What about the Apparitions?

Recently I saw a movie titled 'unidentified' which I recommend to anyone who has the time. The devil has been causing a lot of distractions with the UFO saga. Even the Christians are not spared in this confusion that has bewildered nations. In this movie, the message was clear that the devil picks on people with strong fascination for the mysterious and clairvoyant, gives them these visions and perpetuate the believe that theres a superior world out there threatening to attack our earth.

The above scenario is not so different, at least in source, from what is happening in our Roman Catholic world as more and more are being convinced that God's messenger in our time is the Holy Mary through the numerous stories of apparitions.

Someone may say, so long as you don't believe it, why not let them be?

But telling the story of apparitions amounts to getting the children of God to believe other ways of getting to God outside Christ Jesus, as in Jeremiah 23:27 "Whose purpose is to take away the memory of my name from my people by their dreams, of which every man is talking to his neighbour, as their fathers gave up the memory of my name for the Baal." (BBE)

Every Christian should be careful of hearing or receiving instructions from the dead; for if there was such a thing, Jesus would not have taught in the story of the rich man and Lazarus, (Lk 18:27-31), that the dead cannot and will not be sent to instruct or warn the living.

All through scripture, whenever God wanted a special message sent to humans, He sent angels. And these angels never accept any honor or veneration of any kind as doing so makes it clear that such is not from God but from Satan who draws attention to himself instead of the Christ of God. Rev. 19:9,10: "And he said to me, Put in the book, Happy are the guests at the bride-feast of the Lamb. And he said to me, These are the true words of God.

And I went on my face before his feet to give him worship. And he said to me, See you do it not: I am a brother-servant with you and with your brothers who keep the witness of Jesus: give worship to God: for the witness of Jesus is the spirit of the prophet's word." If the angel in the above scripture, "a brother servant with John", refused to be bowed to or venerated, then I believe the humble Jewish "handmaid of the Lord" will not be thrilled by all the 'adoration' we witness happening today.

As apostle Paul said, "woe is me if I preach not the truth" 1Co 9:16, for "he that knows what is good and does it not, to him it is sin" Jas 4:17.

Those who know what the bible says and still support Marian-ism do so because they do not want to be persecuted for teaching that there is no other link between God and man except Christ Jesus, as recorded in 1Ti 2:5.

The popular rationalization that since it is difficult for a man to refuse his mother's request so getting to Jesus must be a lot easier through Mary is a result of ignorance of the word of God and based on human wisdom which the bible says is foolishness.

Such mediation or intercession is completely unnecessary because Eph. 3:12 says if we put our faith in Christ, "we can now come fearlessly into God's presence, assured of His glad welcome."