Times of the Trumpets - Part IV
WHEN I wrote Part I of this series two weeks ago, the image of Queen Esther came to mind, standing in the gap for her people. I felt there was something more significant about this. And I believe this email I received explains why:
The significance of this (having the left hand broken off) is in Mary's role as "Queen of Heaven" or Queen Mother. In traditional royalty, the king holds the Staff or Rod that represents his power in his right hand. It's this staff that is used to execute judgment or mercy. If you ever watched "A Night With The King", Esther should have been executed for coming into the king's presence without being invited; however, she was spared because the king touched her with his staff, which he held in his right hand.
The queen (or queen mother, in the case of the Israelites) often acted as an intermediary between the people and the king. This is because the queen mother alone could enter the king's presence without being summoned. She would be seated "at the king's right hand." In this case, her left hand is the hand that she would use to restrain the judgment of the king, by restraining the king's right hand. For all these statues of Mary to suddenly lose their left hands could be seen as Mary, Queen of Heaven, withdrawing her left hand. She is no longer restraining the right hand of the King, allowing the King's Judgment to be executed upon the people.
(An interesting footnote to this is that the alleged apparitions in Medjugorje began 26 years ago on the feast of St. John the Baptist. The left hand on the statue of Our Lady of Medjugorje apparently was broken on August 29th last month—the feast of the beheading of St. John the Baptist. )
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