The High Calling of Women in Messiah/Christ

The High Calling of Women in Messiah/Christ
 April 6, 2024

Believer women deserve an equality far higher than looking to the anti-God Feminist movement to deliver. Yeshua/Jesus raised the bar of spiritual equality for women who would come under His command. 

Because men historically have acted exactly like God said they would in Genesis 3:16 "Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.” 

God said women would t?šûqâ (stretch out in desire, longing, craving) for her husband, but that husbands would mašal (rule, to exercise dominion) over their wives. 

This was true under the Covenant God made with Israel, and it has continued in the Greek understandings of the Covenant in Christ. That was NOT what Yeshua-Jesus died to restore to the status of women. . . but notice after the first century many of the things that Yeshua bought and paid for in His sacrificial blood, Christians lost the further away from the first century they got. I am talking about things you would think they would want to hold onto - like the gifts of the Spirit, healing, prophecy, apostolic, in fact the whole 5-fold governing of the body of believers in the world was lost. 

A new system replaced it based on Greek modes of thinking which do not have a clue of God-thinking. To have that, they would have stuck with close community with the Hebrew believers in Israel and beyond. But they didn't. They interpreted scripture without understanding things only Hebrew believers could elucidate to them. And I don't mean just any Messianic Jew because even in the first century Paul was having to correct Gentile congregations who were picking up "old think" from what Paul called "Judizers." 

Christians think often that every Messianic Jew is a "Judizer" trying to drag them away from Christian liberty in Jesus. That is not true. Some of them are because they too are stuck below the bar that Yeshua raised for all of us. But not all Messianic Jews are stuck there EVEN IF they live according to the Jewish identity and the commands that God gave the children of Israel to live by. It is a critical element of their authenticity and witness that Jesus is not some Gentile god, but the Messiah all of their scriptures and Feast Days point to. 

What God uttered in Genesis 3:16 has been true for women throughout history. In the late 1800's godly women began to cry out for the equality that Jesus extended to us in His death and resurrection. Their cry was soon joined by women in utter rebellion to God and soon the spirit of the Feminist movement was taken over by them entirely. 

Fast forward to the 1960's and we see the rise of the Feminist movement again. My mother's and my teen generation was bombarded with their demand for equality. "You can have it all" they promised us. Only we couldn't and then they said only women with careers were women worth paying attention to. Stay-at-home moms were "anathema" to the Feminist movement. They were going to take what was rightfully theirs, and only men who licked their boots made for walking were worth anything too. This is how the Beta man developed. Men who were so sensitized to Feminist rights they forgot entirely how to be men. Women really want men to be men. Not to lord it over them, but to be a woman's safe place for herself and her family.

In the Church throughout history even though the New Testament scriptures laid out how to interact as husband and wife in the full grace of God, men still thought they had the right to lord it over women - being abusive in many ways to their wives. We no longer had to sit separately in the balcony at church, but the spiritual equality for women in Christianity has never been achieved. Like the restoration of all the things Christians lost and God is restoring (healing, gifts of the Spirit, 5-fold offices in the body), we have gone from one extreme to the opposite extreme. We have gone from the Genesis 3:16 domination by men to the Jezebellic and/or Feminist models of control by women in personal relationships and also with exaggerated influence in legal matters (MeToo trying to enforce a "Believe the Women" in all sexual accusations rather than due process.)

From my perspective after looking since the late 1980's into  this question of restoration for women of spiritual equality according to and faithful to the Word of God, we are not there yet. There are a lot of women in ministry now, but it is mostly due to humanistic Feminism that this is true. We have yet to enter into the full-blown Jesus-restoration of women. 

That's my view. Many of my Messianic friends believe that as we lost so many of the spiritual gifts and standings as the Church began to part from any connection to the Messianic Jewish part of the body and their GOOD & NECESSARY influence on the WHOLE body of the Lord in the earth, that the connection between Messianic Jews and Gentile Christians would be the last thing to be restored to the kingdom of priests that God is raising up in the last days on the earth. 

I don't believe that. I think the One New Man is the next to the last thing that will be restored, and since the break in a truly godly relationship between men and women occurred in Genesis 3, that the full restoration of women's standing is going to be the last thing that is restored. 

If you understand that the 2 most prominent principalities of the last days is the Beast and Jezebel, then you see the enemy of our souls is throwing quite a bit of demon power into influencing people into sinful mindsets and activities in our day. Don't think of that outside of what we can clearly see of how that spirit is working among women mostly, but men too, and obviously is dominating other men through the Jezebel sexuality weapon, not just the under the radar manipulation for power. 

Women who desire God are going to have to face the facts about how they personally allow the Jezebel spirit to operate in them and repent, in order to enter into the highest levels that God is calling His female children into through Yeshua-Jesus. It's a word Christian women don't want to hear, but if we have arrived at the place we desired by Jezebel methods of operation, then Revelation 2:20-21 is addressing you:

"You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads My servants to be sexually immoral and to eat food sacrificed to idols. Even though I have given her time to repent of her immorality, she is unwilling."

It is a matter of faith to trust God for the equality that you are due as a woman. If you live in a situation that lacks that, you might not be able to put your trust in God that stand as a spiritual equal before His Throne, thanks to the blood of Yeshua-Jesus. If you have trust you commit your justice to Him. 

In the days of King David there was a woman married to a man whose very name meant "folly." Nabal was a rich man who fell asleep drunk every night, didn't honor God's appointed king, didn't heed his wife's counsel in the least and the Bible calls him "harsh and evil in his doings." When David who had been protecting Nabal's shepherds in the fields where they were encamped, requested prosperous Nabal to supply his men in the fields with whatever he could afford so they could enjoy the Feast day of Purim, Nabal foolishly sent word back to David, 'No, he wasn't go to share. Nabal's shepherds told Abigail what he had done, how David told 400 of his fighting men to mount up with their swords, Abigail went into action immediately. First she prepared portions for David and his men, sent them with the shepherds ahead of her to David, then she went to appeal to David. 

Abigail was a godly woman and she told David that so far, "the Lord has held you back from coming to bloodshed and from avenging yourself with your own hand" (of his personal enemies). She asked for forgiveness of her household and asked David to accept the food and provisions for Purim that she had sent to him. 

Abigail laid out a key principle in the kingdom of God for all of us, not just for David! In Samuel 25:28-31, she said:  “The Lord your God will certainly make a lasting dynasty for my lord, because you fight the Lord’s battles, and no wrongdoing will be found in you as long as you live. Even though someone is pursuing you to take your life, the life of my lord will be bound securely in the bundle of the living by the Lord your God, but the lives of your enemies he will hurl away as from the pocket of a sling. When the Lord has fulfilled for my lord every good thing he promised concerning him and has appointed him ruler over Israel, my lord will not have on his conscience the staggering burden of needless bloodshed or of having avenged himself. And when the Lord your God has brought my lord success, remember me, your servant.”

The ways of God are not like the ways mankind comes up with getting justice - even for the equality that women desire in this world, it comes by faith in the God we can entrust our lives with. The women of God have to grow up in the same kind of faith that Abigail exhibited of doing the right thing in God's eyes and leaving her equality in His hands, too. 

If you don't know Abigail's story, when she told her husband Nabal when he was sober the following morning all that she had done to rectify his mistake with David, "his heart failed him and he became like a stone. About ten days later, the Lord struck Nabal and he died." And when David heard Nabal was dead, he said, "“Praise be to the Lord, who has upheld my cause against Nabal for treating me with contempt. He has kept his servant from doing wrong and has brought Nabal’s wrongdoing down on his own head.” Then David sent word to Abigail, asking her to become his wife.

It may not feel like your circumstances can be entrusted to God, but even if it takes a long time, God can be trusted.