PART TWO- WOMEN, PRIESTS, AND TABERNACLES

2.C. The Woman Is The Shadow, And Example Of The Temple, And Also Of The New Jerusalem.

Why then were there no women priestesses in the Old Testament?

Now, we know that the woman is the shadow, and example of the temple, and also of the New Jerusalem.

But remember- Jesus' body was also a temple! Yet He was a man-

Joh 2:19 "Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. 20 Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days? 21 But he spake of the temple of his body."

Paul spoke also of the believers bodies being temples-

1Co 6:19 "What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?"

Now we see the similitude being that, at the point when the Spirit is in control of the temple, the body, or the bride- gender is NO LONGER A FACTOR!!! We see this reality portrayed, for one, in the fact that the New Jerusalem, which is called the bride of Christ, and is the ultimate destination of the seed, is seen NOT as a woman, but as a city- being neither male nor female!

Rom 8:1 "There is therefore NOW NO CONDEMNATION TO THEM which are in Christ Jesus, WHO WALK **NOT** AFTER THE FLESH, BUT AFTER THE SPIRIT... 5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit... 9 ...YE ARE NOT IN THE FLESH, BUT IN THE SPIRIT, IF SO BE THAT THE SPIRIT OF GOD DWELL IN YOU. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. 10 And IF CHRIST BE IN YOU, THE BODY IS DEAD because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness... 13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. 14 For AS MANY AS ARE LED BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD, they ARE the **SONS** of God."

Can women NOT then be- "Led by the Spirit of God"?? Of course they can! Therefore, this scripture says they are *SONS* of God!!! And if they are SONS of God they are JOINT-HEIRS with Christ, and are also the *SEED* of Abraham!!!

Gal 3:28 "THERE IS NEITHER... MALE NOR FEMALE: for **YE** ARE **ALL** ONE in Christ Jesus. 29 And IF YE BE CHRIST'S, THEN ARE YE ABRAHAM'S **SEED**, and HEIRS according to the promise."

Now consider this- does God "NOT impute sin" unto women if they have obeyed Acts 2:38 and are walking after the Spirit? The scripture specifically says this blessedness is for the man, the "aner"...

Rom 4:8 "Blessed is the man (aner- MAN) to whom the Lord will not impute sin. 9 Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. 10 How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision. 11 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also: 12 And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.

So then, if women can be saved, then they also are the SEED of Abraham!

Now, if anyone disallows, or rejects the actuality of the fulfillment in maturity of the spiritually led woman IN THIS DISPENSATION, then, according to all these types and similitudes, (and specifically stated scriptures), that person must also ultimately reject and deny the effectual power of the ENTIRE SALVATION PLAN of God for mankind!!! For one is a type of the other!

Act 10:34 "Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I PERCEIVE THAT GOD IS NO RESPECTER OF PERSONS: 35 But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him."

Have I made this understandable?

So many people do emphatically contend that a woman can't be in a position of authority (i.e. Pastor). But that is contrary to all these types and similitudes. It would be like saying the church has no authority over the world! It would be like saying the New Jerusalem is not the seat of authority in the heavens!

Luk 10:16 He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me. 17 And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, EVEN THE DEVILS ARE SUBJECT UNTO *US* THROUGH THY NAME. 18 And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. 19 Behold, I GIVE UNTO YOU POWER to tread on serpents and scorpions, and OVER ALL THE POWER OF THE ENEMY: and nothing shall by any means hurt you. 20 Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven."

Do you see what confusion an interpretation that disallows women in the ministry lends to these types and similitudes yet?

In type, and similitude, the woman is in submission only to the ONE man, either Christ, or her own husband, but rules as joint-heir with him over everything else.

1Co 11:11 "Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord. 12 For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God."

Now to have the woman herself rule, is to be Babylonish. But, to have the woman rule ACCORDING TO THE SEED OF CHRIST WITHIN HER is the prophesy (and a requirement) of the church! And the woman is the type and similitude of the church!

1Pe 3:1 "Likewise, ye wives... 3 Whose adorning let it NOT be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; 4 But LET IT BE THE HIDDEN **MAN** of the heart, in that which is NOT CORRUPTIBLE, even the ornament of a meek and quiet SPIRIT"

Do you see that? The spiritual MAN, INSIDE of the woman IS the seed!!!

There is no contradiction in having women pastors, according to the types and similitudes then, IF (and granted this is a big IF), and only IF, she is being led by the spiritual "man" (the Spirit of Jesus Christ) within her! In fact, she is exemplifying the prophesy of the church, and of New Jerusalem in similitude in being able to be so!

2.D. The Carnal Woman.

On the other hand, if she is not being led by the Spirit, but is being led by that outwardly, carnal body- she is back under the curse. This is what is being referred to in 1 Corinthians 14:34-35...

1Co 2:14 "But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God... 3:1 And I, brethren, COULD NOT SPEAK UNTO YOU AS UNTO SPIRITUAL, BUT AS UNTO CARNAL, even as unto babes in Christ. 2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able. 3 FOR YE ARE YET CARNAL: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, ARE YE NOT CARNAL, AND WALK AS MEN?

To this CARNAL church, to whom Paul could not write as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, it is written-

1Co 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. 35 And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church."

It is not permitted unto them to speak, any more than, and in the same way that, it is also not permitted for the carnal church body to inherit New Jerusalem!

These women are typified in the 5 foolish virgins (Matt 25:1-13), and the woman in Rev. 12 (that part of the church not making the rapture), but fleeing into the wilderness (Rev. 12:6) there to endure tribulation!

The law that put women under obedience is found in the curse-

Gen 3:16 "Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee."

In Genesis, the serpent was an influence of outward, carnal authority. The authority was brought in from outside the marriage, the type of Christ and His church, and more specifically through the woman as the type of the natural body of Christ, and polluted the marriage union- man and wife, or Christ and His body, or, in type- TRYING to pollute the New Jerusalem... But God won't allow that to happen...

Rev 21:23 "And the city had no need of the sun... 27 And THERE SHALL IN NO WISE ENTER INTO IT ANY THING THAT DEFILETH, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life."

Rev 22:14 "Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, AND MAY ENTER in through the gates INTO THE CITY. 15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie."

This is why there were no women priests- woman represented the natural element of the world- the receptacle, incubator, and "giver-up" (so-to-speak for lack of a better word) of the man-child, and the male priest represented the man-child entering the New Jerusalem. For the women to have entered the temple would have been for the whole church- worldly and unworldly members- to enter New Jerusalem.

Now we are beginning to see, through our similitudes, the anti-type. Or, as is called in scripture- the anti-christ...

1Jo 4:2 "Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that JESUS CHRIST (THE SEED) IS COME IN the flesh (church, and/or the heart of a man!) is of God"

As we Oneness know, the Holy Ghost in the believers isn't a separate person, but is Jesus Himself, in the Spirit, in the believer. Thus also confirming that Christ is the seed inside the woman- the church.

Therefore, the anti-christ, is the opposite, it is NOT Christ in them-

1Jo 4:3 "And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist...."

In fact, the ultimate type of anti-christ, is when Satan, a created being, at the abomination of desolation, sets himself in the temple of God, as if he were God...

2Th 2:3 "Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that HE AS GOD SITTETH IN THE TEMPLE OF GOD, shewing himself that he is God."

This is the opposite, the anti-type, of Jesus Christ (the Spirit of God) come in the flesh (church) as the seed.

Just as similitudes work in teaching of the true faith, they also work in describing the false- In the picture of the son of perdition sitting in the temple, we have a type and similitude of the anti-christian church.

Satan is the ruler of the corruptible world. His desire is to sit in God's temple, showing that he himself is god.

Since the woman, in type, represents the natural, corruptible world, (1 Cor 15:42-43) then the "type" of anti-christ entering the temple would also be similar to the woman herself entering the temple.

The connotation of this is almost as many fold as the true, and I'm not sure I want to, or need to, go into that here. So just briefly, in type- to allow the natural woman to enter the temple, would be to allow the natural, corruptible earthly body to enter the holiest, with all it's connotations of "ruling and reigning with Christ" in the New Jerusalem.

This is also why the scriptures say for the woman not to usurp authority over the man!

1Ti 2:12 "But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over *THE* man, but to be in silence. 13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve. 14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. 15 NOTWITHSTANDING SHE SHALL BE SAVED IN CHILDBEARING, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety."

Now I don't know anyone that would say that 1 Tim. 2:12-15 means that women must bear children in order to be saved. Do you?

This verse can only be referring to the new birth experience of receiving the Holy Ghost! (Along with all the other types and similitudes inherent in that connotation!)...

Joh 3:6 "That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again."

Rom 8:14 "For as many as are LED BY the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God."

Joh 1:12 "But as many as received him, to them gave he power TO BECOME the SONS of God, even to them that believe on his name:"

Back in reference to 1 Tim 2:12- this is also why 1 Cor. says TO THE CARNAL CHURCH that THEIR women should keep silent in the churches:

1Co 3:1 "And I, brethren, COULD NOT SPEAK UNTO YOU AS UNTO SPIRITUAL, BUT AS UNTO CARNAL... 3 FOR YE ARE YET CARNAL... AND WALK AS MEN... 34 Let YOUR WOMEN keep silence in the churches... for it is a shame for women to speak in the church."

What I want to point out to you here is, if the CARNAL woman is to keep silent in the churches, and not usurp authority over the man, then, in type and similitude, what we are being taught here is that the church, the NATURAL "body" and BRIDE of Christ is NOT TO IMPOSE her thoughts on the doctrines of God in Christ! In other words, the woman is not to sit in the temple as God, showing herself that she is God, which would be an abomination after the similitude of anti-christ.

Are you seeing the difference between the two concepts? It is merely that one type is walking after the Spirit, and one is walking after the flesh!

In other words, the church body is to be led ONLY by the seed of the Spirit of the Son of God, the inner man, (the Word of God), which is in her! And NOT by any authority of her own power, or outside influences!

This is why, for example, that we are exhorted to such things as:

1Ti 1:3 "...teach no other doctrine"

Deu 4:2 "Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you."

Joh 15:14 "YE ARE MY FRIENDS, **IF** ye do whatsoever I command you. 15 HENCEFORTH I CALL YOU NOT SERVANTS; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: BUT I HAVE CALLED YOU FRIENDS; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you."

Act 3:12 "And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? or why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk?"

Do you understand this? The main reason I am bringing this up here, is because I have been insinuated as being an anarchist since I'm against "man made rules."

Yet man made rules- the traditions of men, are what the real, spiritual abomination that makes desolate, is typifying!

There was another group of people in the Bible that were concerned that they didn't have a natural authority to rule them by. Do you know what God thought of them?

1Sa 8:4 "Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah, 5 And said unto him... now MAKE US A KING TO JUDGE US LIKE ALL THE NATIONS."

1Sa 8:6 "But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD. 7 And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, BUT THEY HAVE REJECTED ME, THAT I SHOULD NOT REIGN OVER THEM."

So before you make fun, or ridicule, or disrespect me in any way for NOT giving ANY respect to any extra-biblical, man-made rules, please answer me this-

In respect of what doctrine, teaching, or exhortation unto holiness, is there ANY insufficiency in the Word of God?

2Ti 3:16 "All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: 17 That the man of God may be perfect, THROUGHLY FURNISHED unto all good works."

Do you still think it is beneficial for you to add to the word of God in formulating ANY man-made ordinances or denominations? Isn't the five-fold ministry of God sufficient for you?

Eph 4:11 "And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; 12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:"

Do you NOT think that God's word preached through God's ordained ministry is fully capable, in and of itself, of sustaining, perfecting, and edifying the church unto a perfect man (WITHOUT ANY cajoling, meddling, or tampering whatsoever of even the most well meaning of saints)?

Or, can you show me ANY scriptures AT ALL that give God's ministers ANY authority to add to God's word their own extra-biblical little rules and regulations, or denominational organizations no matter HOW "innocently" done?

2Ti 4:2 "PREACH THE WORD; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine."

1Ti 1:3 "...teach no other doctrine"

Gal 1:8 "But though we, or an angel from heaven, PREACH ANY OTHER GOSPEL unto you than that which we have preached unto you, LET HIM BE ACCURSED. 9 As we said before, SO SAY I NOW AGAIN, IF ANY MAN PREACH ANY OTHER GOSPEL unto you than that ye have received, LET HIM BE ACCURSED."

Mat 5:19 "Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven."

Jer 2:5 "Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are GONE FAR FROM ME, and HAVE WALKED AFTER VANITY, AND ARE BECOME VAIN?"

For the church, Christ's bride, to add to Christ's commandments, and teach doctrines contrary, or even merely in addition to, Christ's commandments, is for the church to usurp authority over her man!

1Ti 2:12 "But I suffer not a woman (representing THE CHURCH) to teach, nor to usurp authority over *THE* man (representing CHRIST), but to be in silence. 13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve. 14 And Adam (Jesus) was not deceived, but the woman (church) being deceived was in the transgression. 15 NOTWITHSTANDING SHE SHALL BE SAVED IN CHILDBEARING (BEING BORN-AGAIN!), if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety."

For the "church" to add to, or take away from, ANYTHING in God's word, is, in type and similitude- for the carnal woman to set her natural, corruptible self into the temple of God and defile it after the similitude of antichrist at the abomination that makes desolate, (which was also typified at the fall from the garden of Eden)!!!!

The next to the biggest example (type) we have of that is at the Council of Nicea where the church (woman), yielding to the heir (seed) of Satan's Babylonish empire (Constantine) imposed unbiblical doctrines into the worship of God in Christ's church!

Extra-biblical man-made laws, ordinances, denominations, etc. are as CONTRARY to being led by the Spirit of Christ, our "man", that the church can get!!

Let no one who submits themselves to man-made denominations, nor man-made rules and ordinances, then, think in anywise they will be worthy of New Jerusalem!

Rev 22:18 "For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, IF ANY MAN SHALL ADD UNTO THESE THINGS, GOD SHALL ADD UNTO HIM THE PLAGUES that are written in this book: 19 And IF ANY MAN SHALL TAKE AWAY FROM THE WORDS of the book of this prophecy, GOD SHALL TAKE AWAY HIS PART OUT OF THE BOOK OF LIFE, AND OUT OF THE HOLY CITY, and from the things which are written in this book."

Do you see now, also, how adding man-made rules etc. is very much following the pattern of the Trinitarians at Nicea? After all, bottom line, all they really did is just added a few man-made concepts to "fill the void" and supposedly make things more understandable, in terms of how we should worship and serve God!!!

Rom 1:25 "Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. 26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:"

It's no coincidence that Rom 1:25 leads into verse 26, you know. To worship the creature more than the Creator is, in type, as if to put the carnal body inside the temple as God! (Remember, in the temple God communes with man, man is not in there alone. Here we get into a bunch of other "similitudes" that I'm not going to get into in this letter!) The point is, to put the carnal (represented by woman) inside the temple, is to corrupt God's type and similitude of man-and-wife, and Christ-and-church!

This is precisely why homosexuality is such an utter abomination with God. Because it corrupts, contradicts, and confounds God's WHOLE redemption plan for mankind, which is typified in the relationship of one husband, and one wife.

Col 2:20 "Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, WHY, as though living in the world, ARE YE SUBJECT TO ORDINANCES, 21 (Touch not; taste not; handle not; 22 Which all are to perish with the using;) AFTER THE COMMANDMENTS AND DOCTRINES OF MEN?"

Do you understand my repugnance for man-made ordinances a little fuller now? Maybe it would be even clearer if we look at what 1 Tim. 2 would be saying, if it were to be viewed from the perspective of the TYPES...

1Ti 2:11 "Let the (bride of Christ) learn in silence with all subjection. 12 But I suffer not (the church) to teach, nor to usurp authority over (Christ- the word made flesh), but to be in silence. 13 For (the last Adam- Christ) was first formed, then (the church, the bride of Christ). 14 And (Jesus) was not deceived, but the (church) being deceived was in the transgression (remember the council of Nicea? It was a fulfillment of this type in the church!!!). 15 Notwithstanding she (the church) shall be saved in childbearing (being born again, and bringing forth her seed- the man-child of Revelations 12, etc.), if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety."

Deu 4:2 "YE SHALL NOT ADD unto the word which I command you, NEITHER SHALL YE DIMINISH OUGHT FROM IT, THAT YE MAY KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS of the LORD your God which I command you."

Luk 6:46 "And WHY CALL YE ME, LORD, LORD, AND DO NOT THE THINGS WHICH I SAY? 47 Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like: 48 He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock."

2.E. Readdressing The Questions.

Now, back to the questions...

1. Why was Adam created 1st?

Because he was a type of Jesus the word made flesh (1 Cor. 15:45). From whom the woman was created. Christ came first, not the church. Also God came first, not the creation.

2. Why were all 12 disciples / Apostles male?

The apostle's were the seed-broadcasters, or scatterers. They represented the foundation of the New Jerusalem (Rev 21:14)- the city from which everything that has to do with God will flow out from. The foundation is no more male or female than the city itself. Therefore, I fail to see any absolute significance of the twelve being male.

3. Why was Jesus a man?

Because He represents (and is) God- the planter of seeds. Not the woman, in whom the seed is planted, incubated, and gives forth the "new creature."

4. Why are there more men in the Bible than women?

Men represent spiritual maturity. The Bible is more interested in teaching positively on the spiritual, than negatively on the carnal types.

5. Why was genealogy traced through the male line?

Because the male represents the giver and planter of the seed- Jesus Christ which is God.

6. Why does God refer to himself in the masculine?

See #3 and #4.

7. Why are there no priestesses in the Bible?

The woman represents the earthy- the natural body (1 Cor. 15:44) in which the seed of God is sown in order to produce the man-child. This type is also represented by the temple itself. To have the woman enter inside the woman, would be an abomination somewhat likened to spiritual homosexuality!

8. Why was there a "Court of Women" in the temple and then closer to the inside a "Court of Israel" (aka Court of Men)?

Because the natural body will not inherit (enter) the New Jerusalem, of which the temple was a type. For the woman to enter the temple, would symbolize bringing the natural, corruptible world into the temple of God, or worse, bringing the worldly in AS God.

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