Question: In your book, A Woman Rides the Beast, I noticed that you don’t make any reference to ...

Question: In your book, A Woman Rides the Beast, I noticed that you don’t make any reference to some key passages about Mary: Lk 1:28, 48; Rev. 12. Why not?

Answer: In Luke we read: “Hail, thou that art highly favored, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women...from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.” I had no intent to avoid these passages and no reason to do so. They contain nothing that would in the remotest way support the false position to which the Roman Catholic Church has elevated Mary.

The fact that Mary was chosen to be the mother of Jesus when He was born into the world is the clear teaching of the Bible. That she should, therefore, as Christ's mother, be highly favored and blessed among all  women is only reasonable as well as biblical and is not denied in any degree by true Christians. To recite these undisputed facts would have been irrelevant to the message of the book.

The claims in Roman Catholicism that Mary was conceived and lived without sin, that she was bodily taken into heaven without dying, that she helped to redeem us with the sorrows of her heart in concert with Christ’s sufferings on the Cross, that all grace flows from God to Christ and from Christ through Mary to mankind, that she is the Queen of Heaven, the Mother of Mercy, that prayers should be offered to her as the mediatrix between men and Christ, that she is the Mother of and in charge of the Church, that she obtains whatever she asks from Christ now in heaven and therefore we ought to go to her with our needs, etc., etc., are all false, and none of them has any support whatsoever in the verses you cite nor in any other part of Scripture.

As for Revelation 12, here again the Roman Catholic Church defies both Scripture and logic in its claim that the “woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars” is Mary. The apparitions of Mary (all of which are demonic) have at times appeared in this form in support of this false doctrine.

It is quite clear from Scripture that the “woman” depicted here is symbolic of Israel, through whom the Messiah had been promised and would come into the world. The “great red dragon,” of course, is Satan, who has sought to destroy the Messiah down through history by destroying all Jews. These attempts are recorded in the Bible (Pharaoh’s decree that all male babies should be killed upon birth–Ex 1:16; Queen Athaliah’s attempt to destroy “all the seed royal” when Joash was hidden from her–2 Ki:11:1And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.
See All...; the attempt by Haman to have all Jews killed–Est:3:8-15 [8] And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer them. [9] If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to bring it into the king's treasuries. [10] And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it unto Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews' enemy. [11] And the king said unto Haman, The silver is given to thee, the people also, to do with them as it seemeth good to thee. [12] Then were the king's scribes called on the thirteenth day of the first month, and there was written according to all that Haman had commanded unto the king's lieutenants, and to the governors that were over every province, and to the rulers of every people of every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language; in the name of king Ahasuerus was it written, and sealed with the king's ring. [13] And the letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey. [14] The copy of the writing for a commandment to be given in every province was published unto all people, that they should be ready against that day. [15] The posts went out, being hastened by the king's commandment, and the decree was given in Shushan the palace. And the king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city Shushan was perplexed.
See All...; Herod’s attempt to kill the Messiah–Mt 2:16, etc.). Secular history also offers proof of Satan’s determination to destroy all Jews: the destruction of Jews by the Roman Catholic Church, by Muslims upon the decree of Muhammad, by Hitler, the intent to destroy Israel today, etc.

There is no question that Mary could not possibly be the woman in Revelation 12. She never “fled into the wilderness [into] a place prepared of God” (12:6). Furthermore, she does not fit the false Mary of Roman Catholicism who was without sin. Pain in childbirth was pronounced by God upon all women as a result of sin. Yet this woman “being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered” (12:2). How could she be the sinless Catholic Mary?