On that Christ is not alone

The pattern of things in the heavens was shadowed in the pattern of the things of the Law (Heb. 10:1), and Christ, being the very image of the invisible God (Col. 1:15) is the Beginning and End (Rev 1:8; 21:6; 22:13) of those things which are to come, the End of the Law (Rom 10:4), and the Beginning of the Kingdom of Heaven (Col 1:18). Christ, therefore, Who is shadowed in the Law, is revealed to us in it when the veil of unbelief is taken away from our eyes by faith (2 Cor. 3:13-18).

He was not alone. Eternally He was without mother (Heb 7:3), yet He was not alone, but with the Father (1 John 1:2) in the bosom of the Father (John 1:14, 18; Heb 1:5). He came among us without father (Heb 7:3), yet He was not alone, but from His mother, born of a woman (Luke 1:35; 2:7; Gal 4:4), being found with Mary His mother (Matt 2:11) by the wise men. They did not find Him only, but Him together with Mary. They fell down, it says, and worshiped Him. They worshiped Him only, but they fell down before both, since He was there together with her.

The shepherds likewise did not find Him solitary, but together with Mary and Joseph. (Luke 2:16)

As she raised Him, she was with Him. At the beginning of His ministry, she was with Him, and persuaded Him to change His timeline (John 4). When He went to His voluntary passion on the cross, she was there with Him (John 19:25), and a sword pierced through her soul also (Luke 2:34, 35). And when He ascended in glory and sent the other Comforter, she was there as well as they (Acts 1:14).

All of these things are clearly visible in the Law, when the veil is removed. Not just Christ, but those around Him as well.

As a small example: the twelve wells and seventy palms at Elim (Exodus 15:27), are fulfilled in the Twelve (John 7:38) and the Seventy. As spake the prophet Isaiah (61:3), That they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He might be glorified.

I could multiply examples, but we should move on for reasons of space.

Read 2 Sam. 6, and contemplate the movements of the Ark of the Covenant, how it was taken into the hill country of Judea, to the house of Obededom, and was there for three months, after having been greeted with the words, How shall the ark of the LORD come to me?

Now read Luke 1 and contemplate the movements of the Ark of the New Covenant, how she went into the hill country of Judea, to the house of Zechariah, and was there for three months, after having been greeted with the words, Whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?

Consider that the Ark of the Old Covenant was covered with gold, within and without, bearing God to His people when it was overshadowed with the glory. Consider also the contents of that Ark, which bore within it the Word of God written on tablets of stone, the pot of manna from the wilderness, and the rod of Aaron -- the staff of the priesthood which from being dead budded forth living flowers.

Mary is the Ark of the New Covenant.

Furthermore, know and believe that the one who entered the world by her is the LORD, the God of Israel, and that having entered, that gate shall remain shut (Ezekiel 44:2), which comports with the commandment that the Ark shall not be touched as well. Therefore the queen is numbered among the virgins, whom, it says (Psalm 45:14) are her companions.

So far her person, and the glory she has obtained from her Son.

Now, for the fact that the holy ones made holy by the Holy One are not separate from us, but very near us in the Lord, one needs only consider Hebrews 12, where we find it written:

But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.

ARE come. That is: this is our current reality.

And lest you think the Mother of our God Jesus Christ is missing from that reality simply because she is not named there, one need only to consider Ps. 132:8, together with Revelation 11:19-12:6, where the ark is seen in the temple of God, and is immediately then spoken of as the woman whose child was caught up to God, and to his throne. (The chapter divisions, which were not in the original, make this more obscure than it needs to be.)

See, to be at Jesus the King's right hand in the Kingdom was prepared for someone. But for whom? The Scriptures tell us.

Read Psalm 45, and consider that the queen at the right hand of the King is covered in glory within (vs. 13) and gold without (vs. 13 again, and also vs. 9), and bore God to His people when she was overshadowed by the Holy Spirit. Consider also the contents of her womb, which bore within it the Word of God written on flesh, the Manna which came down from Heaven, who by hanging on the staff/rod/rood of the Cross became the High Priest of our salvation, which having died thereon budded forth Life for all by the Resurrection from the Dead.

None of this should be surprising, since we already noted that she is the Ark of the New Covenant.

So, with that in mind, where does this queen stand?

Upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.

But how can this be, that the queen is at once the daughter and the mother and the wife of the King? Only because the King is the LORD, the One God in Trinity, Trinity in Unity. The Father is King (1 Tim. 1:17), the Son is King (Ps. 2:6, 7, 12; 1 Tim. 6:15; Rev. 15:3; 19:16), and the Holy Spirit is King (Ps. 29:10 cf. Gen. 1:2). Not that I would recommend prying too deeply into this particular hidden thing, unless you be guided by the King Himself, for when one leans upon one's own understanding one easily loses his way and fall into blasphemies. Suffice it for now to say that there is no contradiction in her being wife and mother and daughter at the same time, since these are relations to different understandings.

But I've gone on at length setting the picture of who she is, and how she is who she is in relation to Christ, and that to deny who she is is to deny Who Christ Himself is, and thus to fall away from orthodoxy altogether. As for whether to intreat her favor, or whether to supplicate the holy ones of the Holy One, I hinted at already. I'll leave the figuring of it out from what I have already said as an exercise for the reader.