The Israelite women today must be set back in order according to the holy scriptures. The order between man and woman is grossly misinterpreted and has led to divorce in marriages, which attributes to the utter disrespect young men have for young women and little to no men in the so called church today.
Titus 2:3: “The aged women (in both age and wisdom) likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;“
Aged women are to behave in holiness according to God’s Laws in Christ because the law is holy.
Romans 7:12: “Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just and good.”
The aged women are not to be false accusers; meaning they are not to be liars or gossipers because that has been the ruin of many families and communities: read Leviticus 19:16. Neither are they to be alcoholics. The aged women are to be teachers of good things which is God’s laws please re-read Romans 7:12 above.
So Paul explains that the aged women can teach, but in what capacity?
Titus 2:4: “That they may teach the young women to be sober (clear, understanding the laws), to love their husbands, to love their children,”
Proving why marriages and families are broken up. Today’s daughters have never been taught by an aged woman how to be a good wife or mother in loving her husband and children. Many grandmothers today are not aged women, but are about thirty (30) years of age without wisdom and are busy dancing in the clubs in the midst of whoredom while someone else baby sits their children for them. See “Raising Children”
Titus 2:5: “To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.” Daughters are to learn how to be discreet meaning wise in the keeping of the commandments. Keepers at home, meaning taking care of their own households, not hanging out in the streets nor in everybody elses house minding their business. In the past, aged women taught the daughters how to love and be subject to their own husbands, how to love and raise their children. Daughters that hate their role blaspheme the word of God.
1 Timothy 5:14: “I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.” Daughters that refuse to marry, refuse to have children and take care of their homes gives an occasion for Satan speak against them in ridicule and condemnation.
Many daughters have been misguided by mothers who encourage them to sexually “play the field”.
Ecclesiasticus 26:10: “If thy daughter be shameless, keep her in straitly, lest she abuse herself through overmuch liberty.”
verse 11: “Watch over an impudent eye: and marvel not if she trespass against thee.”
verse 12: “She will open her mouth, as a thirsty traveller when he hath found a fountain, and drink of every water near her: by every hedge will she sit down, and open her quiver against every arrow.”[Whoredom]
When it comes to men however the Lord says in Exodus 20:14 “Thou shalt not commit adultery.”
Hebrews 13:4: “Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.”
God is definitely judging our mothers, wives and daughters with a growing rate of A.I.D.S and other STD’s that infects our families and spreads throughout our communities.
After marriage some wives are finding out that their husbands are not spiritually motivated when it involves the Lord. Not realizing it’s primarily due to false religion’s which also frown upon the man as head of the house. Israelite women also get a false sense of righteousness based upon their outward appearance. A marriage can not be based on good looks alone.
In the Apocrypha, Ecclesiasticus 11:2: “Commend not a man for his beauty; neither abhor a man for his outward appearance.”
How many times does that handsome guy refuse to get a job or physically or verbally abuses the wife and does not care for her or their children?
Some wives though have some what descent husbands but he may fall short in faith towards the Lord.
1 Peter 3:1: “ Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;”
Wives are commanded to reverence their own husbands, not the preacher or sister so and so’s husband. If any husbands do not obey Christ by keeping the commandments they may win their husband by their conversation.
verse 2: “While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.”
The unbelieving husband will hear the wife’s holy conversations and observe her keeping the commandments. The may win his heart to the Lord.
1 Peter 3:3: “Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;”
Whose adorning in righteousness should not be based upon nicely braided hair and jewelry or of expensive clothing.
1 Timothy 2:9: “In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety;”
verse 4: “But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.”
But let it be Christ in your heart which never fades away unlike the outward appearance; indeed being decorated spiritually with a meek and quiet spirit which is highly valued in the Lord.
Proverbs 21:9: “It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.”
The Lord teaches men to stay away from loud argumentative women. Sadly though many men have been snared by appearance and realized too late the noisome mouth of their spouse hence the single mother, the broken home.
In the Apocrypha Ecclesiasticus 25:20: “As the climbing up a sandy way is to the feet of the aged, so is a wife full of words to a quiet man.”
The mother is to teach the daughter how to be a wife according to the word of the Lord.
Apocrypha Ecclesiasticus 26 :13: “The grace of a wife delighteth her husband, and her discretion will fatten his bones.”
verse 14: “A silent and loving woman is a gift of the Lord; and there is nothing so much worth as a mind well instructed.”
verse 15: “A shamefaced and faithful woman is a double grace, and her continent mind cannot be valued.”
verse 16: “As the sun when it ariseth in the high heaven; so is the beauty of a good wife in the ordering of her house.”
verse 17: “As the clear light is upon the holy candlestick; so is the beauty of the face in ripe age.”
Beauty of the face in ripe old age comes when the wife lives according to the commandments.
Now back to 1 Peter 3:5 For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:
verse 6: “Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.”
The Israelite wives in the past trusted in the Most High by keeping His commandments and reverenced their husbands: just as Sarah did calling her husband ‘LORD’ out of a sincere heart. The Israelite wife today is to pattern herself after Sarah and is not to be afraid to the point of giving up on what God commands them to do.
Some women today foolishly believe the Bible is a male chauvinistic book. Believing that women are kept stupid, bare foot and pregnant. On the contrary the Bible does speak concerning wives and mothers being highly educated, working and even having authority.
Brief examples are:
Tobit 2:11: “And my wife Anna did take women’s work to do.”
Proverbs 31:13: “She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands.”
Proverbs 31:16: “She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.”
These few scriptures give an understanding that Israelite women did work. By the end of this report you will read a much more detailed list..
Ecclesiasticus 7:26: “Hast thou a wife after thy mind? Forsake her not: but give not thyself over to a light (dumb/evil) woman.”
Wives had to be educated because it was their job as mothers to teach and help guide the children.
II Maccabees 7:27: “…O my son, have pity upon me that bare thee nine months in my womb, and gave thee suck three years, and nourished thee, and brought thee up unto this age, and endured the troubles of education.”
Another popular theme today is wives and mothers leading the congregation of the Lord. Let’s examine this scripturally.
I Timothy 2:11: “Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.”
In the church or at home the woman is to learn the word in silence. Meaning not disobeying when taught the gospel. In the church they are to be “silent” when the scriptures are being taught.
1 Timothy 2:12: “But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.”
Christ is explaining through Paul that women are not to teach over men neither are they to assume the role of authority over men. He explains why:
1 Timothy 2:13: “For [because] Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.”
So the reason is that which occurred in the beginning. Satan was able to deceive Adam’s wife- Eve, by offering her power and authority as a god read Genesis 3:5,6.
Because of Eve’s desire to be in much authority, she fell into transgression [sin]. Remember Eve’s punishment of child pain was to remind her of NOT being subject to her husband and that he /the husband shall rule over her/the wife.-Genesis 3:16.
Today many mothers, wives and daughters have the spirit that was upon Eve. They despise the Lord’s commandments concerning order in both the home and the church of Lord (Israel).
Disobedience brings about turmoil and confusion which is why our communities are decaying today at home and church.
I Corinthians 14:34: “Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.”
The Law Paul made reference to was Genesis 3:16: “Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.”
I Corinthians 14:35: “And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.” Meaning the wife that has questions in the scriptures, must ask her husband. She cannot disrespect her husband by asking any question while class is in session neither is she to go to another man for answers. The Most High wants the man to be set back in his proper role as well. He is to learn the answers being built up in the Lord’s commandments. Even daughters are under the guidance of their parents or the aged women who are to answer their questions.
I Timothy 2:12: “But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.”
Remember that Paul was chosen by Christ to set up the order of the Church and he said “I DO NOT ALLOW A WOMAN TO TEACH ABOVE THE MAN NEITHER TO BE SET UP IN AUTHORITY OVER THE MAN“
It is contrary to God’s order for the woman to be the head of the Church. read Revelation 2:20-23. Neither can she hold the position of a Bishop or Deacon in the church, read I Timothy 3:1-13. There are positions for the women in the Church of the Lord (Israel). The aged women were also called the ‘Chief women’ or ‘honorable women’ who taught and remained in their order according to the commandments.
Acts 17:4: “And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few.”
Acts 17:12: “Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few.”
There was also positions for women in widowhood [whose husbands died] which was very strict.
Read 1Timothy 5:3-10.
1 Timothy 5:9: “Let not a widow be taken into the number under three score (60) years old, having been the wife of ONE man.”
1 Corinthians 11:2: “Now I praise you brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinaces, as I delivered them to you.”
Paul commands the Church to remember him in all things and keep the laws as he delivered them.
1Corinthians 11:3: “But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.”
Women role models in the scriptures
Women helped Christ in his ministry Luke 8:2 “And certain women, which had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary called Magdalene, out of whom went seven devils,” verse 3: “And Joanna the wife of Chuza Herod’s steward, and Susanna, and many others, which ministered unto him of their substance.”
Sarah wife of Abraham: Genesis 17:16: “And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of people shall be of her.”
Phebe, servant of the church at Cenchrea: Romans 16:2: “assist her in whatsoever business she hath need of you:”
Priscilla wife of Aquila: Romans 16:3-5: “Greet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ Jesus: greet the Church that is in her house.”
Tabitha:Acts 9:36: “Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and almsdeeds which she did.”
Acts 9:37: “And it came to pass in those days, that she was sick, and died: whom when they had washed, they laid [her] in an upper chamber.”
Acts 9:39: “Then Peter arose and went with them. When he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him weeping, and shewing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, while she was with them.”
Acts 9:40: “But Peter put them all forth, and kneeled down, and prayed; and turning [him] to the body said, Tabitha, arise. And she opened her eyes: and when she saw Peter, she sat up.”
Acts 9:41: “And he gave her [his] hand, and lifted her up, and when he had called the saints and widows, presented her alive.”
Shiphrah and Puah The Head Hebrew Midwives in Exodus 1:15-21
Exodus 1:17: “But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.“
Miriam (sister of Moses): read Micah 6:4: ” For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of servants; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.”
Deborah: read Judges 5 :7: ” The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.”
verse 8: “They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?” verse 9: “My heart is toward the governors of Israel, that offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless ye the Lord.“
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Abigail: read I Samuel 25th chapter.
Queen Esther: read the book of Esther.
Esther 9:29: “Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote with all authority, to confirm this second letter of Purim.”
Susanna wife of Joacim: read the History of Susanna in the Apocrypha.
Judith wife of Manasses: read the book of Judithchapters 8 through 16 n the Apocrypha.
Huldah wife of Shallum: prophetess read 2nd Kings 22:14-20
Mother of King Lemuel:Proverbs 31: “the words of King Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him.”
A mother and her seven sons: read II Maccabees 7th chapter.
