Sword & Trowel 2020: Issue 1
Satanic obsession, and the campaign ensnared whole denominations of churches. Without the Fall, there is no need of salvation, there is no need of redemp- tion.
Why does society
today panic to get rid of subordination in marriage, and even to dispense with marriage altogether? What is the real basis of the move- ment of feminism? What is its engine, its propulsive power? From where does it derive its energy? While it is true that many lean to feminism because of the appalling behaviour of many men, the real foundation is this Satanic desperation to dispose of the Fall. If you can abolish the distinc- tion between men and women, and the great sign of subordination which God has given to remind us of the Fall, then you will have removed the reminder of the Fall and the need of salvation. So the reason why God has given
truth. Any ministry of women preachers (to men) is carried out in defiance of God’s own ‘sermon’ on the Fall. We turn now to
Lessons for Life 1 by Jill Masters has been translated into German.
(Available in the UK from Tabernacle Bookshop.)
the two well-known passages in the New Testament, firstly 1 Corinthians 14.34 – ‘Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.’ Where does the law say that the woman must be the hearer and the man the teacher? The answer is – in Genesis
3.16 and 17. (We have to remember that when the apostle speaks of the law he refers to all the books of Mo- ses. So the ‘law’ is the Genesis text just referred to.) We then turn to 1 Timothy 2.11-12
subordination of women to men in marriage is to mark the Fall. Similarly it is the reason why women should not be preachers. We should not say to ourselves, ‘Oh, I think God does not appoint women preachers be- cause they are unsuited for that task.’ The biblical reason is to remind us of the Fall. Truth is at stake. God’s message is being communicated, and disobedience is opposition to vital
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where the apostle is even more ex- plicit. ‘Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp au- thority over the man, but to be in silence.’ This is prescribed for the church, then the reasons are given. Once again we note the text does
not say it is because the woman is in- ferior to the man, or, as many people suggest, because the role that God in- tended was reversed in the Garden of Eden, Eve taking the forbidden fruit without first asking Adam. Some say that she bears her punishment because she took over his role. It is
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