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GRAHAM OSBORNE: there is not a word of Scripture attesting to such a pre-tribulation rapture. On the other hand there are multiple places that explicitly teach the exact opposite: that the tribulation will come first – before Jesus returns to rapture believers at the end of time – and that Christians alive at this time will indeed experience this tribulation (CCC 675-676).
BRANT PITRE: Finally, if Mary is the Queen Mother of Jesus’ Kingdom, then she is certainly no ordinary woman. She is, quite literally, the most powerful woman in the universe. She is the true Queen of Heaven.
And Mary is still alive in heaven. As Queen Mother, Mary sits at Jesus’ right hand. And, like King Solomon, Jesus will not refuse her requests.
That’s why, since ancient times, Christians have asked Mary to pray for them.
Not a very common motif:
"Come out you Soldiers of Rome and look you Daughters of Jerusalem. Look on The Bridegroom King Yeshua wearing a Crown of thorns, the many Crowns with which His Queen Mother Miriam crowned Him on the Day of His Wedding, the Day His pierced heart overflowed with Water and Blood" (Based on New International Version, Song of Solomon 3:11).
DREW CHRISTIANSEN: Orthodox Judaism reminds Christians of our shared vocation to witness to the Holy One in a secular world. Irving Greenberg reminds us that witness to the Holy One of Israel is all the more necessary "in an era when God is totally hidden." In time, he hopes, the common witness will lead to appreciation of "a distinctive revelation and unique relationship and interactions with God in the other community." In that day, the covenantal partnership will have come to maturity.
TZVI FISHMAN: It's either Washington D.C. or Jerusalem. One or the other. If you want your children to remain Jewish, you can't have them both.
Max Thurian: If the celibate Christian possesses the priestly vocation, the possibility and the privilege of devoting his entire self to the service of other people by giving them all his time and attention, for him the celibate life also means that he must seek to please the Lord in prayer and contemplation. Having chosen the better part, he must do so in such a way that this is not taken from him by the cares of the world. His own celibacy not only signifies what he is, but demands that he be in a state of continual dependence on God.
James Wayne Goll: The Lord is raising up a people whose private life matches their public message
