Thank God for Women, But … (Part 14)

Click on following links for earlier articles: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12 and Part 13.

“Men need to get in touch with their feminine side,” is an often used statement by modern feminists. But interestingly enough, there is some truth attached to it, albeit a spiritual truth.

In the beginning, God removed a rib from the first Adam to create the first woman, Eve.  So, in effect, out of a man’s side flowed some blood and then man was placed inside a woman, okay?

Later, Eve was deceived by the serpent (Satan) and then God spoke the following to her:

To the woman He said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth, in pain you shall bring forth children; yet your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.” (Genesis 3: 16)

Though it was Adam’s sin of disobedience which caused the fall of mankind, Eve’s deception caused all women to be relegated to the rank of a gender underling versus man in the natural environment and under the Old Covenant’s mandates.

But along comes the last Adam, Jesus, and then what happened?

But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out. (John 19: 34)

Much like the first Adam, blood flowed out of the last Adam’s side. Yet this time, not just a part of a man (the rib) was used to create another person, but all of the last Adam is placed within His new creations.

To whom God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. (Colossians 1: 27)

Then the Apostle Paul comes along and dropped his bombshell in the year 61  AD.

For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. This mystery is great; but I am speaking in reference to Christ and the church. (Ephesians 3: 31 – 32)

The church becomes the bride of Christ, a women, which is also the body of Christ, submitted under Jesus’ headship. And like Eve, the bride of Christ’s desire is directed toward her husband, especially when she cries:

The Spirit and the bride say, “Come…” (Revelation 22: 17)

But the apostle Paul also dropped another bombshell in his letter to the Ephesians.

To me, the very least of all saints, this grace was given , to preach to the Gentiles the unfathomable riches of Christ, and to bring to light what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God who created all things; so that the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known through the church [the bride of Christ] to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly places. (Ephesians 3: 8 – 10)

Jesus redeemed Eve’s deception and for that matter, all women, forever and ever with this revelation. And as Jesus said on the cross, “It is finished!”

So, what can women actually do in the church?

(Continued in Part 15)