Tuesday, January 24, 2023 7:53:22 AM
On Sunday (January 22) I started reading the English Standard Version (ESV) Bible. My betrothed and I decided to read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation again this year in Chronological order and I suggested we read the ESV and he agreed. The reason I wanted to read the ESV is because I like reading different Bible translations each time I read all 66 books of the Bible and I had never read the ESV. The King James Version is still my favorite.
On Sunday I was reading and had a hmmmm moment: the first woman came out of man. The first woman came out of man all other people would come out of woman ONLY if man planted the seed in the woman.
GENESIS 2:21-22 ENGLISH STANDARD VERSION
21 So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. 22 And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man.
I have heard quite a few interpretations based on those verses the primary theme justifying woman being equal to man. What I read was woman came out of man’s midsection, just as baby’s come out of woman’s mid section; she came out from within him. This has nothing to do with equality or roles in life and everything to do with the woman being a part of man.
EPHESIANS 5:22 KING JAMES VERSION
22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
It is not about equality but God’s order of authority. Many people have vetoed the idea of submission because many individuals have abused the concept of submission and authority; mankind has perverted Gods way.
It is about relationship not position of authority. If you can accept the idea that woman came out of man and you believe that a man is the head of the household, an earthly representative of the Kingdom of God, then you will have made the first step to aligning yourself with the will of God.
Women need to stop giving male friends husband privileges and men need to align their lifestyles with Gods word and will. A wife is a part of the man, a girlfriend is not. For a man to abuse his wife is to abuse himself. A woman needs to love God enough to allow Him to bring her to the man He wants to be her husband and a man needs to love God enough that He wants to be like Jesus, Yeshua Hamashiach.
In addition we need to value the “seed”. Men need to stop planting their seed in wombs not meant to produce godly fruit. Women need to value their womb and prepare it to receive God sanctioned seed that will produce good fruit- godly children. Written by Marsha L Floydd
GENESIS 2:22 KING JAMES VERSION
22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
KING JAMES VERSION
Ephesians 5:25-30 (KJV)
25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
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