Women in the Church of the Living God
Part 7
Women in Biblical History who Led Men Astray
Preface
Who have bewitched the so-called professing Christian ‘mainstream’ community? That they have turned to other gospels, departing "from the simplicity that is in Christ". Falling prey to that which are not gospels at all, but gospels of feminism, prosperity, and this so-called equality in ‘authority’ of men and women in the churches of this world, and teaching other such gospels (Rev. 2:20 NIV where the Lord Jesus says, “You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophet. By her teaching she misleads my servants…”; Galatians 1:6-12; 2 Corinthians 11:3-4).
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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.
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, God
every living thing and created the Man who named every living creature (verses
1-20). In Genesis 2:15-17, God 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”):
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15 The Lord God took the man and put him in the
Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. 16 And
the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the
garden;
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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, God created the Woman from the Man Adam rib as “a helper suitable
for him” (verse 18). And Adam named 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’re not yet knowing “good
and evil”.
In Genesis 3, the
Man Adam listened to and heeded his wife persuasion
to disobey God’s command by eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil (Genesis
3:1-7 where the Woman was deceived by the Serpent – the Woman said in verses
2-3, “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.’”).
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”.
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’?”
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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.’”
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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.”
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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.
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She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and
he ate it.
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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.
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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?”
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10 He answered, “I heard you in the
garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”
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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?”
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12 The man said,
“The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate
it.”
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13 Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this
you have done?”
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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).
Afterwards, God
called the Man, Adam who was hiding from God after sinning against God.
The Man, Adam after God questioned him about eating from the tree God
commanded the Man Adam not to eat from it (Genesis 3:9-11 listed
above). Having been found to be guilty of disobeying God’s command, the
Man, Adam quickly blamed God 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:
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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,’
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18 It will
produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.
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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 God (Acts 5:29). This penalty of death was taken away by the
sacrifice of our Savior Christ Jesus (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 “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 this evil society as the Lord Jesus Christ, the
Son of God says, “Remember Lot’s wife!” (Luke
17:32 NIV). We as followers of the Lord Jesus Christ are not to look back
at nothing in this life being willing to lose our lives in this world to serve
our Lord and Master, Christ Jesus; 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”.
The Lord says, in Genesis 18:20-21 NKJV
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20 And the Lord 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 God 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).
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4 For God did not
spare even the angels who sinned. He threw them into hell,[a] in gloomy pits of
darkness,[b] where they are
being held until the day of judgment.
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5 And God did not
spare the ancient world—except for Noah and the seven others in his family. Noah warned the
world of God’s righteous judgment. So God protected Noah when he destroyed the
world of ungodly people with a vast flood.
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6 Later, God
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.
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7 But God 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.
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9 So you see, the
Lord knows how to rescue godly people from their trials, even while keeping the
wicked under punishment until the day of final judgment.
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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[c] without so much
as trembling.
a.
2:4a Greek Tartarus.
b.
2:4b Some
manuscripts read in chains of gloom.
c.
2:10 Greek at
glorious ones, which are probably evil angels.
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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.
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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.
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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?”
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 judgment.
Moses
and His Wife, Zipporah of Midian
In Exodus 4, Moses
is persuaded by his wife not to circumcise his sons (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 God was about to kill Moses
His servant for this:
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24 Now it happened
at the lodging place, that the Lord met Moses and
sought to kill him [making him deathly ill because he had
not circumcised one of his sons].
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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!”
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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 God and Abraham and his descendants (Gen.
17:1-22) to please his wife. This was a very serious matter - for God was
about to kill Moses because he “heeded the voice” of his wife. (Remember
the Man Adam listened to his wife being a type of Christ – see Genesis 3:17; also,
Moses a type of Christ 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.
Notice, the Man Moses’
Ethiopian wife Zipporah of Midian knew why God was killing him;
so, this had been a disagreement between Moses and his wife. This mean she
was responsible for the Man Moses’ disobeying God by not circumcising his sons.
Otherwise, why didn’t the Man Moses obey God’s command? Since, he knew
it was required of him; yet, he allowed his wife to persuade him not to keep
this covenant with God as being a descendant of Abraham (Genesis 17:9-14).
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 LORD
GOD (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 (also called
Jethro) an Ethiopian was a priest of Midian who counseled Moses and offered
sacrifices before the Living God with the elders of Israel – see Exodus 18.
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,
God punished Miriam, Moses’ sister for this insurrection by turning her
white with leprous – Numbers 12:10 and Deuteronomy 24:9.
Miriam persuaded her
brother Aaron to challenge Moses leadership and his
face to face speaking with God alone. (Miriam willingly forgot that Moses
stood as a god 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 God 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 God 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 (churches with one pastor should take
note here). Actually, this came from Moses’ father-in-law Jethro and God
Himself (Exodus 18:13-26; Numbers 11:1-17 v. 16 where God’s asked for
“seventy men”).
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 God. Miriam probably knowing
this influence of Moses wife over him - helped to cause Miriam’s suspicion, and
the Holy Spirit says that, “Miriam and Aaron “spoke against Moses because
of the Ethiopian woman” gives us insight into this meaning Zipporah, an
Ethiopian of Midian was not an Israelite.
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1 And Miriam and
Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married,
for he had married an Ethiopian woman.
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2 And they said, “Hath the Lord indeed spoken only by Moses? Hath He
not spoken also by us?” And the Lord heard it.
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3 (Now the man
Moses was very meek, above all the men who were upon the face of the earth.)
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4 And the Lord 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.
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5 And the Lord 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, will make Myself known unto him in a
vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.
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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 shall he
behold. Why then were ye not afraid to speak against My servant Moses?” 9 And
the anger of the Lord was kindled
against them, and He departed.
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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.
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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.
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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, saying, “Heal
her now, O God, I beseech Thee.”
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14 And the Lord 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.
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16 And afterward the people removed from
Hazeroth and pitched camp in the Wilderness of Paran.
Notice, the
question God 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 God speaking
directly to Moses “face to face, clearly and not in riddles; he sees the
form of the Lord” 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 God 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 God not Moses. As such, God swiftly put this insurrection
down and made a public example of Miriam for her leading such an evil
rebellion against God (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; pleads for 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 God to heal Miriam, God replied that she should be shut out
of the camp for seven days (Numbers 14-16).
NOTE: Miriam was a prophet – see 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).
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 “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)
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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.”
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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 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.”
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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.
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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.
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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 had left him.
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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 “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).
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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”.
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14 The mouth of an
immoral woman is a dangerous trap;
those
who make the Lord angry will fall into it.
Ecclesiastes
7:26 New Century Version (NCV)
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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 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 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. He asked God to give him vengeance on the
Philistines, and his own death also; God remembered Samson as he called on
the Names of the Lord God; the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob who granted Samson’s
final request (Exodus 3:13-15 as God says, “I AM WHO I AM”; Exodus 6:1-8 God
appeared to Moses as “I AM Yahweh” v. 2-3). Amen. Praise God.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 loved him”, and
God sent the prophet Nathan to call Solomon by the name “Jedidiah” meaning
“Beloved of the LORD” – see 2 Samuel 12:23-25.
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7 David said to
him, “My son, I wanted to build a temple for worshiping the Lord my God. 8 But the Lord 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.”
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29 God 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.
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24 Now all the
earth sought the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom, which God had put in
his heart.
In 1 Kings 11,
it is said Solomon foreign wives and women whom he loved turned him from
God, as he grew old (v. 4). God had warned Israel not to intermarry with
the nations left in the Promise land.
1 Kings 11:1-4 NIV
Solomon’s Wives
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1 King Solomon,
however, loved many foreign women besides Pharaoh’s daughter—Moabites,
Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians and Hittites.
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2 They were from
nations about which the Lord 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.
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3 He had seven hundred
wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines, and his wives led him
astray.
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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, 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 God the Father and His Christ. These “foreign
women” whom the LORD 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, 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 LORD GOD (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, and God made
him king over all Israel, but even he was led into sin by foreign women…”.
The great King Solomon whom God 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.
Deuteronomy 7:1-4 Common English Bible (CEB)
Dealing with foreign worship
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1 Now once the Lord your God 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 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.
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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,
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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 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.
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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.”
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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.”
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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 God.
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...
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9 His wife said to him,
“Are you still holding on to your integrity? Curse God and die!”
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10 “You speak as a
foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept only good from God 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 God once trials and sufferings for
following the One True Lord God came upon them (Job 2:9; Exodus 3:13-15;
Exodus 6:1-8).
Notice, that this
woman showed no fear for God at this time - she told Job to forget his
integrity. That Job should just "curse God and die!",
like Satan wanted him to do (v. 9). Job’s wife was trying to persuade her
husband Job to sin against God by cursing Him.
NOTE:
Job’s
wife and the evil one did not turn him away from serving the One True Living
God in heaven – see Job 42; Ezekiel 14:13-14, 19-20.
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10 Take, my
brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example
of suffering affliction, and of patience.
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11 Behold, we
count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have
seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord 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:
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10 The Lord 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 LORD GOD to false gods – see Deuteronomy 7:1-10;
Exodus
3:13-15; Exodus 6:1-8).
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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.
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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 anger to blaze against his people.
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4 The Lord issued the following command to
Moses:
“Seize all the ringleaders and execute them before the Lord in broad daylight, so his fierce
anger will turn away from the people of Israel.”
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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.”
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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]
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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.
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10 Then the Lord 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.
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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, he purified the people
of Israel, making them right with me.[d]”
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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.
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16 Then the Lord said to Moses,
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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
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1 Then the Lord 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.”
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3 So Moses said to the
people, “Choose some men, and arm them to fight the Lord’s 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.
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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.
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7 They attacked Midian
as the Lord 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.
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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.
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13 Moses, Eleazar the
priest, and all the leaders of the community went to meet them outside the
camp.
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14 But Moses was
furious with all the generals and captains[a] who had returned
from the battle.
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15 “Why have you let all
the women live?” he demanded.
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16 “These are the very
ones who followed Balaam’s advice and caused the people of Israel to rebel
against the Lord at Mount Peor.
They are the ones who caused the plague to strike the Lord’s 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
God. In Numbers 31, we are given more information about this Balaam;
God was anger with Balaam for not obeying Him. When God told Balaam not
to go with Balak messengers, Balaam wanted to go and get paid (2 Peter
2:15-16).
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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.
God sent a donkey
to chastise Balaam; yet, Balaam was more than greedy, he fell into rebellion
for he resisted God, 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". And in Numbers 25, the LORD
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 God and in defiance of God
commands, and the Lord’s 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 LORD GOD.
In the end, the
false prophet Balaam, the “occult practitioner” was “put to
the sword”:
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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 God.
The men of Israel were seduced by these women to commit harlotry against God by
serving other gods beside the Living God in heaven. Here again we have examples
from the Holy Scriptures showing us that whenever women are leading in
spiritual matters things do not turn out for the good.
a.
Psalm
106:28 Lit. they attached themselves with Baal Peor
Revelation
2:14 NIV – The Lord Jesus Christ speaks of the
teaching of Balaam
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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 God. Am I to go against God’s word to please
those women who feel they can and should teach? Do I believe the 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 God having
rejected His word, which is witchcraft (1 Samuel 15:23 and Revelation 2:21).
Once these women
have gained some power in the churches of God 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 God, 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 women leading households would not do the same to followers of
Christ Jesus? Are not the Holy Scriptures written for our instructions and edification?
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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.
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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 that they would not let their
children intermarry with the pagan people of the land.
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26 “Wasn’t this
exactly what led King Solomon of Israel into sin?” I demanded.
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“There was no king from any nation who could compare to
him, and God loved him and made him king over all Israel. But even he was led
into sin by his foreign wives.
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27 How could you
even think of committing this sinful deed and acting unfaithfully toward God by
marrying foreign women?”
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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.
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29 Remember them,
O my God, for they have defiled the priesthood and the solemn vows of the
priests and Levites.
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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.
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Remember this in my favor, O my God.
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).
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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 sight,
even more than any of the kings before him.
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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, the God of Israel, than any of the other kings of Israel before
him.
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1 After a long time,
in the third year, the word of the Lord 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.
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4 While Jezebel
was killing off the Lord’s prophets,
Obadiah had taken a hundred prophets and hidden them in two caves, fifty in
each, and had supplied them with food and water.)
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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, the God of
Israel, says: ‘I anoint you king over the Lord’s 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 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…
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19 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 his vineyard…
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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.”
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3 Naboth
answered, “May the Lord keep me from
ever giving my land to you. It belongs to my family.”
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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.
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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.”
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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 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 and the king. So the people carried Naboth out of the city and
killed him with stones.
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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.
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17 At this time
the Lord spoke his word
to the prophet Elijah the Tishbite. The Lord 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, 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!’”
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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 says is wrong.
21 So the Lord 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.’
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23 “And the Lord 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.”
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25 There was no
one like Ahab who had chosen so often to do what the Lord 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 had taken away their land and given
it to the people of Israel.
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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 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
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25 (There was none
who sold himself to do what was evil in the sight of the Lord like Ahab, whom Jezebel his wife
incited.
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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?”
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“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 spiritual by the Lord Jesus Christ to represent women in today’s
churches. More about how this evil woman, Jezebel’s name is used by our Lord
and Savior Christ Jesus in His Revelation, the testimony of Jesus in Kush
Edifying Ministries Women in Biblical
Prophecy Part 8 of this study 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 age rather than the plain Word of
God on this subject. Repent therefore of your wrongful
thinking, and submit your life to following the things of God rather than the
things of this world.
However, the Holy Scriptures tells us that
there are “many” in this present age; just as the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of
the Living God 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, Christ Jesus our
Great High Priest and Master (Hebrews 4:14 and John 15:14-16) says:
Revelation
2:20-21 King
James Version (KJV)
Christ Jesus, the Son
of God is our example:
2 Timothy 3:16-17 KJV
·
“All Scripture is
given by inspiration of God…”
John 1:1-14 KJV
·
“1 In the
beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The
same was in the beginning with God…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
·
5 Let this mind be in
you which was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, being in the form of
God, did not consider it [a]robbery to be equal
with God, 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 also
has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, 10 that
at the name of Jesus 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 Christ is Lord, to the glory of God 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 (Minister)
Ron Davis, a servant of Christ Jesus, of the Kush Edifying
Ministries proclaims the whole
counsel of God. This ministry believes in the command of Jesus 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). Jesus 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
debate my conclusion of in this matter; if you want to argue your own “private interpretation”, then please
send it to the below listed email address with your Scripture backing up what
you wish to debate. Thanks, and may God 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 God spoken by the Holy Spirit through the Apostle Paul and
other parts of the Holy Scriptures. Amen. Praise God.