This Jewish Tomb Proves Catholics Right About Mary

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Ask ANY Historian This About Rachel's Tomb... Proves Mary's Intercession Protestants say asking the dead to pray is necromancy. But Jeremiah 31 portrays Rachel - dead for centuries - interceding before God, and God responds with promises of restoration. Either Jeremiah taught idolatry, or something's wrong with the objection. 📌 The Point: Rachel's tomb is a 3,000-year-old witness that asking the righteous dead to intercede is biblical, not pagan. Jeremiah records it. Matthew applies it directly to Mary. The early Church recognised it immediately. 📖 Core Sources Rachel's Tomb - The Jewish Foundation: Rachel died near Bethlehem, giving birth to Benjamin; Jacob buried her by the roadside rather than in the family tomb at Hebron Jewish tradition (Midrash & Rashi): God revealed to Jacob that centuries later, when his descendants were dragged into Babylonian exile, they would pass this very spot - Rachel would be there to weep for them and intercede Jeremiah 31:15-17 - During the Babylonian exile: "A voice is heard in Rama, lamentation and bitter weeping. Rachel is weeping for her children... Thus says the Lord: Keep your voice from weeping and your eyes from tears. For there is a reward for your work... and your children shall come back to their own country" Rachel had been dead for centuries, yet she is portrayed weeping and interceding - and God responds to her intercession with a promise Matthew's Theological Identification: Matthew 2:17,18 - After Herod's massacre of infant boys in Bethlehem, Matthew quotes Jeremiah 31 directly, applying it to Mary This is deliberate typology - theological identification, not random poetry Rachel-Mary Mother of Joseph-Mother of Jesus (new Joseph) Gave birth near Bethlehem in suffering-Gave birth in Bethlehem Buried by the roadside to intercede in crisis-Stands at the cross, given to us as mother Weeps for exiled children-Weeps as innocent children are slaughtered Revelation 12 - Woman clothed with the sun, crying out in birth pangs, combining imagery of the Queen, Mother Rachel, and the Church ⛪ Catholic Teaching CCC 956 - "Those who dwell in heaven do not cease to intercede with the Father for us, proffering the merits they acquired on earth through the one mediator, Christ Jesus" Vatican II, Lumen Gentium 60, 62 - Mary's maternal role in the order of grace "began with her consent at the Annunciation and continues without interruption until the eternal fulfilment of all the elect"; her maternal intercession "in no way obscures or diminishes the unique mediation of Christ, but rather shows its power" St. Irenaeus (2nd century) - "The Virgin Mary became the advocate of the Virgin Eve" - early Christians immediately connected Mary's obedience to a maternal intercessory role 🛡️ Objections Answered "1 Timothy 2:5: There is one mediator, Christ Jesus"? Paul immediately calls himself a teacher and preacher (subordinate mediator of truth); just before declaring Christ the one mediator, Paul commands Christians to "make intercessions for all people" - if asking others to intercede contradicted Christ's mediation, Paul would not command it in the same breath "Deuteronomy 18 forbids consulting the dead - isn't this necromancy"? Deuteronomy 18 forbids occult rituals to gain secret knowledge or power from the dead. Asking the saints to pray is not summoning spirits - it is asking those alive in God's presence to join their prayers with ours. Jesus Himself taught "God is not God of the dead but of the living, for all live to Him" (Luke 20:38) Council of Trent (Session 25) - Affirmed the legitimacy of invoking saints while commanding the removal of superstition and abuse; guards against distortion, not the practice itself 📺 Chapters 0:00 - Rachel's Tomb: The 3,000-Year Witness to Intercession 2:17 - Jeremiah 31:15-17: Dead Rachel Intercedes, God Responds 4:22 - Matthew 2:17,18: Mary Stands in Rachel's Intercessory Role 5:41 - Vatican II & CCC 956: Heaven Intercedes Without Ceasing 6:39 - Objections: One Mediator (1 Tim 2:5), Necromancy (Deut 18) 7:47 - Conclusion: Communion of Saints - Heaven and Earth Pray Together 🌐 Connect 📿 https://totuscatholica.org/rosary 🌍 https://totuscatholica.org/ ✉️ https://totuscatholica.org/contact 🔍 https://catholicexaminationofconscien...