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Old 02-11-2014, 07:05 PM
 
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JERUSALEM — Hundreds of people have flocked to a small town in northern Israel to view a statue of the Virgin Mary that residents say "weeps" oil.

Members of a Christian family from Tarshiha, near the Lebanon border, say they have witnessed a miracle in their living room.

Hundreds flock to small Israeli town to see statue of the Virgin Mary that 'weeps' oil | Star Tribune
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Old 02-13-2014, 02:08 PM
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The bible tells us we have not to make a statue and not bow before it. When oil is coming as tears of a statue, it is supernatural and it tells me a spirit is behind it. Can this be of God? I believe it is a deception. The devil can make miracles even let fall fire from Heaven.
There was a sister she told us, that Jesus came down the stairs and every step was in oil, he gave her a message, but it came not true, so it was not of God, it was a false Jesus. It was a home church that fell apart, destroyed completely, never restored.
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Old 02-13-2014, 02:19 PM
 
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The bible tells us we have not to make a statue and not bow before it. When oil is coming as tears of a statue, it is supernatural and it tells me a spirit is behind it. Can this be of God? I believe it is a deception. The devil can make miracles even let fall fire from Heaven.
There was a sister she told us, that Jesus came down the stairs and every step was in oil, he gave her a message, but it came not true, so it was not of God, it was a false Jesus. It was a home church that fell apart, destroyed completely, never restored.
According to many witnesses over the centuries the Virgin Mary has appeared many times all over the world. Sometimes it is a hoax, but sometimes there are no explanations.
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Old 02-13-2014, 02:22 PM
 
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I'd be curious to hear anyone's thoughts.....what reason would God have for doing this? Does this point people at Jesus? Or at his earthly mom?
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Old 02-13-2014, 04:58 PM
 
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I'd be curious to hear anyone's thoughts.....what reason would God have for doing this? Does this point people at Jesus? Or at his earthly mom?
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Osama Khoury said Tuesday that his wife Amira found the statue "covered with oil" recently. Amira said the statue "spoke to her" and told her not to be afraid. After a neighbor witnessed the oil, word soon spread.
Hundreds flock to small Israeli town to see statue of the Virgin Mary that 'weeps' oil | Star Tribune

Maybe the statue will answer your questions Pastor Viz.
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Old 02-13-2014, 05:15 PM
 
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I'd be curious to hear anyone's thoughts.....what reason would God have for doing this? Does this point people at Jesus? Or at his earthly mom?
The reason why is answered by what scriptures teaches:
"The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan works.
He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders that serve the lie,
and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing.

They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.

For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie
and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness"
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Old 02-13-2014, 05:17 PM
 
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I'd be curious to hear anyone's thoughts.....what reason would God have for doing this? Does this point people at Jesus? Or at his earthly mom?
The ways of God cannot be known.

The devotion of Mary is strong in Christendom, more so in certain parts of the world than others.

Could it be God plays his cards real well and uses his mother to get folks closer to him?


Could all of this be a hoax? Sure, but I suggest you don't go there Vizio.
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Old 02-13-2014, 05:20 PM
 
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statue of the Virgin Mary that 'weeps' oil
Pennzoil?
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Old 02-13-2014, 05:20 PM
 
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Our Lady of Fátima (Portuguese: Nossa Senhora de Fátima,European Portuguese: [ˈnɔsɐ sɨˈɲoɾɐ dɨ ˈfatimɐ][1]) is a title for the Blessed Virgin Mary due to her apparitions to three shepherd children at Fátima, Portugal on the thirteenth day of six consecutive months in 1917, beginning on May 13. The three children were Lúcia Santos and her cousins Jacinta and Francisco Marto.

The title of Our Lady of the Rosary is also sometimes used to refer to the same apparition (although it was first used in 1208 for the reputed apparition in the church of Prouille), because the children related that the apparition called herself the "Lady of the Rosary". It is also common to see a combination of these titles, i.e. Our Lady of the Rosary of Fátima (Nossa Senhora do Rosário de Fátima).
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Old 02-13-2014, 05:23 PM
 
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Official Catholic accounts state that on the morning of December 9, 1531, Juan Diego saw an apparition of a young girl at the Hill of Tepeyac, near Mexico City. Speaking to him in Nahuatl, the girl asked that a church be built at that site in her honor; from her words, Juan Diego recognized the girl as the Virgin Mary. Diego told his story to the Spanish Archbishop of Mexico City, Fray Juan de Zumárraga, who instructed him to return to Tepeyac Hill, and ask the "lady" for a miraculous sign to prove her identity. The first sign was the Virgin healing Juan's uncle. The Virgin told Juan Diego to gather flowers from the top of Tepeyac Hill. Although December was very late in the growing season for flowers to bloom, Juan Diego found Castilian roses, not native to Mexico, on the normally barren hilltop. The Virgin arranged these in his peasant cloak or tilma. When Juan Diego opened his cloak before Bishop Zumárraga on December 12, the flowers fell to the floor, and on the fabric was the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe.[1]
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