The Queen of Heaven?

Ok, so earlier this week, my youngest son comes home from school, with an assignment titled, The Ancient World. His class (maybe whole school) has been studying Mesopotamia, and prior to this week he had been speaking about the Sumer and the Tigris and Euphrates rivers running along the sides of Mesopotamia and other random stuff.

This particular assignment that my son brought home caught my attention because after my eyes left the title heading, "The Ancient World", they fell to the words "write a song of praise to the "Queen of Heaven and Earth"... followed by "O Queen, we thank you for the sky, which you have made to bring forth the rain...", (blank lines for child to write) O Queen, we thank you for the earth you have made that brings forth the grain" (more blank lines). I have researched the Queen of Heaven before so it caught me off guard to see this. And here is why:

The Queen of Heaven goes all the way back to the Tower of Babel in the Bible, book of Genesis... and is placed by historians as the mother and wife of Nimrod, who is overwhelmingly named as the ruler who decided to undertake Babel. And yes I did say wife and mother... Her name was Semiramis, and her and her husband are reported to have led the rebellion against God, for the destruction of their ancestors during the great flood. If I stopped there, you could probably understand why I was a tad heated... Did I mention Mesopotamia housed Babylon, Nineveh and other wicked pagan cities? Ok, back to the "Queen of Heaven"... Semiramis dabbled in the occult and was supposed to have found a way to deify her self... (is that a word?).. Which brings us to the next manifestation of this Queen of Heaven... Diana, Ashteroth, Ishtar, Artemis, Isis and even Mary the mother of Jesus have been labeled the Queen of Heaven.. the everlasting virgin. The goddess of fertility, who God warned and subsequently punished Israel about. They would worship her by burning incense, pouring out drink offerings, baking cakes in the shapes of stars, moons or the female figure, and told Jeremiah that they would not stop worshiping her and (basically) runteldat to God. So God decreed that Israel and Judah would fall... (Jeremiah 7:20, Jeremiah 44). Catholics still refer to the deified Mary as the Queen of Heaven.

And my son's assignment was to write a song of praise to her.... Imagine my blood boiling in my veins. The devil is a real sneaky sort... and I bet someone (most people) will say... awww man, you're overreacting... but when I picture that being said to me, I picture the enemy smiling... like yeah dude, lighten up! But I am on the wall for a reason y'all... and if we don't start finding out, we could be going light on stuff God goes very hard on... Just sharing... don't trust that anything is okay until the Spirit says it's okay...


Check this out: Queen of Heaven Wikipedia and Semiramis





Homework: Why was the tower of Babel significant? Was it just a cute story of the people trying to make a super duper skyscraper? Or was there more behind it?  (Find out, it will make a lot more sense, when you know!! If you wanna cheat and copy my answer, let me know! lol Or, be patient and I might post it one day :-P )

1 John 4

 ¹ Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.