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Written by Bob Stanley, August 8, 2003
Updated August 18, 2006
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Page...The Blessed Virgin Mary is the Mother of us all!
Eve is the mother of the human race. Therefore she is the
ancestral biological mother of us all.
The Blessed Virgin Mary is the New Eve.
The Blessed Virgin Mary
is the Mother of GOD, the
divine person of Jesus Christ.
"...and he has put all things under his feet and has made him the head over
all things for the church, which is his body, the fulness of him who fills all
in all." Ephesians 1:22-23
The Church is the Body of Christ, and He is
the head.
"Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of
it." 1Corinthians 12:27
We, the members, are the Church which is the Body of
Christ.
Since each one of us is a member of the Body of Christ, and the
Blessed Virgin Mary is the Mother of Jesus the Christ, then is it not true that
she is our mother as well?
Since the Son IS the Church, along with
the rest of us,
then the mother of His Body is without question the Mother of the Church as
well.
The book of Galatians 4:21-31, has within some very important and
densely packed verses:
"(21) Tell me, you who desire to be under law, do you
not hear the law? (22) For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one
(Ishmael) by a slave (Hagar) and one (Isaac) by a free woman (Sarah).
(23) But the son of the slave was born (Genesis 16:15) according to the flesh,
the son of the free woman through promise (Genesis 17:15-16, 21:1-3,
Isaiah 7:14, Luke 1:35). (24) Now this is an allegory: these women are
two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; she is
Hagar. (25) Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia; she corresponds to the present
Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children. (26) But the Jerusalem
above is free, and she is our mother. (27) For it is written, "Rejoice, O
barren one who does not bear; break forth and shout, you who are not in travail;
for the children of the desolate one are many more than the children of her that
is married." (28) Now we, brethren, like Isaac, are children of promise.
(29) But as at that time he who was born according to the flesh persecuted
him who was born according to the Spirit, so it is now. (30) But what does
the scripture say? "Cast out the slave and her son; for the son of the slave
shall not inherit with the son of the free woman." (31) So,
brethren, we are not children of the slave but of the free woman."
Galatians 4:21-31
What are the many facts which are carefully packed
within these verses, some of which are missed without serious study?
Let us
have a closer look:
1. "Now this is an allegory" of verse 24,
indicated that the verses will be dealing with typology.
2. Abraham is a type of Jesus Christ. Both had sublime obedience to
GOD (Genesis 22:18-19, Luke 22:42).
3. Isaac was born to Sarah, the wife of
Abraham. Sarah is the Old Testament "free woman through promise"
(Genesis 17:15-16).
4. Isaac is a type of Jesus Christ (Genesis 17:19). Sarah is a type of the Blessed Virgin Mary
(Genesis 17:15-16).
5. Jesus Christ was born to Mary, who is the New
Testament "free woman through promise", (Isaiah 7:14, Luke
1:35-38).
6. The "present Jerusalem" of verse 25 is equated to Hagar.
7.
The "Jerusalem above" of verse 26 is equated to Sarah, and by typical association to The Blessed Virgin
Mary.
8. In verse 26, the "Jerusalem above" is referred to as "she", and she
is our mother.
9. In verse 29, "him who was born according to the
Spirit" can be none other than Jesus Christ (Luke 1:35-38). Who can deny
that those born according to the flesh have persecuted Him and His Church
from the very beginning and to this very day?
10. Verse 31 makes it
strikingly clear that we all are children of the "free woman" who can
be none other than Sarah in the Old Testament and the Blessed Virgin Mary in the
New Testament.
11. Did you notice that when the verses used the word
'woman' it was always applied to the free woman, or to the
woman through promise, or to the Jerusalem above? Hagar is always
referred to as the slave, or the one from Mount Sinai, or the present Jerusalem.
Verse 24 refers to both as 'women', but in a different context. It has a literal
context, simply meaning more than one. The word 'woman', however, has a
spiritual context as we shall see.
Why is the word "woman" of
such significance here?
The 'woman' can be found in the first book
of the Bible, the last book, of the Bible and in the middle of the
Bible:
"I will put enmity between you and the woman, and
between your seed and her seed; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise
his heel." Genesis 3:15
"Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a
sign. Behold a virgin (young woman in some Bibles) shall conceive, and
bear a son and his name shall be called Emmanuel." Isaiah 7:14
"And
Jesus said to her, "O woman, what have you to do with me? My hour has
not yet come." John 2:4
The use of the word 'woman' in this verse is
a reference to Genesis 3:15 where GOD promised salvation through the offspring
of the 'woman'. He will come through her to crush the head of the
serpent. Jesus reminded us in John 2:4, that He is the saviour promised in
Genesis 3:15.
"When Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved
standing near, he said to his mother, "Woman, behold, your son!" Then
he said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother!" And from that hour the disciple
took her to his own home." John 19:26-27
Again a reference to Genesis 3:15
reinforcing the woman of that verse as being His mother.
The
disciple Jesus referred to as, "whom He loved", was the Apostle John, the author
of the Gospel which bears his name. Why didn't John use his name here when he
wrote his Gospel instead of the wording that he did use? It is because "the
disciple whom Jesus loved" represents all of us. We are all His disciples, and
He loves all of us. This conclusion becomes obvious if you reverse the phrase
and ask, 'Was John the only disciple He loved?' Of course not. Jesus had told
the world that His mother was not only John's mother then, but our mother as
well.
"And a great sign appeared in heaven, a woman clothed with
the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars;"
Revelation 12:1
Go here for
a comprehensive explanation of why this verse is referenced to the Blessed
Virgin Mary and not only to Israel and/or the Church, as non-Catholics
teach.
Thus the woman of the first book of the Bible, is also the
woman of the last book of the Bible.
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