"A MAN WILL BE
like a shelter from the wind
and a refuge from the storm,
like streams of water in the desert
and the shadow of a great rock
in a thirsty land.”
Isaiah 32.2
MANHOOD today is under ATTACK.
But God’s biblical design calls for MEN to be sacrificially strong LEADERS. WOMEN need STRONG MEN to build HEALTHY FAMILIES and bring up SUCCESSFUL CHILDREN for a life of PEACE and PROSPERITY.
MEN are IMPORTANT in GOD’s EYES!
A MAN is valuable and precious and irreplaceable. In the image of God, by the example of Jesus as Shepherd, he carries a sacrificial burden of being a husband (“loyal manager”) and father, gifting his wife with the divine spark of life breathed into him by GOD (Gen. 2.7) and caring for her, his crown (Prov. 12.4) and the children she brings forth as co-creator with GOD (Gen. 4.1).
IN THE WESTERN WORLD;
the era of KNIGHTHOOD introduced the “gentleman” who serves his chosen lady, who graciously accepts his goodness (“to submit” - abah) and is his source of praise and honor.
As gender roles have been dismantled, men have lost their status and power as provider for and protector of their wife and children. They no longer feel respected, but often are vilified, humiliated, shamed, and replaced. Feminism, and its extreme form - witchcraft - have been leveraged by the enemy to destroy the delicate dance of virtuous courtship between a man and a woman, and replaced it with a marketplace of socially acceptable, yes, prostitution and men’s utter disrespect of their own divine spark of life.
, As a consequence, men no longer invest in becoming strong providers in order to “win” that valuable wife. Fathers have withdrawn and consume what the Bible calls strange women, marriages break, children are weak, women act on the lie of sexual freedom, abortions abound, mothers are overworked and miserable. Women have taken political leadership roles without being familiar with the historically anchored masculine structures or the psychology of the male global players in charge.
IN MOST NON-WESTERN CULTURES,
the era of BARBARIANISM prevails to this day, never having experienced a phase of western knighthood until this day. Representing the sharpest of male-dominant extremes, men in these parts of the world have usurped all the status and all the power, degrading women to subhuman domestic servants, grossly disrespecting women’s sacred ability to bring forth human life.
In turn, men there have lost all female praise, respect, and honor - and their wives sweet companionship and encouragement. Based on the uninterrupted history of literal barbarianism, men there have descended into an uncontrolled abyss of masculine competition and mutual annihilation in complete disrespect of human life.
Women are imprisoned in the home of their husband, often abused, and forced into pregnancy after pregnancy, bearing weak and sick children in their confinement, and must survive in an infrastructure shaped for the needs of males - no hospitals or childcare, no public safety, a life as their husband’s and his family’s slave. They have no voice, no humanity, and no dignity at all.
Neither of these two systems are in the will and design of God.
God designed the world to be co-led by a man-woman team of ONENESS (Gen. 1) of complementary strengths, mutual respect, and appreciation for each other - and the joint work to raise up the next generation brought forth by both of them.
The divine BIBLICAL formula we for ONENESS between Husband and Wife is this:
“He is more powerful -
She is more important”.
“This is a Man’s World.” Is it really?
A MAN’s true place and task as giver of the divine breath of life through his wife, his sacred role as husband, father, protector and provider have gotten lost for three root causes:
The corruption of a husband away from being the shepherd of his wife and children toward self-serving maximizing of his own advantage and the free sexual access to “strange women”
The corruption of the culture away from respecting men and noble manhood, staying married, raising strong children in 2-parent families - resulting in widespread father absence, producing selfish sons
The corruption of women toward disregarding their own sacred power of motherhood and the lie of a woman’s sexual freedom including the satanic ritual of abortion, sold to young women as empowerment.
The Bible is Truth. But not its False Translations.
Many evangelical pastors warn not against the false prophets and hireling shepherds as Jesus did, instead, they are most frightened by the intrusion of feminist theology into their church.
THIS IS NOT feminist theology at all. Instead, it is Biblical truth based on the original ancient Hebrew/Aramaic (OT) and the old Greek (NT) designed to HEAL the ONE-NESS between Man and Woman.
Here are just some examples of misleading translations:
God is a Man and strictly God the Father - TRUTH: in the OT, three forms - the masculine, feminine, and the “common gender” of male and female in one - are used interchangeably for God
A woman is generally subject to a man - TRUTH: She was created as „ezer kenegdo“ (otherwise used for God and the Holy Spirit) - his rescuer, advocate, and divine guide, not his „helpmate“ - and is his equal, his crown, and to be lifted up holy and blameless by him - as “she builds the house” of present and future generations - as Leah and Rachel built the house of Israel
A wife must submit to and obey her husband - TRUTH: „Submit“ is Correctly translated as “to allow him to satiate her with his goodness” and obey as “hear and respond to his needs (same word as "God answers a prayer)” - there is no envy, no injustice, no distrust, and no competition in the biblical marriage relationship. Both freely love, respect, and serve.
Women are not believed to understand or allowed to teach scripture - TRUTH: “Wise instruction is on her tongue”, she is his “Ezer kenegdo” (divine guide), and JESUS built His entire ministry on the testimony of WOMEN.
Women must be silent regarding the gospel - TRUTH: Jesus built His entire ministry on female witnesses. Paul only cautioned against the illiterate women chatting away in the synagogue, but not against learned women speaking and teaching. He command the husbands to teach their wives EVERYHTHING they know, as this knowledge is for both of them as equal heirs.
God speaks and acts through men as the higher being of the two - TRUTH: Nowhere in Scripture is the man called higher of above the woman. Jesus admonishes the disciples every time they argue who may be the greatest among them. Even Paul corrects himself when he remembers that yes, Adam was created before Eve, but donkeys were created before Adam, and “man comes from woman”.
The headship of a husband is laid down in God’s Genesis curse - TRUTH: A husband’s headship is never a superior position designed for exploitation of another, but by Jesus’ teachings, it is a sacrificial servant position earned by washing her feet and serving her in her burdens and tribulations.
