Should Women Be Allowed To Teach Men in the Body of Messiah? and HeadCoverings for Women and Men; By Maria Merola
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Should Women Be Allowed To Teach Men in the Body of Messiah?
By Maria Merola

This topic has become a subject of much controversy in the Christian Church today, as many are using only one isolated passage of scripture from 1st Timothy 2:12 in order to divide the female and male genders in the church.

I am often asked about this subject since I have been called as a female to be a “watchman to the House of Israel” in these last days.

The mandate which God has given me is to warn the body of Messiah about false pagan mixture in the church and to teach about the Hebraic roots of the faith to both men and women alike.

I do not believe that a woman should pastor a congregation alone. She should have a husband who is the Senior Pastor or another man who is the Senior Pastor. I am under Apostolic Authority as a prophetic teacher, “watchman” and full time intercessor.

Now that I have cleared that up, let me get to the meat of this message concerning what scripture says about women in the role of a teacher, or ministry leader in the church.

In order to understand what the Apostle Paul was referring to about women teaching men, we have to read his letter in context.

The Male & Female Relationship in Marriage

The Apostle Paul is telling a woman not to usurp her own husband's authority. When you look up the original Greek word here for "woman" the actual word means "wife." The Greek word is "gune" which literally means "wife."

There is a more generic word for woman in Greek which means "female" and that word is "thelus."

#1135. gune goo-nay' probably from the base of 1096; a woman; specially, a wife:--wife, woman.

#2338. thelus thay'-loos from the same as 2337; female:--female, woman.

So with that understanding of the original Greek word, let's see what the Apostle Paul was referring to:

1st Timothy 2:12 But I suffer not a woman (gune/ wife) to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man (aner/ husband), but to be in silence.

The original Greek word in the Strong's Concordance here for "man" is "aner" which literally means "husband."

#435. aner an'-ayr a primary word (compare 444); a man (properly as an individual male):--fellow, husband, man, sir.

There is another Greek word for "man" which means "male" or human being:

#444. anthropos anth'-ro-pos from 435 and ops (the countenance; from 3700); man-faced, i.e. a human being:--certain, man.

The Female Dominance Cult in Ephesus

In order to understand Paul’s letter to Timothy when he commanded a woman not to teach a man, we must first know the historical background of this Church he was writing to in Ephesus. Paul was not making a ruling for all women for all times in every church and in every situation.

The Church at Ephesus were former pagans who worshipped the Great Diana Artemis. This religion taught that Eve came before Adam and that she conceived Adam. This cult would immasculate men by making them eunuchs (removing their reproductive parts), and then the women would be dominant over the men, and they would sacrifice men to this pagan goddess Diana.

This is the reason why the Apostle Paul made reference to this in 1st Timothy 2:

13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve.

14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.

Why would the Apostle Paul need to explain that Adam was formed first and then Eve? Don’t we all know this? But the Church at Ephesus was taught a lie about this. This lie is much like the lie in the Catholic Church today where it is taught that “Mary, the mother of Jesus was born without original sin, hence it was her divinity which was passed on to Jesus…”

Since Catholicism teaches that Mary is the Holy Spirit, hence they conclude that “Mary is the author of Jesus” like the lie that they taught about Eve being the author of Adam.

This is why in 1st John 4:3 (KJV) we have the litmus test for identifying the Spirit of Antichrist. John says “every spirit which does not confess that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, this is that spirit of Antichrist…”

What does this verse mean? The word “flesh” here is the Greek word “sarx” and it means “carnal, sensual.” This means that Yeshua our Messiah had a corruptible nature “physically” which he inherited from his mother Mary. But his spiritual nature was “incorruptible” because he had the blood of his Heavenly Father in his veins. Yeshua had to possess both natures at the same time in order to be the perfect sacrifice. He had to have a corruptible nature “physically” so that he could destroy sin in the flesh (Romans 6). But he also had to be sinless, having an incorruptible spiritual nature at the same time. If he had sinned, his blood could not have atoned for us. He had to be a male lamb without blemish according to the Torah.

Okay so getting back to our study about the Church at Ephesus, we can see how this cult from ancient Babylon has been duplicated today in the Catholic Church with the deification of Mary the mother of Jesus.

The Holy Spirit fertilized Mary’s egg producing a human body for Jesus. But the blood came from the Heavenly Father. We can even read this in Zechariah 12:10 where Yehovah says “they will look upon ME whom they have pierced and they will mourn for HIM as one mourns for his only son.” This means that it was Yehovah’s blood that was in Yeshua when he died for us on the cross!

Even biology proves this. Below is a diagram showing that the mother’s blood never touches the baby during gestation.

The child’s umbilical cord is attached to the placenta. It is the placenta which is attached to the mother. The placenta acts like a giant clearing house for the baby, taking nutrients and other things out of the mother’s blood and passing them on to the baby's blood stream through the umbilical cord.



And so why did I go down this rabbit trail? I am trying to show that Yeshua our Messiah was the one who is Eternal and he is the one who created Mary, Mary did not create him!

Colossians 1:16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:

Yeshua created Mary, not the other way around. But the Roman Catholic Church teaches that Mary was sinless and divine, and eternal. They call her the “Queen of Heaven” just like the Babylonians called Semiramis the “Queen of Heaven.” Roman Catholicism hence denies that “Jesus Christ is come in the flesh” (having a corruptible physical nature) and this is the very essence of the Antichrist Spirit!

You see, Catholicism teaches that Mary’s conception in her mother’s womb was “immaculate” and that she was born without original sin from birth making her divine. This very doctrine known as the “Immaculate Conception” is the crux of the Spirit of Antichrist. If Mary was born without original sin, then she is eternal and a goddess like Venus, like Diana, like Isis, Semiramis, Asherah, Easter and all the other pagan goddesses whom she embodies as a reincarnation according to paganism. Many Protestants think when they hear the term “Immaculate Conception” that this is about the virgin birth of Yeshua Messiah, but it is not! It is about Mary’s conception without original sin, making her divine and eternal. This would then lead to the lie that says “Eve conceived Adam” or “Mary conceived Jesus.” The Catholic Church teaches that “Mary is the Holy Spirit and that he can only work through her.”

Pope John Paul II gave a speech in Lithuania in 1993 showing that the Catholic Church believes that Mary is the Holy Spirit!

Time Magazine comments in September 1993’s issue: “according to modern Popes” Mary is “the Queen of the Universe, Queen of Heaven, Seat of Wisdom…..”

In the Pope’s September 1993 speech in Lithuania, he spoke of Mary as “Mother of the Church, Queen of the Apostles, and dwelling place of the Trinity”! Pope John Paul finalized his speech by saying, “To Mary I entrust all of you….” His final petition was a prayer to Mary:

“Hail, holy Queen of heaven, Mother of Mercy! Our life, our sweetness, and our hope! To thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve; to thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping, in this valley of tears. Turn, then most gracious Advocate, thine eyes of mercy toward us: and after this our exiles show unto us the blessed fruit of thy womb, Jesus: O clement, loving sweet Virgin Mary.”

This is complete blasphemy! Colossians 3:4 declares that Jesus Christ is our life---not Mary.

1st John 2:1 declares that Jesus alone is our Advocate with the Father!

According to Soul Magazine, the official publication for The Blue Army of Our Lady of Fatima,“Mary is so perfectly united with the Holy Spirit that he acts only through her, his spouse…all our life, word and deed is in Her hands…at every moment, She herself must instruct, guide, and transform each one of us into Herself, so that not we but She lives in us, as Jesus lives in Her, and the Father in the Son.”

According to the Roman Catholic Church, Mary has replaced the Holy Spirit as teacher, guide and part of the Trinity!

Now we can understand why Paul had to go to great lengths to deprogram the way that the Ephesians were taught. He had to re-establish the order of things that had been perverted by the Babylonian Mystery Religion of Diana Artemis.

The answer to “female dominance” is not “male dominance” which only continues to keep the “enmity” between male and female. For this reason Paul stated in Galatians 3 that “there is neither male nor female… for we are one in Messiah.” Nobody likes to be dominated by another human being. In a marriage relationship wives are commanded to submit to their own husbands because in the unique relationship of marriage, this is a picture of Messiah and his bride the church. That is why wives must submit to their OWN husbands. You will notice that Paul used the term “own husbands” so that women would not submit to another woman’s husband thereby causing adultery!

Ephesians 5:22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

Ephesians 5:24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

Colossians 3:18 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

God allowed polygamy in the Old Testament, but from the beginning it was not so, as Yeshua stated. He said that “A man shall leave his mother and father and shall cleave unto his wife (singular) and the TWO shall become one flesh.”

Matthew 19:5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?

You will notice that Yeshua did not say that a “man shall cleave to his wives (plural) and he did not say “many of his wives shall become one flesh with him.”

At this website, there is found information about this female dominance cult at the Ephesus:

http://www.gospelassemblyfree.com/facts/women.htm

Women Keeping Silent in the Churches

Some people read the following verse without reading the entire letter to the Corinthian Church to understand what Paul was saying and they form a doctrine out of the next two verses:

1st 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.

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.

What person reads a 10 page letter and skips to the 5th page and reads 2 lines from the letter and forms a conclusion from those 2 lines without reading the entire letter? No person in their right mind does this.

First of all, Paul was addressing this problem that they were having with certain women in the congregations. The women and the men were segregated so that the women sat on one side of the congregation and the men on the other. Some of the women were shouting across the room to their husbands asking them what the Rabbi was teaching about. But Paul was telling these women to "keep silence" and ask their husbands when they went home.

How do we know that Paul was not forming a doctrine against women teaching in church? Because it would be in direct contradiction to what he says in 1st Corinthians 11:5 concerning women having their head covered when they pray or prophesy.

So what was Paul talking about? Obviously he knew that women would be allowed to "prophesy" in church so long as her "head" is covered. But this is not literally a veil or a tallit necessarily. The veil is an outward symbol of being under a covering of her husband and the Messiah. Paul goes on to say that a woman's hair serves as her covering. He says that if she does not have her head covered, let her head be shaven. Why does he say this?

Because pagan temple prostitutes would shave their heads and this was a shameful thing for a woman to do. So if a woman is not under the covering of her husband and the Messiah himself, she should have her head shaven like a temple whore. That is what Paul is talking about.

Are women allowed to prophesy or teach in church, so long as her "head" is covered as an outward sign that she is under her husband's authority and the authority of Messiah?

1st Corinthians 11:5 But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven.

The Greek word for "prophesy" here is:

#4395. propheteuo prof-ate-yoo'-o from 4396; to foretell events, divine, speak under inspiration, exercise the prophetic office:--prophesy.

This means that a woman may speak under divine inspiration so long as she is under the authority of her husband and her Messiah, Yeshua.

If a woman is not under the authority of her husband and Messiah, she is dishonoring "her head" or her earthly husband and her Messiah.

I don't believe it is necessary for a woman to wear a literal head covering as I believe that the Apostle Paul was speaking of the "head" being the husband:

1st Corinthians 11:3 But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Messiah; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Messiah is God.

So when Paul speaks of a woman having her "head" covered, the head he is referring to is her husband, not her literal head.

1st Corinthians 11:4 Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonoureth his head.

*NOTE: This is the Doctrine of the Nicolaitanes which Yeshua said that he hates in Revelation 2. This is the doctrine where people subjugate the authority of Messiah over to a man-made institution or a man-made doctrine. The Corinthians were setting up denominational heads over themselves instead of Messiah:

1st Corinthians 1:12 Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.

1st Corinthians 3:4 For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?

This is why Paul said that a man should not "cover his head" meaning that he should be directly under his Messiah and not under a man-made doctrine or institution.

The woman's "head" is her husband and she should be under her husband's covering when she prays or prophesies. Since I am unmarried, my Messiah is my husband, and I am under his authority.

I wear a tallit (prayer shawl)-- not because I think it makes me more holy nor does it make me appear more "Jewish" I wear one when I pray because I want to remind myself that I am under Messiah's authority. But Paul says that a woman's hair is given to her as a covering, so I believe this is sufficient.

1st Corinthians 11:

5 But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven.

6 For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.

7 For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.

This verse is not making a case against men wearing kippas or hats. I believe that is fine, because Yeshua wore his prayer shawl in the temple when he read Torah. Paul is talking about a man not covering his "head" as in not coming under all of these man-made doctrines and denominational leaders instead of Messiah.

In the days when Paul wrote 1st Corinthians 14, women could not read or write for the most part. Men were allowed to go to school to learn the scriptures but women stayed home and made babies, and did housework. Women took much abuse from men in those days because they were treated as substandard and men looked down on women as property.

But Yeshua changed all of that by making both male and female of the same joint heirs to the covenant promises with him to include working for the kingdom of heaven.

After the Samaritan woman had an encounter with Yeshua, she went and told everyone that she had encountered the Messiah. It means that she did what? She testified---she preached! Did she only preach to women? No! To EVERYONE!

Yeshua knew that she would go testify of him, but did he tell her to keep silence to the community of believers that she would convert? No, he knew that she would become an evangelist and that is why he spoke to her of the living water.

The Samaritan woman went on to be an Evangelist:

John 4:

39 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.

40 So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days.

This would seem to contradict to what Paul commanded in 1st Corinthians 14:34 concerning women keeping silent in the churches. But as I have stated before, nobody recieves a 10-page letter in the mail and then skips over to page 5 and only reads 2 lines on page 5, and comes to an erroneous conclusion based on those 2 lines of that 10-page letter. That is what people often do with 1st Corinthians 14:34. If we read the entire letter of 1st Corinthians in context and more specifically chapter 14, Paul is addressing this problem of people speaking out of turn as there was much confusion in the services. He is laying out the guidelines for giving prophecy and sharing revelation in the previous verses:

1st Corinthians 14:

27 If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret.

28 But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.

29 Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge.

30 If any thing be revealed to another that sitteth by, let the first hold his peace.

31 For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.

32 And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.

33 For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.

Paul is obviously addressing this problem with people talking out of turn, and this is the reason why he tells women to ask their husbands when they get home. Women were illiterate in those days, and so they were asking their husbands questions during the meetings and causing disruptions.

But when a woman is asked by a Pastor or an Apostle to get up and speak or testify, then she has the validation or the ordination of the man in office do to so and therefore she is not causing disruption or confusion! And this is why Paul was asking the churches to help Phoebe, Euodias, and Syntyche in their ministries of preaching the gospel. Was he telling these women to keep silent? No! Why not? Because he was not making a doctrine against women preaching in 1st Corinthians 14:34. He was specifically addressing women asking their husbands questions during the Bible study.

Today women are equally as educated as men and women are commissioned to leadership roles by whom? Men! Men are the ones who are ordaining women in these roles just as Paul was ordaining these women and asking the churches to assist these women in ministry. You will note that the Apostle Paul is giving certain women his "stamp of approval" for ministry:

Romans 16:1 I commend to you Phoebe our sister, who is a servant of the church in Cenchrea, 2 that you may receive her in the Lord in a manner worthy of the saints, and assist her in whatever business she has need of you; for indeed she has been a helper of many and of myself also.

Phillippians 4:

2 I beseech Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in the Lord.

3 And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellowlabourers, whose names are in the book of life.

Examples of Females in Leadership in the Bible are as follows:

The female Apostle Junia:

Romans 16:7 Salute Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen, and my fellow-prisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.

The female Disciple Tabitha/Dorcas:

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.

The Deaconess Phoebe:

Romans 16:1 I commend to you Phoebe our sister, who is a servant of the church in Cenchrea, 2 that you may receive her in the Lord in a manner worthy of the saints, and assist her in whatever business she has need of you; for indeed she has been a helper of many and of myself also.

Female Evangelists Eudodias & Syntyche:

Phillippians 4:

2 I beseech Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in the Lord.

3 And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellowlabourers, whose names are in the book of life.

The Prophetess Anna:

Luke 2:36 And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity;

The Prophetess Deborah:

Judges 4:4 And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time.

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.

Gender Distinction For Marriage Only

The only place where the distinction of male and female plays an important role is in the marriage covenant. Why? Because marriage is a picture of the relationship between Messiah and his Bride.

Are we not all his bride? Are we not all one body? Is he not our bridegroom? Do we think that only the male species are the ones whom God has called to help usher in the kingdom? Do we believe that the 5 wise virgins who had their oil lamps filled represents only females? That would be absurd, wouldn’t it?

The 5 wise virgins represent the bride of Messiah and that means male and female together make up the “bride of Messiah.”

Messiah is the male role and the believers in Messiah makeup the female role.

That is why the male/female relationship pertains to marriage only.

But when it pertains to the kingdom of heaven the female role represents the bride of Messiah and it is “she” who brings in the harvest like Ruth who worked for Boaz. It is the “bride” who he comes for and her oil lamp must be ready and filled.

In the kingdom of heaven, the Body of Messiah is a female role and the Bridegroom is a male role. That is why in an earthly marriage relationship the distinction of male and female are still unique in function.

The word of God clearly teaches that gender does not matter in the kingdom of heaven except for in the unique relationship between a husband and a wife. In that scenario, a woman must not usurp the authority of her husband:

Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

Under the order of Melchisidek, all believers (Male & Female) are part of that priesthood.

1st Peter 2:9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light;

The bride of Messiah is the female role, and the bridegroom is the male role, even though the Levites were all male, they are his bride (female role).

If a husband recognizes his wife's gift of teaching and he covers her to do so, then she is not usurping his authority. Even if a husband asks his wife to teach him something for which he knows she is more qualified then she is doing so under his authority. Case in point was with Smith Wigglesworth. His wife Polly taught him to read and write because he never recieved more than a 6th grade education. But he asked her to teach him. So was she wrong for teaching him? Of course not.

There is nothing in scripture that says that a woman may not lead a man into battle as with Deborah. As a matter of fact, God allowed it in her case, but she also had a husband who was a prophet who acted as her covering.

To the Church of Pegamos, Yeshua addressed this doctrine which he called "The Doctrine of the Nicolaitanes" and he said that he hates it. The word Nicos means "to dominate" and the word Laity means the lay people in the body. Nico-Laity means "The leadership lords themselves over the laity."

Revelation 2:15 So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitanes, which thing I hate.

God hates this because it is idolatry when we elevate one person over another in the body. That is why Paul said that there is neither male nor female, bond nor slave, Jew nor Greek.

We are all equally heirs to the promises in Messiah which includes the gifting and callings of Messiah.

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BRIAN's COMMENTS (My Opinions on the Subject):
There is a difference between teaching a man and discipling a man. From my understanding, a woman can teach a man in the Greek sense of teach (transmit knowledge) but not in the Japanese and more importantly Hebrew sense of Teach (to show by example, or transmit what is in one person and to allow it to be absorbed into another person by spending time together). Only a man can teach a boy how to be a G-dly man, and only a woman can show a girl how to be a G-dly woman, a man cannot transmit femininity and a woman cannot femininity. There were female prophets and deaconesses and speakers, but never a woman discipling a man. In fact, this could let to a lack of appropriate boundaries if a woman were to disciple a man. As discipling in the Biblical sense requires an intense one on one relationship. Even Yeshua only had 12 Apostles, or inner circle Students, showing the intensity and amount of time, energy, and emotional availability required to disciples someone. A woman sharing at this level with a man could lead to inappropriate bonds.

Women can however minister and teach Scripture to nearly anyone, the lack of knowledge the modern church has about the difference between teaching and discipling has led to this whole issue. The Church rarely disciples, only teaches facts and calls it discipleship therefore the confusion of terms. Teaching does not require being spiritually responsible for someone else but discipleship does. We have the two extremes of hardline chauvenist often found in Southern Churches and the other extreme of a gender blender Church like the one in ancient Corinth and the ones in major cities today.
In Marriage: If you look at Adam and Eve the curse on Eve was a cursed relationship because that is how women usually try to find fulfillment. G-d said that Eve "desire" would be for her husband. The word used here for desire means "a desire to rule over". In Genesis G-d also warns a descendent of Adam and Eve that sins "desire' was for him (to rule over him.)
Eve's desire to rule over Adam would cause a strain on relationships. This has happened to many marriages and mother-son relationships, which is why it is so important to "leave and cleave" and for single moms to find a G-dly example of manhood for their son. A boy's masculinity can be suffocated to death by a mom without a dad's influence, thereby leading to a man giving up and becoming effiminate and passive, or trying too hard and becoming a super-macho man. This is why a woman was not to rule over her husband in the writings of Paul (Rabbi Sha’ul).
The woman in Genesis is called the man's "helpmeet by his side". This word has been grossly mistranslated from the Hebrew "Ezer Kenegdo" which refers to a different kind of Servant or "Helper". In the Hebrew, the word translated as "helpmeet by his side" actually refers to Eve on one occassion, and to G-d Himself in every other instance in the Bible. This "helper" helps you in the way that a lifeguard helps a drowning victim, or a paramedic helps a wounded man. Women and men are absolutely interdependent, with distinct and vitally important roles. Stasi Eldredge discusses the vital role of women in churches, and how women reflect the image of G-d, in her book "Captivating". Women bring beauty to an ugly world in several ways, they bring life, and we should never delegate their role to simple servants. It discusses the differences between men and women, and the vitalness of both roles. The Church has confused these roles to match their traditions, but not G-d’s Commands. We are responsible for encouraging each member of the body of Christ to fulfill their role as a man or woman, and their unique calling. My wife has a unique calling as a nutritionist and someone who helps people to separate the physically unclean (such as vaccines, meats, etc.) from the clean, as well as a gift of healing. She also hears the Spirit a lot more than I do. I would hate to responsible for depriving the world of her calling, because her skills and talents are much needed.
Many women in the Bible were called to be Prophets (speaking the Word of G-d through the Logos-written Word, and Rhema-Spirit inspired Word, Bible Teachers, Judges, and Deaconesses (responsible for secular affairs of the church, like a Church business office would fulfill today). We are all called to be “Kings and Priests upon the earth” so women have a role in establishing the Commands of G-d in their home (over their children) as a Monarch would do, and women would also have a role as Priests (distinguishing between the Clean and Unclean, Physically and Spiritually), the Priests of the time served as Physicians and Health Inspectors. While men served these roles, when Messiah returns there will be no more marriage or being given in marriage, and all will be Kings and Priests upon the Earth.