Throughout Bible History God has instructed women about what their role should be in life and how they should conduct themselves. From the very beginning God said that the woman should be a helper for a man and should submit to the rule that man has over her. The Bible teaches throughout that the man is the head over the woman and describes a woman as being under subjection to the man and learning from him. Also that women should adorn themselves in modest apparel and conduct themselves with modesty and reverence which becomes women professing godliness with good works that should be their testimony. In the Apostle Paul’s letter to Titus, he said that women should be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, and obedient to their own husbands, possessing a meek and quiet spirit which is what God expects of them.
Is this a picture of so many women of our day? Absolutely not! For in this modern day most of the women want to wear the pants in the family and are dominant over their husbands having no respect for the position of a man that God placed the man in. Most women today do not recognize the man as being the head over the woman and works to usurp the authority that the man was given under God’s Law. Nothing that the Bible describes a woman as being, vaguely describes most of the women of this modern time. Instead, most women in this modern day insist on having equal rights with the man which was not in God’s plan from the beginning.
The Apostle Paul recognized the problems this would cause when he stated that he would not permit a woman to teach or usurp the authority over the man. Why did he take this position? He made it very clear because of the way the first woman was deceived by satan, knowing this was a weakness that was inherent in womanhood. This was the reason God proclaimed that the woman should be submissive to the man who holds a more favored position with God. After all, God made the man first, not the woman. Man was not made for the woman; instead woman was made for man.
As an example of why the woman should not hold a position of authority over the man is described in the narrative concerning the ancient King of Israel Ahab and his wife Jezebel. Instead of Jezebel being submissive to her husband, she made every effort to have her own way every way that she could by lying and using deceitful tactics for her gain. But Jezebel made a terrible mistake when she positioned herself against Elijah a prophet of God and paid for it with her life.
This same spirit of Jezebel is alive today because satan has caused many women to believe a lie that they have been predestinated to do a service for God, thinking that God has spoken to them, when in fact is was satan speaking. Just as Eve was deceived into thinking the serpent was God, the same thing occurs in this modern day.
A certain preacher said one time that it was a serious and dangerous thing to attempt to do God a service without it being the will of God. The first thing a person should do is to be certain that it was God that called them to do it and then they should examine their motives as to why they are attempting to do it. Are their motives the same as Jezebel’s motives were, to fulfill their own evil desires to achieve something. In addition they should consider whether or not their tactics being used to achieve their goal are the way God would approve of using.
Throughout history it was a woman that contributed to the fall of man. It started in the Garden of Eden when Eve being deceived caused Adam to sin and fall from grace. Then Jezebel caused the fall of Ahab from the throne of Israel to his death in disgrace. In today’s modern World there are many women being influenced by the Jezebel spirit. These women are being used by satan to orchestrate the fall of men from all walks of life and to position themselves as the dominant figures in positions of authority which was not God’s will from the beginning.
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I agree with much or even all of this particular writing. I remember the slack suits of the fifties that my Mother wore. According to Deut. 22:5 it is wrong to cross dress as our modern end time world does! The progression from slack suits to tight fitting mens jeans, now called womens jeans, is absoluteley wrong! The slack suits were wrong too! Yes, God still wants modest apparel for both sexes and it doesn't matter that it's found in the Old Testament.
The world, in general, also violates the unclean meat laws too. Again, Old Testament laws given by Moses, but in effect long before the time of Moses. It would be ironic that the world is wrong on: movie viewing, homosexuality as a sin, same sex marriage a sin, pornography, style of dress, unholy language, pre-marital sex etc. but have it right on the unclean meat laws being done away or for the Jews only! Not likely.
You could be right on about the unclean meat laws Gordon. There probably are repercussions for eating certain meats.
Those interested should read my article called "The Cause of Physical Death".
you said: " the man who holds a more favored position with God "
I think not. God is no respecter of persons. There is no male or female in Christ.
When Peter made the statement that “God is no respecter of persons, it was in the context that salvation is available for all persons, male and female, Jew and Greek etc.
Yes, I agree with you that if we have been baptized into Christ, we are all one, but the statement I made about the man being favored with God is demonstrated throughout the Bible by what God has said.
The two verses that you quoted by Peter and Paul has to do with the opportunity for salvation and in that we are all equal, but does not trump what God has said from the beginning.
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