Women, Source of Life - Source of Death - Teaching

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[SIZE=medium]The Lord has lead me to write a prophetic teaching based on the prophecies received in my prophecy book about women called: “Women – source of life – source of death”, I have now written two new sections, please copy and share freely....[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]WOMEN, SOURCE OF LIFE – SOURCE OF DEATH[/SIZE]
[SIZE=15pt]In writing this teaching, I knew that the key to understanding women would be found in understanding Eve. If I could understand what it was that caused a being, created perfect and given everything, to disobey God, then it would all the more help me understand women who aren’t created perfect and aren’t given everything.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]The purpose of this teaching is not to have a go at women, but to share the wisdom the Lord has given me, as well as what we can learn from women throughout Biblical history and today, to help show women where their weakness’ lies so that they may be aligned with their true purpose for living that will bring them contentment.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]“Someone who holds back the truth causes trouble, but one who openly criticizes works for peace.” (Proverbs 10:10)[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]Therefore we need to do a short study on Eve to help us reach a few conclusions.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]Eve was God’s special gift to Adam - the necessary partner that finally made Adams’ existence on earth complete on all levels. We can reason that no other woman could possibly surpass Eve’s grace, charm, virtue, ingenuity, intelligence, wit, pure innocence, strength and physical beauty, since no other woman has ever come unfallen directly from God into a curse-free world.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]Despite this, it is interesting to note that no physical description of her is ever given. Why? - Because the focusis in her duty to her Creator and her role alongside her husband. A reminder to all women that true femininity isn’t superficial.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]The question one needs to ask here is:[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]Having been given free will, what would make such a perfect being, created directly from the hand of God and given everything, choose to disobey God?[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]Let’s take a look at the account.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]Looking at the dialogue between Eve and the serpent (tempter), the first thing the serpent does is arouse skepticism. “Did God really say……?” (Genesis 3:1)[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]He questions the Word of God to suggest uncertainty about the meaning of God’s statements, to raise doubt about the truthfulness of what God has said, to insinuate suspicion about the motives behind God’s secret purposes, or to voice apprehension about the wisdom of God’s plan. In other words, he twists the meaning of God’s word:[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]God’s commandment had come to Adam as a positive statement:[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]You may eat the fruit of any tree in the garden, except the tree that gives knowledge of what is good and what is bad.” (Genesis 2:16-17)[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]The tempter casts the same command as a negative statement making God’s generosity sound like stinginess.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]“Did God really tell you not to eat fruit from any tree in the garden?” (Genesis 3:1).[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]Now we see that there is a massive difference between what God spoke - “you can have everything except one thing” and what the serpent insinuated for his own purposes “God doesn’t allow you to have anything.”[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]Eve might have perceived by his question that he totally misrepresented the character and command of God and therefore his intentions must have been at the least questionable or not good, and should therefore have rebuked him and ended the conversation there (unlike the Lord who said “Away from me Satan” and then quoted the Word to him). But she didn’t. Therefore, we can detect that there is a weakness or flaw in Eve’s ability to:[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]* Dissect truth from lies - Showing a lack of ability to make a difference between Gods’ abundant provision and the serpents insinuating stinginess. There is a major difference between “you can have everything except one thing” and “God doesn’t allow you to have anything.”[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]* Understand any motives behind the serpents misconstruing of Gods’ command since she continues conversing with him instead of rebuking him. Having seen the awesome creation and wisdom of God around her, she would have been in a position to reason that God is good, and why is this serpent corrupting the command of an all-powerful creator.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]Note: When Eve was tempted she was innocent, however, innocence doesn’t mean that one shouldn’t have reasoning ability or intelligence! I believe when God created Eve, He may have created her innocent, but not stupid.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]When Eve spoke to the serpent, we know that she knew something of the rules. Many Bible teachers teach that when answering the serpent, she misquoted what God commanded, adding things and taking away things, and that she softened God’s voice of absolute certainty (“you will surely die”) to the language of potentiality (“lest you die”, or “you won’t die, you shall be like God”).[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]But here a question must be asked. Why would she choose to misquote God’s command in an innocent and sin-free state? What motives would she have?[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]There is no real evidence in the Bible to suggest that God didn’t also tell them not to touch the tree since:[/SIZE]
[SIZE=15pt]Josephus does make such a claim:[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]“God therefore commanded that Adam and his wife should eat of all the rest of the plants, but to abstain from the tree of knowledge; and foretold to them, that, if they touched it, it would prove their destruction.” (Josephus 1:40) *Note Josephus was the High Priest in Early AD before Jerusalem’s Destruction.[/SIZE]


[SIZE=15pt]The key thing is this - she understood the two vital things to the command:[/SIZE]
  1. [SIZE=15pt]She knew which tree she shouldn’t eat from.[/SIZE]
  2. [SIZE=15pt]She knew if she ate from it, dangerous consequences would follow leading to death.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=15pt]“We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden; but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.’” (Genesis 3:2)[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]It was her weakness to enter into a discourse with the serpent, rooted in her inability to reason out truth. The thing that would eventually lead to her downfall. Instead of perceiving any questionable purposes, rebuking him and ending the conversation, she continued to make discourse with him.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]By doing this, she made a leeway to allow the serpent further access to her mind to further contradict God’s commands and to give her “alternatives” or “other reasons” to her reasoning in order to cause her greater confusion.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]This had the effect of weakening her simplistic obedience to truth by “opening” her mind to accept fine sounding arguments.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]The second time the tempter speaks to her, he doesn’t merely misquote God’s Word, he totally contradicts what God told Adam.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]God told Adam “In the day that you eat of it ‘you shall surely die’ ” (Genesis 2:17).[/SIZE]
[SIZE=15pt]The tempter told Eve the exact opposite “you will not surely die” (Genesis 3:4).[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]Again we see here her inability to perceive a contradiction, or to even question why there is a contradiction.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]Now that Eve has allowed further discourse, she has now also opened a door to allow her confusion. So to confuse Eve, he gives her his version of what would happen if she ate: [/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]“God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil. (Genesis 3:5)”[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]Note: This was actually a half-truth, satan knowing the best lies for the saints, is a truth out of context, which is why people need to make sure the light within them is not darkness.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]Through these insinuations the serpent aims to:[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]1) Birth discontentment in her present state – i.e. to imply that things are not as good as they could be. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=15pt]2) Birth ambition-“You will be like God”. But this was the lie of all lies – the lie that underlies a whole universe of evil, and that brings the fall of planet earth:[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]The enemy had ruined himself by desiring to be like God (Isa.14:14), and now seeks to infect Eve with the same desire, that he might ruin them too. Eating the fruit would not make Eve anything like God. It did the opposite. It made her fallen, corrupt and condemned.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]He insinuated that God had no good purpose for them in forbidding them this fruit, implying that He has something really powerful that He doesn’t want Adam and Eve to have and is trying to withhold it from them. Namely knowledge, for knowledge is power and the ultimate source of power is God.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]This was another half-truth. Yes her eyes would be opened to the knowledge of good and evil. In other words she would forfeit her innocence, - the thing which is even more powerful than knowledge. Innocence isn’t gullibility or stupidity. Innocence is freedom from sin meaning being contained, protected and operative in the blessing of God.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]Again, here we see Eve’s lack of reasoning in problem solving. She doesn’t ask herself: “Now why would God want to withhold knowledge from me? Is it for my good or not?”, or any other questions.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]Not only that, but in her confusion she doesn’t even reason “let me go and ask God or my husband about all this, see what they have to say, compare their answers and then see if I should eat of this fruit or not”. She does none of these things but goes on to look at the fruit. Thus we see another problem here with her. A hastiness or tendency to do the wrong thing rather than patient reflection to consider what would be the right thing. In doing this she didn’t make herself accountable to God or her husband.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]In other words, Eve was not in a position to weigh the circumstances and arguments presented to her by the serpent in comparison to those of God (or her husband) in order to rationalize to do the sensible or right thing that would bring about the least damaging consequences.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]This I believe is a core problem with women. [/SIZE][SIZE=15pt]If she had asked herself at least one of these questions, things may have worked out a whole lot different in that garden and for human history. [/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]Up to now we see the following things happened:[/SIZE]
  1. [SIZE=15pt]Her inability to reason has opened doors for fine sounding arguments and confusion. [/SIZE]
  2. [SIZE=15pt]In her confusion she is enticed to have power.[/SIZE]
  3. [SIZE=15pt]She is now left to her natural desires.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=15pt]When a person is left to the mercy of their natural desires, it is because reasoning and conscience has been weakened through enticement for power presented through fine sounding arguments. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=15pt]So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate (Genesis 3:6).[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]These natural desires contributed to Eve’s temptation:[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]Her bodily appetites[/SIZE][SIZE=15pt] (it was good for food).[/SIZE]
[SIZE=15pt]Her aesthetic sensibilities [/SIZE][SIZE=15pt](she saw how beautiful it looked).[/SIZE]
[SIZE=15pt]Her intellectual curiosity[/SIZE][SIZE=15pt] (she thought how wonderful it would be to become wise).[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]These are all good urges – only if the object of the desire isn’t sinful, because then natural passion becomes evil lust.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]“She saw that it was good for food”[/SIZE][SIZE=15pt] - Now that she is left to her natural desires, her reasoning has become corrupted. In her eyes this fruit is now like all the rest. It seems as good for food as any of the others and she sees nothing in it that would threaten death. Now in her understanding what harm could it possibly do? Why should this be the forbidden fruit and not any of the others? But when there is thought to be no more harm in the forbidden fruit than in other fruit, that is when sin awaits at the door.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]She also desires the tree to make her wise and therefore is superior to all the other trees. In other words she seeks power. The desire of unnecessary knowledge, under the mistaken notion of wisdom, proves hurtful and destructive to many. Eve who knew so much, did not know this – that she knew enough![/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]For everything in the world — the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life — comes not from the Father but from the world (1 John 2:16).[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]Thus we can conclude that the weakening in her reasoning ability (or the lack of it) together with her desire for a better state and ambition made her subject to her natural desires which then led her into sin, her downfall, her husbands downfall and inevitably the downfall of the entire human race.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=15pt]The Word says that she took some and ate it and that she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. [/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]“She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.” (Genesis 3:6)[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]Now we see here another problem with Eve. A lack of consideration for potential problems she may cause others. If she wanted to satisfy her own curiosity and be held accountable for her own actions well that was her choice, but she didn’t have to go and tempt her husband even though she had the full knowledge that God commanded Adam not to eat of the fruit, yet despite this, she still went and tempted him in the way she was tempted.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]When we violate God’s law, our conscience condemns us: [/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]“if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence toward God. And whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do those things that are pleasing in His sight.” (1 John 3:21-22)[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]I believe after having eaten the fruit, she must have had a conviction in her conscious, but instead of taking heed to it, and preventing it from happening to someone else, what does she do?She goes and persuades her husband to eat the fruit using the same arguments the serpent had used to persuade her showing a lack of consideration for any consequences to him. She gave it to him under the guise of kindness, but it was the greatest unkindness she could do him, or, she may have given it to him in the case that it did prove harmful, he might share with her in the misery for now as was the serpent, so was Eve, no sooner a sinner than a tempter of the righteous.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]Josephus states it in the following way:[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]And accused Eve “because she persuaded Adam with the same arguments wherewith the serpent had persuaded her, and had thereby brought him into calamitous condition.” (Josephus 1:49)[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]The irony here is that Eve most probably believes she has gained knowledge after having eaten the fruit, yet again by her actions she shows a lack of reasoning, i.e. she is most probably deluded. Instead of reasoning “let me wait, till I see what happens after a while, to me who has eaten of the forbidden fruit, and compare it to what happens my husband who hasn’t eaten of it, before I decide to persuade him to eat of it. She doesn’t even make herself open or aware to that option, but just rushes to persuade her husband – because had she done so, things may have worked out a whole lot differently ![/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]Now what I’m saying is that Adam didn’t do the right thing to eat the fruit, but Eve’s actions didn’t help the situation either. [/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]The steps of the transgression were[/SIZE]
  1. [SIZE=15pt]She saw – [/SIZE][SIZE=15pt]she should have turned her eyes away from beholding vanity. A great deal of sin comes in at the eyes.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=15pt]“Do not look on the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it swirls around smoothly.”(Proverbs 23:31)[/SIZE]

  1. [SIZE=15pt]She took - [/SIZE][SIZE=15pt]It was her own act and deed. The enemy may tempt, but he cannot force.[/SIZE]

  1. [SIZE=15pt]She did eat - [/SIZE][SIZE=15pt]Perhaps she did not intend to when she took it to look at it. It is wisdom to suppress the first emotions of sin, and to leave it off before it is meddled with.[/SIZE]

  1. [SIZE=15pt]She also gave some to her husband - [/SIZE][SIZE=15pt]She gave it to him, persuading him with the same arguments that the serpent had used with her. She gave it to him, under good intentions or lack of consideration but really it was the greatest unkindness she could do him. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=15pt]5. He did eat - [/SIZE][SIZE=15pt]overcome by his wife's importunity or such (nagging, asking over and over again etc).[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]The next thing that happens is that their eyes were opened so that they knew evil from good, and their innocence was gone. The result was shame.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves. (Genesis 3:7)[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]This attempt to make clothing from fig leaves perfectly shows the utter inadequacy of every human device ever conceived to try and cover shame (human religion, philanthropy, education, self improvement techniques, and many other attempts to be “good”. All such things fail to provide adequate camouflage for the disgrace and shame of our fallen state. In women it is often deeply rooted in hiding behind the ‘good mother’, ‘good housewife’ camouflage at a superficial level. [/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]When confronted by God about what they had done, each tries to transfer the blame to someone else to justify themselves. James 1:14 reminds us that whenever we sin, it is because we are drawn away by our own lust.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]When God pronounces the curses on them, the judgment that came to Eve as a result for her disobedience deals with the two most important relationships which a woman might naturally seek her highest joy, after the Lord God, which are her husband and her children. One direct consequence of Eve’s sin would be a multiplication of the pain and sorrow associated with childbirth, and the other would occur in her relationship with her husband. There would be a struggle between Eve and her husband. Before Adam sinned, his leadership was always perfectly wise, loving and tender and her submission to him was the perfect model of meekness and modesty. But now the natural flow of leadership and submission, would be open to opposition from the enemy for generations to come, so we see that tensions over gender roles go all the way back to our first parents.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]The question one may ask here is “Why is it that scripture treats Adam’s disobedience as the means by which sin entered the world, after all it was Eve who ate the forbidden fruit first.”[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]1 Timothy 2;14 says that “Adam was not the one deceived, it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner”. [/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]A person can only become deceived if they lack knowledge or rationality. We can therefore reason that when God created mankind, God must have given Adam (or the man) more ability to reason, since as head of the human race, we can presume that God would have given him more rationality than his wife (created to be his helper) giving him divine ability or gifting to effectively rule over his dominion (planet earth). [/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]This is why Adam’s level of accountability was higher than Eve’s, due to his unique position as head of the whole human race. Therefore God dealt with him as legal delegate for himself, his wife and all their offspring. When he sinned, he sinned as our representative before God.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]Adam’s sin was deliberate and willful in a way - Eve’s was not, at least it was not the same. Eve was deceived, whilst Adam chose to partake of the fruit Eve offered him with full knowledge that he was deliberately disobeying God. [/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]This is supported by the fact that when God pronounces the curse on Eve (the deceived), He just pronounces the curse on her without giving her reason why? But to the man God gives a reason, He says:[/SIZE]
[SIZE=15pt]Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ ……. “ (Genesis 3:17)[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]In Josephus’ account, it says:[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]“But God allotted him punishment, because he weakly submitted to the counsel of his wife. (Josephus 1:49)”[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]Scripture also tells us that the [/SIZE][SIZE=15pt]woman was made for the man, but the man was not made for the woman. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=15pt]“Nor was man created for the woman, but woman for the man.” (1 Corinthians 11:9)[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt] So if man wasn’t created for the woman, then who was man created for? – God.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]“….since he is the image and glory of God; but woman is the glory of man.” (1 Corinthians 11:7)[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]Therefore God had to judge the one who was accountable to him. And the one accountable to Him would have to be the one who would reflect his image and glory. For only the one who is a reflection of you can be accounted for.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]Therefore Adam’s position before God was unique, in a way Eve’s wasn’t.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]The serpent must have understood Adam’s unique position as the more rational one - created in the image and glory of God, and therefore the only way he could assault him, was through the one that Adam most loved and cared for – his wife, and as the weaker vessel, away from her husband, but close to the forbidden tree, she was in the most vulnerable position. Thus Eve became the unwitting means which the tempter gained access to assault Adam, for if he could strike at the head soon enough (before they had time to multiply), then he could destroy all of mankind.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]Since we assume Eve inferior to Adam in knowledge, strength, and presence of mind, we then have to ask “What would have caused Adam to sin, especially since the Bible tells us that he received the command directly from God, and therefore might not be as easy to be persuaded to discredit it.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]I believe that since Adam had felt the loneliness of not having a suitable companion (in a way Eve hadn’t, since she was created after), he wanted to please Eve out of fear of losing her and thus fell into sin.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=15pt]When confronted by God regarding what he had done, Adam lays all the blame upon his wife. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=15pt]“The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.” (Genesis 3:12)[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]A foolish excuse, which seemed to imply that God was an accessory to his sin. It was not difficult to determine which of the two he must be ruled by, his God or his wife.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]Conclusion:[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]Women lack the ability to reason putting them in a position unable to weigh circumstances and arguments presented to them from any opposing side that aims to deter them from walking in their true purpose, thus making them vulnerable to deception. Once drawn in by the deception, they don’t make themselves accountable, showing lack of consideration for potential problems (again rooted in lack of reasoning) they may inflict on others using corrupted methods to attain the thing they have been enticed by.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]In this way they have historically, and continue to, deprived many men from fulfilling many a rightful purposes they were destined for! Men you need to take a stand and determine which of the two you must be ruled by, your God or your wife.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]Scriptures:[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]“The fear of man brings a snare, But whoever trusts in the Lord shall be safe.” (Proverbs 29:25)[/SIZE]
[SIZE=15pt]“And I say to you, My friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear Him who, after He has killed, has power to cast into hell; yes, I say to you, fear Him! (Luke 12:5)[/SIZE]

[SIZE=15pt]Re: Samson - Then she said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when you won’t confide in me? This is the third time you have made a fool of me and haven’t told me the secret of your great strength.” With such nagging she prodded him day after day until he was sick to death of it. So he told her everything. (Judges 16:15-17)[/SIZE][SIZE=15pt] ……..” [/SIZE][SIZE=15pt]Then his brothers and his father’s whole family went down to get him. They brought him back and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of Manoah his father.” (Judges 16:31)[/SIZE]