The book of Acts church both women and men were put in jails and both women and men that did not get put in jails went everywhere preaching...ACTS 8....
NO where the Bible says a woman cannot preach...your silence scripture will not work...you know it was a question that Paul answered....He spent so much time telling me and all women how to dress and how to use the gift of prophecy to say be silent in church for he himself said prophecy is to be given in the church... Have you forgotten Philip’s Prophesying Daughters? Have you so soon forgotten what prophecy is? Have you forgotten WHERE it is to be given? Have you forgotten what prophecy is? One thing is to EDIFY the church....Let me remind you..the word edify according to the dictionary means :ed·i·fy (ĕd′ə-fī′)
tr.v. ed·i·fied, ed·i·fy·ing, ed·i·fies
To instruct especially so as to encourage intellectual, moral, or spiritual improvement.
So you have admited you believe a woman can prophecy...so that means she can instruct....The gift of prophecy edifies, exhorts, and comforts (
I Corinthians 14:3);
Even in the old testament we have Miriam, Aaron and Moses. They were three siblings. All three children were Prophets. God himself spoke to all Israel telling them He had put before them these three to lead them..For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee the house of bondage, and I sent before you Moses, Aaron and Miriam.
Micah 6:4 This shows the authoritative, highly influential leadership role she exercised. Miriam was a prophet. The Hebrew word used here for “prophetess” is ‘nebiah.’ Nebiah is the feminine of ‘nabi’ which means: “a spokesman, speaker, prophet. Nebiah is used six (6) times in the Old Testament as prophetess.The Concise Greek-English Dictionary of the New Testament says the word prophesy means:
proclaim God’s message, preach; prophesy, predict… An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon abridged from Liddell and Scott’s Lexicon says prophesy means: in N.T. to expound scripture, to speak and preach under the influence of the Holy Spirit. The Enhanced Strong’s Lexicon writes this about the word prophesy: to utter forth, declare, a thing which can only be known by divine revelation. To break forth under sudden impulse in lofty discourse or praise of the divine counsels. Like prompting, to teach, refute, reprove, admonish, comfort others.
A lot of people will say but she made a mistake...and failed at one point...that was NOT because she was a woman but because she was human...God disciplined her just as he did Moses & David, when they failed....