First of all, how do you know that the book of Revelation and the other N.T. books are the Word of God, except by the Tradition (2 Thessalonians 2:15) of the historic Church (the Catholic Church) founded by Jesus Christ, which holds that Jesus is God, and that Mary is thus the Mother of God?
Secondly, is the book of Revelation merely literal or profoundly allegorical? Is it possible that the birth pains of the Woman in Revelation 12 are the imcomparable pains of our Mother, Mary, as a sword pierces her merciful heart because of our sins against Her Son (Luke 2:34, Luke 2:35)?
I'm not interested in running around the same Catholic circular logic.
An example of a tradition they were taught was that if a man work not, neither shall he eat since he even writes (in that epistle) that when he was with them (in person) what exactly he commanded them (as is acknowledged in that very same letter) it shows he spoke the same things, whether by a word spoken in person or whether that espitle. When he was with them he told them the very same things, and there is two examples of this in 2 Thes, and so whether by what he told them when he was with them (according to that commandment delievered unto them) or that same epistle (where he acknowledged that was a tradition they received) whichever, they spake the same. 2Thes 2:15 according to what he had written in that espistle and 2 Thes 3:10 followed by 2 Thes 3:14 And if any man
obey not our word
by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.
Paul said the mystery of the man and the woman was of Christ and the Church
Jesus even calls his disciples my mother when asked who his mother was, and compares them to a woman likewise.
John 16:21-22
A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come:
but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish,
for joy that a man is born into the world.
And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.
A little while they would not see him and yet in a little while they would see him, its bout Christ in you (Christ in his church) the two becoming one flesh from the beginning is shown by Paul to be speaking of Christ and the church.
Romans 16:20
And the God of peace
shall bruise Satan
under your feet shortly***. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ
be with you. Amen.
Paul even acknowledged the allegory found in Abraham in respects to the two women who represent the two covenants, which makes sense seeing Abraham was a prophet because it says also,
Hosea 12:10
I have also spoken by the prophets, and
I have multiplied visions,
and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.
Which things they too spake seeing Jesus spoken in parables and the Holy Ghost teaches by comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.
Keeping to the thread though, if Mary (like anyone) come to my door I would say God bless you. I dont chant another's greeting to her as is written in scripture, that just seems weird.