GOD USES WOMEN TOO

Michael Jeshurun

God has given woman an honourable place. She is Eve, the mother of all living [Gen. 3:20; I Cor.11:12]. A woman had the infinite privilege of being overshadowed by the power of the Highest and so becoming the mother of the Son of God. A woman could anoint the feet and the head of the Lord, and a woman was the first one permitted to see the risen Lord. And on that occasion He gave her the revelation about the highest and most glorious consequence of His work on the cross: “I ascend to My Father and Your Father”—a truth about which we can only adoringly marvel. Yes, I may well say, a truth that makes our minds reel if we contemplate it. 

And yet God’s purpose for woman is not for her to take a place publicly on the foreground. She is a type of the assembly, the bride of Christ [Eph. 5:32]; therefore the place of subjection under the man is becoming to her, for the man is the type of Christ, the Bridegroom of the Church.

Women are not to be elders and pastors as the Scriptures teach since those positions automatically have authority in the Church, and elders are to be MALE, the husbands of one wife.etc

When Paul says, “I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence,” in 1Tim 2:12, Paul is referring to the Church context in the Church office of elder. After all, earlier in the same epistle he says to Timothy, “I write so that you may know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the Church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth..” (1Tim 3:15) Paul is teaching us how the Church is to be run, and the teaching issue deals with the AUTHORITY structure in the church.

Of course, if we were to take the phrase “not allow a woman to teach or excise authority over a man” and remove it from the context of elder and pastor, we would then need to require that all women NEVER EVEN EXPRESS AN OPINION about Scripture whenever men are present. This would be, of course, RIDICULOUS.

When we have taught Bible studies and my wife has been present, she has often added excellent insight into the Scriptures – as have other women. Her female perspective is often helpful, and we enjoy hearing what she has to say. But she is not exercising ‘authority’ and/or teaching men (authoritatively like the heretic Joyce Meyer) when explaining what she thinks a scripture means. She is not acting as an ‘elder’ or ‘pastor’.

Christ went to the Cross to save women too. And a woman has a testimony to share as does any man! God speaks to women and gives them insights as He does to men. All of us have been blessed by mothers, women missionaries and Sunday school teachers, and other females who have taught us the Word without being ‘elders’. Let us thank God for the many godly women in our lives.

But we have noticed more than once that those who are haters of the truth of God’s sovereignty or the reality of the Roman Catholic Church being The Apostate Church often use “Let the women keep silence in the Church” as a last straw to silence the voice of truth going forth from women! And THIS especially so on Facebook. But it is my prayer that God will raise up more on-fire zealous and humble women to proclaim the truth of God’s Word and contend for the Faith once delivered to the saints. [Jude 1:3]

“The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men, Come, see a Man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?”

Then they went out of the city, and came unto Him. And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on Him FOR THE SAYING OF THE WOMAN, which TESTIFIED, He told me all that ever I did.” [John 4:26-42]