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Applying this analogy to the Pantheon as a temple, we observe that it is illuminated by the light of
the Sun entering through its eye. This brings to mind the following words of Yahshua.

Matthew 6:22-23
“The lamp of the body is the eye; if therefore your eye is clear, your whole body will be full of light.
But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you
is darkness, how great is the darkness!”

The light entering the Pantheon was not viewed as the light of Christ, who is the true “Light of the
world” (John 8:12, 9:5). In the year 609 A.D. the Byzantine Emperor Phocas gave the Pantheon to
Pope Boniface the IV to be used by the Roman Catholic Church. The Romans rededicated the
building to Mary and the martyrs. This continued its role as a house of idolatry, for Mary is to the
Roman Catholics the Queen of Heaven. Never did any Greek or Roman deity receive greater
veneration and worship than the Roman Catholic Mary.

Mary - Queen of Heaven

The foundation stone for Saint Peter’s Basilica was laid in the year 1506. Pope Julius envisioned
building the grandest building in Christendom. He initiated a competition to come up with a design
for this audacious building. The winner was Donato Bramante whose design resembled an enormous
Greek cross with a massive dome patterned after the Pantheon. This seems fitting since the Roman
Catholic Church has from its beginning been a profane and idolatrous mixture of the worship of
many deities.

Throne of Saint Peter (Latin Cathedra Petri)