I agree with Maxwel that this is simply not about women. Witness the recent bombings in Boston. This is the fruit of wickedness in which our society denies God and right and wrong. Surely those young MEN had a spirit of evil to do those things?! I think Jezebel was a wicked woman, opposed God and his prophets and sadly, the world today is full of those kinds of people.
Atheists such as Dawkins publish books denying God, which make the New York Times best seller list. Society is no different than in the time of Ahaz and Jezebel, or Manasseh, where the Bible says this King ruled 55 years and did evil in the sight of the Lord (2 Kings 21)
This "spirit of Jezebel" sounds like a brainwashing technique by the hierarchical movement, to convince women they should not obey God's calling and do ministry. Surely women like Deborah, Priscilla, Phoebe and Junia were used of God in great and mighty ways to lead, teach and preach the gospel. They were obeying God. They were not feminists, which has become a derogatory term for any woman that tries to seek equality for those who have been downtrodden, much like the blacks were subjugated by the white movement as recently as the 1960's and later in the southern US.
I certainly do not agree with many aspects of the modern feminist movement, but it is important to remember that it was Christian women who led the fight in many countries for women to have the vote. And the United States was one of the last western countries to allow that right. Abortion on demand is the most repugnant platform of all of the feminists, and we would all do well to stand against that kind of nonsense. But to say that women are responsible for all the evil in our society today, because they are called of God to minister represents a total misunderstanding and misinterpretation of the Biblical text. It is an ideology that God is going to heartily condemn on judgement day.
Women are part and parcel of the plan to spread the gospel. A woman can lead a man to Christ, as I have done with many men. Why would I not be the one to disciple and teach them, as I have also done?
We have to focus on God's plan and Kingdom, instead of casting the first stone. I agree that Joyce Meyers is teaching some very wrong things, having looked at her website, but never read a book or hers, nor heard a single sermon. Yet, there are more men in the business of leading the flock astray than women, from Kenneth Hagan and Kenneth Copeland on the extreme Word Faith side, to preachers who beg for money from poor people as seed money or to pay the bills when they live like kings, like Jim Bakker was doing back in the 1980's or Jimmy Swaggart condemning unrighteousness in the morning and visiting prostitutes in the evening.
We won't even get into Joel Osteen and his "happy" gospel, without sin or repentance, or Rick Warren and his purpose driven focus, instead of being Kingdom driven. There are many other men I could cite that have a worldly spirit and there are more men using the gospel to further themselves and wrong doctrines than there are women in leadership anywhere!
I just know how few men seem to want to go into chaplaincy in long term care, and how many women are preaching and teaching and leading people to Jesus in their final hours that I have met. To suggest they have some kind of evil spirit, because they are ministering to "the least of these" tells me that people do not realize that the need is great for people to comfort the sick and dying, from a true Christian perspective.
The need for women to be part of God's plan is written all through the pages of the Bible. To pull a few passages out of context and make a doctrine that subjugates women and denies their gifts and calling is a tragedy and a travesty!! Think carefully, why would God say all men and women are equal in Gal. 3:28
"There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus." NKJV
Neither is there any qualification for the office of pastor in Eph. 4:11-12
"And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, [SUP]12 [/SUP]for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ."
I just pray daily for the members of this forum who have been deluded by man- made doctrines and swallowed hook, line and sinker the lie that women are responsible for all the evil in the church and the world.
Satan is alive and well, erecting barriers for God's female children in the hearts and minds of supposedly Christian people. The spirit of evil will continue until people understand that the gospel is for all to hear, and all to share - both Jew and Gentile, free and slave and male and female. When that happens, I know God will not only be pleased with his children, but that Christ will be returning soon!
