Every one loves their ‘Mother’ even the law teaches us in Exodus20:12: “Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.” However man has established his own day of reverence to honor ‘Mothers”. This is not scriptural to do but is based on Satanic; idolatrous principles. Although early Mother’s Day celebrations were nothing like the observance of Mother’s Day today, the true essence and origin is the same today. History proves that the tradition of honoring mothers dates back to ancient cultures including Greece and Rome. In both cultures, mother goddesses were worshiped during the springtime with religious festivals. The ancient Greeks paid tribute to the powerful titan Rhea, the wife of Cronus, known as the “Mother of the Gods“. Similarly, evidence of a three-day Roman festival in Mid-March called Hilaria, to honor the Roman goddess Magna Mater, or Great Mother, dates back to 250 B.C. A temple on the Palatine hill in Rome was built in honor of the Great Mother, where people would come bearing gifts to offer her and cakes.
Mother’s day however goes even deeper than that. In the Holy Scriptures the Most High has recorded that the Israelites which dwelt in Egypt followed the goddess Isis or “Queen of Heaven” as she was also called. Some of the women of Israel rejected the Laws of the Most High and honored the Mother of the gods.
Jeremiah 44:15: “Then all the men which knew that their wives had burned incense unto other gods, and all the women that stood by, a great multitude, even all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,”
16: “As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the LORD, we will not hearken unto thee.”
17: “But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.”
18: “But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.”
19: “And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings unto her, without our men?“
20: “Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and to the women, and to all the people which had given him that answer, saying,”
21: “The incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land, did not the LORD remember them, and came it not into his mind?”
22: “So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.”
23: “Because ye have burned incense, and because ye have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil is happened unto you, as at this day.”
You may think the keeping of “Mother’s Day” is a small and innocent thing but you’ve just read the historical account of what the Most High says about this tradition.
All the godlike qualities and the title of Queen were later attributed to “Mary the mother of god, the queen of heaven” by the Catholic Church. As Christianity spread throughout Europe, the celebration of the “Mother Church“/ ‘Roman Catholic Church’ replaced the pagan tradition of honoring mythological goddesses and was replaced by honoring Mary. Since people believed the Mother Church/Catholic Church was the spiritual power that gave them life and protected them from harm, it was customary to bring gifts to the church where one was baptized in celebration of Mary the mother of god, the queen of heaven.
During the Middle Ages in Europe, when the poor were forced to work as servants for the wealthy. Since most servants and apprentices lived in the homes of their employers, often at a great distance from their families, they were given a day off in the springtime and encouraged to return home to spend the day with their mothers. To show appreciation for their mothers, they often brought small gifts or a “mothering cake.” (sound familiar?)
We are not commanded to establish our own holidays, adding to the scriptures.
The Arch angel Gabriel appeared to Mary in Luke 1:28:“And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favored, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.”
Notice he never said to worship her and notice what Christ said when a woman praised Mary, his mother.
Luke 11:27: “ And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked. “
28: “But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.”
Yes Mary was blessed among women but we are commanded to learn the LAW of God andkeep it. Shalom.
