Christianity brought full emancipation to womanhood!
Luke 20:34-36: “And Jesus answered and said unto them, the children of this world marry and are given in marriage but - they shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world and the resurrection of the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage; Neither can they die anymore; for they are equal unto the angels and are the children of God, being children of the resurrection.”
That world he was talking about was the millennium (the first resurrection) so we encounter the first resurrection a co-equal level between the sexes. There will be neither male nor female in the first resurrection. It will be at this point that redeemed women will understand completely what the redemption of Christ signifies for her. It will only be at this point both man and woman will be in all things on the same level.
Redemption has to be greater than the fall and must go beyond all dimensions that the fall brought upon humanity. Redemption covers every area of life. Why is it that we have no difficulty in celebrating what redemption has brought to mankind, but yet find it hard to celebrate redemption in connection with the woman? Could it be that many theologians have biased ideas and opinions?
Revelation 20:6: Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection as such the second death hath no power but they shall be priests of God and of Christ and shall reign with him a thousand years. This refers to the same event where there will be no difference in sex neither male nor female. Note that the Bible says “And shall reign (rule) with him one thousand years.” God’s original conception of things will be restored; male and female will be governing co-equal again (
Revelation 1:6 and 5:10). Many people accept this theory in the coming generations but don’t want it in this generation. It stands to reason in this generation we are yet striving to reach that place in Christ. But as we put on Christ more and more we will see less competition among the sexes. We will all begin to realize that when the spirit moves upon us to speak we neither speak as male or female but as oracles of God. Our voice becomes his voice when we are in perfect harmony with Him.
It is true that only in the first resurrection will women experience and understand all the deep things Christ had for them. We all know this, but this present generation is the first fruit generation where from we anticipate coming things. For Christ died on the cross to redeem your spirit, soul and body. But it will not be until the first resurrection that you will see and experience the redemption of your body; yet we have the first fruits of His blessings (inheritance). If you have the baptism of the Holy Ghost, you have the first fruits of this inheritance.
Ephesians 1:13-14: “In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit and promise. Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.” The woman will not experience all the manifestations of her liberty until Jesus comes, but it would be wrong to say she has no type of emancipation.
Acts 2:16, 17: And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions and your old men shall dream
dreams: And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my spirit; and they shall prophecy.
When the Holy Ghost came, it brought the first fruits or anticipation of a glorious and total liberty that takes away all disadvantages of women. Peter said: your sons and your daughters too shall prophesy (No difference). Pentecost brought the anticipated feminine emancipation.
Genesis 3:12: “And the man said, The women thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.” God came to see what had happened. Adam blamed his wife and at the same time blamed God saying, “The woman gave to me and I did eat.” Then the Lord turned and looked to the woman who pointed the blame back into the devil’s face.
The devil has hated her every since. The devil hated her because she accused him before the Lord as being responsible for the fall. With hate he has tried to humiliate and degrade her ever since. That’s why there are so many false doctrines that try to degrade women.
Genesis 3:15, began a war between the woman and the devil because it would be from her seed that redemption would come (Galatians 4:4).
It is interesting to note that - three names are applied to Adam’s wife:
(1) Woman (in
Genesis 2:23)
(2)Both are called Adam in
Genesis 5:2. God made
them “one flesh” and gave them one name.
(3) Eve was the name given after the transgression
(
Genesis 3:16, 20). Eve means “life” or “life- giving” or mother of all who have life. Maybe this helps us understand better that as mentioned through the seed of the woman, sin would one day be vanquished and death would be swallowed up in victory.
Through a woman the Holy Ghost was going to conceive and make the Word flesh. The love of God is beautiful which anoints a lowly woman to speak the Word. Jesus is the central figure. God lifted woman up and used her to bring forth Jesus. Adam was first but He came by woman. It is the woman more than the man that appears in the redemption story.
Genesis 3:15;
Galatians 4:4-5;
Luke 1:26-30;
Luke 1:42.
The incarnation of the Word gives the women freedom to preach, to minister, to speak publicly and to defend the Word of God. This is one of the theological implications of the doctrine of incarnation.