The Queen of Heaven Disarmed Pastor Mary Bath, Ontario Canada [ Photos & comments added by Priscilla ] Table of Contents Chapter 1 - Introduction Chapter 2 - The Roots of the Queen of Heaven Chapter 3 - Ishtar Chapter 4 - Diana of Ephesus , Artemis Chapter 5 paganism. Neopaganism, Wicca & Witchcraft Chapter 6 Feminism Chapter 7 - Goddess Worship in Catholicism Chapter 8 - The Queen of Heaven and Jezebel Chapter 9 - The Queen of Heaven and the Spirit of Compromise . Chapter 10 - Peace Maker Vs. Peacekeeper Chapter 11 -Agreement with Heaven Chapter 12 - Conclusion Bibliography Booklet available through www.jubilee-resources.com The Queen of Heaven Disarmed INTRODUCTION Rev 17:36 3 So he carried me away in the Stint into the wilderness. And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast which was fun o1 names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. 4 The woman was arrayed m purple and scarlet. and adorned with gold 1 and precious stones and pearls. having n her band a golden cup full of abominations and the lightness of her fornication S And on her forehead a name was written, MYSTERY. BABYLON THE GREAT THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus And when I saw her, I marveled with great amazement The Queen of Heaven comes in many guises and is called by many names, Here, she is referred to as the Mother of Harlots and Babylon the Great. The worship of this spirit can be traced as far back as the destruction of the Tower of Babel when she used the name Semiramis She has been worshiped for thousands of years and is till worshipped today. She has used the names Diana, Isis, Astarte, Frigg. Madonna, Virgin of Guadalupe. Our Lady of Fatima, and others. This spirit has been responsible for the destruction of millions of saints. She is at the root of witchcraft occult practices. sexual perversion, abortion, child abuse, corruption and compromise. God hates this spirit. In a discussion with Jeremiah. God forbids the prophet to even pray far those who worship this spirit. and He indicates that if Jeremiah does pray for these worshippers He will not listen. Jeremiah 7.16-20 'Therefore do not pray for this people.. nor lift up a cry or prayer for them, nor make intercession to Me; for I will not hear you. 17 "Do you not see what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? 18 'the children gather wood, the fathers kindle the lore. and the women knead dough, to make cakes la the queen of heaven and they pour out drink offerings to other gods, 2 that they may provoke Me to anger. 19 "Do they provoke Me to anger' says the Lord. `Do they not provoke Themselves to the shame of their own faces?" 20 therefore thus says the Lord God; "Behold. My anger and My fury wilt be poured out on this place - on man and on beast, on the trees of the held end m the fruit of the ground. And n will bum and not be quenched." This book is about one of the must severe battles that the Church has ever, or will ever face. It is not my intention to glorify the enemy. but rather to glorify GOD and to reveal His strategy in the battle. Although the final victory over thus spirit will not occur until Jesus Himself leads The armies of the Church Triumphant in the final battle. we have a responsibility now to declare war The problem with this war is that we have not been fighting with a full revelation. Many intercessors have come against the Queen of Heaven spirit. They have tried to tear it flown. They have prayed against it, they have shaken their fists at it, they have shouted at it. They have prayed in the Name of Jesus and taken their authority against it. Yet this spirit continues to affect our churches, our homes, our communities and our nations. Witchcraft covens still thrive. Our children are taught magic in their schools. I Hopeless dying people consult psychics and mediums for answers. Abortions continue taking place in our hospitals. Child pornography and prostitution thrives. Violence erupts m our schools. If Churches still split what is the answer? The Word of God tells us that the people perish when there is a back of understanding, We. need to understand how this spirit got its foothold and we need to recognize the many disguises that it wears. What I will be discussing in these chapters is a revelation that God has given me concerning this vital area of spiritual warfare. Once we understand how this spirit operates, we will begin to recognize things that we must do to overcome. God has shown me a three-fold strategy. FIRST of all, God has shown me that in order to be overcomers, we need to come out of agreement with the Queen of Heaven. Without realizing it, many of God's people have been deceived by this spirit. We have actually walked in agreement with it, and in most cases, we have not recognized it. What we need to realize is that by being in agreement with the Queen of Heaven spirit, or partnering with it, we have worshipped it. Whatever, or whoever controls our lives is the god we worship. If Jesus controls our lives. then He is the One we worship. However, if the Queen of Heaven has any control in our lives, it is she who is worshipped. We need to recognize how we have partnered with this spirit and renounce it once and for all. SECONDLY, we need to be true worshippers of the Most High God. Jesus said that the day was coming when true worshippers would worship Him in Spirit and in Truth. 3 John 4:21 Jesus declared, "Believe me. woman. a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. True worship is a Lordship issue. It is not only proclaiming the Lordship of Jesus, but living in agreement with Him to such a degree that He is in fact the One in control of our lives. If enough of God's people break covenant with the Queen of Heaven and live as true worshippers, then the grasp that this spirit has on our territory will be dramatically weakened. THIRDLY, the Lord has shown me that we need to be clothed in white linen. In Revelation 19 we read that when Jesus led the armies of Heaven against the Queen of Heaven, this army was clothed in resplendent white linen. This heavenly army was !he Church Triumphant. White linen speaks of righteousness and holiness, and we cannot fight this spirit unless we are so clothed. Rev 19:14 The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean. We shall begin by delving into the historic and present day manifestations of this spirit. We will end by following the strategy of warfare. 4 It is my prayer, that as you read this book, you will recognize and define ways in which you or your family may have come into agreement with the Queen of Heaven. It is my prayer that you will not only enter into true repentance and renounce this spirit, but that you will make Jesus Christ of Nazareth the One who is truly Lord of your life. I pray that you will seek Him for the clothing of resplendent white linen and follow through with the revelation in order to enter into highly effective warfare. CHAPTER 2 THE ROOTS Of THE OUEEN OF HEAVEN Rev 17:3-6 3 So he carried me away in the Spirit into the wilderness. And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast which was full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. 4 The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet. and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls. having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication. 5 And on her forehead a name was written: MYSTERY. BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. 6 I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I marveled with great amazement. At the time of John's revelation, the physical city of Babylon no longer existed. It had been destroyed just as the Old Testament prophets had foretold. (Isaiah 13:19- 22. Jeremiah 51,52). The Babylon of revelation is a spirit. The religious system that emanated from Babylon impacted every civilization of the world. Babylon was once a geographical location, but long, after its physical destruction, the spirit of Babylon infiltrated the world. There are three realms that the spirit of Babylon has impacted. The first one is the spiritual realm, affecting the worship of God; the second one is the governmental realm, impacting governments and earthly kingdoms: and the third realm is commerce,- affecting economic structures. Our purpose in this chapter is to discover the roots of this spiritual entity. Genesis 10 1 Now this is the genealogy of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And sons were born to them after the flood. … 6 And the sons of Ham were Cush and Mizraim and Put and Canaan. 7 The sons of Cush were Seba, Havilah. Sabtah. Raamah, and Sabtechah; and the sons of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan. 8 Cush begot Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one on the earth. 9 He was a mighty hunter before the Lord; therefore it is said, "Like Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord." 10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, the land of Shinar. 11 From that land he went to Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah, 12 and Resen between Nineveh and Calah (that is the principal city). 5 Genesis 11 1 Now the whole earth had one language and one speech. 2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there. 3 Then they said to one another, 'Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar. 4 And they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth." 5 But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. And the Lord said, "Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them. 7. "Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech." 8. So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city. 9 Therefore its name is called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth: and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth. Nimrod was the founder of the Babylonian system. The Word tells us that he was a "mighty hunter before the Lord" This statement is not saying that Nimrod was approved of by God. In fact, if you go back to the original Hebrew writings you will discover that what is really being said is that Nimrod was full of rebellion before God The Hebrew word for Nimrod is marad and it means "he rebelled". He was full of pride, and pride is always the beginning of disaster. It was because of pride that Lucifer attempted to elevate himself above God. In addition to his own rebellion, Lucifer got one Hurd of the angels in heaven to rebel with him. When the Word says that Nimrod was mighty before the Lord, it translates more like "he was mighty in rebellion against the Lord." Nimrod was an evil leader, who attempted to elevate himself in the same way as Lucifer before him, and like Lucifer, Nimrod wasn't satisfied to simply elevate himself. so he spawned rebellion in those who surrounded him. Listen to what Josephus, a noted historian, says about Nimrod's rebellion: "Now it was Nimrod who excited them to such an affront and contempt of God.... fit, also gradually changed the government into tyranny, seeing no other way of turning men from the fear of God.. the multitudes were very ready to follow 6 the determination of Nimrod and they built a tower, neither sparing any pains, nor being in any degree negligent about the work: and, by reason of the multitude of hands employed in it, it grew very high. The place wherein they built the tower is now called Babylon'. The land that Nimrod lived in had been dominated by the Kenites. The language that was spoken by everyone at that time was Chaldean (an early form of the Phoenician language). Nimrod conquered seven cities and founded it Sumerian empire in Babel. After foundiag this empire in Babel, Erech. Akkad, and Calneh, he invaded Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir. Calah and Resen. He then unified the people in numerous construction projects, the most prominent of which was the Tower of Babel. Nimrod wasn't satisfied to be an earthly king. He turned the people's belief in a personal relationship with God into a warped religion that was based on Nimrod becoming a self proclaimed mediator between them and God. [ sounds familiar in our time doesn’t it ? – pris ] There is some historical indication that many people thought that Nimrod was the Saviour that had been prophesied back in the Garden of Eden. Nimrod built the tower as an affront to God. Nimrod was married to a woman by the name of Semiramis. People believed that the life of Semiramis was foretold by the stars and that after her death she became the constellation called Virgo and reigned in the heavens as the Queen of Heaven. After Nimrod died, Semiramis claimed that Nimrod had come back from the dead as the sun god and impregnated her. She bore a child and named it Tammuz and declared that Tammuz was Nimrod reincarnated. Tammuz was symbolized by the golden calf. Nimrod, the sun god, was symbolized by fire, and later known as Baal. Nimrod was also symbolized by sun images, fish, trees, pillars, and animals. 7 Semiramis claimed that she had given birth to a saviour. However, she made sure that she became the object of worship and not Tammuz. She was worshipped as the mother of the son of god. She became the self proclaimed mother of all gods. This Queen of Heaven story was told in every civilization. It was told in different names, but the story line was always the same. There was a form of Baal and a mother of gods who was called Astarte. Semiramis, and Innana, Venus. Diana or some other name. God was grieved. Romans 1:21-26 because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts. and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Professing to be wise, they became fools, 23 and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things. 24 Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, 25 who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. 26 For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. This principality called the Queen of Heaven was named by God to be the Mother of Harlots, or the Harlot of Babylon. 8 Revelation 17:5 And on her forehead a name was written: MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. On thing that we must always keep in mind when discussing the spiritual realm is that spirits are not people. They use people, and work through people, but it is not people who are the enemy. The Queen of Heaven is a principality, not a person. Ephesians 6:12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. This is the beginning of goddess worship in history. In the next chapters, we will examine sonic of the manifestations of the Queen of Heaven throughout history and in the world we live in today. CHAPTER 3 Ishtar Ishtar was another manifestation of the worship of the Queen of Heaven on planet earth. This goddess was also known as Innana, Innin, Astarte, Aslitar, Aphrodite, Venus. Lady of the Battle, and in Israel, the Oucen of Heaven. It is this goddess that the people of Israel were often guilty of worshipping, and for which they went into captivity. Ashicroth is another name for Astarte, and is formed by combining the consonants from Astarte and the vowels from the Hebrew word "hoshet", which means shame. It was shame indeed that the Israelites heaped on their heads by going after this goddess. Today's goddess worshippers call, her Venus, the goddess of love. Isis Ishtar Astarte This is the story of Ishtar that her worshippers believe: Ishtar was not satisfied with the title "Queen of Heaven" which she had usurped from former Sumerian goddesses. She also wanted to be known as the Queen of the Netherworld. This title was supposedly held by Ishtar's sister Erceshkigal. When Ishtar descended into the Netherworld she had to pass through seven gates. At each of the gates she was stripped of one of her garments. At the first gate she had her crown removed. At the second gate, her earrings, at the third gate, her necklace, at the fourth gate, her breast ornaments, at the fifth gate. her girdle, at the sixth gate, her bracelets, and finally, at the seventh gate, her cloak. When she went through the final gate. Ereshkigal killed her and put her corpse on a stake. Ishtar was then resurrected by the other gods on the condition 9 that a substitute for her be found. She chose as her substitute her husband Tammuz, who was the supposed son of Semiramis. This goddess became so influential in various civilizations of the world, that she was known as the most powerful goddess of all times. Would be kings believed that if they slept with her, they would receive their kingships. It is on record that Sargon was one of them. Sargon ruled the whole Euphrates valley around 3800 B.C. and was the founder of a Semitic dominion over the region of Sumer and built the city of Akkad. He conquered many lands and proclaimed himself to be "King over the four corners of the earth." Sargon was not a mythical figure, but a real king. There is much evidence to support the fact that he was a worshipper of Ishtar. (From THE STORY GREATEST NATIONS AND THE WORLD'S FAMOUS EVENTS, Volume 1, a historical reference book first published in 1813 by Edward S. Ellis and Charles E Horne, PhD.) There are many rituals associated with Ishtar. The first one is a ritual that was held to commemorate the death of Tammuz. It was held to appease Ishtar's grief over his loss. This ritual took oil the form of a fast and it was called the "fast of lamentation". In some temples, the ritual also involved shaving the head as a sign of mourning. Anyone who refused was bound to prostitute themselves to strangers and sacrifice to the goddess the wages of their shame. The second ritual was performed by a king or high ranking official of the day. He was said to represent Tammuz. The king would have a marriage ceremony with Ishtar’s high priestess which took place on New Year's Day. The third ritual was a celebration of Ishtar's menstrual cycle. It took place at the time of the full moon and was celebrated with a day of rest. Interestingly enough it was called "Sabattu". The devil is always trying to counterfeit what belongs to God. Another ritual was performed oil the first Sunday of the spring season. The families rose early in the morning and stood facing the east to await the rising of the sun. As the sun came up they would give worship to the sun-god Baal, by bowing down to him in various postures. (Many of these postures are used today in Yoga.) After those rituals were performed, the children would invoke the goddess to help them and they would go on an egg hunt. The eggs were thought to have come egg from rabbits which were the symbol of lust, sexual prowess, and reproduction. 10