Women in the Church of the Living Elohim
Part 7
Women in Biblical History who Led Men Astray
Preface
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10 Do you think I am trying to make
people accept me? No, God is the One I am trying to please. Am I trying to
please people? If I
still wanted to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ (the Messiah).
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27 And when they
had brought them, they set them before the council. And the high priest asked
them, 28 saying, We strictly charged you not to teach in this
name: and behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to
bring this man’s blood upon us. 29 But Peter and the apostles answered and said, We must
obey God (Elohim) rather than men.
2 Peter 3:15-16 Berean Literal Bible (BLB) - Apostle Peter confirms Apostle Paul wisdom of
his teachings calling them “Scriptures” being moved by the Holy Spirit as it is said,
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15 And
esteem the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul
also wrote to you according to the wisdom having been given to him, 16 as
also in all the letters, speaking in them concerning these things, among which
some things are difficult to be understood, which the ignorant and
unestablished distort to their own destruction, as also the other Scriptures.
Women in Biblical History – Those who
Listened and Heeded to Women
There are Holy Scriptures
where men and the people “heeded” the voices of women who seduced
or led them astray; some recovered from this leading astray but others do not (Luke
13:5 NIV “unless you repent, you too will all perish”; Revelation 2:21
NIV “given her time to repent…but she is unwilling”).
These Scriptures help to
interpret as Scripture interpret itself and support the teaching in 1 Corinthians
14 v. 34 “as the law says” and 1 Timothy 2;
see Genesis 3:16 New English Translation (NET) “…You will
want to control your husband, but he will dominate you.”
In
the Beginning - Adam and His Wife, Eve
In Genesis 2, Elohim
(God) created every living creature and created the Man
who named every living creature (verses 1-20).
In Genesis 2:15-17,
Elohim gave the command to the Man Adam concerning which tree not to eat of (this
took place before the Woman was created – so it was the Man who instructed the
Woman about the “tree of the knowledge of good and evil”):
·
15 The Lord God (Yahweh Elohim) took the man and
put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. 16 And
the Lord God (Yahweh Elohim) commanded the man, “You are free to eat from
any tree in the garden;
· 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”
Then in Genesis
2:18-25, Yahweh their Elohim created
the Woman from the Man Adam rib as “a helper suitable for him” (verse
18). And Adam named her, the Woman because she
was ‘bone of” his bones and of his flesh “for she was taken
out of man” (verses 21-23). It’s said both the Man and Woman were “naked,
and they felt no shame” (verse 25); indicating they did not yet have
knowledge of their nakedness – not knowing “good and evil”.
In Genesis 3, the
Man Adam listened to and heeded his wife persuasion
to disobey Yahweh his Elohim
commandment by eating from the tree of knowledge of good and knowledge of evil (Genesis
3:1-7 where the Woman was deceived by the Old Serpent called Satan the Devil
and Evil One:
Genesis
3:1-7 The Sacred Scriptures Bethel Edition…
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Now the serpent was more subtle
than any beast of the field which Yahweh Elohim had made. And he
said unto the woman, Has Elohim said, You shall not eat of any tree of
the garden?
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2 And the woman
said unto the Serpent, Of the fruit of
the trees of the garden we may eat: 3 but of the fruit of the tree which is in
the middle of the garden, Elohim said, You shall not eat it, neither
shall you touch it, lest you die.
·
4 And the serpent
said unto the woman, You shall not surely
die: 5 for Elohim knows that in the day you eat of it, then your eyes shall be
opened, and you shall be as Elohim, knowing good and evil.
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6 And when the woman saw that the tree
was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes,
and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of
the fruit of it, and did eat; and she gave also unto her husband with
her, and he did eat.
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7 And the eyes of them both were
opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig-leaves
together, and made themselves aprons.
Based on these
verses in Genesis 3:1-7, we see the Man Adam instructions to the Woman included “you must not touch it”
referring to “the tree that is in the middle of the
garden, and you must not touch it”, “the tree of the knowledge of good and
evil”. (The
Man Adam was given instructions concerning the Tree of the Knowledge of Good
and Evil by Yahweh his Elohim before the Creator Elohim formed the Woman from
Adam’s rib – see Genesis 2:15-17 listed above; Genesis 2:18-25 Yahweh Elohim
created the Woman)
Genesis 3 NIV
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1 Now the serpent
was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman,
“Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”
· 2 The woman said to
the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but
God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the
garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”
·
4 “You will
not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. 5 “For
God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be
like God, knowing good and evil.”
·
6 When the woman
saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye,
and also desirable for
gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it.
· She also gave some to her husband, who was with
her, and he ate it.
· 7 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.
·
8 Then the man
and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden
in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. 9 But
the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”
·
10 He answered, “I heard you in the
garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”
·
11 And he said, “Who told you that
you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat
from?”
· 12 The man
said, “The woman you put
here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
·
13 Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this
you have done?”
· The woman said,
“The serpent deceived
me, and I ate.”
It’s said in Genesis
3:1-13, that the Woman was deceived by the Serpent,
and Adam the Man who was with her took fruit from the Woman after listening to
her and the Serpent. Both the Woman and Man “realized they were naked” as
they now felt ashamed in being naked – sin entered the world (Genesis 2:25;
3:7, 10-11; Romans 5:12-14).
Romans 5:12-14 Berean
Standard Bible…12 Therefore, just as
sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was
passed on to all men, because all sinned. 13 For sin was in the world before
the law was given; but sin is not taken into account when there is no law. 14 Nevertheless,
death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who did not sin in the way
that Adam transgressed. He is a pattern of the One to come.
Afterwards, Yahweh Elohim called the Man, Adam who was hiding from Elohim
after sinning against Elohim. The Man, Adam
after Elohim questioned him about eating from the tree Yahweh Elohim commanded
the Man Adam not to eat from it (Genesis 3:9-11 listed above).
Having been found to be guilty of disobeying Yahweh Elohim command, the Man,
Adam quickly blamed Yahweh Elohim for putting the Woman in the Garden of
Eden with him saying, “The woman you put here with me—she
gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it” (Genesis
3:12 NIV).
In Genesis 3:17-19 (NIV),
God said
to the Man, Adam:
·
17 To
Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree
about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’
·
18 It will
produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.
·
19 By the sweat
of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from
it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.”
Therefore, all
mankind (including women) received the death penalty
because Adam chose to listen to the Woman and please his wife rather
than obey Yahweh Elohim (Acts 5:29).
This penalty of
death was taken away by the sacrifice of our Sovereign and Savior Yahshua the Messiah.
(Revelation 5:1-7, Romans
5:12-21 and 1 Corinthians 15:45-49), and everyone “who
stands firm to the end will be saved” (Matthew 10:22 NIV); however,
those who still wish to remain under the sway of the evil one shall taste the
sting of death, the second death (Revelation 20:14 “…The lake of fire is
the second death”).
Footnotes
a.
2:15 Or will be saved by accepting
their role as mothers, or will be saved by the birth of the Child.
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3 But I fear
that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your minds may be seduced
from a sincere and pure[a] devotion to
Christ.
a.
11:3 Other mss omit and
pure
Today, the
lie continues in this world of the evil one,
that ancient serpent called the Devil and Satan – Revelation 12:9 NIV “…who
leads
the whole world astray”; 1 John 2:15-16
NIV “…the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life…”;
1 John 5:19 NIV “…the whole world is under the control of the evil one”).
Lot
and His Wife
In
Genesis 19:26 NIV, it is said that “Lot’s wife looked back, and
she became a pillar of salt”. From this verse much implied, and one spiritual
judgment is this: Lot’s wife is one reason he stayed in Sodom and Gomorrah.
Even though, Lot was “tormented in his soul” by the
“shameful immorality of the wicked people around him”
in the evil society which waxed more evil each and every day (2 Peter 2:7-8
NLT (listed below); see also 2 Timothy 3:1-9, 13).
In Genesis 19:26,
we see Lot’s wife looking back tells us she was behind Lot staying under those
conditions rather than leaving that evil community of Sodom and Gomorrah as the
Sovereign and Savior Yahushua the Messiah, the Son of Elohim says, “Remember
Lot’s wife!” (Luke 17:32 NIV).
We as followers of
the Sovereign and Savior Yahwehshua the Messiah
are not to look
back at nothing in this present evil and adulterous life being willing to lose
our lives in this world to serve our Sovereign and Savior Yahwehshua
the Messiah; as it is written, “Whoever tries to keep their
life will lose it, and whoever loses their life will preserve it”
(Luke 17:33 NIV). Lot’s wife wanted to keep her old way of life in “Sodom
and Gomorrah”.
Yahweh Elohim says,
in Genesis
18:20-21 NKJV
·
20 And the Lord (Yahweh Elohim) said, “Because the outcry against
Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grave, 21 I
will go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to the
outcry against it that has come to Me; and if not, I will know.”
Lot who was being "oppressed
by the filthy conduct" of these wicked men in the cities of Sodom
and Gomorrah chose to stay there with his wife anyway who was from the
people of Sodom (2 Peter 2:4-10 NKJV; see also Romans 1:26-28 where
it is said, “Men did shameful things with other men” (v.
27 NLT; Genesis 13)).
Lot was hesitating
to leave even causing the angels of (Elohim) to
plead with him to leave; Lot didn’t want to go far away even after his wife
was killed for looking back with lust for her past life (Genesis 19).
· 4 For God (Elohim) did
not spare even the angels who sinned. He threw them into hell in gloomy
pits of darkness, where they are being held until the day of judgment.
· 5 And God (Elohim) did
not spare the ancient world—except for Noah and the seven others in his family.
Noah warned the world of God’s (Elohim) righteous judgment. So God (Elohim) protected
Noah when he destroyed the world of ungodly people with a vast flood.
· 6 Later, God (Elohim) condemned
the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and turned them into heaps of ashes. He made
them an example of what will happen to ungodly people.
· 7 But God (Elohim) also
rescued Lot out of Sodom because he was a righteous man who was sick of
the shameful immorality of the wicked people around him. 8 Yes,
Lot was a righteous man who was tormented in his soul by the wickedness he saw
and heard day after day.
· 9 So you see, the
Lord (Yahweh) knows how to rescue godly people from their trials, even while
keeping the wicked under punishment until the day of final judgment.
· 10 He is
especially hard on those who follow their own twisted sexual desire, and who
despise authority. These people are proud and arrogant, daring even to
scoff at supernatural beings without so much as trembling.
·
28 “It was the same
in the days of Lot. People were eating and drinking,
buying and selling, planting and building. 29 But
the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed
them all.
·
30 “It will be just
like this on the day the Son of Man is revealed. 31 On
that day no one who is on the housetop, with possessions inside, should go down
to get them. Likewise, no one in the field should go back for anything.
·
32 Remember Lot’s
wife!
33 Whoever tries to keep their life will lose
it, and whoever loses their life will preserve it. 34 I
tell you, on that night two people will be in one bed; one will be taken and
the other left. 35 Two women will be
grinding grain together; one will be taken and the other left.” [36] [a]
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37 “Where, Lord
(Yahweh)?” they asked. He replied, “Where there is a dead body, there the
vultures will gather.”
a. Luke
17:36 Some manuscripts include here words similar to Matt. 24:40.
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7 And don’t
forget Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring towns, which were filled with
immorality and every kind of sexual perversion. Those cities were destroyed by
fire and serve as a warning of the eternal fire of God’s (Elohim) judgment.
Moses
and His Wife, Zipporah of Midian
In Exodus 4, the
Scripture gives the implication that Moses is persuaded by his wife not to
circumcise his sons; even though, the commentary seems to imply only “one son”
(see Exodus 2:21-22; Exodus 4:20 “Moses took his wife and sons”; Exodus
18:1-6 Moses’ two sons name Gershom and Eliezer);
and Yahweh Elohim was about to kill Moses His servant for this:
·
24 Now it happened
at the lodging place, that the Lord (Yahweh
Elohim) met Moses and sought to kill him [making him deathly
ill because he had not circumcised one of his sons].
·
25 [a]Then Zipporah
took a flint knife and cut off the foreskin of her son and threw it at Moses’
feet, and said, “Indeed you are a husband of blood to me!”
·
26 So He let Moses
alone [to
recover]. At that time Zipporah said, “You are a husband of
blood”—because of the circumcision.
a. Exodus
4:25 Moses had not circumcised his son in obedience to the
commandment that God had given to Abraham and his descendants (Gen 17:10 ff).
It is possible that Moses refrained from doing the procedure because his wife Zipporah,
a Midianite, had objected. If so, Zipporah now reluctantly performed the
procedure herself as a last resort to save Moses’ life, not hiding her disgust
over the situation.
This persuasion by
Moses’ wife is very significant in that Moses was willing to break the
covenant of circumcision between Yahweh Elohim and Abraham and his descendants
(Gen. 17:1-22) to please his wife.
This was a very
serious matter - for Yahweh Elohim was about to kill Moses because he “heeded
the voice” of his wife. (Remember the Man Adam listened to his wife and
Adam being a type of the Messiah, the second Adam – see Genesis 3:17 and 1
Corinthians 15:45-49; also, Moses a type of the Messiah listened to his wife -
see Deut. 18:15-19). As the Man Adam willingly disobeyed, so went the Man Moses
who “listened to” his wife.
45 So also it is written, The first
man Adam became a living soul. The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. 46 Howbeit
that is not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; then that
which is spiritual.
47 The first man is of the earth, earthy:
the second man is of heaven. 48 As is the earthy, such are they
also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are
heavenly. 49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we
shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
Notice, the Man Moses’
Ethiopian wife Zipporah of Midian knew why Yahweh Elohim was killing him;
so, this had been a disagreement between Moses and his wife. This
mean Zipporah, Moses’ wife was responsible for the Man Moses disobeying Yahweh
Elohim by not circumcising his sons.
Otherwise, why
didn’t the Man Moses obey Yahweh Elohim command?
Since, Moses knew
it was required of him; yet, he allowed his wife to persuade him not to keep
this covenant with Yahweh Elohim as he being a descendant of Abraham (Genesis
17:9-14).
Genesis 17:9-14 Berean Study Bible (BSB), The Covenant of
Circumcision…
9
God (Yahweh Elohim) also said to Abraham, “You must keep My covenant— you
and your descendants in the generations after you. 10 This is My covenant
with you and your descendants after you, which you are to keep: Every male
among you must be circumcised. 11 You are to circumcise the flesh of your
foreskin, and this will be a sign of the covenant between Me and you. 12
Generation after generation, every male must be circumcised when he is eight
days old, including those born in your household and those purchased from a
foreigner— even those who are not your offspring. 13 Whether they are born in
your household or purchased, they must be circumcised.
My
covenant in your flesh will be an everlasting covenant.
14
But if any male is not circumcised, he will be cut off from his people; he has
broken My covenant.”
Please NOTE:
The Man Moses only had one wife from the land of Midian name Zipporah an
Ethiopian (Cushite); Zipporah did not turn the Man Moses from the One True Yahweh
Elohim (Deuteronomy 7:3-4; Exodus 3:13-15; 6:18).
In Genesis 25, Abraham took a second wife named Keturah who gave birth
to Abraham’s son name Midian. Zipporah father name Reuel, an Ethiopian was a
priest of Midian (Reuel was also called Jethro, a title for “his excellence”, the
priest of Midian) who counseled Moses and offered sacrifices before the
Living Elohim with the elders of Israel – see Exodus 18.
Exodus 18 Berean Study Bible (BSB)…1
Now Moses’ father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian, heard about all that God
(Yahweh Elohim) had done for Moses and His people Israel, and how the
LORD (Yahweh Elohim) had brought Israel out of Egypt.
2
After Moses had sent back his wife Zipporah, his father-in-law Jethro had
received her, 3 along with her two sons. One son was named Gershom, for
Moses had said, “I have been a foreigner in a foreign land.” 4 The other son
was named Eliezer, for Moses had said, “The God (Yahweh Elohim) of my
father was my helper and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh”…9 And
Jethro rejoiced over all the good things the LORD had done for Israel, whom He
had rescued from the hand of the Egyptians.
10
Jethro declared, “Blessed be the LORD (Yahweh Elohim), who has delivered you
from the hand of the Egyptians and of Pharaoh, and who has delivered the people
from the hand of the Egyptians.
11
Now I know that the LORD (Yahweh Elohim)
is greater than all other gods, for He did this when they treated Israel with
arrogance.”
Jethro, the priest
of the Midianites offered sacrifices to Elohim
12
Then Moses’ father-in-law Jethro brought a burnt offering and sacrifices to
God (Yahweh Elohim), and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat
bread with Moses’ father-in-law in the presence of God (Yahweh Elohim).
Jethro, the priest
of the Midianites Advises Moses on how to Judge
13
The next day Moses took his seat to judge the people, and they stood around him
from morning until evening.
14
When his father-in-law saw all that Moses was doing for the people, he asked,
“What is this that you are doing for the people? Why do you sit alone as judge,
with all the people standing around you from morning till evening?”
15
“Because the people come to me to inquire of God (Yahweh Elohim),” Moses
replied. 16 “Whenever they have a dispute, it is brought to me to judge between
one man and another, and I make known to them the statutes and laws of God
(Yahweh Elohim).”
17
But Moses’ father-in-law said to him, “What you are doing is not good.
18 Surely you and these people with you will wear yourselves out, because
the task is too heavy for you. You cannot handle it alone.
19
Now listen to me; I will give you some advice, and may God (Yahweh
Elohim) be with you. You must be the people’s representative before God
(Yahweh Elohim) and bring their causes to Him. 20 Teach them the statutes and
laws, and show them the way to live and the work they must do.
21
Furthermore, select capable men from among the people— God-fearing, trustworthy
men who are averse to dishonest gain.
Appoint them over the people as leaders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties,
and of tens. 22 Have these men judge the people at all times. Then they can
bring you any major issue, but all minor cases they can judge on their own, so
that your load may be lightened as they share it with you.
23
If you follow this advice and God (Yahweh
Elohim) so directs you, then you will be able to endure, and all these
people can go home in peace.”
24
Moses listened to his father-in-law and did everything he said.
25
So Moses chose capable men from all Israel and made them heads over the people
as leaders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.
26
And they judged the people at all times; they would bring the difficult cases
to Moses, but any minor issue they would judge themselves.
Aaron
and His Sister, Miriam
In Numbers 12,
Miriam is listed first in verse 1 because she led this insurrection
(using the biblical student logic of the person listed first is the leader).
Also, Yahweh
Elohim punished Miriam, Moses’ sister for this insurrection by turning her skin
white with leprous – see Numbers 12:10 and Deuteronomy 24:8-9.
Miriam persuaded her
brother Aaron to challenge Moses leadership and his
face to face speaking with Yahweh Elohim alone.
(Miriam willingly
forgot that Moses stood as Elohim to Pharaoh, and Aaron stood as Moses’ prophet
- see Exodus 7:1).
Miriam wanted Moses
to share decision making with her and Aaron (she wanted
the people of Israel to see her as one who speaks with Yahweh Elohim and
makes decisions in the Congregation of the Israelites – Exodus 12; Numbers
12:4; Jeremiah 30:20; Joel 2:16; Psalm 74:2; Psalm 149:1; Hebrews 2:12; Acts
13:43; Isaiah 14:13 as well as other Holy Scriptures where Yahweh Elohim
refers to Israel as a Congregation).
This uprising was
probably from Miriam suspicion that Moses’ wife
was making changes in governing the people of Israel by appointing rulers over
10’s, 50’s, 100’s and 1000’s to help judge smaller matters and help Moses carry
the burden of this great number of people (large churches with one pastor
should take note here).
Actually, this advice
came from Moses’ father-in-law Jethro and Yahweh Elohim Himself
(see Exodus 18:13-26 listed above; Numbers 11:1-17 v. 16 where Yahweh Elohim
asked for “seventy men” – remember our Sovereign and Savior Yahwehshua
the Messiah sent out “seventy” Luke 10:1, 17).
Numbers 11:14-17 The Sacred Scriptures Bethel Edition…14
I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me. 15
And if you deal thus with me, kill me, I pray you, out of hand, if I have found
favor in your sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.
16
And Yahweh said to Moses, Gather to me seventy
men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people,
and officers over them; and bring them to the tent of meeting, that they may
stand there with you.
17
And I will come down and talk with you there: and I will take of the Spirit
which is upon you, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of
the people with you, that you bear it not yourself alone.
Earlier, I pointed
out how Moses’ wife Zipporah (an Ethiopian woman with different customs than
her Hebrew husband Moses) had persuaded him not to circumcise
his son(s) nearly causing Moses’ death by Yahweh Elohim.
Miriam probably
knowing this influence of Moses wife over him - helped to invoke Miriam’s suspicion,
and since the Holy Spirit says that, “Miriam and Aaron “spoke against
Moses because of the Ethiopian woman” gives us insight into this meaning
that Zipporah, an Ethiopian of Midian was not an Israelite – this was
the difference between Zipporah and Moses not their color as both Moses and
Zipporah were Black.
·
1 And Miriam and
Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married,
for he had married an Ethiopian woman.
·
2 And they said, “Hath the Lord (Yahweh Elohim) indeed
spoken only by Moses? Hath He not spoken also by us?” And the Lord (Yahweh Elohim) heard it.
·
3 (Now the man
Moses was very meek, above all the men who were upon the face of the earth.)
·
4 And the Lord (Yahweh Elohim) spoke suddenly unto
Moses and unto Aaron and unto Miriam: “Come out ye three unto the
tabernacle of the congregation.” And the three came out.
· 5 And the Lord (Yahweh Elohim) came down
in the pillar of the cloud and stood in the door of
the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam; and they both came forth.
· 6 And He said, “Hear
now My words: If there be a prophet among you, I, the Lord (Yahweh Elohim), will make
Myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.
· 7 My servant
Moses is not so, who is faithful in all Mine house. 8 With him will I
speak mouth to mouth, even plainly, and not in dark speeches; and the
similitude of the Lord (Yahweh Elohim) shall he
behold.
· Why then
were ye not afraid to speak against My servant Moses?” 9 And
the anger of the Lord (Yahweh
Elohim)
was kindled against them, and He departed.
· 10 And the cloud
departed from off the tabernacle. And behold, Miriam became leprous, white
as snow; and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and behold, she was leprous.
· 11 And Aaron
said unto Moses, “Alas, my lord, I beseech thee,
lay not the sin upon us, wherein we have done foolishly and wherein we have
sinned.
· 12 Let her not
be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his
mother’s womb.”
· 13 And Moses cried
unto the Lord (Yahweh Elohim), saying, “Heal
her now, O God (Elohim), I beseech Thee.”
· 14 And the Lord (Yahweh Elohim) said unto
Moses,
“If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven
days?
· Let her be
shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be received in
again.”
·
15 And Miriam
was shut out from the camp seven days, and the people journeyed not till Miriam
was brought in again.
·
16 And afterward the people removed from Hazeroth and pitched camp in the Wilderness of Paran.
Notice, the question (Yahweh Elohim) asked of Miriam and Aaron in verse 8, “… Why then were ye not afraid to speak against My servant
Moses?”
Even though, they saw and heard (Yahweh Elohim) speaking directly to Moses “face to face,
clearly and not in riddles; he sees the form of the Lord (Yahweh Elohim)”
in the cloud (Numbers 12:8 NIV).
Miriam, the chief instigator still challenged
Moses’ authority over her and the congregation of Israel - also encouraging
Aaron to be carried about with this angry countenance towards Moses.
(Moses in his meekness did not react to this
questioning of his authority with harshness realizing they were rebelling
against Yahweh
Elohim and not him - Numbers 12:3; Psalm 95:7-8; Hebrews
3:15-17.
Yet, this was a very serious matter because
they rebelled against Yahweh
Elohim not Moses. As such, Yahweh Elohim swiftly put
this insurrection down and made a public example of Miriam for her
leading such an evil rebellion against Yahweh Elohim (see Revelation
2:20-22 the woman Jezebel).
Aaron after realizing "Miriam became leprous, as white as snow” cried out to
Moses calling him “lord”; notice Aaron asking, “do not lay
this sin on us” repenting of his and Miriam sin.
Aaron pleads for his sister Miriam life
(Numbers 12:10-13 NKJV saying of Miriam “…do not let her be as one
dead, whose flesh is half consumed…”). After Moses had pleaded to Yahweh Elohim
to heal Miriam, Yahweh
Elohim replied that she should be shut out of the camp for
seven days (Numbers 12:14-16).
NOTE: Miriam was a prophet Exodus 15:20 – see
also Women of Faith in the
Old Testament Part 9 of this paper. In Numbers 12:10-12, this Scripture and
others clearly show Miriam was turned “white as snow” meaning her
skin were not originally white. See also 2 Kings 5:25-27 where Gehazi
was turned “white as snow”; in Exodus 4:6-7, where Moses’
hand was turned white “as snow”.
These Scriptures as well as others prove that the Hebrews
and Egyptians were not white as those who “defined” themselves as “white”
in this lying and deceptive world of the evil one and his workers today teaches
– see also Mystery, Babylon the
Great (the state church called Catholic), the mother of
prostitutes (Protestants churches and other various versions of this so-called
“Universal” church).
Samson
and the Woman, Delilah
In Judges 16, the
woman Delilah persuaded Samson to reveal to her the secret of his great
strength. Notice, in verse 4, where it’s said about
Samson that he “loved” the woman Delilah.
In verse 15,
this is the very thing the woman Delilah used against Samson. She asked him, “How can you say, ‘I
love you,’ when your heart is not with me?” See also, Judges
13 to Judges 14:1-20 Samson wife, the daughter of Philistines enticed
Samson to tell her the riddle.
Judges 16:4-22
New Life Version (NLV)
·
4 After this Samson
loved a woman in the valley of Sorek. Her name was
Delilah.
5 The leaders of the Philistines came to her, saying, “Tempt
Samson to tell you the secret of his powerful strength. Find out how we can get
power over him so we can tie him and hold him. Then we will each give you 1,100
pieces of silver.”
·
6 So Delilah said to
Samson, “I beg you. Tell me the secret of your powerful strength. Tell me
how one can get power over you and tie you up and hold you.”
·
7 Samson said to her, “They must tie me
with seven new ropes that have not been dried. Then I will become weak and be
like any other man.” 8 So the leaders of the Philistines
brought her seven new ropes that had not been dried. And Delilah tied Samson
with them. 9 She had men hiding and waiting in another
room. She said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” But he
broke the ropes like a string breaks when it touches fire. So they did not find
the secret of his strength.
·
10 Delilah said to
Samson, “See, you have fooled me and told me lies. Now tell me, I beg you, how
can you be tied?” 11 Samson said to her, “They must
tie me with new ropes which have never been used. Then I will become weak and
be like any other man.” 12 So Delilah took new ropes, tied
Samson with them, and said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” Men
were hiding and waiting in another room. But Samson broke the ropes from his
arms like a string.
·
13 Then Delilah said to
Samson, “You have fooled me and told me lies until now. Tell me how you can be
tied.” Samson
said to her, “You must work the seven strings of my hair into the cloth you are
making and hold it there with a nail. Then I will become weak and be like any
other man.” 14 So while Samson slept, Delilah took the seven
strings of his hair and worked them into the cloth. She held it in place with
the nail. Then she said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!”
But he awoke from his sleep and pulled away the nail, the cloth maker and the
cloth.
·
15 Delilah said to
Samson, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have lied to me
these three times. You have not told me the secret of your powerful strength.”
·
16 She asked him day
after day until his soul was troubled to death.
·
17 So he told her all
that was in his mind. He said to her, “My hair has never been
cut. For I have been a Nazirite to God (Yahweh Elohim) from the time I
was born. If my hair is cut, my strength will leave me. I will become weak and
be like any other man.”
·
18 Delilah saw that
Samson had told her the truth. She sent and called the leaders of
the Philistines, saying, “Come once again. For he has told me all he
knows.” So the leaders of the Philistines came to her. And they
brought the money in their hands.
·
19 She made Samson sleep on
her knees. Then she called for a man to cut off the seven parts of
Samson’s hair. She began to hurt Samson, and his strength left him.
·
20 She said, “The
Philistines are upon you, Samson!” He awoke from his sleep and said, “I
will go out as I have at other times. I will shake myself free.” But he
did not know that the Lord (Yahweh Elohim) had left him.
·
21 The Philistines took
hold of him and cut out his eyes. They brought him down to Gaza and tied him
with brass chains. Samson was made to grind grain in the prison. 22 But
the hair of his head started to grow again after it was cut off.
Because Samson yielded to the persuasion of
Delilah, his great strength left him after “he told her all that was in
his mind” and she had a man “cut off the seven parts of Samson’s
hair” (v. 18).
Samson, as “a Nazirite to God from”
his birth (v. 17) was given this strength so he could judge Israel (Judges
13:4-5 and Judges 15:20); yet, he gave up his authority over Israel
for Delilah’s love.
Notice, what the Scripture says about this
woman, Delilah how “She asked him day after day until his soul was troubled
to death.” (v. 16).
·
15 A leak that
keeps dripping on a rainy day
and
the nagging of a wife are the same —
Now, Samson knew what the woman Delilah
was up to with her constant “nagging” but he thought he still
had his strength; even though, Samson gave up the secret of his
strength to this woman Delilah – the Scripture says, Delilah “began
to hurt Samson, and his strength left him”.
·
14 The mouth of an
immoral woman is a dangerous trap;
those
who make the Lord
(Yahweh Elohim) angry will fall into it.
Ecclesiastes
7:26 New Century Version (NCV)
·
26 I found that
some women are worse than death and are as dangerous as traps. Their love is
like a net, and their arms hold men like chains. A man who pleases God (Yahweh Elohim) will be saved
from them, but a sinner will be caught by them.
The woman Delilah did not let up on Samson “until
his soul was troubled to death” to get away from her pestering (v. 16). After giving in to the
woman, Delilah pestering, Samson was seized by the Philistines because he had
lost his strength; “he did not know that the Lord (Yahweh Elohim) had left him”
believing this strength was still on him - see his statement “I will go
out as I have at other times. I will shake myself free.” (v.
20).
In Judges 16:28-31, Samson when he saw the
end of his life, realizing this was a result of him giving his heart to this
woman, Delilah rather than God Yahweh Elohim. He asked Yahweh Elohim to give him
vengeance on the Philistines, and his own death.
Yahweh
Elohim
remembered Samson as he called on the Names of the Yahweh Elohim; the Elohim of
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob who granted Samson’s final request (Exodus 3:13-15 as
Yahweh Elohim
says, “I AM WHO I AM”; Exodus 6:1-8 Yahweh Elohim appeared to Moses
as “I AM Yahweh” v. 2-3). Amen. Praise Yahweh Elohim.
·
28 Then Samson
called to Yahweh, “Adonay Yahweh, please remember me!
Elohim, give me strength just one more time! Let me get even with the
Philistines for at least one of my two eyes.”
·
29 Samson felt the
two middle columns on which the building stood. With his right hand on one
column and his left on the other, he pushed hard against them.
·
30 “Let me die
with the Philistines,” he said. With that, he pushed with all his might, and
the building fell on the rulers and everyone in it. So he killed more
Philistines when he died than he had when he was alive.
·
31 Then his
relatives and his father’s whole family went to Gaza. They took Samson and
buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol
in the tomb of his father Manoah.
·
Samson had judged Israel for 20 years.
King
Solomon and His Many Foreign Women
Now, the Holy
Scriptures tell us that David and Bathsheba named their son, Solomon (which sound
like ‘peace’ in the Hebrew) was born, “The Lord (Yahweh Elohim)
loved him”, and Yahweh Elohim sent
the prophet Nathan to call Solomon by the name “Jedidiah” meaning
“Beloved of the LORD (Yahweh
Elohim)”
– see 2 Samuel 12:23-25.
·
7 David said to
him, “My son, I wanted to build a temple for worshiping the Lord my God (Yahweh Elohim).
8 But the Lord (Yahweh Elohim) spoke
his word to me, ‘David, you have killed many people. You have fought many wars.
You cannot build a temple for worship to me, because you have killed many
people.
·
9 But, you will
have a son, a man of peace and rest. I will give him rest from all his enemies
around him. His name will be Solomon,[a] and I will
give Israel peace and quiet while he is king. 10 Solomon
will build a temple for worship to me. He will be my son, and I will be his father.
I will make his kingdom strong; someone from his family will rule Israel
forever.’”
a. 22:9 Solomon This name
sounds like the Hebrew word for “peace.”
·
29 God (Yahweh Elohim) gave
Solomon wisdom, very great insight, and understanding as vast as the sand on
the seashore. 30 Solomon’s wisdom was greater than the wisdom
of all the people of the East, greater than all the wisdom of Egypt.
·
24 Now all the
earth sought the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom, which God (Yahweh Elohim) had
put in his heart.
In 1 Kings 11,
it is said Solomon foreign wives and women whom he loved turned him from Yahweh Elohim,
as he grew old (v. 4).
Yahweh
Elohim had warned Israel not to intermarry with the
nations left in the Promise land.
1 Kings 11:1-4 NIV
Solomon’s Wives
· 1 King Solomon,
however, loved many foreign women besides Pharaoh’s daughter—Moabites,
Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians and Hittites.
· 2 They were from
nations about which the Lord (Yahweh Elohim)
had
told the Israelites,
· “You must not
intermarry with them, because they will surely turn your hearts after their
gods.”
Nevertheless, Solomon held fast to them in love.
· 3 He had seven hundred
wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines, and his wives led him
astray.
· 4 As Solomon grew old,
his wives turned his heart after other gods, and his heart was
not fully devoted to the Lord his
God (Yahweh Elohim), as the heart of
David his father had been.
Look what the Holy Scriptures says here that "Solomon
held fast to" these women in love, and it’s said, King
Solomon’s “wives led him astray”.
In final his days, King Solomon “turned
his heart after other gods”; therefore, Solomon loved his many foreign
wives and their gods more than Yahweh
Elohim.
These “foreign women” whom Yahweh Elohim
had commanded the Israelites not to “intermarry with them, because they will
surely turn your hearts after their gods” (v. 3).
Finally, these women led Solomon astray, and
his heart was “not fully devoted to the Lord his God (Yahweh Elohim),
as
the heart of David his father had been.”
Solomon
allowed his many wives to turned his heart from being “fully devoted”
to the One True Yahweh
Elohim (v. 4).
The sad commentary on King Solomon life is
given to us in Nehemiah 13:26 (NIV) where it says… “26 Was it not
because of marriages like these that Solomon king of Israel sinned? Among the
many nations there was no king like him. He was loved by his God (Yahweh Elohim),
and God (Yahweh
Elohim) made him king over all Israel, but
even he was led into sin by foreign women…”.
The great King Solomon whom Yahweh Elohim made
the wisest man on earth to live to date (no other ever had wisdom like him nor
will - see 1 Kings 3:10-14; 1 Kings 4:29-34; 2 Chronicles 1:10-12; 2
Chronicles 9).
Not even Solomon’s great wisdom could not resist
the cunning and deceitfulness of these women who persuaded him to follow their
gods. Solomon was “led into sin” by these women.
Finally, Yahweh announced judgement
on king Solomon because he had “turned his heart from Yahweh”, as it
is written…
9 Yahweh was
angry with Solomon, for he had turned his heart from Yahweh, the God of Israel
who had appeared to him twice.
10 And he had commanded him concerning
this matter not to go after other gods, but he did not keep that which
Yahweh commanded.
11 So Yahweh
said to Solomon, “Because this was with you, and you did not keep my covenant
and my ordinances which I have commanded you, I will certainly tear the kingdom
from you, and I will give it to your servant.
12 However, I
will not do it in your days, for the sake of David your father; from the hand
of your son I will tear it away.
13 Yet all of
the kingdom I will not tear away. I will give one tribe to your son for the
sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem which I have chosen.”
Deuteronomy 7:1-4 Common English Bible (CEB)
Dealing with foreign worship
·
1 Now once the Lord your God (Yahweh Elohim) brings you into
the land you are entering to take possession of, and he drives out numerous
nations before you—the Hittites, the Girgashites,
the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: seven
nations that are larger and stronger than you— 2 once
the Lord your God (Yahweh Elohim) lays
them before you, you must strike them down, placing them under the ban.[a] Don’t make any
covenants with them, and don’t be merciful to them.
·
3 Don’t intermarry with
them. Don’t give your daughter to one of their sons to marry, and don’t take
one of their daughters to marry your son,
·
4 because they will
turn your child away from following me so that they end up serving other gods. That will make the Lord’s (Yahweh Elohim) anger burn
against you, and he will quickly annihilate you.
Footnotes
a. Deuteronomy
7:2 See note at 2:34.
These women who
served other gods trained up the children to follow other gods as well as their
husbands; as it is written: the LORD (in the Hebrew “Yahweh”) says, “they
will turn your child away from following me so that they end up serving other
gods”.
Haman
and His Wife, Zeresh
In Esther 5:13-14, we
have the wife of wicked Haman, the woman Zeresh (the
leader of the group – see Esther 6:13) and all Haman’s friends leading him
further into sin and destruction by persuading him to hang Mordecai the Jew.
· 13 But even all of
that doesn’t satisfy me. I won’t be satisfied as long as I see that Jew
Mordecai sitting at the palace gate.”
· 14 Haman’s wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, “Get a pole. In the
morning, ask the king to have Mordecai put to death. Have the pole stuck
through his body. Set it up at a place where it will be 75 feet above the
ground. Everyone will be able to see it there. Then go to the feast with the
king. Have a good time.”
· Haman was
delighted with that suggestion. So he got the pole ready.
Yet, notice what his wife, Zeresh concludes in Esther 6:13 after Haman had told
her how the king had him honor Mordecai; “…Haman told
his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that
had happened to him, his wise men and his wife Zeresh
said to him, “If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of Jewish
descent, you will not prevail against him but will surely fall before him.”
(NKJV).
Is not this ironic that Haman’s wife Zeresh gave her husband Haman this advice to hang Mordecai,
the Jew.
Now, Haman’s wife Zeresh
pronounces this judgment for her husband Haman without “breaking a beat”?
Haman followed his wife Zeresh’s
advice; yet, she did not offer Haman any comfort after seeing her husband’s
death coming upon him. Haman’s wife Zeresh final
words to Haman, “your downfall is certain” (Esther 6:13 CSB).
Job and
His Wife
In Job 2,
we have Job being attacked by Satan who was trying to get Job to curse Yahweh Elohim.
Job was in sackcloth and ashes with sores all over his body. He had lost all
his sons and daughters, and only Job's wife was left. His wife in verse 9-10
instead of giving Job encouragement his wife said to him...
·
9 His wife said to him, “Are
you still holding on to your integrity? Curse God (Yahweh Elohim) and die!”
·
10 “You speak as a
foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept only good
from God (Yahweh
Elohim) and not adversity?” Throughout all this Job did not
sin in what he said.[a]
Footnotes
a.
2:10 Lit sin with his lips
Job resisted her
foolish words. Yet, the fact remains that this woman, Job’s wife tried to
persuade him to curse Yahweh
Elohim once trials and sufferings for following the
One True Yahweh Elohim came
upon them (Job 2:9; Exodus 3:13-15; Exodus 6:1-8).
Notice, that this
woman showed no fear for Yahweh
Elohim at this time - she told Job to forget his
integrity. That Job should just "curse God (Yahweh Elohim) and
die!", like Satan
wanted him to do (v. 9).
Job’s wife was
trying to persuade her husband Job to sin against Yahweh Elohim
by cursing Him.
NOTE:
Job’s wife and the
evil one
did not turn him away from serving the One True Living Yahweh Elohim in heaven – see
Job 42; Ezekiel 14:13-14, 19-20.
·
10 Take, my
brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord (Yahweh Elohim), for an example of suffering
affliction, and of patience.
·
11 Behold, we
count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and
have seen the end of the Lord (Yahweh Elohim); that the Lord (Yahweh Elohim) is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
Women of
Midian and Moab
The prophet
Hosea, speaking by the Holy Spirit reminding
the Israelites how they allowed the women of Moab to trick them into
worshipping their god Baal of Peor:
·
10 The Lord (Yahweh Elohim) says, “When I
first found Israel, it was like finding grapes growing in the desert. When I first saw
your ancestors, it was like seeing the first ripe figs of the season.
But when they came to Mount Peor, they began to
worship Baal and soon became as disgusting as the gods they loved.
As explained below,
the women of Midian and Moab caused the people
of Israel to commit harlotry (turning the congregation of Israel away
from the One True Living (Yahweh
Elohim) to
false gods – see Deuteronomy 7:1-10; Exodus 3:13-15;
Exodus 6:1-8).
·
1 While the
Israelites were camped at Acacia Grove,[a] some of the
men defiled themselves by having[b] sexual
relations with local Moabite women.
· 2 These women
invited them to attend sacrifices to their gods, so the Israelites feasted with
them and worshiped the gods of Moab. 3 In
this way, Israel joined in the worship of Baal of Peor,
causing the Lord’s (Yahweh Elohim) anger to blaze against his people.
·
4 The Lord issued the following command to
Moses:
“Seize all the ringleaders and execute them before the Lord (Yahweh Elohim) in broad
daylight, so his fierce anger will turn away from the people of Israel.”
· 5 So Moses
ordered Israel’s judges, “Each of you must put to death the men under your
authority who have joined in worshiping Baal of Peor.”
· 6 Just then
one of the Israelite men brought a Midianite woman into his tent, right before
the eyes of Moses and all the people, as everyone was weeping at the entrance
of the Tabernacle.[c]
·
7 When Phinehas
son of Eleazar and grandson of Aaron the priest saw this, he jumped up and left
the assembly. He took a spear 8 and
rushed after the man into his tent. Phinehas thrust the spear all the way
through the man’s body and into the woman’s stomach. So the plague
against the Israelites was stopped, 9 but
not before 24,000 people had died.
· 10 Then the Lord (Yahweh Elohim) said to Moses, 11 “Phinehas
son of Eleazar and grandson of Aaron the priest has turned my anger away from
the Israelites by being as zealous among them as I was. So I stopped
destroying all Israel as I had intended to do in my zealous anger.
· 12 Now tell him
that I am making my special covenant of peace with him. 13 In
this covenant, I give him and his descendants a permanent right to the
priesthood, for in his zeal for me, his God (Yahweh Elohim), he purified the
people of Israel, making them right with me.[d]”
·
14 The Israelite
man killed with the Midianite woman was named Zimri
son of Salu, the leader of a family from the tribe of
Simeon.
15 The woman’s name was Cozbi;
she was the daughter of Zur, the leader of a
Midianite clan.
·
16 Then the Lord (Yahweh Elohim) said to Moses,
·
17 “Attack the
Midianites and destroy them,
·
18 because they
assaulted you with deceit and tricked you into worshiping Baal of Peor, and because of Cozbi, the
daughter of a Midianite leader, who was killed at the time of the
plague because of what happened at Peor.”
a. 25:1a Hebrew Shittim.
b. 25:1b As in Greek
version; Hebrew reads some of the men began having.
c. 25:6 Hebrew the
Tent of Meeting.
d. 25:13 Or he
made atonement for the people of Israel.
Numbers 31:1-16 NLT
·
1 Then the Lord (Yahweh Elohim) said to Moses, 2 “On
behalf of the people of Israel, take revenge on the Midianites for leading
them into idolatry. After that, you will die and join your ancestors.”
·
3 So Moses said to the
people, “Choose some men, and arm them to fight the Lord’s (Yahweh Elohim) war of revenge
against Midian. 4 From each tribe of Israel, send 1,000 men
into battle.”
·
5 So they chose 1,000
men from each tribe of Israel, a total of 12,000 men armed for battle.
·
6 Then Moses sent them
out, 1,000 men from each tribe, and Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest
led them into battle. They carried along the holy objects of the sanctuary
and the trumpets for sounding the charge.
·
7 They attacked Midian
as the Lord (Yahweh Elohim) had commanded Moses,
and they killed all the men. 8 All five of the Midianite kings—Evi, Rekem, Zur,
Hur, and Reba—died in the battle. They also killed
Balaam son of Beor with the sword.
·
9 Then the Israelite
army captured the Midianite women and children and seized their cattle and
flocks and all their wealth as plunder.
·
10 They burned all the
towns and villages where the Midianites had lived. 11 After
they had gathered the plunder and captives, both people and animals, 12 they
brought them all to Moses and Eleazar the priest, and to the whole community of
Israel, which was camped on the plains of Moab beside the Jordan River, across
from Jericho.
·
13 Moses, Eleazar the
priest, and all the leaders of the community went to meet them outside the
camp.
·
14 But Moses was furious with all the
generals and captains[a] who had returned
from the battle.
·
15 “Why have you let all
the women live?” he demanded.
·
16 “These are the very
ones who followed Balaam’s advice and caused the people of Israel to rebel
against the Lord (Yahweh Elohim) at Mount Peor. They are the ones who caused the plague to strike the
Lord’s (Yahweh Elohim) people.
a. 31:14 Hebrew the commanders of
thousands, and the commanders of hundreds; also in 31:48, 52, 54.
In Numbers chapters
22 through 25, Balaam prophesy of Israel blessings from Yahweh Elohim.
In Numbers 31,
we are given more information about this Balaam; Yahweh
Elohim was anger with Balaam for not obeying
Him. When Yahweh
Elohim told Balaam not to go with Balak messengers, Balaam wanted to go and get paid (2
Peter 2:15-16).
·
15 These false
teachers left the right way and went the wrong way. They followed the same way
that the prophet Balaam went. He was the son of Beor,
who loved being paid for doing wrong.
16 But a donkey
told him that he was doing wrong. A donkey cannot talk, of course, but
that donkey spoke with a man’s voice and stopped the prophet from acting so
crazy.
a. 2
Peter 2:14 under a curse Literally, “children of a curse,”
meaning that God will punish them.
Yahweh
Elohim sent a donkey to chastise Balaam; yet,
Balaam was more than greedy, he fell into rebellion for he resisted Yahweh Elohim,
which is the same as witchcraft (1 Samuel 15:23).
We find Balaam
mentioned again in chapter 31 of Numbers where he is said to have instructed Balak and the Moabites (Midianites)
in how to seduce the Israelites men by using the women of Moab (Midian) to
seduce them into following other gods.
Again, the
deception of Eve is remembered (2 Corinthians 11:3). We see in Numbers
31:15 where Moses says that "through the counsel of Balaam the
women of Midian" were sent to seduce the Israelites men "to
trespass against the Lord (Yahweh
Elohim)".
And in Numbers
25, Yahweh Elohim
spoke to Moses, saying: In verses 17 and 18... "17 Harass the
Midianites, and attack them; 18 for they harassed you with their schemes by
which they seduced you in the matter of Peor".
So, we see that
when Balaam saw he could not curse the Israelites.
The false prophet Balaam still wanted to resist Yahweh Elohim
and in defiance of Yahweh Elohim
commands, and Yahweh Elohim
favor upon the children of Israel.
Balaam devised a
plan with the leaders of the Midianites to scheme against Israel by using the Moabite
and Midianite women to seduce the men of Israel to follow other gods and rebel
against the One True Yahweh
Elohim.
In the end, the
false prophet Balaam, the “occult practitioner” was “put to
the sword”:
·
22 In addition to
those slain in battle, the Israelites had put to the sword Balaam son of Beor, who practiced divination.
These women of Midian seduced the Israelites men to
disobey the Living Yahweh
Elohim.
The men of Israel were seduced by these women to commit harlotry (spiritual
adultery) against Yahweh Elohim by serving other gods beside the
Living Yahweh
Elohim in heaven.
Does this happen each and every time with women? No!
However, these women caused our ancestors to even eat
sacrifices to the dead as it is written,
Psalm 106:28 International Standard Version (ISV)
28 For they
adopted the worship[a] of Baal Peor and ate sacrifices offered to the dead.
a. Psalm
106:28 Lit. they attached themselves with Baal Peor
Revelation 2:14 NIV – The Sovereign
and Savior Yahwehshua the Messiah speaks of the teaching of
Balaam today:
·
14 Nevertheless,
I have a few things against you: There are some among you who hold to the
teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to entice the
Israelites to sin so that they ate food sacrificed to idols and committed
sexual immorality.
Yet, the Holy
Spirit informs us of the danger of women leading men astray causing them to sin
against Yahweh Elohim.
Am I to go against Yahweh Elohim
word to please those women who feel they can and should teach?
Do I believe these
women who have already gained power and rulership over men will give up their
rulership?
No! I don’t believe
they will because most have already rebelled against Yahweh Elohim
having rejected His word, which is witchcraft (1 Samuel 15:23 and Revelation
2:21).
Revelation 2:21 NIV…
21 I have given her
time to repent of her immorality, but she is unwilling.
Once these women
have gained some power in the churches of Yahweh
Elohim they become
even more blatantly and disdainfully proud of their authority over men.
Refusing to even
consider the error of their ways, these women will continue to reject anyone
who teach sound doctrine of Yahweh
Elohim, refusing to repent of this doctrine of
women teaching men, as it is written in Revelation 2:21-24.
Men of
Judah and Foreign Women
In Nehemiah 13,
the Holy Spirit speaks are “men of Judah” who had married foreign
women with children that
“could not speak the language of Judah at all”
(v. 24).
Is not this very telling as to who was
influencing the goings on in these households?
These women of “Ashdod, Ammon and Moab”
controlled the children learning not the husbands of Judah.
Do you not think
today, that these type of women leading households would not do the same to followers
of the Messiah Yahwehshua?
Are not the Holy Scriptures
written for our instructions and edification? Yes!
Are we to accept
“Only” the parts of the Scriptures we agreed with? NO!
2 Peter 1:12-21 (TLV)…16 For we did not follow
cleverly concocted tales when we made known to you the power and
coming of our Lord (Master) Yeshua (Yahshua) the Messiah, but we were eyewitnesses of His
majesty.
17 For when He received
honor and glory from God (Yahweh Elohim) the Father, a voice came to Him from
the Majestic Glory: “This is My Son, whom I love; with Him I am well pleased!” 18 And
we ourselves heard this voice come out of heaven, when we were with Him on the
holy mountain.
19 Furthermore, we have
the reliable prophetic word. You do well by paying attention to it, as to a lamp shining
in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.
20 Above all understand
this: no prophecy of Scripture comes about from a person’s own interpretation.
21 For no prophecy was
ever brought forth by human will; rather, people spoke from God (Yahweh Elohim ) as they were moved
by the Ruach ha-Kodesh (Holy Spirit).
2 Timothy 3:12-17 The
Sacred Scriptures Bethel Edition…
12 Yes, and all that
would live holy in the Messiah Yahshua shall suffer
persecution.
13 But evil men and
imposters shall become worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.
14 But remain in the
things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing of whom you
have learned them; 15 and that from a babe you have known the sacred writings
which are able to make you wise to salvation through faith which is in the
Messiah Yahshua.
16 Every Scripture
Yahweh breathed is also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction,
for instruction which is in righteousness:
17 that the man of
Yahweh may be complete, furnished completely to every good work.
· 23 About the same
time I realized that some of the men of Judah had married women from Ashdod,
Ammon, and Moab.
·
24 Furthermore,
half their children spoke the language of Ashdod or of some other people and
could not speak the language of Judah at all.
· 25 So I
confronted them and called down curses on them. I beat some of
them and pulled out their hair. I made them swear in the name of God (Yahweh Elohim) that they would
not let their children intermarry with the pagan people of the land.
· 26 “Wasn’t this
exactly what led King Solomon of Israel into sin?” I demanded.
· “There was no
king from any nation who could compare to him, and God (Yahweh Elohim) loved him and
made him king over all Israel. But even he was led into sin by his foreign
wives.
· 27 How could you
even think of committing this sinful deed and acting unfaithfully toward God (Yahweh Elohim) by marrying
foreign women?”
· 28 One of the sons of
Joiada son of Eliashib
the high priest had married a daughter of Sanballat the Horonite,
so I banished him from my presence.
· 29 Remember them,
O my God (Yahweh
Elohim), for they have defiled the priesthood and the solemn
vows of the priests and Levites.
·
30 So I purged out
everything foreign and assigned tasks to the priests and Levites, making
certain that each knew his work. 31 I
also made sure that the supply of wood for the altar and the first portions of
the harvest were brought at the proper times.
·
Remember this in my favor, O my God (Yahweh Elohim).
King Ahab
of the Nation of Israel and His Wife, Jezebel
In 1 Kings chapters 16 through 22 and 2 Kings
chapters 1 thru 10, the Holy Spirit lays out the history of the evil woman,
Jezebel whom the king of Israel, Ahab married (1 Kings 16:29-33).
· 29 Ahab son of Omri began to rule over Israel in the thirty-eighth year of
King Asa’s reign in Judah. He reigned in Samaria twenty-two years.
· 30 But Ahab son
of Omri did what was evil in the Lord’s (Yahweh Elohim) sight, even
more than any of the kings before him.
·
31 And as
though it were not enough to follow the sinful example of Jeroboam,
·
he
married Jezebel, the daughter of King Ethbaal of the
Sidonians,
and he began to bow down in worship of Baal.
· 32 First Ahab
built a temple and an altar for Baal in Samaria. 33 Then
he set up an Asherah pole.
· He did more
to provoke the anger of the Lord (Yahweh Elohim), the God (Yahweh Elohim) of Israel, than any of the other
kings of Israel before him.
NOTE:
Ashtoreth was the god of the Sidonians. Solomon bowed down to it.
·
1 After a long time,
in the third year, the word of the Lord (Yahweh
Elohim)
came to Elijah: “Go and present yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain on the
land.”
·
2 So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab.Now the famine was severe in Samaria, 3 and
Ahab had summoned Obadiah, his palace administrator. (Obadiah was a devout
believer in the Lord
(Yahweh Elohim).
·
4 While
Jezebel was killing off the Lord’s (Yahweh Elohim) prophets,
Obadiah had taken a hundred prophets and hidden them in two caves, fifty in
each, and had supplied them with food and water.)
·
6 Jehu got up and went into the house.
Then the prophet poured the oil on Jehu’s head and declared, “This is what
the Lord (Yahweh Elohim), the God (Elohim) of Israel, says: ‘I anoint you king
over the Lord’s (Yahweh Elohim) people Israel.
·
7 You are to
destroy the house of Ahab your master, and I will avenge the blood of my
servants the prophets and the blood of all the Lord’s (Yahweh Elohim) servants
shed by Jezebel.
·
8 The whole house
of Ahab will perish. I will cut off from Ahab every last male in Israel—slave
or free.[a]
a. 2
Kings 9:8 Or Israel—every ruler or leader
Jezebel
tried to kill the prophet Elijah…
·
1 Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah
had done, and how he had killed all the
prophets with the sword.
·
2 Then Jezebel
sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So may the gods do to me, and more
also, if I do not make your life like the life of one of them by this time
tomorrow.”
·
3 Then he was
afraid; he got up and fled for his life, and came to Beer-sheba,
which belongs to Judah; he left his servant there.
Jezebel killed Naboth for king Ahab to take his vineyard…
·
1 After these things
had happened, this is what followed. A man named Naboth owned a vineyard
in Jezreel, near the palace of Ahab king of Israel.
·
2 One day Ahab
said to Naboth, “Give me your vineyard. It is near my
palace, and I want to make it into a vegetable garden. I will give you a better
vineyard in its place, or, if you prefer, I will pay you what it is worth.”
·
3 Naboth
answered, “May the Lord (Yahweh Elohim) keep me from
ever giving my land to you. It belongs to my family.”
·
4 Ahab went
home angry and upset, because he did not like what Naboth from Jezreel had
said.
·
(Naboth had said, “I will not give you
my family’s land.”) Ahab lay down on his bed, turned his face to the wall, and
refused to eat.
·
5 His wife,
Jezebel, came in and asked him, “Why are you so upset that you refuse to eat?”
·
6 Ahab
answered, “I talked to Naboth, the man from Jezreel. I said, ‘Sell me your
vineyard, or, if you prefer, I will give you another vineyard for it.’ But
Naboth refused.”
·
7 Jezebel
answered, “Is this how you rule as king over Israel? Get up, eat something, and
cheer up. I will get Naboth’s vineyard for you.”
·
8 So Jezebel
wrote some letters, signed Ahab’s name to them, and used his
own seal to seal them. Then she sent them to the elders and important men who
lived in Naboth’s town.
·
9 The letter
she wrote said: “Declare a day during which the
people are to fast. Call the people together, and
give Naboth a place of honor among them.
·
10 Seat two
troublemakers across from him, and have them say they heard Naboth speak
against God (Elohim) and the
king. Then take Naboth out of the city and kill him with stones.”
·
11 The elders
and important men of Jezreel obeyed Jezebel’s command, just as she wrote in the
letters.
·
12 They declared a
special day on which the people were to fast. And
they put Naboth in a place of honor before the people.
·
13 Two
troublemakers sat across from Naboth and said in front of everybody that they
had heard him speak against God (Elohim) and the king.
So the people carried Naboth out of the city and killed him with stones.
·
14 Then the
leaders sent a message to Jezebel, saying, “Naboth has been killed.”
·
15 When Jezebel
heard that Naboth had been killed, she told Ahab, “Naboth of
Jezreel is dead. Now you may go and take for yourself the vineyard he would not
sell to you.”
·
16 When Ahab heard
that Naboth of Jezreel was dead, he got up and went to the vineyard to take it
for his own.
·
17 At this time
the Lord (Yahweh Elohim) spoke his word
to the prophet Elijah the Tishbite. The Lord (Yahweh
Elohim) said, 18 “Go
to Ahab king of Israel in Samaria. He is at Naboth’s vineyard, where he has
gone to take it as his own.
· 19 Tell Ahab
that I, the Lord (Yahweh
Elohim), say to him, ‘You have murdered Naboth and taken his
land. So I tell you this: In the same place the dogs licked up Naboth’s blood,
they will also lick up your blood!’”
·
20 When Ahab
saw Elijah, he said, “So you have found me, my
enemy!” Elijah answered, “Yes, I have found you. You have always chosen to
do what the Lord (Yahweh
Elohim) says is wrong.
·
21 So the Lord (Yahweh Elohim) says to
you, ‘I will soon destroy you. I will kill you and every male in your family,
both slave and free.
·
22 Your family
will be like the family of King Jeroboam son of Nebat
and like the family of King Baasha son of Ahijah. I will destroy you, because you have made me angry
and have led the people of Israel to sin.’
· 23 “And the Lord (Yahweh Elohim) also says,
‘Dogs will eat the body of Jezebel in the city of Jezreel.’ 24 “Anyone in your
family who dies in the city will be eaten by dogs, and anyone who dies in the
fields will be eaten by birds.”
·
25 There was no
one like Ahab who had chosen so often to do what the Lord (Yahweh Elohim) said was
wrong, because his wife Jezebel influenced him to do evil.
·
26 Ahab sinned
terribly by worshiping idols, just as the Amorite people did. And the Lord (Yahweh Elohim) had taken away
their land and given it to the people of Israel.
·
27 After Elijah
finished speaking, Ahab tore his clothes. He put on rough cloth, fasted, and
even slept in the rough cloth to show how sad and upset he was.
·
28 The Lord (Yahweh Elohim) spoke his
word to Elijah the Tishbite:
·
29 “I see that
Ahab is now sorry for what he has done. So I will not
cause the trouble to come to him during his life, but I will wait until his son
is king. Then I will bring this trouble to Ahab’s family.”
King Ahab sold himself to Jezebel and her Idolatry and Witchcraft; it
is said that Ahab was influenced by his wife Jezebel to do evil.
·
25 (There was none
who sold himself to do what was evil in the sight of the Lord (Yahweh Elohim) like Ahab,
whom Jezebel his wife incited.
·
21 “Hitch up my
chariot,” Joram ordered. And when it was hitched up, Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah rode out,
each in his own chariot, to meet Jehu. They met him at the plot of ground that
had belonged to Naboth the Jezreelite. 22 When
Joram saw Jehu he asked, “Have you come in peace,
Jehu?”
·
“How can there be peace,” Jehu replied, “as long as
all the idolatry and witchcraft of your mother Jezebel abound?”
In the last book of the Holy Bible, the book
of prophecy, we see the woman Jezebel’s name used spiritually by our
Sovereign and Savior Yahshua the Messiah to represent women in
today’s churches.
More about how this evil woman, Jezebel’s name
is used by our Sovereign and Savior Yahwehshua the Messiah in His Revelation, the testimony of Yahwehshua in Kush Edifying
Ministries Women in Biblical
Prophecy Part 8 of this paper and the podcast series, Why do you think
Jesus used the name “Jezebel”? (Revelation
1:1, 3; 11:6; 19:10; Revelation 2:18-29; Revelation 22:7, 10, 18-19 NKJV).
Therefore, I exhort you to stop twisting the
Holy Scriptures to suit your own beliefs and private interpretations by
accepting the viewpoint of this present evil and adulterous age rather than the
plain Word of Yahweh Elohim on this subject.
Repent therefore of your wrongful thinking,
and submit your life to following the things of Yahweh Elohim rather
than the things of this world of Satan
(Reference LEB
version: 1 John 5:19; Mark 4:15; Mark 8:33; Acts 26:18; 2 Cor. 11:14; 1
Tim. 5:15; Rev. 2:9, 13, 24 “…those who call themselves Jews and are not,
but are a synagogue of Satan…where Satan lives…the deep things of Satan”;
Rev. 3:9 worshipping in the “synagogue of Satan”; Rev. 12:9 Satan “…deceives
the whole world…”; Rev. 20:1-3 Satan bounded for 1000 years so “…he
could not deceive the nations again unitl the
thousand years are completed…”).
However, the Holy Scriptures tells us that
there are “many” in this present evil and adulterous age; just as the Sovereign
and Savior Yahwehshua the Messiah, the Son of the
Living Elohim says, “many” who will not repent of their unbelief and
endless myths.
Matthew 7:21-23 NKJV - I Never Knew You
As it is written concerning the woman Jezebel, Messiah Yahwehshua our Great High Priest and Master (Hebrews 4:14
and John 15:14-16) says:
Revelation
2:20-21 King
James Version (KJV)
Our Sovereign and Savior Yahwehshua
the Messiah, the Son of Elohim
is our example:
2 Timothy 3:16-17 KJV
·
“All Scripture is
given by inspiration of God (Elohim)…that the man of God (Elohim) may be perfect…”
John 1:1-14 KJV
·
“1 In the
beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God (Elohim), and the Word was
God (Elohim). 2 The same was in the beginning with God (Elohim)…14 And
the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us…”
Philippians
2:5-11 New King James Version (NKJV)
The Humbled and
Exalted Christ (Messiah)
·
5 Let this mind be in
you which was also in Christ (Messiah) Jesus (Yahshua),
6 who, being in the form of God (Elohim), did not consider it [a]robbery to be equal
with God (Elohim), 7 but [b]made Himself of no
reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of
men.
·
8 And being found in appearance
as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even
the death of the cross.
· 9 Therefore God (Elohim)
also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, 10 that
at the name of Jesus (Yahwehshua) every knee should
bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, 11 and
that every tongue should confess that Jesus (Yahwehshua)
Christ (the Messiah) is Lord (Master), to the glory of God (Elohim) the Father.
Footnotes
a.
Philippians
2:6 Or something
to be held onto to be equal
b. Philippians 2:7 emptied Himself of His privileges
Evangelist (Brother Minister)
Ron Davis, a servant of the Messiah Yahushua, of the Kush Edifying
Ministries proclaims the whole
counsel of Elohim. This ministry believes in the command of Yahushua to His
disciples in Matthew 10:7-8 “As you go, preach this message: 'The
kingdom of heaven is near.' Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who
have leprosy, drive out demons. Freely you have received, freely give” (NIV). Yahwehshua commands us to “freely” preach the word without demanding those preached to give
us ten (10%) of their income or earnings.
Please
send your comments to Evangelist Ron
Davis, of the Kush Edifying
Ministries.
OR if you want to
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send it to the below listed email address with your Scripture backing up what
you wish to debate. Thanks, and may Yahweh bless you in understanding His Holy
and righteous word.
Now, let us
move to Women in the churches
of the saints of God, Part 8, where we will examine and discuss the Word
of Elohim spoken by the Holy Spirit through the Apostle Paul and other parts of
the Holy Scriptures. Amen. Praise Yahweh my Elohim.