To all those doves and watchers out there:
 
The subject matter I listed above may very well be the next HEADLINE that the world reads!
 
As we get closer to the rapture, we'll be seeing more supernatural signs in the sky, stars, heavenly bodies (i.e. this face in the sky and glowing cross that showed up in Russia), but we must always press on and TEST the spirits. I highly recommend a video by Perry Stone at Voice of Evangelism on "The Apparitions of Mary." Before you pitch the baby out with the bath water, consider that these "angels of light" are appearing to many people in these last days. It is odd that they used to appear mainly to children and women (hmmm....wasn't it EVE who was deceived before Adam?), though you do occas. hear of them appearing to men, but not nearly as often. Perry believes this may be the way that the two largest religions in the world are merged - the islamic and catholic- over their love for Mary (not the Mary of the Bible of course, but the one deceiving the world in these manifestations). Think about it - when all TRUE bible-believing Christians are gone, what two religions will be DOMINANT in the world?
 
If you study the manifestations, and I have studied them in detail - the person appearing does not direct worship to Jesus, but to herself - to her "immaculate heart". She calls herself many titles including the Lady of the Nations, Queen of Peace, Queen of the World, Queen of Heaven (see book of Jeremiah in the Old Testament for several references to this "Queen of Heaven"), Lady of Sorrows, Compasionate Mother, Our Mother of Perpetual Help, The Queen of All Prophets, The Mother of the Eucharist, Our Lady of Tenderness (AW, gee--- what could be more sweet?), The Ark of Salvation, Our Lady of Fatima, the Virgin of Revelation, Mediatrix of Graces, etc.,  ad nauseum.
 
Interesting that she uses the name I AM (GOD's NAME!) in so many of her appearances:  She says:  "I AM the immaculate conception," I AM the Mother of God, I AM the Ark of Peace, I AM the Mother of All Nations -- I AM Queen of the World, I AM All Beautiful (NO - you are NOT all beautiful, because Jesus is the one who is ALTOGETHER LOVELY!)  Yet, these poor, gullible people keep right on swallowing this stuff like it's the next Flintstones, vitamin supplement craze. They need our prayers. They are pitiful! They will believe ANY miracle, not realizing that it is with all deceit and lying POWERS and WONDERS that will be used in these last days to seduce the whole world! A miracle is NOT necessarily from God! They have had ample warning in the Bible (IF they ever READ it!)
 
The muslims love Mary as much as the Catholics do. Take Jesus as LORD out and direct them all to Mary and the muslims will join the Catholics. If you do not believe so, there was an apparition of this "goddess" over an Egyptian church several years ago that occurred over a period of several years. When it happened, muslims would get out their little rugs and kneel and pray to her with their prayer beads - the Catholics would pray on their rosaries side-by-side with the muslims.
 
El Papa John Paul II thought there would be a WORLD-WIDE apparition of Mary around the year 2000 and that he would live to see it and would be a part of ushering in the great age of Mary.  Well, he's dead --- didn't happen then, but don't count it out in the days to come! It could very well be the GREAT deception that is sent by God to those who refused the love of the truth. Is this the reason that Jesus had two opportunities to exalt his earthly mother and refused to do so?
 
Once his followers told him that his mother and brethren were outside seeking him - he said "who is my mother and my brethren? He who does the will of my Father." Another time, when a woman hollered out at him that "blessed" was the one who bore him and nursed him (meaning Mary), he retorted back - "...blessed is he who does the will of my Father in heaven." Because he KNEW that the mother-child worship that began centuries before Mary was even born would be resurrected!  He did not want to give the people an excuse to start exalting his mother, so he never exalted her. He loved her and even turned her over to John, his beloved disciple, to take care of while he was dying on the cross.  Actually,  the mother-child cult did not need to be "resurrected" - it has always been here. Look in the Book of Jeremiah in the Old Testament - she was called the "Queen of Heaven."  Read Jeremiah. God wasn't angry with them for just worshipping this mother-child idol- he was angry because they were trying to worship HIM and COMBINE it with this mother-child cult!
 
Another "Image" that is worshipped even by this apparition is what is referred to as the "eucharist". This apparition also directs people to worship the eucharist. What WOULD happen if right at the same time as millions disappeared, this "angel of light" comes on the scene with a massive display of power and miracles - calling itself "Mary" - telling all religions they need to unite as brothers & sisters in Christ and promote eucharistic adoration for the sake of PEACE?  She is ALREADY telling those she appears to that she wants to be declared the mediatriX or co-redemptriX (same 'ol TRIX either way!) of the world. You know - ANYTHING TO GET YOUR EYES OFF OF JESUS, right? Isn't that what Satan did when he appeared to Jesus in the wilderness? Tried to get Jesus to WORSHIP him? Uh-huh - there is nothing new under the sun. Reject God and you will worship SOMETHING - might even be a Lamb --but I guarantee you - it won't be the spotless Lamb of God, it will be a counterfeit. In Revelations, he is said to be a beast with 2 horns that looks like a LAMB, but speaks as a DRAGON.
 
Same old "song and dance." Ho-hum --- (yawn) There really is "nothing new under the sun." You can see, however, the true subtle, deceitful and cunning nature of that "angel of light" for he goeth about through the whole earth seeking whom he may devour. You SEE folks, the entire panorama of the ages will boil down to ONE thing and ONE thing only! Either you believe the Word of God, or you don't! Why do you think Jesus is called the WORD OF GOD when he appears in Revelations with the armies of heaven behind him? Because all of them chose to believe His WORD over the traditions of men. Why - imagine this!  There are even some people who gave their lives over his word - and there will be again. In the Great Tribulation, there will be people who will revere God's Word so much - that they will let themselves be killed before they will take the Mark of the Beast because God's Word says once you do - you are damned forever. So which is it? Take the traditions and the word of men and worship idols and dead saints and "angels of light" and take the MARK? OR - believe God's WORD instead as he said it, where he said it, just as he said it and forfeit your LIFE if called to do so?!  Hmmmm... choices, choices --- or then again - we do have a FREE WILL to make that choice.  Hope you make the right choice...even if it means putting your NECK on the line - uh - LITERALLY! (If you are still here, that is!)
 
Agape,
Rene

P.S. - Don't mess with that "Diana of the Ephesians!" Paul did - and he got stoned for it!