Comment from Understand the Times:

Of course it is no secret that the Children of Israel were worshipping a female god. Anyone who has read the Old Testament can figure that out. This was the Queen of Heaven in Jeremiah chapter 7 and also chapter 44. God called this an abomination. Although today the pope, the Jesuits and the Roman Catholic Church consider "Mary" the mother of Jesus to be the Queen of Heaven.

If you think this is absurd, it is because it is absurd. Mary, the true mother of Jesus would have never wanted a title like that, as she stated that she herself needed to have a Savior. This idea that there is a Holy Quartet is not biblical. Also as you will soon see, the claim will be made by Rome that "Mary" is pouring out the "Holy Spirit" as part of what is called the Second Pentecost. Charismatics will really get excited about this, as they are conditioned into believing that everything that smacks of the dove is the real dove.

The Bible states that there should be no worship of any idol including a dove. Christians should wake up and smell the smoke. Judgment is coming!

March 18 - Mrs. God? Asherah goddess worshipped along with Yahweh scholar finds

Article: Misc.

The ancient Israelites were a polytheistic culture, worshipping Yahweh (El) and his female consort, Asherah according to a British theologian. Discovery News today published a report that states in 1967 Asherah was first mentioned by scholar Raphael Patal. The current studies of Francesca Stavrakopoulou have reinforced that theory. Stavrakopolou is a scholar who began her studies at Oxford, and currently is a senior lecturer in the Department of Theology and Religion at the University of Exeter.

"You might know him as Yahweh, Allah or God. But on this fact, Jews, Muslims and Christians, the people of the great Abrahamic religions, are agreed: There is only one of Him," writes Stavrakopoulou in a statement released to the British media. "He is a solitary figure, a single, universal creator, not one God among many . or so we like to believe."After years of research specializing in the history and religion of Israel, however, I have come to a colorful and what could seem, to some, uncomfortable conclusion that God had a wife," she added.

Asherah's connection to Yahweh, according to Stavrakopoulou, is spelled out in both the Bible and an 8th century B.C. inscription on pottery found in the Sinai desert at a site called Kuntillet Ajrud.

"The inscription is a petition for a blessing," she shares "Crucially, the inscription asks for a blessing from 'Yahweh and his Asherah.' Here was evidence that presented Yahweh and Asherah as a divine pair. And now a handful of similar inscriptions have since been found, all of which help to strengthen the case that the God of the Bible once had a wife."

Also significant, Stavrakopoulou believes, "is the Bible's admission that the goddess Asherah was worshiped in Yahweh's Temple in Jerusalem. In the Book of Kings, we're told that a statue of Asherah was housed in the temple and that female temple personnel wove ritual textiles for her."

Asherah is mentioned five times in the Book of 1 Kings, showing the supremacy of El/Yahweh over Asherah when Asherah idols and poles are destroyed. Asherah is also named in the Old Testament books of Exodus, Deuteronomy, Judges, 2 Chronicles and the books of Isaiah, appearing as pole honoring the Ugaritic goddess Asherah, consort of El. Her sacred pillars, or poles once stood beside the altars of Yahweh (El).