Praying to Mary? Why?

Reasons Miriam/Mary should NOT be “prayed to” and cannot be our intercessor, mediator, advocate, helper or benefactress:

[1]  She was not YHWH’s Messiah. She was a mere human; and, as such, Mary herself understood SHE was not to be praised or worshiped (Luke 1:45-50).

[2]  She was not “the Mother of God” (Yahweh Elohim doesn’t have a “mother”).  She was the Messiah's mother, chosen by God Himself to give birth to His Divine Son/Messiah, which was certainly the greatest honor any woman could ever receive!

[3]  She’s dead and hasn't risen yet. Nowhere in the Bible does it say went straight to heaven.

[4]  Nowhere are we told that she has been resurrected or "sits at the right hand of God" (as in the case of Yeshua - Colossians 3:1). Since Miriam was still alive when Yeshua died on the stake (John 19:26-27), it means she wasn’t “resurrected” nor taken up bodily in any shape or form.  

We know of no other "resurrection" since the day Yeshua died when there was a great earthquake, and some dead believers were "resurrected" (Matthew 27:50-53). The Bible tells us that the next resurrection will occur at his Second Coming (Thessalonians 4:13-17; 1 Corinthians 15:23), when many believers will be "caught up in the air to meet him" (1 Corinthians 6:14; ). The final "catching up" of mankind will happen at the end of Yeshua's thousand year reign when we will ALL stand before YHWH on Judgment Day (Revelation 20:11-15).

So, the bottom line is:  While being chosen to give birth to God's Messiah was a huge honor, this did NOT make Mary "the Mother of God" (YHWH/"the Father").  YHWH, as the Bible tells us, has no beginning nor end (Psalm 90:2 and Revelation 1:8); which means she is NOT someone to idolize or to "pray to." Yeshua was our Messiah, a human with a divine Nature – and that Nature was divine because he was YHWH's Son, placed in Mary's womb by God Himself.  

Messiah Yeshua (who was the "Arm of God" - Isaiah 53) worshiped and prayed to his Father, and did everything his Father commanded of him, before returning to sit at his Father's Right Hand (Mark 16:19, Hebrews 1:3; Pslm 110:1).

Yeshua himself taught, "This, then, is how you should pray: 'Our Father in heaven....'" (Matthew 6:9).  He intercedes on our behalf to the Father (Hebrews 7:25). The Bible teaches that we have access to the Father only through Yeshua (John 14:6; Ephesians 2:18; 1 Timothy 2:5). 

Therefore, we should be praying to the Father, in Yeshua's Name (John 14:13-14).