him and he imposes a fine (markup) and he absolves you of your sin. In the act of repentance, you avoid the middleman and you go straight to the buyer.
With Roman Catholicism though, you are told that you cannot go to the wholesaler and that you have to buy retail. You are told that God has given the priest the right to sell to you at a marked-up price (penance) and that once you perform the markup you can have your product (forgiveness). While the Roman Church has gone to great lengths to make this sound biblical, it goes against the words of Yeshua, who stated:
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. John 14:6
And Paul who said:
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus 1 Timothy 2.5
Repentance on the other hand is something that is Biblical and was practiced by Yeshua:
Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee. John 5:14
And:
When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee? She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more. John 8:10-11
The whole lesson of repentance is that there is no middleman. We can go straight to Yeshua, who is our advocate before Aveinu (the Father). The Ruach Ha Kodesh (Holy Spirit) convicts us of our sins, we feel guilty and go to Yeshua to tell Him our sins and he tells to “go and sin no more.” With penance a person can keep sinning and they can feel that they will have their sins resolved by the priest who will tell them to say a few Hail Mary’s or some Our
Father’s; but just like the Torah sacrifices before Mashiach, these things were just temporary and the penalty for sin still needed to be meted out. Repentance means to see the errs in our ways and to turn around so that we are looking at Yahweh again, and nor our own silly ways.
We have seen that penance is not biblical and if anything, it is antichrist because it allows men to think that they can have their sins resolved by someone other than Yeshua. Therefore, the spirit of penance does not stand on a Biblical foundation (on the foundation of grace through Yeshua Ha Mashiach) and therefore it is another indictment against this Marian apparition, as being a doctrine of demons given by a fallen angel in the guise of Miriam, mother of Yeshua.
Penance means to serve the Roman Church; but for me and my house, we will serve the Lord God of Israel, our redeemer Yeshua Ha Mashiach!
“Our Lord sends me to bring a new Marian Devotion to all religious orders and institutes, male and female, and to the priests of this world. I promise to protect those religious orders and institutes who will venerate me.”
The apparition claims that our Lord (presumably Jesus) sent it to bring a new Marian Devotion to many aspects of Catholicism. In the dictionary, “Marian” is defined as something that relates to the virgin Mary. That is fairly easy to understand. Where the apparition raises the eyebrows of those with spiritual discernment is where it says that it is sent to bring a “new Marian Devotion.” A search in the dictionary yields the following definition of “devotion:”
Main Entry: de·vo·tion Pronunciation: \di-vō-shən\
Function: noun Date: 13th century
1 a : religious fervor : piety b : an act of prayer or private worship —usually used in plural c : a religious exercise or practice other than the regular corporate worship of a congregation
2 a : the act of devoting <devotion of time and energy> b : the fact or state of being ardently dedicated and loyal <her devotion to the cause> <filial devotion>
3 obsolete : the object of one’s devotion
According to the apparition, supposedly Jesus is sending it to bring a new act of private prayer and/or worship to “it” and not to Him. Even if the meaning of the word is the second meaning instead of the first, it still means that the apparition is saying that Jesus is sending it to create a new order where people will be ardently dedicated to it. In no place does the apparition suggest that it has been sent to bring a more ardent dedication or worship to Jesus. I highly doubt that Yahweh would send a messenger to bring dedication and worship to it instead of Him.
In the second part of the message that we are examining the apparition says, “I promise to protect those religious orders and institutes who will venerate me.” Well, we have a problem here because a “promise,” is a vow, and scripture says the following about vows:
“Again you have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not swear falsely, but shall perform your oaths to the Lord.’ But I say to you, do not swear at all: neither by heaven, for it is God’s throne; nor by the earth, for it is His footstool; nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King. Nor shall you swear by your head, because you cannot make one hair white or black. But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No.’ For whatever is more than these is from the evil one. Matthew 5:33-37
The Greek word for “swear” is omnyō (strongs G3660) and it literally means to swear an oath or to make a promise. We see that the apparition, which claims to be sent by Yeshua is
breaking one of Yeshua’s commandments, and not in the power and authority of Yeshua, but in its own power. If that authority is not from Yeshua, then there is only one other alternative.
Next, we come to the word, “venerate.” The apparition promises to protect those that venerate it.
The word “venerate,” is defined thusly in the dictionary:
Main Entry: ven·er·ate Pronunciation: \ve-nə-rāt\
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form(s): ven·er·at·ed; ven·er·at·ing
Etymology: Latin veneratus, past participle of venerari, from vener-, venuslove, charm Date: circa 1623
1 : to regard with reverential respect or with admiring deference. venerate implies a holding as holy or sacrosanct because of character, association, or age
2 : to honor (as an icon or a relic) with a ritual act of devotion
If we were to ascribe the first definition to the word “venerate,” we would say that the apparition is saying that it wants to be seen as holy or sacred because it claims to be the “mother of God.” We’ve already laid that title to rest earlier in this article. It could be argued that it might be venerated because it claims to be the mother of Yeshua, but the character and message that we have pulled apart so far shows that it is from an insidious source and not from Yahweh.
If we were to ascribe the second definition to “venerate,” the case would be even worse because what the second definition describes, without coming right out and saying it, is that to venerate is to commit idol worship.
“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. “You shall have no other gods before Me. “You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments. Exodus 20:2-6
Put simply, Yahweh is the only one that we’re supposed to venerate and show devotion to. There is a Biblical test that has been used to see if an apparition is from Yahweh or if it is
from Satan. If an angel, a human, a being of light or whatever says it is from Yahweh it will never want to be adored or venerated, as we see in the following scripture:
And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. Revelation 19:10
The Marian apparition called Rosa Mystica wants adoration, worship and veneration, so it can only be a fallen angel in the guise of Miriam.
I wish that the 13th of each month be celebrated as a Marian Day.
For some reason this Marian apparition likes the number thirteen. The number 13 is quite prominent in the occult realm, as we can see from different occult dictionaries and such:
The number 13 has been associated with bad luck at least since Roman times. The 13 people present at the Last Supper incorporates this idea, and it is still considered unlucky to have 13 people at a table. A coven of witches was supposed to have 13 members. The 13th day of the month is considered unlucky, especially when it falls on a Friday.
Taboos: On the simplest level this principle can be seen in number taboos. For example, in the American society most people considered the number 13 unlucky. Therefore, things connected with 13 are too be avoided such as the 13th day of the month, especially if it is a Friday, the 13th floor, 13 dinner guests, and so on. As a contrast in Belgium it is considered a good-luck charm for women to wear the number 13. The negativity of the number 13 is predominantly thought to have been derived from the Biblical narration of the Last Super where Judas was the thirteenth apostle. However, an earlier concept stresses its relationship to 12, a good number identified with the Zodiac, which had strong positive associations in Babylonian and other early astral mythologies.
And from another source we read:
The lunar calendar, favored by many spiritual belief systems, is sacred and contains thirteen lunar cycles with a moon that moves thirteen degrees across the heavens each day. The Tarot Deck contains thirteen cards of each suit in the minor arcana. The Death card is numbered 13. Like many representations of thirteen, it represents the end of one thing, only to lead to a new beginning. The human body has thirteen major joints. In the ancient runic alphabet, the thirteenth rune symbolized the end of a cycle and the new beginning that followed. Witches covens have thirteen
members. The final step on the ladder before Egyptians souls reached to their eternal rest is the number thirteen.
While it seems this would be bad luck, they saw it as the step that led them into their immortal afterlife. The Aztec religious calendar centered on the number thirteen, though their regular calendar was based on a 365-day year with 18 months. The same day would fall concurrently on both calendars every 52 years – a multiple of thirteen. Paganism sees the number thirteen as a time of transition and in Celtic beliefs was considered the
“coming of age” for boys. Old Celtic beliefs say that the number thirteen is sacred as it represents the one joining the Goddess, represented by the number three. Numerology puts significance on the number thirteen when the equation 1+3=4 is considered, four being representational of the circle of life.
While modern superstitions place negative meanings on the number thirteen, in older belief systems, now considered to be linked to the occult, 13 is a number of transition and change. One ending becomes a beginning, continuing the sacred cycle of life.
One might say that it is just a coincidence that the apparition chose the number thirteen.
Considering however what we have discovered already about this apparition we cannot discount that there is an occult significance to the apparition’s use of that number. Things get even more bizarre when we see that another apparition; the Fatima apparition occurred on the 13th day of six consecutive months in 1917, starting on May 13 of that year with the last one being on October 13th. For some reason, the Marian apparitions like the number thirteen; perhaps it’s because the Marian visitations have sinister origins?
On this day (the 13th) I shall pour out vocational holiness and abundant graces on those religious orders and spiritual institutes who have honoured me especially.
This is an interesting statement. To be honored is to be put in a place of honor, in other words, distinct from others because of a special nature or because of a special deed, or something of the like.
The apparition mentions that it is the apparition that is to be honored; not anyone else, only the apparition. There is not mention of Yeshua, or Aveinu or the Ruach Ha Kodesh; but only the apparition.
The apparition says that the honor is to go to it “especially,” or to be more precise, the word “especially,” means specifically. Specifically denotes that the apparition not only means
“me” but specifically “me” and nobody else. Again, we see a being of light appearing and
demanding adoration for itself and no one else. This is not from Yahweh, but from the adversary.
I wish that the 13th July be celebrated each year in honour of the Rosa Mystica (the Mystical Rose)
The apparition then asks that the 13th of each year be celebrated in honor of Rosa Mystica. Honor means “a showing of usually merited respect.” How does the apparition qualify the merit? Well, remember that it claims to be the Mother of God; so, in the eyes of many, that is the merit. But what about the meaning of the words, “Rosa Mystica?” What is the etymology of those words? Well, let’s have a look at them, shall we? The etymology of “Rosa,” is:
ROSE: O.E. rose, from L. rosa (cf. It., Sp. rosa, Fr. rose; also source of Du.roos, Ger. Rose, Swed. ros, etc.), probably via It. and Gk. dialects from
Gk.rhodon “rose” (Aeolic wrodon), ult. from Pers. *vrda-. But cf. Tucker: “The rose was a special growth of Macedonia & the Thracian region as well as of Persia, & the Lat. &
Gk. names prob. came from a Thraco-Phrygian source.” Aramaic warda is from O.Pers.;
the modern Pers. cognate, via the usual sound changes, is gul, source of Turk. gül “rose.” The ultimate source of all this may be PIE *wrdho-“thorn,
bramble.” Used of a color since 1530. In English civil wars of 15c., the white rose was the badge of the House of York, the red of its rival Lancaster. Rose-water is attested from 1398. Rose-colored“optimistic” is first recorded 1854. In the fig. sense, bed of roses is from 1593. Rosy in the sense of “cheerful” is first recorded 1775; meaning “promising”
is from 1887. Rose of Sharon (Song of Sol. ii.1) is attested from 1611 and named for the fertile strip of coastal Palestine. The flower has not been identified; used in U.S. since 1847 of the Syrian hibiscus. [Source: Online Etymology Dictionary –
www.etymonline.com]
Anyone that has worked around a rose plant knows what a thorn is. The thing about a rose thorn is that once you get one in your skin the pain lasts for a long time and it is an especially bad stinging pain. For those who do not know what a bramble is, it is defined as:
Main Entry: bram·ble Pronunciation: \bram-bəl\
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English brembel, from Old English brēmel; akin to Old English brōm broom
Date: before 12th century
1 : any of a genus (Rubus) of usually prickly shrubs of the rose family including the raspberries and blackberries; also : the fruit of a bramble
2 : a rough prickly shrub or vine
In essence, “Rosa” means a rose or bramble bush. It doesn’t mean the flower part of the rose because it is equated with brambles and the only thing that the two things share are the sharp spines that emanate from the branches of either plant. So, the accentuation is on the part of the plant that can hurt you; the spines.
The word “Mystic” has a more sinister meaning. The dictionary defines “mystic” as:
Main Entry: 1mys·tic Pronunciation: \mis-tik\
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English mistik, from Latin mysticus of mysteries, from Greek mystikos, from mystēs initiate
Date: 14th century 1 : mystical 1a
2 : of or relating to mysteries or esoteric rites : occult 3 : of or relating to mysticism or mystics
4 a : mysterious b : obscure, enigmatic c : inducing a feeling of awe or wonder d : having magical properties
[Source: Merriam Webster Dictionary]
For those who require more proof, and who want to know the etymology of the word “mystic,”
we present the following:
mystic (adj.)late 14c., “spiritually allegorical, pertaining to mysteries of faith,” from O.Fr. mistique, from L. mysticus, from Gk. mystikos“secret, mystic,” from mystes “one who has been initiated” (see mystery (1)). Meaning”pertaining to occult practices or ancient religions” first recorded 1610s.The noun meaning “exponent of mystical theology” is from 1670s, from the adjective. [Source: Online Etymology Dictionary – www.etymonline.com]
If we put the two words together with the definitions that we have researched, it would go something like this: “a thorny dangerous plant that has its roots in the magical properties of the occult.” That is a big difference from the glowing woman that talks such sweet words; but it is not a woman and its words are deception.
The seer?
I don’t know about you the reader, but whenever I see the word “seer” used in any context the first thing that comes to my mind is the New Age. The New Age religion sometimes uses that title to present people that they see as prophets; but as Christians who are spiritually adept in the deceptions of the enemy, we know that such people are the witches of old and what we currently call psychics or channelers.
The dictionary defines “seer,” in a way that cannot possibly be flattering to anyone who calls themselves a Christian or someone who worships the person of Yeshua Ha Mashiach (Jesus Christ), in any form or fashion. A Christian cannot be a seer any more than one could say that the ocean is made out of air. The definition of “seer,” is:
Main Entry: seer Part of Speech: noun Definition: clairvoyant
Synonyms: augur, channeller, crystal ball gazer, diviner, forecaster, fortune-teller, medium, oracle, palm reader, prophet, psychic, soothsayer
I’d like to add a little side note here. I have been involved in spiritual matters for quite some time. Our ministry is to help those who are spiritually oppressed and to bring them to a knowledge and faith of Yeshua Ha Mashiach (Jesus Christ). I can personally attest that apparitions, ghosts, poltergeists and other things that go bump in the night generally do not manifest to those who belong to and serve Yeshua. As a matter of fact, they tend to flee away from the Sons and Daughters of Yahweh. So, in my estimation, this woman who either called herself a seer, or is called a seer, probably was not walking with Yahweh (God) and if anything, she probably had many dabbling’s in the occult, and may have even been a witch that infiltrated the Catholic Church. I would feel quite comfortable in betting that this was true and would feel comfortable that I would win the bet; but this could probably not be confirmed because these apparitions happened around 62 years before the writing of this article, and the “seer” is probably deceased.
