DIVORCE, WOMEN,
AND THE CURSE OF 1920
DIVINE
GOVERNMENTAL ORDER
In this closing section, we want to further address this matter
concerning Yahweh’s governmental order. We have noted that 1 Corinthians 11:3 sets forth the
government of headship – that Yahweh is the head of Yahshua, that Yahshua
is “the head of every man,” and that “the man is the head of
woman.” But before we
continue, we need to briefly examine the scope of this last statement –
“the man is the head of woman.”
The question arises here – Is the headship of the man over
woman speaking specifically of the husband over his wife, or does this apply in
the broad sense of the man over woman?
The Greek word, “gunaikos,” which is used here per
“woman,” is actually translated in other places both ways. In Ephesians 5:23 we read –
“For the husband is head of the wife.” The word “wife” is “gunaikos.” Thus, in this regard 1 Corinthians 11:3
could be referring to the man’s wife. The only difference in these two verses is that Ephesians
5:23 adds the definite article “the.”
But on the other hand, only five and eight verses after the
statement in 1 Corinthians 11:3, the identical Greek word is used to represent
woman in general. Verse 8 reads
– “For man does not originate from woman (gunaikos).” And in verse 11 we likewise read
– “nor is man independent of woman (gunaikos).” Obviously, in these two statements he is
not talking about a man and a wife, but man and woman in the broad sense.
Since Paul had just used this Greek word to explain that
“the man is head of woman,” verses 8 and 11 are compelling
testimony that the use of this identical word in verse 3 likewise addresses the
governmental headship relative to man and woman in the broad sense. This is also confirmed insomuch that
Paul had just stated that Yahshua was the head of “every man.” Obviously, this too is very broad. And sealing this obvious application,
immediately following in verses 4 and 5 Paul continues with the scope of
“every man” and “every woman.” So without a doubt, the scope of
headship addressed here is every man and every woman. And as we noted earlier, this is indeed the government of
Yahweh for man from the beginning – “and he will rule over
you.”
We have already seen how critical governmental order is; and when
we reject Yahweh’s government, we in truth reject the Governor. This was essentially Yahshua’s
message when He said He would reject those who perform works in His name, and
yet “practice lawlessness.”
Because they reject Him by rejecting His government, He will reject them
before the Father.
This governmental order of Yahweh has ramifications that are
highly determining. In Luke 9:48
Yahshua stated:
“whoever receives Me receives
Him who sent Me.”
This means that if you receive Yahshua as your head so as to do
His will only, then you receive Yahweh Father, His head. In similar manner, in Luke 10:16 He
expanded:
“The one who listens to you
listens to Me, and the one who rejects you rejects Me; and he who rejects Me
rejects the One who sent Me."
As you can see, this is a very complete and highly determining
sequence that follows Yahweh’s governmental pattern of headship as
clearly stated in 1 Corinthians 11:3, only stated here in reverse order.
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1 Cor. 11:3 Yahweh Yahshua “every man” |
Luke 10:16 “the one who sent Me” “Me” “you” |
Unquestionably then, how we respond to those in authority over us,
determines our relationship with both the Father and the Son. My wife, who is now separated from me,
told me that Christ was the head of her (now separate) home. But governmentally, how can this be
true when she rejects her head? If
Yahshua is my head, and she rejects me; then as we read here, she rejects
Yahshua and the Father. She cannot
have it both ways, rejecting me as head and saying that Christ is her
head. It is just that simple.
John likewise wrote – “If someone says, ‘I love
God,’ and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love
his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen” (1
John 4:20). So then how can a wife
say that she submits to the headship of God whom she has not seen, when she
will not submit to her God-established head, her husband, whom she has
seen? The duplicity of this is
glaring! Again, the government of
headship is one intact order, and one cannot reject or alter a part of that
government without impacting the whole.
And even if I rejected Yahshua, 1 Corinthians 11:3 says that,
governmentally, He is still my head, and that governmental order remains. Yes, I would indeed be held
accountable, for I would reject the Father as well; but the government does not
change. So even if I rejected
Yahshua, my wife is not justified in rejecting me, or any wife likewise
rejecting her husband.
This is the identical message Paul delivered when he said that the
believer is to remain with the unbelieving spouse. Once again, established family government prevails! Even when there is a change wherein
light and darkness, righteousness and lawlessness, are united, the union and
government of marriage remains. It
is immutable! Why? Because family government is
established in concert with the headship of the Father and the Son, who is the
head of the man, who is the head of his wife. One cannot either alter or reject the part, without altering
or rejecting the whole.
When a woman chooses to take the headship and rule her husband or
the home, she is in practice altering Yahweh’s governmental order –
usurping Yahshua, who is the husband’s rightful head, and not the
woman. Any woman who seeks the
authority over the man, either civilly or in the home, violates the
governmental order of Yahweh God and usurps Yahshua!
Divine
Governmental Order
Yahweh
Yahshua
Man
Woman
But when the woman seeks to exercise the authority of or over the
man, she usurps Yahshua.
Usurped
Governmental Order
Yahweh
Woman
Man
No wonder that from the beginning Yahweh set in order –
“and he will rule over you.”
When women usurp their husbands or usurp the authority of men, they
displace His Son and defile His intact headship order! Yahshua is the head of “every
man,” and when a woman steps into the role over a man, she interrupts and
displaces His headship, as well as the Father’s. Again, you cannot distort one level,
without impacting the whole.
Yahweh once taught me the truth that “familiarity leads to
error.” There was once a day
in this nation before women caused men to eat from the tree of the knowledge of
good and evil, that a woman was innately respectful of the place of men. (Of course likewise, this caused men to
be very respectful of the woman.)
But because of the familiarity that has come about by women entering
into the place of men by virtue of the women’s rights movement, it has
led to error, and that innate respect has disappeared. There no longer exists the clear line
between men and women that is critical for a healthy society.
Women thought they could solve the problems of the world by
becoming like men. How could they
when they abandoned one of the greatest world-impacting contributions they
could ever make – giving and teaching their children the living example
of the due respect of God-established authority? The world and the family would not be where it is today, in
its state of rebellion, if the woman had stayed at home to train and give godly
example to our children. When
women left the home, it was only a matter of time that rebellion would follow. Just look at the rebellion of the
60’s, the generation produced when women more widely began to abandon
their place in the home – cause and effect.
Women, you raise our young children by example. When they see you going after the
things of this world by leaving the home, you inherently train them to set
worldly gain as their goal. And no
matter what you may say, your actions will speak louder than words – to
your family, and to society. They
see your message, and all of society sees your message, and the anchor of the
home is cast loose.
And when our children see you occupying a place equal to the man,
you train them to disregard and rebel against God-established authority. When they see you becoming like a man,
in the home, in business, in government, and in dress, you confuse the sexes
and our children become homosexuals.
When you are not in the home, it sends the message of lawlessness and
distorted values, and leaves our children floundering without divine structure
and engrained order and purpose.
No, ladies, you did not help the world when you forsook the home. You destined us to destruction!
Women are the divine anchor of society, because they are to keep
the home, the bedrock of society.
They are the keepers of everything that means security in the lives of
their children, and for their husbands as well who go out of the home and labor
in the world. Life may bring many
tests, but the home is to be there as a sanctuary of safety and security and
order. But when the woman, the
divine keeper of the home, departs from the home and enters into the world; the
child, the husband, and society all immeasurably suffer. The anchor is removed, and the family
and society go adrift!
This is indeed what has happened since the Curse of 1920. The woman abandoned the divine order of
Yahweh, forsaking her God-given responsibility in the home, and the ill
consequences have been obvious – again, cause and effect!
When any young woman gets married, her place is of necessity the
home. Young women may work in
places of service as teachers or nurses or in places where they serve a need;
but when they marry, their place in the home is priority one! It is not wrong for a young woman to work in places of
service wherein she does not take the place of the man. It is not even wrong for a woman to
dedicate her life to service, such as helping others as a nurse or teacher,
even in the order of mother Teresa; but she is to remain unmarried.
But any girl or woman who marries commits her life to one
consuming purpose – to be a wife and a mother, to be the anchor of peace
and safety and security and example for the home and for society. Here is what the Scriptures
specifically say concerning the role of women.
But women will be preserved through
the bearing of children if they continue in faith and love and sanctity with
self-restraint (1 Timothy 2:15).
Therefore, I want younger widows to get married, bear children,
keep house, and give the enemy no occasion for reproach; for some have already
turned aside to follow Satan (1Timothy 5:14-15).
Older women likewise are to be reverent in their behavior, not
malicious gossips nor enslaved to much wine, teaching what is good, so that
they may encourage the young women to love their husbands, to love their
children, to be sensible, pure, workers at home, kind, being subject to their
own husbands, so that the word of God will not be dishonored (Titus 2:3-5).
Both in society and in the church, it is erroneously espoused that
the man and the wife are to be co-partners in the marriage. Pastors even teach this. There are even churches in which the
husband and the wife are touted as co-pastors. Christians, including my wife, have even pointed me to
Ephesians 5:21 as evidence that the husband and the wife are to “be
subject to one another in the fear of Christ.” The error of this is glaring! If they really feared Christ, they would not even suggest
this. What does this passage have
to do with marriage? Nothing
whatsoever, but is a statement concerning the relationship between other
believers, which is a governmental level wherein we are indeed equal. But in marriage, there is a clearly
established headship.
So where does this false idea come from which is pervasive in the
church? It is nothing less than
the women’s rights movement in the church. And why shouldn’t it be there, for it was from the
church that the women’s rights movement began? The first official women’s rights meeting on July 20,
1848, whereupon the Declaration of Sentiments was signed by 62 women and 32
men, was held at the Seneca Falls Wesleyan Methodist Church. That pivotal document was signed in the
church! And most meetings
following this were at churches, and the leaders were active Christians, and
some of the women were “ordained ministers.” The women’s rights movement was
soundly rooted in the church.
So when women want equality in the church, why not? It has been a part of it from the
beginning. But what does this
“equality” really speak, for what we do has to be looked at
governmentally?
We know that the Father is the head of Yahshua, that Yahshua is
the head of every man, and that the man is the head of woman. If it is held that the husband and the
wife are to “be subject to one another,” or that the same standard
applies in God’s government for men and women, then in this consistent
governmental thread we must also conclude that Yahshua and the man are to
“be subject to one another.”
And, it would also mean that the Father and the Son are to “be
subject to one another.”
But on this last point, we know for certainty that this is not the
case. Yahshua repeatedly said that
He did nothing of Himself, but only the will of the Father. So, that is not being subject to one
another, but complete submission.
Next, we also know that we are instructed to obey Yahshua; so, that too
is not being subject to one another, but is once again complete submission and
accountability (as He will judge us).
Now, then how is it that these “unreasoning animals” want us
to accept this fallacious notion that a husband and wife or the man and woman
are to be subject to one another?
Clearly, the spirit of the women’s rights movement still lurks in
the church.
I had a woman to write me with a similar claim; and of course it
was using scriptures. It is quite
relevant and telling that the founder of the women’s rights movement,
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, published The Women’s Bible, basically rewriting the Bible with
feminism in mind. And in that same
spirit, this is still done today, unfortunately by both men and women.
The point being made was basically the argument that there is
neither male nor female, and that Yahweh is not a respecter of people;
therefore, men and women are equal.
I point this out here because it is only one example that if someone
wants to take a contrary position on this, there are always some scriptures
that can be pulled out to justify or seek to validate their position. And for those who want to believe that
position, whether it be the right to divorce or for women to teach or exercise
the authority of a man, or any other like issues, they of course will embrace
the error. But what I wrote back
to this lady was that we should heed that which is clearly and specifically
stated, which these two matters afford.
To ignore the clear statements in preference to vague references is to
skirt the issue (“skirt,” in more ways than one).
If there is a oneness we should seek, it should be the oneness
Yahshua spoke of in John 17:19-22 wherein there is oneness of purpose under
divine headship. Yahshua and the
Father were one, but that was one in purpose, not one in governmental
headship. Yahshua always submitted
to the Father, and that is what made them one. Being one is not equality, but complete submission and
harmony of will and purpose with one’s head.
Unquestionably, from the beginning Yahweh God set forth a
governmental order, an order that has been followed throughout history (with
exception to the Curse of 1920) – Yahweh is the head of Yahshua, Yahshua
is the head of every man, and the man is the head of woman. And “from the beginning,”
when a man and a woman are united together, the two become one flesh,
“and therefore what God has joined together, let no man separate.” These are clearly stated and thoroughly
supported governmental truths handed down to us by God, and they are good.
Man
today fails to recognize a vital principle and truth that our founding fathers
knew and practiced, literally, religiously. When they established our form of government, they
diligently sought the Scriptures to see what was Yahweh’s
government. They sought to emulate
His government, knowing that harmony with it strengthened the chances that this
fledgling experiment of a nation would succeed. But evidenced by Adams’ Abigail, a storm of immense
destructive proportions was looming, and would rip at its foundations.
The
process our forefathers pursued in searching the Scriptures is the key to
successful government – of necessity, man’s government must
emulate Yahweh God’s government! This is why He set in order that He was
the head of Yahshua, that Yahshua was the head of every man, and that the man
was the head of woman. Each level
of government emulated the government that was established over it.
The
problem that we have today, that will lead to our total destruction if we do
not repent, is that more and more this nation’s government is becoming
counter to Yahweh God’s government.
Abortion, provided via the women’s rights movement, is murder, and
is counter to Yahweh’s governmental laws. Homosexuality is sin, and is completely contrary to
Yahweh’s governmental laws.
And yes, “women’s rights” and all of its ill
byproducts are entirely counter to Yahweh’s governmental laws.
From
the beginning of time, up until the women’s rights movement, man’s
government emulated Yahweh’s government that (1) when a man and a woman
were married, the two became one flesh, and (2) that the man would rule over
the woman (Genesis 3:16). In like
regard, from the beginning of this nation, we had a patriarchal form of
government. Therefore, property
was held primarily by men, and governing was exclusively by men.
The
thirteen colonies established their governments and the government of this
nation under the significant influence of Blackstone’s Commentaries of 1765 to 1769. Blackstone stated:
By marriage, the husband and wife are one
person in law; that is, the very
being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage, or
at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband, under whose
wing, protection, and cover she performs every thing; and is, therefore, called in our law –
French a feme-covert, faemina
viro co-operta; is said to be covert-baron, or under the protection and
influence of her husband, her
baron, her lord; and her condition, during her marriage, is called her coverture.
From
where did Blackstone derive this legal position? Quite clearly, it was directly from the Scriptures. Once again it was from 1 Corinthians 11
where we find Yahweh’s clear replicable governmental order regarding
headship – Yahweh, Yahshua, the man, and the woman. In this governmental passage it is
further laid out that the man is the “covering,” or as Blackstone
stated, the “coverture,” of his wife. Again, his term – “coverture” – and
his logic came directly from the Scriptures. This was the wise basis upon which our government was
founded and formed, and this must be the wise basis to which we return today.
The
legal principle of “feme-covert” is just what the word means
– the “covered woman.”
But even as women have abandoned the headcoverings that women wore from
the beginning of the church until the Curse of 1920, and are clearly set forth
in 1 Corinthians 11:3-16, so they have abandoned the feme-covert, the covering
of the woman by her husband, her “coverture.” Women do not wear headcoverings
today as a clear evidence that they have rejected the covering of the man, of
their husbands. They have thrown
off their headcoverings (as well as their coverings in general –
clothing), even as they have thrown off their husbands. Women are UNCOVERED – on their heads, on their bodies,
and in their governmental relationship with their divine coverture. (For
more on the subject of headcoverings, read Coverings.)
So
who is wiser today, we minuscule easily deceived “liberated” and
“advanced” people who have created multiple ills by altering the
government given to us and departing from His ways, … or Almighty
God? Under the founding law of
feme-covert, man was in harmony with His Creator. Our nation in the beginning sought to walk in His ways, and
greatly benefited from doing so.
Our problem today is that Yahweh blessed America for its obedience, and
now we have forsaken Him and His ways by listening to the voice of the woman,
and are reaping the burgeoning ill consequences! We as a nation are equally uncovered, which is very likely
why 9-11 took place.
Yahweh
said that when the man and the woman marry, the two become one flesh under the
husband’s headship, “coverture.” What then makes more confirming and attesting sense than
when the man votes, he votes in representation of his governmental union of
oneness with his wife? By one
vote, it is representative of one governmental unit. What happens when man and wife both vote, and can even
counter each other’s votes?
They attest to a house divided, which our families and our nation have
become. What we do, how we set up
our government, speaks louder and has overwhelmingly greater impact than all
the words in the world. Actions
speak louder than words, and actions must match Yahweh God’s government.
Our
wisely established founding government slowly began to change in the early
1800’s because of the women’s rights movement. Women’s rights was not a sudden
change, but Satan began gradual changes – the frog in the beaker
scenario! Still holding onto some
forms of godliness, changes began to erode away at the home and the divine
place of the woman, and it took place subtly. As it is written, “Now the serpent was more
crafty/shrewd/subtle than any beast of the field which Yahweh God had made. And he said to the woman,
‘Indeed, has God said, “You shall not eat from any tree of the
garden?”’” (Genesis 3:1). If you want to see the garden again and the serpent and the
woman, just look at America.
First,
women wanted equal treatment under the law so they could own property like
their husbands. They wanted equal education
and equal access to many jobs.
They wanted to be able to address mixed groups of men and women,
something socially forbidden up to that point, and even to serve in places of
leadership – starting with the anti-slavery movement. They said little about women’s
suffrage, and in fact most women soundly opposed it. Today, we are inclined to agree with them on these changes;
but the fact is, they were beginning the subtle course of rebellion!
Subtle
as it was, this nation began to reject the government of Yahweh God, and thus
rejected God Himself, and has reaped the consequences. As we have seen, when we reject His
law, we reject Him. Women listened
to the crafty serpent and we convinced ourselves that these things were right;
when in fact, like the man who falsely concluded that God wanted him to be
happy and would provide him another wife, we too created a god in our own
image, out of our own pleasures.
We too became “unreasoning animals,” for how can we create a
government that is contradictory to His government? What our forefathers established in godly pursuit and
reason, we have torn down in foolish licentiousness and the pursuit of
pleasure, selfishness, and rebellion.
We have violated His principles, including the union of two into one under
the husband’s headship.
Like
the man who wanted to divorce his wife and marry another, thereby rejecting
Yahshua’s clear instruction and committing adultery, we too have
justified our feelings about “women’s rights” out of
self-pleasure and lack of principle, and thereby have rejected His ways and
have sinned against Him. And like
that Christian man, we deny Yahweh God by our actions, yet keep a form of
godliness so we can continue our religious experience and, to our own harm,
falsely feel good and secure and confident about ourselves. But we wholly deceive ourselves and
prepare ourselves for judgment!
That man was keeping all the outward appearances of being a Christian
– going to church, talking about witnessing, about being a Christian
– but at the same time was establishing pursuits that actually rejected
Yahshua. And this is precisely
what this nation has done.
This
nation tries to keep all the outward appearances of being Christian and moral,
equally convincing ourselves that we are OK; but governmentally we deny Him by
changing the laws whereupon this nation was founded, vis-à-vis –
promoting the separation of the union of a man and a woman as one under the
man’s headship. And this is
not just about divorce, but all that has led to our present divorce problem
– giving the woman equal rights to property, equal rights to employment,
equal rights to voting and government, equal rights to the pulpit and to the
podium. We have slowly torn apart
this union, piece by piece, principle by principle, standard by standard, law
by law, and as a result have gained for ourselves not only rampant divorce, but
all the resulting evils of the women’s rights movement.
Is
it not obvious that when we changed all these laws relative to the legal union
of man and woman as one under the man’s headship, upon which our nation
was originally founded, that it has led to the hemorrhage of divorce and other
like ills, including opening wide the doors of common-law marriages, or just
living together, and even homosexuality?
When the bedrock and sustaining government of “two into one”
was changed, it was inevitable that rampant divorce and other like deviations
from His standard would follow – cause and effect! We abandoned Yahweh’s government,
and have woefully reaped the consequences!
Today,
three-fourths of all divorces are filed by women. Our legal system that once was the guardian of
Yahweh’s divine union of a man and a woman under the husband’s
headship, has been altered and perverted to the extent that it has become the
foe of this divine union, and has not only made divorce easy, but even
attractive.
Men’s
wives rebel against them and file for divorce; and the husbands then have to
pay them for their rebellion, and even stand by helplessly as their own
children are taken from them – all of this against their wills! This is a national tragedy and
deleteriously affects the desire of many men to even get married. Women wanted the right to own property;
but they didn’t stop there.
Today they rebel against the husband and take his property. One man exclaimed in obvious
frustration – “I don’t think I’ll get married
again. I’ll just find a
woman I don’t like and give her a house.” If a woman wants to rebel against her husband, he should not
be required to support and pay for her rebellion. If we returned to Yahweh’s laws that are based on the
two becoming one flesh, this entire problem would not even exist.
As
we have addressed, our nation without godly government is like the human body
without our designed bones. Our
nation has become a twisted and distorted and crippled freak, lacking the image
that it was born to uphold! We
have listened to the one that lost its limbs and had to crawl on its belly and
eat dust. And because we have
allowed our godly government to be changed, we too have lost our original
form. And if we do nothing to
correct this, we will be further judged, and even greater so because we now
know the truth of our egregious errors.
Our
nation holds to the adage of “one person, one vote.”
Let us return this to its rightful truth by restoring our
forefather’s belief that when a man and a woman are united in marriage,
they become one flesh. Thus, let
us uphold the truth – one person, insomuch that two become one flesh,
evidenced by one vote! The man is the head of the woman, so
why not one vote? The man is to
rule over the woman, so why not one vote?
The woman is not to exercise the authority of a man, so why not one
vote? What would be a greater and
more fitting and exemplary and much needed testimony to these truths?
When
governing is placed in the hands of man, it must be wholly consistent with the
government of God his Creator.
Yahshua is the head of every man, and our government must reflect His
will. We must return to the
righteous standards set forth in the government of the thirteen colonies that
formed this nation.
When
we look to the past and to the future, we see that it will not be a foreign
enemy that destroys America, it will not be economic failure, it will not be a
natural disaster; but the enemy will be government. Government made this nation, and government will destroy it
– corrupted government, compromised government, altered government,
government that has departed from its original foundational principles and
values, government that does not represent the government of Yahweh God. This is what will destroy this
nation. Any of the first things
mentioned could be the fulfillment, but it will not be the cause. The cause of this nation’s
destruction will be government that fails to uphold the government of our
Creator.
The United States and other countries of the world have forsaken
this divine governmental order, and are wallowing in the muck of their
error. And unfortunately, nations
have always been blind to their state of depravity, until it is too late. Nineveh was a rare exception to
this. Israel and the Jews played
the harlot, rejecting the prophets, and were ultimately judged (by their
enemies). People both then and
today do not want their comfortable lives disrupted. They seek to hold onto status quo, even when it is
wrong. I fear that our nation will
do nothing concerning its depravation, that is unless Yahweh sends another
Jonah. The only thing I see that
will wholly turn this nation, is an outpouring of the Holy Spirit on a remnant
in the latter rain.
A literal translation of Daniel 9:27 states (contrary to what the
“broad” majority think):
… and for the overspreading of
abominations, He will make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that
which is determined will be poured out upon the desolate.
The
identity of “that which is determined” is stated in the preceding
verse:
… and the end will come with a flood.
This
is what this world needs – the flood of His Spirit that covers the earth,
foreshadowed in Noah’s flood.
But it is not a flood that destroys the natural, but in like regard puts
an end to the desolation that has been on the earth, even from the beginning,
but more specifically since Yahshua left this earth and went to heaven. Since then His church has been
desolated, and has failed to yet deliver the earth, including America from its
Curse of 1920. The only thing that
will truly end this desolation is the flood of His Spirit.
It
is this outpouring upon which we wait.
But until then, we expose darkness, and in this writing seek to reverse
the Curse of 1920. Will we
prevail? Time will tell. But meanwhile, we will do all we can to
turn back the darkness of ignorance and rebellion, and seek to restore and
establish the government of Yahweh on this earth:
(1.) The man is the head of the home and head of society. The woman cannot exercise the authority
of man in either.
(2.) The husband is to love and honor his wife.
(3.) The wife is to obey her husband.
(4.) Divorce is not an option (except in the case of infidelity).
(5.)
The married woman is to be the keeper of the home and not work outside
of it.
(6.)
Children are to obey their parents in all things.
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