Josiahs Scott, Josiahs@trueconnection.org,
www.TrueConnection.org
[2003-2004 (Thighs &
Breaches, seen below)]; 8/18/2007; 11/17/07; 8/25/09, 11/10/09; 12/14/09;
3/19/10; 8/18/10; 1/22/11; 2/16/11; 3/12/11; 4/19/11; 6/15/11; 8/15/11;
10/10/11; 11/1/11; 12/1/11; 12/9/11; 12/11/11; 12/15/11; 12/19/11; (1/18/12);
1/19/12; 4/13/12; 5/29/12; 6/10/12; 8/6/12; 8/10/12; 8/18/12-8/19/12; 9/10/12;
9/20/12; 11/4/12; 12/9/12; 12/27/12; 1/7/13; 1/13/13; 1/30/13; 4/5/13; 4/8/13
(Loins)
5/2/13-5/3/13; 5/6/13 (S); 6/12/13; 8/12/13-8/13/13; 8/21/13 (more on Himation);
9/29/13 (Lions); 5/17/14-5/18/14; 7/29/14; 11/14/14
(κιδαρ); 11/21/14; other dates; 2/20/15 (Male headcovering);
11/2/15; (1/29/16); …4/1/21; 3/22/24 (1Co_11 Sum & RTA)
The Biblical Dress Code is about choosing visual purity form
the heart with Bible-obedient clothing and modesty that avoids all
visual prostitution-harlotry-fornication and adultery of women’s and men’s
bodies, eyes, and hearts.
Only the clean in the heart see God (Mat_5:8),
which includes visual chastity! (Mat_5:27-30 (2Pe_2:14); Mat_15:19/Mar_7:21
(Pro_4:23); Pro_6:25; Pro_27:20; Isa_3:16; Job_31:1)
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Prostitutions of Selfish Beauty
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Authorities and The Range of Their Potential Jurisdictions Over Modesty
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Table of Contents
Visual Prostitution – Dressing
Immodestly Makes You A Prostitute
https://biblereasons.com/modesty/
https://412teens.org/qna/what-does-the-Bible-say-about-modesty.php
Make Yourself Beautiful the Way
the Women in the Past Did
We do these things to be clothed
spiritually
BIGGEST Disclaimer and Clarifier
Earthly Icons of Heavenly
Realities
Modesty Shame is Actually Good!
Wife’s Notes: Beautiful People
Beauty’s Purpose, Not Beauty’s
Amount
Previews: Hidden from
Prostitution; Preserved for Marriage
Beauty for Marriage, NOT
Prostitution!
A House to Cover Shame -- Defines
Beauty’s Purpose
Guarding the Garden for an
Ultimate Guardian
Covenant Makes all the
Difference…
Lord Husband: Owns Woman --
Genesis, Psalms, & Peter
No Prostituting Beauty
(Reminders)
Immodesty = Prostitution /
Harlotry / Fornication & Adultery
Ecc_12 Judgment: Every Work Into
Judgment
1Ti_2 & 1Pe_3: No
Beauty-Elaboration Outside of Marriage
Esther: Beauty-Elaboration is
Only for Marriage
Son_1: Self-Beauty-Elaboration is
Only for MARRIAGE!
Unmarried DOESN’T Care for Things
of this World!
Self-Liking = Lustful End-Times
Rebellion
Righteous-Finances.htm#FeminineLuxury
Prostitutions of Selfish Beauty
Eze_23: Israel Prostitutes Her
Beauty!
Isaiah 14; Ezekiel 28 – Selfish
Angelic Beauty
Eze_16: Israel Trusts in Her
Beauty! -- As Human Prostitution
The Devil & Women Struggle
with Beauty Pride
Moral Prerequisites for Reading 1st
Corinthians 11
Prostitution = Headcovering
Context
Idol’s Temple = Headcovering
Context
1Co_10 Prostitution & Idol’s
Temple = Preceding Context to Headcovering
“Haircut”
Irony of Headcoverings & Other Scriptures
v. 6 – Haircut vs Headcoveirng
Can a Haircut Replace a
Headcovering?
1 Corinthians_11:12 all things
are out of the God
Church People Can’t Judge
Headcoverings
Culture Didn’t Create the Head
Covering
Disobedience Strategies Against
Headcoverings
Obey All, Including Headcoverings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_debates_over_the_Harry_Potter_series
"Because" of Prayer or
Purity???
Long Dress, Hiddenness, And No
Braided Hair
“Down” Often Implies a Veil -- So
Also Downing Head Clothing Can “Veil” the Face
Spit is Not Inherently Immodest
The Code of the Assura, c. 1075
BCE
Moral “Shamefacedness” for All
People Before God?
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/quote-all-of-the-bible-verses-HgqW0453TZ6H0SsbVOL91g
https://chatgpt.com/c/67f9c3fe-4e4c-800f-bdfd-a501d03e42b1
https://chatgpt.com/share/67f1f404-55f8-800f-af8b-5ef567691d36
Harvesting Tools for Modesty? -
Difference Between men and Women
Foreheads -- Overview & Preview
MT: Hard Foreheads -- Sinful Male Foreheads
Brass Foreheads – of Sinful Males
Summary: Men’s Sinful Foreheads
Are Called…
Mourners Marked -- Against
Jerusalem’s Abominations
Sealing God’s Servants Upon
Foreheads
Tormented for the Mark of the
Beast
Mother of Harlots -- Written upon
Forehead
Resurrected & Reigning --
Without Beast’s Mark!
God’s Name upon Foreheads -- into
Eternity!
Shameless Prostitute's Forehead
Baldness is Clean -- for a Man
Baldness Despised by Flesh
Perverts
But they Did Sometimes Hide Their
Head When Ashamed
Mouth Veil – Thirsty Silent-ness
Sarah Hiding Behind The Tent Wall
WARNING: The Head Covering is an
Issue of Modesty!
Tamar, Susana, Isea, Tertullian
Rebekah, Susanna, & Maccabean
Brides -- History Agrees with the Bible
Muslim & Talmud Agree About
Headcoverings
Anointing with a Head Covering?
“Shame” Shows that Headcoverings are a
Modesty Issue!
https://www.theoi.com/Text/HomerIliad18.html
http://johnstoniatexts.x10host.com/homer/iliad24.htm
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0134%3Abook%3D24
Shame of Seeing People Uncovered --
Without Clothing
http://www.mythfolklore.net/aesopica/perry/146.htm
http://www.mythfolklore.net/aesopica/babrius/82.htm
http://users.uoa.gr/~nektar/history/tributes/aesop%27s_fables/babrius.htm
Extra-Biblical info on “Shaming Down”
People
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:abo:tlg,0540,001:49&lang=original
Ezekiel -- Removing the Head
Covering [and clothes in general] Linked with “Shame”
Numbers 5 – A Priest Uncovers a
Man’s Wife’s Head
Son_5:7 – They Took Away My Veil
Guards Took Off Jesus’ Clothes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mocking_of_Jesus
Examples When Devaluing is Not
Involved, and therefore, Voluntary Stripping might Happen
Lies about Muslem Women's face veil
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2010/november/16.58.html
Is the covering about approaching God,
or is it about modesty?
A Woman’s “Shape” is Still An
Issue?
Privileged Family Members at The
Crucifixion
Mono-Gender Verification of the
Resurrection
Fishing – Peter in Boat with John
& Others
How Even Houses Have to Do with Modesty
Thoroughly cover the entire leg
Long Robes Have Skirts -- Even
for Men!
It used to be considered immodest
to show the Things we Show
http://www.gohnbrothers.com/broadfall-pants.html
http://www.ansun.com/history.html
http://www.zippersource.com/parts/definitions.asp
http://www.thomasnet.com/articles/hardware/zipper-history
Talk About “Relative Modesty”???
To what part of the “thigh” is
modesty? –Good question
Dress Code in Light of Swimming
Shirts Are Required -- Short
Pants Are Not Enough
Non-Co-ed Love is the only
Appropriate Embrace of the Chest
Chests -- in the Song of Solomon
Abraham and Lot Saw “Men” Who
Grabbed the Hands of Him, His (Married) Wife, and His Virgin Daughters
Loins (specifically, literally
and figuratively)
The Management of the Loins
toward the Worship of God
God expects uncovered Buttocks to
be shameful to us
https://www.quora.com/What-did-unmarried-women-wear-during-the-Roman-Republic
http://library.schreiner.edu/c.php?g=300183&p=2288255
Should Women Be Allowed To Wear
Pants
Song of Songs – Categorical
Breakdown of Song of Songs
Unlawful Romance Shows Us Why We
Should Be Trained to Increase in Modesty
Unlawful Romance is as
intoxicating as Lawful romance.
Clothes Needed Inside and Outside
Revelation 3 – You are Wretched!
Adam & the Priestly Dress Code
Jewish Kippah / Yarmulke /
"Dome"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kippah
Men Did Not Use Head Coverings or
Veils for Modesty!
Men Should NOT Cover Their Head
-- Unless it’s Time to Be Ashamed
Random Nuggets – In Need of processing
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20130423073339AA2zH8q
http://www.encounteringislam.org/muslimquestions
The Crime of Using Beauty Selfishly
Partially Unanswered Questions
Random Thoughts / Additions
There is no such thing as “The Christian Woman’s Head Covering”. Head coverings always have and always will be an issue of HUMAN FEMALE MODESTY, no matter whether you are a Jew, Christian, Muslim, or even a real follower of Jesus.
5/20/14
If Muslim women are willing to obey an unholy book and cover their head, what’s your excuse for disobeying the Bible? If you believe “your Bible” is better than their Koran, then why are they obeying their book and why are you disobeying yours?
5/20/14
Biblical women covered their head whenever leaving the home:
Although it was normal for woman to answer the door, as seen in Acts
Sarah hid behind the tent wall when she was not prepared to be seen by strangers
Paul
Paul very clearly commands women not to remove their headcovering when praying or prophesying
Headcoverings
are Biblical: 1Co_11:1-16. Removing a headcovering outside of
the home is not Biblical. -- Unless of course, you are (1) a Jewish woman being
tried for adultery: Num_5:11 (etc.), or,
(2) a woman being punished by having her hair cut off for acting like a harlot:
1Co_11:5-6.
8/26/13; 5/17/14-5/18/14; 11/11/15
WARNING: A woman who willingly disobeys
the Bible and uncovers her head in public, freely confesses to all that she is
an adulteress (Num_5:11) and shows that she is unashamed to
cause others to commit adultery with her (Mat_5:27-32). Warning, Warning,
WARNING! Jezebel is here (Rev_2:20-23)!
5/18/14
(1) Num_5:11 shows us that all God-fearing women automatically put on a headcovering when going outside of the home. (2) Many, many years later Paul commands some former pagans in Corinth that they have to maintain that even during prayer (i.e. no uncovering heads in temples like female prostitutes did). (3) Many, many years later (today) feminism totally robbed the majority of all modern women of their headcoverings and caused them to walk naked-headed in public to their shame and ignorant dishonor
1Co_11:6 CAB For if a
woman is not covered [κατακαλύπτεται – having
something coming down and hiding], let her also have her hair cut [this affects
her even when not praying]. But if it is a shameful thing
for a woman to have her hair cut [applies even when not praying], or to be
shaved [applies even when not praying], let her be covered [applies even when
not praying].
WAKE UP and finally realize what is actually being said in 1Co_11!
Dear
woman, I plead with you: put your headcovering back on!
I
warn you: “the emperor has no clothes!”
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4/22/14
Mr. Overseer, ive been meaning to mention something to
you...our generation think they are so wise in thinking that when it gets hot
they should wear less clothes to stay cool and so many people think it strange
that I wear so much clothes in the summer. And it is also very common that
people suffer from sun burn and even skin cancer these days even when they use
sun block. And the answer doctors are giving nowadays is wear more clothes when
you go outside dont depend on sun block. Ya, the ancient wisdom of God wins we
should wear more clothes when we go out, even nature tells us that!
"The first and most effective way to
screen excess UV rays from penetrating the skin is a physical barrier. This
includes hats, long sleeve shirts, and other articles of clothing that
physically shield your skin. Wide, floppy hats are one of the best ways to
shield your face from excessive sunlight."
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Al: Wow, how exciting! Thanks for sharing
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[*] : =)-K I like your statement H "
the ancient wisdom of God wins" it made me smile
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hd: H: Wow, that is so practical, and Truth
is soo exciting... and practicing justice even has ANSWERS for minimizing Skin
cancer!! :+)
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Could almost make a
Track out of this...
Bible: Assyrian Code, Num 5, Susanna,
imitate!, 1Pe_3: adorn as holy women of at one time professing God-reverence,
1Co 11, Turtelliun
Jews Have A Clothing
Parable to Play
"'On the day of the Lord's sacrifice I
will punish the princes and the king's sons and all those clad in foreign
clothes." (Zep_1:8)
Gen_12:11 <> 1Sa_17:42
Gen_23:1 - Sarah = 127 yrs
"Monumental evidence confirms the assertion of Scripture that a
fair complexion was deemed a high recommendation in the age of the Pharaohs (ride
Hengstenberg"s "Egypt and the Books of Moses," p. 200)."
Jdt_11:21-23 Brenton There is not such a woman from one end of the earth to the
other, both for beauty of face, and wisdom of words. 22 Likewise Holofernes
said unto her. God hath done well to send thee before the people, that strength
might be in our hands and destruction upon them that lightly regard my lord. 23 And now thou art
both beautiful in thy countenance, and witty in thy words: surely if thou do as
thou hast spoken thy God shall be my God, and thou shalt dwell in the house of
king Nabuchodonosor, and shalt be renowned through the whole earth.
Judith_10:7
And
when they saw her, that her countenance was altered, and her apparel was
changed, they wondered at her beauty very greatly, and said unto her.
Judith_10:14
Now
when the men heard her words, and beheld her countenance, they wondered greatly
at her beauty, and said unto her,
Judith_10:19
And
they wondered at her beauty, and admired the children of Israel because of her,
and every one said to his neighbour, Who would despise this people, that have
among them such women? surely it is not good that one man of them be left who
being let go might deceive the whole earth.
Judith_10:23
And
when Judith was come before him and his servants they all marvelled at the
beauty of her countenance; and she fell down upon her face, and did reverence
unto him: and his servants took her up.
Judith_11:21
There
is not such a woman from one end of the earth to the other, both for beauty of
face, and wisdom of words.
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Zion Road
January 26, 2013
In 1892, the personal agenda of an
adolescent diarist read: "Resolved, not to talk about myself or feelings.
To think before speaking. To work seriously. To be self restrained in
conversation and actions. Not let my thoughts wander. To be dignified. Interest
myself more in others."
Later in 1982 a girl's New Year's
resolution: " I will try to make myself better in anyway I possibly can
with the help of my budget and babysitting money. I will lose weight, get new
lenses, already got a new haircut, good makeup, new clothes and
accessories."
The traditional emphasis on "good
works" as opposed to "good looks" meant that lives of young
women in the 19th century had a very different orientation from those of girls
today. Before World War 1, girls rarely mentioned their bodies in terms of
strategies for self improvement or struggles of personal identity. Becoming a
better person meant paying less attention to self, giving more assistance to
others, and putting more effort into instructive reading or lessons at school.
Many parents tried to limit their daughters interests in superficial things
such as hairdos, dresses or the size of their waist, because character was
considered more important than beauty, both by parents and the community. And
character was built on attention to self control, service to others, and belief
in God. When girls of the 19th century thought about ways to improve
themselves, they almost always focused on their internal character and how it
was reflected in outward behavior. In fact, girls who were preoccupied with
their looks were likely to be accused of vanity or self-Indulgence.
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10/19/13; 11/18/13
>> !! Get/Study/incorporate all of
Eze_16: & 32
Eze_16:57 נסὸ פןῦ ἀנןךבכץצטῆםבי פὰע ךבךίבע
ףןץ – being stripped naked
Eze_16:10
װסיקבנפש:
- NETS: hair-veil
- Google: lace
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פסיקןנפשףח: hair loss
פסיקב-: hair
-נפש: downward
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sir 8: good
morphed
God Made
Women Curvy
Hebrew
"rib" [הצלעH6763 And
the rib] means
"as if curved"
as a stack
of wheat
Sir_8: turn your eyes from a good morphed woman
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- look up
what "feet" the shunimite held onto with Elisha...
- it is
immoral for women to shamelessly show off their forhead, but, it is not immoral
for John to see a vission of such a perverted Harlot with a name written on her
forhead. - it is always evil for the woman to show, but not necisarilly evil2
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find: 'see
the *shame of your nakedness* - also: re-read Num5, and what word is used for
the priests???
BDC:
to veil or
not to veil – the extent of the head covering...
- Eli
watcher er mouth!!!!
>> got
to define: head covering, face veil, bonet, doily, etc.
BDC: remove
"loins" to Purity Proclamation ??
Clothing
Exceptions
Being born –
Job: naked i came into the world, naked i will go out
Isa / Eze –
prophesying in the house uncovered
Saul
prophesying
Peter in the
boat w John
A House is a
Big Covering
when you go
into a house, then there is no need for a head coveirng or himation
- "a
house to cover shame"
- this is
partly why women are to bussy at home (that way they do not always have to be
entirely covered)
- a house
calls for the minimum dress code that applies even to family.
1. the seriousness of the head covering
- mat5,
- Thess: keep the traditions, etc.
2. The Universality Of the Headcovering
- have the laodiceans read this letter,
- 1co1 with all those in every place...
- did the word of God
originate w you?
- as in all the assemblies of the Holy Ones
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How
much Does a Himation Cover?
H8071
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Strongs
#8071: AHLB#: 2489 (e1)
2489) Lmx%
(Lmx% SML) ac: ? co: Image ab: ?: The form or shape of an image.
Nm) Lmx% (Lmx% S-ML) - Image:
[freq. 5] |kjv: figure, image, idol| {str: 5566}
ef1) Elmix% (Elmix% SYM-LH) - Garment: As forming to the image of the
body. [df: hlmV] [freq. 29] |kjv: raiment, clothes, garment, apparel, cloth,
clothing| {str: 8071}
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WS:
"ִשְׂמָלה
sלimlāh: A feminine noun meaning clothing, a garment. It
refers to a relatively large garment, either an external garment heavy enough
to sleep in (Exo_22:27 [26]); or a blanket large enough to cover
a person lying on a bed (Gen_9:23). A change of garments could indicate a
new beginning or getting ready for travel (Gen_35:2). It refers to clothes in general (Gen_37:34; Deu_22:5)."
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LXX:
Deu_21:13 ךבὶ נוסיוכוῖע פὰ ἱלάפיב פῆע בἰקלבכשףίבע בὐפῆע ἀנ᾿ בὐפῆע
shun the shame... worship of
paganism is shame!
Jer_3:24
understanding shame:
need to go throughout these
hebrew words and put it all together...
H1322
בֶּשׁת
bōšeṯ: A feminine noun denoting shame, humiliation,
disgrace. The word depicts the feelings of guilt, disgrace, and embarrassment
persons experience because of unfortunate acts or words committed (1Sa_20:30; 2Ch_32:21). Humiliation and disgrace was brought on
God's people through the exile at the hands of Babylon (Ezr_9:7), but He could also bring shame on one's
enemies (Job_8:22). Used with its related verb bפš, it could
express deep shame (Isa_42:17); with the word face following, it could
express a face of shame (2Ch_32:21; Ezr_9:7; Jer_7:19; Dan_9:7-8) meaning their "own shame." To
be clothed with shame is a figurative expression of the psalmist (Psa_35:26; Psa_132:18). The phrase "shame of your
youth" (Isa_54:4) refers to Israel's early indiscretions.
The biblical authors would sometimes substitute this word for the word ba‛al in a person's name, emphasizing the shame of ever recognizing such a
pagan god (2Sa_2:8; Jdg_6:32). In other places and ways, it replaces
the word ba‛al that became so closely attached to the
gods of Canaan (Jer_3:24; cf. Jer_11:13; Hos_9:10).
song
about dressing modestly
https://soundcloud.com/chris_faulkner/please-cover-yourself?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=facebook
AdDressing Dressing
Modesty or Hell
Choose
Visual Prostitution – Dressing Immodestly Makes You A Prostitute
Repent of Prostitution!
Pro_7:1-27 – dangers of the
strange woman
Pro_7:6-9 – Foolish youth
who is doomed
Pro_7:10 – Clothing of a
Prostitute
Pro_7:11-21 – flattery, kisses, and embraces
Pro_7:21-23 – She kills him
like an animal
Pro_7:24-27 – Strong men taken
down by her
Isa_3:16-26 – haughty and
walk with outstretched necks, glancing wantonly with their eyes, mincing along
as they go
mincing walk is a wanton
walk
Eze_16:30 What a sick heart
you have, says the Sovereign LORD, to do such things as these, acting like a
shameless prostitute –
Refuse to be ashamed
Rev_16:
Rev_17:1 – 18:24
Rev_18:3 – all nations have
drunk the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality
1Pe_3:3-4 – the hidden
person of the heart
1Sa_16:7 – God looks at heart
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lusts
1Pe_2:11 – abstain from lusts
Gal_5:13 – no free flesh
indulgence
Gal_5:19 – aselgeia
1Jo_2:16-17 – lust of the flesh
Rom_13:14 – ESV …But put on
the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh…
Galatians_5:19-21
ESV Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity,
sensuality…
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1Ti_2:8-10 –
2Ti_2:22
1Co_8:9 – no stumbling block
Ordained Clothes
Gen_3:7, 21 –
Adam and Eve covered themselves with fig leaves, it wasn’t enough. God gave
them skins to cover them
The Hebrew words Moses used
(kuttoneth labesh) means a covering to wrap around the body.
https://www.christistheway.com/a-prostitutes-clothing/
Exo_20:26 – And you shall
not go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness be not exposed on it.’
Exodus_39:28 ESV
And the turban of fine linen, and the caps of fine linen, and the linen
undergarments of fine twined linen,
Ezekiel_44:18 ESV
They shall have linen turbans on their heads, and linen undergarments around
their waists. They shall not bind themselves with anything that causes sweat.
Dan_3:21 – ESV Then these
men were bound in their cloaks, their tunics, their hats, and their other
garments, and they were thrown into the burning fiery furnace.
Mat_5:28 –
Mar_7:21-23 –
Heart-Generated Prostitution
Mat_15:
Isa_61:10 – clothed me with
the garments of salvation, He has covered me with the robe of righteousness
Pro_31:30 – Charm is
deceptive…
Pro_11:22 – “Like a gold
ring in a pig’s snout is a beautiful woman who shows no discretion.”
The Body
1Co_6:19-20 – body
temple…flee prostitution
1Co_12:23 – bestow honor on
private parts
Rom_12:1-2 – bodies a
living and holy sacrifice…not conformed
1Co_6:13 – The body,
however, is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord
1Co_6:20 – For you were bought with a price. So
glorify God in your body.
1Co_7:4 – husband has
exclusive authority over wife’s body
Romans_13:14-15
“Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how
to gratify the desires of the flesh.”
2Ki_9:30 ESV …Jezebel heard
of it. And she painted her eyes
Jer_4:30 ESV And you, O
desolate one, what do you mean that you dress in scarlet, that you adorn
yourself with ornaments of gold, that you enlarge your eyes with paint? In vain
you beautify yourself. Your lovers despise you; they seek your life.
Revelation_3:18 ESV
…white garments so that you may clothe yourself and the shame of your nakedness
may not be seen
Galatians_5:16-17
“But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the
flesh. For the flesh sets its desire against the Spirit, and the Spirit
against the flesh; for these are in opposition to one another, so that you may
not do the things that you please.”
https://biblereasons.com/modesty/
12/26/22
1Th_5:22 – Abstain from
every form of evil.
Luke_17:1-2
ESV And he said to his disciples, “Temptations to sin are sure to come, but woe
to the one through whom they come!
Some historical reading:
https://thetransformedwife.com/acting-and-dressing-like-a-harlot/
anti-absolute-clothing
Heretic
https://www.cbeinternational.org/resource/5-things-bible-does-and-doesnt-say-about-modesty/
“The Bible doesn’t teach a
dress code.”
https://412teens.org/qna/what-does-the-Bible-say-about-modesty.php
Sexual Murder
Ezekiel_16:38 ESV
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And I will judge you as
women who commit adultery and shed blood are judged, and bring upon you the
blood of wrath and jealousy.
Isa_47:2-3 – uncovered
shame
Introduction
The Bible is extremely more practical than we’ve ever given it credit for, and one of the most needed teachings of all time, especially in corrupted cultures like perverted America, is a teaching about the Biblical Dress Code. That the Bible would even address such a thing is almost foreign to the minds of those who have so loosely and whimsically treated the Bible for so many years. But here is the reality that lawless grace perverters have always feared and threatened off with charges of legalism. Here is the reality that the Bible actually gives us specifics on how to dress in a way that would please God in True Holiness!
God actually cares about us enough to not let us carelessly continue dressing how it seems best in our own culturally blinded eyes. Get ready to be redeemed from sensuality unto a life style of dressing modestly, protecting your fellow brothers and sisters from sin, and being freed up to live in the pleasing honor and greatness that God has called us too.
If you can believe this truth then it can change your life, right down to the way you dress.
The Right Attitude
Things to Remember
· Pursuing
Specific Modesty is better than
licensing immorality in the name of not being legalistic*
· God is
trying to cloth us both physically for our present needs and spiritually for
our eternal needs
· God is
very merciful toward our past ignorance when we are humble, but calls us to
change once we become aware of His standards.
· Cutting
pieces of clothing away from the area that God has clothed is to cut away from
the Biblical Dress Code.
· God is
not the God of the whims of our culture but of the clear lines and standards of
His Word.
*Read these verses: Jud_1:4 (NO
“licensing” evil); Mat_7:13-14 (God’s way is
restricted)
Jer_6:16
[ _ ]
The Old Paths
Jer_6:16-19 WEB Thus says Yahweh, [the Lord] Stand you in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way; and walk therein, and you shall find rest for your souls: but they said, We will not walk therein. 17 I set watchmen over you, saying, Listen to the sound of the trumpet; but they said, We will not listen. 18 Therefore hear, you nations, and know, congregation, what is among them. 19 Hear, earth: behold, I will bring evil on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it.
]
[ 1Pe_3:3-6 ]
Make Yourself Beautiful the Way the Women in the Past Did
1Pe_3:3-6 KJ2000 Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of braiding 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, which is in the sight of God of great price. 5 For after this manner in former times the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands: 6 Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord [i.e. “Sir” or “master” (κυριον)]: whose daughters you are, as long as you do well, and are not afraid with any terror.
What Can we say to This?
In light of this Scripture: Forget all of the paranoias about “not violating people’s culture.” Instead let us radically over-though all of the unbiblical ways to re-establish a better way which is Biblical and superior to our culture.
God Wants to Clothe You
God is Trying to Cloth
Us
· You can be most comfortable not being fully covered when part of your heart wants people to lust after you.
· What would happen to your dress if you truly prayed, “Lord, may no one be attracted to me today.”
· To cover yourself means to pursue honor and to hate participating in lust.
· Being modest physically reflects going after the honor of truth and righteousness that God has called us to Spiritually.
· Consider all the times God said that He wants to cloth His people’s nakedness…
2Co_5:2-4 WEB For most assuredly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven; 3 if so be that being clothed we will not be found naked. 4 For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened; not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.
Rev_19:8-9 EMTV And to her it was granted that she should be dressed in fine linen, bright and pure, for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints. 9 Then he said to me, "Write: 'Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb!' "…
God commissions us to go and do the same to others
physically, (which cloths us spiritually)…
The Good Samaritan
Luk_10:30-37 EMTV …"A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and encountered bandits, who after having stripped him of his clothing and having wounded him, departed, leaving him half dead…. 33 But a certain Samaritan, as he traveled … 34 And coming to him, he bandaged his wounds, …and took care of him. 37 …Then Jesus said to him, "Go and do likewise."
Jas_2:14-17 KJVCNT What does it profit, my brothers, though a man say he has faith, and have not works? can faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, 16 And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be warmed and filled; notwithstanding you give them not those things which are necessary to the body; what does it profit? 17 Even so faith, if it has not works, is dead, being alone.
Mat_25:34-36, 40 WEB …'Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom… 35 for I was… 36 naked, and you clothed me…
40 …'Most assuredly I tell you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.'
We do these things to be clothed spiritually
Don’t walk naked in heaven
Rev_3:17-19 WEB Because you say, 'I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have
need of nothing;' and don't know that you are the wretched one, miserable,
poor, blind, and naked; 18 I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by
fire, that you may become rich; and white garments, that you may clothe
yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye
salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.
19 As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be
zealous therefore, and repent.
Rev_16:15 KJVCNT Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
Cooperate with Modesty!
Immodestly is partial nakedness. Therefore, it is unimaginable when we are “naked” but get offended if someone dares try to “cloth” us and exhort us to modesty! So our commission is to cloth and be clothed: first remove the “plank” then get the “speak” (Mat_7:1-5), and to do this, we have got to completely repent of and dismiss the “don’t judge me” mentality regarding cloths and modesty.
Don’t Flaunt what is Shameful
· Throughout the Bible we are always admonished to flee shame and to pursue modesty.
· We are not to flaunt what is supposed to be shameful: Hos_9:10
Exo_32:25-26 KJ2000 And when Moses saw that the people were naked; (for Aaron had let them be naked unto their shame among their enemies:) 26 Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the LORD'S side? let him come unto me…
Isn’t it time for the Moses’ of our day to stand up and demand that we no longer flaunt the shame of our nakedness in the immodesty of our bodies?!
1Co_4:14 KJV I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.
Eph_5:12 KJV For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.
- Notice that he does not go on to make a joke about the shame, but shows us to avoid shame
Php_3:18-19 WEB For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ, 19 whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.
Jud_1:12-13 EMTV These are stains in your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, caring for themselves, they are waterless clouds being carried along by winds; late autumn trees unfruitful, twice having died, having been uprooted, 13 raging waves on the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars for whom the darkness of the netherworld has been reserved forever.
Remember Rev_3:17-19 and_16:15 above?
Rom_6:21 WEB What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
One of the horrible taints of Lust is the shame and guilt it leaves. If shame is a curse of sin, then let us shun it instead of dressing in it by removing proper clothing!
Mat_6:30 KJ2000 Therefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
We are supposed to be believing God to provide clothing for
us. How can we expect Him to provide the cloths we need when we are not being
faithful with the cloths we already have? By neglecting to put them on and
dress in modestly to cover our bodies we disrespect what God has already given
us.
Prophecy of Judgment
Showing off nakedness is a sign God gave for the Judgment of shame:
Isa_3:17; Jer_13:22, Jer_13:26; Mic_1:11; Rev_3:18; 16:15; 17:16
We should only pursue the same if we are ready to inherit the same judgment.
BIGGEST Disclaimer and Clarifier
This teach addresses an infinitely wide range of cases, many of which are not immediately dealing with salvation as much as they are with refining the hidden an unknown imperfections so that we can pursue God with greater holiness and perfection.
Because many of these cases involve honest ignorance, it does not figure that God is angry with many who are incomplete in this area, but I patient and hopeful for our perfection. God is only harsh to those who are not humble, but condemnation only rests on those who do not Love the Truth enough to change when God makes His will known.
I am sure that God uses all of us who obey Him in spite of the fact that there are MANY things beyond this teaching that we are blind to that we are in constant need of mercy for.
Jas_3:2 WEB For in many things we all stumble…
Just because you have never heard this teaching before does not mean that you should become defensive and feel criticized. I did not know it a lot of it either (in full) until I studied and found it out.
If you have been blind to this teaching, don’t be discouraged at how much you need to change, but be challenged and encouraged that you are being exposed to more of His divine standards rather than being left to your own concepts.
I hope that it would be of some affirmation to the reader that these standards are in many ways are beyond what I would have set. Some of these aspects are “more modest” than what I would think is modest. Therefore I humbly give as well as receive a more perfect understanding of modesty that has been lost and forgotten from our culture, even among practically all of the church.
These standards are not here because they will fit your idea of what it means to be modest, but because all of us are naturally given to such profound blind that we need our understanding radically altered.
We are often found without a clue that we are tempting people and helping them sin because we are desensitized from the desires that others have. If we keep God’s dress code we can avoid most of this.
The main answers is to be humble and open to the standards that God has set in the past admitting that we are blind enough to have missed them, and in need enough to warrant change. I hope you will always receive the admonition with this humility especially because if we say “we see” when we are blind thee “our sin remains!”
Earthly Icons of Heavenly Realities
Man is an icon of God
Woman is not an icon at all in this age, but she is the direct counter part of the assembly
(i.e. your life is hidden with anointed one…. when anointed one, who is our life appears, then you too will appear with him in Glory)
Swords are icons of real, spiritual swords
- angel in front of garden proves that heavenly swords predated our human swords
- Jesus has the truest sword that proceeds from His mouth
The Jewish Temple (lit. house) was an icon of the heavenly kingdom where God lives
>> still need to get Hebrews references for this…
Wis_9:8 Brenton Thou hast commanded me to build a temple upon thy holy
mount, and an altar in the city wherein thou dwellest, a resemblance of the
holy tabernacle, which thou hast prepared from the beginning.
Clothing is an icon of Righteous
- get Revelation refs, and others (OT prophets, some Epistles – that we do not stand naked, etc.)
- Righteous is truly REAL clothing that covers our shame forever
Always remember: when Moses struck the rock, he did not get into the physical Promised Land, and you will never escape if you defile God’s images of holiness hear on earth either.
Basic Principals
Modesty Shame is Actually Good!
Have you have herd of someone being “shameless”? Even though we greatly think of shame as very bad, yet we do not really understand why it is even worse to be “shameless”. It is time to wake up and finally understand the virtue of good shame!
Sir_4:21 Br-Gr For there is a shame that bringeth sin; and there is a shame
which is glory and grace.
Points to Ponder
Culture does affect what is viewed as “appropriate” and even what is considered “modest.”
When we depend on our culture to tell us what is appropriate we find ourselves in conflict with God who is always holding a more conservative view. Why? Because people tend toward sin!
You can continue to choose to base your standards on your culture’s instable perceptions and compromises, or on the ever-lasting Words of the Living God!
BIG Principals
· Don’t show them what you would NEVER want them to touch
· Don’t entice people with the parts of your body that are (exclusively) intended for marriage!
Principal Thoughts
God made cloak of skin as the first (legitimate) clothing (Gen_3:21 & compare Luk_15:22)
Some of us are still trying to wear “skimpy scraps” instead of full clothing, which is not enough for God
God wants us to be fully clothed!
This indicates that such cloaks are all that are necessary for modesty in the home, and God Himself is not offended at this, (& this correlates with the attitude that was held during Bible times)
The insistence on having veils for women is a societal necessity when there is potential for lust – that is, in a coed context!
Perhaps Rachel was covered by a draped cloth especially to shade from the sun, (as middle Eastern camels often are) but she did not put on her veil until Isaac was near
Extra cloths are needed for going out in public
Covering is not so much needed when we are (“unaware”) children just as Adam and Eve where naked during their probationary period of simplicity. When brought to this state of awareness prematurely God “conceded” to give them the cloths that would have otherwise been provided later at the proper time of healthy enlightenment.
God’s goal has always been wisdom and understanding in the proper mode rather than the vanity of “independent” acquisition of knowledge which “puffs us up” in pride as satan said, “you will be as gods knowing…”
So also the Gnostics as well as many University professors appeal to the enticement of “falsely called knowledge” that is perused unsubmitted to the governing of righteousness.
These clothing ideas are not based on temporary shifting principals, but on eternal ones ordained by god Himself even before mankind knew what clothing was.
Psa_119:89 KJ2000 …Forever, O LORD, your word is settled in heaven.
Which is true even for clothing, since the priests clothing was based as an exact shadow of things going on in heaven designed before man fell:
Heb_8:4-5 KJVCNT …there are priests [with their priestly clothing] that offer gifts according to the law: 5 Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, says he, that you make all things [including the priestly clothing] according to the pattern showed to you in the mount.
We should have reverence for this and fear what God has made and ordained as clothing, because it is an eternal standard that is establish in the heavens forever!
Remember:
Despite what God prescribes to the priests, He still sees all things. He Himself is not offended at the human body, but at our sinful inclination to pervert it having acquired our awareness of the shame of our sexuality prematurely from rebellious means.
God himself knows how we are inclined to perversion, and so to protect us from it He gives us proper clothing that will cover even the perversion we are not aware of:
Who can know his own heart…
There is a way that seems right.. death
Also compare: “we don’t know what we aught to pray for”
We don’t know what’s best for us!!!
Dressing immodestly shows an internal affinity toward that which is dishonorable and detestable toward God. Let us flee from that which is hated and rejected by God and seek honor from Him:
Those who seek honor immortality and life…
Pharisees Love praise from men rather than Loving praise from God…
Jesus looked to the reward…
Don’t deny godly ambitions in the name of being “humble.” Be humble in regards to the flesh but be courageous in Jesus who has called us to greatness.
Pursuing that which is shameful incurs the wrath of God
Foaming out of their own shame…
It is shameful to even mention what they do… (so why is it that we so lightly make jokes about shameful things and play up the sinfulness that God so hates????)
Cry out for wisdom….. to that you will not inherit shame
Women are Special
It should be noted that the Biblical attitude is acknowledge that facial beauty is more of a defining (and tempting) feature in a woman than a man. For some reason God has particularly endowed beauty to the face of women in a way unique to them that is not so with men.
Many men have stumbled at beauty
Because God has entrusted a special gift of representing beauty in a woman’s face it also comes with greater responsibility to manage that gift in a way that is honorable…
So what is the application of all of this concerning the face?
It represents the church:
The king desires your beauty…Forget your people…
This image entrusted to women ought to be taken seriously especially since it reflects the way God feels attracted to His people and loves to beautify them as his bride. This means that tainting this image and representation on earth is a hatful crime because it distorts part of the picture of the very LOVE of GOD Himself!
For this very reason women are particularly admonished to keep holy that which God has entrusted to them for purity.
So why is it?
· Guys usually sweat more than girls (they usually like it cooler)
· Guys are much more visually tempted than girls (yet…)
· Girls typically where skimpier clothing than guys
· Guys (usually) have more going on for a shirt than girls in younger culture, when girls should be all the more modest in this area because of temptation!
· This tenancy toward skimpiness even holds true in the church!
Other Thoughts
Different Lusts
It is one thing if people choose to lust, it’s another in another thing if they are overtaken by unsympathetic seduction.
Some people are overcome and lust unwillingly and are less guilty than those who willingly dress in a
way to cause it.
The way you dress does not always stop those who choose to lust, but it does always mess up people who lust unwillingly! Dress might not alter those who sin willfully, but it will weaken those who sin unwillfully.
Carless dress consistently causes those who are week (and often those who are strong) to stubble into sin against their intentions.
You could make any touch lustful but there are some areas you could not make clean!
Don’t show the world what is reserved for a spouse!
Don’t Cling
God’s priests wore layers of clothing that did not “show off their figure.” And why would they? Clothing is to COVER not to “show off” one’s body.
If “guys are very aware of your body” as Pastor Mike says then don’t show or “hint” it to them.
Women throughout the ages have been more covered in morally sensitive cultures than men in recognition of the greater potential for lust.
Principal:
In all the ways that women have skimpier clothing than men, this is a direction of departure from morality to lust. Without the drive of lust, women would were at least as much or more clothing than men.
Remember: I’m not assuming that these things are done consciously as “willful sin” is done, but I’m bringing them to the light for us to deal with.
With the Biblical Dress Code, the idea is not to make your cloths “cling” or conform to your body, but to COVER your body. The priest had many layers of clothing, we should too if we aspire to be those who belong to Jesus who have been made “kings and priests.”
Don’t be under the
law
For the New Covenant, being under the law means insulting God by trying to do just the minimum requirements of what He has specifically for bidden. Living in the New Covenant means having a heart purified inside that goes beyond the specific external requirements and not even wanting to go the direction of immorality, much less push it to its limits!
So how far is too far? Under the New Covenant the instant you go the wrong direction you’ve gone too far in trespassing God’s purity standard that begins in the heart. Once you’ve got the heart part you’ve kept the fulfilled law by stopping from the need to sin or go in its direction.
Remember that those who sin are condemned, but those who bring in the cause of sin are condemned even greater! Woe to someone who is tripped up in lust, but woe even more to the one who has not prepared themselves and has caused their brother or sister to fall!
Search for:
Makeup
“Cloaks”
God has set priests to be merciful to sins committed in ignorance
Don’t only dress to your own safety standards, but dress in a way that could be righteously imitated by all who are watching you as an example.
Be example to believers…
Come together to stir one another up to love and good works…
Don’t “embolden” another’s conscience to do wrong
None of us lives to himself nor dies to himself (‘no one is an island’)
The Minimum Dress Code
How to Dress around
Family
At least in most cases when possible, it is not even good for family to see too much of family in this way:
Noah
Lev_18
God made them [both] cloaks of skin
Lev_18:6 CAB No man shall draw near to any of his near
kindred to uncover their nakedness; I am the Lord.
REAL Definition
In the Bible, naked does not always mean “fully unclothed,” but it often refers to not having the whole body covered. To God, being “naked” means coming short of the Biblical Dress Code. In the cold it can refer to more than the biblical dress code (see Jas_2:15-16, quoted previously, and 2Co_11:27 quoted below).
Mat_25:35-36 WEB 35 for I was… 36 naked, and you clothed me…
Act_19:16 KJV And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.
1Co_4:11 KJV Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;
2Co_11:23-27 KJV Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more… 27 …in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
It is safe to say the Apostles had some kind of cloths, but often not enough to cloth them fully as they would desire for dignity sake. These rags being incomplete clothing make the apostles unwillingly “naked.”
2Co_6:4, 10 KJV But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God… 10 …as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
Joh_21:7-9 WEB …Peter heard that it was the Lord, he wrapped
his coat around him (for he was naked),
Rom_8:35 KJV Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Jas_2:15-16 KJVCNT 15 If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, 16 And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be warmed and filled; notwithstanding you give them not those things which are necessary to the body; what does it profit?
Others Include:
Possibly Mar_14:51-52 (above)
--- Look up “nakedness” in OT
Ignorant sin
Ignorant sin is certainly a reality, so let us eagerly cry out for knowledge to be found unblamable before Him having forsaken willful ignorance.
Whether or not you are aware of God’s standards, they will remain true and eternal having been established in the Heavens. Please don’t get mad at me because I did not make this up. I am doing you great good by seeking to not let you continue unaware of God’s forgotten standards.
Read Pro_2
Beauty Holified
Beautiful People
Every Beautiful Person in The Bible
God likes people being Beautiful.
After all, He made that way, didn’t He?
God likes it when certain people are very appealing and good to look at visually, and He makes special note about when they are all throughout the Bible
Remember: God made all things Good (as seen in WOW), including people in the original goodness of
Eden before the fall.
Now we must be extra careful about the goodness
of beautiful people after sin is here.
Patriarchs of Beauty
The
Beauty of The Patriarchs And Matriarchs throughout The Bible
Job’s 3 Daughters Job_42:12-15
Young Woman Job_31:1 (Job’s
eye-covenant)
Sarah Gen_12:11, Gen_12:14-15;
Rebecca Gen_24:16; Gen_26:7 (life-threatening beauty)
Rachel Gen_29:17 (beautiful of form and appearance vs. Leah)
Joseph Gen_39:6-7
[Dina Gen_34: (tragedy would most like not have happen if
she was not more appealing than average/others)]
Beauty for Marriage
Indications
that beauty is a reasonable ground for marriage
[Eve? Gen_2:23 → All were GOOD/beautiful]
Daughters of men Gen_6:2 (Angelic lust violates into unlawful marriage)
Captive Woman Deu_21:10-12 (The Law allowed marriage based on beauty)
“Better” Sister? Jdg_15:2 (Samson’s Wife’s sister said to be “better” --
appearance or suitability?)
Rahab (A)
Harlot: Jos_2:1; Jos_6:22-25; Heb_11:31; Jam_2:25; (B) Married: Mat_1:5 (Rth_4:21; 1Ch_2:11)
[GPT: rabbinic literature names her
as one of the four most beautiful women in the world, alongside Sarah, Abigail,
and Esther]
[Rth? ]
Deutero-Canonnical Beauty
Judith Jdt_8:7; Jdt_10:4 (exceedingly beautiful; used beauty for
marriage and then to assonate Holofernes after widowhood)
Sara Tobit's wife
Susana
Kings & Beauty for Marriage
Saul 1Sa_9:2 (more handsome & taller than others)
David 1Sa_16:18; 1Sa_17:42; (Michal loved David (fleeing like
Potipher’s wife): 1Sa_18:20, 1Sa_18:28; 1Sa_19:11-17,
but later: 2Sa_6:16, 2Sa_6:20-23)
Abigail 1Sa_25:3 †
Bathsheba † 2Sa_11:2 (very beautiful to behold)
Song of Solomon The whole book!
Solomon & Shulamite (Sample): Son_1:8-16; Son_2:2, Son_2:14; Son_4:1-5, Son_4:7-10; Son_6:4, Son_6:9-10; Son_7:1-10;
Abishag † 1Ki_1:1-4 (highly beautiful Abishag the Shunammite took care of David)
Esther Est_2:2-4, Est_2:7, Est_2:15, Est_2:17 (beautiful & favored in king’s eyes)
Vashti † Est_1:11 (beautiful to behold; refused to show her crown
& beauty)
King &
Queen Psa_45:2 (king), Psa_45:10-11 (bride-queen)
-- (Prophetic wedding parable psalm)
Israel’s Parable † Eze_16:7-15 (used for prostitution and horrible sins: Eze_16:16-58)
Children
& Youths
(Sons &) Daughters Psa_144:12 (sons
like plants & esp. daughters that adorn)
Eliab - David's brother †
David’s Tamar † 2Sa_13:1 (David’s daughter was so beautiful Amnon
lusted after her)
Absalom † 2Sa_14:25-26 (no blemish from sole to crown, beautiful hair)
Absalom’s Tamar 2Sa_14:27 (Absalom’s daughter, wife of Rehoboam son of Solomon)
Adonijah † 1Ki_1:6 (son of David - very good-looking; attempted
to exalt himself as king)
Daniel Dan_1:4 (youths with no blemish, good-looking, gifted
in wisdom)
NT Beauty
1Corinthian virgin (one NT reference)
NT commends OT beauty that brought them into
the beauty of holiness
Eph_5: Rev a glorious wife/bride/church
Jesus Rev
Summaries of Beautiful People
· God Likes Blessed Beauty: Most of the Biblical descriptions of beauty are positive -- God likes it
· Sinful Beauty: Oftentimes beauty is also used for sin
· Fornicated Beauty: Almost every case where beauty is sinned against, it is outside of Biblical marriage (except…a few examples)
· 10 Men of Beauty: Joseph; Saul; David; Abigail; Bathsheba; Solomon; King; Absalom; Adonijah; Daniel
·
21+ Women of Beauty:
Job’s 3 Daughters; Young Woman; Sarah; Rebecca; Rachel; Daughters
of men; Captive Woman; “Better” Sister; Shulamite; Abishag; Vashti; Esther; Queen; Israel; Daughters; David’s Tamar; Absalom’s
Tamar; [Rahab; Judith]
·
Womens’s beauty is more central to the Bible
Women’s Beauty is More Than Men’s
· By spending more time, and greater thematical emphasis, and by using more than twice as many examples discussing the beauty of women, the Bible confirms what we actually should already know…
· Women's beauty is more of an issue than men's beauty in the Bible -- like it is our own thoughtful and perceptive human experience.
Job_31:1 WEB "I made a
covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?
Job_31:1 CAB “I made a covenant with
my eyes, and I will not think upon a virgin.
Job_31:1 διαθήκην
ἐθέμην τοῖς ὀφθαλμοῖς
μου καὶ οὐ συνήσω
ἐπὶ παρθένον.
Sinful Lust
1Jn_2:16 CAB Because everything that
is in the world--the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride
of life--is not from the Father but is from the world.
1Jn_2:16 ὅτι πᾶν
τὸ ἐν τῷ
κόσμῳ, ἡ ἐπιθυμία
τῆς σαρκὸς
καὶ ἡ ἐπιθυμία
τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν
καὶ ἡ ἀλαζονεία
τοῦ βίου, οὐκ
ἔστιν ἐκ τοῦ
πατρὸς, ἀλλ᾿
ἐκ τοῦ
κόσμου ἐστί.
1Jn_2:16 οτι
παν το εν τω
κοσμω η
επιθυμια της
σαρκος και η
επιθυμια των
οφθαλμων και η
αλαζονεια του βιου
ουκ εστιν εκ
του πατρος αλλ
εκ του κοσμου
εστιν
Moral Beauty
The Beauty Of Virtue
Psa_29:2; Psa_96:9; 1Ch_16:29 – worship him in the
beauty of holiness
Moses Exo_2:2; Act_7:20; Heb_11:23
Jesus's Beauty
Isa_53:2 – he had no form
or beauty that we should desire him
Ecc_3:11 “He has made everything beautiful in its
time.”
Psa_45:2-4 – you are the most
excellent/beautiful of the sons of men
Rev_1:13-16 – Revelation’s
description of Jesus (also Revelation 10)
Isa_33:17 WEB
Your eyes will see the king in his beauty. They will see a distant land.
Isa_33:17 CAB
You shall see a king with glory; your eyes shall behold a land from
afar.
Isa_33:17 βασιλέα
μετὰ δόξης ὄψεσθε,
καὶ οἱ ὀφθαλμοὶ
ὑμῶν ὄψονται γῆν
πόρρωθεν.
Psa_50:2 WEB Out of Zion, the
perfection of beauty, God shines forth.
Psa_50:2 CAB Out of Zion comes the
excellence of His beauty.
Psa_50:2 (49:2) ἐκ Σιων
ἡ εὐπρέπεια τῆς
ὡραιότητος αὐτοῦ,
ὁ θεὸς ἐμφανῶς ἥξει,
Mat_5:8 – Clean in heart will see God (Also Psa_24:3-4 -- hill of Lord)
1Pe_3:3 –
Wife’s Notes: Beautiful People
Beautiful people in the
Bible:
Eve, Gen 6 the daughters of
men, Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, Jacob's daughter Dinah, Joseph, David, Absalom,
Abigail, Bathsheba, Abishag, Solomon's Shulamite, Vashti, Esther, Judith,
Daniel, Job's 3 daughters, Job 31 a man has to make an eye covenant to not be
drawn to women! (It doesn't say that of women to men), Judges 15 the better
sister, Rahab, Ruth, Deut 21 the captive women, Saul, Tobit's wife, Susanna,
Psalm 45 the king and queen's beauty, Psalm 44 sons are plants and daughters
are adornments, Tamar (David's daughter), Absalom's daughter Tamar, Adonijah,
Moses as a baby, David's brother Eliab, Israel's parable but then they used it
for evil....1Cor 7 virgin at the "acme of her flower"
God made all things good,
including people (Ecc_3:11)
But the beauty of women is
more of a central theme and issue of critical management in the Bible than that
of men. We can conclude this by seeing that the Bible spends more time, with
more than twice as many examples, and with greater thematic emphasis of women's
beauty
And now we have to be more careful
with beauty since sin and defilement and corruption have entered the scene
Beauty is at the heart of
danger
And many of the Biblical
examples of beauty come with some sort of mishap or tragedy
The old testament has
already established the parables of the human experience
And now the new testament
focuses on teaching the point of the parables.
Romans 12 "the schema
of this world" (the way that things work in this world) is passing away
Entitlement is a real
danger with having beauty
If you are a
"beautiful person" then you need to work harder at escaping the
luxuries that come from that
We have to be careful about
beauty compliments
What sticks in your head
can distort your integrity
You don't have any moral
advantage with being beautiful. You have less advantage
Jesus had no beauty to be
desired, which was part of his extraordinary humility, which resulted in his
ultimate exaltation
MONEY, BEAUTY, KNOWLEDGE
All these things, and
similar benefits, are approximately in the same category, morally speaking
If you have lots of money,
does God favor you more? Absolutely not!
If you have intelligence
then does God favor you more? Absolutely not! (1 Cor - not many of you were
wise according to the flesh when you were called and chosen for God's kingdom)
Btw, intelligence is not
the same as logic, prudence, or wisdom
Many atheists are
intelligent. That doesn't mean that intelligent people typically don't believe
in God, but that rich people don't believe in God.
The same goes with beauty.
Beauty is not you giving
over good, but that God is giving you good
The question of knowledge
and beauty and so forth is the same question with money - how do you handle
money?
What's good about money,
beauty, intelligence, knowledge, etc is when you sacrifice it!
You're not blessed because
of your circumstances; you're blessed because of your sacrifices
-Sarah called Abraham lord
-Sarah risked her life for
Abraham (Sarah was fully zealous for marriage with Abraham, and she even threw
down seed and didn't get complacent after marriage, but on the contrary, she
leaned forward after marriage)
-Moses forsook the
treasures
-Esther gave up her
comforts and risked her life
What are some ways to
sacrifice beauty in the new covenant?
-Actually love your spouse after
getting married. Be more excited about romance after marriage than before. They
did not slump in the Song of Songs. This is a sacrifice that is so well
pleasing to God that it will prophecy about Anointed One and his Bride.
-Virginity/celibacy is a sacrifice
of beauty
Pragmatic applications
Be clean but don't bathe
too frequently (the early church even said no more than once a week)
Don't bathe more than there
is an actual, practical, mechanical, actual valid need
It would be a sin for a
single woman to bathe too much if she is not washing away a real threat to her
health
Don't congratulate yourself
with too much bathing
Marriage calls for more
maintenance of freshness
If you're married then it
would be a sin to not bathe enough
By nature, one does not
celebrate one's own feminine beauty outside of marriage
You can have beauty within
the home, but you don't adorn beauty facing away from marriage
Consider your hair
maintenance, bathing, oils & lotions, pampering yourself, needing a lot of
pillows, speaking of- do you even need a plush bed, looking at yourself in the
mirror, your clothing, going out of your way to grow long long hair, having
excessive shoes, matching your shoes with every outfit, being anti smells
/smell phobia, etc
Ask the question how much
do you HAVE TO do XYZ?
You're dangling over hell
if you are doing more than is necessary
You're looking to be a
handmaid, not a queen!
You shouldn't delight in
pampering yourself, you should be seeking out how to humble yourself more &
more
You shouldn't be feeding
the feminine vain glory lusts
The early church had to
repeatedly fight to remind women to have conservative values
Constantly use your beauty
to serve another and love your spouse (physically and spiritually)
Estrangement happens
because there is sin
If you die to sin then you
will feel loved
If you repent of sin and if
you get your sins sent away then you will all of a sudden feel loved
The only reason you don't
feel loved is because you don't feel righteous
Thorny Beauty Separates
it is hard to enjoy
beautiful a rose without thorns just as it is hard to enjoy a beautiful woman
without horns
Why?
your sins have separated
you from God
The Purpose of Beauty
Comp. BDC > The Purpose of Beauty & RiFi > Feminine Luxury
Selfless Beauty
· The purpose of beauty is for those who own it, not for yourself!
· That’s why bathroom mirrors are called vanities...!
Mirrors in the Bible
GPT:
Exo_38:8 – The laver is made
from the [sacrificial donations of the] mirrors of the women
Job_37:18 – The sky is compared to a cast metal mirror
Isa_3:23 – Mirrors are listed among the finery
taken from the daughters of Zion
1Co_13:12 – We see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face
Jas_1:23 – A hearer of the word is like a man observing his face in a mirror
Mirrors could be part of a
bathroom vanity because it could be used as vanity for ones self
In order to use beauty for
yourself you have to introduce a mechanism, called a mirror, which can be used
to defy the original purpose of beauty in order to use it for yourself.
If you are doing things
right you have to use something for its originally intended purpose which can
be called its natural use or the use of the nature of its intended purpose when
it was first designed
This includes…
Rom_1:
1Co_11:
Using something for its
natural use means honoring for the purpose it had from the beging/ how it was
created.
If you use a mirror for
something, like looking at yourself, it better not disarrange the original
purpose that beauty was designed for, which is valuing those who own it.
Not to promote your own
purposes which would be immorality.
What is okay to do with a
mirror?
A mirror can be used by
everyone, including unmarried people, for the purpose of keeping one’s own body
clean and tidy, because this does not have beauty admiration as a goal. Cleanness, for example, is a universal part
of a woman’s parable for her entire life, which serves the purpose of her
Creator who has called her to reflect this preoccupation with tedious purity.
This preoccupation with tedious physical purity does NOT include
the dirty pampering of taking frequent baths outside of marriage, which is NOT
morally clean, and risks hypocrisy (pretending the parable while defying the
point) as a sinful luxury afforded to those who grant themselves leisure to
please their own feelings, instead of maintaining a required base of physical
purity, as discussed later in RiFi (righteous finances…)
Wife’s Mirror Thoughts
6/1/25
A New
10:39 PM
P thank you for conference
today
I've been thinking a lot
about the mirror dynamic and influence...
How differently would we
females walk around without the common daily mirror? What would the average day
be like without the normalizing of mirrors hung up all around in bathrooms and
bedrooms, in the home and outside in public? How ought we to live without
looking at ourselves in mirrors everyday as a default?
I would expect females to
be far less insecure than they are now, as a whole. How much less would we
notice imperfections in our face? I say face cuz it's easier to notice an issue
in your arm or something; but something about the preoccupation with the face
and also hair seems dangerous (seeing that God put particular boundaries there
which prevents us from just easily looking & staring at those body parts
without third party helps). Things that seem like problems or beauty blemishes
to us females nowadays probably wouldn't have even been thought about much in
antiquity (at least not by righteous people).
It sounds very neat to be
able to preoccupy yourself with what your brother, or father, or son, or family
member told you to address cuz they think it's actually a real problem (and not
your own insecurity telling you something).
Example- 'hey, your face
has a bump with blood coming out of it. You probably want to go help that out'.
Oh thanks for letting me know!
10:49 PM
P How can I word the
following guiding principle, to use as a measuring stick - If righteous men
wouldn't think that this or that is a real beauty blemish (i.e. it's not worth
a woman's preoccupation or a certain amount of attention give to it) then
you're probably crossing a beauty boundary
11:04 PM
I wonder if we'll ever need
to launch a freedom from mirrors campaign!
...
Living in community really
is the ultimate way to survive.
I scratch your back; you
scratch mines.
I do your hair; you do
mines (especially if it will help cut down on the amount of mirrors used and
any OCD tendencies with making ultra straight hair parts!)
I point out food in your
beard; and you point out any real beauty blemishes on me.
One big happy family
…
Today
12:37 AM
I just finished reading the
mirror verses in the Bible
I thought this was
interesting:
Job_37:18 a
molten mirror
Exo_38:8
bronze lavar of the tabernacle was made from the mirrors of the serving women
CoPilot:
In ancient times, mirrors
were often made of polished bronze or other metals, rather than glass.
Ancient mirrors were not as
clear as modern glass mirrors. Early civilizations used polished obsidian,
bronze, copper, or silver to create reflective surfaces, but these materials
produced darker, less accurate images compared to today’s mirrors.
How Ancient Mirrors
Compared to Modern Ones
Obsidian Mirrors (6000
BCE)– Provided a dark, slightly blurry reflection.
Polished Metal Mirrors
(3000 BCE - Renaissance) – Used bronze, copper, or silver, but reflections were
distorted and less sharp.
Venetian Glass Mirrors
(13th Century) – Introduced clearer reflections, leading to modern mirror
technology.
Silver-Backed Mirrors
(1835)– Revolutionized mirror clarity, making reflections sharp and
accurate.
Ancient mirrors were
functional but imperfect, often requiring constant polishing to maintain
reflectivity. Today’s mirrors use glass with a reflective coating, providing
crystal-clear images.
Hence- we see through a
mirror dimly (1Co_13:12)?!!
…
1:01 AM
P How would you tie in Jam_1:23-25?
Sounds like the purpose and
function of a mirror is not to notice and obsess over all your physical
imperfections (seeing that when biblical people referenced mirrors they were
referring to obscured reflective objects). And of course it already goes
without saying that mirrors are not for the purpose of admiring yourself as the
women who were judged in Isa_3:23).
But according to James 1 is the purpose of a mirror to look at something in
obscurity, and enigmatically, and thru this to remember your overall
reflection? And, as a spiritual provocation reminder, to consider who you're
supposed to really be?
Btw, I would love to read
thru the whole chapter of James 1 for conference
Essential Virtue
We’ve got to be fully
engaged in the righteous virtue power of the New Covenant to write God's law on
our hearts and do by nature the very essence of what God has revealed to us.
The Point: if we use
beauty for what it was made for then it will fulfill God’s law written on our
hearts.
There is a lot at stake in
the realm of luxury and selfishness and vanity and indulgence when it comes to
the orthodox true righteous virtuous moral biblical purpose of beauty.
Beauty’s Purpose, Not Beauty’s Amount
Not how much beauty you have
but whether or not you serve its purpose with its usage.
Beauty Sanctification is
about Honoring its Purpose, Not Having more Amount
· More Faithfulness, Not More Opportunities: The Moral Management of good things is based on the meaning and purpose you use it for, not the amount of any resource you have.
· Protect the Purpose: Weather beauty is there in your youth or it is diminished in your age, the glory and potential future glory of your body should be reserved for its original and ultimate purpose.
· Beauty for earthly marriage & heavenly marriage are compatible
· Beauty for earthly Prostitution is incompatible with Beauty’s Purpose
If your body was “your own”
then could use it to please yourself, but because it is not yours therefore
personal sexual activity is a sexual crime of sexual murder which earns hell,
and the exact same principles that apply in the extreme with PSA also govern
the rules for the visual requirements of purity when managing your beauty and
all of the goodnesses of your body
It is very dangerous to use
beauty and elaborate and pamper beauty as a single person without a specific
determined target of marriage, just like it is always dreadfully dangerous to
look at yourself in the mirror and elaborate your beauty for purposes other
than marriage…
As Paul said to the
Corinthians…
Man is judged by what he
has not by what he doesn’t have
1Co_6:19-20
Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies
Rom_14:7-8
For none of us lives for ourselves alone, and none of us dies for ourselves alone. If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.
1Ki_18:15 as the Lord Almighty lives whom I serve
Act_27:23 God to whom I belong and whom I serve
Jer_13:1 son of man go and put a girdle on put it on your loins don't put it in water
The redemptive use of your
life including the goodness of your beauty is not measured based on how much
resources of goodness you have, such as how beautiful you are, but how faithful
you are to take whatever resources you have and use them as sacrifices for the
purpose of the kingdom of heaven.
If you are single, this is
going to mean a lot of self-denial and sacrifice, and if you are married it’s
going to mean using your beautiful resources as opportunities to glorify God’s
parable of marriage as the Shulamite did to Solomon in the song of songs and
other righteous exciting matriarchs did to throw themselves into the genealogy
of Anointed One Himself through glorious virtues and sizzling romance.
The Point: We’re
talking about the quality of your faithfulness not the quantity of your
resources – when it comes to beauty and using it for the right purpose.
Beauty for Husband
A Woman’s Beauty is for her Husband in MARRIAGE!
If A Woman’s Beauty is
for her Husband, then all intentional display of beauty in public is
immodest sexual sin -- which is visual prostitution and adultery.
(We’re starting off with several previews to help the listener get the basic idea, and then hopefully moving into the actual proof of this morality as we keep going (Lord willing)…)
Previews: Hidden from Prostitution; Preserved for Marriage
Clean Purity of Modesty Covers Personal Beauty &
Holy-ifys it’s Full Enjoyment for Marriage Alone
Modesty Protects Beauty for Marriage
Modestly Cover &
Hide Beauty-Purity for Husband
Serious (Biblical) Modesty…
· (A) Covers and hides the shame of a woman's bodily and personal beauty nakedness, by…
· (B) Fully clothing the sexual features of the body, hair, and face from being seen publically (Mat_5:27-30 (2Pe_2:14); Mat_15:19/Mar_7:21 (Pro_4:23); Pro_6:25; Pro_27:20; Isa_3:16; Job_31:1; etc.), which…
· (C) Keeps the purity of her personable beauty off limits to society, which…
· (D) Guards against and contradicts the condemned sexual sins of visual and physical prostitution and adultery, which…
· (E) Protects her beauty from all others, and…
· (F) Preserves her personal beauty for the enjoyment of her husband alone.
Since modesty exists in the Bible (not really/necessarily in modern cultures), and inherently, by definition, covers and hides a woman's personal beauty from being shown and visually enjoyed by all others in public, and is required for salvation, and is the opposite of sexual crimes that earn hell, and marriage is the only holy and righteous place to enjoy this personal beauty, therefore Biblical modesty clearly, definitively, authoritatively, morally, Biblically, righteously, and scientifically proves that enjoying a woman's personal beauty belongs only to her husband alone, and showing it off publically is sexual sin which earns hell.
The married husband is inside
of marriage, and therefore what is protected and hidden to society is given
exclusively to him.
This is the special
holiness of marriage, which gives personal beauty and the sacredness
of the body to only one exclusive Biblically-valid covenant partner for
life.
The Point: Modesty Hides Beauty from Prostitution & Preserves & Protects it for Marriage Alone.
Now we need to consider
previews of each of these pieces of modesty…
Modesty Exists = Hiding
Beauty in Public
Submit
to the Moral Facts of Reality
Modesty exists: Modesty
hides beauty nakedness, including bodily sexual features from being seen
publicly.
There is no such thing as
modesty or purity outside of hiding the beauty (or potential
beauty) of sexual features in the Bible.
Body Modesty Required
When the gender features of
the body are displayed and or otherwise interacted with outside of appropriate
family members this is a sexual murder sin that destroys the gender of the body
which God created.
Hair & Face Beauty
Are Included -- in Required Modesty
A woman's hair and face are
included within required modesty in similar ways, with their own particular
boundaries against public display, along with the rest of her gender-specific
body (as seen above and below).
Visual Prostitution
Condemned
Jesus and the rest of the
Bible condemn the visual prostitution and or adultery of the eyes and heart (Mat_5:27-30; Mat_15:19; etc.) for those who
publicly show a woman's beauty in public, since (this is key, by default) matured
beauty solicits and demands admiring the personal goodness of a woman's
gender beauty (Pro_6:25; Pro_27:20; etc.), and that will
happen outside of marriage, unless otherwise carefully guarded against.
Personable Enjoyment for
Marriage
The full enjoyment of a
woman's personal beauty is illegal and off limits to all others besides her
husband.
Both physically and
visually, enjoying personal beauty outside of marriage is called
prostitution and adultery and is otherwise only allowed, praised, celebrated,
and commended and enjoyed inside of marriage with praises of holiness
and righteous celebration.
Modesty & Marriage
Prove Husband’s Exclusivity
Biblical Modesty and
Purity’s absolute exclusivity of holy marriage in the Bible clearly and
absolutely proves that a woman's personal beauty is only for her husband.
Beauty for Marriage, NOT Prostitution!
[Overseer’s Initial Summaries:]
· Woman was created for husband (Gen_2:; I will make a helpmate, it is not good for man to be alone 1Co_11:9), which includes the beauty of her body and her hair and her face (Song of Songs; 1 Corinthians 11, etc.), which is made holy, or sanctified (Hebrew: kedushin) exclusively for her husband through the marriage covenant (Mal_2:14), and therefore is only given and ‘permitted to him alone’ (as the Jews say) for full enjoyment, and no one else is allowed to lust after or even personally admire her beauty to enjoy admiration of it, which is called adultery in Mat_5:27-30.
[GPT’s Responses:]
·
GPT:
her beauty (hair, face, body) is part of her being given to her husband
in marriage, made holy to him alone
·
GPT: The Hebrew concept of קדושין (kedushin, “sanctification”) means the woman
becomes set apart—not public, not for society. Her beauty belongs
exclusively to her husband within the covenant.
·
GPT: The Bible praises
private beauty, not public display.
·
GPT: Song of Songs is
filled with descriptions of beauty—but in private, between husband and wife.
Nowhere does the Bible praise women for public beauty displays.
[Overseer’s Concluding Response:]
·
The Bible condemns women
who show off and murder their beauty in public -- which are ultimately judged
and destroyed as the End Times rebels of “Jezebel” and her apostate culture of
big-time adulteress-harlots.
Modesty Exists!
· Modesty Commanded: The visual modesty of clothing that hides the sexual features of the body is commanded all throughout the Bible.
· Clothes Defined: From Hebrew to Greek, clothing is made to ‘fill in the hollows’ and hide the curves and beautiful features of the human body.
· Exclusivity: The body is not for any indulgence of gender pleasure outside of marriage (prostitution, fornication, adultery), but only for God and His use (including marriage).
· Men & Women: The Bible requires modesty for both men and women.
· Extra for Women: Extra Modesty is especially commanded for women.
· Women’s Clothes: Women are commanded to dress modestly, with a long dress and hiddenness (KJV: shamefacedness) in public (1Ti_2).
· Women More Than Men: Female modesty is required even more than men with purity requirements like head coverings (Num_5; 1Co_11), which cover the beauty of the hair and the face, and a dress that goes all the way down to the feet, covering the body of women even more than men, as seen in 1st Timothy 2.
· Prepared for Hiddenness: Women are specifically commanded to prepare themselves in modesty for the goal of non-perception (shamefacedness) when going in public in 1st Timothy 2.
Don't forget the clear and obvious reality that modesty exists…
The very simple fact that modesty is required for women even more than men when they go in public very plainly and simply shows that beauty does not belong to other people outside of her family or "household".
GPT Response/Summary: The
very existence of a modest dress code for women shows that her beauty is not
public property. What is required to be covered is obviously not meant to be
seen. What is not for display is not for others to enjoy.
Modesty Includes Hair & Face
Glorious Hair
1Co_11:15 says a woman's hair is a glory to her, and in the Bible
such glory is paralleled with “beauty”, therefore 1Co_11:15 is declaring long
hair to be gloriously beautiful for a woman, and in this very context it
teaches her to cover what is glorious and beautiful, and not to expose and
shame (devalue and profane) the beautiful Glory, because such hate crimes
deserve the punishment of a haircut, but instead woman must cover her beautiful
hair in honor and in the fear and reverence of God towards sexual purity.
Sexual Sins of Nakedness
· Sins of shame and nakedness are committed when showing off the beauty of the body in public.
· Even looking with lust is adultery (Mat_5:28) not just the physical sin-crime (or act).
·
Displaying beauty that
includes lust or even admiration of beauty (by the
opposite gender, that has an active sexual dynamic to it) is adultery and leads
to hell (Mat_5:29-30;
Pro_6:25; Pro_27:20)
A House to Cover Shame -- Defines Beauty’s Purpose
Sir_29:21 – Sirach: the necessities of life include a house to cover
shame
A house to cover shame
includes the beauty that doesn’t belong in public.
Beauty Belongs Indoors
· Public is not the place for a woman’s beauty, a HOUSE is.
· Bodily shame, including troubling the beauty of the head, happens when Beauty is devalued by being defiled and consumed outside of its holy context of the Home.
· Beauty belongs in the HOUSE, including a woman’s house-hold.
· 'Household relationships' are described all throughout the Bible, so this is a morally valid Biblical terminology to speak in.
The Point: Beauty is for your household.
The shameful exposure of it
is off limits to society.
From Family to Husband
· No Public Access: A woman's beauty is not allowed for society, but only for her family and especially for her husband.
· Family Protection: When humans are not part of a Harlot-culture, a woman’s immediate family has been sanctified and naturally trained to protect and preserve her beauty and purity for her husband. (the potency of family purity)
· Family Immunity: A woman’s family has been specifically and specially trained by nature to only enjoy her beauty on a surface level, in a non-personable way, without personally engaging in the sexual bodily intimacy of her beauty, so that it can be carefully guarded, preserved, and protected for a Biblically lawful husband to fully enjoy the bonding process of being bodily united to a wife while also making babies.
This is exactly why 1Ti_5:1-2 says to treat younger
women as sisters…
It is referencing family
immunity and family protection to not allow any activation of sexuality until
marriage.
This command is regarding a
regulation for a spiritual community of believers and it references a natural
phenomenon within a physical family as the protective standard to apply to the
females within the community, not specifying a need for purity amongst elder
men, younger men, or elder women, but clearly and definitively saying that they
need to relate to new women as sisters all holy purity – the obvious explicit
emphasis on extra needs for younger women is unmistakable and is explicitly
based on family immunity.
Paul both says that you
need to treat younger women as sisters which means you are not allowed to
relate to them on a personable gender level, and then if that were not enough
he clinches in on purity by specifying in all holy purity.
If there was any question
if Paul wanted to you to love the younger females in the spiritual assembly, he
obviously does. If there is any question whether he allows any room for
scandals, he obviously doesn’t.
Younger women actually is
more like saying women who are new to the human species or relatively new,
which means they might still have a certain naivety or inexperience when
grappling with the temptations of lust and the needs for weighty seriousness
and purity.
And the words for treating
younger women as sisters with all holy purity is actually very similar and
almost the same to the word for holiness, which makes its way more directly
into English if we could have a gentle revolution to bring back the word
chastity, that would actually do the human race good because that’s the holy
purity that Paul was talking about. The idea of chastity and the idea of holy
purity is an absolute inactivity of sexual indulgence and preservation of all
gender excitement, protected inside the privacy of oneself until marriage with
no activity or activation until marriage.
Guarding the Garden for an Ultimate Guardian
Son_8:9 – We will enclose her with boards of cedar
Notice that she is being
closed into a house – with boards of cedar!
Last I checked women were
not well known for breaking through boards, much less boards of cedar…
Comp. with Sir_: a wayward
woman needs to be restricted and confined
Comp. Gen_34: the brothers were zealous to guard their
sister Dinah
1Ti_2:9-10 – women dressed in hiddenness for public interaction and
presentation
·
1Ti_2:9
commands aidos (αἰδώς), non-perception-ness which particularly avoids perception.
Son_4:12 – a garden enclosed & sealed
fountain is my sister my spouse
Son_7:13 – Many things I have laid up for you
Son_7:13 WEB The mandrakes give
forth fragrance. At our doors are all kinds of precious fruits, new and old,
which I have stored up for you, my beloved.
Son_7:13 LB The mandrakes have given
a smell, and at our doors are all kinds of choice fruits, new and old. O my kinsman,
I have kept them for you.
Son_7:13 (7:14) οἱ
μανδραγόραι ἔδωκαν
ὀσμήν, καὶ ἐπὶ
θύραις ἡμῶν πάντα
ἀκρόδρυα, νέα
πρὸς παλαιά, ἀδελφιδέ
μου, ἐτήρησά
σοι.
Rev_3:18 – avoid walking without clothes!
(Yes, that is an issue with
beauty in general, as we’ve already proven, not just below the neck)
Exclusive Marriage
Context: Noticed that the rest of Song of
Songs is spousal admiration book, while closing off this pleasure to the rest
of the human race.
Hidden for Marriage: Hiding beauty is one of the essential elements of guarding
a woman until she is "spoken for" (Son_8:8-9; Hos_2:19-20; etc.) and picked
up by another guardian - her
husband.
Willful Purity: A righteous woman owns this personally as her own
integrity and vital self-concept of needed righteousness:
Tit_2:4 – admonish young women to love their husbands to be
discreet homemakers obedient to their own husbands.
Body is ‘for’ the Lord
1Co_6:13 – The body is not for prostitution but for the Lord, and
the Lord for the body
1Co_6:13 CAB Foods for the stomach and the stomach for
foods, but God will destroy both this stomach and these foods. Now the body is not for fornication [τὸ δὲ σῶμα
οὐ τῇ
πορνείᾳ], but for the
Lord [τῷ
Κυρίῳ], and the Lord for
the body
[Κύριος τῷ
σώματι].
1Co_6:13 τὰ
βρώματα τῇ
κοιλίᾳ καὶ
ἡ κοιλία τοῖς
βρώμασιν· ὁ
δὲ Θεὸς καὶ
ταύτην καὶ
ταῦτα
καταργήσει.
τὸ δὲ σῶμα
οὐ τῇ
πορνείᾳ, ἀλλὰ
τῷ Κυρίῳ,
καὶ ὁ
Κύριος τῷ
σώματι·
That clearly proves you are
not allowed to show off your beauty in public
It doesn’t matter that a
Heckler is going to deny reality and pretend like that doesn’t prove that you
have to keep your beauty private, since the Bible has already established that
Remember…
Pro_7:10 WEB Behold, there a
woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, and with crafty intent.
Pro_7:10 LB and the woman meets him
having the appearance of a harlot [εἶδος
ἔχουσα πορνικόν], that causes the
hearts of young men to flutter.
Pro_7:10 ἡ δὲ γυνὴ
συναντᾷ αὐτῷ, εἶδος
ἔχουσα πορνικόν,
ἣ ποιεῖ νέων ἐξίπτασθαι
καρδίας.
TSK on Pro_7:10: the attire: Gen_38:14, Gen_38:15, 2Ki_9:22, 2Ki_9:30, Isa_3:16-24, Isa_23:16, Jer_4:30, 1Ti_2:9, Rev_17:3-5
Remember…
Prostitute / Harlot /
Fornicator = SAME WORD (reminder)
When Paul says the body is
not for prostitution, that includes the clothing of a prostitute that shows off
a woman’s beauty in public, and if a harlot culture church person says that
doesn’t include her face hair and eyes we’ve already shown that modesty
includes hair face and eyes!
It doesn’t matter if a a
denialist church person says that this verse doesn’t prove that you have to
wear clothes in public, because you’ve already seen that it does and anyone can
read the preceding verses and the following verses to see that this is very
clearly proven and established.
Flee prostitution! (1Co_6:18) ≈ Flee immodesty! (seen above and below) -- SAME
Teaching!
The Point: The body is
for the Lord, and not for showing beauty in public -- that is it’s not for
prosecution
Comp. Body is for the Lord & Women is for Man
Women is ‘for’ Man
Women's Beauty is for Man, NOT Herself!
1Co_11:9 – Man was not created for women but women for man
(1Ti_2: woman
created after man)
1Co_11:8 CAB For man is not from [ἐκ – out of] woman, but woman
from man.
1Co_11:8 οὐ γάρ
ἐστιν ἀνὴρ
ἐκ γυναικός,
ἀλλὰ γυνὴ ἐξ
ἀνδρός·
1Co_11:9 Nor was man created for
[διὰ – through (because of/on
account of)] the woman, but woman for [διὰ] the man.
1Co_11:9 καὶ
γὰρ οὐκ ἐκτίσθη
ἀνὴρ διὰ
τὴν γυναῖκα,
ἀλλὰ γυνὴ
διὰ τὸν ἄνδρα.
1Co_11:10 Because of [διὰ] this, the woman
ought to have a symbol of authority upon her head, because of [διὰ] the angels.
1Co_11:10 διὰ τοῦτο
ὀφείλει ἡ
γυνὴ ἐξουσίαν
ἔχειν ἐπὶ τῆς
κεφαλῆς διὰ
τοὺς ἀγγέλους.
A confused ignorant person
will say, ‘wait a minute! I thought you said the body was for the Lord,
and now you’re saying it’s for man!?’ -- exactly!
‘So Is it for the Lord or
is it for man?’
Answer: “Yes!”
If you don’t understand,
you’re not obeying the Bible yet…
A woman's beauty is not for
herself! – it’s For the man whom she was created for -- on Earth and ultimately
in heaven.
Comp. Body is for the Lord & Women is for Man
Pro_5:18-19 – exclusively rejoice in goodness of wife (reminder, as
quoted below…)
NOT his neighbor’s wife! -- That would be (the deadly sin of) coveting.
Notice that you’re not
logically allowed to introduce and add another purpose into this original
purpose, so as to profane your beauty’s purpose for others, and you’re not even
allowed to add in your own pleasure!
The Point: Stop showing beauty in public, but reserve it for (1) the
Lord (1Co_6:13)
and (2) your husband (1Co_11:9) whom it was made for.
Covenant Makes all the Difference…
Mal_2:14 – she is your companion and wife by covenant
We see that the marriage
covenant makes all the difference between immorality and sacred marriage...
Covenant makes an otherwise “stranger” into a wife’s Lord Husband who owns her…
Lord Husband: Owns Woman -- Genesis, Psalms, & Peter
Gen_3:16 – Your desire will be for your husband & he will Lord
you
Psa_45:11 – the king will greatly desire your beauty because he is
your lord bow before him
Gen_18:12; 1Pe_3:6 – Sarah called Abraham Lord
Peter is saying that
Sarah’s confession was a good confession for women to imitate and charges women
to be her daughters by…. Includes calling their husbands lord
Lord-ship implies ownership
all throughout the Bible.
Lord-husband (Gen_3:16; Psa_45:11; Gen_18:12; 1Pe_3:6; etc.) reinforces a husbands ownership of his wife’s body (as
seen in 1Co_7:3-4,
etc.)
Notice the lordship link
from Psa_45:11
that goes all the way back to Genesis lordship, and this is one of the most
romantic Psalms in the Bible.
Reckless worldly perverts today think their perverted sassy
independence and the dirty confidence of a harlot are going to contribute
anything toward a happy marriage or ultimate romantic excitement and or
compatibility...
The Marital Debt -- of Beauty
1Co_7:3-4 – give over to your spouse what is owed
It is both mutual and
exclusive
A woman passes from “off
limits” to required intimacy (in 1Co_7:3-4) through a valid binding marriage covenant (Mal_2:14).
Justice of Giving Beauty
to Husband
· Debt-Paying Beauty: Giving “what is owed” includes beauty because it includes your body being given over to your spouse as a debt, and we also know this from the following context (not to mention the preceding context of Deuteronomy 21 when it talks about a slave wife’s rights…)
· Giving Goodness: This is a marital debt to give over goodness, with no authority over your own body.
· To Husband: This is saying that the goodness of a woman's beauty and appealing luxurious pleasures to be given over to her husband.
· Pandemic: this is addressing the most core relevant pressing urgent vital neglected needs among marriages.
· Neglecting these marital beauty-pleasure debts is by far one of the most treacherous sin crime against marriage going on today, and apparently has always been an increasing issue in liberalizing societies.
· Exclusivity: If beauty then is given over to a husband as a marital debt within the resources of his wife’s body, it is therefore is not possible to lawfully give it over to anyone else besides her husband to whom she owes it.
· No Leftovers: After your body does not belong to you but to your spouse, therefore you have nothing leftover to give outside of marriage to others, including not even to yourself.
· Do you understand it is extremely dangerous to pamper yourself outside of marriage – because you are risking indulging in beauty outside of marriage which only belongs to your spouse
The Point: Pay the Beauty-marriage-debt to YOUR SPOUSE!
-- & no one else
[Don’t forget the house-to-husband principle that confines the
boundaries of protecting the holiness of beauty’s purpose.]
For Husband Alone!
Pro_5:17 – Let her be for you alone and no other
Pro_5:15 WEB Drink water out of
your own cistern, running water out of your own well.
Pro_5:15 CAB Drink waters out of your
own vessels, and out of your own springing wells.
Pro_5:15 πῖνε ὕδατα
ἀπὸ σῶν ἀγγείων
καὶ ἀπὸ σῶν φρεάτων
πηγῆς.
Pro_5:16 WEB Should your springs
overflow in the streets, streams of water in the public squares?
Pro_5:16 Do not let waters out of your fountain be spilled by you, but
let your waters go into your streets.
Pro_5:16 μὴ ὑπερεκχείσθω
σοι τὰ ὕδατα ἐκ
τῆς σῆς πηγῆς, εἰς
δὲ σὰς πλατείας
διαπορευέσθω
τὰ σὰ ὕδατα·
Pro_5:17 WEB Let them be
for yourself alone, not for strangers with you.
Pro_5:17 Let them be yours alone, and let no stranger
partake with you.
Pro_5:17 ἔστω σοι
μόνῳ ὑπάρχοντα,
καὶ μηδεὶς ἀλλότριος
μετασχέτω σοι·
Pro_5:18 WEB Let your spring be
blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.
Pro_5:18 Let your fountain of water be truly your own, and rejoice with
the wife of your youth.
Pro_5:18 ἡ πηγή
σου τοῦ ὕδατος ἔστω
σοι ἰδία, καὶ
συνευφραίνου
μετὰ γυναικὸς
τῆς ἐκ νεότητός
σου.
Pro_5:19 WEB A loving doe and a
graceful deer-- let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always
with her love.
Pro_5:19 Let your loving deer and your graceful colt company with
you,
and let her be considered your own, and be with you at all times, for ravished
with her love you shall be greatly increased.
Pro_5:19 ἔλαφος
φιλίας καὶ πῶλος
σῶν χαρίτων ὁμιλείτω
σοι, ἡ δὲ ἰδία ἡγείσθω
σου καὶ συνέστω
σοι ἐν παντὶ
καιρῷ ἐν γὰρ τῇ
ταύτης φιλίᾳ
συμπεριφερόμενος
πολλοστὸς ἔσῃ.
Pro_5:20 WEB For why should you,
my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?
Pro_5:20 Do not be intimate with a strange woman, neither fold
yourself in the arms of a woman not your own.
Pro_5:20 μὴ πολὺς
ἴσθι πρὸς ἀλλοτρίαν
μηδὲ συνέχου ἀγκάλαις
τῆς μὴ ἰδίας·
Exclusive Ownership is the
critical factor here!
Son_4:12 – a garden enclosed & sealed
fountain is my sister my spouse
An enclosed & sealed
garden-fountain = a man rejoicing over his exclusive wife
That’s why modesty exists for
all others (i.e. prostitution)
Crown or Curse?
Question: why is it that “woman’s beauty is vain” in Pro_31:30 (CAB)?
Why? Especially when…
Pro_12:4 – a woman is a crown of her husband
What is a woman’s beauty for? Is she to crown herself? No! It is to crown her king-husband alone!
A Worthless Crown?
· How can beauty be a crown and it can also be called worthless in the Bible?
· Are crowns supposed to be simultaniously worthless?
Vashti’s
Example of Failure
Est_1:11-12 – Vashti refused to show her crowned (non-personal)
beauty, and was justly banished
(Showing “Crowned beauty” evidently included ornate glorious
clothing, as seen with Judith and similar examples.)
Vashti
Was Selfish
Vashti
used her beauty for herself and refused to crown her honorable king husband.
Misinterpreting Vashti
We wrongly assume that
showing personal (bodily) beauty was the proper goal when reading
stories like this.
She was to show off crowned beauty, not the personal beauty of
her body.
This is the same dynamic
with Judith.
There is a difference
between crowned beauty, which is in the realm of clothing, and a woman’s personal
beauty, which is in the realm of “showing off” bodily lust without proper
clothing.
Ester Surpassed Vashti
Crowned clothing beauty is
fitting for a queen in this life. – like Ester, who took Vashti’s crown.
This
directly would imply that Esther, in contrast to Vashti, was willing to use her
crowned beauty to be a crown for her husband -- the honorable imperial king
himself.
Esther got
the crown put on her instead of vashti
Dressing
Up WithOUT Sin -- Valid Social Extravegence
Clothing beauty can be
socially appropriate for a wedding, where non-family members can be present –
even though Mennonites seem to not have gotten the newsflash that the Bible
universally approves of women having jewels at their wedding.
If you’re a queen beside a
king, or if you’re a bride getting married to a husband, no one says I wish and
hope I could get to dance with that beauty queen -- they’re only impressed with
how much that crowned beauty honors the husband next to her, and how HE Alone
gets to enjoy her very own personal beauty in addition to her crowned
clothing beauty as well.
Dressing
Up WITH Sin
Women’s public adornment
would be wrong to do in the middle of society, as if she were available to
acquire in the middle of the market along with all of the other food men are
prone to buy, and this is especially inappropriate for bond slaves of
Anointed One, who are not only supposed to surpass all others in chastity,
but furthermore have no glorious city here in this life.
(The New Covenant is more
focused on self-denial than anything in the Old Covenant ever used to be.)
So…
Beauty Is Vain -- When?
Pro_31:30 WEB Charm is deceitful,
and beauty is vain H1892 [Heb =
Ecclesiastes]; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.
Pro_31:30 CAB
Charms are false [ψευδεῖς
ἀρέσκειαι], and woman’s
beauty is vain [μάταιον
κάλλος γυναικός]: for it is a wise
woman that is blessed, and let her praise the fear the Lord.
Pro_31:30 ψευδεῖς ἀρέσκειαι
καὶ μάταιον κάλλος
γυναικός· γυνὴ
γὰρ συνετὴ εὐλογεῖται,
φόβον δὲ κυρίου
αὕτη αἰνείτω.
False-deceitful is paralleled with vain beauty.
Beauty is therefore as vain
as falsehood.
Beauty is vain when it is
paralleled with falsehood.
But is this an absolute
demotion of all beauty, or is this judgement against beauty just in the context
of deception?
We’ve seen that beauty can
be good, so why is it bad in cases like this?
Vain in Hebrew:
WS on H1892 ֶהֶבל
heḇel: A common noun referring to vanity, emptiness,
meaninglessness; idols. The word is used seventy times, thirty-five of these
are in Ecclesiastes. It refers to breath because of its transitory fleeting
character (Isa_57:13) and is used
as a symbol for life (Job_7:16). It refers to
the vanity and ultimate emptiness and meaninglessness of all things in this
life, whether they seem good or bad (Ecc_1:2, Ecc_1:14; Ecc_2:11, Ecc_2:15, Ecc_3:19; Ecc_4:4, Ecc_4:7-8; Ecc_5:7 [6]; Ecc_6:2, Ecc_6:4, Ecc_6:9; Ecc_7:6, Ecc_7:15; Ecc_8:10; Ecc_9:9; Ecc_11:8). Combined
with itself in the plural, it means absolute meaninglessness (Ecc_1:2). Idols and the vain religious
customs associated with them are all delusions (Jer_10:3, Jer_10:15). It denotes
an empty, vain life (Ecc_6:12). Used with
the verb hāḇal, it means to carry out vain talk or action or
what is empty (Job_27:12). As an
adverb, it means to talk in vain, emptily (Job_35:16). To walk
after heḇel means to go after or follow vanity (2Ki_17:15; Jer_2:5). Anything obtained
through evil is vain, such as wealth (Pro_13:11).
This emptiness of deceitful
vain beauty can be best explained in the preceding wisdom context:
Pro_11:22 WEB
Like a gold ring in a pig's snout, is a beautiful woman who lacks
discretion.
Pro_11:22
LB As an ornament in a swine’s snout, so is
[οὕτως] beauty to an
ill-minded [κακόφρονι
κάλλος] woman.
Pro_11:22 ὥσπερ ἐνώτιον
ἐν ῥινὶ ὑός, οὕτως
γυναικὶ κακόφρονι
κάλλος.
TSK Enhanced:
a jewel: Pro_31:30, Eze_16:15-22, Nah_3:4-6 (seducing
witch-prostitute), 1Pe_3:3-4, 2Pe_2:22 (pig returns
to dirtiness)
is without: Heb. departed from, Pro_7:10 (dressed as a prostitute), Pro_9:13
Sin Makes Beauty Vain
This preceding wisdom
context reinforces that the presence of sin in beauty makes the gift
of a woman’s goodness into a stinky abomination (as also powerfully reinforced
in these cross references)
So…
How does this vain Selfish Beauty practically affect women?
It makes them vain,
useless, and empty!
Are women tempted to use
beauty outside of marriage & even for themselves?
Will you survive judgement
if you take pleasure in empty vanity?
How should the righteous
‘save themselves and their hearers’ (1Ti_4:16) from the cursed sins of empty-vain beauty?
The Point:
Beauty itself is “useless”, fleeting (Hebrew), or “useless-vain”
(Greek), and this “vanity” and will send you to hell like all sins of vanity
unless you fill beauty’s uselssness with its original lawful
righteous purpose -- put substance (for Lord & Husband) inside of
the inherent uselessness of beauty to
save yourself and your hearers (1Ti_4:16) from this cursed vanity of unchecked beauty.
Beauty Elaboration Only for Marriage!
In contrast to the default
of social abstinence
and self-denial of the unmarried, righteous Beauty-Elaboration only
starts for the righteous when it’s time for Marriage…
Default: You’re Not a Queen, So DON’T Dress Up Like One!
1Co_1:26 CAB For you see your calling, brothers, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many powerful, not many noble [εὐγενεῖς], are called.
1Co_1:26
Βλέπετε
γὰρ τὴν κλῆσιν
ὑμῶν, ἀδελφοί,
ὅτι οὐ
πολλοὶ σοφοὶ
κατὰ σάρκα,
οὐ πολλοὶ
δυνατοί, οὐ
πολλοὶ εὐγενεῖς,
1Co_1:27 But God chose the foolish things of the world in order that He might humiliate the wise, and God chose the weak things of the world in order that He might humiliate the mighty.
1Co_1:27 ἀλλὰ
τὰ μωρὰ τοῦ
κόσμου ἐξελέξατο
ὁ Θεὸς ἵνα
τοὺς σοφούς
καταισχύνῃ,
καὶ τὰ ἀσθενῆ
τοῦ κόσμου ἐξελέξατο
ὁ Θεὸς ἵνα
καταισχύνῃ
τὰ ἰσχυρά,
1Co_1:27
αλλα τα μωρα
του κοσμου
εξελεξατο ο
θεος ινα Aκαταισχυνη
τους σοφους TSBκαταισχυνη
και τα ασθενη
του κοσμου
εξελεξατο ο θεος
ινα καταισχυνη
τα ισχυρα
1Co_1:28 And the base things of the world, and the things having been despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, in order that He might nullify the things which are,
1Co_1:28 καὶ τὰ
ἀγενῆ τοῦ
κόσμου καὶ
τὰ ἐξουθενημένα
ἐξελέξατο ὁ
Θεός, τὰ μὴ ὄντα,
ἵνα τὰ ὄντα
καταργήσῃ,
1Co_1:28
και τα αγενη
του κοσμου και
τα εξουθενημενα
εξελεξατο ο
θεος TSBκαι τα μη
οντα ινα τα
οντα καταργηση
1Co_1:29 so that no flesh may boast before God.
1Co_1:29 ὅπως μὴ
καυχήσηται πᾶσα
σὰρξ ἐνώπιον
τοῦ Θεοῦ.
1Co_1:29 οπως
μη καυχησηται
πασα σαρξ
ενωπιον BAτου BAθεου TSαυτου
Heb_13:14 – we
have no remaining [μενουσαν
KJV: continuing] city here
[ωδε]
ου
γαρ εχομεν ωδε
μενουσαν πολιν
αλλα την
μελλουσαν
επιζητουμεν
Whatever you could
be apart of in the world under the Old Covenant you are commanded to depart
from it in the New Covenant.
Esther, like other sacrificial women in the OT, was a valid queen
in the Old Covenant -- this typically never happens for Truth believers in the
New Covenant -- so don’t act or dress like its required to be that way socially
in public!
We must (have to /
got to) stop acting like nothing changed at all after the coming of the New
Covenant (Mat_5:17-20)
But if there is
any valid sense of a woman being a queen, it is ONLY for, and within, Marriage!
This is exactly
why Peter and Paul told New Covenant women to not adorn themselves publicly
because there is virtually no place for that in the New Covenant.
(Jews did treat
marriage, at least for the wedding day, like they were king and queen)
Under the New
Covenant we have no excuse for adornment outside of marriage
Esther: A Queen Elaborated for The King
Esther Prepared
for Marriage: Esther was Prepared for a year before coming to the king
(A) The Plan:
Beautiful Virgin-Search -- for a (married) Queen!
Est_2:3 WEB Let the king appoint
officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all
the beautiful young virgins to the citadel of Susa, to the women's house, to the custody of
Hegai the king's eunuch,
keeper of the women. Let cosmetics be given them;
Est_2:3 LB And let the king appoint local governors in all the provinces of his kingdom, and let them select fair [καλὰ] and chaste [παρθενικὰ – virgin-ish] young women, and bring them to the city Susa, into the women's apartment, and let them be consigned to the king's eunuch, the keeper of the women. And let things for purification and other attendance be given to them.
Est_2:3
καὶ καταστήσει
ὁ βασιλεὺς κωμάρχας
ἐν πάσαις ταῖς
χώραις τῆς
βασιλείας αὐτοῦ,
καὶ ἐπιλεξάτωσαν
κοράσια
παρθενικὰ καλὰ
τῷ εἴδει εἰς
Σουσαν τὴν πόλιν
εἰς τὸν γυναικῶνα,
καὶ παραδοθήτωσαν
τῷ εὐνούχῳ τοῦ
βασιλέως τῷ φύλακι
τῶν γυναικῶν,
καὶ δοθήτω σμῆγμα
καὶ ἡ λοιπὴ ἐπιμέλεια·
It's not co-ed -- they are watched by a eunuch
Virgine-ish:
Can you flirt: do
you wear make-up? No!
you are abstaining from all the pleasures of indulgence?
(B) Applications
of Elaborations
Est_2:9 WEB The maiden pleased him, and she obtained
kindness from him. He quickly gave her cosmetics and her portions of food, and
the seven choice maidens who were to be given her out of the king's house. He
moved her and her maidens to the best place in the women's house.
Est_2:9 LB Now the young woman pleased him, and she
found favor in his sight; and he hastened to give her the things for
purification, and her portion, and the seven maidens appointed her out of the
palace. And he treated her and her maidens well in the women's apartment.
Est_2:9
καὶ ἤρεσεν αὐτῷ
τὸ κοράσιον καὶ
εὗρεν χάριν ἐνώπιον
αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἔσπευσεν
αὐτῇ δοῦναι τὸ
σμῆγμα καὶ τὴν
μερίδα καὶ τὰ ἑπτὰ
κοράσια τὰ ἀποδεδειγμένα
αὐτῇ ἐκ
βασιλικοῦ καὶ ἐχρήσατο
αὐτῇ καλῶς καὶ
ταῖς ἅβραις αὐτῆς
ἐν τῷ γυναικῶνι·
(C) Esther
Appears to the King, is Preferred, Married, Crowned, & Celebrated
Est_2:12 WEB Each young woman's turn came to go in to King
Ahasuerus after her purification for twelve
months (for so were the days of their
purification accomplished, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with
sweet fragrances and with preparations for beautifying women).
Est_2:12 LB Now this was the time
for a virgin to go into the king, when she should have fulfilled twelve months;
for so are the days of purification fulfilled, six months while they are
anointing themselves with oil of myrrh, and six months with spices and women's
purifications.
Est_2:12 οὗτος δὲ
ἦν καιρὸς
κορασίου εἰσελθεῖν
πρὸς τὸν βασιλέα,
ὅταν ἀναπληρώσῃ
μῆνας δέκα δύο·
οὕτως γὰρ ἀναπληροῦνται
αἱ ἡμέραι τῆς
θεραπείας, μῆνας
ἓξ ἀλειφόμεναι
ἐν σμυρνίνῳ ἐλαίῳ
καὶ μῆνας ἓξ ἐν
τοῖς ἀρώμασιν
καὶ ἐν τοῖς σμήγμασιν
τῶν γυναικῶν,
Est_2:13 WEB The young woman then came to the king like
this: whatever she desired was given her to go with her out of the women's
house to the king's house.
Est_2:13 And then the young
woman goes in to the king; and the officer to whoever he shall give the
command, will bring her to come in with him from the women's apartment to the
king's chamber.
Est_2:13 καὶ τότε
εἰσπορεύεται
πρὸς τὸν βασιλέα·
καὶ ὃ ἐὰν εἴπῃ,
παραδώσει αὐτῇ
συνεισέρχεσθαι
αὐτῇ ἀπὸ τοῦ
γυναικῶνος ἕως
τῶν βασιλείων.
Est_2:14 WEB In the evening she went, and on the next day
she returned into the second women's house, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the
king's eunuch, who kept the concubines. She came in to the
king no more, unless the king delighted in her, and she was called by name.
Est_2:14 She enters in the
evening, and in the morning she departs to the second women's apartment, where
Hegai the king's eunuch is
keeper of the women. And she
does not go in to the king again, unless she should be called by name.
Est_2:14 δείλης εἰσπορεύεται
καὶ πρὸς ἡμέραν
ἀποτρέχει εἰς
τὸν γυναικῶνα
τὸν δεύτερον, οὗ
Γαι ὁ εὐνοῦχος
τοῦ βασιλέως ὁ
φύλαξ τῶν
γυναικῶν, καὶ οὐκέτι
εἰσπορεύεται
πρὸς τὸν βασιλέα,
ἐὰν μὴ κληθῇ ὀνόματι.
Est_2:15 WEB Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of
Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, came to go
in to the king, she required nothing
but what Hegai the king's eunuch, the keeper of the women, advised.
Esther obtained favor in the sight of all those who looked at her.
Est_2:15 And when the time
was fulfilled for Esther, the daughter of Aminadab, the brother of Mordecai's
father to go in to the king, she
neglected nothing which the eunuch, the women's keeper, commanded; for
Esther found grace in the sight of all that looked upon her.
Est_2:15 ἐν δὲ τῷ ἀναπληροῦσθαι
τὸν χρόνον
Εσθηρ τῆς
θυγατρὸς
Αμιναδαβ ἀδελφοῦ
πατρὸς
Μαρδοχαίου εἰσελθεῖν
πρὸς τὸν βασιλέα
οὐδὲν ἠθέτησεν
ὧν αὐτῇ ἐνετείλατο
ὁ εὐνοῦχος ὁ φύλαξ
τῶν γυναικῶν· ἦν
γὰρ Εσθηρ εὑρίσκουσα
χάριν παρὰ πάντων
τῶν βλεπόντων
αὐτήν.
Est_2:16 WEB So Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus into
his royal house in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh
year of his reign.
Est_2:16 So Esther went in
to King Artaxerxes in the twelfth month, which is Adar, in the seventh year of
his reign.
Est_2:16 καὶ εἰσῆλθεν
Εσθηρ πρὸς Ἀρταξέρξην
τὸν βασιλέα τῷ
δωδεκάτῳ μηνί, ὅς
ἐστιν Αδαρ, τῷ ἑβδόμῳ
ἔτει τῆς
βασιλείας αὐτοῦ.
Est_2:17 WEB The king loved Esther more than all the
women, and she obtained favor and kindness in his sight more than all the
virgins; so that he set the royal crown on her head, and made her queen instead
of Vashti.
Est_2:17 And the king loved
Esther, and she found favor beyond all the other virgins, and he put on her the
queen's crown.
Est_2:17 καὶ ἠράσθη
ὁ βασιλεὺς
Εσθηρ, καὶ εὗρεν
χάριν παρὰ πάσας
τὰς παρθένους,
καὶ ἐπέθηκεν αὐτῇ
τὸ διάδημα τὸ γυναικεῖον.
Est_2:18 WEB Then the king made a great feast for all his
princes and his servants, even Esther's feast; and he proclaimed a holiday in
the provinces, and gave gifts according to the king's bounty.
Est_2:18 And the king made
a banquet for all his friends and great men for seven days, and he highly
celebrated the marriage of Esther; and he made a release to those who were
under his dominion.
Est_2:18
καὶ ἐποίησεν ὁ
βασιλεὺς πότον
πᾶσι τοῖς φίλοις
αὐτοῦ καὶ ταῖς
δυνάμεσιν ἐπὶ ἡμέρας
ἑπτὰ καὶ ὕψωσεν
τοὺς γάμους
Εσθηρ καὶ ἄφεσιν
ἐποίησεν τοῖς ὑπὸ
τὴν βασιλείαν
αὐτοῦ.
TSK on Est_2:12
six months: Pro_7:17, Son_3:6, Isa_57:9, Luk_7:37, Luk_7:38
& comp. as quoted below…
Don’t look for how this passage does not apply (they are royalty), but look for how it does apply (they got married)!
Yes, they are a queen and king, unlike you, but what is common with us today is that they got married!
Don’t contextualize the Scriptures outside of the Bible because that long Beauty Elaboration is not abnormal, but is rather the normal year-long preparation for most all marriage in the Bible.
Preparation for beautifying women would suggest they are not doing that beautification until the betrothal is established
Do you see the non-indulgence this is teaching us in this life, especially outside of marriage?
You do not get truth by following the sight of your own sight. You get truth by following truth outside of her intutition
When you love the wisdom of SOS you will be loved above all the women like Esther. Esther was virginish like Ruth
We see that in…
Est_2:12-13
– Beauty-Elaboration is Time-Consuming!
Or adornment is time consuming
WHEN did this Beauty Elaboration happen in Ether’s life??
NO Marital
Elaboration for the Unmarried!
Unmarried Righteous Women
Aren’t Doing Marital Elaboration!
It is supposed/presupposed/assumed that common women are
NOT elaborating their beauty all of their life leading up to this point,
but rather they must make much abundant time to elaborate beauty after marriage
comes upon them and the time comes closer at hand.
Beauty Elaboration doesn’t belong to you if you are not married!
Ecc_12 Judgment: Every Work Into
Judgment
Ecc_12:14 WEB For God will bring every work into judgment,
with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.
Ecc_12:14 LB For God will bring every
work into judgment, with everything that has been overlooked, whether good or
evil.
Ecc_12:14
ὅτι σὺν πᾶν τὸ
ποίημα ὁ θεὸς ἄξει
ἐν κρίσει ἐν
παντὶ
παρεωραμένῳ, ἐὰν
ἀγαθὸν καὶ ἐὰν
πονηρόν.
Enjoying marital pleasure outside of marriage is the evil work that God will bring into judgement.
Sins against beauty start selfish and express themselves luxuriously and end with apostasy.
Self-Liking = Lustful End-Times Rebellion (to be warned about)
Comp. Self-Beauty-Elaboration is Only for MARRIAGE! | Self-Liking = Lustful End-Times Rebellion
Do you know the eternal difference between Self-Beauty Management and Selfish Beauty Indulgence? –
Self-Liking = a core element of sinful management of selfish beauty.
Is you beauty and pleasure outside of marriage? -- then beware and flee from your end-times apostasy!
2Ti_3:2 – They will be lovers likers of themselves
2Ti_3:1 CAB But know this, that in the last days perilous
times shall come.
2Ti_3:1 Τοῦτο
δὲ γίνωσκε, ὅτι
ἐν ἐσχάταις
ἡμέραις ἐνστήσονται
καιροὶ
χαλεποί·
2Ti_3:1
τουτο δε
γινωσκε οτι εν
εσχαταις
ημεραις ενστησονται
καιροι χαλεποι
2Ti_3:2 For men will be lovers [likers] of themselves, lovers [likers] of money, boasters, proud,
blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
2Ti_3:2 ἔσονται
γὰρ οἱ ἄνθρωποι
φίλαυτοι,
φιλάργυροι, ἀλαζόνες,
ὑπερήφανοι,
βλάσφημοι,
γονεῦσιν ἀπειθεῖς,
ἀχάριστοι, ἀνόσιοι,
2Ti_3:2
εσονται γαρ
οι ανθρωποι
φιλαυτοι
φιλαργυροι
αλαζονες
υπερηφανοι
βλασφημοι
γονευσιν
απειθεις
αχαριστοι ανοσιοι
2Ti_3:3 unloving,
unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, not loving
[likers] what is good,
2Ti_3:3 ἄστοργοι,
ἄσπονδοι,
διάβολοι, ἀκρατεῖς,
ἀνήμεροι, ἀφιλάγαθοι,
2Ti_3:3
αστοργοι ασπονδοι
διαβολοι
ακρατεις
ανημεροι
αφιλαγαθοι
2Ti_3:4 traitors,
headstrong, having been puffed up, lovers [likers] of pleasure rather than lovers
[likers] of God,
2Ti_3:4
προδόται,
προπετεῖς,
τετυφωμένοι, φιλήδονοι
μᾶλλον ἢ
φιλόθεοι,
2Ti_3:4
προδοται
προπετεις
τετυφωμενοι
φιληδονοι
μαλλον η φιλοθεοι
2Ti_3:5 having a form of
godliness but denying its power. And from these people turn away!
2Ti_3:5 ἔχοντες
μόρφωσιν εὐσεβείας,
τὴν δὲ
δύναμιν αὐτῆς
ἠρνημένοι.
καὶ τούτους
ἀποτρέπου.
2Ti_3:5
εχοντες
μορφωσιν
ευσεβειας την
δε δυναμιν
αυτης
ηρνημενοι και
τουτους
αποτρεπου
Self-Liking
Self-fond-ness requires excommunication… (judging the church)
The Point: Self-Liking = Consuming & indulging in your own bodily
goods for the self-indulgence of yourself.
Notice it is
associated with luxury and being a devil/slander.
Temptations for
Men & Women
· Is it just men who are vulnerable to vain sins of Self-Liking, or are women prime targets of self-centered entitlement pride and vain indulgence, both now and in the End-Times?
· It turns out that women are targeted very much for luxury of self-liking!
See: RiFi > Feminine Luxury
Righteous-Finances.htm#FeminineLuxury
The foolishness
and vanity of lawless sinful End-Times apostasy
is where self-serving Beauty leads, making you a partner with Satan who fell
and earned his way to hell.
There is a drastic
difference between liking yourself and managing the goods of your body for the
service of another.
Son_1:
Self-Beauty-Elaboration is Only for MARRIAGE!
Comp. Self-Beauty-Elaboration
is Only for MARRIAGE! | Self-Liking = Lustful End-Times Rebellion
Self-Beauty vs. Selfish-Beauty
Self-Beauty Defined & Previewed
· Self-Beauty ≈ being aware of your own bodily goodness
· Question for Saving Beauty: How must you manage being aware of Self-Beauty to be saved?
·
No PSA: Watch out
for lusting after yourself -- which implies Personal Sexual Activity
(PSA)
(PSA is not tolerable, but is eternally condemned
and burned with fire...)
· No Selfish Beauty: Don’t personally enjoy your own bodily goodness outside of marriage! (Son_1:5-10)
Selfish-Beauty = Hell – as seen previously
Self-Beauty is exemplified by SOS 1
Its showing us what righteous management looks like
Son_1:5-6 –
I am black but beautiful… I have not taken care of my own garden
Son_1:5 WEB I am dark, but lovely, you
daughters of Jerusalem, like Kedar's tents, like Solomon's
curtains.
Son_1:5 LB I am dark, but
beautiful, you daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the
curtains of Solomon.
Son_1:5 Μέλαινά
εἰμι καὶ καλή,
θυγατέρες
Ιερουσαλημ, ὡς
σκηνώματα
Κηδαρ, ὡς δέρρεις
Σαλωμων.
Son_1:6 WEB Don't stare at me because I am dark, because
the sun has scorched me. My mother's sons were angry with me. They made me keeper of the vineyards.
I haven't kept my own vineyard.
Son_1:6 Do not look upon
me, because I am dark, because the sun has looked unfavorably upon me: my
mother’s sons strove with me; they made
me keeper in the vineyards; I have not kept my own vineyard.
Son_1:6 μὴ βλέψητέ
με, ὅτι ἐγώ εἰμι
μεμελανωμένη, ὅτι
παρέβλεψέν με ὁ
ἥλιος· υἱοὶ
μητρός μου ἐμαχέσαντο
ἐν ἐμοί, ἔθεντό
με φυλάκισσαν ἐν
ἀμπελῶσιν· ἀμπελῶνα
ἐμὸν οὐκ ἐφύλαξα.
Son_1:7 WEB Tell me, you whom my soul loves,
where you graze your flock, where you rest them at noon; For why should I be as
one who is veiled beside the flocks of your companions? Lover
Son_1:7 Tell me, you whom
my soul loves, where you tend your flock, where you cause them to rest
at noon, lest I become as one that is veiled by the flocks of your companions.
Son_1:7
Ἀπάγγειλόν
μοι, ὃν ἠγάπησεν
ἡ ψυχή μου, ποῦ
ποιμαίνεις, ποῦ
κοιτάζεις ἐν
μεσημβρίᾳ, μήποτε
γένωμαι ὡς
περιβαλλομένη
ἐπ᾿ ἀγέλαις ἑταίρων
σου.
Son_1:8 WEB If you don't know, most beautiful among
women, follow the tracks of the sheep. Graze your young goats beside
the shepherds' tents.
Son_1:8 If you do not know
yourself, you fair one among women, go forth by the footsteps of
the flocks, and feed your little goats by the shepherd’s tents.
Son_1:8 Ἐὰν μὴ
γνῷς σεαυτήν, ἡ
καλὴ ἐν γυναιξίν,
ἔξελθε σὺ ἐν πτέρναις
τῶν ποιμνίων
καὶ ποίμαινε τὰς
ἐρίφους σου ἐπὶ
σκηνώμασιν τῶν
ποιμένων.
Son_1:9 WEB I have compared you, my love,
to a steed in Pharaoh's chariots.
Son_1:9 I have
likened you, my companion, to my horses in the chariots of
Pharaoh.
Son_1:9 Τῇ ἵππῳ
μου ἐν ἅρμασιν
Φαραω ὡμοίωσά
σε, ἡ πλησίον
μου.
Son_1:10 WEB Your cheeks are beautiful with
earrings, your neck with strings of jewels.
Son_1:10 How beautiful
are your cheeks, as those of a dove, your neck as chains!
Son_1:10
τί ὡραιώθησαν
σιαγόνες σου ὡς
τρυγόνες, τράχηλός
σου ὡς ὁρμίσκοι;
She is concerned about her darkness.
She partly resolves her concern by anchoring her
self-beauty within monotheism, especially within the husband she is supposed to
be beautiful for: “Solomon's curtains”
She & the daughters of Jerusalem resolve to seek her
being united with her husband Solomon.
Solomon resolves all of these issues by praising her
beauty.
SoS’ Conflict Proves Selflessness
· The “conflict” in this story is the Shulamite’s self-perception, which does not resolve in her own eyes, or in her self-consciousness.
· The solution is her husband’s praise.
· The daughters of Jerusalem commend her to her husband’s admiration with congratulations of praise.
· Elaborating her beauty happens for her husband’s admiration.
A Good Gift is Good -- for The Lawful Owner!
It’s appropriate to want to be aware that you have
something good to give to your spouse, if you are married, and this concern
only arose in the context of MARRIAGE but it was neglected before that urgency
was realized and made practically at hand.
Healthiness should not be confused with pampering for
marriage.
The Point: Self-Beauty
is a gift only for your spouse!
Self-Beauty must guard against Self-Liking!
Health vs. Beautification
Unmarried can care about health because it makes the boat
stay afloat, and it contradicts wordily lust, and embraces the diligent work of
watching vineyards
>>Scrip:
Bodily exercise (in uncovered private) ≈ preparation
to do work
1Co_7:31 CAB and those using this
world as not using it up. For the
form [τὸ σχῆμα] of this world is
passing away [τοῦ
κόσμου
τούτου].
“the form [τὸ
σχῆμα] of this world” which we depreciate (outside of marriage) does not
include the moral diligence to promote life, like healthy life choices which
are available and at hand to do.
Undistracted Self-Denial -- of the Unmarried
Unmarried
Righteous Women Focus on Self-Denial
1Ti_2 & 1Pe_3: No Beauty-Elaboration Outside of Marriage (in general)
Remember: No
beauty indulgence outside of marriage! -- in general for all of women in
society.
Cosmetics in
the Bible: Beauty-Elaboration ≈
cosmetically arranging your beauty to be seen by others
Are you unmarried
and/or are you going into a society that is not your family?
1Ti_2:9-10 – women dressed in hiddenness for public interaction and
presentation
1Pe_3:3-4 – beauty not coming from outward arrangements of hair,
gold, jewelry, and/or luxurious clothes, but internal virtue instead
The Time Consuming
(Est_2:12-13;
comp. Ecc_12:14)
cosmetic Beauty-Elaboration of arranging yourself to be seen by
yourself and others outside of marriage is vain and empty luxury indulgence
& prostitution…
It risks hot
judgement and condemnation at the very threat of it being tolerated or slightly
allowed when you are supposed to flee luxury and prostitution.
This is the
default social function of a woman, which only gets externally elaborate
expressions of adornment in marriage, esp. now that believers are usually
not called to social royalty 1Co_1:26.
Virtually everything
else is cursed, sinful, selfish, vanity.
The Point: If a woman cannot lawfully indulge in her beauty in
society, what vain business could she be authorized to do for herself in private
when she doesn’t even have a husband at home to please??
Unmarried
DON’T Care for Things of this World!
Undistracted
Virgins & Widows
1Co_7:31-34
1Co_7:31 CAB and those using this
world as not using it up. For the
form [τὸ σχῆμα] of this world is
passing away [τοῦ
κόσμου
τούτου].
1Co_7:31 καὶ οἱ
χρώμενοι τῷ
κόσμῳ τούτῳ
ὡς μὴ
καταχρώμενοι·
παράγει γὰρ
τὸ σχῆμα τοῦ
κόσμου
τούτου.
1Co_7:31 και οι
χρωμενοι Aτον
Aκοσμον TSBτω
TSBκοσμω TSBτουτω
ως μη
καταχρωμενοι
παραγει γαρ το
σχημα του
κοσμου τουτου
1Co_7:32 But I want you to
be without anxiety. The unmarried man cares about the things of the Lord--about how he may please
the Lord.
1Co_7:32 θέλω
δὲ ὑμᾶς ἀμερίμνους
εἶναι. ὁ ἄγαμος
μεριμνᾷ τὰ
τοῦ Κυρίου,
πῶς ἀρέσῃ
τῷ Κυρίῳ·
1Co_7:32 θελω δε
υμας
αμεριμνους
ειναι ο αγαμος
μεριμνα τα του
κυριου πως Aαρεση
TSBαρεσει
τω κυριω
1Co_7:33 But the man having married cares about the things of the world--about how he may please
his wife.
1Co_7:33 ὁ δὲ
γαμήσας
μεριμνᾷ τὰ
τοῦ κόσμου,
πῶς ἀρέσῃ
τῇ γυναικί.
1Co_7:33 ο δε
γαμησας
μεριμνα τα του
κοσμου πως Aαρεση
TSBαρεσει
τη γυναικι
1Co_7:34 And the wife
and the virgin are different
[μεμέρισται]. The unmarried woman cares about [μεριμνᾷ] the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But the
woman having married cares about the things of the world--about how
she may please her husband.
1Co_7:34
μεμέρισται
καὶ ἡ γυνὴ
καὶ ἡ
παρθένος. ἡ ἄγαμος
μεριμνᾷ τὰ τοῦ
Κυρίου, ἵνα ᾖ
ἁγία καὶ
σώματι καὶ
πνεύματι· ἡ
δὲ γαμήσασα
μεριμνᾷ τὰ
τοῦ κόσμου,
πῶς ἀρέσῃ
τῷ ἀνδρί.
1Co_7:34 Aκαι
μεμερισται BAκαι η γυνη Aη Aαγαμος
και η παρθενος TSBη TSBαγαμος
μεριμνα τα του
κυριου ινα η
αγια και Aτω σωματι και Aτω πνευματι η
δε γαμησασα
μεριμνα τα του
κοσμου πως Aαρεση TSBαρεσει τω
ανδρι
The unmarried women does not care about abs, or toning her
body or anything that is part of this world/current age that pleases a man.
The Point: Not pampering your body, indeed, really is the tendency and consistent practice of
the righteous women of wisdom literature and all inspired Scripture when
marriage is out of view.
Righteous virgins, and unmarried people need to be real
virgins, just like real widows need to be in the real desolation of self-denial
in 1Ti_5:
Widows Showcase Self-Denial
REAL Widows are an Example of Self-denial for All Unmarried People
Exalting Widows
Paul is exalting the loneliness of widowhood into the
prestigious moral honor of spiritual service and female leadership.
RiFi, PUR, & BDC
When considering these inspired teachings on widows we
learn about several very important things all at once:
(1) RiFi: We learn about the required self-denial of
those who are unmarried and how a widow who is in affliction is worthy of
support and even leadership, as detailed in RiFi, but it is usually overlooked that…
(2) PUR: We learn about the purity and
undistractedness of virginity as lived out through a widow, as seen in PUR, and
(3) BDC: We learned that the nicer things of this
life, including beauty-elaboration (for example), do not belong outside of
marriage as reinforced in BDC.
When considering leadership standards, we are also exhorted
about some very important purity rules for saving all of us.
Support,
Leadership, and Imitation
· Support: People often recognize that we need to take care of elder people when reading about supported widows in 1Ti_5, and…
· Leadership: Sometimes they even point out the leadership roles of women who are supported, and yet…
· Imitation: They often don't recognize the need to imitate the courageous self-denial and clean-purity of these exemplary/model/prototypical virtuous widows.
Preceding context:
Act_6 – Male Deacons are appointed (those who help the
widows)
Purity of Real Widows
Praised Widows
Lived as Chaste Virgins Originally
A REAL Widow is one who has, at least at one time, been a
REAL virgin…
1Ti_5:9 Let a widow be
enrolled having become [γεγονυῖα] not less than sixty years, the wife of one
man [ἑνὸς ἀνδρὸς
γυνή],
1Ti_5:9
Χήρα
καταλεγέσθω
μὴ ἔλαττον ἐτῶν
ἑξήκοντα
γεγονυῖα, ἑνὸς
ἀνδρὸς
γυνή,
A one-man-woman tells us that she was pure from all other
men in reaching her widowhood.
A Widow of Imitation
(A) The fact that a widow is qualified to be recognized by the Assembly based on purity (unmarriedness!), and exclusivity to one man, shows that (B) in her afflicted widowhood she continues to be very relevant to the same clean self-denial of her original virginity, therefore, (C) this blessed widow of clean virtue is still very relevant to the virtue rules for virgins, and because of that, (D) all of the unmarried are required to imitate her purity and sacrificial self-denial to get where she is at in the glorious virtue of her old age.
You need to walk in her earlier footsteps to arrive
at her senior leadership.
The Point: A real
widow (1Ti_5:3; 1Ti_5:5) arrived pure (1Ti_5:9) and (at some point) stayed unmarried (1Ti_5:5) therefore the rest of the unmarried must follow her track
record and example of virtuous and honorable endurance to arrive at the same
place of eventual praise and approval by the Truth.
Widows & Unmarried = Same Group!
Virgins and widows are in the same class and group of
people in the Bible
Remember the Undistracted Self-Denial of 1Co_7:31-34? (We just saw it in the previous section above.)
That self-denial applies equally to (A) widows and (B) all unmarried people, as seen in the preceding authoritative context of 1Co_7:8:
1Co_7:8 CAB But I say to the unmarried and to
the widows: It is [TSBἐστιν] good for them if they should remain ·as I also remain [fig: even
as I am NKJV];
1Co_7:8 Λέγω
δὲ τοῖς ἀγάμοις
καὶ ταῖς
χήραις,
καλὸν αὐτοῖς
TSBἐστιν ἐὰν
μείνωσιν ὡς
κἀγώ.
The self-denial of widows teaches you how to be a good
unmarried person -- why? because you are both UNMARRIED, and that aged virtue
is where an obeying virgin and all righteous unmarried people are headed…
If you are unmarried, you better imitate the virtue of Real Widows:
Because…
You will never be put on the role
of supported widows if you (for
example) indulge in marital pleasures while not being married!
The Point: Both (A) Widows
and (B) the unmarried are put in the same categories (1Co_7:8), so the same rules apply to each!
Rules for Widows -- In General
General Rules
for Widows -- Widow Requirement Rules that Qualify them for Support &
Spiritual Service
Read full context…!
Let’s consider the General Rules for Widows to get approved by the inspired Truth of the Assembly:
Widow Requirements: Good-beautiful works [ἔργοις καλοῖς] (1Ti_5:10) that validate the worthiness [ἀνεπίληπτοι ὦσιν] (1Ti_5:7) of a real widow [ὄντως χήρας] (1Ti_5:3, 1Ti_5:5) after making a commitment of “faith” [πρώτην πίστιν] (1Ti_5:12) to be enrolled [καταλεγέσθω] (1Ti_5:9, 1Ti_5:12) for financial support [τίμα…ἀμοιβὰς ἀποδιδόναι…μισθοῦ] (1Ti_5:3-4, 1Ti_5:17-18 [διπλῆς τιμῆς…μισθοῦ] vs. 1Ti_5:16 [ἐπαρκείτω]) to be dedicated to spiritual service (1Ti_5:2, 1Ti_5:5, 1Ti_5:9-10, vs. 1Ti_5:13)
(Side note: notice how much reverse-transculturation
has to be done to rediscover what this text said to the original hearers -- the
same work has to be done to all entrenched passages like this including
Headcoverings! -- this is the exact same scientific process for all
culturally challenging passages to logically get back to the superior morality
that preceded our diluted blindness and apostasy.)
These Widow Requirements are some of the general
rules for approved widows of the called-out-assembly.
Now we need to also consider how these rules are specifically
applied to confront failure of Fake Widows and the Praise of Real
Widows…
Fake Widows Fail
Fake Circumstantial Widows Who Fail by Sinful Indulgence
Beware of being a dead-single, who is living in pleasures (being dead while they live)!
Dead While
Living in Pleasure!
1Ti_5:6 CAB But she who is ·living for pleasure [σπαταλῶσα
(= Jam_5:5)] is dead while she
lives.
1Ti_5:6 ἡ δὲ σπαταλῶσα
ζῶσα
τέθνηκε.
1Ti_5:7 And these things
command, so that they may be blameless.
1Ti_5:7 καὶ ταῦτα
παράγγελλε, ἵνα
ἀνεπίληπτοι ὦσιν.
1Ti_5:7
και ταυτα
παραγγελλε ινα
Aανεπιλημπτοι
TSBανεπιληπτοι
ωσιν
Jam_5:5 CAB You lived luxuriously [ἐτρυφήσατε] upon the earth and you lived riotously [ἐσπαταλήσατε
(= 1Ti_5:6)], you nourished
your hearts as in a day of slaughter.
Jas_5:5 ἐτρυφήσατε
ἐπὶ τῆς
γῆς καὶ
ἐσπαταλήσατε,
ἐθρέψατε
τὰς καρδίας
ὑμῶν ὥς ἐν
ἡμέρᾳ σφαγῆς.
Jas_5:5 ετρυφησατε
επι της γης και
εσπαταλησατε
εθρεψατε τας
καρδιας υμων TSBως εν ημερα
σφαγης
Proven Disqualification
Pampering [σπαταλῶσα] one’s self in this life, or living in pleasures,
[σπαταλῶσα
ζῶσα] (1Ti_5:6;
comp. Jam_5:5) is a serious fault
[vs. ἀνεπίληπτοι
ὦσιν] (1Ti_5:7)
outside of marriage (1Ti_5:3-4) that judges you as spiritually dead [τέθνηκε] (1Ti_5:6) & gets you ·disqualified for long-term support and spiritual work in the Assembly (as seen above &
below).
Unmarried Indulgence = More Dangerous
· If you were married you might at least have some valid reason for elaborating yourself, but if you’re unmarried, there is a certain type of fearful doom in all such hazardous indulgences… (remember how Judith did NOT indulge after her widowhood)
· Even righteous married people have to guard against living in pleasures (1Co_7:29; 1Pe_3:1-7), so how much more should all unmarried people maintain more careful self-denial and be reverently denying the dangerous pitfalls of this life!?
· If you’re a widow and or otherwise unmarried, beware of these disqualifying scandals of the invalid indulgence in the goods of this condemned life.
Indulgence vs. Virtue
This dead and foolish invalid indulgence of Fake Widows is directly
opposed to the honor (1Ti_5:3) and virtue (1Ti_5:5) of a REAL Widow…
REAL Widows of Solitary-Affliction
1Ti_5:5
CAB Now she who is really a widow [ὄντως
χήρα] and ·having
been left alone [μεμονωμένη], has set her hope on God [ἤλπικεν ἐπὶ
TSBτὸν Θεὸν], and continues in [προσμένει] supplications and prayers [ταῖς
δεήσεσι καὶ
ταῖς
προσευχαῖς] night and day.
1Ti_5:5 ἡ δὲ ὄντως
χήρα καὶ
μεμονωμένη ἤλπικεν
ἐπὶ TSBτὸν Θεὸν
καὶ
προσμένει ταῖς
δεήσεσι καὶ
ταῖς
προσευχαῖς
νυκτὸς καὶ ἡμέρας·
TSK on 1Ti_5:5: continueth: Luk_2:37, Luk_18:1, Luk_18:7, Act_26:7, Eph_6:18
Non-Fake Faith
1Ti_1:5 CAB Now the goal of the commandment is love out
of a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from sincere faith,
1Ti_1:5 τὸ
δὲ τέλος
τῆς
παραγγελίας
ἐστὶν ἀγάπη
ἐκ καθαρᾶς
καρδίας καὶ
συνειδήσεως
ἀγαθῆς καὶ
πίστεως
ἀνυποκρίτου,
2Ti_1:5 CAB taking recollection of the genuine faith that is in you, which
dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice, and I am
persuaded is in you also.
2Ti_1:5 ὑπόμνησιν
λαμβάνων τῆς
ἐν σοὶ
ἀνυποκρίτου
πίστεως, ἥτις
ἐνῴκησε
πρῶτον ἐν
τῇ μάμμῃ
σου Λωΐδι καὶ
τῇ μητρί
σου Εὐνίκῃ,
πέπεισμαι δὲ
ὅτι καὶ ἐν
σοί.
2Ti_1:5 υπομνησιν
Aλαβων TSBλαμβανων της
εν σοι
ανυποκριτου
πιστεως ητις
ενωκησεν
πρωτον εν τη
μαμμη σου
λωιδι και τη
μητρι σου SBAευνικη Tευνεικη
πεπεισμαι δε
οτι και εν σοι
TSK: unfeigned: Psa_17:1, Psa_18:44, Psa_66:3, Psa_81:15, *marg. Jer_3:10, Joh_1:47, 2Co_6:6,
1Ti_1:5, 1Ti_4:6, 1Pe_1:22
The Point: Demand the
REAL DEAL! -- No hypocritical Faith (1Ti_1:5; 2Ti_1:5), love (2Co_6:6), or even widows (1Ti_5:5)!
The Hard Life of Widows
See: Widow’s
Affliction
Remaining alone = Remaining Afflicted
Remaining alone = Remaining without daily provision & choosing
a dangerous life of not having basic needs met, much less indulging in the
pleasures of this life (1Ti_5:6 as seen above).
Circumstantial vs. Real Widows
· Afflicted Providence: The Circumstances of being a widow have thrown her into the affliction of separation from companionship and daily provision.
· Lustful Escape: Fake widows have pursued a pleasurable escape.
· Cooperation: Real widows have embraced their affliction and even chosen voluntary sacrifices like remaining alone, begging God for provision, and even frequent fasting.
· Affliction, NOT Indulgence: Real widows have chosen to embrace their affliction, and therefore they are so very far away from pampering indulgence or even nearly any other nice thing that pertains more to marriage.
· Hard Work, NOT Luxury: Real widows do not pamper and elaborate their beauty and fine living, but they work hard like Ruth, and deny themselves, and embrace affliction as seen below…
The Point: There is a
distinct abstinence and voluntary affliction of a real widow in 1st
Timothy 5, which is an example of self-denial that is required for all
unmarried people, especially women.
Judith
Judith lived without nice clothes after being widowed!
Judith is an illustration of what a real widow is supposed
to look like.
Jdt_8:4 Br So Judith was a widow
in her house three years and four months.
Jdt_8:4 καὶ ἦν
Ιουδιθ ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ
αὐτῆς χηρεύουσα
ἔτη τρία καὶ μῆνας
τέσσαρας.
Jdt_8:5 And she made her a
tent upon the top of her house, and put on sackcloth upon her loins and ware
her widow's apparel.
Jdt_8:5 καὶ ἐποίησεν
ἑαυτῇ σκηνὴν ἐπὶ
τοῦ δώματος τοῦ
οἴκου αὐτῆς καὶ
ἐπέθηκεν ἐπὶ τὴν
ὀσφὺν αὐτῆς σάκκον,
καὶ ἦν ἐπ᾿ αὐτῆς
τὰ ἱμάτια τῆς
χηρεύσεως αὐτῆς.
Jdt_8:6 And she fasted all the days of her widowhood, save the eves of
the sabbaths, and the sabbaths, and the eves of the new moons, and the new
moons and the feasts and solemn days of the house of Israel.
Jdt_8:6 καὶ ἐνήστευε
πάσας τὰς ἡμέρας
τῆς χηρεύσεως
αὐτῆς χωρὶς
προσαββάτων
καὶ σαββάτων
καὶ
προνουμηνιῶν
καὶ νουμηνιῶν
καὶ ἑορτῶν καὶ
χαρμοσυνῶν οἴκου
Ισραηλ.
Jdt_8:7 She was also of a
goodly countenance, and very beautiful to behold: and her husband Manasses had
left her gold, and silver, and menservants and maidservants, and cattle, and
lands; and she remained upon them.
Jdt_8:7 καὶ ἦν
καλὴ τῷ εἴδει
καὶ ὡραία τῇ ὄψει
σφόδρα· καὶ ὑπελίπετο
αὐτῇ Μανασσης ὁ
ἀνὴρ αὐτῆς
χρυσίον καὶ ἀργύριον
καὶ παῖδας καὶ
παιδίσκας καὶ
κτήνη καὶ ἀγρούς,
καὶ ἔμενεν ἐπ᾿
αὐτῶν.
Jdt_8:8 And there was none
that gave her an ill word; ar she feared God greatly.
Jdt_8:8 καὶ
οὐκ ἦν ὃς ἐπήνεγκεν
αὐτῇ ῥῆμα
πονηρόν, ὅτι ἐφοβεῖτο
τὸν θεὸν σφόδρα.
--
…
Jdt_8:25 Moreover let us
give thanks to the Lord our God, which trieth us, even as he did our fathers.
Jdt_8:25 παρὰ ταῦτα
πάντα εὐχαριστήσωμεν
κυρίῳ τῷ θεῷ ἡμῶν,
ὃς πειράζει ἡμᾶς
καθὰ καὶ τοὺς
πατέρας ἡμῶν.
Jdt_8:26 Remember what
things he did to Abraham, and how he tried Isaac, and what happened to Jacob in
Mesopotamia of Syria, when he kept the sheep of Laban his mother's brother.
Jdt_8:26 μνήσθητε
ὅσα ἐποίησεν
μετὰ Αβρααμ καὶ
ὅσα ἐπείρασεν
τὸν Ισαακ καὶ ὅσα
ἐγένετο τῷ
Ιακωβ ἐν
Μεσοποταμίᾳ τῆς
Συρίας ποιμαίνοντι
τὰ πρόβατα
Λαβαν τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ
τῆς μητρὸς αὐτοῦ.
Jdt_8:27 For he hath not
tried us in the fire, as he did them, for the examination of their hearts, neither
hath he taken vengeance on us: but the Lord doth scourge them that come near
unto him, to admonish them.
Jdt_8:27 ὅτι
οὐ καθὼς ἐκείνους
ἐπύρωσεν εἰς ἐτασμὸν
τῆς καρδίας αὐτῶν,
καὶ ἡμᾶς οὐκ ἐξεδίκησεν,
ἀλλ᾿ εἰς νουθέτησιν
μαστιγοῖ κύριος
τοὺς ἐγγίζοντας
αὐτῷ. --
Jdt_8:28 Then said Ozias to
her, All that thou hast spoken hast thou spoken with a good heart, and there is
none that may gainsay thy words.
Jdt_8:28 καὶ εἶπεν
πρὸς αὐτὴν
Οζιας Πάντα, ὅσα
εἶπας, ἐν ἀγαθῇ
καρδίᾳ ἐλάλησας,
καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν ὃς
ἀντιστήσεται
τοῖς λόγοις
σου·
Jdt_8:29 For this is not the
first day wherein thy wisdom is manifested; but from the beginning of thy days
all the people have known thy understanding, because the disposition of thine
heart is good.
Jdt_8:29 ὅτι
οὐκ ἐν τῇ σήμερον
ἡ σοφία σου πρόδηλός
ἐστιν, ἀλλ᾿ ἀπ᾿
ἀρχῆς ἡμερῶν
σου ἔγνω πᾶς ὁ
λαὸς τὴν σύνεσίν
σου, καθότι ἀγαθόν
ἐστιν τὸ πλάσμα
τῆς καρδίας
σου.
…
Jdt_9:1 Judith fell upon
her face, and put ashes upon her head, and uncovered the sackcloth wherewith
she was clothed; and about the time that the incense of that evening was
offered in Jerusalem in the house of the Lord Judith cried with a loud voice,
and said,
Jdt_9:1 Ιουδιθ δὲ
ἔπεσεν ἐπὶ πρόσωπον
καὶ ἐπέθετο
σποδὸν ἐπὶ τὴν
κεφαλὴν αὐτῆς
καὶ ἐγύμνωσεν ὃν
ἐνεδεδύκει σάκκον,
καὶ ἦν ἄρτι
προσφερόμενον
ἐν Ιερουσαλημ
εἰς τὸν οἶκον
τοῦ θεοῦ τὸ θυμίαμα
τῆς ἑσπέρας ἐκείνης,
καὶ ἐβόησεν
φωνῇ μεγάλῃ
Ιουδιθ πρὸς κύριον
καὶ εἶπεν
Jdt_9:2 O Lord God of my
father Simeon, to whom thou gavest a sword to take vengeance of the strangers,
who loosened the girdle of a maid to defile her, and discovered the thigh to
her shame, and polluted her virginity to her reproach; for thou saidst, It
shall not be so; and yet they did so:
Jdt_9:2 Κύριε
ὁ θεὸς τοῦ πατρός
μου Συμεων, ᾧ ἔδωκας
ἐν χειρὶ ῥομφαίαν
εἰς ἐκδίκησιν ἀλλογενῶν,
οἳ ἔλυσαν μήτραν
παρθένου εἰς μίασμα
καὶ ἐγύμνωσαν
μηρὸν εἰς αἰσχύνην
καὶ ἐβεβήλωσαν
μήτραν εἰς ὄνειδος·
εἶπας γάρ Οὐχ οὕτως
ἔσται, καὶ ἐποίησαν·
…
Jdt_9:4 …O God, O my God,
hear me also a widow.
Jdt_9:4 καὶ
ἔδωκας γυναῖκας
αὐτῶν εἰς
προνομὴν καὶ
θυγατέρας αὐτῶν
εἰς αἰχμαλωσίαν
καὶ πάντα τὰ σκῦλα
αὐτῶν εἰς διαίρεσιν
υἱῶν ἠγαπημένων
ὑπὸ σοῦ, οἳ καὶ ἐζήλωσαν
τὸν ζῆλόν σου
καὶ ἐβδελύξαντο
μίασμα αἵματος
αὐτῶν καὶ ἐπεκαλέσαντό
σε εἰς βοηθόν· ὁ
θεὸς ὁ θεὸς ὁ ἐμός,
καὶ εἰσάκουσον
ἐμοῦ τῆς χήρας.
…
Jdt_10:2 Br Now after that she
had ceased to cry unto the God of Israel, and bad made an end of all these
words.
Jdt_10:1 Καὶ ἐγένετο
ὡς ἐπαύσατο βοῶσα
πρὸς τὸν θεὸν
Ισραηλ καὶ
συνετέλεσεν πάντα
τὰ ῥήματα ταῦτα,
Jdt_10:2 She rose where she
had fallen down, and called her maid, and went down into the house in the which
she abode in the sabbath days, and in her feast days,
Jdt_10:2 καὶ ἀνέστη
ἀπὸ τῆς πτώσεως
καὶ ἐκάλεσεν τὴν
ἅβραν αὐτῆς καὶ
κατέβη εἰς τὸν
οἶκον, ἐν ᾧ διέτριβεν
ἐν αὐτῷ ἐν ταῖς
ἡμέραις τῶν
σαββάτων καὶ ἐν
ταῖς ἑορταῖς αὐτῆς,
Jdt_10:3 And pulled off the
sackcloth which she had on, and put off the garments of her widowhood, and
washed her body all over with water, and anointed herself with precious ointment,
and braided the hair of her head, and put on a tire upon it, and put on her
garments of gladness, wherewith she was clad during the life of Manasses her
husband.
Jdt_10:3 καὶ
περιείλατο τὸν
σάκκον, ὃν ἐνεδεδύκει,
καὶ ἐξεδύσατο
τὰ ἱμάτια τῆς
χηρεύσεως αὐτῆς
καὶ περιεκλύσατο
τὸ σῶμα ὕδατι
καὶ ἐχρίσατο μύρῳ
παχεῖ καὶ διέξανε
τὰς τρίχας τῆς
κεφαλῆς αὐτῆς
καὶ ἐπέθετο μίτραν
ἐπ᾿ αὐτῆς καὶ ἐνεδύσατο
τὰ ἱμάτια τῆς εὐφροσύνης
αὐτῆς, ἐν οἷς ἐστολίζετο
ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις
τῆς ζωῆς τοῦ ἀνδρὸς
αὐτῆς Μανασση,
Jdt_10:4 And she took
sandals upon her feet, and put about her her bracelets, and her chains, and her
rings, and her earrings, and all her ornaments, and decked herself bravely, to
allure the eyes of all men that should see her.
Jdt_10:4 καὶ ἔλαβεν
σανδάλια εἰς
τοὺς πόδας αὐτῆς
καὶ περιέθετο
τοὺς χλιδῶνας
καὶ τὰ ψέλια καὶ
τοὺς δακτυλίους
καὶ τὰ ἐνώτια
καὶ πάντα τὸν κόσμον
αὐτῆς καὶ ἐκαλλωπίσατο
σφόδρα εἰς ἀπάτησιν
ὀφθαλμῶν ἀνδρῶν,
ὅσοι ἂν ἴδωσιν
αὐτήν.
Jdt_10:5 Then she gave her
maid a bottle of wine, and a cruse of oil, and filled a bag with parched corn,
and lumps of figs, and with fine bread; so she folded all these things
together, and laid them upon her.
Jdt_10:5 καὶ ἔδωκεν
τῇ ἅβρᾳ αὐτῆς ἀσκοπυτίνην
οἴνου καὶ καψάκην
ἐλαίου καὶ πήραν
ἐπλήρωσεν ἀλφίτων
καὶ παλάθης καὶ
ἄρτων καθαρῶν
καὶ περιεδίπλωσε
πάντα τὰ ἀγγεῖα
αὐτῆς καὶ ἐπέθηκεν
αὐτῇ.
Jdt_10:6 Thus they went
forth to the gate of the city of Bethulia, and found standing there Ozias and
the ancients of the city, Chabris and Charmis.
Jdt_10:6 καὶ ἐξήλθοσαν
ἐπὶ τὴν πύλην τῆς
πόλεως
Βαιτυλουα καὶ
εὕροσαν ἐφεστῶτα
ἐπ᾿ αὐτῇ Οζιαν
καὶ τοὺς
πρεσβυτέρους
τῆς πόλεως
Χαβριν καὶ
Χαρμιν·
Jdt_10:7 And when they saw
her, that her countenance was altered, and her apparel was changed, they
wondered at her beauty very greatly, and said unto her.
Jdt_10:7 ὡς δὲ εἶδον
αὐτὴν καὶ ἦν ἠλλοιωμένον
τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτῆς
καὶ τὴν στολὴν
μεταβεβληκυῖαν
αὐτῆς, καὶ ἐθαύμασαν
ἐπὶ τῷ κάλλει αὐτῆς
ἐπὶ πολὺ σφόδρα
καὶ εἶπαν αὐτῇ
Jdt_10:8 The God, the God of
our fathers give thee favour, and accomplish thine enterprizes to the glory of
the children of Israel, and to the exaltation of Jerusalem. Then they
worshipped God.
Jdt_10:8 Ὁ
θεὸς τῶν πατέρων
ἡμῶν δῴη σε εἰς
χάριν καὶ
τελειώσαι τὰ ἐπιτηδεύματά
σου εἰς γαυρίαμα
υἱῶν Ισραηλ καὶ
ὕψωμα
Ιερουσαλημ.
The Praise of Real Widows
These previous considerations bring us back to the
beginning of 1Ti_5 when talking about Real
Widows…
1Ti_5:3 CAB Honor [τίμα] widows who are really widows.
1Ti_5:3 Χήρας
τίμα τὰς ὄντως
χήρας.
Paul commands obeyers to Value-honor real widows (1Ti_5:5)
So…
Don’t disqualify yourself from being the Praise of the
Assemblies *!
* 2Co_8:18 (praise is in …all the
churches); Act_6:3 (deacons of good
reputation); Act_10:22 (Cornelius…good reputation);
3Jo_1:12 (good testimony from all); Php_2:29 (such men in esteem); Rom_16:1-2 (Phoebe)
2Co_8:16 CAB But thanks be to God who puts the same
earnest care for you in the heart of Titus.
2Co_8:16
Χάρις δὲ τῷ
Θεῷ τῷ
διδόντι τὴν
αὐτὴν
σπουδὴν ὑπὲρ
ὑμῶν ἐν τῇ
καρδίᾳ
Τίτου,
2Co_8:16 χαρις δε
τω θεω τω Aδοντι
TSBδιδοντι
την αυτην
σπουδην υπερ
υμων εν τη
καρδια τιτου
2Co_8:17 Because he accepted my appeal, but being more diligent, he came
to you of his own accord.
2Co_8:17
ὅτι τὴν μὲν
παράκλησιν ἐδέξατο,
σπουδαιότερος
δὲ ὑπάρχων
αὐθαίρετος ἐξῆλθε
πρὸς ὑμᾶς.
2Co_8:17 οτι την
μεν παρακλησιν
εδεξατο
σπουδαιοτερος
δε υπαρχων
αυθαιρετος
εξηλθεν προς
υμας
2Co_8:18 And
we sent together with him the brother whose praise is in the gospel
throughout all the churches,
2Co_8:18
συνεπέμψαμεν
δὲ μετ᾿ αὐτοῦ
τὸν ἀδελφὸν
οὗ ὁ ἔπαινος ἐν
τῷ εὐαγγελίῳ
διὰ πασῶν τῶν
ἐκκλησιῶν·
‘praised… in the
good-message throughout all the assemblies’ (2Co_8:18)
≈ REAL Widow -- praised for
enduring [προσμένει]
(1Ti_5:5) in affliction and self-denial (1Ti_5:5-6)
The Point: If you are unmarried, live as the praised Widows of afflicted self-denial so you can (A) be the praise of the Assemblies, and (B) grow up into a wise prophetess!
Widow’s Affliction (Examples) > LOW <<<<
Affliction of Widows Throughout the Bible
Situational Affliction
Job_29:13 WEB the blessing of him who was ready to
perish came on me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Job_29:13 CAB Let the blessing of the perishing one
come upon me; indeed, the mouth of the widow has blessed me.
Job_29:13 εὐλογία ἀπολλυμένου
ἐπ᾿ ἐμὲ ἔλθοι,
στόμα δὲ χήρας
με εὐλόγησεν.
Jas_1:27 CAB Pure and undefiled religion [θρησκεία
καθαρὰ καὶ ἀμίαντος] before [παρὰ] God and the Father is this: to care for [ἐπισκέπτεσθαι
– scope-upon; visit NKJV] orphans and widows in their affliction [ἐν
τῇ θλίψει
αὐτῶν; fig: trouble NKJV], and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
Jas_1:27
θρησκεία
καθαρὰ καὶ ἀμίαντος
παρὰ τῷ Θεῷ
καὶ πατρὶ αὕτη
ἐστίν, ἐπισκέπτεσθαι
ὀρφανοὺς
καὶ χήρας ἐν
τῇ θλίψει
αὐτῶν, ἄσπιλον
ἑαυτὸν τηρεῖν
ἀπὸ τοῦ
κόσμου.
Jas_1:27 θρησκεια
καθαρα και
αμιαντος παρα TSAτω θεω και
πατρι αυτη
εστιν
επισκεπτεσθαι
ορφανους και
χηρας εν τη
θλιψει αυτων
ασπιλον εαυτον
τηρειν απο του
κοσμου
To visit: Job_29:12, Job_29:13, Job_31:15-20, Psa_68:5, Isa_1:16, Isa_1:17, Isa_58:6, Isa_58:7, Mat_25:34-46, Gal_5:6, Gal_6:9, Gal_6:10, 1Jo_3:17-19
Persecution of Widows -- Forbidden
Deu_10:18 NKJV He administers justice for the fatherless
and the widow, and loves the stranger, giving him food and clothing.
Exo_22:22-24 NKJV You shall not afflict any widow or
fatherless child. If you afflict them in any way, and they cry at all to Me, I
will surely hear their cry; and My wrath will become hot, and I will kill you
with the sword; your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
Deu_24:17 NKJV You shall not pervert justice due the
stranger or the fatherless, nor take a widow’s garment as a pledge.
Deu_27:19 NKJV Cursed is the one who perverts the justice
due the stranger, the fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say,
‘Amen!’
Job_24:3 NKJV They drive away the donkey of the fatherless;
they take the widow’s ox as a pledge.
Job_24:21 NKJV For he preys on the barren who do not bear,
and does no good for the widow.
Psa_94:6 NKJV They slay the widow and the stranger, and
murder the fatherless.
Isa_1:23 NKJV Your princes are rebellious, and companions
of thieves; Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They do not
defend the fatherless, nor does the cause of the widow come before them.
Isa_10:1-2 NKJV “Woe to those who decree unrighteous
decrees, Who write misfortune, Which they have prescribed
To rob the needy of justice, And to take what is right from
the poor of My people, That widows may be their prey, And that they may rob the
fatherless.”
Jer_7:6 NKJV If you do not oppress the stranger, the
fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, or
walk after other gods to your hurt,
Jer_22:3 NKJV Thus says the Lord: “Execute judgment and
righteousness, and deliver the plundered out of the hand of the oppressor. Do
no wrong and do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, or the widow…”
Eze_22:7 NKJV In you they have made light of father and
mother; in your midst they have oppressed the stranger; in you they have
mistreated the fatherless and the widow.
Zec_7:10 NKJV Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless,
the alien or the poor. Let none of you plan evil in his heart against his
brother.
Mal_3:5 NKJV And I will come near you for judgment; I will
be a swift witness against sorcerers, adulterers, perjurers, against those who
exploit wage earners and widows and orphans…
Mat_23:14 NKJV Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long
prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.
Luk_20:47 NKJV who devour widows’ houses, and for a
pretense make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation.
Anna the Widow-Prophetess
Luk_2:36 CAB Now there was one, Anna, a prophetess, a
daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was of a great age, and had
lived with a husband seven years from her virginity;
Luk_2:36 Καὶ ἦν ῎Αννα
προφῆτις,
θυγάτηρ
Φανουήλ, ἐκ
φυλῆς ᾿Ασήρ·
αὕτη
προβεβηκυῖα ἐν
ἡμέραις
πολλαῖς,
ζήσασα ἔτη
μετὰ ἀνδρὸς
ἑπτὰ ἀπὸ
τῆς
παρθενίας αὐτῆς,
Luk_2:36 και ην
αννα προφητις
θυγατηρ
φανουηλ εκ φυλης
ασηρ αυτη
προβεβηκυια εν
ημεραις
πολλαις ζησασα
TSBετη μετα
ανδρος Aετη
επτα απο της
παρθενιας
αυτης
Luk_2:37 and she was a widow of about eighty-four years, who did not depart from the
temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.
Luk_2:37 καὶ αὐτὴ
χήρα ὡς ἐτῶν
ὀγδοήκοντα
τεσσάρων, ἣ οὐκ
ἀφίστατο ἀπὸ
τοῦ ἱεροῦ
νηστείαις
καὶ δεήσεσι
λατρεύουσα
νύκτα καὶ ἡμέραν.
Luk_2:37 και αυτη
χηρα Aεως TSBως
ετων BAογδοηκοντα
BAτεσσαρων
TSογδοηκοντατεσσαρων
η ουκ αφιστατο TSBαπο
του ιερου
νηστειαις και
δεησεσιν
λατρευουσα νυκτα
και ημεραν
Luk_2:38 And coming in that
instant [ὥρᾳ] she was giving thanks to the Lord, and was speaking about Him
to all those who waited for redemption in Jerusalem.
Luk_2:38 καὶ αὕτη
αὐτῇ τῇ ὥρᾳ
ἐπιστᾶσα ἀνθωμολογεῖτο
τῷ Κυρίῳ
καὶ ἐλάλει
περὶ αὐτοῦ
πᾶσι τοῖς
προσδεχομένοις
λύτρωσιν ᾿Ιερουσαλήμ.
Luk_2:38 και
αυτη TSBαυτη τη
ωρα επιστασα
ανθωμολογειτο
τω Aθεω TSBκυριω και
ελαλει περι
αυτου πασιν
τοις προσδεχομενοις
λυτρωσιν TSBεν ιερουσαλημ
Notice the extra voluntary affliction of Anna the
Widow-Prophetess!
You want to know what’s going on spiritually?
Do (A) extra justice to marriage, and (B) extra self-denial to celibacy, and (C) grow as old in virtue and wisdom as much as you’re permitted, then you’re ambitiously reaching to be like Anna the prophetess who announces the bless and honorable coming of Anointed One!
Old Wisdom
See: TRU > Old Wisdom
The Saving Virtue of Widowhood
The Salvation of
a Widow's Virtue
Time to Reflect
& Apply
We need to reflect on what we have just learned and consider these virtuous instructions so that we might have faith in the truth and be saved.
Concluding on
Virtuous Widowhood
· Monogamous: A righteous saved widow of virtue was only involved with one man.
· Virgin: Before marriage she worked hard in self-denial, turning away from all men.
· Righteous Wife: When she was married she glorified the parable.
· Resumed Separation: As soon as she was a widow she immediately turned right back to purity, chastity, and self-denial.
· Single, Married, Widowed: As a single she was clean, when married she honored monogamy, as a widow she resumed her glorious sacrifice.
· Wisdom: Now she has the aged Glory of virtue.
· Humbled Exaltation: This life has demoted her, but the Truth has honored her.
· Enlisted: She is honored, validated, praised, and glorified as an example for all to imitate by the inspired Truth of the assemblies approval.
Application of
Saving Widowhood
· Exclusivity: The salvation of this praised widow of virtue has taught all of humanity that a woman's beauty and Glory only belongs to her husband in marriage.
· Pollution Gets Hell: All pampering and indulgence and elaborating the beauty outside of this glorious widow's virtue ends in hell and condemnation, and it is for this very reason that…
· Saved From Indulgence: Jesus came to save us from our sins (Matthew 1:21), including the prostitution of elaborating beauty and indulging in elaborate pleasures outside of marriage and the prescribed rejoicing of monotheism.
The Point: a woman's elaborated and glorified beauty only belongs to her husband in marriage and a widow's saving virtue absolutely proves this
Be saved by the real Jesus of Bible obedience from the invalid unlawful pampering luxury indulgences of this age, and the hate crimes of elaborating, publicly displaying, and prostituting beauty outside of marriage.
Makeup of Doom!
Makeup = Hell -- Flee the Makeup of Doom!
[All of these are quoted
herein…]
-- Under Construction --
Makeup has been “wrong”
until the 20th century when Hollywood and prostitution culture
brought it to church…
How have we fallen this far
so as to willingly engage public sexual immorality with boldly prostituted
faces in church!?
Preview
Have you heard of…
· The dirty perverted immoral apostate condemned daughters of Zion (Isa_3:16) with their condemned immodest looks? Or…
· The Doomed Makeup of Jezebel (2Ki_9:30)? Or…
· The parabolic prostitutions of rebellious-apostate Israel (Jer_4:30; Eze_23:40)?
Is it coincidental that
makeup is always presented as sinful in the Bible?
Do you realize that makeup
has always been (A) cursed and demonic from the beginning, and that it (B)
directly opposes everything the Bible commands for women to do to be saved, and
that (C) makeup continues as a core part of the dirty demonic sexual sin
crimes of the End-Times (2Ki_9:30; Rev_2:20) -- and makes you part
of the prostitute of antichrist in the end times?
Are you ready to fall into
hell as daughters (Eze_16:15,
Eze_16:35, Eze_16:45, etc.) of the rebellious-apostate End-Times Jezebel-prostitute?
Some have blasphemed Esther of using Makeup.
If she did, it was not publically, but only for private marriage, and it was not recorded in the Bible -- contrary to some people’s misunderstandings.
Cosmetics in the Greek LXX ≠ Makeup today -- this might be a point of linguistic confusion for some.
Cosmetics in Greek ≈ arranging
one’s self to be presented in public. -- in the Bible, only prostitutes
included paint or makeup in this process (2Ki_9:30; Jer_4:30; Eze_23:40)
Makeup Summary
·
Enoch!
(Rebellion-apostasy)
·
Egypt!
(Paganism-Polytheism)
· 2Ki_9:30 – Jezebel paints her eyes, adorns head, & is executed (2Ki_9:33)
·
Isa_3:16 –
Proud lustful eyes of judged daughters of Zion
·
Jer_4:30 –
Fine clothes, adornment, painted eyes, vain beautification of prostitute
·
Eze_23:40 – bathed, painted eyes,
& adornment of prostitute
·
Jesus! (Mat_5:27-30
(2Pe_2:14); Mat_15:19/Mar_7:21 (Pro_4:23); Pro_6:25; Pro_27:20; Isa_3:16;
Job_31:1)
·
Early Church
·
Today (Rebellion-apostasy)
How lofty are their eyes!
Enoch
Egypt
Moses went to great lengths
to separate the children if Israel from the nations, the first of which was
Egypt -- which we can all see used makeup extensively in connecting to their
pagan deities.
Jeremiah 4
Jer_4:30 WEB You, when you are
made desolate, what will you do? Though you clothe yourself with scarlet,
though you deck you with ornaments of gold, though you enlarge your eyes
with paint, in vain do you make yourself beautiful; your lovers despise
you, they seek your life.
Jer_4:30 LB And what will you do?
Though you clothe yourself with scarlet, and adorn yourself with golden
ornaments; though you adorn your eyes with paint, your
beauty shall be in vain. Your lovers have rejected you, they seek your
life.
Jer_4:30 καὶ σὺ τί
ποιήσεις, ἐὰν
περιβάλῃ κόκκινον
καὶ κοσμήσῃ κόσμῳ
χρυσῷ καὶ ἐὰν ἐγχρίσῃ
στίβι τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς
σου; εἰς μάτην ὁ
ὡραϊμός σου· ἀπώσαντό
σε οἱ ἐρασταί
σου, τὴν ψυχήν
σου ζητοῦσιν.
Ezekiel 23
Eze_23:40 WEB
Furthermore you have sent for men who come from far, to whom a messenger
was sent, and behold, they came; for whom you did wash yourself, paint
your eyes, and deck yourself with ornaments,
Eze_23:40 LB and whereas they did
thus to the men that came from afar, to whom they sent messengers, and as soon
as they came, immediately you washed yourself, and painted
your eyes and adorned yourself with ornaments,
Eze_23:40 καὶ ὅτι
τοῖς ἀνδράσιν
τοῖς ἐρχομένοις
μακρόθεν, οἷς ἀγγέλους
ἐξαπεστέλλοσαν
πρὸς αὐτούς, καὶ
ἅμα τῷ ἔρχεσθαι
αὐτοὺς εὐθὺς ἐλούου
καὶ ἐστιβίζου
τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς
σου καὶ ἐκόσμου
κόσμῳ
Also compare the many hot
condemnations of luxurious clothing…
Enoch
-- Under Construction --
What's Wrong with Makeup?
· Lie: Makeup is false “beauty” -- so be careful: everything that makes a lie goes to the lake of fire
· Apostasy: Makeup puts you right in line with the End-Times Jezebel Prostitute!
·
Harlot = Jezebel:
The Harlot in Revelation (Rev_14:8;
Rev_17 – Rev_19) is called “Jezebel” (Rev_2:20 = i.e. 1Ki_16 – 2Ki_9) -- as
seen below…
· If you’re doing Makeup, you’re imitating the End-Times Jezebel Prostitute and fulfilling the end-times apostasy of religious prostitution! (Isa_52:11-12; Jer_51:44-45 *, etc.; 2Co_6:14-18 – 2Co_7:1; Rev_18:1-5, etc.; -- i.e. Isa_52:11 = Jer_51:45 * = 2Co_6:17 = Rev_18:4 [* MT & ABP])
· That's precisely why your Makeup of Doom leads straight to Hell!
>>Scrip:
2th
Absain from all appearance of evil
Not only should we not look like a harlot
Much more should we not commit the visual crimes of makeup harlotry
Makeup is Sin
Proud Public Prostitution are often made up of Makeup…
· The Bible says to flee prostitution and makeup is part of prostitution in the Bible.
· The visual acts of displaying public prostitution for the hateful sins of the eyes start the sin crimes of the physical acts of committing prostitution in the body.
· The World, including the church, typically think that the crime starts in the body, but Jesus clearly teaches that the condemned murder sins of lust start with the eyes into the heart which directly earn hell.
· With the morality of biblical modesty obeyers use clothing to cover up and hide beauty, which does not in any way allow someone to paint up with makeup to show off an advertise artificially exaggerated sensual beauty. Makeup is one of the furthest things possibly imaginable from Biblical modesty.
· Makeup is a sexual adornment of someone's personal facial beauty to invite the admiration which the Bible describes as visual prostitution and adultery which totally contradicts biblical chastity and modesty requirements for salvation.
· Women are not even allowed to pursue adornment of clothing in public, much less are they allowed to sensationalize their personal facial beauty which openly engages in lust.
· Just because we've normalized prostitution in luxurious prostitution cultures doesn't mean that humans are logically allowed to deny the sexual murder that is occurring which is overtly condemned by the Bible and noticed by everyone who is clean in the heart and groaning to escape the hatefulness of mass prostitutions
· If anyone defends makeup or downplays it's visual prostitution, this character scandal clearly displays that they are an adulterer at heart
Is Makeup ALWAYS Sinful?
· When is Makeup Sinful?
· Makeup is wrong to use for public display of (personal) beauty - which is condemned prostitution, fornication, and or adulterous sexual immorality all throughout the Bible.
· Makeup that paints artistic artificial beauty on a person's skin for public presentation of oneself to social situations (outside of your family) is always prostituting personal beauty.
· When coming against Makeup, this is always the context of the sin which the Bible constantly condemns.
· It may or may not be appropriate or helpful or virtuous to cover up blemishes or to play around in marriage with paint - these are not directly discussed or condemned when the Bible forbids adornment of women in public, or even when condemning makeup specifically.
Adulterers Don't Object to Makeup!
Adulterers Don't Object to Makeup, but the Bible DOES!
Visual heart adulterers don't find anything inherently wrong when women
wear makeup
So don't be surprised when they support this ancient demonic visual harlotry
rebellion against all historical monotheism from Enoch to the Bible to the
early church
Remember what we already know about virtually all rebellious end times
apostates...
As with all immodesty and public prostitution of sexual immorality...
>> Scrip:
Eyes full of adultery
No wonder they don't think makeup is wrong! because they're constantly
fornicating with face paint makeup is considered a light matter compared to the
gross depth of adultery that is constantly exchanging through their eyes!
So if what you really wanted was to tango (or dance) with fornicators
you've got plenty of prostitution affirmations (affirming council) and
encouragement toward harlotry coming at you from virtually every apostate
church and every sleazy dirty Church teacher around the corner.
Liars Are OK with Makeup
Church Lies: the Bible does not inherently forbid makeup, but calls for motives of modesty, inner beauty, and godly character
DLM Christian Lifestyle
Video: Should CHRISTIAN WOMEN wear MAKEUP & JEWELRY?
By DLM Christian Lifestyle
WARNING: Men should not even look at the thumbnail preview or most of the content of this horrible “christian” video
David Servant
Video: Is It Wrong for Women to Wear Makeup？
｜
Little Lessons with David Servant
Liar says: ‘we can’t find any specific condemnation in scritpure’
Got Questions
Video: Should Christian women wear makeup or jewelry？
WARNING: Men should not even look at the thumbnail preview or most of the content of this horrible “christian” video
Vague
Terminology
‘Paul
gives no specifics’
‘modesty
can be subjective’
Overindulgence
and excess are improper for church
Don’t rely
on outward adornment
Don’t
spend an inordinate amount of time on adornments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pPsw16d_2w
Pastor Mike Novotny
Video: Is Wearing Makeup a Sin？
⧸⧸ Tough Questions With Pastor Mike
Novotny-cut-merged-1750610573282.mkv
Vague
Confusing “changing yourself” with healthiness and clothes, and a haircut, adorning on a wedding day, with makeup and jewelry and shaving
‘We need to be careful to not add rules to the bible’
‘Beauty is not a problem with g-d’ -- as if marriage is at all morally similar or comparable with prostitution!
‘Issue of the heart’
Vague Language = Wolves!
Conventional lazy thinking
and approval of public visual prostitution
Anti-purity rhetoric of self authenticating prostitution
culture
Is it about “vanity” and “excessiveness” of focusing “too
much” on your outward appearance?
Repent of using typical vague language and words to address
this horrible crime that is murdering sexuality to no end!
You have to be a “legalist” to be saved from Makeup
these days…
The Bible Forbids Makeup?
Does
the Bible Forbid Make up?
Church people like to say that the Bible doesn't outright forbid makeup but that's misleading because 1 Tim 2 does in fact actually literally forbid a woman to cosmetically arrange herself with adornment to present herself in public, which would include not only makeup but also external decorations.
So while “makeup” itself is not forbidden, in actual practice everything most people use it for to beautify women’s appearance in public is in fact condemned.
See: WOW > Don’t Learn the Ways of the Nations (who don’t know God)
Yes, the Bible commands you many times to repent of doing the outrageous things that lead straight to hell!
DON’T Do Makeup (or any public adornment), but do the opposite!
1Ti_2:9; 1Pe_3:3 – NO Public Adornment! (Reminders)
..but do the hiddenness of MODESTY in public instead!
Women are commanded to be modest and hide their beauty from visual prostitution and adultery! (Mat_5:27-30 (2Pe_2:14); Mat_15:19/Mar_7:21 (Pro_4:23); Pro_6:25; Pro_27:20; Isa_3:16; Job_31:1 & comp. 1Ti_2:9-10 1Pe_3:3-4)
Women are not allowed to cosmetically arrange themselves with beautiful things to appear in public for others to see (1Ti_2:9-10 1Pe_3:3-4) and makeup is the very worst form of these public adornments which is directly applied to the skin their body to instigate/initiate/start/activate direct visual bodily sexual crimes of mass-visual prostitution of personal beauty in public!
Flee prostitution
Don’t display visual prostitutions when the Bible commands you to flee it, even from your heart! -- you’re not fleeing when you are already committing these sexual crimes visually with your body and in men’s hearts!
Makeup IS Condemned!
Makeup is Doomed all Throughout the Bible
The Bible very consistently typifies makeup as part of prostitution and completely forbids the very notion of showing off beauty in the first place to begin with, much less does it ever tolerate flagrantly adorning it for public display!
Remember: Jer_4:30
We see that adorning
oneself with expensive clothes of luxury correlates with panting the face with
personal-sexual beauty lust.
Never mind the heretics
that say there are no Bible verses that forbid makeup when it is tied into the
worst progression after luxury which is entirely forbidden the Peter and Paul!
There’s No command against
makeup?
Open your eyes!
The Whole Bible forbids
prostitution and specifically associates sexual crimes as results of luxury
crimes (Jeremiah; Luk_16:, Revelation, etc.)
Stop up the mouths of those
ignorant filthy liars of Bible-disobedience who continue in sin and pretend the
Bible doesn’t condemn makeup when it has totally incriminated it’s entire
posterity from the roots up!
Makeup in Marriage vs. Outside of It?
What
About Makeup in Marriage?
·
Do you want to use Makeup
in private for marriage?
Ok, maybe in some limited cases… (there’s no absolute rules against that)
·
Do you want to use Makeup publically
(like most people) &/or outside of marriage at all?
You’re going to hell for rebellious prostitution that is condemned all
throughout the Bible!
Jezebel’s Makeup of Doom
Preview
· Makeup: 2Ki_9:30 – Jezebel paints her eyes (makeup), & adorns head
· Execution: 2Ki_9:33 – Jezebel is thrown to the ground (doom)
2Ki_9:30 WEB When Jehu was come
to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her eyes, and
attired [i.e. made good/well/nice] her head, and
looked out at the window.
2Ki_9:30 LB Now when Jehu came to
Jezreel, Jezebel had heard of it, and colored her eyes [ἐστιμίσατο
τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς], and adorned
[ἠγάθυνεν –
i.e. made good; ABP Greek: ≈ Cosmetic-ified] her head, and
looked out through the window.
2Ki_9:30 Καὶ ἦλθεν
Ιου εἰς
Ιεζραελ· καὶ
Ιεζαβελ ἤκουσεν
καὶ ἐστιμίσατο
τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς
αὐτῆς καὶ ἠγάθυνεν
τὴν κεφαλὴν αὐτῆς
καὶ διέκυψεν
διὰ τῆς θυρίδος.
2Ki_9:31 WEB As Jehu entered in
at the gate, she said, Do you come in peace, Zimri, you murderer of your
master?
2Ki_9:31 And Jehu entered into the city, and she said, “Is it peace,
Zimri, murderer of your master?”
2Ki_9:31 καὶ Ιου εἰσεπορεύετο
ἐν τῇ πόλει, καὶ
εἶπεν Εἰ εἰρήνη,
Ζαμβρι ὁ
φονευτὴς τοῦ
κυρίου αὐτοῦ;
2Ki_9:32 WEB He lifted up his
face to the window, and said, Who is on my side? who? There looked out to him
two or
three eunuchs.
2Ki_9:32 And he lifted up his face toward the window, and saw her, and
said, “Who are you? Come down with me.” And two eunuchs looked down towards
him.
2Ki_9:32 καὶ ἐπῆρεν
τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ
εἰς τὴν θυρίδα
καὶ εἶδεν αὐτὴν
καὶ εἶπεν Τίς εἶ
σύ; κατάβηθι
μετ᾿ ἐμοῦ. καὶ
κατέκυψαν πρὸς
αὐτὸν δύο εὐνοῦχοι·
2Ki_9:33 WEB He said, Throw her
down. So they threw her down; and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall,
and on the horses: and he trod her under foot.
2Ki_9:33 And he said, “Throw her down.” And they threw her down, and
some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses; and they
trampled on her.
2Ki_9:33 καὶ εἶπεν
Κυλίσατε αὐτήν·
καὶ ἐκύλισαν αὐτήν,
καὶ ἐρραντίσθη
τοῦ αἵματος αὐτῆς
πρὸς τὸν τοῖχον
καὶ πρὸς τοὺς ἵππους,
καὶ συνεπάτησαν
αὐτήν.
2Ki_9:34 WEB When he was come in,
he ate and drink; and he said, See now to this cursed woman, and bury her; for
she is a king's daughter.
2Ki_9:34 And Jehu went in and ate and drank, and said, “Look after this
accursed [κατηραμένην] woman, and bury
her, for she is a king's daughter.”
2Ki_9:34 καὶ εἰσῆλθεν
Ιου καὶ ἔφαγεν
καὶ ἔπιεν καὶ εἶπεν
Ἐπισκέψασθε δὴ
τὴν κατηραμένην
ταύτην καὶ θάψατε
αὐτήν, ὅτι θυγάτηρ
βασιλέως ἐστίν.
2Ki_9:35 WEB They went to bury
her; but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms
of her hands.
2Ki_9:35 And they went to bury her; but they found no more of her but
the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands.
2Ki_9:35 καὶ ἐπορεύθησαν
θάψαι αὐτὴν καὶ
οὐχ εὗρον ἐν αὐτῇ
ἄλλο τι ἢ τὸ
κρανίον καὶ οἱ
πόδες καὶ τὰ ἴχνη
τῶν χειρῶν.
2Ki_9:36 WEB Therefore they came
back, and told him. He said, This is the word of Yahweh, which he spoke by his
servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall the dogs
eat the flesh of Jezebel;
2Ki_9:36 And they returned and told him. And he said, “It is the word of
the Lord, which He spoke by the hand of Elijah the Tishbite, saying, ‘In the
portion of Jezreel shall the dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel.
2Ki_9:36 καὶ ἐπέστρεψαν
καὶ ἀνήγγειλαν
αὐτῷ, καὶ εἶπεν
Λόγος κυρίου, ὃν
ἐλάλησεν ἐν
χειρὶ δούλου αὐτοῦ
Ηλιου τοῦ Θεσβίτου
λέγων Ἐν τῇ μερίδι
Ιεζραελ καταφάγονται
οἱ κύνες τὰς σάρκας
Ιεζαβελ,
2Ki_9:37 WEB and the body of
Jezebel shall be as dung on the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel, so
that they shall not say, This is Jezebel.
2Ki_9:37 And the carcass of Jezebel shall be as dung on the face of the
field in the portion of Jezreel, so that they shall not say, “This is
Jezebel.”’”
2Ki_9:37 καὶ ἔσται
τὸ θνησιμαῖον
Ιεζαβελ ὡς
κοπρία ἐπὶ
προσώπου τοῦ ἀγροῦ
ἐν τῇ μερίδι
Ιεζραελ ὥστε μὴ
εἰπεῖν αὐτούς
Ιεζαβελ.
Jezebel -- GPT’s
Summaries:
· 1Ki_16:31 – Jezebel, daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, becomes Ahab’s wife
· 1Ki_18:4 – Jezebel cuts off the prophets of the Lord
· 1Ki_18:13 – Jezebel kills the prophets of the Lord
· 1Ki_19:1 – Ahab tells Jezebel everything Elijah did
· 1Ki_19:2 – Jezebel threatens Elijah’s life [‘Thus the gods do, and thus do they add—surely about this time tomorrow, I make your life as the life of one of them’]
· 1Ki_21:5 – Jezebel asks Ahab why he is sullen over Naboth
· 1Ki_21:7 – Jezebel tells Ahab she will get Naboth’s vineyard for him
· 1Ki_21:8 – Jezebel writes letters in Ahab’s name
· 1Ki_21:11 – The elders do as Jezebel commanded
· 1Ki_21:14 – Jezebel is told that Naboth is dead
· 1Ki_21:15 – Jezebel tells Ahab to take possession of Naboth’s vineyard
· 1Ki_21:23 – Elijah prophesies that dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel
· 2Ki_9:7 – Jehu is told he will strike the house of Ahab because of Jezebel
· 2Ki_9:10 – Prophecy is repeated that dogs shall eat Jezebel in Jezreel
· 2Ki_9:22 – Jehu says Jezebel’s harlotries and sorceries bring no peace
· 2Ki_9:30 – Jezebel paints her face
· 2Ki_9:33 – Jezebel is thrown to the ground
· 2Ki_9:35 – Jezebel’s body is devoured by dogs
· 2Ki_9:36-37 – Fulfillment of the word of the Lord spoken by Elijah about Jezebel
· Rev_2:20 – The church at Thyatira tolerates “that woman Jezebel,” who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and seduce God’s servants
So…
Rev_2:20 → 1Ki_16 – 2Ki_9
Comp. Herodias: Mat_14:3; Mat_14:6; Mrk_6:17; Mrk_6:19; Mrk_6:22; Luk_3:19
Queen Jezebel (OT) ≈
Queen Herodias (NT) ≈ Queen Harlot (Rev_18:7) in the End-Times
Jezebel Tried to Kill
Elijah (1Ki_19:2) ≈ Herodias Killed John the Baptist ≈ Queen Harlot
Killing Holy Ones (Rev_17:6, etc.) & Anti-Christ is Persecuting the Two Witnesses
in the End-Times (2Ti_3:8-9)
Rev-Prostitute -- GPT’s
Summaries:
· Rev_14:8 – Babylon is fallen, who made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication
· Rev_17:1 – The great harlot sits on many waters
· Rev_17:2 – The kings of the earth committed fornication with the harlot
· Rev_17:3 – A woman sits on a scarlet beast, full of names of blasphemy
· Rev_17:4 – The woman is arrayed in purple and scarlet, with a golden cup full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication
· Rev_17:5 – The woman’s forehead is labeled: "Mystery, Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots and of the Abominations of the Earth"
· Rev_17:6 – The woman is drunk with the blood of the saints and martyrs of Jesus
· Rev_17:15 – The waters where the harlot sits are peoples, multitudes, nations, and tongues
· Rev_17:16 – The beast and ten horns will hate the harlot, make her desolate, and burn her with fire [think: Eze_16:]
· Rev_18:3 – All nations have drunk of the wine of her fornication, kings committed fornication with her, and merchants grew rich
· Rev_18:7 – She says in her heart, "I sit as queen, and am no widow, and will not see sorrow"
· Rev_18:9 – Kings of the earth who committed fornication with her will mourn her burning
· Rev_18:11 – The merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her
· Rev_18:16 – "Alas, that great city… arrayed in fine linen, purple, and scarlet"
· Rev_18:17 – In one hour such great riches came to nothing
· Rev_19:2 – God has judged the great harlot who corrupted the earth with her fornication and avenged His servants’ blood on her
So…
Rev_14:8; Rev_17 – Rev_19
Babylon = x6 in Rev
Herodias = x6 in Gospels
The Point: Beware of Jezebel’s Makeup of Doom, lest you also perish with her in sinful End-Times apostasy-rebellion of nasty beauty prostitution and adulteress murder!
If you don’t repent, your beauty
will be made a stinky-abomination () and you also will “be as dung on
the face of the field in …Jezreel…Jezebel.” (2Ki_9:37 WEB)
Early Church Opposed Makeup
-- Under Construction --
If the historical position
was conservative and hardcore and now we have a more relaxed, lenient, and
permissive attitude and practice, we all know it is because of moral crimes of
rebellious apostasy.
Saved from Makeup
Makeup = vanity of Selfish Beauty Crimes and sexually immoral seduction form pagan fornicating practices
The Point: Makeup is sexual sin and is directly opposite from everything the Bible commands saved women to do.
· Makeup is the exact opposite of everything modest and saving that the Bible commands for women to do
· Makeup is part of the hateful sins of prostitution and adultery in the Bible, and is a path that earns and heads straight for hell!
Jesus came to save us from sin (Mat_1:21) including the Bible-disobedience of face-prostituting Makeup!
Selfish Beauty Crimes (Reminders)
When using beauty for yourself, Proud Public
Prostitutions are at hand…
No Prostituting Beauty (Reminders)
The Purpose of
Beauty is NOT for Fornication-Prostitution, i.e. showing off in public
-- Slight Reminders
· Remember Purity Commands: Remember and consider all of the commands against sexual sins, and all of the requirements for purity…
· Headcoverings Hide Beauty: Modesty requirements (which flee prostitution in 1Co_6 – 10) result in a headcovering for women in 1Co_11 that HIDE Personal Beauty, Therefore…
· Modesty Avoids Sin: it is clearly demonstrated and proven that avoiding the use of the body for prostitution includes hiding its beauty from being visually prostituted, and it’s even specifically mentioned this way in the Corinthian epistles.
· Repentance: Showing off Beauty is one of the first sins against beauty we need to severely cut off and fully terminate in order to Stop Sinning Against Beauty.
Immodesty = Prostitution / Harlotry / Fornication & Adultery
What Boundaries
for Beauty?
What Are the Boundaries Against Prostituting Beauty?
Beware of visual sexual crimes!
Avoid Prostitution!: 1Co_6:18, etc. (Flee); 1Co_7:2 [διὰ δὲ τὰς πορνείας] (& 1Co_10)
Does avoiding prostitution only include…
· physical contact, or…
· just what is shown under the neck, or…
· all Beauty -- whatever can be practically be shown and/or hidden?
See: Pro_6:25; Mat_5:27-30
· Mat_5:28 – looking at beauty toward admiration [ἐπιθυμῆσαι] outside of marriage is adultery & prostitution (Mat_15:19/Mar_7:21)
Visual Heart Crimes of Prostitution
Consider all of the verses against fornication... --
Because that's what showing off your beauty in public is! (visually…)
The fact that beauty can be visual heart-adultery and
heart-prostitution (Mat_5:27-30 (2Pe_2:14); Mat_15:19/Mar_7:21 (Pro_4:23); Pro_6:25; Pro_27:20; Isa_3:16; Job_31:1) shows that the
prohibition against ‘using the body for prostitution’ (1Co_6:13)
includes how it is shown off visually in public -- and it’s only allowed, for
marriage in the house!
Not For
Prostitution
1Co_6:13 CAB Foods for the stomach
and the stomach for foods, but God will destroy both this stomach and these foods. Now the
body is not for fornication [τὸ
δὲ σῶμα οὐ
τῇ πορνείᾳ], but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
1Co_6:13
τὰ βρώματα
τῇ κοιλίᾳ
καὶ ἡ
κοιλία τοῖς
βρώμασιν· ὁ
δὲ Θεὸς καὶ
ταύτην καὶ
ταῦτα
καταργήσει.
τὸ δὲ σῶμα
οὐ τῇ
πορνείᾳ, ἀλλὰ
τῷ Κυρίῳ,
καὶ ὁ
Κύριος τῷ
σώματι·
Mat_15:19/Mar_7:21 – Out of the heart
come fornications
So…
· (A) The body is not for Prostitution (1Co_6:13), and
· (B) Prostitution comes from the heart (Mat_15:19/Mar_7:21), and
· (C) sexual crimes of the heart come through looking with the eyes (Mat_5:27-30 (2Pe_2:14); …Pro_6:25; Pro_27:20; Isa_3:16; Job_31:1)
Therefore: visual heart prostitution of the Body is sexual sin-crime against God, and not what the body was made for.
Lord = Avenger
1Th_4:6 – Lord = avenger of all such… (who cross
sister-purity-boundaries: 1Ti_5:1-2)
1Th_4:6 CAB that no one should transgress against and to defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord is the avenger concerning all, just as we told you before and solemnly testified.
1Th_4:6 τὸ μὴ ὑπερβαίνειν
καὶ
πλεονεκτεῖν ἐν
τῷ πράγματι
τὸν ἀδελφὸν
αὐτοῦ,
διότι ἔκδικος
Κύριος περὶ
πάντων
τούτων,
καθὼς καὶ
προείπαμεν ὑμῖν
καὶ
διεμαρτυράμεθα.
1Th_4:6 το μη
υπερβαινειν
και
πλεονεκτειν εν
τω πραγματι
τον αδελφον
αυτου διοτι
εκδικος TSBο
κυριος περι
παντων τουτων
καθως και Bπροειπομεν
TSAπροειπαμεν
υμιν και
διεμαρτυραμεθα
1Th_4:7 For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in sanctification [ἁγιασμῷ N-DSM – holiness; Strong on G47: (the quality)].
1Th_4:7
οὐ γὰρ ἐκάλεσεν
ἡμᾶς ὁ
Θεὸς ἐπὶ ἀκαθαρσίᾳ,
ἀλλ᾿ ἐν ἁγιασμῷ.
Sister-Purity-Boundary
1Ti_5:1 CAB Do not sharply rebuke an older man, but rather exhort him as a father, younger men as brothers,
1Ti_5:1
Πρεσβυτέρῳ
μὴ ἐπιπλήξῃς,
ἀλλὰ
παρακάλει ὡς
πατέρα,
νεωτέρους ὡς
ἀδελφούς,
1Ti_5:1
πρεσβυτερω
μη επιπληξης
αλλα παρακαλει
ως πατερα
νεωτερους ως
αδελφους
1Ti_5:2 older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, with all purity [ἁγνείᾳ N-DSF – holiness; Strong on G38: (the state)].
1Ti_5:2
πρεσβυτέρας
ὡς μητέρας,
νεωτέρας ὡς
ἀδελφὰς ἐν
πάσῃ ἁγνείᾳ.
ἁγνείᾳ
Prostitutions of Selfish Beauty
Eze_23: Israel Prostitutes Her Beauty!
Remember: Jezebel’s Makeup of Doom Is the preceding physical example of condemned makeup.
Many years later,
God is still condemning her spirit among apostate immoral religious people…
Eze_23:40 WEB
Furthermore you have sent for men who come from far, to whom a messenger
was sent, and behold, they came; for whom you did wash yourself, paint
your eyes, and deck yourself with ornaments,
Eze_23:40 LB and whereas they did
thus to the men that came from afar, to whom they sent messengers, and as soon
as they came, immediately you washed yourself, and painted
your eyes and adorned yourself with ornaments,
Eze_23:40 καὶ ὅτι
τοῖς ἀνδράσιν
τοῖς ἐρχομένοις
μακρόθεν, οἷς ἀγγέλους
ἐξαπεστέλλοσαν
πρὸς αὐτούς, καὶ
ἅμα τῷ ἔρχεσθαι
αὐτοὺς εὐθὺς ἐλούου
καὶ ἐστιβίζου
τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς
σου καὶ ἐκόσμου
κόσμῳ
Eze_23:41 WEB
and sit on a stately bed, with a table prepared before it, whereupon you
did set my incense and my oil.
Eze_23:41 and sat on a prepared bed, and before
it there was a table set out, and as for My incense and My oil,
they rejoiced in them,
Eze_23:41 καὶ ἐκάθου
ἐπὶ κλίνης ἐστρωμένης,
καὶ τράπεζα
κεκοσμημένη
πρὸ προσώπου αὐτῆς.
καὶ τὸ θυμίαμά
μου καὶ τὸ ἔλαιόν
μου εὐφραίνοντο
ἐν αὐτοῖς.
Eze_23:42 WEB
The voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and with men
of the common sort were brought drunkards from the wilderness; and they put
bracelets on the hands of them twain, and beautiful crowns on their heads.
Eze_23:42 and they raised a sound of music,
and that with men coming from the wilderness out of a multitude of men, and
they put bracelets on their hands, and a crown of glory on their heads.
Eze_23:42 καὶ φωνὴν
ἁρμονίας ἀνεκρούοντο·
καὶ πρὸς ἄνδρας
ἐκ πλήθους ἀνθρώπων
ἥκοντας ἐκ τῆς ἐρήμου
καὶ ἐδίδοσαν ψέλια
ἐπὶ τὰς χεῖρας
αὐτῶν καὶ στέφανον
καυχήσεως ἐπὶ
τὰς κεφαλὰς αὐτῶν.
Eze_23:43 WEB
Then said I of her who was old in adulteries, Now will
they play the prostitute with her, and she with them.
Eze_23:43 Therefore I said, ‘Do they not commit
adultery with these? And has she also gone a-whoring
after the manner of a harlot?’
Eze_23:43 καὶ εἶπα
Οὐκ ἐν τούτοις
μοιχεύουσιν;
καὶ ἔργα πόρνης
καὶ αὐτὴ ἐξεπόρνευσεν.
Eze_23:44 WEB
They went in to her, as they go in to a prostitute: so
went they in to Oholah and to Oholibah, the lewd women.
Eze_23:44 And they went in to her, as men go in
to a harlot; so they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, to work
[ποιῆσαι] iniquity [ἀνομίαν].
Eze_23:44 καὶ εἰσεπορεύοντο
πρὸς αὐτήν, ὃν
τρόπον εἰσπορεύονται
πρὸς γυναῖκα πόρνην,
οὕτως εἰσεπορεύοντο
πρὸς Οολαν καὶ
πρὸς Οολιβαν
τοῦ ποιῆσαι ἀνομίαν.
Eze_23:45 WEB
Righteous men, they shall judge them with the judgment of adulteresses,
and with the judgment of women who shed blood; because they are adulteresses,
and blood is in their hands.
Eze_23:45 And they are just men, and shall take
vengeance on them with the judgment of an adulteress and the
judgment of blood, for they are adulteresses, and blood is on
their hands.
Eze_23:45 καὶ ἄνδρες
δίκαιοι αὐτοὶ ἐκδικήσουσιν
αὐτὰς ἐκδικήσει
μοιχαλίδος καὶ
ἐκδικήσει αἵματος,
ὅτι μοιχαλίδες
εἰσίν, καὶ αἷμα
ἐν χερσὶν αὐτῶν.
Isaiah 14; Ezekiel 28 – Selfish Angelic Beauty
Consider this analogy as a
warning against women who use their beauty selfishly…
(A) Isaiah 14
· Fallen from heaven to hell
· Prideful self-exaltation
(B) Isaiah 47
· Sit on the ground Harlot daughter of Babylon
· Modesty removed
· Wisdom & knowledge perverted you
· Desolation coming
(C) Ezekiel 28
Eze_28:11-17, etc. – Judgement against selfish Beauty pride
of the parabolic king of Tyree
Read Full Context!
The following are
just a few key points…
(i) Swords Against Beauty
Eze_28:7 WEB therefore, behold, I
will bring strangers on you, the terrible of the nations; and they shall draw
their swords against the beauty of your wisdom, and they shall defile
your brightness.
Eze_28:7 LB because of this, behold,
I will bring on you strange plagues from the nations; and they shall draw their
swords against you, and against the beauty of your knowledge,
Eze_28:7 ἀντὶ τούτου
ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ ἐπάγω
ἐπὶ σὲ ἀλλοτρίους
λοιμοὺς ἀπὸ ἐθνῶν,
καὶ ἐκκενώσουσιν
τὰς μαχαίρας αὐτῶν
ἐπὶ σὲ καὶ ἐπὶ
τὸ κάλλος τῆς ἐπιστήμης
σου καὶ στρώσουσιν
τὸ κάλλος σου εἰς
ἀπώλειαν
Eze_28:8 WEB They shall bring you
down to the pit; and you shall die the death of those who are slain, in the
heart of the seas.
Eze_28:8 and they shall bring down your beauty to destruction. And they shall bring you down; and you shall die the death of the
slain in the heart of the sea.
Eze_28:8 καὶ
καταβιβάσουσίν
σε, καὶ ἀποθανῇ
θανάτῳ
τραυματιῶν ἐν
καρδίᾳ θαλάσσης.
(ii) Perfect in | Crown of Beauty, in Eden, Anointed
Cherub, …Until Sinning!
Eze_28:12 WEB
Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and tell him,
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You seal up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect
in beauty.
Eze_28:12 LB “Son of man, take up a
lamentation for the prince of Tyre, and say to him, Thus says the Lord God:
‘You were a seal of resemblance, and a crown of beauty [στέφανος κάλλους].
Eze_28:12 Υἱὲ ἀνθρώπου,
λαβὲ θρῆνον ἐπὶ
τὸν ἄρχοντα Τύρου
καὶ εἰπὸν αὐτῷ
Τάδε λέγει κύριος
κύριος Σὺ ἀποσφράγισμα
ὁμοιώσεως καὶ
στέφανος κάλλους
Eze_28:13 WEB You were in Eden,
the garden of God; every precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, emerald,
chrysolite, onyx, jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and beryl. Gold work of tambourines
and of pipes was in you. In the day that you were created they were prepared.
Eze_28:13 You were in the delight of the paradise of God; you were
adorned with every precious stone—the sardius, topaz, emerald, carbuncle,
sapphire, jasper, silver, gold, ligure, agate, amethyst, chrysolite, beryl and
onyx; and you have filled your treasures and your stores in you with gold.
Eze_28:13 ἐν τῇ
τρυφῇ τοῦ
παραδείσου τοῦ
θεοῦ ἐγενήθης·
πᾶν λίθον
χρηστὸν ἐνδέδεσαι,
σάρδιον καὶ
τοπάζιον καὶ σμάραγδον
καὶ ἄνθρακα καὶ
σάπφειρον καὶ ἴασπιν
καὶ ἀργύριον
καὶ χρυσίον καὶ
λιγύριον καὶ ἀχάτην
καὶ ἀμέθυστον
καὶ χρυσόλιθον
καὶ βηρύλλιον
καὶ ὀνύχιον, καὶ
χρυσίου ἐνέπλησας
τοὺς θησαυρούς
σου καὶ τὰς ἀποθήκας
σου ἐν σοὶ ἀφ᾿ ἧς
ἡμέρας ἐκτίσθης
σύ.
Eze_28:14 WEB You were the
anointed cherub who covers: and I set you, so
that you were on the holy mountain of God;
you have walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
Eze_28:14 From the day that you were created you were with the cherub; I
set you on the holy mount of God; you were in the midst of the stones of fire.
Eze_28:14 μετὰ τοῦ
χερουβ ἔθηκά
σε ἐν ὄρει ἁγίῳ
θεοῦ, ἐγενήθης ἐν
μέσῳ λίθων πυρίνων.
Eze_28:15 WEB You were perfect in
your ways from the day that you were created, until unrighteousness was
found in you.
Eze_28:15 You were faultless in your days, from the day that you were
created, until iniquity was found in you.
Eze_28:15 ἐγενήθης
ἄμωμος σὺ ἐν ταῖς
ἡμέραις σου ἀφ᾿
ἧς ἡμέρας σὺ ἐκτίσθης
ἕως εὑρέθη τὰ ἀδικήματα
ἐν σοί.
(iii) Heart Corrupted by Self-beauty
Eze_28:17 WEB
Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; you have
corrupted your wisdom by reason of your brightness: I have cast you
to the ground; I have laid you before kings, that they may see you.
Eze_28:17 LB Your heart was
lifted up because of your beauty; your knowledge has been corrupted by
your beauty: because of the multitude of your sins I have cast you to the
ground, I have caused you to be put to open shame before kings.
Eze_28:17 ὑψώθη ἡ
καρδία σου ἐπὶ
τῷ κάλλει σου,
διεφθάρη ἡ ἐπιστήμη
σου μετὰ τοῦ κάλλους
σου· διὰ πλῆθος
ἁμαρτιῶν σου ἐπὶ
τὴν γῆν ἔρριψά
σε, ἐναντίον
βασιλέων ἔδωκά
σε
παραδειγματισθῆναι.
If you don't use your
goodness to serve those you owe Love to, then you are in danger of bringing a
curse on yourself.
Is the misuse of beauty
only relevant in this limited spiritual-parabolic context, or does it truly and
validly also generally apply to ALL women, like we are saying?
We need to understand Eze_28 in light of
the preceding authoritative context of Eze_16…
Eze_16: Israel Trusts in Her Beauty! -- As Human Prostitution
Selfishly Trusting in your beauty leads to prostitution…
Read Full Context!
The following are just
a few key points…
(A) You Trusted In Your
Beauty
Eze_16:15 WEB
But you did trust in your beauty, and played the prostitute
because of your renown, and poured out your prostitution on
everyone who passed by; his it was.
Eze_16:15 LB
‘But you trusted in your beauty [ἐπεποίθεις
ἐν τῷ κάλλει
σου], and went a-whoring because of your fame, and
poured out your fornication on every passer by.
Eze_16:15 καὶ ἐπεποίθεις
ἐν τῷ κάλλει
σου καὶ ἐπόρνευσας
ἐπὶ τῷ ὀνόματί
σου καὶ ἐξέχεας
τὴν πορνείαν
σου ἐπὶ πάντα πάροδον,
ὃ οὐκ ἔσται.
…
(B) Beauty Abomination -- Open To Every Passer By
Eze_16:25 WEB
You have built your lofty place at the head of every way, and have made
your beauty an abomination, and have opened your feet to everyone who
passed by, and multiplied your prostitution.
Eze_16:25 LB and on the head of every road you set up your fornications, and defiled [from G3075] your beauty [ἐλυμήνω τὸ κάλλος], and opened your feet to every passer by, and multiplied your fornication.
Eze_16:25 καὶ ἐπ᾿ ἀρχῆς
πάσης ὁδοῦ ᾠκοδόμησας
τὰ πορνεῖά σου
καὶ ἐλυμήνω τὸ
κάλλος σου καὶ
διήγαγες τὰ σκέλη
σου παντὶ παρόδῳ
καὶ ἐπλήθυνας
τὴν πορνείαν
σου·
[GPT: The Greek word ἐλυμήνω
is a verb form and comes from the root verb
λυμαίνομαι (Strong’s G3075),
which means:
to mistreat, abuse, injure, ruin,
corrupt, or destroy.
…
Etymology:
From λύμα (lyma)
= "filth" or "defilement"
Related to λύω (luō)
= "to loose, destroy" (but more indirectly)
The middle/passive form
λυμαίνομαι typically means to
corrupt, defile, or damage]
…
(C) Nakedness Uncovered
Eze_16:35 WEB Therefore, prostitute,
hear the word of Yahweh:
Eze_16:35 Therefore, harlot, hear the word of the Lord:
Eze_16:35 διὰ
τοῦτο, πόρνη, ἄκουε
λόγον κυρίου
Eze_16:36 WEB Thus says the Lord Yahweh,
Because your filthiness was poured out, and your nakedness uncovered
through your prostitution with your lovers; and because of all the idols of
your abominations, and for the blood of your children, that you gave to them;
Eze_16:36 Thus says the Lord: “Because you have poured forth your money,
therefore your shame shall
be discovered in your harlotry with your lovers, and with regard to all the imaginations of your iniquities,
and for the blood of your children which you have given to them.
Eze_16:36 Τάδε
λέγει κύριος Ἀνθ᾿
ὧν ἐξέχεας τὸν
χαλκόν σου, καὶ ἀποκαλυφθήσεται
ἡ αἰσχύνη σου ἐν
τῇ πορνείᾳ σου
πρὸς τοὺς ἐραστάς
σου καὶ εἰς πάντα
τὰ ἐνθυμήματα
τῶν ἀνομιῶν
σου καὶ ἐν τοῖς
αἵμασιν τῶν τέκνων
σου, ὧν ἔδωκας αὐτοῖς.
Eze_16:37 WEB therefore see, I
will gather all your lovers, with whom you have taken pleasure, and all those
who you have loved, with all those who you have hated; I will even gather them
against you on every side, and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they
may see all your nakedness.
Eze_16:37 Therefore, behold, I will gather all your lovers with whom you
have consorted, and all whom you have loved, with all whom you hated; and I
will gather them against you round about, and will expose your wickedness to
them, and they shall see all your shame.
Eze_16:37 διὰ
τοῦτο ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ
ἐπὶ σὲ συνάγω πάντας
τοὺς ἐραστάς
σου, ἐν οἷς ἐπεμίγης
ἐν αὐτοῖς, καὶ
πάντας, οὓς ἠγάπησας,
σὺν πᾶσιν, οἷς ἐμίσεις·
καὶ συνάξω αὐτοὺς
ἐπὶ σὲ κυκλόθεν
καὶ ἀποκαλύψω
τὰς κακίας σου
πρὸς αὐτούς, καὶ
ὄψονται πᾶσαν
τὴν αἰσχύνην
σου·
Eze_16:38 WEB I will judge you, as
women who break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will bring on you the
blood of wrath and jealousy.
Eze_16:38 And I will be avenged on you with the vengeance of an
adulteress, and I will bring upon you blood of fury and jealousy.
Eze_16:38 καὶ
ἐκδικήσω σε ἐκδικήσει
μοιχαλίδος καὶ
ἐκχεούσης αἷμα
καὶ θήσω σε ἐν αἵματι
θυμοῦ καὶ ζήλου.
…
(D) Hateful Feminine Wickedness -- by Beauty Prostitution
Eze_16:44 WEB
Behold, everyone who uses proverbs shall use this proverb against
you, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.
Eze_16:44 LB “These are all the
things they have spoken against you in a proverb, saying,
Eze_16:44 ταῦτά ἐστιν
πάντα, ὅσα εἶπαν
κατὰ σοῦ ἐν
παραβολῇ λέγοντες
Καθὼς ἡ μήτηρ,
καὶ ἡ θυγάτηρ.
Eze_16:45 WEB
You are the daughter of your mother, who loathes her husband and her
children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their
husbands and their children: your mother was a Hittite, and your father an
Amorite.
Eze_16:45 ‘Like mother, like daughter: you are
she that has rejected her husband and her children; and the sisters of
your sisters have rejected their husbands and their children. Your
mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.
Eze_16:45 θυγάτηρ
τῆς μητρός σου
σὺ εἶ ἡ ἀπωσαμένη
τὸν ἄνδρα αὐτῆς
καὶ τὰ τέκνα αὐτῆς
καὶ ἀδελφὴ τῶν ἀδελφῶν
σου τῶν ἀπωσαμένων
τοὺς ἄνδρας αὐτῶν
καὶ τὰ τέκνα αὐτῶν·
ἡ μήτηρ ὑμῶν
Χετταία, καὶ ὁ
πατὴρ ὑμῶν
Αμορραῖος.
(E) Pride: the Sin of
Sodom
Eze_16:49 WEB
Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride,
fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters;
neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
Eze_16:49 LB
Moreover this was the sin of your sister Sodom—pride. She
and her daughters lived in pleasure, in fullness of
bread and in abundance; this belonged to her and her daughters,
and they did not help the hand of the poor and needy [πτωχοῦ καὶ
πένητος].
Eze_16:49 πλὴν τοῦτο
τὸ ἀνόμημα
Σοδομων τῆς ἀδελφῆς
σου, ὑπερηφανία·
ἐν πλησμονῇ ἄρτων
καὶ ἐν εὐθηνίᾳ
οἴνου ἐσπατάλων
αὐτὴ καὶ αἱ
θυγατέρες αὐτῆς·
τοῦτο ὑπῆρχεν
αὐτῇ καὶ ταῖς
θυγατράσιν αὐτῆς,
καὶ χεῖρα
πτωχοῦ καὶ πένητος
οὐκ ἀντελαμβάνοντο.
Eze_16:50 WEB
They were haughty, and committed abomination before
me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.
Eze_16:50 And they boasted, and worked iniquities [ἀνομήματα] before Me: so I cut them off as I saw fit.
Eze_16:50 καὶ ἐμεγαλαύχουν
καὶ ἐποίησαν ἀνομήματα
ἐνώπιόν μου, καὶ
ἐξῆρα αὐτάς,
καθὼς εἶδον.
Hos_2:13 NKJV: I will punish her for the feast days of the Baals when she adorned herself with her ring and jewelry...
The Devil & Women Struggle with Beauty Pride
Selfish Beauty is not
just a problem for the devil in Isaiah 14; Ezekiel 28, but it is
already been established as a general feminine prostitution problem
in the preceding context Ezekiel 16.
Not only is a woman’s
beauty for husband, as previously established, it is not even for herself, as
we now see from these examples, and women must flee self-pampering prostitution
lusts lest she be a sinful end-times pervert like Jessabelle…
Auto-Lust of the Male Brain
The Automatic Lust of Men
Brain-Heart-Eye Purity Needed!
Men Are More Vulnerable to Involuntary Visual Lust than Women!
Gen_2: Not
good for man to be alone
This “not good” state is the core nature of man
alone.
Woman was specifically made to solve this “not
good” state of man, and therefore all of these features in a woman are defined
by man’s nature and makeup, NOT by woman’s naïve and potentially sheltered ignorance.
1Co_11:9 – Woman was made for man
It is often assumed (against logic and contrary
to the Bible) that men can sometimes appreciate the display of a woman’s beauty
in public the same way as he can his sister or mother.
But it takes the “special training” of
belonging to a woman’s immediate family in order to accomplish the drastic
boundary of looking at a sister’s beauty without sexual sin.
But the Bible teaches the Auto-Lust of Men
and the rules of this moral reality overrule any idealistic wishful thinking of
fantasy and denial of Biblical Truth as if men could be able to engage the
nakedness and prostitution of a woman without sin.
The automatic visual nature of men makes lust
and the defilement of extra-family admiration happen when visual prostitution
and adultery are not contradicted by morality, virtue, and mighty Truth.
Eyes full of adultery
Men process visual images
in an automatic subconscious powerful immediate survival mode area and function
of their brain.
Men were not designed to
decide how they would process images, but they are designed to hunt and operate
instinctively with immediate impulses toward fleeing danger or seizing on the
prey.
Men are designed to hunt
reproduction and therefore the hunt for beauty happens subconsciously,
automatically, powerfully, and instinctively before a man's will gets to choose
what he wants to think about that image.
The Bible agrees with this
reality that we can both experience and scientifically observe...
Job_31:1 CAB WEB "I made a covenant with my eyes, how
then should I look lustfully at a young woman?
Job_31:1 “I made a covenant with my eyes, and I will not think upon a
virgin.
Job_31:1 διαθήκην
ἐθέμην τοῖς ὀφθαλμοῖς
μου καὶ οὐ συνήσω
ἐπὶ παρθένον.
Son_6:12 – Without knowing it my heart set me
romance does stuff to you without you even
knowing it
Mat_5:27-30 – Eyes
CAN cause unintentional sin
This is why Jesus discusses cutting off body
parts
Joseph ran
Pro_6:25 – don't be conquered by beauty ...or be snatched by her
eyelids
2Ti_2:22 – flee also youthful lusts
Mat_5:27-30 – cut off auto-stumbling, if it is causing
· This brain-honesty refutes the hateful perversion that says body parts can’t make you stumble, when in fact automatic members and brain functions can actually do that, and you need some serious spiritual righteousness to overcome that perilous functionality
· A castrated man IS cutting off an automatic stumbling mechanism if he cannot otherwise escape form it
Proverbs charges men to
take extra precaution to not be snatched by visual adultery, Paul tells us to
run away from it, and Jesus says you might even have to gouge out your eye your
best one if it is automatically making you to keep on sinning.
All of these versus and
many more are reinforcing the basic reality that all men should know is true
and scientists have studied to quantify scientifically: men's brains are
drastically different and distinct and lust happens on a much deeper level that
is subconscious automatic instinct to reflexive and powerful toward the hunt
for reproduction and since men's brains work this way and the Bible agrees with
it and we can observe it according to the kingdom of heaven, that is
scientifically, toward truth, therefore we need to treat visual lust and
modesty requirements for Purity very seriously since the Creator has given so
much work into making man like this and the Bible has warmed us so much about
how distorted sin has hijacked his creation and how it is so serious it ends in
hell if we don't do what is right to protect the brain of men toward lust.
Head Covering
Lies Against Headcoverings
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are there
less restrictions with women seeing men? Consider: non-related women not
comming to the cross vs. women going to prepare Jesus' body. - where they going
to do this carefully to not change what they did at the cross?
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Lies about Muslem Women's face veil
7/14/13
"First,
let's clear away some false problems. The specter of "Eurabia" is a
no-show. Studies point to the decline of Muslim birthrates in ways that
parallel other populations worldwide. Also, over the centuries Islamic jurists
never agreed on the specifics of modest dress for women. Local cultures
determined what women wore. The face covering is mostly a recent invention,
and, in fact, a rarity, even if numbers seem to be growing. Some sources put
the number of women wearing it in all of Europe at 2,000."
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2010/november/16.58.html
7/14/13
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"France
has by far the highest percentage of Muslims in Europe (8.3 percent, more than
double the UK's figure), and its brand of extreme secularism (laןcitי) requires minorities to shed their cultural distinctives to
conform to the majority. Perhaps it's no coincidence that in France the burqa
ban, passed by Parliament on the eve of Bastille Day, was followed by threats
to strip people of their citizenship for crimes like polygamy, female
circumcision, and threatening a policeman, and the deportation of hundreds of
Roma, or Gypsies. Issues of cultural and national identity are rolled up under
the burqa heading."
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Long Hair for Men?
Main Passages
Other dates; 10/12/18; 12/12/21
Num_5:___; Son_1:7; Son_5:7; 1Co_11:
Mat11:25 - hidden...
revealed
A woman who desires unrelated men to notice the beauty of her face practices prostitution (Pro_6:24-26, etc., esp. v. Pro_6:25 & Pro_6:26).
When you practice “lite” prostitution, don’t be surprised when God completely overthrows all of your value in under shame (as seen as a punishment in the OT prophets).
Moral Prerequisites for Reading 1st Corinthians 11
· Most people don’t have the right mindset when approaching 1st Corinthians 11 (the headcovering passage) and therefore don’t stand a chance at obeying it.
· Remember that we’re not allowed to “interpret” the Bible, we are required to OBEY it!
· The Bible says that many of its statements are “closed” and need “keys” of knowledge and spiritual revelation to “open”, so pretending that it is easy, clear, and intuitive is Bible disobedience which leads to hell.
· (Pseudo conservatives are notorious for lying and misrepresenting themselves as having more simple knowledge than they actually do.)
· Whatever we do to unlock the Bible’s mysteries has to be based on the perfect moral virtues taught through the monotheism of the Bible.
· 1st Corinthians 11 is not clear or intuitive to us (in modern harlotry cultures).
· Just like the exception clause in the Divorce and Remarriage teaching, we are not allowed to pretend like the headcovering is intuitive, simple, easy, direct, and clear for us.
· Some parts are absolutely clear (that hair is not the covering, for example) but the overall ideas and principles are somewhat cryptic, illusive, and very anti-modern culture!
· Just like many cryptic parts of the Bible, we have to practice forensics: we have to be rigidly logical submissively obedient and reverse-engineer what question is actually being answered to discover what is actually being said within the answer.
· As with many parts of the Bible, you find out what is actually being discussed in reverse-chronological order…
· Paul is answering questions from the Corinthians, and you have to keep carefully reading the answer Paul gives in order to reconstruct what the original questions were. – that’s why it is in reverse-chronological order for us in our modern day, but it was perfectly appropriate for the original audience.
· Pretending that we already know the original questions as if the letter was written to us (what, did the word of God come only to you?), so that we require it to be intuitive for our modern context, is Bible-disobedience and leads to hell.
· If we find out what a difficult passage is saying, it should revolutionize our lives, leave us in our modern lazy sinning cultures and confirm and comfort where we already are…
· As is always the case, the Bible is judged based on what it actually says not what you understand/misunderstand it to mean.
· Your reading comprehension and lack thereof has nothing to do with logically and objectively determining what the actual Words of the Bible are saying.
· That’s why we got to be extremely, militantly logical.
· As is always the case, every single Word in the Bible is morally charged. You are not allowed to turn it into “a story without a moral” just because you are immoral.
· As is always the case, the more you submit to the agreement and continuity of the Bible, the more you will be morally, logically and submissively obeying it.
· You are not allowed to read the Bible fragmented and disagreeing with other Bible verses.
· One of the biggest mistakes people make about 1st Corinthians 11 is assuming that this is the first time the Bible has taught about headcoverings.
Modesty requirements and clothing do not morally change, therefore it is important to stop pretending like modesty and morality are not the preceding context for the head covering teaching
>>Scrip: /\/\ -- mk History of Susana it’s own
section!!
Prostitution = Headcovering Context
9/20/24…10/1/24
The specific context of prostitution is strongly discussed as the preceding authoritative governing context for the head covering, especially in 1Co_5 throug 1Co_7
These prostitution chapters are directly and explicitly and repeatedly linked to 1Co_10:, which is the imdediately preceding chapter to the 1Co_11 head covering
1Co_5:1 – Prostitution completely heard among the Corinthians
1Co_5:2 – unrepentant / not sad/mourning
1Co_5:4 – Community/corporate Context: Paul is anticipating a time when they might come together (synagogue-d)
1Co_5:6 – Obey-ALL: little leaven
1Co_5:9-11 – Avoid Prostitutes in the Church
· Don’t mix with prostitutes in the church (although some may interact with the world)
· 1Co_5:10 – idolaters
· By being merciful to sinners you will be allowing them to continue to sin against other people
Lawful
1Co_6:9 – males doing prostitution
1Co_6:12 – All things are lawful = 1Co_6:12; 1Co_10:23 – 1Co_6: linked 1Co_10:
1Co_6:13 – body not for prostitution
·
Lord for bod (1Co_6:13)
≈ Man through* woman
(* i.e. because of – on account of)
1Co_6:14 – resurrection is the direct contrast against such sin
1Co_6:15 – members of prostitute
1Co_6:16 – sticking to prostitute
1Co_6:17 – one spirit
1Co_6:18 – flee prostitution
1Co_7:2 – avoid prostitution with marriage
1Co_10:8 – neither let us do prostitution
Idol’s Temple = Headcovering Context
The
Preceding & Following Context of the Headcovering is the Idol’s Temple
1Co_8:1 – things sacrificed to idols
1Co_8:4-7 – idol is nothing
1Co_8:10 – reclining in an idol’s place / image-temple [ειδωλειω]
· Idol-sacrifice is directly associated with the temple or place where that idol is sacrificed
· Every time hereafter, when Paul is talking about idol sacrifices, he is including the reference to where they are at when eaten in a pagan temple
· 1Ma_1:47; 1Ma_10:83
· VGNT: “…we may compare such analogous forms as Ἰσιεῖον and Ἀνουβιεῖον, shrines dedicated to Isis and Anubis : see e.g. P Tebt I. 5.70 f. (B.C. 118)”
· VGNT: “The invitation in P Oxy I. 110 (ii/A.D.) δειπνῆσαι εἰς κλείνην τοῦ κυρίου Σαράπιδος ἐν τῷ Σαραπείῳ, “to sup at the table (couch) of the lord Serapis in the Serapeum” is also an excellent illustration of 1Co_8:10; 1Co_10:21; 1Co_10:27”
· 1Co_8:10-12 – bad edification = destruction/hell
1Co_9:13 LSV Have you not known that those working about the things of the temple eat of the temple, and those waiting at the altar are partakers with the altar?
1Co_9:14 – Proclaimers live from good message
2 Corinthians_6:14-7:1
1Co_10 Prostitution & Idol’s Temple = Preceding Context to Headcovering
9/12/24; 10/1/24; 1/28/25
1Co_10:1 – No ignorance for OT example
· No OSAS allowed
· OSAS = ignorance
· No dispensationalist
· You got to
1Co_10:2 – Baptized into Moses
· This was back when baptism saved you, not just a symbol like it is today
· In the cloud? Probably referring to God’s spirit?
·
1Co_10:3 – Spiritual Food
· This was back when communion used to save you, not just a symbol like it is today
· Which links back to the contrast with and against eating food explicitly sacrificed to idols
1Co_10:4 – Spiritual Drink
· This was back when communion used to save you, not just a symbol like it is today
· Don’t violate God’s parables or you won’t make it to the promise land
1Co_10:5 – Rejected in the Wilderness
· “everyone is not saved here”
· The majority of church people are NOT saved
· Anti-easy believe-ism
· In the wilderness = Numbers
1Co_10:6 – Don’t Imitate Lust
· No dispensationalist
· Greek: We should not become the noun of the verb they did
1Co_10:7 – don’t be idolaters
· The people = unholy
· Anti-Korah’s rebellion
· A scholar says 1Co_11 has temple has temple prostitution
· B pseudo scholar says it was destroy before 1Co_11was written
· C scholar says it was destroyed but rebuilt
· D Bible obeyers say it is written in the Bible so we need to believe it and not find an excuse to disregard what Paul said
· Idolaters ~ lusters
· Verse
1Co_10:8 – neither let us do prostitution
· Verse … is idolatry + verse 8 is prostitution = idolatrous prostitution
1Co_10:9 – Snake Punished Temptation
·
1Co_10:10 –
·
1Co_10:11 –
· No dispensationalist
· No OSAS - don’t ignore the admonition
· These were admonishing examples
1Co_10:12 – Watch to not fall
· No OSAS
· If you are not looking to not fall you are closing your eyes in blindness
· OSAS = Bible disobedience
· 1Co_10:13 – Temptation assurance protection endurance
· Greek carry under ~ endurance
1Co_10:14 – Flee Idolatry
· He is still talking about idolatry when talking about lust and prostitution so you combine not separate
· Verse … and verse 14 = idolatry
· Flee prostitution (1Co_6:18) ≈ Flee Idolatry (1Co_10:14)
1Co_10:15 – wise judge what Paul says
· The preceding context to judging is being mindful that is why church people cannot judge amongst themselves
1Co_10:16 – cup of blessing
· It’s not just a symbol! It is being
1Co_10:17 –
1Co_10:18 –
1Co_10:19 – Idol is nothing
· Shows that the preceding context to headcovering is still idolatry
·
1Co_10:20 – Sharing in sacrifices to demons
· Idolatry = demon worship
· Disobedience = demon worship
1Co_10:21 – You can’t do demons and communion simultaneously
· Your power is never strong enough to overrule morality
· Inability to do simultaneous contradiction refers back to 1Co_6 which is prostitution that you can’t do simultaneously
1Co_10:22 –
1Co_10:23 – All things lawful
· refers back to 1Co_6 which is prostitution.
· All things are lawful = 1Co_6:12; 1Co_10:23 – 1Co_6: linked 1Co_10:
1Co_10:24 –
1Co_10:25 –
1Co_10:26 – Earth is Lord’s
· This exemplifies the fallacies of negative inference, so don’t fragment and assume. Just because the land is the Lord that does not mean the sea is not.
1Co_10:27 –
1Co_10:28 – Food Sacrificed to Idols (TSB) or in Temple (A) – someone tells you
· Alexandrian: temple-sacrifice; TSB: idol-sacrifice
1Co_10:29 –
1Co_10:30 –
1Co_10:31 –
1Co_10:32 –
Vocab for Headcovering
Noun Adjective Verb
·
Verse 4 down = preposition
·
Verse 5 without-down-hiddeness = adjective
·
Verse 6 not being-down-hiddened = passive present tense verb
Headcovering Defined
Downing a head v.4
Down + concealed
hiddenness = cover all the way down/concealed, intensely
We would say cover up
/ holy / completely
Related to kaluma
Repeated Words
However
Through
‘Covering’
1Co_11 Summary
1Co_11 Summary | 1Co_11 Translation (RTA)
3/22/24-3/23/24;
3/25/24; 8/6/24…8/13/24…10/9/24-10/10/24
v. 1
1Co_11:1 – Mimic / Imitate Paul as Anointed One
· First Point: imitate Paul’s self-sacrifice to save others – hereafter Paul carries this into multiple additional applications besides that…. (you’re not allowed to pseudo-contextualize the Scriptures right out of the Bible, so that not applicable applies any more in your false, invalid world-view against the Bible)
· Serving and looking out for how things affect others is the preceding context, and this imitation is then also applied to other people’s relationship with you through headcoverings
· Traditions: Imitations in v.1 includes traditions in v.2 (the words also happen to sounds like they correlate in Greek)
· Imitation might could have stoped with Paul’s example of how to eat and not eat food, but then Paul carries this selfless, other’s-focused theme forward into traditions and how one’s like headcoverings affect each other, especially as approaching the communion table
· You’re not allowed to turn headcoverings into a “personal devotion” practice, when Paul has already situated it as an issue of shared communion –
· “communion” comes before (1Co_10:) and right after the headcovering discussion (1Co_11:).
· The pagan sacrifice included sexual evils, and now Paul is saying to affect each other with modesty and righteousness like he has done and taught us to do through these traditions
· The bad “type” of apostates who died in sin (1Co_10:6, 1Co_10:11) is contrasted with the command to imitate Paul (1Co_11:1) = this is a salvation issue!
· Men Teach Headcoverings: Paul is a man/male; women need to imitate him
· ‘Imitate me..’ (1Co_11:1) ‘you’ve done good to remember me’ (1Co_11:2) = Paul, who is male, NOT female
· Stop saying men can’t teach women about headcovering
· Men’s Sake: Remember women are doing headcoverings because of men (as seen below)
· Corporate Context: The command to become is plural
· The verb become is a plural command which indicate a corporate communal context – this is the preceding authoritative context throughout the chapter
· Imitators is plural – communal context
·
Imitate Paul = Doctrine of
US (Php_3: !!!)
· Church people are uncomfortable with imitating someone – they try to find consolation/solace when Paul says “as I am of anointed one”, but then go on to never imitate righteous people like this
· They don’t know of anyone true enough to imitate
· Also, this shows you’re supposed to be looking at someone who is obeying these commands and doing like they do!
· No one is obeying headcovering anymore, and much less does anyone want to feel obligated to imitate a righteous person doing this
· “headcovering Lite” (Pseudo-headcovering) sentaments say, “just do whatever you feel convicted to do, but don’t let anyone tell you that a headcovering is required and you have to DO like they DO in order to be righteous” – and this is the exact opposite of what Paul is introducing here!
· “headcovering Lite” = “headcovering Lie”
· Stop Bible rebellion and arguing against imitating those carrying on the legacy of headcovering that you have to obey to obtain righteous salvation!
· Wolves are saying just do what you feel like doing, and, just do what is right in your own eyes – which is the apostate rebellion condemned by Moses and the Book of Judges
· Paul is teaching us to repent of this nasty filthy rebellious perverse independence pride and imitate those with a better track record than yourself
· Whenever the righteous have more Bible obedience than you, it’s time to run out of that wicked nasty apostasy and imitate Truth until supernaturally inspired righteousness is flowing through your life
· Church people want to think they are sons of g-d, but they are not willing to lift a finger to be generated as imitators – this is Bible disobedient hypocrisy
· It is NOT a sacred duty to protect people’s independence
· Cult-Phobia = hypocrisy – You’re not afraid to drink your own cool-aid, but then suddenly your worried about righteous people when they have a safer track record than your own foolish and perverted self!
· Moses = “Cult Leader”?: Based on current lazy sloppy definitions which assume non-inspiration, church people imply that Moses was a cult leader!
· Cult = treating uninspired perverted filthy rebellious flesh as if Satan is inspired in you in the place of God – it is among the most evil things you can do
· Cult = mindlessness; imitation = honesty/integrity
· Cult = mindlessly and lawlessly following uninspired flesh as though it is inspired
· Hypocrisy: Everyone is their own one-man cult today (in modern cultures) -- but no one’s worried about that!
· Imitating royalty and dressing fashionable like the world doesn’t bother them, when they mindlessly repeat irrational propaganda so as to sin until no end with the world – they have no alerts of fear or troubled conscience
· Technical Greek: Be being generated = middle or passive deponent
· You are commanded to mimic and imitate Paul’s sentiments about headship and head coverings, not your own worldly cultural perspectives from your harlotry culture
· BBC Php_3:17 – imitation
· Mimicking – church ppl want to limit mimicking to Paul and anyone else who is not alive but Philippians clearly commands us to imitate everyone to the same degree anyone who conforms to Paul everyone is command to conform.
· You are not your own standard nor is your church or churchianity but Paul and all who live like that
· Mimicking Paul ≈ mimicking the canonical assemblies
· Mimicking Paul ≈ confirming to the canonical assemblies 1Co_11:16
· You have to imitate Paul just like you gotta imitate the call out assemblies and cover your head
· You gotta imitate his values, insight, standards, beliefs not church/immodesty/harlotry
v. 2 -- Traditions
1Co_11:2 – Keep Traditions
· Traditions: Imitations in v.1 includes traditions in v.2
· “All” could seem to contradict the preceding authoritative governing context and the following statements
· “All” is a filtered statement because of the parallel (in 1Co_11:2) and does NOT include “this” issue of “coming together” (1Co_11:17) in disunity (1Co_11:18-19) for communion in the Lord’s Supper (1Co_11:20, etc.)
· We can clearly see that “And” is being used as a paralleling explanatory statement, if we are paying close attention to Biblical language and communication rules.
· Plural/community: you all, brothers (TSB), have remembered, you all, are holding down (these are all plural)
· The traditions were a communal practice including headcoverings in the next verses
· Applause/praised for intensely holding down traditions
· Handing over next to-s/Traditions/deliverances/Transmissions
· 2Thes 2 keeping traditions saves us from end times anti-Christ apostasy
· 2Ti_2:2, weather word or epistle, etc. …obey/keep them (i.e. traditions)
· This is particularly anti-solo-Scriptura / Scripture alone
· As soon as he says “traditions” he has imported / included everything the apostles gave, including writing as well as examples
· Bible-obedience demands at least attempting to re-discover the non-initially-written traditions of the apostles
· Bible obedience demands that we answer how the early church sough to OBEY these vary passages
· We cannot obey the Bible and simply ignore and pretend like we don’t have early church testimony of what these transmission were, esp. when these traditions are made so explicitly in the case of Tertullian
· Keeping traditions = OBEYING them, and entering into their multi-generation transmission
· Pretending sola scriptura = literal disobedience of the Traditions teachings throughout the Bible, including the headcovering teaching in 1Co_11:
· Ignoring their example = Bible disobedience = Hell
· No Assuming Protestantism, i.e. “anti-Bible obedience” – it is not allowed
· Tertullian tells us about the Canonical example of the Corinthian obedience, and we are not allowed to ignore or simply dismiss this testimony since this very chapter is telling us that this practice is to be transmitted in this very way!
· You are not allowed to ignore the testimony of exactly what this passage is teaching, describing, commanding
· You DON’T have to believe Tertullian, but you DO have to believe the Canonical example of any Corinthian Obedience, if indeed we can know what that is through his testimony.
· Remember: Bible Obedience is better than disobedient Protestant Scripture Alone – Disobediently making Scripture to be alone does not honor it when it tells you not to do that
· You are NOT being more conservative or zealous for the Bible when you DISOBEY the Bible in the name of Scripture alone!
· Plural: you, have remembered, you all, are holding down
· Down according = scope specification (unlike / in contrast too other scandals)
· Corithians have lots of problems but at least they kept the traditions
· Imitators & Remember-ing-s = slight play on words
· When he says they are ‘holding down the traditions intensely’, that Is a way to describe their diligence, Perseverance, Intensity, Fervency, faithfulness to fully keep and obey everything Paul ordained for them in these traditions.
· I.e. they are being faithful to maintain the traditions
· You are not allowed at communion without a headcovering, so you are to keep the traditions
Faithfulness of holding down traditions
oh, how I wish that something even slightly similar to the faithfulness of the Corinthians could be said about the church today!
Although there were many issues of immorality and apostasy among the Corinthians yet there was at least a core somewhere of faithful obeyers that were doing what Paul had said.
Church people have altogether forgotten Paul and do not remember him in just about anything, much less do they even attempt to remember him in everything, and they’re not holding down intensely, faithfully, with any serious endurance, just about any serious and controversial moral command that Paul gave to us.
v. 3 -- Headship
1Co_11:3 – Headship: (1) God, (2) Anointed One, (3) Man, (4) Woman
· 2 “however-s” / lite contrasts: However you’ve done good to remember…(v.2) however you still need this (v. 3)
· Not understanding headship = not having seen
· Church people who say that “only a woman’s husband is her head” have not seen and understood headship
· We should seek to repent of blindness and to the healed of it, not to complacently continue in it and boast in it like most church people
· Head of EVERY man (you are not allowed to exchange “man” for “husband”, which is NOT every man)
· “Husband” is a dishonest mis-representation added/exchanged in some Bible perversions
· Headship and Headcovering rules do not just apply if a woman is married, because it is based on EVERY man, not just a husband, and he also includes EVERY woman
· “Every” applies to man and woman, because it is a precedence
· The words “every” and “is being” are precedence words for the word “woman” which follows.
· You can’t logically take one precedent word and inconsistently drop the other
· Man and woman are generic, therefore the precedence apply
· The verb “is being” has to be carried over from “every man” to the woman
· Man and woman are generic, Anointed One and God are specific
· If only married woman had a head, then virgins would be decapitated
· Inconsistently mis-representing man as husband has caused many foolish false ideas in English versions (also including passages like 1Ti_5:, etc.), and we have to put a stop to this reckless non-sense and foolish mess…
· If the Bible says “every” man and you try to change it to “husband” then you are in danger of hell for disobeying what He is directly clearly saying
· This is the principle of “precedent” – when he establishes the idea of a word, it keeps that idea and your not allowed to change it to something contradictory like “some” women or “some” men
· Every man is the precedent and authoritative governing context you have to obey to inherit heaven, and when the exact same word appears again you are to obediently consider it as a submissive part of “every man”
· Paul wants you to know headship, choosing ignorance is Bible disobedience
· “Every man” is preceding the man-headship, and it is following it in the very next verse!
· If anyone even thinks to suggest headship is limited to husbands over their wives, then REPENT!
· This defacto arrangement: therefore if you are man and woman you can’t change that
· It is every woman because it carries over
· “every woman” is specified 1Co_11:5 which agrees with this submissive reading of 1Co_11:3
· Plural: you all
· People question if this applies to every man and every woman but the following verses clearly teaches applications for every man and every woman
· Every is repeated in verse 2 and 3
· Denying universal headship = Bible disobedience
· Saying the headcovering rules do not apply to everyone = Bible disobedience
· Saying it only applies to their culture = Bible disobedience
· Finding a way to say it doesn’t apply to everyone = Bible disobedience
· The same word “every” applies to headship and headcovering, you are not allowed to say that headcovering is a cultural application of headship
· The general application is mankind and womankind the particular application is a woman and the man she is relating to / interacting with
· It is evident that they were doing the tradition of head covering to some degree but needed to understand the rules, principles, and the implications more thoroughly
· I.e. I wish that you had seen that the head of every man is being the Anointed One
· When was Anointed One established as the head of every man? Does the coming of Anointed One establish new rules for men’s head or is it rather the same as David displayed, which was before the encarnation
· At first I could wonder if this a new dispensation for man but the rest of the evidence implied that it is original/ancient/from the beginning
· Anointed headship over man is a reveal from the foundation of the world?
· Mystery is old revelation is new?
· Could this be like Moses hoping in the riches of Anointed One?
· Even in the passage the reality exist but Paul wishes they had already seen it
· However = a slight contrast with the good things they were doing
· Remembered in all (verse 2) = the head of all men (verse 3)
· This is a hierarchy with the flesh despises and it is very anti-feminist
· I.e. I wish you had already realized
· Headship is the foundation basis for the headcovering that is about to follow
· In order to change the standard/rules about headcovering you would have to chop off your head in order for it to not apply to you
· Your head is not cultural, therefore headcoverings have not expired.
· Pic Needed: You might have to draw a picture of headship to understand what he is saying
· Headship is fundamental not cultural
Rebellion Against Headship
The Corinthians had not already seen what Paul was telling them, and afterward they completely conformed to his instruction. In great contrast to this, church people today refused to conform to Paul’s teaching in first Corinthians 11, even to this day 2,000 years after he wrote it so explicitly and clearly.
the Corinthians so zealously obeyed and responded to his commands after Paul gave them this knowledge, but church people today are in absolutely stubborn rebellion and refusal to acknowledge and submit themselves to these vital proclamations and teachings.
They did not see, therefore Paul informed them. We do not see and today church people are refusing to receive Paul’s information.
v. 4 – Man Head Shame
1Co_11:4 – Man covering down head = shaming down (if added for prayer/prophesying)
· Negative Inference Fallacy: Assuming that because prayer & prophesying are targeted that it is NOT active in other contexts
· Negative Inference Fallacy is disproven by the preceding authoritative context – of Daivd’s example, for example
· “Shame” = moral consequences – you’re not allowed to think of this a cultural, etc.
· Clothing shame is not attached to culture like styles are
· Clothing shame goes straight back to the fall of man – so it applies to all people descended from them
· You can’t just change people’s culture?
· Clothing is not optional, it’s a requirement since Adam’s covenant
·
Missionaries are at the
center of this foolish mindless perverse Trouble:
- some don’t tell polygamists that they have to stop their multiple wives to
become “Christians”
- as a result there are numerous polygamists in Africa, Jamaica, and other
countries who have the nerve to think they are Christians!
- Similarly, modern cultures are fooling themselves to think they can disobey a
clear clothing command in the Bible and still think they are Christians
- some other countries and subcultures of people attempting the Bible’s
headcoveirng are much more aware of how barbaric we foolish blind perverts are!
· The word “every” universally overrules “everyone’s” culture!
· Your harlotry culture is NOT worth preserving – it actually high time to repent and make restitution to the Creator and give Him back the honor and glory and holy purity He is worthy of from our very lives, including our bodies!
· Cultural blasphemies = hell/disobedience/Bible-contradiction
· Lit original order: down-covering head = down-shaming
· Various pagan cultures added a covering down on their head when praying / sacrificing
· Shame & clothing already have established rules for their relationships throughout the Bible
· You’re not allowed to delete the Bible-obedient relationship between clothes and shame, as repeated all throughout the Bible
· The shame of a man clothing his head and of a woman unclothing her head is specifically included in the preceding Biblical rules of clothing all throughout the Bible.
· Your not allowed to disobey the preceding Biblical rules about shame and clothing, when the Bible specifically includes men and women covering their heads
· However you read 1st Corinthians 11, you cannot contradict the preceding Biblical rules, but you have to submit to and obey the Biblical preceding rules of shame and clothes which includes head coverings of men and women in order to inherit heaven – remember the SOM & letteral obedience!
· This is not a “covering” when protecting the head and face from the elements, such as the desert sand, but when standing up to pray or prophesy (or sacrifice) among the people. – it has a strong social basis to it.
· Did the man in this verse start off with his head covered, or uncovered? – This is the vital question
· Are we talking about removing a headcovering for praying or prophesying (like American Cowboys) or are we talking about abstaining from adding a headcovering, which would avoid being like ancient cultures during Bible times?
· Similarly, is this about a woman adding a covering for prayer, or not removing a covering for prayer? – hint: the first is unbiblical, and the second is Bible obedience.
· We are not allowed to transculturate – you can’t read our culture into the Bible, we need to read the Bible’s context into our obedience today.
· We're about to find out if he is removing or abstaining from adding a headcovering.
· Notice it is still talking about every man, not just a husband
· Notice that the preceding and especially the current content is social
· The preceding verse 3 does not say “husband”, i.e. the man of her, like verse 4 is saying His head: the head of him
· Verse 4 would not work for praying if verse 3 was talking about spouses
· It is very perverted to suggest a woman needs to create a barrier between her beauty and her husband when praying or prophesying – barriers are to avoid prostitution, fornication, and adultery in the Bible, not to profane marriage with disobedient barriers between spouses.
· Implying that verse 3 is talking about husband is creating a much bigger problem than they think they are solving.
· Reality: a house is a covering for a woman’s head among her family, which protects her holiness from outsiders, and means her head is covered when she is in her house with her family against the society which she protects her holy purity from.
· When you read the Bible there is a moral to the story, so don’t erase the moral of the story. So don’t say “husband” when it says “man” / “the man” to erase the moral of the story.
· The pattern of the Bible is that you need to indicate husband before the word man can indicate husband
· The definite article could i
· Verse 4 everyone praying or prophesying in the context of headship
· Technically you could wonder if the headcovering is hanging from the head or from the top of the head, but this reinforces the rules of combining and submitting to the preceding and following rules about everything in the Bible including headcovering
· The parallel word doing shame down reinforcing that it is covering the entire head and not hanging from it.
· You could understand this as having a head’s as downing
· Communal: praying/prophesying indicates that they are in a similar communal context
· Man…Shame indicates other people are there and that something has gone wrong with gender rules
· We know that this is not limited to praying and prophesying because the preceding authoritative governing context of David’s example where people were ashamed when he covered his face
· It was not a shame to cover the glory of Moses’ face but it was a shame to cover the icon of David’s face
· It is usually just women that have glory in their face that need to be covered and Moses was the exception to the rule
· Man do have glory but the icon essence of the glory is representing something that can/t be represented
· When Moses has God glory on his face he is not just carrying an image he is carrying the actual glory that his manly normal head icon is normally supposed to otherwise represent – Moses was being the exception to rule
· It is not shameful to hide sensitive glory which could otherwise be vulnerable to being profane
· Prayer and prophesying are targeted but the principle is not limited to those activity
· David = preceding headcovering rules that you are require in order to get heaven
· “Every” is universal not cultural
· The Shame in the preceding context that happened with David covering his head was social because the shame came on the people.
· The preceding authoritative governing context of David and of the man mentioned in first Corinthians_11:4 does not limit the Discussion to prayer and prophecy therefore we are not allowed to add an interpretation to this verse or any of the other verses in a way that limits it when the Bible hasn’t limited it that way.
· Most shame was wrong but there was a time David covered his face in shame in order to mourn.
· Headcovering (HC) = preposition
· In v5 it is an adjective
· Passive verb x2
· Most hair cutting is an inappropriate shame but there is a few cases where it is commanded in the Law of Moses – and the woman stays inside in isolated mourning
· Interesting, doing shame on a man or woman’s head is usually inappropriate by default except when mourning and when something sad happens in the OT. This includes a woman’s parents perishing, David’s son dying and a woman caught in adultery. In which case you probably want to seek isolation
· The repetition and parallel of the word down shows us how headcovering in verse 4 is related to headship in verse 3 ( seen in Greek not English)
· Your not allowed to make verse 4 not related to verse3
· Most church people belief in the principles of divide and conquer when raging warfare against the Bible
· The word head is repeated showing that 1 action of head is simultaneously doing another action on head
· There are two verbs having and doing shame down, both applied to head.
· So what you choose to do to your head has unavoidable actions even if you did not intent it.
· You are required to think why and how that action to your individual head is also affecting your authoritative head
v. 5 – Woman Head Shame
1Co_11:5 – No hiding-down = Shaming-down (woman’s head)
· Woman without covering down head, does shames down head – if removed during praying or prophesying among men.
· Is she adding a covering or abstaining from removing it?
· We are not allowed to read our culture into the Bible, we need to read the Bible’s context into our obedience today.
· Shaving = punishment for abusing an otherwise valuable body part/adornment.
· Headship means what she does with her physical head directly correlates and acts upon her authoritative head.
· Without a down hiding-ness is doing shame down the/her head
· Communal: praying/prophesying indicates that they are in a similar communal context
· Hiddenness to the head reinforces that the head is the object of covering
· Clothes + Woman…Shame indicates other people are there and that something has gone wrong with gender rules
· While prayer and prophesy is included, specify and targeted it is not done so exclusively since a haircut links the phenomena to a principle that is also active outside of prayer and prophesying
· The very verse that targets prayer and prophesying anchors its descriptions to principles out of prayer and prophesying
· Communal: The most particular and greatest shame of a woman’s haircut is when other people see her
· V.4 = having something down head
· V.5 = without-down-hiding down the head
· The head .. is explained that of her head
· If there is any linger question from v.3 the word “every” is applied to woman
· “Every” is universal not cultural
· Psa_2: church people want to break the bonds on every
· Shame : just as the preceding is social, now a woman’s uncovered head is social
· Haircut is not limited to prayer and prophesying
· Church people like to ceased on the apparent non specificity to exploit it with all kinds of wild Bible disobediences, but you are commanded to obey these to get heaven
· A vain woman is pre-occupied with her own shame in the mirror when looking at herself
· A righteous woman is pre-occupied with doing value and contradicting shame in society
· Notice the sacrifice of the Israelite women giving up their hand mirror in the wilderness, therefore consider that Paul is pre-occupied with accomplishing virtue and contradicting shame in a social context
· Is Paul concerned about her looking at her haircut in a mirror in private? Or is he pointing out the social phenomena of shame when a woman’s hair is cut off in public
· Cutting off is a punishment all throughout the Bible in history
· Headship: You were supposed to have understood headship and then this point would have made sense to you. If this point does not make sense to you, and if you don’t already agree with this, it is evident that you are missing something about headship.
· If you don’t perceive and agree that the shame of a man and the shame of a woman pertain to what they do and don’t have on their head, then you don’t understand headship, and you don’t understand this passage, and you have no excuse for giving your interpretation of it, and you have no excuse for being lazy, complacent, foolish, rich, luxurious, and independent and not begging someone to disciple and teach you the Truth about what this passage actually says and to establish you in why these Truths matter so much
· Do you see that not having a head covering is comparable to having a woman’s hair chopped off or shaved? If not, you have not seen headship. You need Discipleship into vital Truth!
· Technical Textual Variation Note: the textual variation of “herself” or “very own self” is apparently due to someone copying this text and not hearing the slight difference between “herself” and “her very own self”, which is only one letter in Greek
· Verses 2-5 = every x4
· You are required to believe that the shame of lacking a headcovering in verse 5 is based on a violation of headship in verse 3
· You are not allowed to say this is cultural because headship is not cultural
· You are not allowed to hijack-*`0 a reference to shame and pretend it is cultural when Paul is describing it as moral
· This is not culturally relative it is morally absolute
Correlation More Than Causation
When reading these verses in English you might at first think that there is (somehow) a purely causal relationship between a man covering his head and “shaming” his head, and a woman uncovering her head and “shaming” her head.
But when I finally read this in Greek, I finally understood this like nbever before after meany years of obsessively trying to unlock this passage.
“shaming” = shame coming down in Greek
The fact that coming down is repeated is a direct establishment of parallelism. These two events not only potentially have a an element of causation but they even more so have an element of correlation because they are in fact being described as actually happening at the same time – and the correlation is being emphasized more than “one causing the other”.
Correlation Dynamics of Headship to Headcovering
How is a haircut linked to an uncovered head?
This is a metaphysical application of a physical value
This is like “entanglement” – two different things that you might could think were not the same, or related, are actually correlated and entangled together somehow between physics and metaphysics.
The head covering disobedience and a haircut punishment are correlating with each other, and happening at the same time, and carrying the same moral essence, and there is some kind of parallelism going on that Paul is drawing out of a co-reality dual aspect of two things that can initially appear different, but are actually the same thing morally.
From a physical perspective we would consider these two elements to be significantly different, however from a superior perspective of moral reality, Paul is saying they are one and the same.
Remember:
When you’re thinking Truth, you feel reality. The more Truth you have and the more you think on it the more you’re going to experience and feel reality.
That’s precisely why you should be reading the Bible all the time and that’s exactly why you desperately need to get Biblical discipleship!
You need to bath and saturate yourself with Truth to win the war your up against if you want to inherit eternal life…!
If we can “feel” and/or “experience” why these two things are the same, then we can hopefully understand what Paul is saying, however if we do not resonate with the moral reality that these two things are the same, in the accurate sense and superior moral perspective that Paul is teaching us, then it is very likely we will have no idea about everything else he’s about to say.
How can we feel that these two are the same?
We have to feel the gross trauma of cutting off a woman’s hair is the same gross trauma of uncovering her beautiful hair in public.
We actually have to care about morality so much that when Paul speaks these things, our heart jumps with earnest warmth and agreement with his moral Truth, with it resonating down to the core of our being, which has been discipled and has been entrenched in moral reality which is focused on the invisible spiritual moral Kingdom of heaven and his Truth proclamation to our consciences and our souls.
If you can feel the painful shame of cutting off a woman’s hair, that is not a cultural a culturally relative event, but a universally recognizable pain point which Paul is appealing to try to pull your de-educated ignorant conscience into his moral knowledge that you need to have realized already.
If you are foolish and ignorant and blind and you don’t understand or resonate with what Paul is saying, then at this point you are being commanded to repent and acknowledge that just as a woman’s haircut is shameful so also this uncovered head event is shameful despite your hard heartedness gentile ignorance and the uninitiated foolishness of your flesh.
By saying that these two events are the same Paul has commanded you to change your foolish ignorance and submit to the reality be morally superior reality that disobeying a head covering really is 1 and the same as cutting off a woman’s hair – because the two really do correlate with each other, as one in the same thing, and one shame requires the other shameful punishment.
Uncovered
Head = Doing Shame = Haircut
Notice that the shame equation has already been established here in verse 5.
You’re not allowed to change Paul’s mind when we get to verse 6.
One and the same ness is a strong and explicit equation,
which is being quantified in the moral realm, because the word “shame” is being
used / utalized
Shame is definitely pointing to the
moral realm, especially when it involves clothing.
Without morality clothing doesn’t
matter
“Haircut”
Irony of Headcoverings & Other Scriptures
10/10/24-10/11/24; 10/26/24; 10/27/24
The
ironic command in 1st Corinthians_11:6 has some precedence and
parallels in other places in Scripture that Mike can help us understand what
Paul is saying...
Statement
+ If
1
Corinthians 11 basically says...
lacking
head covering is doing shame like a haircut
so
if she's not going to have a head covering she's commanded to cut her own hair
off, but if it's a shame, then let her be covered
So
this can be simplified...
No
head covering is shameful like haircut
So
no head covering requires haircut
But
if it's shameful let her be covered
The
principal of telling factual information and then using a logical structure of
"if then" has already been established in the preceding authoritative
governing context...
1st
Corinthians_6:2-4 - we're going to judge the world and
angels... so if you can judge, then let the church judge believers and not
secular society
From
1st Corinthians 6 we see that Paul has already established a pattern of giving
a fact and then following it up with an if then statement - the if does not
question the reality which has already been established but only follows up
that reality with a logical argument.
This
can be extra strange In first Corinthians 11 because then Paul is giving to
opposite commands:
·
She is commanded to must cut her own hair off
·
However, if it is a shame then, she's commanded that she must cover her
head
This
double command flip flop is an ironic sarcasm that has already been established
in the example of Jesus in the garden...
And
since we know that Paul and Jesus perfectly agree and say the same moral rules
therefore it makes sense that Paul is talking about the same Truth Jesus is and
giving us the same rules and practicing the same moral standards of
communication.
Again,
without sarcasm, Jesus says that if your hand is causing you to fall into sin
then cut it off as a punishment. Jesus is not idealizing and wishing for you to
cut your hand off but he's stating the grim reality of taking sin to its
extreme since it is not a figurative imagination he describes but concrete
moral quantitative reality that losing a hand is better than losing your whole
body.
In
first Corinthians 11 Paul is also talking about cutting something off as a
punishment for sin, although he may be using a little bit more sarcasm and play
on words and play on concepts, but nevertheless somewhat similar Paul says that
if you're going to go without a head covering you need to punish yourself by
cutting off your hair, but if we've already established that a haircut is
shameful then you are required and commanded as a woman to obey what you owe
and cover your head.
....
If-statements
can definitely be used throughout the Bible to question the reality of
something, and the potential consequences if such conditions actually exist in
reality.
However,
whenever the Bible precedes such statements with factual statements and
assertions that these things in fact really do exist in reality then the if
statements that follow are not questioning the reality that was just previously
asserted (in the preceding authoritative governing context), since the Bible
is, after all, not a document promoting disorder confusion and rebellion
against authority, but rather the if statements are now communicating to you
the logical consequences you have to face once you accept each statement as
reality.
So,
once you accept the fact that lacking a head covering is shameful for a woman
like a short haircut, (and you're not allowed to create more shame in the
Earth) then you have to submit to the required reality check that a woman is
commanded to cover her head.
Indeed,
there are sarcasms in the Bible, and the majority of them are in the Corinthian
Epistles. the Corinthian Epistles outweigh the rest of the Bible in terms of
their sheer number of sarcastic statements that the Bible makes.
you
can consistently recognize the sarcastic statements in the Corinthian Epistles
when Paul seems to put two statements right next to each other that say the
opposite things.
v. 6 – Haircut vs Headcoveirng
1Co_11:6 – Shave/shear uncovered Head
· How frequently is it shameful to have a woman’s hair cut off? Just when she is praying?
· “Let her be covered” is a command!
· The command is not given in the immediate occurrence of praying and prophesying, but in the continuing state of needing to keep long hair. <<<<<<<<<<<
· Be publicly shaven as one who abused hair, or be covered.
· V.6 makes it absolutely clear that the hair is not the covering – no illogical denial allowed!
· In the Bible, you cut off what you sin with: Hand, foot, eye, (Mat_5:27-32; Mat_18:___ ; Luk_16:__) -- and many other examples throughout the Old Testament…
· If you cut your hair and think you don’t need to cover, then you are doing so acknowledging that you are a punished & unrepentant prostitute who does not go to heaven in 1Co_6: & 1Co_10:
· Even if you claim to not need to over, then you also need to admit to not going to heaven!
· Notice it is social
· Common sense: that doesn’t apply to marriage! When her head is covered by a house or inner room of privacy
· He is commanding a cutting in response to not cutting, therefore hair can’t be hiding
· Negative inference fallacy: assuming that since it is shame during praying and prophesying therefore assuming it is not a shame when not praying and prophesying, but this does not hold true when cutting her hair off, which is always a shame
· Some might say that only applies to prayer, but hair does not only imply to prayer
· Being down hidden is in the present tense and Paul is saying it applies to her right now without establishing she is prayer right now.
· Shorn the woman does to herself; shaven is what someone carefully does to her.
· Keywords: “Clothes” + “Woman…Shame” indicates other people are there and that something has gone wrong with gender rules
· If she gets a haircut it will not be limited to prayer and prophesying
· Notice the rules about clothing, modesty, and shame are universal and perpetual throughout the entire history of humankind. Pretending that they can change, be different, expire, pass away through old age, or not apply to “everyone”, is immoral Bible disobedience
· Are any churches going through their congregations offering scissors to the women with uncovered heads and commanding them to Chop off their hair? – if not, then they are un Biblical Churches! They are apostate from the commands of the Apostles!
· Remember, interpretations will not cover you on the Day of Judgment. Jesus said ‘the word which I have spoken to you will judge that man in that day’.
· “let her be being down hidden” is the command to cover a woman’s head that most people ignore and are directly disobeying
· Other places have un-down-hidden as a compound word. Verse 6 has it as 2 separate words where the negative is a definite negative that could imply she is choosing to definitely not be hidden. And that fits the context
Imperative: she must/is
commanded to/she is required to/she is being ordered to be; 1Co)
· Why 2 words for a headcut
· Shorning herself implies she is doing the best she can to do it to her own head.
· 2 imperative = shorn self and be covered
· Church people assume to haircut shame is cultural in verse 6 however Paul actually says nature teaches you that long hair is the glory not culture
· Church peopl say but it is not a shame for me to have a haircut therefore I don’t need a headcovering, but that is ignoring what Paul wants you to learn from nature teaching you in verses 14-16 and pretending that you are not being pinished
Who requires an uncovered head to have a haircut?
With the Assyrian Code, for example, it is a social requirement to identify immoral women.
We have no evidence that immoral Corinthian culture was enforcing any kind of rule like this, even though many other cultures very well could have that dignity comma like the Assyrians despite all of their cruelty and evil.
Whatever the cultural context, it is observable that Paul is stacking layers of requirements on top of each other.
There is some kind of requirement to punish women to have their haircut for being immoral, and Paul is ironically saying that a woman has to punish herself for being immoral as a foundational requirement when she is sinning, however Paul stacks another requirement on top of this that’s based on the logical consequence that if it’s shameful, or we might say, if we have already established that it is shameful for a woman to have her hair cut off, then a new requirement emerges which logically requires a woman to cover her head as a command which is now being reinforced and elaborated on by Paul in first Corinthians 11
Theoretically a woman might could sin with her hair being shown and have it cut off and then after that also obey the requirement to cover her head since it has already been established it’s a shame to have a haircut, and or rather a woman could see the danger of needing to be punished with a haircut and then respond with preventive maintenance by covering her head. In both cases Paul’s words are relevant and both of these requirements stand firm that a disobedient woman should have her hair cut off and that anyone with their hair cut off should cover their head, and we can also take warning and not uncover one’s head so that we don’t have to go through this entire process and be bound by both of these requirements. It’s better to have moral foresight and go ahead and cover one’s head then it is to meet both of these requirements of cutting off 1’s hair and covering one’s head.
Thinking that a haircut is an alternative to a head covering or a replacement for it does not obey both of the statements being made in this verse. You do not get to replace a head covering with a haircut. You still have to put a head covering on the haircut after you’ve been punished in order to obey all of the Bible, which we all know is what you have to do to inherit heaven
Can a Haircut Replace a Headcovering?
Is a Haircut An
Acceptable/Legitimate Alternative to Headcovering?
·
She owes a headcovering and she is being punished by having it cut off
for not givin it therefore a haircut is not a commendable alternative
·
The word if does not doubt the reality of a shameful haircut but is a
formal structure for a logical argument – this is clearly observable that that
is the way the word if is being used in this case
·
Since you have to be obeying all the Bible you have to agree that
cutting is punishment for the abuse and misuse of something
·
Not giving over what you owe is a sin as already established in the
preceding governing authority of 1Co_7
·
You are not allowed to do shame under most circumstances, because love
doesn’t do shame 1Co_13 and both lack of a headcovering and having a haircut
has shame
·
When Paul says if it is a shame we know that he is not questioning it
because he already said it is a shame in verse 5
· This does not mean you have 2 positive options: haircut or head covering -- this means that not doing a head covering is is punishable by a mandated required haircut
· Consider all of the times throughout the Bible where people are punished for using something wrongly by having it cut off
· Consider all of the examples in the Bible where a harsh consequence is declared and then later on this sin is more directly prohibited
· Deuteronomy 24 for example says that divorcing your wife can lead her to become defiled in remarriage, and then later in malachi and much more in the new testament God says so don’t divorce your wives or don’t deal treacherously!
· We should not be lazy and try to fragment this verse as though a punishment was a proactive allowance for a haircut as an alternative to a head covering
· They would have tabooed the very notion of having a haircut for a woman and therefore we need to receive this text in its original context and retain its original intention and force of purpose
· The preceding authoritative governing context of the Bible says that you are punished by having something cut off with which you sinned, and it also teaches that a punishment should be enough to motivate you to good behavior without having to spell out every single rule that you’re supposed to obey, and it teaches this principle clearly by later explicitly prohibiting the activity that it had only previously prescribed a punishment for, but had not explained all the details of why it was so wrong, nor given such an explicit command, and then later giving the specific command not to do the inappropriate sinful behavior
· The Biblical and historical context is that if a woman does not obey this threat of a haircut by covering her head, she would not be allowed to come take communion, as seen later on in the chapter and later on in church history
· Since a woman is punished for using her hair inappropriately by having it cut off this does not mean that a haircut for a woman is a legitimate solution to not covering her head, because she still cannot be allowed to communion because she has been marked out as a harlot –
· being separated out from the company of the righteous and marked out as a Sinner, who has continued in sin, whose on one’s way to hell, is not a positive alternative to a head covering
· Often times Paul speaks in logical framework and proposes a truth and then describes its consequence
· If we know that something is true then we know that something else is also true as a logically required consequence
· If it is a shame for a woman to have her haircut then she is commanded to cover her head – if we know and or experience that
· The fact that Paul says that a woman is “owing” to have something on her head does not mean that a haircut is a legitimate alternative to a head covering that is still encouraged and permissible and commendable, when she’s neglecting something that she owes
The church person is the troubling variable here because they’re going to sometimes say that Paul is just questioning if it’s a shame for a woman to have a haircut, but church person is not allowed to say that because already said it was a shame, and this is a structure of a logical argument not a questioning of factual reality
..
Some church person might say that it must not be a punishment because the woman is being required to cut her hair off of herself, but this is as absurd as saying that cutting off your hand and plucking off your eye is not a punishment for falling into sin.
In both of these cases you are required to cut off from your body what you sin with, whether it is an eye, a hand, a foot, or your hair, and hopefully we all agree that this punishment is not the ideal solution to sinning with parts of our bodies.
Hair Trimming for Women?
· Frowning on a haircut is not specific enough to prohibit a hair clipping
· If a woman clips the ends of her hair in order to take care of it and tend it, we don’t have an expression in Scripture that discourages this
· The general principle is that long hair is a glory therefore it could be concluded that longer is better and something commendable to pursue, but this does not imply an absolute prohibition on clipping the ends of hair.
· Both shorning and being shaved with a razor are close in proximity to the head, so much so that they are closer to the head than they are to the tips of the hair
· Numerous denominations and movements at various times have prohibited any cutting of the hair in the extent that they won’t even allow hair clipping where there are split ins – the Bible is not specific enough about this to make this application out as a command
· Since the Bible supports a man trimming his mustache, for example, therefore we could wonder if a woman could trim her split ends in order to tend her hair without any moral concerns
· Interestingly, some of these groups that prohibit a woman from cutting her hair don’t require her to cover all of her hair, in a move of potentially troubling hypocrisy, and they might even allow a man to cut his beard or at least his mustache like Anabaptist circles do historically
· Telling a woman not to trim the ends of her hair, and not to tend the quality of her hair, while not telling her to cover all of her hair and allowing men to cut off their mustache or completely cut off their beard is a striking surprising hypocrisy that testifies against them for insisting on rules that are not specific enough in the Bible while neglecting and disobeying ones that are
· We are counting the word every
v. 7
1Co_11:7 – Man = Icon + Glory; Woman = Glory
· Man = Icon + Glory of God; Woman = Glory of man
· This creates an indebtedness to show the icon of God (and hide the glory of man).
· Show head; Hide Body!
· Gender creates indebtedness for how men and women should dress, including their body and head!
· How frequently is man an icon before other people, and woman a glory? Just when they are praying and prophesying?
· Beginning under substance = firm, tangible, hard reality
· Turning rays of light into a statue, somewhere including a beard
· Woman is a glory, not an icon!
· Remember that this passage in Greek explains the passages in Genesis 1, 2, and 5, not the other way around.
· You don’t take the passages in Genesis and interpret them to mean that ‘woman is also an icon’ when Paul is afterward explaining here that the icon of man applies to man particularly and distinctly in contradistinction to woman
· It is Bible disobedience to read the Hebrew as explaining the Greek, when almost every case teaches us that the Greek explains the Hebrew.
· If there seems to be more than one way to read Genesis, you don’t pick some random Bible disobedient interpretation that matches whatever you feel like, but instead you’re commanded to submit to Paul’s more specific specification clarification that tells you what you should have understood when you were reading Genesis
· If there is any sense we are obligated to say that woman participates in the icon of God, Like in the case of Genesis 8, Then Bible obedience Requires us to understand that in the sense of her participation in being joined to the icon of man, And not independently as a female Through her own feminine nature
· Beginning under substance = a substantially firm, solid, serious reality
· The is specifically not allegorical
“Icon-Image” Greek: Gen_1; Gen_5 = 1Co_11
Woman is NOT an icon like man is, and it is for a very good reason that she’s not an icon, since man’s head was designed to be seen and woman was NOT designed to be seen, which is precisely and exactly why he’s telling a woman to cover her beautiful hair! You’re not allowed to keep rebelliously saying that a woman is an icon of God when Paul is specifically telling you that you’re not allowed to show off a woman and that your command her head!
I cannot count how many rebellious apostate sick and delusional church people keep on disobediently repeatedly saying that a woman was made in the image of God when Paul is specifically saying that she’s commanded to be covered, and she’s NOT meant to be looked at as an image like man was made in genesis one and two.
v. 8
1Co_11:8 – Woman through man – because of / on account of
· Man is not of/through woman, but woman of/through man
· Creation principles are the basis of the moral consequences described previously.
· Creation and morality are not limited to praying and prophesying before others
· Verse 8 reinforces the word “every” you can’t limit to virgins and married
· Is that just during prayer that women are out of man
· 1Co_11:8 is talking about Adam and Eve and all their descendant
· He is not talking about historical trivia (that they were created) but rather, a creation principle and how that moral reality that applies to us today
· It does not say her husband
· Clearly, no feminism is allowed here
· The word “because” is explaining what he just said about the principles of a man being an icon
· Literally speaking, man is a glory and icon of God , “But”, in strong contrast, Woman is a glory of man because she was taken out of man, and not out of his “head” or “icon”, but out of his side rib – And this agrees with the fact that ‘the glory of young men are their strength’.
· You are supposed to hide the glory of the body with clothing, And this is a supporting argument That reinforces his previous statements That a woman should wear a head covering, since he is her head and Because she is a glory of his body, and this is in the same sense his ribs and chest need a shirt
v. 9
1Co_11:9 – Woman created through man
· Was man praying when he was created, or when he was put to sleep and God took out a rib?
· Was woman praying when she was created?
v. 10
1Co_11:10 – Woman authority on head through messengers
· After starting with prioritizing relationships with others, Paul expounds greatly on the Horizontal dynamics of obeyers within the assembly – Paul makes it a debt owed to others, which is just like the only continuing good debt to love others
· He just mentioned a non-praying/ non-prophesying context and then reinforces a woman to obligation to have authority upon the head
· It does not say through prayer but through creation a woman is obligated to have authority upon the head
· [Greek: Authority vs. Shaven – slight phonetic correlation (“play on words”) in Greek (contradistinguishing)]
· Authority is being parallel with down hiding headcovering
· Through creation principles and through the messenger angels a woman must cover her head with authority
· You need to be under authority to have authority
· Woman are “owing” authority upon head – not from a sin debt (Gen_3: and Mat_6:9-) but from “this” principle of pre-sin creation
· You can owe a debt from sin (as with the lord’s prayer) but in this case she owes a debt from the goodness of creation
· How is woman going through man going through the angels?
· The word this is parallel to
This makes perfect sense because women didn't start becoming beautiful after humanity fell into sin but women were created beautiful from the beginning for the purpose of being fruitful and multiplying – This creates a moral debt to be faithful and exclusive to the desire of one’s husband alone, and not anyone else in society, including the righteous called out assembly
v. 11
1Co_11:11 – Male and female interdependence in Lord
· Metaphysical codependence
· “in Lord” = not a creation principle
· The creation and new creation principles are being compared and contrasted
· In lord in direct spiritual contracst to the hard physical substance to verse 7
· Verse 11 is making a non physical reference
v. 12
1Co_11:12 – Man + woman through each other -- from God
· ‘all thing out of the God’ is comparable to “all men created equal”
v. 13
1Co_11:13 – Judge propriety in yourselves – praying uncovered to God
· 2 potential contexts: different than the Bible & Tertullian & church history or in perfect agreement with them?
· Agreement is the most straightforward and default posture commended by the Bible
· If you say it’s different, then the burden of proof lies upon you / you have to prove Tertullian was wrong when he said he wittesed this as being done among the assembly when taking the coomunion discussed before and after headcovering in 1st Corinthians 10 – 11
· “praying” here reflects back to the very same communal context where she can also prophesy.
· “yourselves” = plural
· “In/among yourselves” includes the repeated communal context
· This is NOT praying by one’s self – this is a constantly reinforced communal context where gender shame can happen socially, and is being guarded socially
· This does NOT speak to a wife praying by herself, her family, and/or around her husband, because that is not “among yourselves” in community
· “Proper” is a real Greek word being used
· “Proper” has already been pre-defined as is constantly the case when monotheists use this type of term – vague and personally subjective “propriety” is illegal for socially righteous monotheists to ever tolerate.
· A troublingly significant percent of modern English readers are likely going to understand 1st Corinthians_11:13 to be talking about the bear principle of a woman praying to God uncovered, as if Paul were charging them to examine the personal prayer life of the women in their congregation
· Interestingly, even after I describe this problem in such a clear and explicit way, way too many English readers are going to say, “what’s wrong with understanding it that way?”
· The preceding context had already established that we’re talking about a communal context, but besides that, this very verse tells you that Paul is NOT talking about the bare principle of a woman praying to God
· “Judge in-among yourselves” is a call to the Corinthians to apply the principle that is at work “among” them when a woman is praying and affecting them corporately as they gather to be an Assembly
· Judging “among” yourselves is a consideration that happens “among” you as a group.
· Of course Many Bible versions do not have the word “among” yourselves, but that doesn’t matter because that is irrelevant.
· Reminder Note: it doesn’t matter if your bible version doesn’t read that way – we are not here to idolize English versions, but to glorify the actual Word of God.
· That is very important, and it’s even hard to quantify how important that is
· Untold millions of Anabaptists and other head covering proponents are being disconnected from the vital moral social modesty context of the head covering and are losing the entire moral of the story by pseudo-spiritualizing the head covering and disqualifying themselves from the actual point of obtaining righteousness and purity and modesty
· No, you are not “taking the Bible more literally” when you’re telling a woman to cover her head in a personal prayer closet!
· Fragmenting the verse from its communal context and even fragmenting the verse from the preceding introductory words of “among yourselves” is not taking the Bible more literally!
· Literal obedience has nothing to do with fragmenting the Bible from its preceding authoritative governing context!
· Literal obedience means that you are obeying everything that it says and are gaining understanding by putting the statements together in your simultaneously obedient life
· you cannot literally disobey preceding words and verses and still be seriously claiming to be literally obeying a fragmented verse -- that’s called hypocrisy and Bible disobedience.
· Anabaptists and other head covering proponent groups need to stop following their traditions and start reverencing the opening up of the actual Words of the Scriptures when the Truth is finally spoken in their ears
v. 14
1Co_11:14 – Long hair = Dishonor to Man (Nature teaches)
· Devaluing gender is at the heart of what Paul is describing with the headcovering
· Communal context = You all
· This is indirect contrast with a woman’s hair cut which is also a gender preoccupied issue
· The ability to learn from the nature of long hair is a prerequisite for “judging in yourselves if it is proper for a woman to pray to God without down-hiddeness”
· If you have not learned from nature about headcoveirngs, then you are disqualified from “judging in yourselves”
· You’re not allowed to authorize yourself when you have not learned
· In first Corinthians_11:14 it is a foregone conclusion that you’re supposed to cover the glorious parts of the body with clothing.
· The glory of man’s strength needs a shirt
· The glory of woman’s face needs a face veil, as was the case was Rebecca to Isaac
· By communicating that a woman’s long hair “is a glory to her”, Paul is giving a supporting argument for the previous verse that says ‘a woman is owing to have authority on her head’ based on creation principles in the verse before that
· This is not to say that nature itself directly teaches you to automatically put on the head covering, but rather Paul is mentioning that nature teaches you directly that a woman’s hair is a glory to her beauty, and therefore when natures teaching you about a woman’s beauty, this empowers you with the necessary prerequisite consideration to be able to “judge in yourselves” that a woman is now owing to have authority of a head covering upon her head
· When nature teaches you that a woman’s long hair is a glory to her beauty, now you are responsible to actually apply that consideration, which nature teaches you, and obey the Bible to judge in yourselves if it is proper for a woman to show off her beauty when being “among yourselves” and praying to God
v. 15
1Co_11:15 – Woman’s glorious hair up against covering
· Glory shines which is directly opposite of hiding
· Throwing around thing ≈ an article of clothe/clothing that has been put on
· We talk about putting on clothing they talk throwing around clothing because our clothing is fitted while they throw big pieces of clothe on themselves. They also talk about sinking into clothing
· You not allowed to be comfortable with contradiction
· One mistranslated fragmented Bible verse to disobey the entire the whole Bible, that’s why you got to do headcovering and you can’t do divorce and remarriage
· The thrown around thing in verse 15 is distinct because it is often use separate for clothing
v. 16
1Co_11:16 – No Arguing Against the Moral Ethics of God’s Called-Out Assembles
· Plural: we-all
· Together practice is communal!
· This is NOT an individual practice!
· Assemblies /churches = communal context
· After starting with prioritizing relationships with others at the beginning of this passage, Paul expounds greatly on the Horizontal dynamics of obeyers within the assembly…
· Paul concludes with the corporate example of the early original church assemblies as a finalizing argument against disobeying head coverings
· That means we also need to look at the early church original assemblies as a very convincing finalizing argument that we should obey head coverings, because we need to obey this verse which points to the assemblies as a finalizing argument for why we shouldn’t disobey head covering
· Often, church hypocrites say things like they (supposedly) ‘don’t want you to argue from anything but the Bible’ -- as though they even care about the Bible, and as though they are really listening to it, and as if they are shunning their culture and religious tradition to prefer the Bible, when they won’t even cover their heads!
· but when you go to the Bible it is pointing to the early original church assemblies as the canonical standard that you have to conform to for obeying the head covering, and no one cares to obey this verse these days!
· Liking conquering headcoverings (1Co_11:16) = Liking conquering Rebellious Apostate Religious church people who disobey and won’t listen to this day, just like the apostate Israelites! ()
· No matter how you try to represent this verse in English you cannot represent it as if it is representing clothing. That’s dishonest not to mention deceptive
·
We are in the same froup of
people as the canonical group of people as the called out assseblies of the God
which links us back to the beginning
Liking Conquering
Eze_3:7 WEB But the house of Israel will not listen to
you; for they will not listen to me: for all the house of Israel are of hard
forehead and of a stiff
heart.
Eze_3:7 LB But the house of Israel will not be willing to
listen to you; for they will not listen to Me; for all the house of Israel are stubborn
[φιλόνεικοί] and hard-hearted
[σκληροκάρδιοι].
Eze_3:7 ὁ δὲ οἶκος
τοῦ Ισραηλ οὐ μὴ
θελήσωσιν εἰσακοῦσαί
σου, διότι οὐ βούλονται
εἰσακούειν
μου· ὅτι πᾶς ὁ οἶκος
Ισραηλ φιλόνεικοί
εἰσιν καὶ
σκληροκάρδιοι.
1Co_11:16 But if anyone
seems to be contentious [φιλόνεικος], we have no such
custom, nor do the churches of God.
1Co_11:16 Εἰ
δέ τις δοκεῖ
φιλόνεικος εἶναι,
ἡμεῖς
τοιαύτην
συνήθειαν οὐκ
ἔχομεν, οὐδὲ
αἱ ἐκκλησίαι
τοῦ Θεοῦ.
The Point: Both Liking Enmity and Liking Conquering are bad sinful fond-ness-es with fighting/arguing in the Greek Bible.
That means church people are warmly liking conquering worldly hard hearted stubborn.
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See: BDC for more examples of “liking” sins.
V 17 & 18
· Come together = communal
· Come together for communion = following communal context
· You-all = plural
· assembly
V 19
· in-among you-all – repeated over and over again
20
Come together
1 Corinthians_11:12 all things are out of the God
10/2/24
This is somewhat comparable
to the US Constitution saying 'all are created equal in the side of God'
Church People Can’t Judge Headcoverings
1Co_11:13 - Judge Yourselves
10/2/24; 10/27/24
Headcoverings CANNOT be
Decided by Church People
ironically...
Church people CANNOT judge
for themselves if head coverings are required
· Church people can't even agree with themselves, much less the Bible.
· They are not coming to the same conclusions that Paul and the Corinthians were coming to
· Paul is somewhat asking a rhetorical question that presupposes you agree with him - if you don't agree, then you're not qualified to answer his rhetorical question
· In modern church: judge in among yourselves is being switched into decide for yourself if head coverings are required
· (remember the Corinthians themselves understood Paul to mean the modesty of head coverings as documented in them writings of Tertullian, and other church leaders)
· Jewish historical example, early church and Corinthian obedience, and Paul's commands are all canonical and easily overrule churches apostasy today
· 1co10: I speak as unto wise men, judge for yourselves cup of the Lord
· Act_5:32 he gives his Spirit to those who obey him
· Paul didn't say for modern Church to decide what they want to do about head coverings, he said to the Corinthians to judge in among themselves, which is a privileged church people have not been granted in the teeth of their gross and startlingly disgusting apostasy...
· Falls invitation for the Corinthians to participate in his truth and judge in among themselves to agree with his truth only applies to people walking in the same Spirit of truth that Paul and the apostles and the Corinthians obediently responded in, which obviously does not happen unless you're obeying every rule in the Bible including head coverings - as seen in Romans 2
· Don't be a fleshly pervert and rebel against audience specification - the flesh always hates audience specification when the Bible monotheistically morally requires & demands it
· In 1Co_10:15 Paul had already established that “mindful ones” should consider what He says, and now how much more is mindfulness still required (from the preceding authoritative context) when they are now called to judge what he says
Before 1st Corinthians 11
said for the Corinthians to judge in among themselves, 1 Corinthians 6
suggested that there should at least be some wise people among them despite the
trouble of those who were 'babes in anointed one and still fleshly'
Besides 1st Corinthians 6
where Paul implies that there should at least be some wise among them, he goes
on to reinforce this sentiment by repeating and paralleling and correlating
many statements from 1st Corinthians 6 into 1st Corinthians 10. he had
anticipated that there were at least some wise people among them in first
Corinthians 6, and likewise he says in 1st Corinthians 10 that he's speaking to
these wise people to judge in among themselves concerning 'the cup of the Lord'
Since we all know that
Christianity doesn't have any wise people among them, therefore you're not
allowed to pretend like Bible disobeyers are allowed to decide for themselves
on head coverings since the only people that are allowed to judge are wise
people according to the preceding authoritative governing context in 1st
Corinthians 10 which happens shortly before Paul instructs the Corinthians to
'judge in among themselves' in 1st Corinthians 11
Church people are not
obeying the Bible and therefore don't have God's spirit according to Act_5:32, and therefore they are not being spiritual in Romans
2 with God's law written on their heart, and they are not a canonical standard
that can be referenced or relied upon in reference to judgment like spiritual
people can be, and therefore they are not the spiritual people in Romans 2 or
the spiritual and supernaturally wise people in 1st Corinthians 2 that are able
to 'judge all things', and therefore
Paul does not speak to modern apostate churchianity and suppose that there are
wise people among them like he did the Corinthians in 1st Corinthians 6, and
therefore Paul does not authorize church people to judge since that is reserved
for wise people in 1st Corinthians 2 and 1st Corinthians 10, and therefore when
he gets to saying that the Corinthians should judge in among themselves the
preceding authoritative governing context has already established this audience
specified group of people as being obedient spiritual wise people which has
nothing to do with churchianity today, and does not in any sense authorized
church people today to judge anything about head coverings except to judge this
that they should repent and believe the good message and come into a real
Covenant with the real Jesus and start getting the real Resurrection
righteousness that obeys all the Bible.
..
of course, church people
would like to beg to differ and would like to keep on fantasizing that they do in
fact have wise people among them, but we all know and we can all easily
objectively see that there aren't any wise people among church people...
the fear of the
monotheistic Lord is the beginning of wisdom and we can all see that church
people don't fear God at all in any significant degree
they are not staying up
late at night fighting and sweating it out to make sure that they don't send or
seeking with all of their heart to understand head coverings, for example, or
leaving adulterous remarriage
if I read Bible verses to
them they don't tremble in their hearts to obey every single word but in there
audacious bold fearless pride they don't care if they step over and spit on and
disrespect the least favorite Bible verses and don't tremble at all against the
damnation of their wicked soul for being so outrageously lawless and
rule-breaking and perverted to disobey a Bible verse...
and the examples could go
on virtually indefinitely of how many Bible verses they disobey and how
prideful they remain and how confident and wickedly perverted irrationally lazy
and happy they are to roll around and sin...
and again we know we all
know that church people are not wise because it says the wisdom that from above
is first pure and no one in church cares about purity seriously, otherwise they
would have been jealous to cover their head and demand repentance from
adulterous remarriage, Christian dating, etc.
1Co_11 Translation (RTA)
1Co_11 Summary | 1Co_11 Translation (RTA)
1st Corinthians 11 RTA (Righteous Translation
Analysis)
1Co_11:1
be beginning to / be generated mimickers / imitators of me down
according / just as I [am] also of anointed one
[*
begotten]
1
Currently/presently be made to become/generated [or make yourselves
become/generated] mimicors/imitators of me down-according-as I-also-am of
anointed-one
1Co_11:2
however I am high praising upon / applauding you pl TSB Brothers in that youpl have done remembered me
[in/to] everything, and youpl
are holding down, down according as I gave next to / tradition-ed to you all,
those givings next to-s / traditions / deliverances
2
however I currently/presently praise-with-stories-upon you(pl) |TSB brothers| in-that towards
all/everything you(pl) have been made to have remaing-rememberance
of me and-also down-according-as I at some point gave-next-to/surrendered to
you(pl) the giving-next-tos/transmissions/traditions [παραδοσειςG3862
- i.e. take hold of what is put next to you like a batton and run with it; fig.
transmissioned] to currently/presently hold-down/intensely-hold
[remember
slightly correlates with mimic in Greek]
1Co_1:3
however I am desiring for youpl
to have done seen / known by perception that: the head of every man is being*
the anointed one, however a head of woman [*is] the man, however a head of the
anointed one, [*is] the God.
3
however I desire you(pl) to see/know-by-perception/behold
in-that the head of all/every man currently/presently is the anointed-one
however head of woman the man however head of |NA the| anointed-one the God
1Co_11:4
every man directing in wishing requests in prayer or fore speaking /
prophesying having/holding [something coming] down (of) head, is doing shame /
strengthless / shapelessness down (of) his head
4
all/every man constantly/habitually requesting-towards/praying or
constantly/habitually fore-speaking/prophecying constantly/habitually
having/holding something coming down from head he currently
brings-unmightiness-down/uncomeliness-down/disfiguredness-down/shame-down [καταισχυνειG2617
– devaluaing by a shapeless thing devaluing by having an appearance that
is uncomely, disfigured and unfit for the eyes to see] towards the head of his
1Co_11:5
however every woman directing in wishing requests in prayer or
fore-speaking / prophesying, un down hidden / without something coming down to
hide, Is doing shame down / strengthless / shapelessness down that of her TSB
very own. head. because it is being one and the same/ness two the having done
been sharp razor shaven.
5
however all/every woman constantly/habitually requesting-towards/praying or
constantly/habitually fore-speaking/prophesying without-covering-down-and-hiding on the head she
currently/presently brings-unmightiness-down/uncomeliness-down/disfiguredness-down/shame-down the head of ||NA hers|TSB herself|| because
she currently/presently is one and-also the same with the one having been
shaven-with-a-razor [ξυρασθαιG3587]
1Co_11:6
because if a woman will not be done something down to hide / be covered
and/also let her / she must / is commanded to sheer herself. However if it's a
shame / strengthless / shapelessness to a woman to the / that of sheering
herself or being shaving with a sharp razor let her be down hidden / have
something come down to cover/hide.
6
because if a woman definitely-not currently/presently be made covered-down-and-hidden and-also she must at this time shear [κειρασθω
G2751 – i.e. to cut hair very short and close to the head with scissors like a
sheep being sheared of its wool; Israeli archeology has found artifacts of
sheep shearing sciccors dating to 1 BCE] herself however if this
without-mightiness/without-comeliness/disfigured/shameful
to a
woman to at this time shear herself or to currently/presently be shaven-with-a-razor she must
currently/presently be made covered-down-and-hidden
1Co_11:7
because, indeed/[a]men, a man is not owing/ought-ing to [have something]
being done down the head, beginning under a substance / to firmly being an icon
and glory of God. however the woman is being a glory of man.
7
because truly a man currently/presently indebted definitely-not to be made
covered-down-and-hidden towards the head he constantly/habitually
beginning-under an icon and-also glory of God
however |NA the| woman
currently/presently is glory of man
1Co_11:8
because a man is definitely-not being out of woman, but woman out of man
8
because definetly-not currently/presently is man out of woman but-rather woman
out of man
1Co_11:9
because also [and] man was definitely not created through / because of -
on account of woman, but woman through / because of an account of the man.
9
because and-also man defintly-not at some point created through [διαG1223
– fig. because of and account of] the woman but-rather woman through [διαG1223
– fig. because of and account of] the man
1Co_11:10
through / because of - on account of this the woman is owing/ought-ing
to be having authority to bring out into being upon of the head through the
messengers/angels.
10
through [διαG1223
– fig. because of and account of] this the woman currently/presently indebted to
currently/presently have/hold bring-out-into-being/authority upon the head
through [διαG1223
– fig. because of and account of] the messengers/angels
1Co_11:11
moreover/besides, definitely-not-additionally, [is] |TSB man
spaced/separated from woman, definitely-not additionally [is]| woman
spaced/separated from man |A definitely-not-additionally [is] man
spaced/separated from woman| in lord.
11
furthermore/except not-also/neither |TSB man spaciously
from woman not-also/neither| a woman spaciously from man |NA not-also/neither man spaciously from woman| in lord
1Co_11:12
because just as the woman is out of the man, such a way also the man is
through / because of on account of the woman. however thepl/those all things [are]
out of the God.
12
because just-as the woman out of man this-manner and-also the man through [διαG1223
– fig. because of and account of] the woman however all out of the God
1Co_11:13
youpl judge
In / among yourselves; Is it being proper/stood upright [for] a woman to be
directing in wishing requests in prayer to the God without down hiding-ness /
without something coming down and hiding-ish-ness?
13
judge at this time in you(pl) yourselves currently/presently is it
constantly/habitually being suitable-for-observing
towards a woman without-covered-down-and-hiddeness
to currently/presently make herself request-towards/pray [or be made to
request-towards/pray] to the God
1Co_11:14
|TSB or| is Not / however/even the nature / physics/puffing-growth |TSB
A order| itself teaching youpl
in-such a way that: if it may be indeed/[a]men a man might be doing long hair/
[needing maintenance] it is being a devalue/dis honor to him.
14 |TSB or|
not-however/neither the nature itself teach currently/presently teach you all
in-that if-possibly man should make-long-hair-that-needs-provision
currently/presently is a devalue to him
1Co_11:15
however, if it may be a woman might be doing long hair/ [needing
maintenance] it is being a glory to her, in that the long hair [needing
maintenance] has* been given to her up against* of a thrown-around thing /
clothing.
[*
done / finished been given to her properly correlating up against...]
15
however if-possibly woman should make-long-hair-that-needs-provision
currently/presently is glory to her in-that the long-hair-that-needs-provision
has been given to her standing-properly-correlating-up-against from a
throw-around/covering [i.e. long hair is given to her as a
correlating object to and from a throw-around covering for the head]
1Co_11:16 however, if any certain one is testing/approving to being warm-like-ish-of-conquering / be fond of contention-ish-ness / argumentive-ness, we are Not having / holding to this very sort/such together-ethic/practice / shared custom/behavior, Not-however/even [do] thepl/those called out assemblies of the God.
16
however if any currently/presently tests-and-approves currently to be
affectionately-loving-contention we definitely-not currently/presently
have/hold towards this together-ethic/practice/custom not-however/neither the
called-out/assembly of the God
Culture Didn’t Create the Head Covering
3/23/24
Every Means Every
1st Corinthians 11 repeats
the word every for every man, and therefore you're not allowed to find excuses
to erase the all applicability of these rules.
The Bible specifically
commands you to think of this as applying to every man so when you try to
narrow it down to only applying to husbands that is a filthy Bible disobedience
that earns hell.
this is the same spirit
using different methods when people say that the head covering is cultural.
The Bible specifically says
every over and over again and you're not allowed to pretend that this applies
to only a certain culture when the Bible specifically says every over and over
again!
every man crosses all
cultures and boundaries, and applies to every man in all cultures and all times
and you're not allowed to change the principles upon which first Corinthians 11
is declaratively based.
cultural awareness does not
imply cultural origin.
culture never informs the
Bible about morality, the Bible informs cultures about morality, if people will
listen.
saying that head coverings
is cultural is a direct lie.
modesty never has been
an inclination of culture because flesh
never comes up with moral genius.
The origin of morality is
God not man. You are lying heretic to suggest that something more like modesty
comes from the flesh of man's culture when the Bible specifically teaches us
that God is the one who always has to correct liberalizing rich perverted fools
to put clothes on.
Adam and Eve's post-sin
culture taught them to put pants on because they were not as far from Truth as
we are today.
God had to divinely inspire
Adam and Eve with words of truth and even demonstrate to them how to put on
proper clothing and it has always been the same case ever since...
assuming non inspiration to
the head covering and pretending like even "Paul wanted people to follow
the Norm" and conform to their culture is absolute rebellion and
disgusting heresy and profanity against the divine inspiration of moral modesty
and Truth...
modesty is observably one
of those things throughout the Bible that does not change!
changing modesty is always
the work of a prostate rebellious liberal progressive backsliders slithering in
the mud and mire of progressive sin...
changing modesty is the
work of Satan and his ministers of unrighteousness, the apostate false prophets
and false teachers throughout the ages who have always been waging a war
against the holy purity of wonderful morality.
since we all know that
modesty does not change throughout the scriptures we also see that modesty does
not change among the fateful conservative righteous who are preserving the
truth on the earth
since the head covering is
talking about modesty therefore we know that the head covering does not change,
because we know that all modesty does not change in the Bible and among
monotheists...
modesty has been upheld
almost without change in the Middle East among conservative groups that are
even pagan. how sad a state it is that people are claiming to be Christian and
they can't even hold on to the modest do you that pagan unbelievers know how to
uphold!
The Bible is not American
or modern culture, it is conservative ancient authentic original monotheistic
morality that it's highest peak. therefore you should not superimpose your
wicked disgusting apostate modern culture against the Bible or even both in the
presence of pagans who know how to obey the Bible better than you do even
though they don't believe it!
cultures that change
morality our cultures that liberalize. being liberal and changing morality go
hand in hand and are indistinguishable in the Bible.
..
the reason assigned by the
Bible for obeying the head covering is not for the purpose of conforming to the
practices of their culture but instead for obeying the principles of creation.
you're not allowed to interpret
some other reason and reassign the basis and purpose of the head covering
teaching by giving it a contradictory background or purpose different than what
the Bible actually assigns as the authentic real reason for commanding
obedience to head coverings.
Jeremiah Stephen
He almost got it correctly:
“*The word for a literal cloth veil is Kalumma, this is the noun. The verb that means to cover with a Kalumma is Katalial (Kata by the way being the word for "down" as in something that hangs down-as the covering hangs down off the head). Kata also appears in the word Katastole (kata-doum/stole-shawl-or-dress covering) the word he uses in "women should dress in mode at APPAREL (katastole)
In 1 Cor, the verb form-Katakalupto is used throughout- either katakalupto which means covered with a cloth veil (NRSV uses the word "veiled") or a-katakalupto (unveiled).
There is no question as to meaning
when you see the same words used in 2 Cor 3, in references to Moses katalupto-ing
himself with a Kalumma -a literal cloth veil, to hide his radient face. It
wasn't hair, it wasn't submission, it was a cloth veil.
When we compare this NT usage to the Septualint OT usage, we see Kalumma or Katalupto used 18 times, ALWAYS in reference to a literal cloth veil (Tamar covers her head with a veil in mourning, etc)
So all throughout 1 Cor, Paul is saying that a man ought not Kataka.to himself (with a Kalumma) and if he does so he dishonors Christ.
A woman ought to katakalupto herself. A woman who refuses to katakalupto herself with a Kalumma should have her hair shaved!
Some version of Katalupto/Kalumma is used throughout, until the end when Paul uses a different word, saying that the hair is also given to women as a type of covering (Gr: Parabellion).
Whether a woman has her long hair parabelion covering or not she is still commanded to further katakalupto herself with a kalumma (veil herself with a cloth veil) just like Moses did in 2 Cor 3)
There is something to be said about the headcovering "hiding a woman's glory”
Long hair is her glory, but only to be shared with her husband. That was the context in 2 Cor 3 after all where the covering hides the glory!"
Posted by Jeremiah Stephen 6/15/15”
No Headcovering, No Heaven
head covering is required
for salvation
3/31/21-4/1/21
We already know that you
need to obey all the Bible to inherit heaven so if you intentionally neglect
the explicit command to practice head coverings then obviously you're going to
hell and have nothing to do with Jesus or the Bible or faith or God.
the moral consequences of
the words in 1co11 show us that you will go to hell of you disobey the head
covering.
begging shameful with an
uncovered head will easily land you in hell.
head coverings are an issue
of modesty, as confirmed by historical context, as well as ot context, as well
as the very Greek of 1co11.
if you don't obey biblical
modesty you will not be saved:
1ti2
so...
1ti2 - modesty required to
be saved
2ti2 - pass on traditions
1co11 - head covering is a
modesty tradition
2th2-3; Jude - fight for
these traditions or you will be ex-communicated as an end times apostate with
eyes full of adultery
Disobeying head coverings
is punishable by cutting off the hair (1co11), which is historically the
punishment for sexual crimes (which the nt says will send you to hell) and/or
this "haircut" is at least the same as 'the attire of a harlot' (Pro_; Assyrian Code) - we should not be surprised
because this prostitute is mentioned in the previous chapter: 1co10 (and the
parallels in 1co6), and 'her paths lead to hell' according to Proverbs.
Prostitutes do not inherit
the Kingdom of heaven according to numerous sin lists in the Bible.
head coverings are
imitating a tradition / transmission of the apostles which is a fundamental
element of the faith.
you have to imitate these
traditions of the apostles/transmissions by receiving them joyfully from the
heart in order to be free from living in sin and be a saved disciple as
described in Romans 6.
you have to keep these
traditions to be part of the monotheistic early church described in 2 Timothy_2:2.
if you don't keep the traditions
of the apostles then you are one of the gross pervert heretic apostates with
eyes full of adultery condemned and confronted and warned against in the
Epistle of Jude.
at the end of this matter,
of you doing agree with this biblical teaching on head coverings then you are
not part of Jesus's Church and you are already ex-communicated and going to
hell.
it is an issue of being in
the church in 1co11 and disobey ers were not received to communion without it
in the early church, which meant you were going to hell as ex-communicated.
2th2-3 - you are
excommunicated if you don't keep these traditions
All that being said,
obeying head coverings is not just a prerequisite for salvation, obeying it
from the heart is the very process of salvation from sin (and end times
apostasy) on into the perfect, infinite, Divine, biblical righteousness of
obeying all the bible. (as seen in Romans 6, etc.)
Headcovering from the Heart!
Headcoverings: "It's What's In the
Heart That Counts"???
> YouTube
people actually have the
audacity to suggest that head coverings do not make you more christ-like!
Excuse you, but The sermon
on the Mount is all about obedience!
obeying Jesus does make you
more like the Anointed One...
people really aren't
thinking or listening they're just going along with their traditions of men
ignoring and setting aside the word of God in their complete mindless hypocrisy
while announcing others as being religious...!
but isn't it what is in the
heart that counts in the end?
yes, and what is required
in the heart is obedience!
>> Scrip:
Romans_6:17 -
you obeyed from the heart that form of teaching which was tradition-ed unto you
Matthew_5:27 -
whoever looks at a woman to lust after has already committed adultery with her
in his heart
Matthew_15:19 -
from within the heart comes fornication
Matthew_18:7 -
woe to the man through whom offenses come
if a man commits adultery
by looking, and prostitution starts in the heart, and a man is guilty just by
looking, it is even more grievous and perverted an evil and sinful for The
prostitute who invites him to look...
yes indeed, head covering
is a moral issue:
modesty and sexual purity
is, without any question, a weightier matter of justice/righteousness/the love
of God
in the Bible is always
obsessed over moral issues
....
child molesters are
notorious for downplaying the impact of their crimes on their victims
and likewise you have no right
to excuse or downplay your perverse hateful murderous crimes when you are
immodest and murdering other people's purity and attacking their dignity and
eternal life.
pushing someone down into
hell with you by your prostitution attacks is not a light matter or something
that you as a molester have any prerogative or right or leverage to downplay as
though it's not a major deal
you have blood on your
hands!
....
the weightier matters of
the law specifically include the love of God
and the shemma is very
clear that loving God comes first before loving man
and loving God is to be
done at the expense of your own worthless pitiful wretched human so-called
pseudo love for your fellow sinful man
The Hair is NOT the Covering!
Eph_5: – Greek: Anti touto – the parable directly
correlates with the reality, just as with Head Coverings the Cloth directly
correlates with the Glorious hair.
Disobedience Strategies Against Headcoverings
4/20/19; 4/1/21; 12/12/21;
3/22/24
there are several basic
positions that church people take in order to disobey the biblical command for
women to cover their heads:
· Women with short hair - wicked women who are so far from caring about the head covering that they don't even care about the glory of long hair
· Women hypocritically pretending that their prostituted hair is a head covering (& we all know that's not true... all you got to do is read the Bible...)
· Some hardcore women who are doing what they think is the best they can do by putting something on their head whenever they might pray...
· Anabaptist style caps - Which is less than a man might cover their head when they put on a hat... and this is usually based on the fundamental erroneous myth of a "Christian woman's prayer veil" - the Bible neither describes the head covering as Christian or limited to prayer or a veil... and the only word that is accurate there is "woman"
if church people say that a
woman's hair is her head covering they are just plain lying to you and
themselves but they are not deceiving God who will throw their soul into hell
for being a liar and rebel and a boundary breaker...
when it comes to church
people who are trying to make a claim of believe in the Head covering, or
church people who are struggling on how to obey it in general, they almost
always make two (defining) fatal errors:
(1) church people assume
that Paul is only telling them to cover woman's heads during prayer (that is
factually not what the text actually says), and,
(2) a woman was not covering
her head when she was not praying...
(and even this is based on
their fictional "prayer veil")
just because Paul said that
a woman should have her head hidden during prayer it does not logically follow
that we are free to assume that she is free to not have her head covered when
she is not praying...
most people feel quite free
and justified in making this assumptions however this Sampson itself is not
logical nor implied by the text at all - it actually teaches the opposite...
the prayer veil myth is
based on superstitious Mystical embellishments that are not only additions to
the text but contrary to it...
the text itself explains
the covering as a moral creation modesty based virtue...
...
Obey All, Including Headcoverings
“If we dismiss the use of magic as a language, we should at least be fundamentalist to the bitter end, and go against "Mary Poppins," "Peter Pan," and "Sleeping Beauty," and insist that Cinderella puts a burkha on."[114]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_debates_over_the_Harry_Potter_series
3/2/21
Yes, that’s exactly the
point! -- almost…
(Although it is also
hypocritical to suggest that fundamentalism actually exists, and if it
did, it would have a bitter end when Jesus said the end of the righteous was
actually blessed.)
"Because" of Prayer or Purity???
4/20/19; 4/1/21
Prayer is of great
importance, but so is purity…
Paul uses the transitional
word "because"
the arguments following the
repeated use of the word “because” expand the argument far beyond the limited
(initial) context of Prayer
the head covering is based
on creation principles and has moral consequences
if you do not keep the
Traditions which Paul established that means that you are on a first-level
excommunication (and even if you have had benefits of Faith you will not
inherit the kingdom)...
not keeping the Traditions
is serious business when breaking the rules of the Bible
Paul is making a social
comparison in the form of a moral equation...
and what does man and
woman's relationship of authority and submission have to do with head coverings
and modesty?
let's zoom out for a moment
and take notice that in cultures where they diligently practice head covering
women are so submissive and held in such subjection that it is considered
"oppression"of women...
now compare that to our
cultures which tend do produce women that are so bold and audacious in their
prostitution that they think egalitarianism is a right...!
we see that the Bible
indeed is true in linking modesty and submission and this is by no accident...
Long Dress, Hiddenness, And No Braided Hair
11/10/18
1st Timothy 2
The Veil in the Temple
Heb_10:20
Even though the word for “veil” in the temple does not include the word “hide,” yet because it “comes down” we know from the context that the Holy of Holies is hidden by it. How much more “hidden” do you suppose a woman’s head is, when the covering is said not only to come down, but also to hide?
“Down” Often Implies a Veil -- So Also Downing Head Clothing Can “Veil” the Face
1/29/17
There are plenty of times throughout the Greek Bible where cloth that goes “down” is associated with some kind of veil.
Exo_40:22 KJV And he putH5414
(H853) the tableH7979
in the tentH168 of the
congregation,H4150 uponH5921 the sideH3409
of the tabernacleH4908 northward,H6828 withoutH4480
H2351 the vail.H6532
Exo_40:22 ABP AndG2532
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the one G3588
towardsG4314 the north,G1005
from outsideG1855 theG3588 veilG2665 of theG3588
tent.G4633
Exo_40:22 καιG2532
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Spit is Not Inherently Immodest
Deu_25:9
Jesus spit on the ground. It is presumed that no female lusted inappropriately after the spit left on the ground.
We see an example from man to woman, and from woman to man.
---------------
10/15/15
Son_1:7 CAB Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where
you graze your flock, where you rest them at noon; For why should I be as one
who is veiled beside the flocks of your companions? Lover
Son_1:7 WEB
Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you tend your flock, where you
cause them to rest at noon, lest I become as one that is veiled by the
flocks of your companions.
Son_1:7 Ἀπάγγειλόν
μοι, ὃν ἠγάπησεν
ἡ ψυχή μου, ποῦ
ποιμαίνεις, ποῦ
κοιτάζεις ἐν
μεσημβρίᾳ, μήποτε
γένωμαι ὡς
περιβαλλομένη
ἐπ᾿ ἀγέλαις ἑταίρων
σου.
This very clearly shows that if she was not married to him, she would have to remain like all the other women with her head and face hidden from his eyes.
The romance of marriage is what permits for to protest, and insist on the intimacy of him seeing her sexual features, and being able to erotically strip off her head covering so that he may gaze and visually love her in all rejoicing and intimacy.
5/4/13
1 cor 11 is not the 1st place that the head covering is mentioned/taught. The first explicit place where the arrangement of the head covering is addressed is in Numbers 11, where it presupposes that the woman normally has her head covered at other times (outside of the Numbers 11 case). The Law of Moses is communicated within a context where people understood the morality of modesty. Even the pagan enemies of Israel knew that they needed to cover their heads for modesty’s sakes (ex see Assyrian Code). This is not a Christian thing, or even a Jewish thing, but a human thing, where even the pagans were doing this!
When you come to 1cor11, many people want to presuppose that this is a “Christian thing”. But that is like saying that fornication or adultery is a “Christian thing”, when we all know that these sins are just all around wrong before God, across every culture, time, generation, and people groups. Paul appeals to nature, something that predates the proclaimed faith in Jesus.
The Code of the Assura, c. 1075 BCE
“I.40. If the wives of a man, or the daughters of a man go out into the street, their heads are to be veiled. The prostitute is not to be veiled. Maidservants [i.e. from defeated nations who were enslaved] are not to veil themselves. Veiled harlots and maidservants shall have their garments seized and 50 blows inflicted on them and bitumen poured on their heads.”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/1075assyriancode.asp
1/13/13
Ancient Assyrians were clearly more Biblical than modern church people.
Drinking and Driving
If I say, “Whoever drives While intoxicated endangers the life of himself and others” This does not at all implied that it is OK to be intoxicated when not driving. Nor does it imply that you do not risk your own life and the life of others when intoxicated just because you’re not driving.
If Paul says that the woman shames her head if she uncovers it when praying, This does not at all imply that she does not shame her head if she uncovers it when she’s not praying.
If you Foolishly “Modernize” the Bible and imagine the scene Like your own Filthy and immoral culture, Where women are Walking all around without covered heads and coming into church , then you might think that they should cover their head when praying.
But if you Soberly and realistically Consider the Biblical and historical scene of reverent women Always being fully covered, including their head, whenever going throughout society then you will not imagine the silly picture of them adding a head covering when they come to church.
This is not about adding to the Scriptures or embellishing the commands Of the Bible, this is about repenting of your own foolish and dirty and evil culture, And submitting to what The scriptures clearly tell us about The extreme and consistent modesty of reverent women outside of the assembly as well as inside.
Face
Ø Briefly compare the first points in chapter 2 under “Head and Face”
Lust
So why is it that some people try to think that lusting after a woman’s face is not wrong when there are Bible verses that specifically speak against it and the judgment that results from it?
Pro_6:25 Don't lust after her beauty in your heart, Neither let her captivate you with her eyelids, (WEB)”.
Isa_3:16-24 Moreover the Lord said, "Because the
daughters of Zion are haughty, And
walk with outstretched necks and flirting eyes, Walking to trip as they
go, Jingling ornaments on their feet; 17 Therefore
the Lord brings sores on the crown of
the head of the women of Zion, And the
Lord
will make their scalps
bald."
18 In
that day the Lord will take away the beauty of their anklets, the headbands,
the crescent necklaces, 19 the earrings, the bracelets, the veils, 20 the
headdresses, the ankle chains, the sashes, the perfume bottles, the charms, 21 the signet
rings, the nose
rings, 22 the fine
robes, the capes, the cloaks, the purses, 23 the hand-mirrors, the fine linen garments,
the hoods, and the shawls. 24 It shall happen that instead of sweet spices,
there shall be rottenness; Instead of a belt, a rope; Instead of well set hair,
baldness; Instead of a robe, a girding of sackcloth; And branding instead of
beauty. (WEB-Based)
Although makeup is not necessarily bad, it is worth considering the specifically bad use of it, and it’s potential to be associated with sensuality:
- Make-up
- eyes
2Ki_9:30-33 WEB When Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her eyes, and attired her head, and looked out at the window. 31 As Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, Is it peace, you Zimri, your master's murderer? 32 He lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side? who? There looked out to him two or three eunuchs. 33 He said, Throw her down. So they threw her down; and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and he trod her under foot.
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“Shamefacedness”
Taken from “The No Dating Scriptures”
1Ti_2:9 In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness127 and sobriety; not with braided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array… (KJV-Based).
A. Greek
G127 αἰδώς aidōs ahee-doce'● Perhaps from G1 (as a negative
particle) and G1492 (through the idea of downcast eyes); bashfulness,
that is, (towards
men), modesty or
(towards God) awe: - reverence,
shamefacedness. (Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries)
…modesty, bashfulness, reverence,
regard for others, respect (Thayer’s Greek Definitions)
B. Cultural Significance
“Shamefacedness” is God’s version of what newer translations often merely translate as “propriety.” But this verse strongly includes being modest with ones eyes!
A woman having “downcast eyes” was and is in many places an issue of modesty; It means that they are not being flirtatious. It is interesting that the Bible approves of, and commands this cultural attitude to be practiced. Granted: We are in a different culture. But there is an invaluable chase, non-flirtatious attitude that should and must be harvested from this verse, especially in light of the fact that we are in great deficit of this virtue in our sensually charged society. Our culture has discipled us to proudly and hastily embrace lustful attitudes toward each other as much as possible. If we keep this verse, then we do good to make blatant strikes against the foolish love of lust so championed in this perverse age.
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Moral “Shamefacedness” for All People Before God?
Wis_12:14 Brenton Neither shall king or tyrant *be able to set his face against thee for any whom thou hast
punished [* ἀντοφθαλμῆσαι
δυνήσεταί σοι
πε ρὶ ὧν ἐκόλασας].
Earrings?
Deu_15:17 WEB then you shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear to the door, and he shall be your servant forever. Also to your female servant you shall do likewise.
Deu_15:17 LB then you shall take an awl, and bore his ear through to the door, and he shall be your servant forever; and in like manner shall you do to your male servant.
Deu_15:17 καὶ λήμψῃ
τὸ ὀπήτιον καὶ
τρυπήσεις τὸ ὠτίον
αὐτοῦ πρὸς τὴν
θύραν, καὶ ἔσται
σοι οἰκέτης εἰς
τὸν αἰῶνα· καὶ
τὴν παιδίσκην
σου ποιήσεις ὡσαύτως.
Headcovering & Veil Preview
Veil
Preview
Gen_20:16 – A price for the
covering of eyes
Gen_24:65
– Rebekah Veils Herself when
Meeting Isaac
· MT: A wrap to hide
· LXX: a harvesting tool thrown around
Gen_29:23 – Jacob didn't
recognize which sister he was marrying!
Gen_38 – Tamar’s Veiling
Rth_3:15 – the mantle
that's on you?
Son_1:7 – Veiled around strangers (‘beside
companions’)
Son_4:1-3
– Woman’s Eyes Behind her Veil
Son_6:7
– Woman’s Cheeks Behind her Veil
comparing the beloved's cheeks behind
her veil to slices of pomegranate
Son_5:7 – Watchmen Remove Her Veil
GPT:
the removal of the veil signifies a moment of vulnerability and humiliation for
the Shulammite woman
Isa_47:2-3
– Removing Virgin Veil = Shaming NAKEDNESS
Virgins
Wear Veils
Isa_47:2-3
3Ma_4:5-7
Extra
Gen_38:14
– Tamar covers her face with a veil to conceal her identity
Exo_34:33 – Moses veils his face after speaking with God
2Co_3:13,
etc. – Paul references Moses' use of a veil
Headcovering
Preview
Num_5:18
– Head Uncovered by Priest (of a Woman Suspected of Adultery)
Note:
This shows Monotheistic Females Cover their heads in Public!
This
shows that her head is normally covered
Susana
Cries When Head & Face are Uncovered
1Co_11:4-6 – Head Coverings Retained During Prayer
& Prophesying
Extra:
Est_6:12 – Haman covers his head?
Lev_10:6 – Aaron & his sons not to uncover their heads during mourning
Exo_28:40-43
– priestly garments, including head coverings for Aaron and his sons
…
Foreheads -- Overview & Preview
The Doctrine of Foreheads?
We need to look at…
Hebrew & Greek Foreheads
Hebrew Forehead
H4696
מצח
mêtsach
may'-tsakh
AHLB on H4696
“…ac: Hard co: Forehead…
…Forehead: As hard…
…Leg armor: As hard…{str: 4697}”
i.e. comp. H4697
Strong’s (is kind of confusing): “From an unused root meaning to be clear, that is, conspicuous; the forehead (as open and prominent): - brow, forehead, + impudent”
Greek Forehead
G3359
Μέτωπον – WS: “from metá (G3326), after, above, and ṓps (n.f.), the eye” -- or countenence/face Strong, LSJ.
Implies: Middle/between (eyes & hair)
Men’s Foreheads
Compare the baldness in Hair & Haircuts
Preview: it’s kind of interesting that when a man has a skin disease and he recovers from it he is still considered clean even when his hair falls out. We might say that he’s missing his hair, but God considers this something clean interestingly…
Bald forehead (which is extra uncovered and doesn’t even have hair) could be a good thing, for a man – not so with a woman
MT: Hard Foreheads -- Sinful Male Foreheads
Eze_3:7 WEB But the house of Israel will not listen to
you; for they will not listen to me: for all the house of Israel are of hardH2389 forehead H4696 and of a stiff heart.H7186 H3820 [Isa_48:4;
Eze_3:7; 1Sa_25:3]
Eze_3:7 LB But the house of Israel will not be willing
to listen to you; for they will not listen to Me; for all the house of Israel
are stubborn [φιλόνεικοί] and hard-hearted
[σκληροκάρδιοι].
Eze_3:7 ὁ δὲ οἶκος
τοῦ Ισραηλ οὐ μὴ
θελήσωσιν εἰσακοῦσαί
σου, διότι οὐ βούλονται
εἰσακούειν
μου· ὅτι πᾶς ὁ οἶκος
Ισραηλ φιλόνεικοί
εἰσιν καὶ
σκληροκάρδιοι.
Eze_3:8 WEB Behold, I have made your face hardH2389 against their faces, and your forehead hardH2389 against their foreheads.
Eze_3:8 And behold, I
have made your face [πρόσωπόν] strong [δυνατὸν] against their
faces,
and I will strengthen your power [νείκους] against their power [νείκους].
Eze_3:8 καὶ
ἰδοὺ δέδωκα τὸ
πρόσωπόν σου
δυνατὸν κατέναντι
τῶν προσώπων αὐτῶν
καὶ τὸ νεῖκός
σου κατισχύσω
κατέναντι τοῦ
νείκους αὐτῶν,
Eze_3:9 WEB As an adamant harderH2389 than flint have I made
your forehead: don't be afraid
of them, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious
house.
Eze_3:9 And it shall be
continually stronger than a rock—do not be afraid of
them, neither be dismayed at their faces, because they are a provoking [παραπικραίνων] house.”
Eze_3:9 καὶ ἔσται
διὰ παντὸς
κραταιότερον
πέτρας· μὴ
φοβηθῇς ἀπ᾿ αὐτῶν
μηδὲ πτοηθῇς ἀπὸ
προσώπου αὐτῶν,
διότι οἶκος
παραπικραίνων
ἐστίν.
Against their rebellious stubborn stiff necked, hard hearted, and hard forehead, Ezekiel’s face is made “adamant harderH2389 than flint” / “stronger than a rock” (Eze_3:9 WEB/CAB) to fight/conquer [νείκους] them.
Ezekiel’s inspired strength foreshadows (and parallels) the inspired plagues of the Two Witnesses against End-times apostates (like the harlot and antichrist’s kingdom), and even the final judgement.
Brass Foreheads – of Sinful Males
Isa_48:4 WEB Because I knew that
you are obstinate H7186 [Isa_48:4;
Eze_3:7; 1Sa_25:3], and your neck is an iron
sinew, and your brow brass;
Isa_48:4 LB I know that you are stubborn [σκληρὸς], and your neck is an iron sinew, and your forehead
bronze.
Isa_48:4 γινώσκω ἐγὼ
ὅτι σκληρὸς εἶ,
καὶ νεῦρον
σιδηροῦν ὁ τράχηλός
σου, καὶ τὸ μέτωπόν
σου χαλκοῦν.
How does a man sin with his forehead?
He is hard obstinate stubborn!
Judged Foreheads
Punished in the Forehead
(A) Uzziah Made Leprous in His Forehead
2Ch_26:19 WEB Then Uzziah
was angry; and he had a censer in his hand to burn incense; and while he
was angry with the priests, the leprosy broke forth in his forehead
before the priests in the house of Yahweh, beside the altar of incense.
2Ch_26:19 LB And Uzziah was angry, and in his hand
was the censer to burn incense in the temple. And when he was angry with
the priests, then the leprosy rose up in his forehead before the priests
in the house of the Lord, over the altar of incense.
2Ch_26:19 καὶ ἐθυμώθη
Οζιας, καὶ ἐν τῇ
χειρὶ αὐτοῦ τὸ
θυμιατήριον
τοῦ θυμιάσαι ἐν
τῷ ναῷ, καὶ ἐν τῷ
θυμωθῆναι αὐτὸν
πρὸς τοὺς ἱερεῖς
καὶ ἡ λέπρα ἀνέτειλεν
ἐν τῷ μετώπῳ αὐτοῦ
ἐναντίον τῶν ἱερέων
ἐν οἴκῳ κυρίου ἐπάνω
τοῦ θυσιαστηρίου
τῶν θυμιαμάτων.
2Ch_26:20 WEB Azariah the chief
priest, and all the priests, looked on him, and behold, he was leprous in
his forehead, and they thrust him out quickly from there;
yes, himself hurried also to go out, because Yahweh had struck him.
2Ch_26:20 And Azariah the chief priest, and the other priests, turned to
look at him, and behold, he was leprous in his forehead; and they
got him out of there quickly, for he also hastened to go out,
because the Lord had rebuked [ἤλεγξεν] him.
2Ch_26:20 καὶ ἐπέστρεψεν
ἐπ᾿ αὐτὸν ὁ ἱερεὺς
ὁ πρῶτος καὶ οἱ
ἱερεῖς, καὶ ἰδοὺ
αὐτὸς λεπρὸς ἐν
τῷ μετώπῳ· καὶ
κατέσπευσαν αὐτὸν
ἐκεῖθεν, καὶ γὰρ
αὐτὸς ἔσπευσεν
ἐξελθεῖν, ὅτι ἤλεγξεν
αὐτὸν κύριος.
2Ch_26:21 WEB Uzziah the king was
a leper to the day of his death, and lived in a separate house, being a leper;
for he was cut off from the house of Yahweh: and Jotham his son was over the
king's house, judging the people of the land.
2Ch_26:21 And Uzziah the king was a leper until the day of his death, and
he dwelt as a leper in a separate house; for he was cut off from the house of
the Lord; and Jotham his son was set over his kingdom, judging the people of
the land.
2Ch_26:21 καὶ ἦν
Οζιας ὁ βασιλεὺς
λεπρὸς ἕως ἡμέρας
τῆς τελευτῆς αὐτοῦ,
καὶ ἐν οἴκῳ
αφφουσωθ ἐκάθητο
λεπρός, ὅτι ἀπεσχίσθη
ἀπὸ οἴκου κυρίου·
καὶ Ιωαθαμ ὁ υἱὸς
αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ τῆς
βασιλείας αὐτοῦ
κρίνων τὸν λαὸν
τῆς γῆς.
(B) Goliath Killed
David Killed Goliath in his Forehead
1Sa_17:49 WEB David put his hand in his bag, and took there
a stone, and slang it, and struck the Philistine in his forehead H4696; and the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face
to the earth.
1Sa_17:49 LB And David stretched out his hand into his
bag, and took out a stone, and slung it, and struck the Philistine on his
forehead [ἐπὶ τὸ
μέτωπον αὐτοῦ], and the stone
penetrated through the helmet into his forehead [καὶ διέδυ ὁ
λίθος διὰ τῆς
περικεφαλαίας
εἰς τὸ μέτωπον
αὐτοῦ], and he fell upon his face [καὶ
ἔπεσεν ἐπὶ πρόσωπον
αὐτοῦ] to the ground.
1Sa 17:49 καὶ ἐξέτεινεν
Δαυιδ τὴν χεῖρα
αὐτοῦ εἰς τὸ κάδιον
καὶ ἔλαβεν ἐκεῖθεν
λίθον ἕνα καὶ ἐσφενδόνησεν
καὶ ἐπάταξεν τὸν
ἀλλόφυλον ἐπὶ
τὸ μέτωπον αὐτοῦ,
καὶ διέδυ ὁ λίθος
διὰ τῆς
περικεφαλαίας
εἰς τὸ μέτωπον
αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἔπεσεν
ἐπὶ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ
ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν.
(C) End Times
Divine eternal judgement of sinful men’s foreheads.
See: Marked
Foreheads
Summary: Men’s Sinful Foreheads Are Called…
· Strong/Powerful/hard (Eze_3:7-9) face (Eze_3:8) & MT: forehead
· LXX: liking to conquer [φιλόνεικοί…νείκους] (Eze_3:7-8)
· “stiff ”/ “obstinate” (Isa_48:4; Eze_3:7 WEB) “stiff heart” / “hard-hearted” (Eze_3:7 WEB/CAB)
· “neck is an iron sinew” (Isa_48:4) (in both text)
· Comp. Stiff Neck: WS on H7186: Exo_32:9, Exo_33:3, Exo_33:5; Deu_9:6, Deu_9:13; cf. Eze_3:7
· rebellious / provoking [παραπικραίνων] house (Eze_3:9)
· “brow brass” / “forehead bronze” (Isa_48:4 WEB/CAB)
The Point: Sinful Men’s foreheads are evil – that is a lot of what we get upfront about the foreheads of men in the Bible
And these rebellious sins have been, and will be, judged!
See: Ezekiel Strengthened
But One Sin is Missing!
There is at least one very important particular sin which is pointedly missing and not mentioned against men when they have sinful foreheads.
Can you guess what it is?
Hold on to find out…
Marked Foreheads
The Good & the Bad of Marked Foreheads
· The very mention of Marked Foreheads conjures up ideas about the Mark of the Beast, which is understandable. – that makes sense
· But just focusing on the demonic aspect of Marked Foreheads that actually leaves you very uneducated and unprepared for the End Times.
· It is just as important to get the right Mark on your forehead as it is to avoid the wrong one.
Church people are already signing up ahead of time which shows their aversion to the bad mark is not working.
Marking Soldiers & Slaves
Extra-Biblical Background Reported by VGNT
VGNT on G3359:
“μέτοπον
μέτωπον
[page 407]
With Rev_13:16, where the allusion is to the habit of marking soldiers and slaves with a distinctive brand (see Moffatt ad l. in EGT), we may compare P Lille I. 29ii. 36 (iii/B.C.) ὁ δὲ παραλ[αβὼν τὸ ἀνδρά]ποδον μαστιγωσ[άτω μὴ ἔ]λασσον ἑκατὸν π[ληγῶν καὶ] στίξατο τὸ μέτω[πον—with reference to the punishment of a runaway slave. The word is naturally common in those personal descriptions with which the papyri have made us so familiar, e.g. BGU III. 975.9 (A.D. 45) (= Selections, p. 42) οὐλ]ὴ μετόπο ἀριστερο (l. μετώπῳ ἀριστερῷ), “a scar on the left forehead,” P Oxy I. 72.46 (A.D. 90) οὐ(λὴ) μετώπ(ῳ) μέσῳ, and P Fay 91.10 (A.D. 99) οὐλὴ μετόπωι ἐγ δεξιῶν. MGr μέτωπο. ”
Rev_18:13 NKJV and cinnamon and incense, fragrant oil and frankincense, wine and oil, fine flour and wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and chariots, and bodies and souls of men.
Rev_18:13 SBL
καὶ κινάμωμον
καὶ θυμιάματα
καὶ μύρον καὶ
λίβανον καὶ οἶνον
καὶ ἔλαιον καὶ
σεμίδαλιν καὶ
σῖτον καὶ
κτήνη καὶ
πρόβατα καὶ ἵππων
καὶ ῥεδῶν καὶ
σωμάτων καὶ
ψυχὰς ἀνθρώπων.
Holy Golden Forehead
Exo_28:36 WEB "You shall make
a plate of pure gold, and engrave on it, like the engravings of a signet, 'HOLY
TO YAHWEH.'
Exo_28:36 LB “And you shall make a plate of pure gold, and you shall
engrave on it like the engraving of a signet: Holiness to the Lord.
Exo_28:36 καὶ ποιήσεις
πέταλον χρυσοῦν
καθαρὸν καὶ ἐκτυπώσεις
ἐν αὐτῷ ἐκτύπωμα
σφραγῖδος Ἁγίασμα
κυρίου.
Exo_28:37 WEB You shall put it on
a lace of blue, and it shall be on the sash; on the front of the sash it shall
be.
Exo_28:37 And you shall put it on the spun blue cloth, and it shall be on
the turban: it shall be in the front of the turban.
Exo_28:37 καὶ ἐπιθήσεις
αὐτὸ ἐπὶ ὑακίνθου
κεκλωσμένης,
καὶ ἔσται ἐπὶ τῆς
μίτρας· κατὰ
πρόσωπον τῆς μίτρας
ἔσται.
Exo_28:38 WEB It shall be on
Aaron's forehead, and Aaron shall bear the iniquity of the holy things,
which the children of Israel shall make holy in all their holy gifts; and it
shall be always on his forehead, that they may be accepted before Yahweh.
Exo_28:38 And it shall be on the forehead of Aaron; and Aaron
shall bear away the sins of their holy things, all that the children of Israel
shall sanctify of every gift of their holy things, and it shall be on the
forehead of Aaron continually acceptable for them before the Lord.”
Exo_28:38 καὶ ἔσται
ἐπὶ τοῦ μετώπου
Ααρων, καὶ ἐξαρεῖ
Ααρων τὰ ἁμαρτήματα
τῶν ἁγίων, ὅσα ἂν
ἁγιάσωσιν οἱ υἱοὶ
Ισραηλ, παντὸς
δόματος τῶν ἁγίων
αὐτῶν· καὶ ἔσται
ἐπὶ τοῦ μετώπου
Ααρων διὰ παντός,
δεκτὸν αὐτοῖς ἔναντι
κυρίου. --
This is a special honor for the Aaronic priest.
Do any other people get to have holy sacredness on their foreheads?
Passover
Exo 13:9 WEB It shall be for a sign to you on your hand,
and for a memorial between your eyes, that the law of Yahweh may be in
your mouth; for with a strong hand Yahweh has brought you out of Egypt.
Exo 13:9 LB And it shall be unto you a sign upon your
hand and a memorial before your eyes, that the law of the Lord may
be in your mouth, for with a strong hand the Lord God has brought you out of
Egypt.
Exo 13:9 καὶ ἔσται
σοι σημεῖον ἐπὶ
τῆς χειρός σου
καὶ μνημόσυνον
πρὸ ὀφθαλμῶν
σου, ὅπως ἂν γένηται
ὁ νόμος κυρίου ἐν
τῷ στόματί σου·
ἐν γὰρ χειρὶ
κραταιᾷ ἐξήγαγέν
σε κύριος ὁ θεὸς
ἐξ Αἰγύπτου.
Shema & Commands on Foreheads
Original Shema
Deu 6:4 WEB Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God; Yahweh is
one:
Deu 6:4 LB “Hear, O Israel, the
Lord our God is one Lord.
Deu 6:4 Καὶ
ταῦτα τὰ δικαιώματα
καὶ τὰ κρίματα, ὅσα
ἐνετείλατο κύριος
τοῖς υἱοῖς
Ισραηλ ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ
ἐξελθόντων αὐτῶν
ἐκ γῆς Αἰγύπτου
Ἄκουε, Ισραηλ·
κύριος ὁ θεὸς ἡμῶν
κύριος εἷς ἐστιν·
Deu 6:5 WEB and you shall love Yahweh your God with all
your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.
Deu 6:5 And you shall love
the Lord your God with all your mind [καρδίας
– heart], and with all your soul, and with all your strength.
Deu 6:5 καὶ
ἀγαπήσεις κύριον
τὸν θεόν σου ἐξ ὅλης
τῆς καρδίας
σου καὶ ἐξ ὅλης
τῆς ψυχῆς σου
καὶ ἐξ ὅλης τῆς
δυνάμεώς σου.
Deu 6:6 WEB These words, which I command you this day, shall
be on your heart;
Deu 6:6 “And these words, all that I command you this day, shall be
in your heart and in your soul.
Deu 6:6 καὶ
ἔσται τὰ ῥήματα
ταῦτα, ὅσα ἐγὼ ἐντέλλομαί
σοι σήμερον, ἐν
τῇ καρδίᾳ σου
καὶ ἐν τῇ ψυχῇ
σου·
Deu 6:7 WEB and you shall teach them diligently to your
children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk
by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
Deu 6:7 And you shall
teach them to your children, and you shall speak of them sitting in the house,
and walking on the road, and lying down, and rising up.
Deu 6:7 καὶ
προβιβάσεις αὐτὰ
τοὺς υἱούς σου
καὶ λαλήσεις ἐν
αὐτοῖς καθήμενος
ἐν οἴκῳ καὶ
πορευόμενος ἐν
ὁδῷ καὶ κοιταζόμενος
καὶ διανιστάμενος·
Deu 6:8 WEB You shall bind them for a sign on your
hand, and they shall be for symbols between your eyes.
Deu 6:8 And you shall
fasten them for a sign upon your hand, and it shall be immovable
before your eyes.
Deu 6:8 καὶ
ἀφάψεις αὐτὰ εἰς
σημεῖον ἐπὶ τῆς
χειρός σου, καὶ ἔσται
ἀσάλευτον πρὸ ὀφθαλμῶν
σου·
Deu 6:9 WEB You shall write them on the door posts of
your house, and on your gates.
Deu 6:9 And you shall
write them on the lintels of your houses and of your gates.
Deu 6:9 καὶ γράψετε
αὐτὰ ἐπὶ τὰς
φλιὰς τῶν οἰκιῶν
ὑμῶν καὶ τῶν
πυλῶν ὑμῶν.
Shema Repeated
Deu 11:18 WEB Therefore you shall lay up these my words in
your heart and in your soul; and you shall bind them for a sign on your
hand, and they shall be for symbols between your eyes.
Deu 11:18 LB “And you shall store
these words in your heart and in your soul, and you shall bind them as a sign
on your hand, and it shall be fixed before your eyes.
Deu 11:18 καὶ
ἐμβαλεῖτε τὰ ῥήματα
ταῦτα εἰς τὴν
καρδίαν ὑμῶν
καὶ εἰς τὴν ψυχὴν
ὑμῶν· καὶ ἀφάψετε
αὐτὰ εἰς σημεῖον
ἐπὶ τῆς χειρὸς ὑμῶν,
καὶ ἔσται ἀσάλευτον
πρὸ ὀφθαλμῶν ὑμῶν·
Deu 11:19 WEB You shall teach them your children, talking
of them, when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you
lie down, and when you rise up.
Deu 11:19 And you shall
teach them to your children, so as to speak about them when you sit in the
house, and when you walk by the way, and when you sleep, and when you rise up.
Deu 11:19 καὶ
διδάξετε αὐτὰ
τὰ τέκνα ὑμῶν
λαλεῖν αὐτὰ
καθημένους ἐν
οἴκῳ καὶ
πορευομένους ἐν
ὁδῷ καὶ
κοιταζομένους
καὶ διανισταμένους·
Deu 11:20 WEB You shall write them on the door posts of
your house, and on your gates;
Deu 11:20 And you shall
write them on the doorposts of your houses, and on your gates;
Deu 11:20 καὶ γράψετε
αὐτὰ ἐπὶ τὰς
φλιὰς τῶν οἰκιῶν
ὑμῶν καὶ τῶν
πυλῶν ὑμῶν,
Phylacteries Defiled
Mat 23:5 CAB But all their works they do in order to be
seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad and they enlarge the borders of
their garments.
Mat 23:5
πάντα δὲ
τὰ ἔργα αὐτῶν
ποιοῦσι πρὸς
τὸ θεαθῆναι
τοῖς ἀνθρώποις.
πλατύνουσι
γὰρ τὰ
φυλακτήρια αὐτῶν
καὶ
μεγαλύνουσι
τὰ κράσπεδα
τῶν ἱματίων
αὐτῶν,
Mat 23:5 παντα δε τα εργα αυτων ποιουσιν προς το θεαθηναι τοις ανθρωποις πλατυνουσιν Aγαρ TSBδε τα φυλακτηρια αυτων και μεγαλυνουσιν τα κρασπεδα TSBτων TSBιματιων TSBαυτων
Mourners Marked -- Against Jerusalem’s Abominations
Eze_9:4 WEB Yahweh said to him, Go through the midst of
the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads
of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations
that are done in its midst.
Eze_9:4 LB and said to him, “Go through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark
[σημεῖον] on the foreheads of the men that groan
and that grieve for all the iniquities [ἀνομίαις] that are done in the midst of them.”
Eze_9:4 καὶ
εἶπεν πρὸς αὐτόν
Δίελθε μέσην τὴν
Ιερουσαλημ καὶ
δὸς τὸ σημεῖον ἐπὶ
τὰ μέτωπα τῶν ἀνδρῶν
τῶν
καταστεναζόντων
καὶ τῶν
κατωδυνωμένων
ἐπὶ πάσαις ταῖς
ἀνομίαις ταῖς
γινομέναις ἐν
μέσῳ αὐτῆς.
Eze_9:5 WEB To the others he said in my hearing, Go you
through the city after him, and strike: don't let your eye spare, neither have
you pity;
Eze_9:5 And He said to the
first in my hearing, “Go after him into the
city, and strike: and let not your eyes spare, neither have mercy.
Eze_9:5 καὶ
τούτοις εἶπεν ἀκούοντός
μου Πορεύεσθε ὀπίσω
αὐτοῦ εἰς τὴν πόλιν
καὶ κόπτετε καὶ
μὴ φείδεσθε τοῖς
ὀφθαλμοῖς ὑμῶν
καὶ μὴ ἐλεήσητε·
Eze_9:6 WEB kill utterly the old man, the young man and
the virgin, and little children and women; but don't come near any man on whom
is the mark: and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the old men that
were before the house.
Eze_9:6 Utterly slay old
man and youth, and virgin and infants and women: but do not go near any on whom
is the mark: begin at My sanctuary.” So they began with
the elder men who were within in the house.
Eze_9:6 πρεσβύτερον
καὶ νεανίσκον
καὶ παρθένον
καὶ νήπια καὶ
γυναῖκας ἀποκτείνατε
εἰς ἐξάλειψιν, ἐπὶ
δὲ πάντας, ἐφ᾿
οὕς ἐστιν τὸ
σημεῖον, μὴ ἐγγίσητε·
καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν ἁγίων
μου ἄρξασθε. καὶ
ἤρξαντο ἀπὸ τῶν
ἀνδρῶν τῶν
πρεσβυτέρων, οἳ
ἦσαν ἔσω ἐν τῷ
οἴκῳ.
Passover & Shemma: hand, forehead, doorposts
Passover rules apply here
2Pe_2:7 – Righteous Lot Tormented Soul
2Pe 2:7 CAB and He rescued righteous Lot, who was
oppressed by the indecent conduct of lawless men
2Pe 2:7
καὶ
δίκαιον Λὼτ
καταπονούμενον
ὑπὸ τῆς τῶν
ἀθέσμων ἐν
ἀσελγείᾳ ἀναστροφῆς
ἐρρύσατο·
2Pe 2:8 (for that righteous
man, living among them day after day, tormented his righteous soul by seeing
and hearing their lawless deeds)--
2Pe 2:8
βλέμματι
γὰρ καὶ ἀκοῇ
ὁ δίκαιος, ἐγκατοικῶν
ἐν αὐτοῖς, ἡμέραν
ἐξ ἡμέρας
ψυχὴν
δικαίαν ἀνόμοις
ἔργοις ἐβασάνιζεν·
2Pe 2:9 then the Lord
knows how to deliver the
godly out of temptation and how to keep the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment,
2Pe 2:9 οἶδε
Κύριος εὐσεβεῖς
ἐκ πειρασμοῦ
ῥύεσθαι, ἀδίκους
δὲ εἰς ἡμέραν
κρίσεως
κολαζομένους
τηρεῖν,
2Pe 2:9 οιδεν κυριος ευσεβεις εκ Sπειρασμων TBAπειρασμου ρυεσθαι αδικους δε εις ημεραν κρισεως κολαζομενους τηρειν
Name
Rev 3:12 He who overcomes,
I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and by no means shall he go
out any longer. And I will write on him the name of My God and the name of
the city of My God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down from heaven from My
God. And My new name.
Rev 3:12 ῾Ο
νικῶν,
ποιήσω αὐτὸν
στῦλον ἐν τῷ
ναῷ τοῦ
Θεοῦ μου, καὶ ἔξω
οὐ μὴ ἐξέλθῃ
ἔτι, καὶ
γράψω ἐπ᾿ αὐτὸν
τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ
Θεοῦ μου, καὶ
τὸ ὄνομα τῆς
πόλεως τοῦ
Θεοῦ μου, τῆς
καινῆς ῾Ιερουσαλήμ,
ἣ καταβαίνει
ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ
ἀπὸ τοῦ
Θεοῦ μου, καὶ
τὸ ὄνομά μου
τὸ καινόν.
Rev 3:12 ο νικων ποιησω αυτον στυλον εν τω ναω του θεου μου και εξω ου μη εξελθη ετι και γραψω επ αυτον το ονομα του θεου μου και το ονομα της πολεως του θεου μου της καινης ιερουσαλημ η SBκαταβαινει TAκαταβαινουσα εκ του ουρανου απο του θεου μου και το ονομα Bμου TSAμου το καινον
Sealing God’s Servants Upon Foreheads
Rev_7:3 CAB saying, "Do not harm the earth, nor the
sea, nor the trees, until we shall seal the servants of our God on their
foreheads."
Rev_7:3
λέγων· μὴ ἀδικήσητε
τὴν γῆν
μήτε τὴν
θάλασσαν
μήτε τὰ
δένδρα, ἄχρι οὗ
σφραγίσωμεν
τοὺς δούλους
τοῦ Θεοῦ ἡμῶν
ἐπὶ τῶν
μετώπων αὐτῶν.
Rev_7:3 λεγων
μη αδικησητε
την γην μητε
την θαλασσαν
μητε τα δενδρα Aαχρι TSBαχρις
TSBου SBAσφραγισωμεν
Tσφραγιζωμεν
τους δουλους
του θεου ημων
επι των μετωπων
αυτων
Rev_7:4 And I heard the
number of those having been sealed, one hundred and forty-four thousand having
been sealed out of every tribe of the sons of Israel:
Rev_7:4
καὶ ἤκουσα
τὸν ἀριθμὸν
τῶν ἐσφραγισμένων·
ἑκατὸν
τεσσεράκοντα
τέσσαρες
χιλιάδες ἐσφραγισμένοι
ἐκ πάσης
φυλῆς υἱῶν ᾿Ισραήλ·
Rev_7:4
και ηκουσα
τον αριθμον
των
εσφραγισμενων BAεκατον Bκαι Bτεσσαρακοντα Aτεσσερακοντα BAτεσσαρες TSρμδ χιλιαδες
εσφραγισμενοι
εκ πασης φυλης
υιων ισραηλ
Seal of God Upon Foreheads
Rev_9:4 CAB They were told not to
harm the grass of the earth, nor any plant, nor any tree, but only those men who do not have the seal of God on their
foreheads.
Rev_9:4
καὶ ἐρρέθη
αὐταῖς ἵνα
μὴ ἀδικήσωσι
τὸν χόρτον
τῆς γῆς οὐδὲ
πᾶν χλωρὸν
οὐδὲ πᾶν
δένδρον, εἰ
μὴ τοὺς ἀνθρώπους
οἵτινες οὐκ ἔχουσι
τὴν σφραγῖδα
τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐπὶ
τῶν μετώπων
αὐτῶν.
Rev_9:4
και ερρεθη
αυταις ινα μη Aαδικησουσιν Bαδικησωσι TSαδικησωσιν
τον χορτον της
γης ουδε παν
χλωρον ουδε
παν δενδρον ει
μη τους
ανθρωπους TSμονους
οιτινες ουκ BAεχουσι TSεχουσιν
την σφραγιδα
του θεου επι
των μετωπων TSBαυτων
Numeric: Rev_9:4
↔ Eze_9:4
Mark of the Beast
Rev_13:15 CAB And it was granted to him to give breath
[πνεῦμα] to the image
[εἰκόνι] of the beast, that
the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship
the image of the beast to be killed.
Rev_13:15
καὶ ἐδόθη
αὐτῷ δοῦναι
πνεῦμα τῇ
εἰκόνι τοῦ
θηρίου, ἵνα
καὶ λαλήσῃ
ἡ εἰκὼν τοῦ
θηρίου καὶ
ποιήσῃ, ὅσοι
ἐὰν μὴ
προσκυνήσωσι
τῇ εἰκόνι
τοῦ θηρίου, ἵνα
ἀποκτανθῶσι.
Rev_13:15 και
εδοθη αυτω TSAδουναι
πνευμα Bδουναι
τη εικονι του
θηριου ινα και
λαληση η εικων
του θηριου και
ποιηση Aινα οσοι BAεαν TSαν μη Bπροσκυνησωσι
TSAπροσκυνησωσιν
BAτη TSτην BAεικονι TSεικονα
του θηριου Bαποκτανθωσι
TSινα TSAαποκτανθωσιν
Rev_13:16 And he causes all, small and great, rich and
poor, free and bond, that they should receive marks on their right hand,
or on their foreheads,
Rev_13:16
καὶ ποιεῖ
πάντας, τοὺς
μικροὺς καὶ
τοὺς
μεγάλους,
καὶ τοὺς
πλουσίους
καὶ τοὺς
πτωχούς, καὶ
τοὺς ἐλευθέρους
καὶ τοὺς
δούλους, ἵνα
δῶσιν αὐτοῖς
χάραγμα ἐπὶ
τῆς χειρὸς
αὐτῶν τῆς
δεξιᾶς ἢ ἐπὶ
τὸ μέτωπον
αὐτῶν,
Rev_13:16 και
ποιει παντας
τους μικρους
και τους
μεγαλους και
τους πλουσιους
και τους πτωχους
και τους
ελευθερους και
τους δουλους
ινα BAδωσιν
TSδωση
αυτοις Bχαραγματα
TSAχαραγμα
επι της χειρος
αυτων της
δεξιας η επι Aτο TSBτων
Aμετωπον TSBμετωπων
αυτων
Rev_13:17 and that no one
may buy or sell except he that has the mark, the name of the beast,
or the number of his name.
Rev_13:17
καὶ ἵνα μή
τις δύνηται ἀγοράσαι
ἢ πωλῆσαι εἰ
μὴ ὁ ἔχων τὸ
χάραγμα, τὸ ὄνομα
τοῦ θηρίου ἢ
τὸν ἀριθμὸν
τοῦ ὀνόματος
αὐτοῦ.
Rev_13:17 και
ινα μη τις Bδυναται TSAδυνηται
αγορασαι η
πωλησαι ει μη ο
εχων το χαραγμα
TSη το
ονομα του
θηριου η τον
αριθμον του
ονοματος αυτου
Rev_13:18 Here is wisdom.
Let him that has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it
is the number of man--his
number is 666.
Rev_13:18 ῟Ωδε
ἡ σοφία ἐστίν·
ὁ ἔχων νοῦν
ψηφισάτω τὸν
ἀριθμὸν τοῦ
θηρίου· ἀριθμὸς
γὰρ ἀνθρώπου
ἐστί· καὶ ὁ
ἀριθμὸς αὐτοῦ
χξς᾿.
Rev_13:18 ωδε η σοφια εστιν ο εχων TSτον νουν ψηφισατω τον αριθμον του θηριου αριθμος γαρ ανθρωπου εστιν Bκαι TSAκαι ο αριθμος αυτου Aεξακοσιοι Aεξηκοντα Aεξ Bεστιν TSBχξς
Tormented for the Mark of the Beast
Preview
· Rev_14:1 – 144,000 with God’s name written on their foreheads
· Rev_14:8 – Babylon the great has fallen (CAB)
· Rev_14:9-10 – Marked Beast Worshipers Tormented eternally
Rev_14:1 CAB And I saw, and behold,
the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with Him one hundred and forty-four thousand, having
His name and the name of His Father having been written on their foreheads.
Rev_14:1
Καὶ εἶδον,
καὶ ἰδοὺ
τὸ ἀρνίον ἑστηκὸς
ἐπὶ τὸ ὄρος
Σιών, καὶ μετ᾿
αὐτοῦ ἑκατὸν
τεσσεράκοντα
τέσσαρες
χιλιάδες, ἔχουσαι
τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ
καὶ τὸ ὄνομα
τοῦ πατρὸς
αὐτοῦ
γεγραμμένον ἐπὶ
τῶν μετώπων
αὐτῶν.
Rev_14:1 και
ειδον και ιδου Aτο Bτο αρνιον
Aεστος TSBεστηκος
επι το ορος
σιων και μετ
αυτου Bαριθμος Bρμδ
TSAεκατον TSτεσσαρακοντα
Aτεσσερακοντα
TSAτεσσαρες
χιλιαδες
εχουσαι BAτο
BAονομα BAαυτου BAκαι το
ονομα του
πατρος αυτου
γεγραμμενον επι
των μετωπων
αυτων
Rev_14:2 And I heard a
voice from heaven, like the voice of many waters, and like the voice of loud thunder. And
the voice which I heard was as of harpists playing on their harps.
Rev_14:2
καὶ ἤκουσα
φωνὴν ἐκ τοῦ
οὐρανοῦ ὡς
φωνὴν ὑδάτων
πολλῶν καὶ ὡς
φωνὴν βροντῆς
μεγάλης· καὶ
ἡ φωνὴ ἣν ἤκουσα,
ὡς κιθαρῳδῶν
κιθαριζόντων
ἐν ταῖς
κιθάραις αὐτῶν.
Rev_14:2 και
ηκουσα φωνην
εκ του ουρανου
ως φωνην
υδατων πολλων
και ως φωνην
βροντης
μεγαλης και BAη BAφωνη
BAην TSφωνην
ηκουσα BAως
κιθαρωδων
κιθαριζοντων
εν ταις
κιθαραις αυτων
Rev_14:3 And they sang a
new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures, and the
elders; and no one was able to learn that song except the hundred and
forty-four thousand who had been redeemed from the earth.
Rev_14:3
καὶ ᾄδουσιν
ᾠδὴν
καινὴν ἐνώπιον
τοῦ θρόνου
καὶ ἐνώπιον
τῶν τεσσάρων
ζῴων καὶ τῶν
πρεσβυτέρων·
καὶ οὐδεὶς
ἐδύνατο
μαθεῖν τὴν ᾠδὴν
εἰ μὴ αἱ ἑκατὸν
τεσσεράκοντα
τέσσαρες
χιλιάδες, οἱ
ἠγορασμένοι
ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς.
Rev_14:3 και
αδουσιν Aως TSως
ωδην καινην
ενωπιον του
θρονου και
ενωπιον των
τεσσαρων ζωων
και των
πρεσβυτερων
και ουδεις BAεδυνατο TSηδυνατο
μαθειν την
ωδην ει μη αι Bρμδ TSAεκατον
TSτεσσαρακοντα
Aτεσσερακοντα
TSAτεσσαρες
χιλιαδες οι
ηγορασμενοι
απο της γης
Rev_14:4 These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever He may go. These were redeemed by Jesus from among men, firstfruits to God and to the Lamb.
Rev_14:4 οὗτοί
εἰσιν οἳ
μετὰ γυναικῶν
οὐκ ἐμολύνθησαν·
παρθένοι γάρ
εἰσιν. οὗτοι
εἰσιν οἱ ἀκολουθοῦντες
τῷ ἀρνίῳ ὅπου
ἂν ὑπάγῃ. οὗτοι
ἠγοράσθησαν
ἀπὸ τῶν ἀνθρώπων
ἀπαρχὴ τῷ
Θεῷ καὶ τῷ
ἀρνίῳ·
Rev_14:4 ουτοι
εισιν οι μετα
γυναικων ουκ
εμολυνθησαν
παρθενοι γαρ
εισιν ουτοι TSBεισιν οι
ακολουθουντες
τω αρνιω οπου
αν υπαγη ουτοι Bυπο Bιησου
ηγορασθησαν
απο των
ανθρωπων
απαρχη τω θεω και
τω αρνιω
Rev_14:5 And no guile was
found in their mouth, for they are blameless.
Rev_14:5
καὶ οὐχ εὑρέθη
ψεῦδος ἐν τῷ
στόματι αὐτῶν·
ἄμωμοι γὰρ εἰσιν.
Rev_14:5 και εν τω
στοματι αυτων
ουχ ευρεθη BAψευδος
TSδολος
αμωμοι TSBγαρ Bεισι
TSAεισιν
TSενωπιον
TSτου TSθρονου
TSτου TSθεου
Rev_14:6 Then I saw an
angel flying in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel [εὐαγγέλιον
αἰώνιον] to proclaim to
those who dwell on the earth, and to every nation, tribe, language, and people,
Rev_14:6
Καὶ εἶδον ἄλλον
ἄγγελον
πετόμενον ἐν
μεσουρανήματι,
ἔχοντα εὐαγγέλιον
αἰώνιον εὐαγγελίσαι
ἐπὶ τοὺς
καθημένους ἐπὶ
τῆς γῆς καὶ
ἐπὶ πᾶν ἔθνος
καὶ φυλὴν
καὶ γλῶσσαν
καὶ λαόν,
Rev_14:6 και
ειδον TSAαλλον
αγγελον BAπετομενον
TSπετωμενον
εν
μεσουρανηματι εχοντα
ευαγγελιον
αιωνιον
ευαγγελισαι Aεπι τους BAκαθημενους
TSκατοικουντας
επι της γης και BAεπι παν
εθνος και
φυλην και
γλωσσαν και
λαον
Rev_14:7 saying with a loud
voice, "Fear the Lord and give glory to Him, for the hour of His judgment
has come; and you shall worship Him who made heaven and earth, and the sea and
fountains of waters."
Rev_14:7
λέγων ἐν
φωνῇ μεγάλῃ·
φοβήθητε τὸν
Θεὸν καὶ
δότε αὐτῷ
δόξαν, ὅτι ἦλθεν
ἡ ὥρα τῆς
κρίσεως αὐτοῦ,
καὶ
προσκυνήσατε
τῷ
ποιήσαντι
τὸν οὐρανὸν
καὶ τὴν γῆν
καὶ τὴν
θάλασσαν καὶ
πηγὰς ὑδάτων.
Rev_14:7 BAλεγων TSλεγοντα
εν φωνη μεγαλη
φοβηθητε τον
θεον και δοτε
αυτω δοξαν οτι
ηλθεν η ωρα της
κρισεως αυτου
και προσκυνησατε
τω ποιησαντι
τον ουρανον
και την γην και SBτην
θαλασσαν και
πηγας υδατων
Rev_14:8 And another, a
second angel followed, saying, "Babylon the great has fallen. From the wine of
the wrath of her fornication, she has made all the nations to
drink."
Rev_14:8
Καὶ ἄλλος
δεύτερος ἄγγελος
ἠκολούθησε
λέγων· ἔπεσεν,
ἔπεσε
Βαβυλὼν ἡ
μεγάλη, ἣ ἐκ
τοῦ οἴνου τοῦ
θυμοῦ τῆς
πορνείας αὐτῆς
πεπότικε
πάντα ἔθνη.
Rev_14:8 και
αλλος Bδευτερος
αγγελος Aδευτερος
Bηκολουθησε TSAηκολουθησεν
λεγων Bεπεσεν TSAεπεσεν
Bεπεσε TSAεπεσεν
βαβυλων η TSπολις TSη μεγαλη Aη TSοτι
εκ του οινου
του θυμου της
πορνειας αυτης
Bπεποτικε TSAπεποτικεν
παντα BAτα
εθνη
Rev_14:9 Then another angel, a third, followed them,
saying with a loud voice, "If anyone worships the Beast and his image, and
receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand,
Rev_14:9
Καὶ ἄλλος ἄγγελος
τρίτος ἠκολούθησεν
αὐτοῖς
λέγων ἐν
φωνῇ μεγάλῃ·
εἴ τις
προσκυνεῖ τὸ
θηρίον καὶ
τὴν εἰκόνα
αὐτοῦ, καὶ
λαμβάνει
χάραγμα ἐπὶ
τοῦ μετώπου
αὐτοῦ ἢ ἐπὶ
τὴν χεῖρα αὐτοῦ,
Rev_14:9 και
BAαλλος TSτριτος
αγγελος BAτριτος
ηκολουθησεν
αυτοις λεγων
εν φωνη μεγαλη
ει τις BAπροσκυνει
το θηριον TSπροσκυνει
και την εικονα
αυτου και
λαμβανει χαραγμα
επι του
μετωπου αυτου
η επι την χειρα
αυτου
Rev_14:10 then he shall
drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out undiluted in
the cup of His wrath. And they shall be tormented with fire and brimstone
before the holy angels and before the Lamb.
Rev_14:10
καὶ αὐτὸς
πίεται ἐκ
τοῦ οἴνου τοῦ
θυμοῦ τοῦ
Θεοῦ τοῦ
κεκερασμένου
ἀκράτου ἐν
τῷ ποτηρίῳ
τῆς ὀργῆς
αὐτοῦ, καὶ
βασανισθήσεται
ἐν πυρὶ καὶ
θείῳ ἐνώπιον
τῶν ἁγίων ἀγγέλων
καὶ ἐνώπιον
τοῦ ἀρνίου.
Rev_14:10 και
αυτος πιεται
εκ του οινου
του θυμου του
θεου του
κεκερασμενου
ακρατου εν τω
ποτηριω της
οργης αυτου και
βασανισθησεται
εν πυρι και
θειω ενωπιον TSBτων TSBαγιων
αγγελων Aαγιων
και ενωπιον
του αρνιου
Rev_14:11 And the smoke of
their torment goes up forever and ever; and they have no rest day or night,
those who worship the Beast and his image, and anyone who receives the
mark of his name."
Rev_14:11
καὶ ὁ
καπνὸς τοῦ
βασανισμοῦ αὐτῶν
εἰς αἰῶνας
αἰώνων ἀναβαίνει,
καὶ οὐκ ἔχουσιν
ἀνάπαυσιν ἡμέρας
καὶ νυκτός
οἱ προσκυνοῦντες
τὸ θηρίον
καὶ τὴν εἰκόνα
αὐτοῦ, καὶ εἴ
τις λαμβάνει
τὸ χάραγμα
τοῦ ὀνόματος
αὐτοῦ.
Rev_14:11 και
ο καπνος του
βασανισμου
αυτων TSαναβαινει
εις αιωνας
αιωνων BAαναβαινει
και ουκ
εχουσιν
αναπαυσιν
ημερας και νυκτος
οι
προσκυνουντες
το θηριον και
την εικονα αυτου
και ει τις
λαμβανει το
χαραγμα του ονοματος
αυτου
Rev_14:12 Here is the
endurance of the saints; those who keep the commandments of God and the
faith of Jesus.
Rev_14:12 ῟Ωδε
ἡ ὑπομονὴ
τῶν ἁγίων ἐστίν,
οἱ τηροῦντες
τὰς ἐντολὰς
τοῦ Θεοῦ
καὶ τὴν
πίστιν ᾿Ιησοῦ.
Rev_14:12 ωδε BAη υπομονη των αγιων εστιν Bωδε TSωδε οι τηρουντες τας εντολας του θεου και την πιστιν ιησου
Rev_14:13 – Blessed Dead Obeyers (i.e. Martyrs, in contrast)
Mother of Harlots -- Written upon Forehead
Rev_17:1 CAB Then one of the seven angels having the seven
bowls came and spoke with me, saying, "Come, I will show you the judgment
of the great harlot [τῆς
πόρνης τῆς
μεγάλης] who sits on many
waters,
Rev_17:1
Καὶ ἦλθεν εἷς
ἐκ τῶν ἑπτὰ
ἀγγέλων τῶν
ἐχόντων τὰς
ἑπτὰ
φιάλας, καὶ ἐλάλησε
μετ᾿ ἐμοῦ
λέγων· δεῦρο,
δείξω σοι τὸ
κρῖμα τῆς
πόρνης τῆς
μεγάλης τῆς
καθημένης ἐπὶ
ὑδάτων πολλῶν,
Rev_17:1 και
ηλθεν εις εκ
των επτα
αγγελων των
εχοντων τας επτα
φιαλας και Bελαλησε TSAελαλησεν
μετ εμου λεγων TSμοι
δευρο δειξω
σοι το κριμα
της πορνης της
μεγαλης της
καθημενης επι TSBτων
υδατων TSBτων
πολλων
Rev_17:2 with whom the
kings of the earth committed fornication [ἐπόρνευσαν], and those
dwelling on the earth became drunk
from the wine of her fornication."
Rev_17:2
μεθ᾿ ἧς ἐπόρνευσαν
οἱ βασιλεῖς
τῆς γῆς, καὶ
ἐμεθύσθησαν
οἱ κατοικοῦντες
τὴν γῆν ἐκ
τοῦ οἴνου τῆς
πορνείας αὐτῆς.
Rev_17:2 μεθ
ης επορνευσαν
οι βασιλεις
της γης και
εμεθυσθησαν BAοι BAκατοικουντες
BAτην BAγην εκ
του οινου της
πορνειας αυτης
TSοι TSκατοικουντες
TSτην TSγην
Rev_17:3 And he led me away
in the Spirit, into a
deserted place. And I saw a woman
sitting on a scarlet beast being filled with names of blasphemy, having seven
heads and ten horns.
Rev_17:3
καὶ ἀπήνεγκέ
με εἰς ἔρημον
ἐν πνεύματι.
καὶ εἶδον
γυναῖκα
καθημένην ἐπὶ
θηρίον
κόκκινον,
γέμον ὀνόματα
βλασφημίας, ἔχων
κεφαλὰς ἑπτὰ
καὶ κέρατα
δέκα.
Rev_17:3 και
Bαπηνεγκε TSAαπηνεγκεν
με εις ερημον
εν πνευματι
και ειδον
γυναικα
καθημενην επι
θηριον
κοκκινον TSBγεμον Aγεμοντα BAονοματα
TSονοματων
βλασφημιας Aεχων TSBεχον
κεφαλας επτα
και κερατα
δεκα
Rev_17:4 And the woman was
clothed in purple and scarlet, gilded with gold and
precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup being filled with abominations
and the filthiness of the fornication of the earth.
Rev_17:4
καὶ ἡ γυνὴ ἦν
περιβεβλημένη
πορφυροῦν
καὶ κόκκινον
καὶ
κεχρυσωμένη
χρυσίῳ καὶ
λίθῳ τιμίῳ
καὶ μαργαρίταις,
ἔχουσα
ποτήριον
χρυσοῦν ἐν
τῇ χειρὶ αὐτῆς
γέμον
βδελυγμάτων
καὶ τὰ ἀκάθαρτα
τῆς πορνείας
αὐτῆς,
Rev_17:4 και
η γυνη SBAην
Tη
περιβεβλημενη BAπορφυρουν
TSπορφυρα
και BAκοκκινον
TSκοκκινω TSAκαι
κεχρυσωμενη BAχρυσιω TSχρυσω και
λιθω τιμιω και
μαργαριταις
εχουσα TSχρυσουν
ποτηριον BAχρυσουν
εν τη χειρι
αυτης γεμον
βδελυγματων
και BAτα
BAακαθαρτα
BAτης TSακαθαρτητος
πορνειας αυτης
Rev_17:5 And on her forehead a name was written: MYSTERY
[μυστήριον], BABYLON THE
GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF
THE EARTH.
Rev_17:5
καὶ ἐπὶ
τὸ μέτωπον
αὐτῆς ὄνομα
γεγραμμένον·
μυστήριον,
Βαβυλὼν ἡ
μεγάλη, ἡ
μήτηρ τῶν
πορνῶν καὶ
τῶν
βδελυγμάτων
τῆς γῆς.
Rev_17:6 I saw the woman, drunk
with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And
when I saw her, I marveled [θαῦμα] with great
amazement.
Rev_17:6
καὶ εἶδον
τὴν γυναῖκα
μεθύουσαν ἐκ
τοῦ αἵματος
τῶν ἁγίων
καὶ ἐκ τοῦ αἵματος
τῶν μαρτύρων
᾿Ιησοῦ. καὶ ἐθαύμασα
ἰδὼν αὐτὴν
θαῦμα μέγα.
Rev_17:6 και
ειδον την
γυναικα
μεθυουσαν εκ
του αιματος των
αγιων Bκαι TSAκαι
εκ του αιματος
των μαρτυρων
ιησου και
εθαυμασα ιδων
αυτην θαυμα
μεγα
Rev_17:7 But the angel said
to me, "Why did you marvel? I will tell you the mystery of
the woman and of the Beast carrying her, which has the seven heads and the ten
horns.
Rev_17:7
καὶ εἶπέ
μοι ὁ ἄγγελος·
διατί ἐθαύμασας;
ἐγὼ ἐρῶ
σοι τὸ
μυστήριον τῆς
γυναικὸς καὶ
τοῦ θηρίου
τοῦ
βαστάζοντος
αὐτήν, τοῦ ἔχοντος
τὰς ἑπτὰ
κεφαλὰς καὶ
τὰ δέκα
κέρατα.
Rev_17:7 και
Bειπε TSAειπεν
μοι ο αγγελος BAδια BAτι TSδιατι
εθαυμασας εγω TSσοι ερω BAσοι το
μυστηριον της
γυναικος και
του θηριου του βασταζοντος
αυτην του
εχοντος τας
επτα κεφαλας και
τα δεκα κερατα
Rev_17:8 The Beast which
you saw was, and is not, and is about to ascend out of the bottomless pit and
go to perdition. And those who dwell on the earth shall marvel,
whose name is not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world,
when they see the Beast that was, and is not, and shall be present.
Rev_17:8
Τὸ θηρίον ὃ
εἶδες ἦν καὶ
οὐκ ἔστι, καὶ
μέλλει ἀναβαίνειν
ἐκ τῆς ἀβύσσου
καὶ εἰς ἀπώλειαν
ὑπάγειν·
καὶ
θαυμασθήσονται
οἱ κατοικοῦντες
ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς,
ὧν οὐ
γέγραπται τὸ
ὄνομα ἐπὶ
τὸ βιβλίον
τῆς ζωῆς ἀπὸ
καταβολῆς
κόσμου,
βλεπόντων τὸ
θηρίον ὅτι ἦν
καὶ οὐκ ἔστι
καὶ
παρέσται.
Rev_17:8 SBAτο θηριον ο ειδες ην και ουκ Bεστι TSAεστιν και μελλει αναβαινειν εκ της αβυσσου και εις απωλειαν Aυπαγει TSBυπαγειν και Aθαυμασθησονται TSBθαυμασονται οι κατοικουντες επι της γης ων ου γεγραπται Aτο TSBτα Aονομα TSBονοματα επι το βιβλιον της ζωης απο καταβολης κοσμου BAβλεποντων Bοτι Bην TSβλεποντες το θηριον Aοτι TSο TSτι TSAην και ουκ Bεστι TSAεστιν BAκαι TSκαιπερ BAπαρεσται TSεστιν
Resurrected & Reigning -- Without Beast’s Mark!
Thousand Year Reign
Rev_20:4 CAB And I saw thrones, and
they sat on them, and judgment was given to them, and the souls of those who
had been beheaded on account of the testimony of Jesus, and on account of the
word of God, and those who had not worshipped the Beast or his image, and they
did not receive the mark on their forehead or on their hand.
And they came to life and reigned with Christ for the thousand years.
Rev_20:4
Καὶ εἶδον
θρόνους, καὶ
ἐκάθισαν ἐπ᾿
αὐτούς, καὶ
κρῖμα ἐδόθη
αὐτοῖς, καὶ
τὰς ψυχὰς τῶν
πεπελεκισμένων
διὰ τὴν
μαρτυρίαν ᾿Ιησοῦ
καὶ διὰ τὸν
λόγον τοῦ
Θεοῦ, καὶ οἵτινες
οὐ
προσεκύνησαν
τὸ θηρίον οὔτε
τὴν εἰκόνα
αὐτοῦ, καὶ
οὐκ ἔλαβον
τὸ χάραγμα ἐπὶ
τὸ μέτωπον
αὐτῶν καὶ ἐπὶ
τὴν χεῖρα αὐτῶν·
καὶ ἔζησαν
καὶ ἐβασίλευσαν
μετὰ τοῦ
Χριστοῦ
χίλια ἔτη·
Rev_20:4 και ειδον θρονους και εκαθισαν επ αυτους και κριμα εδοθη αυτοις και τας ψυχας των πεπελεκισμενων δια την μαρτυριαν ιησου και δια τον λογον του θεου και οιτινες ου προσεκυνησαν Aτο TSBτω Aθηριον TSBθηριω Aουδε TSBουτε την εικονα αυτου και ουκ ελαβον το χαραγμα επι το μετωπον Bαυτων TSαυτων και επι την χειρα αυτων και εζησαν και εβασιλευσαν μετα BAτου χριστου Bτα Tτα χιλια ετη
God’s Name upon Foreheads -- into Eternity!
Rev_22:3 CAB And there shall be no more curse, but the
throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants will minister to
Him.
Rev_22:3
καὶ πᾶν
κατάθεμα οὐκ
ἔσται ἔτι·
καὶ ὁ
θρόνος τοῦ
Θεοῦ καὶ τοῦ
ἀρνίου ἐν
αὐτῇ ἔσται,
καὶ οἱ δοῦλοι
αὐτοῦ
λατρεύσουσιν
αὐτῷ
Rev_22:3 και
παν BAκαταθεμα
TSκαταναθεμα
ουκ εσται Bεκει TSAετι
και ο θρονος
του θεου και
του αρνιου εν
αυτη εσται και
οι δουλοι
αυτου
λατρευσουσιν αυτω
Rev_22:3 And they shall see His face, and His
name shall be on their foreheads.
Rev_22:4 καὶ ὄψονται
τὸ πρόσωπον
αὐτοῦ, καὶ
τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ
ἐπὶ τῶν
μετώπων αὐτῶν.
Remember the Jewish priest with God’s Amazing Holiness written in gold on his forehead?
See: Holy Golden Forehead
Women’s Foreheads
Shameless Prostitute's Forehead
Pro_5:3
Pro_6:25
Pro_7:10-20
Pro_9:3
Jer_3:3 WEB Therefore the showers have been withheld, and
there has been no latter rain; yet you have a prostitute's forehead, you
refused to be ashamed.
Jer_3:3 LB And you retained many shepherds for a
stumbling block to yourself. You had a whore's face; you became shameless
toward all.
Jer_3:3 καὶ ἔσχες
ποιμένας
πολλοὺς εἰς πρόσκομμα
σεαυτῇ· ὄψις πόρνης
ἐγένετό σοι, ἀπηναισχύντησας
πρὸς πάντας.
If a woman’s Forehead is Shameless, it shows she is a Prostitute!
This does not simply say that their culture feared showing a woman’s forehead, but much rather, if your culture does NOT fear showing a woman’s forehead then you are a Prostitute’s culture!
Besides human culture…
This is God’s indignation at the outrage of perverted society which is given to Prostitution and adultery!
Notice the clear links of all of this immorality with the lack of head modesty!
Those who blindly insist that the headcovering in 1Co_11 is not about Prostitution are lying in outrageous error.
Other
Eze_16:12 – KJV: thy forehead,H639
But it matches with nose in current Heb & Greek
Incl. Jewels
Eze_16:12 WEB I put a ring on your nose, and earrings in
your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head.
Eze_16:12 LB And I put a pendant in your nose, and rings
in your ears, and a crown of glory on your head.
Eze_16:12 καὶ ἔδωκα
ἐνώτιον περὶ τὸν
μυκτῆρά σου καὶ
τροχίσκους ἐπὶ
τὰ ὦτά σου καὶ
στέφανον καυχήσεως
ἐπὶ τὴν κεφαλήν
σου·
Hair & Haircuts
Baldness is Clean -- for a Man
Lev_13:40 WEB "If a man's
hair has fallen from his head, he is bald. He is clean.
Lev_13:40 LB And if anyone's head
should lose his hair, he is only bald, he is clean.
Lev_13:40 Ἐὰν δέ
τινι μαδήσῃ ἡ
κεφαλὴ αὐτοῦ,
φαλακρός ἐστιν,
καθαρός ἐστιν·
Lev_13:40
WEB If his hair has fallen off
from the front part of his head, he is forehead bald. He is clean.
Lev_13:41 And if his head should lose the hair in front, ·he is forehead bald [ἀναφάλαντός ἐστιν], he is clean.
Lev_13:41 ἐὰν δὲ
κατὰ πρόσωπον
μαδήσῃ ἡ κεφαλὴ
αὐτοῦ, ἀναφάλαντός
ἐστιν, καθαρός ἐστιν.
Lev_13:42 WEB But if there is in the bald head, or the bald
forehead, a reddish-white plague; it is leprosy breaking out in his bald head,
or his bald forehead.
Lev_13:42 And if there should be in
his baldness of head, or his baldness of forehead, a white or fiery plague, it
is leprosy in his baldness of head, or baldness of forehead.
Lev_13:42 ἐὰν δὲ γένηται
ἐν τῷ φαλακρώματι
αὐτοῦ ἢ ἐν τῷ ἀναφαλαντώματι
αὐτοῦ ἁφὴ λευκὴ
ἢ πυρρίζουσα, λέπρα
ἐστὶν ἐν τῷ
φαλακρώματι αὐτοῦ
ἢ ἐν τῷ ἀναφαλαντώματι
αὐτοῦ,
Lev_13:43 WEB Then the priest shall examine him; and,
behold, if the rising of the plague is reddish-white in his bald head, or in
his bald forehead, like the appearance of leprosy in the skin of the flesh,
Lev_13:43 And the priest shall look
upon him, and behold, if the appearance of the plague is white or inflamed in
his baldness of head or baldness in front, as the appearance of leprosy in the
skin of his flesh,
Lev_13:43 καὶ ὄψεται
αὐτὸν ὁ ἱερεὺς
καὶ ἰδοὺ ἡ ὄψις
τῆς ἁφῆς λευκὴ
πυρρίζουσα ἐν
τῷ φαλακρώματι
αὐτοῦ ἢ ἐν τῷ ἀναφαλαντώματι
αὐτοῦ ὡς εἶδος
λέπρας ἐν δέρματι
τῆς σαρκὸς αὐτοῦ,
Lev_13:44 WEB he is a leprous man. He is unclean. The
priest shall surely pronounce him unclean. His plague is on his head.
Lev_13:44 then he is a leprous man;
the priest shall surely pronounce him unclean, his plague is in his head.
Lev_13:44 ἄνθρωπος
λεπρός ἐστιν·
μιάνσει μιανεῖ
αὐτὸν ὁ ἱερεύς,
ἐν τῇ κεφαλῇ αὐτοῦ
ἡ ἁφὴ αὐτοῦ.
This is an unusual Hebrew & Greek word for “forehead bald”
Lev_13:43 – Baldness is only unclean when it also has skin issues
Contrast a man’s clean bald head with the same of a woman’s hair cut!
Baldness Despised by Flesh Perverts
Go up bald man
Corners or Foreheads Cut
Jer_49:32 WEB Their camels shall be a booty, and the
multitude of their livestock a spoil: and I will scatter to all winds
those who have the corners of their hair cut off; and I will bring their calamity from every side of them, says
Yahweh.
Jer_49:32 LB And their camels shall be a spoil, and the multitude of their cattle shall be destroyed; and I will scatter them as chaff with every wind, having their hair cut about their foreheads; I will bring on their overthrow from all sides,” says the Lord.
Jer_49:32 (30:27) καὶ ἔσονται
κάμηλοι αὐτῶν
εἰς προνομὴν
καὶ πλῆθος
κτηνῶν αὐτῶν εἰς
ἀπώλειαν· καὶ
λικμήσω αὐτοὺς
παντὶ πνεύματι
κεκαρμένους
πρὸ προσώπου αὐτῶν,
ἐκ παντὸς πέραν
αὐτῶν οἴσω τὴν
τροπὴν αὐτῶν, εἶπεν
κύριος.
Head and Face
Main New Testament reference: 1Co_11:1-16
But they Did Sometimes Hide Their Head When Ashamed
Comparing Some Greek
Our (spiritual) gospel
is not veiled to those who are saved
When Moses veiled the glory of his face (Exo_34:33) it is said
Επεθηκεν
2007[V-AAI-3S] επι 1909[PREP]
το 3588[T-ASN] προσωπον
4383[N-ASN] αυτου 846
Or in 2Co_3:13:
καλυμμα 2571[A VEIL] επι 1909[ON] το 3588[THE] προσωπον 4383
Veil of temple uses “kata” + “flying” to be expressed in Greek
Times to Not Veil
It seems that the Biblical idea of veiling was the same of regular clothing.
When Traveling In The
Hot Son Before Meeting Isaac
Though righteous Rebecca did not have the veil on during the unbearably hot ride through the desert, as soon as the issue of modesty was present she veiled herself:
Peter
In the same way Peter did not fully cloth himself in the hot work of fishing, but when met by Jesus from the shore he quickly clothed himself.
Feet Washing
When the woman kissed Jesus’ feet there was at least some removing of the veil? Or possibly the mouth is never covered?
Therefore, it is safe to say that head coverings were always used for social situations (non-family members), and veils were very necisary where there was unfamiliarity with some involved and any greater potential for lust. The lesson in 1Co_11 is that the Assembly of the church is no exception to this practice of covering the hair or veiling the face. In short, this is literally described as “Something that comes down and hides the head”
--
A man shames his head if he has something coming down it:
Est_7:8
Est_6:12; Job_9:24; Isa_22:17
“Shame has covered our faces”
Eli Saw Hanna’s Mouth Move
Unsolved Face Veil
Question
3/12/17; 12/12/21
1Sa_1:12
WEB It happened, as she continued
praying before Yahweh, that Eli marked her mouth.
1Sa_1:12 LB And it came to pass, while she was praying a
long time before the Lord, that Eli the priest watched her mouth.
1Sa_1:12 καὶ ἐγενήθη
ὅτε ἐπλήθυνεν
προσευχομένη ἐνώπιον
κυρίου, καὶ Ηλι ὁ
ἱερεὺς ἐφύλαξεν
τὸ στόμα αὐτῆς·
· This passage brings up important questions about the face veil.
· The sight of the mouth speaking can still be seen despite a face veil.
· We (Bible obeyers) can speak as those who know -- since we practice face veils and still see mouths moving.
Mouth Veil – Thirsty Silent-ness
G4623 G4602 G4601
Isa_42:14
Sarah Hiding Behind The Tent Wall
8/20/17; 8/22/17
Sarah hiding behind the tent wall when the Three Angels came and visited.
we can compare this scene with other passages in the Bible and with many other potent examples throughout history and we can get a very potent realization of what is going on with Sarah hiding behind the wall typically without a head covering "In the Heat of the day", and with some seriously striking virtue of humility and quiet feminine modesty, listening into the men talking and deciding what will happen in life.
because she was a humble submissive quiet virtuous female, modestly hiding behind the tent wall, not even intending to be a part of the conversation, but only to listen, she was also exalted greatly without her consent.
WARNING: The Head Covering is an Issue of Modesty!
The Bible definitely teaches that a woman
ought not to remove her head covering* during prayer and prophecy, and that a
man ought not to add a head covering* during these times (1Co 11). It is an
unspeakable tragedy that most all versions are extremely haphazard,
irresponsible, sloppy, and vague when misrepresenting this chapter in English,
but people in other cultures have been obeying this for thousands of years!
Even “conservative Muslims” know how to obey this chapter better than modern
christians!
[* Important Details: The Biblical word for a head
covering is to “ἔχων…κατακαλύπτεσθαι” – to “have something
coming down (κατα) and hiding (καλύπτεσθαι).” The root word “καλύπτω” (G2572), (as used in
1Co 11) is a somewhat more “clothing-specific” verbal relative to the more
general concepts of “hiding” such as
“κρύπτω” (G2928) and the corresponding noun
“κρυπτω” (G2927) as used in Mat_6:6, etc.]
12/19/11
Headship vs. Body
Eph_1:22-23
Jesus = head
Church = Body
1Co_11:
Man = head
Woman = his body
If she uncovers her physical head, she is uncovering her authoritative head’s entire body, whether that is her father, brothers, husband, or the men in the church in general. This is a universal man-woman dynamic.
Her head = His Body (because she is his body)
Uncovering Her head = Uncovering His Body (because she is his body)
Talmud Agrees with the Veil
“and this is the part of an evil man,
who sees his wife going out, without
a veil upon her head, and with a bare neck, and sees her washing
in the baths, where men are wont to
wash, and yet cares not for it; whereas by the law he is bound to put her
away.”
(from the Talmud – “Maimonides and Gittin” [says Lightfoot])
Although these hard hearted Jews are obviously very wrong about divorcing her (just as it is seen in Mat_19 and Mar_10), yet they do preserve a consistent and even Biblical concept of modesty.
There are many other quotes I need to add here as well.
Rebekka & Tamar
Rebekka - Gen_24:65
θέριστρον
περιεβάλετο
\/
Tamar - Gen_38:14
περιεβάλετο
θέριστρον καὶ ἐκαλλωπίσατο
p. 164 ALS > 299
Does it include the
face?:
Katakalupto to prosopon -
Tamar, Susana, Isea, Tertullian
Son_4:1 - σιωπήσεώς
ALS 493
Jdt_9:2 KJVA O Lord God of my
father Simeon, to whom thou gavest a sword to take vengeance of the strangers,
who loosened the girdle of a maid to defile her, and discovered the thigh to
her shame, and polluted her virginity to her reproach; for thou saidst, It
shall not be so; and yet they did so:
Jdt_10:3 KJVA And pulled off
[περιείλατο] the sackcloth
[τὸν σάκκον] which she had on [ἐνεδεδύκει],
and put off [ἐξεδύσατο] the
garments [τὰ ἱμάτια] of her
widowhood, and washed [περιεκλύσατο]
her body all over with water, and anointed [ἐχρίσατο]
herself with precious ointment, and braided the hair [διέξανε
(Dia + compare G1815 - G1817) τὰς τρίχας
G2359] of her head, and put on a tire upon it [ἐπέθετο
(see G2111; G276; G428; G802; G1455; G1570) μίτραν (p. 377 ALS*) ἐπ᾿
αὐτῆς], and put on her garments [τὰ ἱμάτια]
of gladness [τῆς εὐφροσύνης
αὐτῆς], wherewith she was clad [ἐν οἷς
ἐστολίζετο] during the life
of Manasses her husband.
* p. 377 ALS:
"μίτρα, -??
headdress, tier, headband (to bind women's hair together)..."
[can also be a type of crown]
NETS says, “turban”
Jdt_10:4 KJVA And she took sandals upon [εἰς] her feet,
and put about [περιέθετο] her her
bracelets [τοὺς χλιδῶνας],
and her chains [τὰ ψέλια], and her rings
[τοὺς δακτυλίους],
and her earrings [τὰ ἐνώτια], and
all her ornaments [τὸν κόσμον
αὐτῆς], and decked herself bravely [ἐκαλλωπίσατο
σφόδρα
G4970], to [εἰς]
allure the eyes of all men [ἀπάτησιν ὀφθαλμῶν
ἀνδρῶν] that should see her [ὅσοι
ἂν ἴδωσιν αὐτήν].
Jdt_10:7 KJVA And when they saw her, that her countenance [πρόσωπον αὐτῆς] was altered, and her apparel [τὴν στολὴν] was changed, they wondered at her beauty very greatly [ἐθαύμασαν ἐπὶ τῷ κάλλει αὐτῆς ἐπὶ πολὺ σφόδρα], and said unto her.
Rebekah, Susanna, & Maccabean Brides -- History Agrees with the Bible
The Use of Veils
During Bible Times -- in and outside the Bible
Gen_24:63-67 KJV And
Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide: and he lifted up his
eyes, and saw, and, behold, the camels were coming.
64
And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she lighted off
the camel. 65 For she had said unto the servant, What man is this
that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant had said, It is my master: therefore she took a vail, and covered
herself… 65 …and she became his wife; and he loved her.
Dan_13:31-32 KJV 31 Now Susanna was a very delicate woman, and beauteous to behold. 32 And these wicked men commanded to uncover her face, (for she was covered) that they might be filled with her beauty. 33 Therefore her friends and all that saw her wept.
Side Notes:
This is quote is taken from “The history of Susana” which was originally included in the KJV but was eventually removed under the pressure of Protestantism that prevailed in labeling these works as “the Apocrypha.”
3Ma_4:6-9 Brenton Girls [νεανιδες – young girls (i.e. over 12 years old)] who had *entered the bridal chamber [* υπεληλυθυιαι (come under) παστον] quite lately, to enjoy the *partnership of marriage [* βιου κοινωνιαν γαμικον – the sharing/ fellowship of the (here and now) life of marriage], exchanged pleasure for misery; and with dust [κονει] scattered upon their myrrh-anointed heads, were hurried along unveiled [ακαλυπτως – lit. unhidden; (this is the same root used in 1Co_11)];
Note: it is not claimed that this is Scripture, but it is at least a very ancient historical reference which agrees with the Biblical mentality.
Back when people use to care about the exclusive, marital participation in another person’s sexuality, this was seen as an extreme and painful tragedy! What about you, oh desensitized, modern harlot? Do you care if you go around in public unveiled?
Muslim & Talmud Agree About Headcoverings
-- Under Construction --
Anointing with a Head Covering?
Woman Anointing And
Drying Jesus’ Feet With Her Hair
Heretics like to suggest
that she was doing something scandalous and shocking and countercultural, and
even (in fact, actually) counter-modesty, and counter-morality, which puts JC
at odds with Paul, and even God:
liberals want to say Jesus
was endorsing the scandal of an uncovered head when we all know that Paul would
have disapproved of such a scandal, therefore the JC of Christian them is
Antichrist because this hateful evil JC is disobeying the Bible through Paul
instead of fulfilling all of God's commands.
But as for the real Jesus
in the Bible...
The actual text ambiguous
and nonspecific at first, but in fact it actually tells us something very
important about how this scene unfolded socially...
The actual text of the
actual Bible has Simon thinking inside of himself that if this man were a
prophet he would know that the woman was sinful who was touching him
This vital detail tells us
that nothing overtly scandalous was happening like an uncovered head in public,
because it is implied that Jesus would need prophetic discernment to tell that
she was a sinner, whereas if she were committing some kind of shocking social
and modesty no such superpowers would be necessary, since she would be guilty
of the punishment of an adulterous according to Paul.
Furthermore, the woman
anointing Jesus's feet, is interacting with his head and with his feet, and
nothing in between!
The woman is not doing a
sexually explicit immodest immoral liberation, but rather is strictly
interacting with the safe zone of cross gender interactions:
Head and feet and hands are
the furthest from the center of the body and are there for the potentially safe
zones, and the head and feet are the safest zones.
Men could put their hands
on women's heads without defilement, and women can touch men's feet without
defilement, as seen in this case as well as Abigail in 1st Samuel 25, and
numerous other examples of "the safe zones"
Therefore, we have at least
two vitally important details that clearly show us that something scandalous is
not
happening with the
anointing:
· Simon thinks that it would require the supernatural discernment of a prophet to tell she was a sinner
· The woman is explicitly touching safe zones and avoiding immoral physical contact
· Therefore we need to stop trying to change the Bible to fit our culture, and instead change our culture to fit the Bible.
We need to stop making up
fairy tale mythological JC idols that
find different ways to disobey the Bible and justify our liberal
liberated immoral lusts and rebellious disobedience.
Biblical Science Versus
Rebellious Fiction
Remember and consider that
the Bible worships and praises and teachers on that which is observably real in
science, not what is idealistically fantasized in fiction and mythology.
Therefore the chosen has
betrayed its own deception by promoting fictional mythology against head
coverings that doesn't actually correlate with hard and fast scientifically
observable reality:
Monotheists covered heads,
and this was reinforced by Moses and Paul, whereas pagans allowed the indulgence
of immodesty.
The chosen is presenting
there on Antichrist to promote the fictional mythology of immodesty liberation
which has nothing to do with the scientifically observable factual historical
Bible and monotheistic history and confirm the morality throughout numerous ancient texts that all converge on a
moral consensus about women's hair.
The hard fast
scientifically observable reality is that monotheism covers women's hair and
the fictional mythology promoted by The chosen is that JC is promoting
immodesty liberation which has nothing to do with scientifically observable
reality and historical consensus.
Instead of changing the
observer to conform to the reliable reality and factual standards of the actual
Bible, The chosen is trying to take JC and conform him to the worldly culture
of modern immodest, immoral liberation.
>>Scrip:
woe to those who change
bitter for sweet and Sweet for bitter and call evil good and good evil
And notice that the chosen
is trying to incriminate the reverence of self-denying monotheism as though
righteousness promoters are the bad guys!
Notice that liberal
perverts are trying to sow seeds of antagonism against righteous people who
want to promote Bible obedience of head coverings!
But for those who are being
persecuted and slandered by such satanic propaganda, they can take heart and be
encouraged because the real Jesus says to us:
you are blessed when they
persecute you and cast out your name is evil
So the chosen is being
woe-ed by the Bible, for replacing Good and evil and swapping bitter and sweet,
and Jesus is blessing head covers for being persecuted by such hateful
propaganda and for being slandered as evildoers for the sake of the hope of the
good message of monotheism and salvation into clean monotheistic truth and
faith.
Loose Hair is Irrelevant
We should not get
distracted by ignorant illiterate commentators who talk about the scandal of a
woman losing her hair, when what is actually in question is whether she
particularly uncovered her hair.
Theoretically she could
have kept her hair tied while drying his feet or she could have untied her hair
under a head covering to dry his feet but the real question is how much of her head
covering did she keep on not whether or not her hair was untied underneath it
or not
“Shame” Shows that Headcoverings are a
Modesty Issue!
Man should not be ashamed to show off his head, because he is an
icon intended to be looked at, while woman is not an icon at all, and
should be covered.
Shame ≈ Dishonor/Devalue
Dishonor is a synonym for Shame
Jer_22:22 The wind shall
feed all your shepherds, and your lovers shall go into captivity: surely then
you will be ashamed and confounded for all your
wickedness.
Jer_22:22 The wind shall
tend all your shepherds, and your lovers shall go into captivity; for then
shall you be ashamed [αἰσχυνθήσῃ] and disgraced [ἀτιμωθήσῃ] because of all
your lovers.
Jer_22:22 πάντας
τοὺς ποιμένας
σου ποιμανεῖ ἄνεμος,
καὶ οἱ ἐρασταί
σου ἐν αἰχμαλωσίᾳ
ἐξελεύσονται·
ὅτι τότε αἰσχυνθήσῃ
καὶ ἀτιμωθήσῃ
ἀπὸ πάντων τῶν
φιλούντων σε.
Just
like it is used in 1Co_11:14
1Co_11:14 CAB Does not nature itself teach you, that if a
man has long hair, it is a dishonor [ατιμια] to him?
1Co_11:14 TSBη
ουδε TSBαυτη
η φυσις Aαυτη
διδασκει υμας
οτι ανηρ μεν
εαν κομα
ατιμια αυτω
εστιν
The Point: Shame ≈ Devaluing +
Perception
Shame
≈ Devaluing by perception
Shame ≈ Disfigure
12/5/21
This
is important because it is somewhat related to SCHEMA
Strong’s:
“to
disfigure: πρόσωπον, Homer, Iliad 18,
24, and many others.”
-- Under Construction
--
12/5/21
Schema
Anti-schema
& Dishonor
Also compare the equivalent idea with
anti-schema:
1Co_12:23-24 -- Presentable vs.
Unpresentable Parts
Gen_34:7 And theG3588 G1161 sonsG5207 of JacobG* cameG2064 fromG1537 theG3588 plain.G3977.1 And asG5613 G1161 they heard,G191 [3were vexedG2660 1theG3588 2men],G435 andG2532 it was distressingG3077.1 G1510.7.3 to themG1473 exceedingly.G4970 ForG3754 [2an indecent act G809 1he did]G4160 inG1722 Israel,G* going to bedG2837 withG3326 theG3588 daughterG2364 of Jacob.G* AndG2532 notG3756 thusG3779 shall it be.G1510.8.3
Deu_24:1 And ifG1437 G1161 anyG5100 takeG2983 a womanG1135 andG2532 should live withG4924 her,G1473 andG2532 it shall beG1510.8.3 ifG1437 she should not findG3361 G2147 favorG5484 beforeG1726 him,G1473 forG3754 he findsG2147 inG1722 herG1473 an indecentG809 thing,G4229 thenG2532 he shall writeG1125 to herG1473 [2scrollG975 1a certificate of
divorce],G647 andG2532 he shall put itG1325 intoG1519 G3588 her hands,G5495 G1473 andG2532 he shall sendG1821 herG1473 from out ofG1537 G3588 his house.G3614 G1473
1Co_12:23 andG2532 the ones whichG3739 seemG1380 to be exceedingly
without honorG820 G1510.1 of theG3588 body,G4983 theseG3778 [3honorG5092 2more
extraG4053 1we
invest];G4060 andG2532 G3588 [2indecent parts G809 1ourG1473 5decencyG2157 4more extraG4053 3have];G2192
>>>>>>>>
1Ti_2:
Shame and Perception
WS:
“G143 αἰσθάνομαι
…to perceive. To perceive, primarily with the external senses.”
Strong:
G144
αἴσθησις
aisthēsis ah'ee-sthay-sis
From G143; perception,
that is, (figuratively) discernment: - judgment.
G145
αἰσθητήριον
aisthētērion ahee-sthay-tay'-ree-on
From a derivative of G143;
properly an organ of perception, that is, (figuratively)
judgment: - senses.
G149
αἰσχρόν aischron
ahee-skhron'
Neuter of G150; a shameful
thing, that is, indecorum: - shame.
There is a similar sound (αἰσ…ρ-)
which can indicate a similar idea.
Covering Shame = Sexual
Other dates; 10/12/18; 12/12/21
When you are talking about Shame in a gender context, you are talking about the need for modesty.
Deu_23:13 WEB and you shall have a paddle among your
weapons; and it shall be, when you sit down abroad, you shall dig therewith,
and shall turn back and cover that which comes from you:
Deu_23:13 LB
and you shall have an implement among your equipment; and it shall come
to pass that when you relieve yourself outside the camp, that you shall dig
with it, and you shall cover
your refuse [καλύψεις
τὴν ἀσχημοσύνην
σου].
Deu_23:13 (23:14)
καὶ πάσσαλος ἔσται
σοι ἐπὶ τῆς ζώνης
σου, καὶ ἔσται ὅταν
διακαθιζάνῃς ἔξω,
καὶ ὀρύξεις ἐν
αὐτῷ καὶ ἐπαγαγὼν
καλύψεις
τὴν ἀσχημοσύνην
σου ἐν αὐτῷ·
Deu_23:14 WEB for Yahweh your God walks in the midst of
your camp, to deliver you, and to give up your enemies before you; therefore
your camp shall be holy, that he may not see
an unclean thing in you, and turn away from you.
Deu_23:14 LB
Because the Lord your God walks in your camp to deliver you, and to give
up your enemy from before your face; and your camp shall be holy, and there
shall not ·appear in you a disgraceful thing
[ὀφθήσεται
ἐν σοὶ ἀσχημοσύνη
πράγματος], so that He should turn away
[ἀποστρέψει] from you.
Deu_23:14 (23:15) ὅτι
κύριος ὁ θεός
σου ἐμπεριπατεῖ
ἐν τῇ παρεμβολῇ
σου ἐξελέσθαι
σε καὶ παραδοῦναι
τὸν ἐχθρόν σου
πρὸ προσώπου
σου, καὶ ἔσται ἡ
παρεμβολή σου ἁγία,
καὶ οὐκ ὀφθήσεται
ἐν σοὶ ἀσχημοσύνη
πράγματος καὶ ἀποστρέψει
ἀπὸ σοῦ.
Shame of Seeing People Uncovered -- Without
Clothing
Gen_2:25 CAB (3:1) And the two were naked [γυμνοί], *both
Adam [Heb.:
man] and *[ ὅ – that of] his
wife [lit.
woman] [ὅ τε
Αδαμ καὶ ἡ γυνὴ
αὐτοῦ], and were not ashamed [ᾐσχύνοντο]
[note: Mr.
Strong thinks γυνή (G1135) is “Probably from the base
of G1096” – γίνομαι (i.e. “to cause
to be (“gen” -erate)”), which is very realistic (and maybe very likely),
but I wonder if it is also somehow related (maybe as a parent or grandparent)
to γυμνός (G1131) – naked (Which
Strong says is “Of uncertain affinity”.)]
1Sa_20:30 CAB And
Saul was exceedingly angry with Jonathan, and said to him, You son of a
traitorous woman [κορασίων]!
For do I not know that you are an accomplice with the son of Jesse to yourself,
and to the shame of your mother's nakedness?
1Sa_20:30 CT-LXX
Upon this Saul was greatly enraged at Jonathan, and said to him, Thou
son of the perverse and rebellious! For do I not know that thou art an
accomplice of the son of Jessai, to thy own shame [αἰσχύνην],
and the confusion [εἰς αἰσχύνην
ἀποκαλύψεως
– into the shame of unhiding/from hidden-ness] of
thy mother?
1Sa_20:30 Greek καὶ
ἐθυμώθη ὀργῇ
Σαουλ ἐπὶ
Ιωναθαν σφόδρα
καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ
Υἱὲ κορασίων αὐτομολούντων,
οὐ γὰρ οἶδα ὅτι
μέτοχος εἶ σὺ τῷ
υἱῷ Ιεσσαι εἰς
αἰσχύνην σου
καὶ εἰς αἰσχύνην
ἀποκαλύψεως
μητρός σου;
Isa_20:4 CAB for
thus shall the king of the Assyrians lead the captivity of Egypt and the
Ethiopians, young men and old, naked [γυμνοὺς] and
barefoot [ἀνυποδέτους], *having
the shame [αἰσχύνην] of
Egypt exposed [ἀνακεκαλυμμένους] [* ἀνακεκαλυμμένους
τὴν αἰσχύνην Αἰγύπτου].
Eze_23:29 CAB And
they shall deal with you in hatred, and shall take all the fruits of
your labors and your toils, and you shall be naked [γυμνὴ] and
bare [ἀσχημονοῦσα
– shammed]; and the *shame
[αἰσχύνη] of
your fornication shall be exposed [ἀποκαλυφθήσεται
– from hide-ing clothing] – [* ἀποκαλυφθήσεται
αἰσχύνη πορνείας].
And your ungodliness and your fornication
Rev_3:18 CAB I
counsel you to buy from Me gold having been tried by fire, so
that you may become rich; and white robes [ἱμάτια
λευκὰ], *so
that you may be clothed [* ἵνα περιβάλῃ – lit. to
throw around you], and *the shame of your nakedness [* ἡ
αἰσχύνη τῆς
γυμνότητός σου] may
not appear [φανερωθῇ];
and eye salve [κολλούριον], so
that you may anoint your eyes, in order that you may see [βλέπῃ].
Rev_3:18
Greek
συμβουλεύω
σοι ἀγοράσαι
παρ᾿ ἐμοῦ
χρυσίον
πεπυρωμένον ἐκ
πυρὸς ἵνα
πλουτήσῃς,
καὶ ἱμάτια
λευκὰ ἵνα
περιβάλῃ
καὶ μὴ
φανερωθῇ ἡ
αἰσχύνη τῆς
γυμνότητός
σου, καὶ
κολλούριον ἔγχρισον
τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς
σου ἵνα βλέπῃς.
Are
believers supposed to be clothed in gold now?
Is
this future hope of glorious clothing showing off glory, or hiding it?
>>
Then you will appear with him in Glory
Rev_16:15 CAB
Behold, I am coming like a thief [κλέπτης].
Blessed is he who watches [γρηγορῶν],
and guards his garments [τηρῶν
τὰ ἱμάτια
αὐτοῦ],
lest he should walk naked [ἵνα μὴ γυμνὸς
περιπατῇ] and
they should see his shame [βλέπωσι
τὴν ἀσχημοσύνην
αὐτοῦ]."
Rev16:15 Greek ᾿Ιδοὺ
ἔρχομαι ὡς
κλέπτης·
μακάριος ὁ
γρηγορῶν καὶ
τηρῶν τὰ ἱμάτια
αὐτοῦ, ἵνα
μὴ γυμνὸς
περιπατῇ
καὶ βλέπωσι
τὴν ἀσχημοσύνην
αὐτοῦ.
Is
the head covering for God’s sake?
>>
all things are naked and bare before Him
>>
we all with uncovered face
>>
this is like the future hope, where “there is neither male nor female” with
God!
Rev_19:8 CAB And
to her it was granted that she should be dressed in fine linen, bright and
pure, for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints.
The Shame of “Messed up Hair”
12/5/21
The
same Greek terminology used in 1Co_11:4 is also used in the same context in a
particular Greek fable:
Lit.
“shaming down” the hair/mane of a lion
(as
also noted in VGNT -- The Vocabulary of
the Greek New Testament on G2617)
(A) English
“THE
LION AND THE MOUSE ON HIS MANE
While
a lion was sleeping, a mouse ran over his shaggy mane. This angered the lion
and he leaped up from his den, all the hairs of his mane standing on end. A fox
made fun of the fact that a lion, king of all the animals, had been startled by
a mouse. The lion answered the fox, 'You insolent creature! I was not afraid of
the mouse scratching me and running away; I was just worried that he might make a mess on my mane.'”
Source: Aesop's Fables. A new translation by Laura Gibbs.
Oxford University Press (World's Classics): Oxford, 2002.
http://www.mythfolklore.net/aesopica/perry/146.htm
12/5/21
(B) Greek
Κοιμωμένου
λέοντος ἀγρίης
χαίτης
διέδραμεν
μῦς· ὁ δὲ λέων ἐθυμώθη,
φρίξας
δὲ χαίτην ἔθορε
φωλάδος κοίτης.
κερδὼ
δ' ἐπεχλεύαζεν, ὡς
ἐκινήθη
πρὸς
μῦν ὁ πάντων
θηρίων
δυναστεύων.
ὁ
δ' "οὐχὶ τὸν μῦν"
εἶπεν "ὦ
παλαμναίη,
δέδοικα,
μή μου τὴν δορὴν
κνίσῃ φεύγων·
χαίτην
δ' ἔμελλε τὴν ἐμὴν
καταισχύνειν."
[“=
καταχέζειν,
Χαίτην Babr. 82.8.” (LSJ)]
[Ἀρχόμενον
ἄρτι τὸ θρασὺ τῶν
ὑβριζόντων,
κἂν
μικρὸν ᾖ, κώλυε,
μηδὲ συγχώρει
εὐκαταφρόνητον
σαυτὸν εἶναι
τοῖς φαύλοις.
http://www.mythfolklore.net/aesopica/babrius/82.htm
12/5/21
See
also:
http://users.uoa.gr/~nektar/history/tributes/aesop%27s_fables/babrius.htm
Extra-Biblical info on “Shaming Down”
People
“πολὺ γὰρ οὕτω
δικαιότερον ἢ ὑπὸ
τῶν νόμων τοὺς
πολίτας ἐνεδρεύεσθαι,
οἳ κελεύουσι
μέν, ἐάν τις
μοιχὸν λάβῃ, ὅ
τι ἂν οὖν
βούληται χρῆσθαι,
οἱ δ᾽ ἀγῶνες
δεινότεροι τοῖς
ἀδικουμένοις
καθεστήκασιν ἢ
τοῖς παρὰ τοὺς
νόμους τὰς ἀλλοτρίας
καταισχύνουσι
γυναῖκας.”
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:abo:tlg,0540,001:49&lang=original
Accessed 5/2/13
Ezekiel -- Removing the Head Covering [and clothes in general]
Linked with “Shame”
Eze_16:36-37
Leviticus 18 & 20
Lev_18:6 CAB No man shall draw near to any of his near
kindred *to uncover their nakedness [* ἀποκαλύψαι
ἀσχημοσύνην
– lit. bring out from hidden-ness that
which does not have a (socially presentable) schema/ form/ shape; fig. that which is inappropriate to show in
public ]; I am the Lord.
Lev_20:11 Brenton And
if any one should lie with his father's wife, *he
has uncovered his father's nakedness [lit. shame] [* ἀσχημοσύνην τοῦ πατρὸς
αὐτοῦ ἀπεκάλυψεν]: let them both die the death, they
are guilty.
Lev_20:11 Greek ἐάν τις
κοιμηθῇ μετὰ
γυναικὸς τοῦ
πατρὸς αὐτοῦ, ἀσχημοσύνην
τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτοῦ
ἀπεκάλυψεν,
θανάτῳ θανατούσθωσαν
ἀμφότεροι, ἔνοχοί
εἰσιν.
Lev_20:17 Brenton
Whosoever shall take his sister by his father or by his mother, and
shall see her nakedness [ἴδῃ
τὴν ἀσχημοσύνην
αὐτῆς],
and she see his nakedness [αὕτη
ἴδῃ τὴν ἀσχημοσύνην
αὐτοῦ], it is a reproach: they shall be destroyed before the children of
their family; he has uncovered his sister's nakedness [ἀσχημοσύνην
ἀδελφῆς αὐτοῦ ἀπεκάλυψεν], they shall bear their sin.
Lev_20:17 Greek ὃς ἐὰν
λάβῃ τὴν ἀδελφὴν
αὐτοῦ ἐκ πατρὸς
αὐτοῦ ἢ ἐκ μητρὸς
αὐτοῦ καὶ ἴδῃ
τὴν ἀσχημοσύνην
αὐτῆς καὶ αὕτη ἴδῃ
τὴν ἀσχημοσύνην
αὐτοῦ, ὄνειδός ἐστιν,
ἐξολεθρευθήσονται
ἐνώπιον υἱῶν γένους
αὐτῶν· ἀσχημοσύνην
ἀδελφῆς αὐτοῦ ἀπεκάλυψεν,
ἁμαρτίαν
κομιοῦνται.
Lev_20:18 Brenton And
whatever [ὃς ἂν] man
shall lie with [κοιμηθῇ μετὰ] a
woman *that is set [sitting]
apart [* ἀποκαθημένης
– lit. (who is) sitting herself (away) from… – a woman
who has sat down away from the community… (i.e. during her monthly period)] for
a flux [Brenton added this in English],
and shall uncover her nakedness [ἀποκαλύψῃ
τὴν ἀσχημοσύνην
αὐτῆς], he has uncovered her fountain [τὴν πηγὴν
αὐτῆς ἀπεκάλυψεν],
and she has uncovered the flux [ῥύσιν
– flow] of her blood [αὕτη ἀπεκάλυψεν
τὴν ῥύσιν τοῦ
αἵματος αὐτῆς (ῥύσιν (G4511), is basically from ῥέω
(G4482) – think: Rio Grande (big river) in Spanish; in
Greek: to flow)]: they shall both be destroyed from
among their generation.
Lev_20:18 Greek καὶ
ἀνήρ, ὃς ἂν
κοιμηθῇ μετὰ
γυναικὸς ἀποκαθημένης
καὶ ἀποκαλύψῃ
τὴν ἀσχημοσύνην
αὐτῆς, τὴν πηγὴν
αὐτῆς ἀπεκάλυψεν,
καὶ αὕτη ἀπεκάλυψεν
τὴν ῥύσιν τοῦ αἵματος
αὐτῆς· ἐξολεθρευθήσονται
ἀμφότεροι ἐκ
τοῦ γένους αὐτῶν.
Lev_20:19 Brenton And
thou shalt not uncover [ἀποκαλύψεις] the
nakedness [ἀσχημοσύνην] of
thy father's sister, or of the sister of thy mother; for that man has uncovered
[ἀπεκάλυψεν] *the
nakedness [* not in Rahlfs] of one near akin [οἰκειότητα
– i.e. one of their house hold]: they shall bear their iniquity.
Lev_20:19 Greek καὶ
ἀσχημοσύνην ἀδελφῆς
πατρός σου καὶ ἀδελφῆς
μητρός σου οὐκ ἀποκαλύψεις·
τὴν γὰρ οἰκειότητα
ἀπεκάλυψεν, ἁμαρτίαν
ἀποίσονται.
Lev_20:20 Brenton
Whosoever shall lie with [κοιμηθῇ
μετὰ] his
*near
kinswoman [* συγγενοῦς
– i.e. together generated/begotten one],
has uncovered [ἀπεκάλυψεν] the
nakedness [ἀσχημοσύνην] of
one near akin [συγγενείας] to
him: they shall die childless.
Lev_20:20 Greek ὃς ἂν
κοιμηθῇ μετὰ τῆς
συγγενοῦς αὐτοῦ,
ἀσχημοσύνην τῆς
συγγενείας αὐτοῦ
ἀπεκάλυψεν· ἄτεκνοι
ἀποθανοῦνται.
Lev_20:21 Brenton
Whoever shall take his brother's wife [λάβῃ τὴν
γυναῖκα τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ
αὐτοῦ], it
is uncleanness [ἀκαθαρσία]; he
has uncovered [ἀπεκάλυψεν] his
brother's nakedness [ἀσχημοσύνην];
they shall die childless.
Lev_20:21 Greek ὃς ἂν
λάβῃ τὴν γυναῖκα
τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ αὐτοῦ,
ἀκαθαρσία ἐστίν·
ἀσχημοσύνην
τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ αὐτοῦ
ἀπεκάλυψεν, ἄτεκνοι
ἀποθανοῦνται.
Sirach -- Unhiding Secrets
Directly
suggests: Covering Directly Brings Hidden-ness
Sir_4:18 Brenton Then will she return the straight way unto him, and comfort
him, and shew [ἀποκαλύψει] him her secrets [κρυπτὰ
αὐτῆς].
Sir_4:18 καὶ πάλιν
ἐπανήξει κατ᾿
εὐθεῖαν πρὸς αὐτὸν
καὶ εὐφρανεῖ αὐτὸν
καὶ ἀποκαλύψει
αὐτῷ τὰ κρυπτὰ
αὐτῆς.
Authorities and The Range of Their Potential Jurisdictions Over Modesty, Facial Modesty & Headcoverings
12/22/16
How does the head covering and face veil relates to identification by authorities?
Numbers 5 – A Priest Uncovers a Man’s Wife’s Head
Num_5:15 WEB then the
man shall bring his wife to the priest, and shall bring her offering for her: the
tenth part of an ephah of barley meal. He shall pour no oil on it, nor put
frankincense on it, for it is a meal offering of jealousy, a meal offering of
memorial, bringing iniquity to memory.
Num_5:15 CAB then shall
the man bring his wife to the priest, and shall bring his gift for her, the
tenth part of an ephah of barley meal. He shall not pour oil upon it, neither
shall he put frankincense upon it; for it is a sacrifice of jealousy, a
sacrifice of memorial, recalling sin to remembrance.
Num_5:15 καὶ
ἄξει ὁ ἄνθρωπος
τὴν γυναῖκα αὐτοῦ
πρὸς τὸν ἱερέα
καὶ προσοίσει
τὸ δῶρον περὶ αὐτῆς
τὸ δέκατον τοῦ
οιφι ἄλευρον
κρίθινον, οὐκ ἐπιχεεῖ
ἐπ᾿ αὐτὸ ἔλαιον
οὐδὲ ἐπιθήσει ἐπ᾿
αὐτὸ λίβανον, ἔστιν
γὰρ θυσία
ζηλοτυπίας,
θυσία μνημοσύνου
ἀναμιμνήσκουσα
ἁμαρτίαν.
Num_5:16 The priest shall bring her near, and set her
before Yahweh;
Num_5:16 And the priest shall bring her, and cause her to
stand before the Lord.
Num_5:16 καὶ
προσάξει αὐτὴν
ὁ ἱερεὺς καὶ στήσει
αὐτὴν ἔναντι
κυρίου,
Num_5:18 WEB The priest
shall set the woman before Yahweh, ·and let the hair of the woman's head go loose [ראש
ופרע], and put the meal offering of memorial in her
hands, which is the meal offering of jealousy. The priest shall have in his
hand the water of bitterness that brings a curse.
Num_5:18 CAB And the
priest shall cause the woman to stand before the Lord, and shall uncover
[ἀποκαλύψει] the
head of the woman, and shall put into her hands the sacrifice of memorial, the
sacrifice of jealousy; and in the hand of the priest shall be the water of this
conviction that brings the curse.
Num_5:18 καὶ
στήσει ὁ ἱερεὺς
τὴν γυναῖκα ἔναντι
κυρίου καὶ ἀποκαλύψει
τὴν κεφαλὴν τῆς
γυναικὸς καὶ δώσει
ἐπὶ τὰς χεῖρας
αὐτῆς τὴν θυσίαν
τοῦ μνημοσύνου,
τὴν θυσίαν τῆς
ζηλοτυπίας, ἐν
δὲ τῇ χειρὶ τοῦ
ἱερέως ἔσται τὸ
ὕδωρ τοῦ ἐλεγμοῦ
τοῦ ἐπικαταρωμένου
τούτου.
Exo_5:4 And the kingH4428 of EgyptH4714 saidH559 untoH413 them, WhereforeH4100 do ye, MosesH4872 and Aaron,H175 letH6544 (H853) the peopleH5971 from their works?H4480 H4639 getH1980 you unto your burdens.H5450
Exo_32:25 And when MosesH4872 sawH7200 thatH3588 (H853) the peopleH5971 were
naked;H6544 (forH3588 AaronH175 had made them nakedH6544 unto their
shameH8103 among their enemies:)H6965
Lev_10:6 And MosesH4872 saidH559 untoH413 Aaron,H175 and unto EleazarH499 and unto Ithamar,H385 his sons,H1121 UncoverH6544 notH408 your heads,H7218 neitherH3808 rendH6533 your clothes;H899 lestH3808 ye die,H4191 and lest wrath comeH7107 uponH5921 allH3605 the people:H5712 but let your brethren,H251 the wholeH3605 houseH1004 of Israel,H3478 bewailH1058 (H853) the burningH8316 whichH834 the LORDH3068 hath kindled.H8313
Lev_13:45 And the leperH6879 in whomH834 the plagueH5061 is, his
clothesH899 shall beH1961 rent,H6533 and his headH7218 bare,H6544 and he shall put a coveringH5844 uponH5921 his upper lip,H8222 and shall cry,H7121 Unclean,H2931 unclean.H2931
Lev_21:10 And he that is
the highH1419 priestH3548 among his brethren,H4480 H251 uponH5921 whoseH834 headH7218 the anointingH4888 oilH8081 was poured,H3332 and that is consecratedH4390 (H853) H3027 to put onH3847 (H853) the garments,H899 shall notH3808 uncoverH6544 (H853) his head,H7218 norH3808 rendH6533 his clothes;H899
Num_5:18 And the priestH3548 shall setH5975 (H853) the womanH802 beforeH6440 the LORD,H3068 and uncoverH6544 (H853) the woman'sH802 head,H7218 and putH5414 (H853) the offeringH4503 of memorialH2146 inH5921 her hands,H3709 whichH1931 is the
jealousyH7068 offering:H4503 and the priestH3548 shall haveH1961 in his handH3027 the bitterH4751 waterH4325 that causeth the curse:H779
Num_6:5 AllH3605 the daysH3117 of the vowH5088 of his separationH5145 there shall noH3808 razorH8593 comeH5674 uponH5921 his head:H7218 untilH5704 the daysH3117 be fulfilled,H4390 in the whichH834 he separatethH5144 himself
unto the LORD,H3068 he shall beH1961 holy,H6918 and
shall let the locksH6545 of the hairH8181 of his headH7218 grow.H1431
Jdg_5:2 PraiseH1288 ye the LORDH3068 for the avengingH6544 H6546 of Israel,H3478 when the peopleH5971 willingly offered themselves.H5068
2Ch_28:19 ForH3588 the LORDH3068 broughtH3665 (H853) JudahH3063 low because ofH5668 AhazH271 kingH4428 of Israel;H3478 forH3588 he made Judah naked,H6544 H3063 [not in LXX] and transgressedH4603 soreH4604 against the LORD.H3068
Pro_1:25 But ye have set at noughtH6544 allH3605 my counsel,H6098 and wouldH14 noneH3808 of my reproof:H8433
Pro_4:15 AvoidH6544 it, passH5674 notH408 by it, turnH7847 fromH4480 H5921 it, and pass away.H5674
Pro_8:33 HearH8085 instruction,H4148 and be wise,H2449 and refuseH6544 it not.H408
Pro_13:18 PovertyH7389 and shameH7036 shall be to
him that refusethH6544 instruction:H4148 but he that regardethH8104 reproofH8433 shall be honoured.H3513
Pro_15:32 He that refusethH6544 instructionH4148 despisethH3988 his own soul:H5315 but he that hearethH8085 reproofH8433 gettethH7069 understanding.H3820
Pro_29:18 Where there is
noH369 vision,H2377 the peopleH5971 perish:H6544 but he that keepethH8104 the law,H8451 happyH835 is he.
Eze_24:14 IH589 the LORDH3068 have spokenH1696 it: it
shall come to pass,H935 and I
will doH6213 it; I will notH3808 go back,H6544 neitherH3808 will I spare,H2347 neitherH3808 will I repent;H5162 according to thy ways,H1870 and according to thy doings,H5949 shall they judgeH8199 thee, saithH5002 the LordH136 GOD.H3069
Eze_44:20 NeitherH3808 shall they shaveH1548 their heads,H7218 norH3808 suffer their locksH6545 to grow long;H7971 they shall only pollH3697 H3697 (H853) their heads.H7218
>> got to draw out how “long hair” is a way of saying “nakedness” in Hebrew…
History of Susana
See: Dan_13:31
See: NETS: 989
Son_5:7 – They Took Away My Veil
Son_5:7 WEB The watchmen who go about the city found me. They beat me. They bruised me. The keepers of the walls took my cloak [H853 רדידי – Strong’s: veil] away from me.
Son_5:7 CAB The
watchman that make their rounds in the city found me, they struck me, they
wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.
Son_5:7 εὕροσάν
με οἱ φύλακες οἱ
κυκλοῦντες ἐν
τῇ πόλει, ἐπάταξάν
με, ἐτραυμάτισάν
με, ἦραν τὸ θέριστρόν
μου ἀπ᾿ ἐμοῦ φύλακες
τῶν τειχέων.
K&D: “This upper robe, not the veil which at Son_4:1, Son_4:3 we found was called tsammā, is called רְדִיד. Aben Ezra compares with it the Arab. ridâ, a plaid-like over-garment, which was thrown over the shoulders and veiled the upper parts of the body. But the words have not the same derivation. The ridâ has its name from its reaching downward, - probably from the circumstance that, originally, it hung down to the feet, so that one could tread on it; but the (Heb.) redid (in Syr. the dalmatica of the deacons), from רְדַד, Hiph., 1Ki_6:32, Targ., Talm., Syr., רְדַד, to make broad and thin, as expansum, i.e., a thin and light upper robe, viz., over the cuttoněth, 3a. The lxx suitably translates it here and at Gen_24:65 (hatstsaiph, from tsa'aph, to lay together, to fold, to make double or many-fold) by θέριστρον, a summer overdress.”
Pulpit:
“The redhidh, like ridha in Arabic, is a plaid-like upper garment thrown over the shoulders so says Aben Ezra; but it is derived, no doubt, from the root "to make broad or thin," to spread out perhaps, therefore, "a thin, light upper robe" which was worn over the chiton, a summer overdress, a cloak (LXX, yeristron : Jerome, pallium; Luther, Schleier )”
Clark: “Took away my veil - They tore it off rudely, to discover who she was. See on Son_5:2 (note)*. To tear the veil signifies, in Eastern phrase, to deflower or dishonor a woman.”
* “And her being in so much disorder and dishabille might have induced them to treat her as a suspiciovs person, or one of questionable character.”
Gill: “they smote me, they wounded me; taking her for a night walker”
“the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me;
there were two sorts of watchmen in a city, one that went about to see that all
was right and safe within; and others placed on the walls of it, who kept their
stand, and whose business it was to give notice of an enemy approaching, and to
defend the city from outward attacks upon it; and such are the ministers of
the word, Isa_62:6; but here false teachers are meant as before, as appears
from their abuse of the church, taking away her veil from her, such as
women wore for ornament, or as a sign of modesty or as a token of subjection to
their husbands, Isa_3:23, Gen_24:65; and may here design either their
falsely accusing her good conduct, which was her outward covering; or their
attempt to take away from her the doctrine of Christ's imputed righteousness,
which is her covering, the wedding garment, the nuptial robe, as Gregory
Nyssene (m) calls the veil here: and such a
veil was given by the bridegroom with the Romans, and was called
"flammeum", from its being of a flame colour (n),
either yellow or red, expressive of the blushing modesty of the newly married
bride (o); and the like custom might obtain
with the Jews.”
Companion Bible Notes: “took away my veil. This was gross insult to an Eastern woman.”
JFB: “taking away her veil (the greatest indignity to an Eastern lady), as though she were positively immodest.”
Pool: “Took away my veil; which was an ornament of her sex, Isa_3:23, and a badge of her modesty, Gen_24:65, or an ensign of her relation and subjection to Christ, Gen_20:16 1Co_11:5. And so the taking of this veil away signifies their contemptuous and injurious usage of her, their endeavours to blast her reputation, and to represent and treat her as a common and impudent prostitute, and as one that had no relation to Christ. ”
Guards Took Off Jesus’ Clothes
12/23/16;
Wiki*: “Jesus had predicted that he would be mocked (Mat_20:18-19, Mar_10:34, and Luk_18:32)”
Mat_27:26-31
Mat_27:35
Mar_15:20
Mar_15:24
Joh_19:23
Wiki*: “clothed him with a "purple" (Mar_15:17) or "scarlet" (Matt_27:28) robe”
Joh_19:23
* Wiki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mocking_of_Jesus
Male and Female Differences
12/23/16
A poor male: you are allowed to take away his himation temporarily
A Widow: you are not allowed to take away her garment at all
Examples When Devaluing is Not Involved, and therefore, Voluntary Stripping might Happen
12/23/16
Changing diapers?
Circumcision
Women Driving
12/23/16
2Ki_4:22 WEB She called
to her husband, and said, Please send me one of the servants, and one of the
donkeys, that I may run to the man of God, and come again.
2Ki_4:22 CAB And she called
her husband, and said, Send now for me one of the young men, and one of the
donkeys, and I will ride quickly to the man of God, and return.
2Ki_4:22 καὶ
ἐκάλεσεν τὸν ἄνδρα
αὐτῆς καὶ εἶπεν
Ἀπόστειλον δή
μοι ἓν τῶν
παιδαρίων καὶ
μίαν τῶν ὄνων,
καὶ δραμοῦμαι ἕως
τοῦ ἀνθρώπου
τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ ἐπιστρέψω.
2Ki_4:23 He said, Why would you want go to him today? it
is neither new moon nor Sabbath. She said, It shall be well.
2Ki_4:23 And he said, Why are you going to him today? It
is neither new moon, nor the Sabbath. And she said, It is well.
2Ki_4:23 καὶ
εἶπεν Τί ὅτι σὺ
πορεύῃ πρὸς αὐτὸν
σήμερον; οὐ
νεομηνία οὐδὲ
σάββατον. ἡ δὲ εἶπεν
Εἰρήνη.
2Ki_4:24 Then she saddled a donkey, and said to her servant,
Drive, and go forward; don't slacken me the riding, unless I ask you to.
2Ki_4:24 And she saddled the donkey, and said to her
servant, Be quick, proceed: spare not on my account to ride, unless I shall
tell you. Go, and you shall proceed, and come to the man of God, to Mount
Carmel.
2Ki_4:24 καὶ
ἐπέσαξεν τὴν ὄνον
καὶ εἶπεν πρὸς
τὸ παιδάριον αὐτῆς
Ἄγε πορεύου, μὴ ἐπίσχῃς
μοι τοῦ ἐπιβῆναι,
ὅτι ἐὰν εἴπω
σοι·
1Sa_25:18 WEB Then
Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and
five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched grain, and one hundred
clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys.
1Sa_25:18 CAB And
Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two vessels of wine, and
five sheep readily dressed, and five ephahs of fine flour, and one homer of
dried grapes, and two hundred cakes of figs, and put them upon donkeys.
1Sa_25:18 καὶ
ἔσπευσεν
Αβιγαια καὶ ἔλαβεν
διακοσίους ἄρτους
καὶ δύο ἀγγεῖα
οἴνου καὶ πέντε
πρόβατα πεποιημένα
καὶ πέντε οιφι ἀλφίτου
καὶ γομορ ἓν
σταφίδος καὶ
διακοσίας παλάθας
καὶ ἔθετο ἐπὶ
τοὺς ὄνους
1Sa_25:19 She said to her young men, Go on before me;
behold, I come after you. But she didn't tell her husband, Nabal.
1Sa_25:19 And she said to her servants, Go on before me,
and behold I come after you. But she told not her husband.
1Sa_25:19 καὶ
εἶπεν τοῖς
παιδαρίοις αὐτῆς
Προπορεύεσθε ἔμπροσθέν
μου, καὶ ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ
ὀπίσω ὑμῶν
παραγίνομαι.
καὶ τῷ ἀνδρὶ αὐτῆς
οὐκ ἀπήγγειλεν.
1Sa_25:20 It was so, as she rode on her donkey, and came
down by the covert of the mountain, that behold, David and his men came down
toward her; and she met them.
1Sa_25:20 And it came to pass when she had mounted her
donkey and was going down by the covert of the mountain, that behold, David and
his men came down to meet her, and she met them.
1Sa_25:20 καὶ
ἐγενήθη αὐτῆς ἐπιβεβηκυίης
ἐπὶ τὴν ὄνον καὶ
καταβαινούσης
ἐν σκέπῃ τοῦ ὄρους
καὶ ἰδοὺ Δαυιδ
καὶ οἱ ἄνδρες αὐτοῦ
κατέβαινον εἰς
συνάντησιν αὐτῆς,
καὶ ἀπήντησεν
αὐτοῖς.
>> Following the servants
Camels
Rebecca
>> Following the servant
Rachel
Gen_31:34 WEB Now Rachel
had taken the teraphim, put them in the camel's saddle, and sat on them. Laban
felt about all the tent, but didn't find them.
Gen_31:34 CAB And Rachel
took the idols, and cast them among the camel's packs, and sat upon them.
Gen_31:34
Ραχηλ δὲ ἔλαβεν
τὰ εἴδωλα καὶ ἐνέβαλεν
αὐτὰ εἰς τὰ σάγματα
τῆς καμήλου καὶ
ἐπεκάθισεν αὐτοῖς
>> Following the clan
--
Muslims know
how to obey 1Co_11, but "christians" only know how to make excuses to disobey
it.
7/30/13
Is the covering about approaching God, or
is it about modesty?
- we all
with open face...
- neither
male nor female...
- to God all
thing are naked and bear
-
The Body Covered
Covering
The Whole Body
From Head to Toe, Starting with the
Toe
The Need For a Himation!
There are so many
countless references for this, and as I may find them I am looking forward to
adding them here…
Exo_22:25-27 CAB
And if you should lend money to your poor brother who is among you, you
shall not be hard upon him — you shall not charge interest from him. 26 And if you take your neighbor's garment
[ἱμάτιον] for a pledge, you shall restore
it to him before sunset. 27 For this is
his clothing [περιβόλαιον
– this is the thing he throws around him], this is the only *covering of his nakedness [*
ἱμάτιον ἀσχημοσύνης
– “nakedness” is fig.; himation (‘cloak’) to properly “arrange” over the frame
of his body so as not to display its shame – it is counted as a “disarrangement”
(ἀσχημοσύνης) to show
the frame of the body when laying down in public (since he has no house or
private room to sleep in)];
how shall he sleep? If then he shall cry to Me, I will hearken to him, for I am
merciful.
A Woman’s “Shape” is Still An Issue?
Sir_9:8 Brenton Turn away [ἀπόστρεψον] thine eye from a beautiful [εὐμόρφου
– good-morphed/good-shaped] woman, and *look not upon [* μὴ
καταμάνθανε –
do not (thoroughly) learn down; i.e. study the qualities of…] another's beauty [κάλλος ἀλλότριον
– i.e. goodness/good looks/beauty that belongs to someone else]; for many have been deceived [ἐπλανήθησαν] by the beauty of a woman [κάλλει
γυναικὸς]; for herewith [καὶ ἐκ
τούτου – and out of
this] *[warm
affectionate] love [φιλία] is kindled as a fire [* φιλία ὡς
πῦρ ἀνακαίεται].
Sir_9:8 Greek ἀπόστρεψον
ὀφθαλμὸν ἀπὸ
γυναικὸς εὐμόρφου
καὶ μὴ καταμάνθανε
κάλλος ἀλλότριον·
ἐν κάλλει
γυναικὸς
πολλοὶ ἐπλανήθησαν,
καὶ ἐκ τούτου
φιλία ὡς πῦρ ἀνακαίεται.
Is
this a woman in Biblical dress code? Or
is this an immoral woman showing off more than she should, making her shape an
issue?
The
purpose of feminine modesty makes it to where men do not have to lust.
Consider: If
a woman is avoiding than prostitution of her own body, men will not always have
to quickly look away to avoid defiling her sexuality. If a man hast a dart his eyes away from a
woman as she walks along, she is prosecuting and cheapening herself. A man only “has to” look away when a woman
shows her fornication in his face.
Lingering
Questions
Because
of these general principles, I wonder what kind of a scene this passage has in
mind. Is she so WELL SHAPED that
absolute modesty still makes her an issue?
Can she ever going public then, if her sexuality is exposed even under
sufficient clothing?
Another
possibility: is this talking exclusively about the body, or could this
possibly be talking about the face and or eyes?
Could this be why Brenton represents this as “beautiful”?
In seeking to answer some of these questions, I found/looked up a two related references.
Wis_7:10 Brenton I loved her above health and beauty, and chose to have her
instead of light: for the light that cometh from her never goeth out.
Wis_7:10 Greek ὑπὲρ ὑγίειαν
καὶ εὐμορφίαν ἠγάπησα
αὐτὴν καὶ
προειλόμην αὐτὴν
ἀντὶ φωτὸς ἔχειν,
ὅτι ἀκοίμητον
τὸ ἐκ ταύτης φέγγος.
But the most helpful Greek passage was probably from fourth
Maccabees…
4Ma_8:2-4 Brenton The tyrant [τυράννου] having given this charge [διαταξαμένου], seven brethren were brought into his presence, along with their
aged mother, handsome [καλοί
– good (looking) – SAME AS Sir_9:8; (Used for both men and women in
Greek.)], and modest [αἰδήμονες
– lit. those who are not perceived; i.e. having the character of
avoiding perception], and well-born [γενναῖοι], and *altogether [favorably] comely [* παντὶ
χαρίεντες]. 3 Whom, when the
tyrant beheld [ἰδὼν], encircling their mother as in a dance [καθάπερ
ἐν χορῷ], he was pleased at them; and being struck with their becoming [εὐπρεπείας
ἐκπλαγεὶς] and ingenuous mien [εὐγενείας
προσεμειδίασεν], smiled upon them, and calling them near, said: 4 O youths [νεανίαι], with favourable feelings [φιλοφρόνως
– warm, love-able-minded-ness -- SAME AS Sir_9:8], I admire [θαυμάζω
– breath hot in astonishment (over)] the beauty [κάλλος
– SAME AS Sir_9:8] of each of you; and *greatly honouring [* ὑπερτιμῶν] so numerous a band of brethren, I not only counsel you not to
share the madness of the old man who has been tortured before, 5 but I do beg you
[παρακαλῶ] to yield [συνείξαντάς], and to enjoy my friendship [ἀπολαύειν
φιλίας -- SAME AS Sir_9:8]; for I possess the power, not only of punishing those who disobey my
commands, but of doing good to those who obey them.
[note:
Greek is out of sync, So that verse 2 is verse 3 in Greek, etc.]
4Ma_8:3-5 Greek ταῦτα
διαταξαμένου
τοῦ τυράννου,
παρῆσαν ἀγόμενοι
μετὰ γεραιᾶς
μητρὸς ἑπτὰ ἀδελφοὶ
καλοί τε καὶ αἰδήμονες
καὶ γενναῖοι
καὶ ἐν παντὶ χαρίεντες. 4 οὓς ἰδὼν
ὁ τύραννος καθάπερ
ἐν χορῷ μέσην
τὴν μητέρα
περιέχοντας ἥσθετο
ἐπ᾿ αὐτοῖς
καὶ τῆς εὐπρεπείας
ἐκπλαγεὶς καὶ
τῆς εὐγενείας
προσεμειδίασεν
αὐτοῖς καὶ
πλησίον καλέσας
ἔφη 5 Ὦ νεανίαι, φιλοφρόνως
ἐγὼ καθ᾿
ἑνὸς ἑκάστου ὑμῶν
θαυμάζω, τὸ κάλλος
καὶ τὸ πλῆθος
τοσούτων ἀδελφῶν
ὑπερτιμῶν οὐ
μόνον
συμβουλεύω μὴ
μανῆναι τὴν αὐτὴν
τῷ
προβασανισθέντι
γέροντι μανίαν,
[5 in Brenton] ἀλλὰ
καὶ παρακαλῶ
συνείξαντάς
μοι τῆς ἐμῆς ἀπολαύειν
φιλίας·
4Ma_8:8-9 Brenton For if you provoke me by your disobedience, you will compel
me to destroy you, every one, with terrible punishments by tortures. 9 Have mercy, then,
upon your own selves, whom I, although an enemy, compassionate for your age and
comeliness [εὐμορφίας
-- SAME AS Sir_9:8].
4Ma_8:9-10 Greek ἐπεί, ἐὰν ὀργίλως
με διάθησθε διὰ
τῆς ἀπειθείας, ἀναγκάσετέ
με ἐπὶ δειναῖς
κολάσεσιν ἕνα ἕκαστον
ὑμῶν διὰ τῶν
βασάνων ἀπολέσαι. 10 κατελεήσατε
οὖν ἑαυτούς, οὓς
καὶ ὁ πολέμιος ἔγωγε
καὶ τῆς ἡλικίας
καὶ τῆς εὐμορφίας
οἰκτίρομαι.
Since
these men were modest and good shaped, this evidence implies that see Sirach
did not specify an immodest woman. I tend to think from all of this that the
body is included by implication, but the face is initially in view.
Bosom Cape Dress / Chiton
Luk_6:38 CAB
Give, and it shall be given to you: good measure, pressed down and
shaken and running over they shall give into
your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it shall be
measured back to you."
Luk_6:38 Greek δίδοτε,
καὶ δοθήσεται
ὑμῖν·
μέτρον
καλὸν,
πεπιεσμένον
καὶ
σεσαλευμένον
καὶ ὑπερεκχυνόμενον
δώσουσιν εἰς τὸν
κόλπον ὑμῶν·
τῷ γὰρ αὐτῷ
μέτρῳ ᾧ
μετρεῖτε, ἀντιμετρηθήσεται
ὑμῖν.
“The
bosom of an oriental garment, the loose cavity or hollow formed by the doubling
of a robe, a fold for carrying things as a pocket (Luk_6:38;
Sept.: Isa_65:6; Jer_39:18). A bay, creek (Act_27:39).”
(WS
on G2859)
“Bosom - Κολπον, or
lap. Almost all ancient nations wore long, wide, and loose garments; and when
about to carry any thing which their hands could not contain, they used a fold
of their robe in nearly the same way as women here use their aprons. The phrase
is continually occurring in the best and purest Greek writers. The following
example from Herodotus, b. vi., may suffice to show the propriety of the
interpretation given above, and to expose the ridiculous nature of
covetousness. “When Croesus had promised to Alcmaeon as much gold as he could
carry about his body at once, in order to improve the king’s liberality to the
best advantage, he put on a very wide tunic, (κιθωνα
μεγαν), leaving a great space in the Bosom, κολπον
βαθυν, and drew on the largest buskins he could
find. Being conducted to the treasury, he sat down on a great heap of gold, and
first filled the buskins about his legs with as much gold as they could
contain, and, having filled his whole Bosom, κολπον,
loaded his hair with ingots, and put several pieces in his mouth, he walked out
of the treasury, etc.” What a ridiculous figure must this poor sinner have cut,
thus heavy laden with gold, and the love of money! See many other examples in
Kypke and Raphelius. See also Psa_129:7;
Pro_6:27; Pro_17:23.”
(Clark)
Greek Note: It seems like “κιθωνα”
here is the phonetically the same (or in a similar etymological relation?) to “χιτῶνά”
(as in Mat_5:40) -- κ and χ are
sometimes interchanged, and similarly, θ and τ are
interchanged in the Bible. These phonetically replace each other in various
spelling variations and morph into each other in various grammatical
constructions.
>> Note: In most contexts, this word is not “lap”. It is the
same as John leaning on the Bosom of
Jesus (i.e. which is not in his lap).
Exceptions
When some situations require it, there do seem to be exceptions in the dress code.
Same Gender Situations are the Main Exception, but Cross-Gender is
Not Allowed (except for parents)
Private Uncoveredness
more than once prophets
were told to strip naked as a parable of the prophecy they were to speak - the
implication is that they did this as a representation in private and then spoke
of it in public as a parable...
Non-Co-ed Environments
The biggest principle is when men and women are not in the same place.
Privileged Family Members at The Crucifixion
When Jesus was crucified, many of the women were there, *standing at a distance* because of the social shame they poured on Him, but Jesus’ mother was able to come right up to the cross along with John so that Jesus was able to talk with her.
Mono-Gender Verification of the Resurrection
Joh_20:27
Fishing – Peter in Boat with John & Others
Temporary work:
Joh_21:2-8 CAB Simon Peter, Thomas called the
Twin, Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, the sons
of Zebedee, and two others of His disciples were together. 3 Simon Peter said to them, "I am going
fishing." They said to him, "We are coming with you also."
They went out and immediately got into the boat, and that night they caught
nothing. 4 But as daybreak had already come, Jesus stood
upon the shore; however the disciples did not know that it was Jesus. 5 Then Jesus said to them, "Children, have
you any food?" They answered Him, "No." 6 And He said to them, "Cast the net on
the right side of the boat, and you will find some."
Therefore they cast, and they were not able to haul it in because of the
multitude of fish. 7 Therefore
that disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, "It is the Lord!" Now when Simon Peter heard that it was
the Lord, he put on his outer garment (for he had removed it), and he threw
himself into the sea. 8 But the
other disciples came in the little boat (for they were not far from the
land, but about two hundred cubits), dragging the net with fish.
Pajamas?
After a Night time
“Men’s Bible Study” with Jesus:
>> Note: I need to Add Song of
Songs here
Mar_14:51-52 WEB A certain young man followed him, having a linen cloth thrown around himself, over his naked body. The young men grabbed him, 52 but he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked.
Circumcision
Paul circumcising Timothy
Shechem
Abraham Circumcised Isaac
Woman with Issue of Blood?
Mar_5:25-29 CAB Now a certain woman, *suffering from a flow of blood [* ἐν
ῥύσει αἵματος] twelve years, 26 and *who had suffered many things [* πολλὰ
παθοῦσα] *under many physicians [* ὑπὸ
πολλῶν ἰατρῶν
N-GPM], and who
had spent everything at her disposal, and was no better, but rather having
become worse, 27 when she heard about Jesus, she came from behind
Him in the crowd and touched His clothing.
28
For she was saying, "If only I may touch His clothes, I will be
healed." 29 And immediately the flow of her blood was
dried up, and she knew in her body that she had been healed from the
affliction.
Men or Women Did This?
“Physicians” [ἰατρῶν] is masculine in Greek, but she is said to be “under” [ὑπὸ]
them, not operated on “by them”. – this is a difference in Greek. Under them
pertains to her submitting under the authority of their care (note: the word
“submission” itself means to “arrange under” in Greek.)
Servant women (“Deaconesses”/ “Nurses”) who served womanly needs
typically did the actual work that involved uncovering the body. This is the
very reason that Churches had female servants (“deaconesses”) as the Scriptures
mention.
Parents
Moses’ wife circumcised their son
Women feed children (and “change diapers”)
Jesus’ mother Mary was at the cross with John, while the others
were standing afar off weeping
How Even Houses Have to Do with Modesty
2Co_5:1-4 CAB For we know that if our earthly house, this
tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made by hand,
eternal in the heavens. 2 For also in
this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is
from heaven, 3 if indeed, having been clothed, we shall not
be found naked. 4 For we who are in this tent groan, being
burdened, inasmuch as we do not desire to be stripped, but to put on clothing, that that which is mortal may be
swallowed up by life.
I also need to get:
- a house to cover shame
The Hebrew Letter “Beta” Demands Special
Protection for Women’s Privacy over 16 Thousand times in the Torah!
Concerning
the hebrew Alpha bet: "Bet
Several variations were used for the original pictograph including, and b. Each
of these pictographs are representative of a house or tent. The pictograph b is
chosen as it best represents the nomadic tents of the Hebrews. The tent was
divided into two sections, men`s and women`s, with the entrance at the front of
the tent in the men`s section and an entrance from the men`s to the women`s
section. "
hd: [note: you cannot see the "b" pictures here in chat]
hd: Every time the Hebrew Bible uses the letter B, it is showing us that women should be protected in the inner room!
hd: wow... i like the Bible! :+)
hd: Evidently, the original Pentateuch said this ~ 16,280 times in pictorial form.
And what if we count the rest of the Old Testament (which would say this by implication of the reference back to the original pictograph)?
Pentateuch 16,280
History (Josh - Est) 23,910
Wisdom 7,937
Major Prophets 13,750
Minor Prophets 3,044
64,921
“Hhets
The ancient pictograph h is a picture of a tent wall. The meanings of this letter
are outside as the function of the wall is to protect the occupants from the
elements, halp as the wall in the middle of the tent divides the tent into the
male and female sections and secular as something that is outside.”
Feet
Can Be A Major Safe Zone
Feet Covering
Jdg_3:24 WEB Now when he was gone out, his servants came; and they saw, and behold, the doors of the upper room were locked; and they said, Surely he is covering his feet in the upper chamber.
Jdg_3:24 LB And he went out. And Eglon’s servants came, and saw, and behold, the doors of the upper chamber were locked. And they said, “Does he not uncover his feet in the summer-chamber?”
Jdg_3:24 καὶ αὐτὸς
ἐξῆλθεν. καὶ οἱ
παῖδες αὐτοῦ εἰσῆλθον
καὶ εἶδον καὶ ἰδοὺ
αἱ θύραι τοῦ ὑπερῴου
ἐσφηνωμέναι,
καὶ εἶπαν Μήποτε
ἀποκενοῖ τοὺς
πόδας αὐτοῦ ἐν
τῷ ταμιείῳ τῷ
θερινῷ;
Jdg_3:25 WEB They waited until they were ashamed; and behold, he didn't open the doors of the upper room: therefore they took the key, and opened them, and behold, their lord was fallen down dead on the earth.
Jdg_3:25 And they waited till they were ashamed, and behold, there was no one that opened the doors of the upper chamber; and they took the key, and opened them. And behold, their master was fallen down dead upon the ground.
Jdg_3:25
καὶ ὑπέμειναν,
ἕως ᾐσχύνοντο,
καὶ ἰδοὺ οὐκ ἔστιν
ὁ ἀνοίγων τὰς θύρας
τοῦ ὑπερῴου·
καὶ ἔλαβον τὴν
κλεῖδα καὶ ἤνοιξαν,
καὶ ἰδοὺ ὁ κύριος
αὐτῶν πεπτωκὼς
ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν
τεθνηκώς.
>> see: more “summer chamber” refs in this chapter
and elsewhere
“covering his feet ”
---------------
It is clear that no covering of the feet was necessary for modesty. In fact, the feet have always been the “safe zone” throughout the Bible, including (non-romantic) affection between men and women:
Rev_1:15 KJV And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.
1Sa_25:41 KJV And she arose, and bowed herself on her face to the earth, and said, Behold, let thine handmaid be a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.
2Ki_4:27 KJV And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of God said, Let her alone… (also in 4:37)
Luk_7:44-45 WEB Turning to the woman, he said to Simon, "Do you see this woman? I entered into your house, and you gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head. 45 You gave me no kiss, but she, since the time I came in, has not ceased to kiss my feet.
Mat_28:1-9 WEB …Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb... 8 They departed quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, and ran to bring his disciples word. 9 As they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, "Rejoice!" They came and took hold of his feet, and worshiped him.
Joh_20:17 EMTV Jesus said to her, "Do not cling to Me, for I have not yet ascended to My Father…
Notice He did not say, “Don’t hold onto my feet because it is not appropriate.”
Also see:
Rth_3:4-9,
14 – Ruth approached the feet of Boaz to ask him to marry her
Lk_10:39 – Mary sat at Jesus’ feet
Jn_11:32 – Mary fell at Jesus’ feet
1Ti_5:10 – Righteous widows wash the saints feet
Rev_1:13 WEB And among the lampstands was one like a son of man, clothed with a robe reaching down to his feet, and with a golden sash around his chest.
-
His feet are not covered by
his clothing.
Compare: Hands Can Be A Safe Zone
Thoroughly cover the entire leg
11/2/15
1Ti_2:7 for which I was appointed a herald
and apostle--I speak the truth in Christ, I do not lie--a teacher of Gentiles
in faith and truth.
1Ti_2:7 εἰς ὃ
ἐτέθην ἐγὼ
κῆρυξ καὶ ἀπόστολος,
ἀλήθειαν
λέγω ἐν
Χριστῷ, οὐ
ψεύδομαι,
διδάσκαλος ἐθνῶν·
ἐν πίστει
καὶ ἀληθείᾳ.
1Ti_2:8 I desire therefore that men pray
in every place, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
1Ti_2:8
Βούλομαι οὖν
προσεύχεσθαι
τοὺς ἄνδρας ἐν
παντὶ τόπῳ,
ἐπαίροντας ὁσίους
χεῖρας χωρὶς
ὀργῆς καὶ
διαλογισμοῦ.
1Ti_2:9 Likewise also that the women adorn
themselves in modest apparel, with propriety and discretion, not with braids or
gold or pearls or expensive clothing,
1Ti_2:9 ὡσαύτως
καὶ τὰς
γυναῖκας ἐν
καταστολῇ
κοσμίῳ,
μετὰ αἰδοῦς
καὶ
σωφροσύνης
κοσμεῖν ἑαυτάς,
μὴ ἐν
πλέγμασιν ἢ
χρυσῷ ἢ
μαργαρίταις ἢ
ἱματισμῷ
πολυτελεῖ,
1Ti_2:10 but which is fitting for women
professing godliness, by means of good works.
1Ti_2:10 ἀλλ᾿
ὃ πρέπει
γυναιξὶν ἐπαγγελλομέναις
θεοσέβειαν,
δι᾿ ἔργων ἀγαθῶν.
Lower Leg and Feet
All of this is similar to what is said by some,
The dress of
Orientals consists principally of an under garment or… Over these garments they
often throw a full and flowing mantle or robe. This is made without sleeves; it
reaches down to the ankles; and when they walk or exercise it is bound around
the middle with a girdle or sash. When they labor it is usually laid aside.
(Barnes)
Male skirts?
11/11/18
Do the traditional Scottish have it right after all?
Deu_27:20 WEB Cursed be he who lies with his father's wife, because he has uncovered his father's skirt. All the people shall say, Amen.
Deu_27:20 LB “’Cursed is the man that lies with his father's wife, because he has uncovered his father's nakedness.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
Deu_27:20 Ἐπικατάρατος
ὁ κοιμώμενος
μετὰ γυναικὸς
τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτοῦ,
ὅτι ἀπεκάλυψεν
συγκάλυμμα τοῦ
πατρὸς αὐτοῦ·
καὶ ἐροῦσιν πᾶς
ὁ λαός Γένοιτο.
Lower Leg
By this I mean what people would call the “shin,” below the knee and before the foot.
Long Robe References
I need to
check out Greek and Hebrew for these refs:
Jer_13:22
CAB And if you should say in your heart, Why have these things
happened to me? Because of the abundance of your iniquity have your skirts been
discovered, that your heels might be exposed.
In the following reference, taking away lawlessness is associated with the Lord
clothing with a full length robe (reminds me of the demonic guy who was clothed
& in his right mind after Jesus cast the demons out :-)
Evidence from the LXX (not MT):
Zec_3:3-5 CAB (3:4) Now Joshua was clothed in filthy garments, and
stood before the Angel. 4 (3:5) And the Lord answered and spoke to those
who stood before Him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And He
said to him, Behold, I have taken away your iniquities, and clothed you with a *long
robe [MT/KJV: “change of raiment.H4254”; LXX:
ποδήρη
– a ‘feet-(ποδ-)-reaching’ robe – this agrees with Jesus’
example in the book of Revelation], 5 (3:6) and
place a clean turban upon his head. So they placed a clean turban upon his
head, and *clothed him with garments [περιέβαλον
αὐτὸν ἱμάτια].
And the Angel of the Lord stood by.
I am really encouraged that the Lord, in his glorified state, wears clothing
down to his feet :-)
And in speaking of Phineas and his long priestly rob, Wisdom says,
Wis_18:23-24 Brenton For when the dead
were now fallen down by heaps one upon another, standing between, he stayed the
wrath, and parted the way to the living.
24
For in the long garment [ποδήρους
ἐνδύματος] was the whole world, and in the four rows of the stones was the
glory of the fathers graven, and thy Majesty upon the diadem of his head.
Long Robes Have Skirts -- Even for Men!
1/27/17
From Hebrew
Exo_28:33 (incl. LXX); Exo_28:34 (incl. LXX); Exo_39:24 (incl. LXX); Exo_39:25 (incl. LXX); Exo_39:26 (incl. LXX); Exo_39:31 (not MT); Isa_6:1; Jer_13:22; Jer_13:26; Lam_1:9; Nah_3:5;
Gird up the loins
This concept speaks of the binding together of loose clothing to be ready for swift action such as running or fighting. The idea is that it also at least partially exposed the lower leg. Although this may have been “undignified” to some in social situations, it does not seem to be a violation of modesty.
1Ki_18:46 KJV And the hand of the LORD was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.
When the prodigal son returned, it says,
Luk_15:20 KJV …when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
- This suggests an expression of Love that apparently included showing the lower leg to run
Also see:
2Ki_4:29, 2Ki_9:1; Job_38:3; Jer_1:17; Eph_6:14; 1Pe_1:13
But for some significance we should also consider the perfection of dignity:
Rev_1:13 WEB And among the lampstands was one like a son of man, clothed with a robe reaching down to his feet, and with a golden sash around his chest.
Thighs
From the loins to the thighs
(Exo_28)
- Song of Songs
Exo_28 - Breaches
Isa_47:2-3 KJB Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover your locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers. 3 your nakedness shall be uncovered, yes, your shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet you as a man.
Jer_13:22-27 WEB If you say in your heart, Why are these things come on me? for the greatness of your iniquity are your skirts uncovered, and your heels suffer violence… 25 This is your lot, the portion measured to you from me, says Yahweh; because you have forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood. 26 Therefore will I also uncover your skirts on your face, and your shame shall appear. 27 I have seen your abominations, even your adulteries, and your neighing [i.e. lustfulness], the lewdness of your prostitution, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, Jerusalem! you will not be made clean…
Nah_3:5 KJ2000 Behold, I am against you, says the LORD of hosts; and I will uncover your skirts over your face, and I will show the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame.
That which is
sometimes translated as “hem” speaks of the “skirt” of the robe especially
since it is the same word:
Exo_28:33-35 ACV And upon the skirts7757 of it thou shall make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, round about the skirts7757 of it, and bells of gold between them round about: 34 a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, upon the skirts7757of the robe round about. 35 And it shall be upon Aaron to minister… that he does not die.
And why do we
expect to go on dressing however we wish, when this is a life or death issue to
Aaron? Could it be that we do not have the right desires to be the HOLY nation
and priesthood that God has called us to be?
The point of these scriptures is to show that God specifically covered the leg, especially when it pertains to the thigh.
It used to be considered immodest to show the Things we Show
Some
of the Greek women wore them open on each side, from the bottom up above the
knee, so as to discover a part of the thigh. These were termed φαινομηριδες, showers (discoverers) of the thigh; but it was, in
general, only young girls or immodest women who wore them thus.
(Adam Clarke's
Commentary on the Bible, on 1Ti_2:9)
Loins
“In
the past, mennos had these home-sewn clothes for both sexes designed to try to
minimize attention to the, well, lumps.
The cape
for women, the broadfall for men. Men also wore suspenders with
their broadfalls because it also seemed to help.
So
today, churches that emphasize modest dress require the cape and the
broadfalls.”
http://mennodiscuss.com/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=12868&start=105
Accessed
9/29/13
See:
Broadfall Trousers
http://www.gohnbrothers.com/broadfall-pants.html
“Zippers
are even more easily unzipped in the mind than in reality.”
http://www.therebelution.com/modestysurvey/browse_174
9/29/13
“The two chief uses of the zipper in its early years were for closing boots and tobacco pouches. It was almost twenty years before the fashion industry began seriously promoting the novel closure on garments.[6]
In the 1930s, a sales campaign began for children's clothing featuring zippers. The campaign praised zippers for promoting self-reliance in young children by making it possible for them to dress in self-help clothing. The zipper beat the button in 1937 in the "Battle of the Fly", after French fashion designers raved over zippers in men's trousers. Esquire declared the zipper the "Newest Tailoring Idea for Men" and among the zippered fly's many virtues was that it would exclude "The Possibility of Unintentional and Embarrassing Disarray."[citation needed]
The most recent innovation[citation needed] in the zipper's design was the introduction of models that could open on both ends, as on jackets. Today the zipper is by far the most widespread fastener, and is found on clothing, luggage, leather goods, and various other objects.”
http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa082497.htm
\/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zippers
Accessed
9/29/13; emphasis added
“Questions
about clothing led me into an exploration of BUTTONS, which I found absolutely
fascinating, because there was a philosophy behind it. Women in the 1940′s
did not wear zippers on their clothing; dresses, blouses, skirts were most
often closed with buttons. Even
men’s pants did not have zippers until the late 1930s. Zippers were considered immodest and too
suggestive for the ladies. This was something they really thought about and
considered important.”
http://julianathenovel.com/why-a-blog-about-juliana/
Accessed
9/29/13; emphasis added
Very
Conservative Mennonites Can See The Difference
Liberal: “I don't see men's pants with zippers
as being immodest at all or suggestive in the least.”
Conservative: “That's because you grew up with
zippered pants, just like Pentecostals grew up with blouses.
I
know of women who have struggled with zippered pants.
Liberal: “Woman's dresses have changed as
well. They used to wear aprons and don't anymore.”
Conservative: “Many plain ladies still wear
aprons. My mom and sisters do. There are men and women in those settings who
grew up with that who see non-aproned dresses as immodest.”
http://mennodiscuss.com/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=12868&start=105
Accessed
9/29/13
Talk
About “Relative Modesty”???
“To
point number two. I have no idea why the broadfalls disappeared. I don't see
men's pants with zippers as being immodest at all or suggestive in the least.
Woman's
dresses have changed as well. They used to wear aprons and don't anymore. There
are definitely degrees of covering. You can be completely burka-ed and be less
visible to the on-looker. A man could wear layer upon layer of robe like they
do in some locales and be less visible. But if clothing is not exposing a
person in a way that tempts the opposite gender to stumble, I think we are
adequately clothed.”
http://mennodiscuss.com/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=12868&start=105
Accessed
9/29/13
“I might leave room for some non-logic (providing it is not anti-biblical) if it was the result of searching and prayer.”
Conservative Response: “So if an MC USA person is not tempted by an outfit that the people in your church would consider immodest, would they still be adequately clothed? Or have they been conditioned to something they shouldn't be, just like we've been conditioned to something we shouldn't be.”
http://mennodiscuss.com/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=12868&start=105
Accessed
9/29/13
Thighs & Breaches
12/26/03; 11/25/04; 2/23/17 (recompiled)
This part of the Bible study is where it all started!
-- Under Construction --
Exo_28:42 WEB You shall make them linen breeches to
cover the flesh
of their nakedness; from the loins even to the thighs3409 they
shall reach:
Son_7:1 WEB How beautiful are your feet in sandals,
prince's daughter! Your rounded thighs3409 are
like jewels, The work of the hands of a skillful workman.
To what part of the “thigh” is modesty? –Good question
-- Under Construction --
Cloths that Cover!
3/10/19
it is not our goal that we should remain vulnerable in any
way such that if we bend or move in a certain direction then modesty is
endangered
it is our goal to find the best safety net and the best
safety precautions so that with biblical usage we might protect all modesty at
every angle
From Waist Area to Color-Bone
In general it is important to notice that God covered this area for both men and women. For no justified reason, we are tempted to go beyond the limits that God set for the human body.
Dress Code in Light of Swimming
For example, we somehow think that swimming should be an exception to the rules of modesty that God laid down. Guys do this by thinking that it is OK to take off their shirts, and girls do this by wearing swimsuits that show off their back as well as the entirety of their thighs, or even worse, some church women even dare to wear bikinis or others that show off most of the chest.
Why do people often get excited about a “socially expectable” opportunity to undress themselves, and why are they energized to immodestly and shamelessly celebrate the prostitution of their own body in broad daylight?
Let us redeem this area of our lives, and shake ourselves free unto life from our delusion into actual godly modesty. May God also have mercy on those who don’t know any better and use us to gently inform them “how [they] ought to walk and please God” (1Th_4:1).
Shirts Are Required -- Short Pants Are Not Enough
after Adam and Eve made trousers for themselves, they still hid themselves from God and knew that they were both still NAKED!
swim trunks are not enough to stop you from being naked!
Chest
For the area that a shirt covers, men are described more generically than women in this area; there is modesty with men as well, but not in the same respect as women. We see a number of non-sexual aspects to a man’s chest:
Non-Co-ed Love is the only Appropriate Embrace of the Chest
Joh_13:23 KJV Now there was leaning on Jesus' bosom one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved25. (also_13:25; 21:20)
This is appropriate for non-coed situations, since it is obvious that impurity is not related to the faithful and non-despising love of brothers.
Chests -- in the Song of Solomon
The whole Book of the Song of Solomon is about his wife and their sexual relationship. Some quotes are from the wife about her husband:
The LXX (not the MT) show the woman enraptured with the man’s chest:
Son_1:2 CAB Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth:
for your breasts are better than wine.
While this chest-passion is mutual all throughout the LXX, of course, the woman is still mentioned more frequently:
Son_1:13 WEB My beloved [my husband] is to me a sachet of myrrh, That lies between my breasts.
[“a sachet of myrrh” was something that is worn all night by women in this culture. So this is an “all-knight” description].
We
see from this verse, by the use of the word “between,” that cleavage is also a
sexual thing reserved for marriage, which should not be shown to the
public. (I wish I did not have to go
into detail, but because of the weakness of our perceptions many are still unaware
of this and it needs to be made known).
Son_4:5-7 WEB Your two breasts are like two fawns That are twins of a roe, Which feed among the lilies. 6 Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, To the hill of frankincense. 7 You are all beautiful, my love. There is no spot in you.
Son_7:3-10 WEB Your two breasts are like two fawns, That are twins of a roe. 5 …The king [Solomon] is held captive… 6 How beautiful and how pleasant are you, Love, for delights! 7 This, your stature, is like a palm tree, Your breasts like its fruit. 8 I said, "I will climb up into the palm tree. I will take hold of its fruit." Let your breasts be like clusters of the vine, The smell of your breath like apples, Beloved 9 Your mouth like the best wine, That goes down smoothly for my beloved, Gliding through the lips of those who are asleep. 10 [and the wife answers] I am my beloved's. His desire is toward me.
Son_8:10 WEB I am a wall, and my breasts like towers, Then I was in his eyes like one who found peace.
Also see:
Son_8:8/Ezk_16:7-8 – Sexually developed breasts are considered necessary for marriage
Ezk_23:3; Hos_2:2 – Prostitutes use this part of their body inappropriately
Ezk_23:21 – Being “lewd” with this part of your body is compared to being a prostitute
Ezk_23:34 – If you are lewd with this party your body, it will be “torn” at, or, “torn off” (compare Hos_9:14)
You see that Song of Solomon capitalizes at times on the
wife’s breasts. If then they are to be reserved
for such a sexual relationship they should not be advertised the world or the
church.
At the same time, although it is the woman who has the most to be concerned with in this area, the profound thing is that God did not cloth only the woman with a cloak and the man with pants, but He clothed them BOTH with tunics!
Remember that they thought at first that leaves would do full clothing but God insisted on a higher standard:
An Email About Shirts
From: Josiahs Scott
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 9:32 PM
To: [persecuted writer S]
Subject: RE: Question about a shirt
I think I’m going to answer much more broadly your question than
the one situation you specifically asked about. So, although I am answering
concerning a specific question you asked, please don’t think that all of these
things applies to this one case with the same degree as I address the over all
principals.
I would say yes: The white shirt would especially not be something
I would want you to go out in public with, knowing the outcome, but I suppose
that there are some very basic and important principles of avoiding stumbling
that need to be considered here in these types of cases, that it seems females
don’t usually have an awareness of in our culture.
I would so much sooner that we all adopted the Mennonite ‘cape’
dress, than there was an unawareness of the visual qualities of what we don’t
notice that we are wearing.
If it is possible for a guy to notice what a female looks like,
he will notice. And as much as guys notice, it is practically impossible that
they will not be forced to lust, but we know, ‘not with God. Because all things
are possible for Him.’ But apart from such a miracle, lust will happen. And
frankly, guys are not well known for walking around experiencing such miracles,
even if they cry out to God continually for them.
And we know that the virtue of modesty is not needed simply for
your own intrinsic value, but as much as another looks at you, you are
cheapened from the outside in, but ultimately, the inside out.
The ‘cape’ dress works and answers this need even if,
theoretically, the need was not perceived, but our dress does not yet always
meet the need, but yet it has gotten closer to this as time has passed. Let us
fully perceive the need, and so be completely protected and sufficiently
covered.
There is a very definite reason that the Bible specifically says
much about this area, and how it should be exclusive to meeting the needs of
husbands. Even though they don’t remember, guys are deeply engrained and
programmed to this in a pure way with their mother about woman-kind. So in the
correlating case of a wife, as much as it meets such potent needs in marriage,
if this is noticed visually outside of marriage, it will also cause potent
destruction according to this same power. You do not want a guy to correlate
with you according to what has been engrained in him, according to the burning
principal that was meant to attach him to a wife.
You are to be a sister to any guy out there who will believe.
Don’t stab him with anything other than such a pure invitation, lest he fall to
the wound of satan before getting to fall in Love with God.
Any shirt that is ever worn, especially by a female, ought to be
devoid of any possibility of even coming close to even slightly hinting at
anything. Anything that in anyway gives any chance to be looked at is a
definite aid to the forceful adultery of satan’s seduction.
No shirt or any other article of clothing should ever give any
chance at all for a male to look at a woman, especially in the area of the
shirt, including low cutting shirts that are over other shirts, or anything
that causes a noticeable pattern or other element to look at.
Why?
Because guys WILL look at it! And they will commit adultery,
whether they want to or not. I may say so clearly: No that is not a cute
pattern or design in your shirt, it is the weapon of satan.
So why is it that we keep having so many visual elements in
shirts?
I wish I could project with a mega phone and say in most
churches, “STOP USING CUTE SHIRTS!” But sometimes, with different situations,
it seems so often people don’t take it to heart how potent this is.
A shirt that does not fully and completely hide and mute a woman
is a heavy weight and a painful wound to nearly any guy who wants to avoid
adultery.
I suppose this covers more than just the white shirt question,
but even if it is better than other shirts, yet, more perception of the huge
dangers and of how much protection and hiding is necessary, is a great success
and needful salvation to many.
I hope this helps you (and any others) with hitting hard this
area to produce a lot of purity.
I can be on call if clarification is needed on some things, especially
if more than one of you is needing to ask specific questions. IM is also
possible if needed.
Thanks
for asking, and looking specifically to find the needs of purity.
Shoulders
God made them cloaks
Two important words
H3801 כּתּנת כּתנת kethôneth kûttôneth keth-o'-neth, koot-to'-neth
From an unused root meaning to cover
(compare H3802); a shirt: - coat, garment, robe.
The Complete Word Study Dictionary says that this word is “A feminine
noun indicating a coat, a garment, a tunic. It indicates a long undergarment with
a collar cut out for one's head
For this first word is the broader form of the word for shoulder:
H3802 כּתף kâthêph kaw-thafe'
From an unused root meaning to clothe; the
shoulder (proper, that is, upper end of the arm; as being the spot where the garments hang);
figuratively side piece or lateral
projection or anything: - arm, corner, shoulder (-piece), side,
undersetter.
This relationship between the word for “garment” or “cloak”
with shoulder is repeated in Greek with the words
“χειριδωτος” (cheiridotos) a
tunic, and “χειριδας” (cheiridas) which
are sleeves (that cover the hands).
So we see that the word for “cloak” that was used to cover Adam and Eve is directly related to the word shoulder indicating the scope of the area covered by the garment. This idea of covering the shoulder is reaffirmed in the clothing that God specified for the priests. Speaking of the “ephod,” God uses the second word and says:
Exo_28:7 WEB It shall have two shoulder-pieces3802 joined to the two ends of it, that it may be joined together. (compare Exo_39:4)
Exo_28:12 WEB You shall put the two stones on the shoulder-pieces3802 of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the children of Israel: and Aaron shall bear their names before Yahweh on his two shoulders3802 for a memorial. (compare Exo_39:7; Num_7:9)
Exo_28:25 WEB The other two ends of the two braided chains you shall put on the two settings, and put them on the shoulder-pieces3802 of the ephod in the forepart of it. (compare Exo_39:18)
It is also said of this word,
2Sa_13:18 -
A garment of divers colors - See Gen_37:3. Some prefer here (and there) “a tunic with sleeves,” a tunic reaching to the extremities, i. e. the hands and feet, and worn over the common tunic, in room of a robe.
And on Job_1:20 he says
The dress of Orientals consists principally of an under garment or tunic - not materially differing from the “shirt” with us - except that the sleeves are wider…
Coat - The Jews wore two principal garments, an interior and an exterior. The interior, here called the “coat,” or the tunic, was made commonly of linen, and encircled the whole body, extending down to the knees. Sometimes beneath this garment, as in the case of the priests, there was another garment corresponding to pantaloons. The coat, or tunic, was extended to the neck. and had long or short sleeves. Over this was commonly worn an upper garment, here called “cloak,” or mantle. It was made commonly nearly square, of different sizes, 5 or 6 cubits long and as many broad, and was wrapped around the body, and was thrown off when labor was performed.
(Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible)
For the priestly cloak:
…according to Josephus, “a tunic circumscribing or closely encompassing the body, and having tight sleeves for the arms.” (Clark)
This word is transliterated into Greek (χιτών, “chitōn”) and is used in the Greek Old Testament in this very passage in Genesis, as well as throughout the New Testament where it is used in a similar sense including the following:
Joh_19:23 KJB Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also his coat 5509: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.
So we see with this that the cloaks covered from the top downward including the shoulders, particularly since the word for cloak comes from the word “shoulder.” It is also implied in the word that it is “a long undergarment” which probably covered even the thighs (as we’ll see below), but we at least can say that it was not showing off the stomach.
He did this because He did not want to see their nakedness:
Also consider bathrooms
The Bible uses this when God is tell Moses exactly how He wants His (Holy) priests to dress:
Heb_8:4-5 KJVCNT …there are priests [with their priestly clothing] that offer gifts according to the law: 5 Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, says he, that you make all things [including the priestly clothing] according to the pattern showed to you in the mount.
Arms
Though we can see that the shoulders were specifically covered by this clothing that God prescribed and re-prescribed for men and women, at the same time we cannot say that this included the entire arm:
Isa_52:10 KJV The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.
This is twice confirmed in this scripture:
- Because His arm is “Holy” it cannot be said that it is being used shamefully
- Even more obvious is the fact that it is unreasonable to say that God would be lewd “in the eyes of all the nations”
Joh_12:38/ Isa_52… – to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
Persecuted Writer S’
Email
**Sleeves going down to the elbow-
At the moment, this is the minimum standard when we girls go out in public.
I have been wrestling with the lower part of the arm. And like I told you
before, unlike the issue of the legs, the sleeves seem to somewhat vary
throughout history. Below are two verses I've been thinking about:
Isa_52:10 The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in
the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the
salvation of our God.
Eze_4:7 Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the
siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy
against it.
These verses immediately tell me 2 things. 1) The arm was usually covered and
2) It is not sinful to do so because God did it.
eSword says that this word for "arm" seems to imply strength,
shoulder. Please correct me if I'm not understanding what Strong's is saying. I
thought the shoulder area wasn't right to uncover. Is upper arm and lower arm
distinguished in the Greek or is it just all "arm"?
I was looking at what some commentators said about the uncovering of the arm in
the above passages and more than one of them said that this was an allusion to
warriors who bare their arm for battle.
"The metaphor is derived from the manner in which the Orientals dressed.
The following extract from Jowett’s Christian Researches will explain the
language: ‘The loose sleeve of the Arab shirt, as well as that of the outer
garment, leaves the arm so completely free, that in an instant the left hand
passing up the right arm makes it bare; and this is done when a person, a
soldier, for example, about to strike with the sword, intends to give the arm
full play..." Barnes
and thine arm shall be uncovered- "which was usual in fighting in
those times and countries; for, wearing long garments, they were obliged to
turn them up on the arm, or lay them aside, that they might more expeditiously
handle their weapons, and engage with the enemy: in this form the soldiers in
Trajan's column are figured fighting; and it is related that the Africans used
to fight with their arms uncovered (h); thus Scanderbeg in later times used to
fight the Turks." Gill
Uncovered- "uncovered--to be ready for action, which the long
Oriental garment usually covered it would prevent " JFB
These comments also make me think- when men fight, they are fighting amongst
men so it wouldn't be inappropriate to show their arm in the ways spoken above.
But then again, Ezekiel is not out fighting a physical war; he was amongst them
of the captivity at Telabib, (Eze_3:15). And
also, the Lord bares his arm in the sight of everyone!
Arms – Gill on Deu_24:1
Deu_24:1 “and they suppose a man might divorce his wife for any ill qualities of mind in her, or for any ill or impudent behaviour of hers; as if her husband saw her go abroad with her head uncovered, and spinning in the streets, and so showing her naked arms to men; or having her garments slit on both sides; or washing in a bath with men, or where men use to wash, and talking with every man, and joking with young men; or her voice is sonorous and noisy; or any disease of body, as the leprosy, and the like; or any blemishes, as warts, are upon her; or any disagreeable smell that might arise from any parts of the body, from sweat, or a stinking breath (n)”
(n) T. Bab. Gittin, fol. 90. 1. 2. Misn. Cetubot, c. 7. sect. 6, 7. & Maimon. & Bartenora in ib.
arm
the prophet came to the
king with a wound on his arm...
how much of his arm was
showing when he came to the king?
what purpose would the wound
serve in the first place if it were not seen in a public situation?
why would the Word of God
have a graphic picture of a wound made if it were not seen as an illustration
of some sort?
the prophet could have very
well just said he was wounded rather than potentially wasting the actual damage
of his body, if indeed it were not to be seen...
...
Wrists
2Sa_13:18 – says that Tamar wore "*a tunic to the wrists [CAB: “a multi-colored robe” – Greek textual variation?], for so the daughters of the king who were virgins were clothed in their outer garments..." (NETS)
Hands Can Be A Safe Zone
Jesus - little girl (Jarious' Daughter)
Tabitha – hand
Compare: Feet Can Be A Safe Zone
Abraham and Lot Saw “Men” Who Grabbed the Hands of Him, His (Married) Wife, and His Virgin Daughters
Gen_18:2 He
lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood opposite him. When he saw them, he ran to
meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth,
Gen_18:2 And
he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, three men stood before him; and having seen them, he ran to
meet them from the door of his tent, and bowed himself to the ground.
Gen_18:2 ἀναβλέψας
δὲ τοῖς ὀφθαλμοῖς
αὐτοῦ εἶδεν, καὶ
ἰδοὺ τρεῖς ἄνδρες
εἱστήκεισαν ἐπάνω
αὐτοῦ· καὶ ἰδὼν
προσέδραμεν εἰς
συνάντησιν αὐτοῖς
ἀπὸ τῆς θύρας τῆς
σκηνῆς αὐτοῦ
καὶ προσεκύνησεν
ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν
Gen_19:16 But
he lingered; and the men grabbed
his hand, his wife's hand,
and his two daughters' hands,
Yahweh being merciful to him; and they took him out, and set him outside of the
city.
Gen_19:16 And
they were troubled, and the angels
laid hold on his hand, and the
hand of his wife, and the
hands of his two daughters, in that the Lord spared him.
Gen_19:16 καὶ
ἐταράχθησαν·
καὶ ἐκράτησαν
οἱ ἄγγελοι τῆς
χειρὸς αὐτοῦ
καὶ τῆς χειρὸς
τῆς γυναικὸς αὐτοῦ
καὶ τῶν χειρῶν
τῶν δύο θυγατέρων
αὐτοῦ ἐν τῷ φείσασθαι
κύριον αὐτοῦ.
Sacrificial Clothing
Exo_20:26 WEB Neither shall
you go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness may not be exposed to it.'
Exo_20:26 CAB You shall not go up to My altar by steps, that you may not uncover your nakedness upon it.
Exo_20:26 οὐκ
ἀναβήσῃ ἐν ἀναβαθμίσιν
ἐπὶ τὸ θυσιαστήριόν
μου, ὅπως ἂν μὴ ἀποκαλύψῃς
τὴν ἀσχημοσύνην
σου ἐπ᾿ αὐτοῦ.
Lev_6:10-11 WEB The priest shall put on his linen garment, and he shall put on his linen breeches upon his body; and he shall remove the ashes from where the fire has consumed the burnt offering on the altar, and he shall put them beside the altar. 11 He shall take off his garments, and put on other garments, and carry the ashes outside the camp to a clean place.
Holy Clothing
Eze_42:14 WEB When the priests enter in, then shall they not go out of the holy place into the outer court, but there they shall lay their garments in which they minister; for they are holy: and they shall put on other garments, and shall approach to that which pertains to the people.
And how did this originate?
Exo_28:2 WEB You shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty.
Exo_28:40 CAB And for the sons of Aaron you shall make tunics* and sashes, and you shall make headpieces for them for honor and glory.
Tunics –
Greek: χιτῶνας (LXX) G5509 - same as God made for Adam and Eve in Gen_3:21
The equivalent applies to the Hebrew (ֻכֹּתֶּנת - H3801)
Exo_28:42-43 CAB And you shall make for them linen trousers to cover the nakedness of their flesh; they shall reach from the loins to the thighs. 43 And Aaron shall have them, and his sons, whenever they enter into the tabernacle of witness, or when they shall advance to the altar of the sanctuary to minister, so they shall not bring sin upon themselves, lest they die: it is a perpetual statute for him, and for his seed after him.
Exo_28:7 WEB It shall have two shoulder-pieces3802 joined to the two ends of it, that it may be joined together. (compare Exo_39:4)
Exo_28:12 WEB You shall put the two stones on the shoulder-pieces3802 of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the children of Israel: and Aaron shall bear their names before Yahweh on his two shoulders3802 for a memorial. (compare Exo_39:7; Num_7:9)
Exo_28:25 WEB The other two ends of the two braided chains you shall put on the two settings, and put them on the shoulder-pieces3802 of the ephod in the forepart of it. (compare Exo_39:18)
Exo_32:25-26 KJ2000 And when Moses saw that the people were naked; (for Aaron had let them be naked unto their shame among their enemies:) 26 Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the LORD'S side? let him come unto me…
Everything was left as a pattern, even for the clothing
Consider David dancing with Ephod
Navel, Belly Button & Loins
It goes without saying that the waist and loins need to be FULLY covered. But nevertheless, way too many church people think that it’s ok to call themselves Christians while wearing swimsuits such as bikinis and the like that defy these Bible verses by uncovering this area of the body.
Son_7:2 KJ2000 Your navel8326 is like a round goblet, which lacks not blended drink: your belly is like a heap of wheat set about with lilies.
Lam
>>>>
This man Solomon is writing about the context of sex and is enamored with this woman’s body to the glory of God. How can we possibly think that we can uncover these parts of the body and honor God in it outside of this context?
Waist
The Bible specifically shows us repeatedly that we should cover this (literally and figuratively):
Son_7:2 (quoted above); Isa_11:5 (quoted below); Mat_3:4; Joh_13:4 (around men only); Eph_6:14;
Loins (specifically, literally and figuratively)
>> Eze_44:18 LXX says not to wear pants that have been ‘violently’ girded. This may mean not to wear tight pants…
OT
Gen_37:34; Exo_12:11; 28:42; Deu; 2Sa_20:8; 1Ki_2:5; 20:31, 32; 2Ki_1:8; Neh_4:18; Pro_31:17; Isa_11:5; 20:2 (the exception proves the rule); Jer_13:1, 2, 4, 11; 48:37; Eze_23:15; 44:18; Dan_10:5; Amos_8:10
NT
Mat_3:4; Mar_1:6; Luk_12:35; Eph_6:14; 1Pe_1:13;
Isa_11:5 WEB
Righteousness shall be the belt of his waist, and faithfulness the belt
of his loins.
Note: As seen above, belts in
the Bible often included that which came down and covered the loins as well.
The Management of the Loins toward the Worship of God
There is a restriction put on this for the priests: Exo_28:42 ; Eze_44:18; (etc., etc.), (and see examples below). There is a “die to loins” theme that I would say we must somehow partake of: Lev_7:3. But encouragement in that vicinity is good: Nah_2:1; 1Pe_1:13 (not to mention the blessing of having children “come out of your loins”).
Generally, paganism involved
sexuality in the worship of their various gods, and monotheism basically said
“no”.
The sex organs themselves
(and or at least the more general region of the loins) are constantly
tied with themes of healthiness vs. morning, sacrifices offered to God, and
even more frequently with circumcision (i.e. a dying to the flesh and
separation unto holiness). It seems that only in marriage the sex organs are
fully integrated into the blessing of God (as explicitly ravished all
throughout the Song of Songs), and apart from this, they are almost always an
object and target of crucifixion for us (with the exceptions of a few general
blessings of overall bodily health).
God expects uncovered Buttocks to be shameful to us
Isa_20:3-4 KJV And the LORD said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia; 4 So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
(also see 2Sa_10:1-5/1Ch_19:1-5)
Note: This is the heritage of shame and judgment upon those who do not obey God. We should strive in every way not to be like them nor inherit their judgment of shame.
Long Dress –
Other date(s)?; 11/11/18
Stola and Beyond
11/11/18
Some info on the "stola" for women in ancient Greece:
Should Women Be Allowed To Wear Pants
not just that, but can men even wear pants?
or even: can women or men wear just pants?
Deu_22:5
we do have numerous passages were men wear "breaches" -- so
men can wear pants, although it still needs to be established if that is ALL
they need to wear in public, since these were under garments for the priests...
-- this is why I used to wear shorts, but, after more research, I
stopped...
Me were herolds / proclaimers and messengers -- which means that they
were socially employed in running from one city to another -- and you have to
either have some kind of "pants" and/or you need to be always
"girded" in your loins for that type of work.
so how lawful and even biblical is it for men to dress in
"Sportswear" -- looks like it is actually Biblical, but WHAT DID IT
LOOK LIKE???
Nickies are now Biblical? (maybe not...)
women are clearly commanded to dress in a long dress!
So can women wear pants when they are commanded to dress in a long dress
that reaches their feet??
"Nickers" / peddle pushers -- came down to their knees
Judith had under garment of sacloth
women wanted pants so they could rid horses... -- is that right?
then we got to ask if women can drive cars... (many Muslims say no!)
men have "scirts"
can men wear a dress?
They cannot wear a WOMAN's DRESS
Song of Songs – Categorical Breakdown of Song of Songs
Content Pending…
Unlawful Romance Shows Us Why We Should Be Trained to Increase in Modesty
Unlawful Romance is as intoxicating as Lawful romance
Pro_30:18-19 WEB "There are… things which are too amazing for me… which I don't understand: 19 …the way of a man with a maiden [H5959 a virgin: someone a man can marry]… 20 So is the way of an adulterous woman [someone a man can’t lawfully marry]: She eats and wipes her mouth, And says, 'I have done nothing wrong.'
So we see…
The effect of regular love between men and women which is “too amazing” to be “understood” is the same as adulterous love, where she indulges in what does not belong to her and says “I have done nothing wrong.” If we say “I can handle it” we are fooling ourselves and lying against this Scripture which says it’s “…too amazing for me…I don't understand”
So how are we different than this example when we romantically involve ourselves with those who do not belong to us and say, “I have done nothing wrong.”?
If then, the Bible says regular love works the same way as unlawful romance, then we need to look at other verses too:
The Immoral Woman in Proverbs
Pro_5:3-23; Pro_6:24-26; Pro_7:6-27
Pro_6:25 Captivated by beauty (compare Son_7:5)
Pro_6:27-28 It’s like potent “fire” that burns you (Compare Son_8:6)
Pro_7: 13, 21 A man is “caught” and “Forced” (captivated) into it [loss of self-control because of intoxication]
2Sa_13:1-2 Absalom “Love sick” for sister Tamar (hopefully, we see this is BAD)
Yet we still say, “But we love each other” as though this certifies it and makes it a noble and right thing. But we ignore that unlawful romance is just as overcoming as lawful romance in marriage:
1Ki_11:2 KJV Of the nations concerning which the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love.
Proverbs 5&6
You become a son of wisdom when you turn aside and listen to her and obey her rules.
Clearly, if you consider someone unwise or do not regard that they have real wisdom then you will not be their son, nor will you inherit the reward of wisdom promised throughout the book of Proverbs, because you will have disqualified yourself from being considered God’s son.
Sin-tinted goodness/sweetness is deceptive
Remember we need a Biblical doctrine of sin
Pro_5:3 – immoral woman’s lips drip honey
A fool says because it taste good it is good, not considering that good has been turn to bad through sin
A woman is evil enough for sweetening sin before marriage and is doubly evil for losing sweetness after marriage. It is adding insult to injury
Church apostate usually thinks you need to taste the sweetness before you can know if you want to marry someone.
The Morality/Monotheism/Bible puts a headcovering on women to help guard/to protect people from tasting sinful sweetness before/outside of marriage
Warning a disobeyer typically thinks this has nothing to do with headcoverings but an obey acknowledges that this does tie into headcoverings especially in the next chapter
A disobeyer might often say “the deceptive sweetness is only the way her mouth talks but not her appearance” but an obeyer acknowledges that the sinful sweetness includes the way she talks and the way she looks as confirmed in the next chapter
You can say that this deceptive sweetness doesn’t include the way she looks but it doesn’t matter because the next chapter says it does. And Pro_5 is just the introduction of the various descriptions of sinful sweetness outside of marriage
Pro_5:4
“ but in the end” or “afterward” shows us that the sweetness of good things being pre exposed outside of marriage is a sin-crime which makes the experience of goodness temporary and then returns a judgment of rottenness into your bones and ultimately your soul
Verse 3 her physically mouth ≈ the 2 edged/mouth sword in verse 4
Her mouth drips with honey in your initial experience but it turns into a double mouth sword in the end
Bitter Wormwood
Furthermore, the experience of bitter judgment is culminated in the ultimate judgment of bitterness in the end times against apostate liberal sinners
Therefore if you are still sinning with the sweetness of good things outside of marriage from strangers that do not belong to your flesh you are in the camp of the people that are about to be judged by God with ultimate bitterness and total rejection in the end times.
Most church people breeze through these verses and don’t take the implications to heart and are not submitting their neck under the yoke of the reality of the implications of what it is actually saying.
It’s not time to contextualize the Scriptures right out of the Bible so that you try to pretend like this doesn’t apply to you and your sin which you’re committing right now
You’re not allowed to pretend like this only applies to an adulteress because what it actually says is that it is a sin of good beauty that does not belong to you, and that this core principle is why everything is so bad in this chapter with the sinners
Pro_5:5 tasting sinful sweetness outside of marriage = hell; this is an issue of salvation, don’t be deceive
Fornication = hell on every level
Pro_5:6
Sinful sweetness is crooked, not straight, not orthodox in order that through its twist and turns it can introduce evil you can’t foresee
Ever been down one of those twisty slides? It is fun but you can’t see what is below unless you pull yourself out of the context of its twisty infatuation
Tasting sinful sweetness deceives you so you don’t notice you are being destroyed and losing ultimate self-preservation
That is the way all sin work so that you can go to hell
It is a remarkable thing that a woman could be committing adultery and various sexual murders and apparently not even know that she is doing it.
So to what degree is she innocent because she’s ignorant and to what degree is she guilty because she still should know better and is ignorant because of her choice to “ignore it” and sin.
she is guilty and yet there is some sort of expression that she doesn’t perceive what’s actually going on.
The MT initially focuses on the aspect that she’s not even thinking about the way of life and therefore she is unaware of what she’s missing out on, and then concludes as a consequence that “she doesn’t know it” (WEB)
in this verse the Septuagint describes the scenario more generically by saying her sin is not well known
Warning: just as she may be naïve to a certain degree because of her own sloppiness and irresponsibility so also sexual murders of immodesty who expose the beauty of their gender outside of marriage today may indeed suffer from a certain degree of ignorance but it is not enough to excuse or justify them for the crimes of their hateful sexual murders of immodesty and showing off murderous beauty
When attraction is going on you don't know what is going on with lust
The only one who understands lust is the one dying to it
The way lust works is counterintuitive to the way that you think by default, unless indeed you have been morally educated by the word of God, such as this text.
Here we see that the understanding of what’s happening when lust is at hand lacks serious knowledge, and this overall ignorance within the heart and perceptions of those caught in desire is reinforced over and over again throughout the Bible
the Bible says you don’t know how to resist lust or how to handle it or what’s going on, so you’re not allowed to attribute wisdom or skill or knowledge or success or salvation to your flesh at any time without obeying every single strict rule the Bible places around purity.
You are not stronger than Samson nor wiser then Solomon nor are you able to overcome the ordinance of God that has made the flesh ignorant and incapable and morally bankrupt to make any decisions or skillful salvation regarding immorality.
The human race has been completely and thoroughly subjected to a constant input of the will and wisdom of God and the correction and instruction of monotheism in order to escape immorality and it’s straight path to hell.
Pro_5:8 directional sin
In other words, flee!
>>Scrip:
like Joseph
and
like Paul commands Timothy in 2Timothy_2:22
since the Bible requires you to acknowledge your own ignorance and incapability and lack of strength to resist temptation head on, you are therefore required and commanded (in Pro_5:8 and many other passages), as your only path of deliverance, to run in the opposite direction, not trusting yourself nor thinking you can handle anything but fleeing away from sin and looking into a refuge along with the righteous in 2 timothy_2:22
Pro_5:9
You don’t want the goodness of the labor of your life going into others
You will sin even if it is accidently if you don’t go the opposite direction
People who say they can handle it are liars because the Bible says you have to go the opposite direction
People who say the headcovering are not needed are liars because the Bible says you have to go the opposite direction of the sweetness of partaking before marriage
It does matter if you think it doesn’t include the way she looks because here after it does say it includes the way she looks
“Others”
We are seeing the emphasis on the moral aspect that the people you’re sinning with when partaking of their beauty and unlawfully sin-tainted goodness outside of Biblically lawful marriage is a core root problem of them being someone other than you and your flesh and your family.
Pro_5:11
The consequences prove the indulgence in sweetness was evil
This is God’s testament against liking sinful sweetness just like Rom_1
Pro_5:12
When you don’t like to feel guilty then you fall into sexual sins
LXX: speaking words to raise the conscience to an awareness of moral guilt and liability by means of proof
Pro_5:14
The result is a corporate testimony against your sin
Notice that there is a complete moral failure being observed by the assembly in proverbs_5:14, whereas in first Corinthians 11 he is commanding and charging you to conform your rogue wild flesh to the canonical standard of the righteous called out assembly so that you win together with her instead of falling and failing before her.
All morality, including Headcoverings, is an issue of salvation.
Pro_5:15
Contrasting what belongs to you verses what belongs to others
Pro_5:17
It goes back to that concept of yours verses a stranger
As it is said of the early church: they had a common table but not a common bed
Purity is one of the only things you need to be extremely Exclusive and personal with
Wife of Youth: Pro_5:17 & Mal_3
You’re not allowed to rejoice in your remarried wife when you have forsaken the wife of your youth, as somewhat described here and as even more explicitly described in Malachi
Notice here that the wife of your youth is being held in direct contrast to some other flesh that you do not own, and leads you straight to hell.
These passages have told you to flee and run away from sexual sins, which includes divorce and remarriage and you cannot escape hell and find the path of life when you are maintaining and keeping a remarriage which was adulterous.
It is therefore extremely clear that maintaining divorce and remarriage leads straight to hell like this so potently teaches and reinforces along with the rest of countless other Bible verses
Pro_5:
Pro_6:
Pro_7:5 – MT&LXX: strange woman
Does not belong to you!
Proverbs emphasis on avoiding immorality does capitalize & speak a lot against adultery in particular examples, but it’s root core basis is on a common principle of avoiding a woman who is strange and doesn’t belong to you.
Strange comma foreign comma another who does not belong to you
These principles form the basis for why you should avoid immorality & The violations of an immoral woman
If you’re not being kept from her, then you’re not part of monotheistic wosdom
Pro_7:
Pro_7:7
New / younger one lacking mindfulness
Same vocabulary as 1 & 2nd Timothy
“new” / morally inexperienced can imply mindless
i.e. naive
Pro_7:10 it includes her clothes, it does matter if you dismiss the previous chapter for her it mentions her prostituting clothes
Pro_7:13 kissing = done warm affection so sinning outside of marriage = warm affection
Non hiddenness face = the opposite 1Ti_2
Pro_7:14 she is religious, religious church brats do this sins as well
Pro_7:18 she has Disney love which is warm liking which is the same root as her kissing him
Pro_7:19 this is talking about an adulterous woman but she is doing it in the style of a prostitute. Most young developed woman today are not married but they are still doing the same as this prostitute
Pro_7:25 directional sins
Pro_7:
Pro_9: she sits in a way to be seen
Pro_9:17 is talking about their sweetness of stolen water which should be warfare against
Stolen means you don't own it, and the only way to own sweetness in that sense is in marriage.
LXX hedonistic pleasure is touching in a modifying way
compare Pro_9:17 with Jon_8: the thief of adultery
This is a climax where the fool is enjoying stolen pleasure that is tainted with sin
Notice that immorality kills ie it is sexual murder
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Clothes Needed Inside and Outside
Don't Take Off Your Clothes Just Because You
Come Inside
5/9/19; 4/1/21
when going to Aldi I saw an Indian woman at first I was
encouraged to see her head covering when going inside but when she got inside she
uncovered her head and wore it as a scarf...
...
then it looked like the same thing again when she was
walking to Dollar tree...
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Look through all Bible Notes for veil modesty add-ons
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Greek:
mid-thigh
Dress code:
God made "them"
[both] tunics of skin. So although women are covered in this way for more
obvious reasons, it is also given to the man to cover his chest along with the
women or it would have said, "God made her a tunic, and him some
shorts."
Do you see the significance here?
God shows that it is also necisary for men to were shirts in all social
situations.
What God did with Adam and Eve
speaks of the bare minimum for family situations, which says more is required
for social situations. If this were not so then why did God give the only man
and the only women cloths before anyone else was around? - This speaks volumes for how we ought to
respect our families even in the way we dress. - Remember Noah!
Excluding intimate situations God
shows us how to dress
-
Hebrews 8
Clothes are a pattern and shadow of
(eternal) heavenly things.
They are not a backup plan, but one
which was already designed and patterned in heaven for our future benefit, but
implemented early to address the problem of our premature exposure to shame.
God had already designed out
clothing for Adam and Eve before they sinned, showing us that it was also His
original purpose.
-
-I should probably quote the
confused commentator who thought that we might never have had close if we had
not sinned.
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An email that was sent to college students
Tomorrow's memorial for Oscar
will be broadcast to his family in Africa via the web. Therefore, a
university official has requested that we observe the following dress code
in order to meet Ugandan customs:
Men: Slacks and shirts with
collars (no blue jeans, tee shirts, or shorts)
Women: Dresses at least knee
length, no bare shoulders or spaghetti straps (no pants, no shorts)
Thank you for your cooperation and
God bless you! Pastor Steve
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Dress Code
Any more reasearch to do on:
shoulders,
collarbone?
Chest, bosom
Partial nakedness called like full
with Peter and john >> This means not having your upper gament on!!
Dressing With exclusivity in mind
Principal of Hidding things for
modesty-sake vs. the looseness of the prostitute who "Scaters her gifts to
those afar" and how proverbs says, "should your fountain be dispersed
in the streets... let them be for you alone"
Lev 18:
Familial dress code
The natural responce of Adam and
Eve after sinning was the shame of their bodies. After having been pure for all
of their days, they were otherwise perfectly sensitive to the defilement and
sham of sin. The only way to lack this
reponce is to surpass their sin and dullen our harts with pride to not be
ashamed of the sin of our bodies.
If you do not properly cover your
body, you are not properly acknoledging the same of your sinful flesh, but are
glorying in the sin. This requires pride
on our behaf to pretend like we have nothing to be ashamed of, and this is why
prostitutes and strippers deal with profound feelings of being degraded. You can pretend as much as you want, but as
long as you glory in shame the degrigation of your body by embracing it's own
sinfulness eats you up and brings you to "a loaf of bread." This is
why it is said, "the body was not made for fornication but for the
Lord..."
We experience this degregation on a
smaller but similar skail when we dress imodestly. In the same way, we
participate in God's honor and expierance His humility and exhaltation when we
persue modesty in faith and the fear of God covering the shame of our
bodies. By faith we can expierance the
worth and grweat honor that God bestows upon us when we humly hide ourselves
for His exhaltation in the potential of marriage.
"I have storred up many good
things..." You are storring anything up when you are showing it off! So on
the other hand the prostitute has "scattered abroud..."
The pride of not covering one's
body stems from a lack of shame from the sin that has defiled the corrupted
flesh.
So this is why we should pray. It
is a profuond hidden thing in our souls, that immodesty and lust gain their
strength from pride. There is untold pride to be freed from when we find
ourselves dressing immodestly. Out of dealing with a lot of situation including
counciling and figiting immorality in every way, there are some prayers that
help change our heart in the right way:
Men
Lord I repent of flaunting my
masculinity, thinking that I'm strong and impresive.
I repent of mail pride. I repent of
wanting to show off and prove that I'm a man.
I repent of wanting to manipulate
and take advantage of women.
I repent of dishonoring women by
seeking personal gradification.
Women
Lord I repent of flaunting my body,
being proud of the way I look and thinking I'm beautyful.
I repent of being a seductress with
my dress, and actions.
I repent of wanting men to notice
me, and of trying to gain their attention or of trying to controle them with
flirtation.
Men and Women
Lord (other than marriage) may no
one be attracted to me at all whatsoever.
May no one notice me; may no one be
attracted to me. May no one like me and may no one flirt with me.
Help me to "treat... younger
men as brothers and younger women as sisters with all purity."
(Except for marriage) help me not
to flirt with anyone at all whatsoever.
Look up the Greek root of separate
Wiki: head covering
Re-translate 1 Cor 11
2 Cor 5 has a lot to do with
spiritual clothing
John 13 Jesus took only a twel when
humbling himself before the disciples. No shirt is ok for men-only groups
Add 1st Jn 1 to reading list
song of songs
It is very interesting that though
Solomen's wife is veiled (6:7), he still notices that she is beautyful
including her hair (6:5), her teeth (6:6), and her temples (6:7).
For the face
Search out all the uses of temples
Though we don't need to dress like
priests exactly, we do need to cover likely them, because their covering was
based on the principle of nakedness which God defined.
> " The Word of God is
established in the heavens forever," -including the clothing-.
The Biblical principle of
nakedness:
God defines what nakedness is, not
our culture.
In spite of our ignorance, God
shows us what is best considered nakedness by the people he covers with
clothing in the Bible.
Head Coverings
Implications behind it
Spiritual
Reprocrussions
translaions
Greek not about married
woman, but is generically about women and men.
This is not an issue directly
dealing with Heaven or hell, but is one dealing with principals that stop you
from going the directions of things that lead you to hell.
> Based on creation
principals, and has moral consequences
> It's in the OT, so
this is obviously what he is refering to!
> It is obvious that
he refers to what was already inplace from the OT on into this Corinthian
culture.
> He is not
inventing something new out of thin air, but is reafirming something very real
and present from the OT, and is confirmed to be aplicable in the NT
> "ask for old
paths"
> "Make
beauutyful as woman of past"
What is ment by
"because of the angels"?
> don't try the
angle of his presence
> angels do service
for those who will inherit eternal salvation (Heb_1:14)
> angels are
interested in the affairs of men, especially the worship of God.
> Speaking of
Serafim
"κατεκάλυπτον
τὸ πρόσωπον"(Isa_6:2 LXX) - Angels covering thier faces
- The exact same word
("katekalupton") used in the Greek OT
- Where NT gets its vocabulary from
- Where 1 Cor 11 got the word to describe
veils for women
- If angels know how to be reverent before
God, so should you... especially since they are assembled with you in
worshiping God (being present at your meetings)!
> What does it do to the man if the
woman he is to protect is immodest in some way?
> It shames him:
Lev 18 relational dynamic of flesh; Deu 22:
Father's reputation is on the line
"she played the prostitute in her
father's house"
> When I would take my sis around, is
was shameful (disrespectful) to me if she did not dress right.
> How does it look to the brothers of
Song of Songs if their sister is dressed immodest?
But on the contrary, what does she say? 'I
accept your protection' ('to seal me up for marriage') "I am a wall"
(Song_8:8-10).
> Submision is not what an authority
does. "I do not submit you"
> Submission is "comming under the
protection of someone" - "You have to come under that protection; a
protector does not do it for you"
> In this sense, the lack of modesty
affects the submission to the protection and authority of men.
> Men who love lust (shame) are not
concerned for anyone's well being or dignaty, so these things are unimportant
to them.
> Isn't there something inside of sisters
that wants brothers that are out to protect them instead of trying to get
something out of them?
> What does it do to the man if the
woman he is to protect is immodest in some way?
> It says to him, "I do not acept
you for the purpose you were put in my life for."
> What the woman does with modesty
either reflects man's glory, or mares it.
Head-Covering is Neglected Now, As the
Booths Had Been Then
Neh_8:14, 17 KJ2000 And they found
written in the law which the LORD had commanded by Moses, that the children of
Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month... 17 And all the congregation of them that were
come again out of the captivity made booths, and sat under the booths: for
since the (i) days of Joshua the son of Nun
unto that day had not the children of Israel done so. And there was very great
gladness.
"Which was almost a
thousand years." (1599 Geneva Bible Translation Notes)
"...Those who diligently search the Scriptures,
find things written there which they have forgotten... Those that understand
the scriptures well will still be desirous to understand them better" (Matthew Henry’s Commentary on
the Whole Bible)
Commanded:
Lev_23:39-43. In Deu_16:13 they were only commanded
to keep the feast with gladness.
"On former occasions, those
who came up to Jerusalem may have regarded this precept as non-essential, and
contented themselves by keeping the feast with solemn assemblies, sacrifices,
and sacrificial feasts, without making booths and dwelling in them for seven
days." (Keil
& Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament)
> 1st Cor is laced with the idol's
temple and the prostitutes that were there
> 1st Cor 6 is about a prostitute with a
spiritual joining
> No good answer
Paul did have in mind prostitute, but even
if not, it is still rehtorical.
> Why the debate over "woman"
vs. "Virgine"
> b/c of early church debate
- Draw out the face principal:
(compare Apostolic Constitutions)
- I've read the entire treatese from
Turtailian:
"Arabia's heathen females will be your
judges, who cover not only the head, but the face also "
>> "They would rather do without
the sight of one eye than to prostitute the whole face"
"So, too, did the Corinthians
themselves understand him. In fact, at this day the Corinthians do veil their
virgins (virgines suas Corinthii velant). What the apostles taught, their
disciples approve."
some say there are reasons for a woman's
hair to be the covering.
- Verse 6 says they are different
- all this would mean nothing if hair was
the point
- History tells us the Corinthians obeyed
and covered!
- The reference to "anti" is
pointing to man, not as oposed to the head covering:
directly translated: "the long hair is
given, covering her instead [i.e. intead of the man]"
"...in the historical context, where
cloth headcoverings and veils were so commonly used. Who can suppose that Paul
is making no reference to these when he speaks of headcoverings?"
Picture is echoed by Turtalian.
" In view of the customs of the
time—in which many women would go about with their heads covered anyway—we
might even say that this whole passage has to do not so much with putting on
special coverings for prayer as it does with keeping the head covered for
prayer. Probably Paul would prefer that a Christian woman would cover her head
whenever in public, or whenever she was in the presence of men outside her own
family. This would resemble the practice among Jews and others in Asia Minor at
the time..."
"and they that are hanged by the hair
are unblushing ones which had no modesty and went about in the world bareheaded
(γυμνοκεφαλοι)"
In the "old days" women dressed
in particular ways that may have been significant at the time, it is said, but
the times and fashions have changed, so that headcoverings or bare heads no
longer signify anything today. Thus the passage is said to be irrelevent. But
this dismissal of the passage will not do
"...Christians were not thrown to the
lions for their penchant for conformity...."
"We must be careful not to let our
zeal for knowledge of the culture obscure what is actually said."
"This is a very dangerous
hermeneutical precedent, and I cannot believe that the avoidance of unstylish
headcoverings for the ladies is worth the trouble we will get from compromised
principles of interpretation."
"19. ibid., chapter viii, p. 33. It is
indeed hard to understand how anyone could think that this testimony, from
about A.D. 200, does not make further discussion of the matter almost useless.
Are we to think that after a space of hardly more than a century the
Corinthians themselves had forgotten the meaning of Paul's instructions?
Indeed, are we to think that the entire Church had promptly forgotten the true
meaning, until our own generation of scholars discovered that Paul was not
requiring a headcovering? This fantastic idea is the premise upon which the
arguments of Hurley and others are based."
[http://www.bible-researcher.com/headcoverings.html]
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Customs
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"One statement commonly cited as
evidence about the headcovering customs of Greek women is in Plutarch's Sayings
of Spartans (written during the first century A.D.). Concerning a Spartan he
writes, "When someone inquired why they took their girls into public
places unveiled, but their married women veiled, he said, 'Because the girls
have to find husbands, and the married women have to keep to those who have
them!'" (5) "
Dress Code Verses:
God's arm:
Is 30:30
--
Is siblings see each other's nakedness, it
is a "shamful thing" and wickeness.
Also Shem, Ham, and Japheth
These things renforce the Minimum
dresscode.
--
Isa_47:2 ESV Take the
millstones and grind flour, put off your veil, strip off your robe, uncover
your legs, pass through the rivers.
"
After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not
do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye
not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances. (Leviticus_18:3. cf. also Deuteronomy_12:29-32 and 2 Kings_17:13-15.)"
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"
The LORD has prepared a sacrifice and consecrated his guests ... and on
the day of the LORD's sacrifice, I will punish ... all who array themselves in
foreign attire. (Zephaniah_1:8)"
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"
Speak to the people of Israel, and tell them to make tassels on the
corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to put a cord of
blue on the tassel of each corner. And it shall be a tassel for you to look at
and remember all the commandments of the LORD, to do them, not to follow after
your own heart and your own eyes, which you are inclined to whore after.
(Numbers_15:38-39. See also Deuteronomy_22:12, You shall make yourself tassels on the four corners of the
garment with which you cover yourself.)"
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hence we read of the hem or border, of his
garment (Matt. ix. 20).
As for Jewish women, there is clear
evidence that in the first century they covered their heads not only for prayer
but whenever they were outside of their own home. It is said that some Jewish
women kept themselves covered at all times. In public, they not only covered
their heads, but the lower part of their faces as well. For the women this was
a matter of morals, and a religious duty, not merely a matter of style or
convenience. Joachim Jeremias describes the Jewish custom.
Messy Statement
"A further
problem, which renders much of what has been written on this subject almost
worthless, is the failure of many commentators to make any distinction between
face-veiling and headcovering in the ancient sources. Oepke writes as if he
thought Tertullian had in mind face-veiling when he used the words velum and
velo, but this cannot be right. The context must be carefully examined to
determine what an ancient writer is referring to with various words for veils
and coverings."
See also the article
"Head, Covering of," in the Encyclopedia Judaica, Vol. 8 (Jerusalem:
Keter Publishing House, 1971), in which it is said that one Jewish sage
declared that "since Christians generally pray bareheaded, the Jewish
prohibition to do so was based on the biblical injunction not to imitate the
heathen custom." (p. 5.)
[http://www.bible-researcher.com/headcoverings3.html]
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Persuing Honor that is more real
than Physical Cloaths
There
is something defiling about seeking to cover the flesh when it is not the
imediate outgroath of longing to be clothed spiritually before God.
[compare
Col 2 & 3]
If
we are not longing to be clothed in His honor when we appear before Him, then
we insult His offer as if it were as useless as the world's honor.
- we
lack so much ambition:
The
honor of this world is vain. Therefore we ought to count it as nothing, and
shun lusting after it.
But
if we lack ambition toward God, then we insult Him by suggesting that His honor
and exaltation is vain in the same way the world's honor is vain. We had dare
not do this in the name of being "humle" and not wanting to
"exalt ourselves".
Even
if you are trying to be "modest," when you're caughtup in the cloth you exalt fleshly things that
are of no value. The care for material clothing is a disrespect to God if the
spiritual is being neglected.
Clothing is not a means to modesty,
but a faint representation of it.
If we forget this, we may find
ourselves charging people for the exterior, that can be forced without
personally pleasing God.
- I'm Not talking about not being
specific about clothing and how we need to dress.
- By saying these things, we do not
stop telling people to dress modestly
- We don't start saying that the
physical needs are unimportant when we say how much more the spiritual things
are needed.
- Though physical imodesty shows
there is something wrong, physical modesty alone does not show that there is
something right.
- It is not as though we take away
from the value, necesity, and implications of physical clothing by these
things, but that we burn with indignation against those who would try to take
on modesty while still being without concern for the honor of God.
- We hate the disrespecting
exterior leagalism of those who are not ambitious toward God's offer of
greatness, but think they will come any closer to their own profit by clothing
the body.
- We are talking about not being
careful for cloth, but being careful for honor.
Physical Modesty is the least we
can do, and is a very small side note that stilll says so much when violated.
- When shamed by removing physical
clothing, Jesus "despised the shame" and knew from the Father that He
held honor before God, being clothed before Him. Jesus was not fooled by
clothing.
For everyone, modest or not:
- If your confidence is in cloth to
cloath you, your eagerness toward it is wasted and vain, because it is empty.
Physical clothing is a limited
representation that can be faked without achieving the goal.
Thoughts…
Love
and seek the honor and praise of God
Be
absorbed in the holy spiritual pursuit of being clothed before God.
It
is universal and eternal because it adapts to every culture, always seeking
modesty in every context.
It
is alive because it will always show up among many different variables and ways
of life across every culture.
--
Result-
clothing the body; this is the least we can do, and better not be the only
thing we do.
--
Physical modesty must be
implemented regardless
Violating modesty laws still hurts
would ever society is involved,
Whether or not the heart is right,
more modesty means less destruction to society, and less wrath upon it
Forced justice is better than
willing chaos
In the same way, forced modesty is
better than willingly destroying society with lustfulness
Headcovering thoughts
http://www.bible-researcher.com/headcoverings3.html
church has it's own customs
- Church was a subculture
- But in this, some are recycled
showing that the jewish ones were God's origonal and acurate ideal. This is
especially renforced when the OT presents it as an act of righteousness.
- Head coverings are not just
"marriage" ideals
although he talks of where that
thought exsisted in some areas. The early church had started to think this way
around the time of Turtalian
>> Look up chiton, an imation
"As for Jewish women, there is
clear evidence that in the first century they covered their heads not only for
prayer but whenever they were outside of their own home..."
"... In public, they not only
covered their heads, but the lower part of their faces as well. For the women
this was a matter of morals, and a religious duty, not merely a matter of style
or convenience..."
[http://www.bible-researcher.com/headcoverings3.html]
crime if women "...went out
without face bing hidden..."
noting suggesting the face
veiling...
>
- That is assumed if you are
commanding a righteous standard found elseware in the Bible...
- Pluss it says "come down and
hide" not just "have it on somehow"
- When angells did this
"hiding" it was specifically the face.
- Helanized Jews, or greek reading
christians would have read the LXX, and it is the natural idea to think back to
how this applyed in the OT.
The vocabulary defines the NT.
- face veiling "kalumma"
is not even used by the angels
> is it used for Moses?
"it does mean thourowly
covered"
> "down" +
"Hidden"
Jewish customs are not
"customs," they are fequently banners of righteousness
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Revelation 3 – You are Wretched!
Rev_3:17 CAB Because [ὅτι] you say [that (ὅτι)], 'I am wealthy [or Rich] [Πλούσιός (same as SOM, etc.)], and have become [wealthy] rich [πεπλούτηκα], and have need of nothing'--and do not [οὐκ] know [οἶδας] that you are wretched [ταλαίπωρος – i.e. wretchedly afflicted], [and (καὶ)] miserable [ἐλεεινὸς – lit. mercy-able / (worthy of) mercy; i.e. pitiful/miserable], [and (καὶ)] poor [πτωχὸς], [and (καὶ)] blind [τυφλὸς], and [καὶ] naked [γυμνός],
Rev_3:17 ὅτι
λέγεις ὅτι
Πλούσιός εἰμι
καὶ
πεπλούτηκα
καὶ οὐδὲν
χρείαν ἔχω,
καὶ οὐκ οἶδας
ὅτι σὺ εἶ ὁ ταλαίπωρος
καὶ ἐλεεινὸς
καὶ πτωχὸς
καὶ τυφλὸς
καὶ γυμνός,
Rev_3:18 I counsel [συμβουλεύω] you to buy [ἀγοράσαι] from [παρ᾿ – next to] Me gold having been ·tried by fire [πεπυρωμένον ἐκ πυρὸς – i.e. fired out of fire], so that you may become rich [πλουτήσῃς (see: 1Co_4:8)]; and white robes [ἱμάτια λευκὰ], so that ·you may be clothed [περιβάλῃ], and the shame [ἡ αἰσχύνη] of your nakedness [τῆς γυμνότητός σου] may not appear [φανερωθῇ]; and ·eye salve [κολλούριον], so that you may anoint [ἔγχρισον] your eyes, ·in order that you may see [ἵνα βλέπῃς].
Rev_3:18
συμβουλεύω
σοι ἀγοράσαι
παρ᾿ ἐμοῦ
χρυσίον πεπυρωμένον
ἐκ πυρὸς ἵνα
πλουτήσῃς,
καὶ ἱμάτια
λευκὰ ἵνα
περιβάλῃ
καὶ μὴ
φανερωθῇ ἡ
αἰσχύνη τῆς
γυμνότητός
σου, καὶ κολλούριον
ἔγχρισον
τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς
σου ἵνα βλέπῃς.
Rev_3:19 ·As many as I love [warmly like] [ἐγὼ ὅσους ἐὰν φιλῶ], I rebuke [ἐλέγχω – word (into) convincing conviction] and discipline [παιδεύω]. ·Be zealous [ζήλευε] therefore [οὖν], and repent [μετανόησον].
Rev_3:19 ἐγὼ
ὅσους ἐὰν
φιλῶ, ἐλέγχω
καὶ παιδεύω·
ζήλευε οὖν
καὶ
μετανόησον.
Deu_24:10 WEB When you do lend your neighbor any manner of
loan, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge.
Deu_24:10 LB “If your neighbor owes you a debt,
any debt whatsoever, you shall not go into his house to take his pledge:
Deu_24:10 Ἐὰν
ὀφείλημα ᾖ ἐν τῷ
πλησίον σου, ὀφείλημα
ὁτιοῦν, οὐκ εἰσελεύσῃ
εἰς τὴν οἰκίαν
αὐτοῦ ἐνεχυράσαι
τὸ ἐνέχυρον·
Deu_24:11 WEB You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you do lend shall bring forth the pledge outside to you.
Deu_24:11 you shall stand outside, and the
man who is in your debt shall bring the pledge out to you.
Deu_24:11 ἔξω
στήσῃ, καὶ ὁ ἄνθρωπος,
οὗ τὸ δάνειόν
σού ἐστιν ἐν αὐτῷ,
ἐξοίσει σοι τὸ ἐνέχυρον
ἔξω.
Deu_24:12 WEB If he be a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge;
Deu_24:12 And if the man is poor, you
shall not keep his pledge overnight.
Deu_24:12 ἐὰν
δὲ ὁ ἄνθρωπος πένηται,
οὐ κοιμηθήσῃ ἐν
τῷ ἐνεχύρῳ αὐτοῦ·
Deu_24:13 WEB you shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment, and bless you: and it shall be righteousness to you before Yahweh your God.
Deu_24:13 You shall surely restore his
pledge at sunset, and he shall sleep in his own cloak, and he shall bless you;
and it shall be mercy to you before the Lord your God.
Deu_24:13 ἀποδόσει
ἀποδώσεις τὸ ἐνέχυρον
αὐτοῦ περὶ
δυσμὰς ἡλίου,
καὶ κοιμηθήσεται
ἐν τῷ ἱματίῳ αὐτοῦ
καὶ εὐλογήσει
σε, καὶ ἔσται
σοι ἐλεημοσύνη
ἐναντίον κυρίου
τοῦ θεοῦ σου.
Deu_24:17 WEB You shall not wrest the justice due to the foreigner, or
to the fatherless, nor take the widow's clothing to pledge;
Deu_24:17 LB
You shall not pervert the judgment of the stranger and the fatherless,
and the widow; you shall not take the widow's garment for a pledge.
Deu_24:17 Οὐκ
ἐκκλινεῖς κρίσιν
προσηλύτου καὶ
ὀρφανοῦ καὶ χήρας
καὶ οὐκ ἐνεχυράσεις
ἱμάτιον χήρας·
Deu_22:30
WEB A man shall not take his father's
wife, and shall not uncover his father's skirt.
TAR: XXIII. A man should not take a wife who is bowed down (or violated),
or who hath had intercourse with his father, much less his father's
wife, nor disclose the skirt that
covereth his father.
Deu_22:30 CAB A man shall not take his father's wife, and
shall not uncover his father's skirt.
Deu_22:30 (23:1) Οὐ λήμψεται
ἄνθρωπος τὴν
γυναῖκα τοῦ
πατρὸς αὐτοῦ
καὶ οὐκ ἀποκαλύψει
συγκάλυμμα τοῦ
πατρὸς αὐτοῦ.
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2:9
2Co_3:7 CAB Now if the ministry of death, having been
engraved in letters on stones, came to be with glory, so that the sons of
Israel could not look intently into the face of Moses because of the glory of
his countenance, the glory which was passing away,
2Co_3:7 Εἰ
δὲ ἡ
διακονία τοῦ
θανάτου ἐν
γράμμασιν ἐντετυπωμένη
ἐν λίθοις ἐγενήθη
ἐν δόξῃ, ὥστε
μὴ δύνασθαι
ἀτενίσαι
τοὺς υἱοὺς ᾿Ισραὴλ
εἰς τὸ
πρόσωπον Μωϋσέως
διὰ τὴν
δόξαν τοῦ
προσώπου αὐτοῦ
τὴν
καταργουμένην,
2Co_3:8 how
will the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious?
2Co_3:8 πῶς
οὐχὶ μᾶλλον
ἡ διακονία
τοῦ
πνεύματος ἔσται
ἐν δόξῃ;
2Co_3:9 For
if the ministry of condemnation had
glory, the ministry of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.
2Co_3:9 εἰ
γὰρ ἡ
διακονίᾳ τῆς
κατακρίσεως
δόξα, πολλῷ
μᾶλλον
περισσεύει ἡ
διακονία τῆς
δικαιοσύνης ἐν
δόξῃ.
2Co_3:10 For
even that which has been glorified has not been glorified in this respect,
because of the surpassing glory.
2Co_3:10 καὶ
γὰρ οὐ
δεδόξασται
τὸ
δεδοξασμένον
ἐν τούτῳ τῷ
μέρει ἕνεκεν
τῆς ὑπερβαλλούσης
δόξης.
2Co_3:11 For
if that which passes away was glorious,
then that which remains is much more glorious.
2Co_3:11 εἰ
γὰρ τὸ
καταργούμενον
διὰ δόξης,
πολλῷ μᾶλλον
τὸ μένον ἐν
δόξῃ.
2Co_3:12
Therefore, having such hope, we use great boldness of speech--
2Co_3:12 ῎Εχοντες
οὖν τοιαύτην
ἐλπίδα πολλῇ
παρρησίᾳ
χρώμεθα,
2Co_3:13 and not as Moses, who put a veil over his
face so that the sons of Israel could not look intently at the end of what was
passing away.
2Co_3:13
καὶ οὐ
καθάπερ Μωϋσῆς
ἐτίθει
κάλυμμα ἐπὶ
τὸ πρόσωπον
ἑαυτοῦ πρὸς
τὸ μὴ ἀτενίσαι
τοὺς υἱοὺς ᾿Ισραὴλ
εἰς τὸ
τέλος τοῦ
καταργουμένου.
2Co_3:14 But
their minds were blinded. For until this day the same veil remains unlifted in
the reading of the Old Testament, because the veil is removed in Christ.
2Co_3:14 ἀλλ᾿
ἐπωρώθη τὰ
νοήματα αὐτῶν.
ἄχρι γὰρ τῆς
σήμερον τὸ
αὐτὸ
κάλυμμα ἐπὶ
τῇ ἀναγνώσει
τῆς παλαιᾶς
διαθήκης
μένει, μὴ ἀνακαλυπτόμενον
ὅτι ἐν Χριστῷ
καταργεῖται,
2Co_3:15 But
even to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart.
2Co_3:15 ἀλλ᾿
ἕως σήμερον, ἡνίκα
ἀναγινώσκηται
Μωϋσῆς,
κάλυμμα ἐπὶ
τὴν καρδίαν
αὐτῶν κεῖται·
2Co_3:16 But
whenever one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
2Co_3:16 ἡνίκα
δ᾿ ἂν ἐπιστρέψῃ
πρὸς Κύριον,
περιαιρεῖται
τὸ κάλυμμα.
2Co_3:17 Now
the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
2Co_3:17 ὁ
δὲ Κύριος
τὸ Πνεῦμά ἐστιν·
οὗ δὲ τὸ Πνεῦμα
Κυρίου, ἐκεῖ
ἐλευθερία.
2Co_3:18 But
we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are
being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the
Spirit of the Lord.
2Co_3:18 ἡμεῖς
δὲ πάντες ἀνακεκαλυμμένῳ
προσώπῳ τὴν
δόξαν Κυρίου
κατοπτριζόμενοι
τὴν αὐτὴν
εἰκόνα
μεταμορφούμεθα
ἀπὸ δόξης
εἰς δόξαν,
καθάπερ ἀπὸ
Κυρίου
Πνεύματος.
Exo_35:9
WEB onyx stones, and stones to be set
for the ephod and for the breastplate.
Exo_35:9 LB
sardine stones, and stones for engraving for the ephod and the full-length
robe.
Exo_35:9 καὶ
λίθους σαρδίου
καὶ λίθους εἰς
τὴν γλυφὴν εἰς
τὴν ἐπωμίδα καὶ
τὸν ποδήρη.
Exo_29:8
WEB You shall bring his sons, and put
coats on them.
Exo_29:8 LB and
you shall bring his sons, and put garments on them.
Exo_29:8 καὶ
τοὺς υἱοὺς αὐτοῦ
προσάξεις καὶ ἐνδύσεις
αὐτοὺς χιτῶνας
Exo_29:9
WEB You shall dress them with belts,
Aaron and his sons, and bind headbands on them: and they shall have the priesthood
by a perpetual statute: and you shall consecrate Aaron and his sons.
Exo_29:9 And
you shall gird them with sashes, and put the hats upon them, and they shall
have a priestly office unto Me forever; and you shall fill the hands of Aaron
and the hands of his sons.
Exo_29:9 καὶ ζώσεις
αὐτοὺς ταῖς ζώναις
καὶ περιθήσεις
αὐτοῖς τὰς κιδάρεις,
καὶ ἔσται αὐτοῖς
ἱερατεία ἐμοὶ
εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα.
καὶ τελειώσεις
τὰς χεῖρας
Ααρων καὶ τὰς
χεῖρας τῶν υἱῶν
αὐτοῦ.
1/8/17
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Exo_29:8 WEB You shall bring his sons, and put coats on
them.
Exo_29:8 CAB and you shall bring his sons, and put
garments [χιτῶνας] on them.
Exo_29:8 καὶ τοὺς
υἱοὺς αὐτοῦ
προσάξεις καὶ ἐνδύσεις
αὐτοὺς χιτῶνας\
Adam & the Priestly Dress Code
1/8/17; 4/6/17
Exo_28:3-4, ect. Exo_28:32,
Exo_28:39-40, Exo_28:42-43
1/5/17
BBS: BDC
BBS: BDC
Skirts/Hem/Terain
Men's face covered = Shame
10/17/16
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The real Jesus teaches that if a man looks upon
a woman to lust after her, he commits adultery in
his heart (Mat_
woman dresses in a way to attract a man’s
attention and he looks and lusts then they’re
both guilty; the man, because he desires a
woman who is not his wife and the woman
because she doesn’t love God or her neighbor. If
she loved God, she would care more about what
he thinks than being attractive to a man and if
she loved her neighbor, she wouldn’t dress to be
a stumbling block to him. That’s why his true
prophets instructed women to dress in such a
way not to cause men to stumble (I Tim
The fake Jesus doesn’t care how women dress.
He tells them that he only looks at their heart
and he’s happy with what he sees even though
their hearts’ desire is to be attractive to lustful
men. His false teachers would never tell a woman
to wear clothes that cover plainly and modestly.
In fact some of his false teachers are the very
women who dress inappropriately.
11/24/15
3/14/15
Male Headcovering?
To What Degree Could A
Man Ever Morally “Cover” His Head?
Other dates (mostly ~2009-2011); 10/28/16; 1/25/17;
3/25/17; 5/24/25
2Sa_15:30 – David covered head
2Sa_15:31 – David prayed as he went
Preview
Exo_28:4, Exo_28:6, Exo_28:36-39
Exo_34:33-35
Exo_39:28-31 –
Lev_8:9 –
Lev_10:6
Lev_13:45
Leviticus 16:4 – High Priest’s Day of Atonement Clothes
Lev_21:10
Eze_44:17-18
Zec_3:3-5
Isa_29:10
(comp. Isa_47:2-3 – women judged)
Jer_14:4
Job_9:24
Hebrew
>> H6544 H6545
Revenge:
H6546
WS: “H6544
ָפַּרע
pāra‛: A verb meaning to let go, to let loose,
to unbind. Moses saw that Aaron had let the Israelites get out of hand when
Moses was up on the mountain (Exo_32:25
[2x]). This word can also apply to hair, as with those who were commanded not
to let their hair down from their turbans. This warning was given to Aaron
concerning mourning (Lev_10:6); and to
high priests in general (Lev_21:10).
However, lepers were to let their hair down to call attention to their
condition (Lev_13:45). A possible unfaithful wife had her hair
loosened by the priest in connection with the drinking of bitter water to see
if she was guilty (Num_5:18). This word
can also mean to ignore (Pro_1:25); to
avoid (Pro_4:15); or to lead (Jdg_5:2).”
Lev_13:
Lev_13:45 – male headcovering & face veil?
is face veil separated from headcovering then?
but "περιβαλέσθω" is also used in 1Co_11:
Lev_13:45
WEB "The leper in whom the plague
is shall wear torn clothes, and the hair of his head shall hang loose. He shall
cover his upper lip, and shall cry, 'Unclean! Unclean!'
Lev_13:45 LB And the leper in whom the plague is, let his
garments be torn, and his head uncovered [ἀκατακάλυπτος];
and let him have a covering put upon his mouth, and he shall be called unclean.
Lev_13:45 Καὶ ὁ
λεπρός, ἐν ᾧ ἐστιν
ἡ ἁφή, τὰ ἱμάτια
αὐτοῦ ἔστω
παραλελυμένα
καὶ ἡ κεφαλὴ αὐτοῦ
ἀκατακάλυπτος,
καὶ περὶ τὸ στόμα
αὐτοῦ περιβαλέσθω
καὶ ἀκάθαρτος
κεκλήσεται·
Lev_21:10
WEB " 'He who is the high priest
among his brothers, upon whose head the anointing oil is poured, and that is
consecrated to put on the garments, shall not let the hair of his head hang
loose, nor tear his clothes;
Lev_21:10
“And the priest that is chief among his brothers, the oil having been poured
upon the head of the anointed one, and he having been consecrated to put on the
garments, shall not take the turban off his head [τὴν
κεφαλὴν οὐκ ἀποκιδαρώσει], and shall not tear his clothes;
Lev_21:10 Καὶ ὁ ἱερεὺς
ὁ μέγας ἀπὸ τῶν
ἀδελφῶν αὐτοῦ,
τοῦ ἐπικεχυμένου
ἐπὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν
τοῦ ἐλαίου τοῦ
χριστοῦ καὶ
τετελειωμένου
ἐνδύσασθαι τὰ ἱμάτια,
τὴν κεφαλὴν οὐκ
ἀποκιδαρώσει
καὶ τὰ ἱμάτια οὐ
διαρρήξει
Exo_34:33
WEB When Moses was done speaking with
them, he put a veil on his face.
Exo_34:33 LB And
when he ceased speaking to them, he put a veil on his face.
Exo_34:33 καὶ ἐπειδὴ
κατέπαυσεν
λαλῶν πρὸς αὐτούς,
ἐπέθηκεν ἐπὶ τὸ
πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ
κάλυμμα.
Exo_34:34
WEB But when Moses went in before Yahweh
to speak with him, he took the veil off, until he came out; and he came out,
and spoke to the children of Israel that which he was commanded.
Exo_34:34 And
whenever Moses went in before the Lord to speak to Him, he took off the veil
till he went out, and he went forth and spoke to all the children of Israel
whatsoever the Lord commanded him.
Exo_34:34 ἡνίκα
δ᾿ ἂν εἰσεπορεύετο
Μωυσῆς ἔναντι
κυρίου λαλεῖν
αὐτῷ, περιῃρεῖτο
τὸ κάλυμμα ἕως
τοῦ ἐκπορεύεσθαι.
καὶ ἐξελθὼν ἐλάλει
πᾶσιν τοῖς υἱοῖς
Ισραηλ ὅσα ἐνετείλατο
αὐτῷ κύριος,
Exo_34:35
WEB The children of Israel saw Moses'
face, that the skin of Moses' face shone: and Moses put the veil on his face
again, until he went in to speak with him.
Exo_34:35 And
the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that it was glorified; and Moses
put the veil over his face, till he went in to speak with Him.
Exo_34:35 καὶ εἶδον
οἱ υἱοὶ Ισραηλ
τὸ πρόσωπον
Μωυσῆ ὅτι δεδόξασται,
καὶ περιέθηκεν
Μωυσῆς κάλυμμα
ἐπὶ τὸ πρόσωπον
ἑαυτοῦ, ἕως ἂν
εἰσέλθῃ
συλλαλεῖν αὐτῷ.
Lev_10:6
WEB Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar
and to Ithamar, his sons, "Don't let the hair of your heads go loose,
neither tear your clothes; that you don't die, and that he not be angry with
all the congregation: but let your brothers, the whole house of Israel, bewail
the burning which Yahweh has kindled.
Lev_10:6 LB And Moses said to Aaron, and Eleazar and
Ithamar his sons that were left, “You shall not uncover your heads, and you
shall not tear your clothes, so that you do not die, and so there should be
wrath on all the congregation. But your brothers, even all the house of Israel,
shall lament for the burning, with which they were burned by the Lord.
Lev_10:6 καὶ εἶπεν
Μωυσῆς πρὸς
Ααρων καὶ
Ελεαζαρ καὶ
Ιθαμαρ τοὺς υἱοὺς
αὐτοῦ τοὺς
καταλελειμμένους
Τὴν κεφαλὴν ὑμῶν
οὐκ ἀποκιδαρώσετε
καὶ τὰ ἱμάτια ὑμῶν
οὐ διαρρήξετε, ἵνα
μὴ ἀποθάνητε
καὶ ἐπὶ πᾶσαν τὴν
συναγωγὴν ἔσται
θυμός· οἱ ἀδελφοὶ
ὑμῶν πᾶς ὁ οἶκος
Ισραηλ κλαύσονται
τὸν ἐμπυρισμόν,
ὃν ἐνεπυρίσθησαν
ὑπὸ κυρίου.
Isa_29:10 WEB For Yahweh
has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the
prophets; and he has covered your heads, the seers.
Isa_29:10 CAB For the Lord
has made you to drink a spirit of deep sleep; and He shall close their eyes,
and the eyes of their prophets and of their rulers, who see secret
things.
Isa_29:10 ὅτι
πεπότικεν ὑμᾶς
κύριος πνεύματι
κατανύξεως καὶ
καμμύσει τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς
αὐτῶν καὶ τῶν προφητῶν
αὐτῶν καὶ τῶν ἀρχόντων
αὐτῶν, οἱ ὁρῶντες
τὰ κρυπτά.
Did Something Change?
Moses veiling face
Elijah wrapping his
head
2Co_3: We all with
unveiled face approach God...
Jewish Kippah / Yarmulke / "Dome"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kippah
Crown
In Hebrews, Revelation, and other places Jesus wears a crown of glory and value-honor. This is the opposite of the sexual "shame" mentioned in 1co11. We see that a man can wear a crown and not have shame come down on his head in the way described when he might 'hide' his head in 1co11.
Consider the differences between the head-hiding headcovering, and a crown:
- Although Jesus wears a crown, yet you can see His hair. One of the specific goals of the headcovering is to hide the hair in hiding the head. A crown does not do that.
- a headcovering hides the glory of a woman's head so it cannot be seen, but a crown places shinning glory on a man's head to be seen.
- A headcovering comes DOWN and HIDES the head, a crown does niether of these things.
- A headcovering covers hides the head, but a crown is set on "the crown" of the head.
This is compatible with new testament values, and we see this does not actually conradict caps that cover the same surface area of the crown. It also shows that small caps do not pertain to the modesty described in the New Testament.
Jewish Kippa may have originally represented an opposite moral value system to what Paul preaches, but now they do not specifically do what Paul says not to do.
Men Did Not Use Head Coverings or Veils for
Modesty!
One of the main principals that we see from the use of veils during Bible times is that modesty does not cease to play a role when applied to the face.
It is almost as though even when we admit that we are not to expose, flaunt and “advertise” our bodies, we still think that that it is OK to seduce lust with the face.
As the “Main New Testament reference” mentioned above shows, (1Co_11:1-16) men never wore a veil as did women, nor even a type of head covering for modesty:
Rev_1:14 KJV His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
This example passage agrees with first Corinthians 11, showing that men do not need to cover their hair for the sake of their gender and modesty needs.
Which is similar to Daniel:
Dan_10:6 KJV His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass...
Turbans and Other Clothing
This section adds some
interesting questions
κιδαρ
Greek+ Exo_28:4; Exo_28:39; Exo_28:40; Exo_29:9; Exo_39:28;
Lev_8:13; Lev_10:6; Lev_16:4; Lev_21:10; Eze_21:26; Eze_44:18; Zec_3:5;
Lev_21:10 And *the priest that is chief [ὁ ἱερεὺς
ὁ μέγας] among [ἀπὸ] his
brethren, the oil having been poured upon [ἐπικεχυμένου
ἐπὶ] the head of the anointed one [τοῦ
χριστοῦ – transliterated: the christ],
and he having been consecrated
[τετελειωμένου]
to put on [ἐνδύσασθαι] the
garments [τὰ ἱμάτια], shall
not take the turban off his head*, and shall not tear [διαρρηξει
– ALS p. 129] his clothes;
*
τὴν κεφαλὴν οὐκ
ἀποκιδαρώσει
– off/ from + "κιδαρις"
"tiara" (ALS p. 330)
In
Latin: "ornamented conical felt Asian head-dress; Phrygian bonnet w/cheek
lappets;" (Latin to English Dictionary v1.97)
"shall
not unbind his head" (NETS)
Note: context is defilement: Lev_21:4, Lev_21:6-9 (as seen in DivRem book)
Eze_44:18 CAB And
they shall have [ἕξουσιν]
linen [λινᾶς] turbans
[κιδάρεις] upon
their heads [ἐπὶ ταῖς
κεφαλαῖς – compare 1Co_11:4:
"κατὰ κεφαλῆς"
– there is a difference, but see Eze_44:20], and *shall
have linen drawers upon their loins [*
περισκελῆ λινᾶ
ἕξουσιν ἐπὶ τὰς
ὀσφύας αὐτῶν];
and *they
shall not tightly gird themselves [* οὐ
περιζώσονται
βίᾳ].
פָּאֵר (pa’er) or (mitsnefet),
depending on translation.
Eze_44:20 CAB And
they shall not shave [ξυρήσονται]
their heads, * nor shall they pluck off their hair [*
καὶ τὰς κόμας αὐτῶν
οὐ ψιλώσουσιν];
they shall *carefully cover [καλύπτοντες
καλύψουσιν – “carefully” is
a paraphrase to try and represent this interesting repetition of ‘covering’ (an
intensification)] their heads.
Zec_3:3-5 CAB (3:4) Now
Joshua was clothed in filthy garments, and stood before the Angel. 4 (3:5) And the
Lord answered and spoke to those who stood before Him, saying, Take away
the filthy garments from him. And He said to him, Behold, I have taken away
your iniquities, and clothed you with a *long robe [MT/KJV:
“change of raiment.H4254”; LXX: ποδήρη
– a ‘feet-(ποδ-)-reaching’ robe – this agrees with Jesus’
example in the book of Revelation],
5
(3:6) and place a clean turban upon his
head. So they placed a clean turban upon his head, and *clothed
him with garments [περιέβαλον
αὐτὸν ἱμάτια].
And the Angel of the Lord stood by.
1Ki_19:13 - "ἐpeκάλυψeν
tὸ pρόsωpον aὐtοῦ"
>> this is the same root word used in first Corinthians 11,
and it shows that the countenance is potentially involved in hiding the head…
Men Should NOT Cover Their Head -- Unless it’s Time
to Be Ashamed
A Man Has Shame Coming
Down His Head/Face When it is Covered
11/11/18
Isa_29:10 WEB For Yahweh has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets; and he has covered your heads, the seers.
Isa_29:10 LB For the Lord has made you to drink a spirit of deep sleep; and He shall close their eyes, and the eyes of their prophets and of their rulers, who see secret things.
Isa_29:10 ὅτι πεπότικεν
ὑμᾶς κύριος
πνεύματι
κατανύξεως καὶ
καμμύσει τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς
αὐτῶν καὶ τῶν
προφητῶν αὐτῶν
καὶ τῶν ἀρχόντων
αὐτῶν, οἱ ὁρῶντες
τὰ κρυπτά.
>> Get:
A very defining reference is when David covered his head/ face
Job_9:24 WEB The earth is given into the hand of the
wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it?
Jer_14:4 CAB
Because of the ground which is cracked, because no rain has been in the land, the
plowmen are disappointed, they
cover their heads.
Jer_14:4 WEB
And the labors of the land failed, because there was no rain: the plowmen
were ashamed; they covered their heads.
Jer_14:4 καὶ
τὰ ἔργα τῆς γῆς
ἐξέλιπεν, ὅτι οὐκ
ἦν ὑετός· ᾐσχύνθησαν
γεωργοί, ἐπεκάλυψαν
τὴν κεφαλὴν αὐτῶν.
Mourning
2
Samuel 15
2Sa_15:30
And David went up the ascent of the Mount of Olives, and wept as
he went, and his head was covered and he walked barefoot. Then all the people
who were with him each covered his head and went up weeping as they went.
PPX: Head covered: Hebrew (chafuy rosh), “covered head.”
PPX: LXX: “perikephalaios.”
Jeremiah
14
3-4: [Judah mourns,] and their nobles send
their lads for water: they come to the pits, and find no water; their vessels
return empty; they are ashamed and confounded, and cover their heads. Because of the ground which is cracked,
for there hath been no rain in the land, the plowmen are ashamed, they cover
their heads.
Esther
6
Est_6:11-12 – And Mordecai returned to the
king's gate. But Haman hasted to his house, mourning and having his head
covered.
PPX: Head covered: Hebrew (kafuy rosh), literally “covered head.”
PPX: LXX: “perikephalaios”
(περικεφαλαῖος),
meaning something wrapped around the head.
Rejoicing
Isaiah_61:3,10
]*[* ἀποκιδαρώσε]][θυμ]]]
]][παραλελυμέ]][παρεμβολ]
][i.e. the christ],]*]*]
*[* τὸ πρόσωπόν μου ἀκάλυπτον ]
Same Gender Boundaries?
4/4/17
>> Paul with Timothy
>> John and Peter in the Boat
>> Exo, etc.: midwives with birthing mothers, etc…
How Much Should Doctors See?
4/4/17
Lev_13:38
WEB "When a man or a woman has
bright spots in the skin of the body, even white bright spots;
Lev_13:38 LB “And if a man or woman should have in the
skin of their flesh spots of a bright whiteness,
Lev_13:38 Καὶ ἀνδρὶ
ἢ γυναικὶ ἐὰν γένηται
ἐν δέρματι τῆς
σαρκὸς αὐτοῦ αὐγάσματα
αὐγάζοντα
λευκαθίζοντα,
Lev_13:39
WEB then the priest shall examine them;
and behold, if the bright spots on the skin of their body are a dull white, it
is a harmless rash, it has broken out in the skin; he is clean.
Lev_13:39
then the priest shall look; and behold, there being bright spots of a bright
whiteness in the skin of their flesh, it is a tetter; it burst forth in the
skin of his flesh; he is clean.
Lev_13:39 καὶ ὄψεται
ὁ ἱερεὺς καὶ ἰδοὺ
ἐν δέρματι τῆς
σαρκὸς αὐτοῦ αὐγάσματα
αὐγάζοντα
λευκαθίζοντα, ἀλφός
ἐστιν, καθαρός ἐστιν·
ἐξανθεῖ ἐν τῷ δέρματι
τῆς σαρκὸς αὐτοῦ,
καθαρός ἐστιν.
Lev_13:40
WEB "If a man's hair has fallen
from his head, he is bald. He is clean.
Lev_13:40 And
if anyone's head should lose his hair, he is only bald, he is clean.
Lev_13:40 Ἐὰν δέ
τινι μαδήσῃ ἡ
κεφαλὴ αὐτοῦ,
φαλακρός ἐστιν,
καθαρός ἐστιν·
Is this like the early church when they had female servants of the
church?
How would they do this if only Males were priests in the Old
Testament?
Additional thoughts
Random Nuggets – In Need of processing
BBS: BDC
6/3/14
McFall
":101 Based on her
own participation in the women’s world of the Bedouin (closed to male eyes)
Lila Abu-Lughod uses the word ‘modesty’ to sum up the female moral code of shyness,
self-restraint, and a deferential attitude, the Arabic term for which is hashama
which is translated by ‘a cluster of words including modesty, shame and
shyness, in its broadest sense, it means propriety’ (Veiled Sentiments:
Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society [Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1986], p. 105)."
Muslem modesty:
https://www.facebook.com/notes/my-beauty-is-for-my-husband-to-see-not-the-world/hijab-for-muslims-christians-and-jews-and-why-muslims-are-called-oppressed/457607124259379
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20130423073339AA2zH8q
http://www.encounteringislam.org/muslimquestions
BBS: BDC: McFall Error
6/5/14
"But the
issue of covering and uncovering the head is gender- based, not headship based,
and it applies only when males and females are engaged directly in “praying
or prophesying.” Paul leads off with a theological statement in 1
Corinthians_11:3 that at
first glance seems like taking a sledgehammer to crack open a peanut. Its scope is
so vast that it encompasses God, Christ, Man and Woman within it.
Sandwiched between the headships of God and Christ is the disputed headship of
Man. This is the theological issue at stake in 11:2-16."
"If it were the
sign of her subjection to her husband then she would have to wear an artificial
covering on her head from the moment she was born to the moment she died.As
woman’s natural covering of hair was designed to bring her glory (doxa) and
acceptance among men in the natural world, and make her acceptable/desirable to
be in their presence, so her artificial covering was also designed by God to
bring her authority (exousia) and acceptance among spirit beings in the
spiritual world, and make her acceptable to be in their presence (“because of
the angels”109).107 Ephesians_5:32 says she
is to be subject ‘in everything’. "
this is so foolish and Bible-disobedient…
"Most commentators quickly got lost in expounding 1 Corinthians_11:2-16 because they looked among the customs of those times for an
explanation for the significance of the covering. Once the “covering” (to be
more precise the text reads, “having down [from the] head”; kata;
kefalh'" e1xwn) was mistakenly
identified with the cultural veil (kavlumma), it was given a cultural meaning.
Once the false identification was set up it was just a matter of time before it
was discarded because its cultural significance was judged to be incompatible
with the Gospel."
McFALL eBOOK ON
DIVORCE_1--HTML-RTF--OOo.rtf
6/5/14
This perversion is utter vivid misleading
at its worst!
He seems to be saying that it is not cultural,
but what he's really saying is that it is not modesty, and it IS!
Absolute Non-sense...
"FROM ADAM TO
NOAH’S FLOOD
The hatred that God placed between the offspring of the woman (Christ) and
the offspring of the serpent (Satan), manifested itself in two streams of
humanity, a very small one (Christ’s sons) and a very large one (Satan’s sons).
Cain killed righteous Abel, and was banished from the presence of God. He
constitutes the seed of the serpent. He multiplied. His descendants were the
“sons of man.” Seth, constituted the righteous line, and he, too, multiplied.
His descendants were the “sons of God.” It was always God’s intention to fulfil
His promise to Adam that of his seed would come a future Redeemer of all
mankind. To fulfil that promise it was essential to keep the two streams of
humanity apart and distinct, hence the emphasis placed on the distinct
genealogical descent of Seth’s line, which is kept apart from the distinct
genealogical descent of Cain’s line. The one plots the descendants of a
righteous man, and the other plots the descendants of a murderer. These
distinct lines must not be blurred or mixed if the promise was to be fulfilled.
It is Luke who gives us the pure line of descent from Adam to Christ via Seth’s
descendants.Satan attempted to destroy the fulfilment of the promise to Adam by
killing Abel, who would have constituted the righteous line leading to Christ.
He may have thought that the seed of Christ was being carried in the loins of
Abel. But God raised up a replacement for Abel in the form of Seth, and Seth
carried the seed of Christ in his loins. Seth carried the seed of Abraham, and
Abraham carried the seed of David, and Christ was of the seed of David
according to the flesh (John_7:42; Romans_1:3).God frustrated the purpose of Satan, but Satan had another
strategy-mixed marriages. If he could get the two lines of descent to
intermarry, then there would be no ‘righteous line’ leading to the‘seed of the
woman.’ So we read that God was sorry that he had made man on the earth. The
descendants of Seth were as wicked as the descendants of Cain, and because they
were birds of a feather, they naturally intermarried. The ‘sons of God’ (Seth’s
descendants, the so-called righteous line) married the daughters of the ‘sons
of men’ (Cain’s descendants). Thus Satan’s strategy worked. The two lines of
descent were now intermingled. The distinctness of the two lines of physical
descent was so badly compromised that a direct line leading from Seth to Jesus
was in real danger of breaking down completely. So wicked had the totality of
mankind become that there was only one man left on the earth whom God regarded
as ‘righteous,’ namely, Noah. It was at this point that God decided to destroy
the entire seed of the serpent, and start all over again with a single
righteous man and his three sons and their wives"
also consider:
"The
theological choice would be better stated as being between abolishing or
establishing Man’s headship.110 The angels
know the order of creation and what it involves (Job_38:7). On the Jewish sources behind the liaison of angels and women in Gen_6:1-2 and its implications for 1 Corinthians_11:10 see L.J. Lietaert Peerbolte, “Man, Woman and the Angels in 1
Corinthians_11:2-16,” in The Creation of Man and
Woman, edited by Gerard P. Luttikhuizen (Leiden: Brill, 2000), pp. 76-92,
esp. p. 87 n. 28. "
"115 There are at
least forty years between Abraham’s encounter with Abimelech (Gen_20:2) and Isaac’s encounter with a king of the same name (Gen_26:1), that it is possible that ‘Abimelech’ was not a personal name, but
like ‘Pharaoh’ a title"
The Crime of Using Beauty Selfishly
Do not trust in your beauty and use it for yourself! It is a
violation when a woman does this; she is to use her beauty exclusively for her
husband:
Eze_16:15 But you trusted in your beauty, and went a-whoring because of your fame, and poured out your fornication on every passer by.
Partially Unanswered Questions
(1) How are Roman Soldiers Saved?
Jesus said at least one Roman soldier would definitely make it to heaven.
BIG Question: was it possible for Roman soldiers to dress modestly? Did Roman soldiers ever dress modestly?
Partial answer: we cannot ‘argue from silence,’ therefore it is illogical to assume anything we are no told about how the soldiers were saved, and how they may or may not have changed their clothing habits, or how they may or may not have had “modest” alternatives within their wardrobe at that time.
Any information on this question is extremely helpful and important.
(2) Early Description of No Uniforms
Early church quote from Mathetes:
‘Christians use the clothing of each culture.’
Partial answer: before the wild and mindless liberations of total perversion we see today, just about any ancient culture had modest possibilities that disciples could take advantage of for modest covering.