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Today on the road to a may as we're going to consider Mary's Queen's ship and her role in our salvation.

Popular culture may have us believe that Queens hold next to no power outside the realm of fairy tales,

but as we're about to see nothing could be further from the truth or the reality contained in God's kingdom and God's word.

Mary as the Queen Mother is more powerful, more efficacious than any monarch, real or fictional.

Let's probe the depths of the Old Testament

in order to understand why this is so.

God establishes three realms in three consecutive days.

We have day and night.

We have the sky and the sea, and then we have land and vegetation.

The first three days are done, and then in the second three days over those three realms

God establishes three distinct rulers on day four the sun moon and stars to rule over the day and night.

The greater light to rule the day, the lesser light to rule the night.

It is the language of royalty and dominion.

On day five, that parallelism continues because what was made on day five was made to rule over what was made on day two.

You have the sky on the seas made in day two and so in day five the birds and the

fish are created by God and told to multiply and fill the skies and the seas and so they are given their respective realms.

On day three, land came out of the water and vegetation grew.

And on day six, God creates the beasts to rule the land and to eat the vegetation

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