{"id":2489,"date":"2008-08-22T18:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-22T18:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2008\/08\/lavender-blue-dilly-dilly\/"},"modified":"2008-08-22T18:41:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-22T18:41:00","slug":"lavender-blue-dilly-dilly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2008\/08\/lavender-blue-dilly-dilly.html","title":{"rendered":"Lavender Blue Dilly Dilly…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"\"<\/a>\u2026Lavender Green<\/p>\n

If I were the King dilly dilly, You\u2019d be my Queen.\u2019<\/div>\n
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\u201cWhere is \u2018Mary Queen of Heaven\u2019 in the Bible?\u201d the Protestant asks.\n
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There\u2019s no neat little proof text I\u2019m afraid, but Mary as Queen of Heaven is woven through the whole Bible. From the Old Testament psalms which we sing on the feast of the Assumption to the passage in Revelation 12 where the Mother of the Redeemer is seen crowned with twelve stars and the moon under her feet.<\/div>\n
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The Old Testament pictures are a pointer to Mary Queen of Heaven and the Revelation image is a fulfillment of her role. The two are met in today\u2019s gospel\u2013the story of the Annunciation.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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There the angel Gabriel\u2013a messenger direct from heaven itself\u2013says that Mary\u2019s son will be the Savior and Lord and will inherit the throne of his Father David. This makes Jesus the King of Israel, and ultimately the King of Heaven. When we understand that in the ancient Middle East the Queen of the Kingdom was often the King\u2019s mother\u2013not his wife (because he was likely to have loads of wives and concubines) then it becomes clear that Mary the Mother of Christ also becomes the Queen Mother. If he\u2019s the King of Heaven, she must be the Queen.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2026Lavender Green If I were the King dilly dilly, You\u2019d be my Queen.\u2019 \u201cWhere is \u2018Mary Queen of Heaven\u2019 in the Bible?\u201d the Protestant asks. There\u2019s no neat little proof text I\u2019m afraid, but Mary as Queen of Heaven is woven through the whole Bible. 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