Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness. Jeremiah 12:10
"Every year since at least 2011 the Armenian Orthodox Church has been celebrating the “Blessings of Grapes/Assumption of the
Mother of God” ceremony at Adventist Health Glendale, formerly Glendale Adventist Medical Center.
This annual celebration of the Blessings of Grapes is a feast that commemorates the ascension of the Virgin Mary into heaven – a doctrine that conflicts with our belief about the non-immortality of the soul and the role of Mary being a mediator in heaven....part of the “Blessings of Grapes” ceremony at Adventist Health Glendale. Armenian Orthodox bishops and priests gathered together with hospital administrators and staff to bless the grapes and to call upon the Virgin Mary.
Ecumenism has become the new golden calf (Exodus 32:8) that all the churches of the world bow before.
The ecumenical movement that many Seventh-day Adventists are so eager to join is the same delusion that the Philistines engaged in when they placed the Ark of the Covenant next to an idol of Dagon, a false, pagan deity (1 Samuel 5:1-12).
The grapes symbolize the first fruits of the harvest and represent the Virgin Mary’s ascension into heaven.
These grapes, symbols of the deification and veneration of Mary, are then passed out to the different patients in the hospital. These ceremonies are similar to the grape offerings by priestesses during harvest in the pagan worship of Bacchus."
AdventMessenger
"Every year since at least 2011 the Armenian Orthodox Church has been celebrating the “Blessings of Grapes/Assumption of the
This annual celebration of the Blessings of Grapes is a feast that commemorates the ascension of the Virgin Mary into heaven – a doctrine that conflicts with our belief about the non-immortality of the soul and the role of Mary being a mediator in heaven....part of the “Blessings of Grapes” ceremony at Adventist Health Glendale. Armenian Orthodox bishops and priests gathered together with hospital administrators and staff to bless the grapes and to call upon the Virgin Mary.
Ecumenism has become the new golden calf (Exodus 32:8) that all the churches of the world bow before.
The ecumenical movement that many Seventh-day Adventists are so eager to join is the same delusion that the Philistines engaged in when they placed the Ark of the Covenant next to an idol of Dagon, a false, pagan deity (1 Samuel 5:1-12).
The grapes symbolize the first fruits of the harvest and represent the Virgin Mary’s ascension into heaven.
These grapes, symbols of the deification and veneration of Mary, are then passed out to the different patients in the hospital. These ceremonies are similar to the grape offerings by priestesses during harvest in the pagan worship of Bacchus."
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