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Solomon writes, "To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven," (Ecclesiastes 3:1, NKJV). The king made wise by God goes on to lay out a number of all too human experiences that each have their proper time (Ecclesiastes 3:2-8). "Under heaven" has not just to do with being under God´s abode and watchful eyes, but also His sovereign will and control. Thus, God Almighty is the One who has fixed the proper times for man´s every experience!
Truly, all of God´s creatures including demons are subject to His proper timing and purposes therein. For example, when demons in possession of a man conversed with Jesus, among other things, they asked, "Have You come here to torment us before the time," (Matthew 8:29b, NKJV)? What time? Apparently, the demons were afraid Jesus as Judge would cast them into the eternal lake of fire before the time they expected (Revelation 20:10). Unlike us, they know God is not playing about the destiny of sinning angels and men!
The Lord Jesus did not do as the demons feared, but cast them out of the man they had possessed. He did not act before the time. Similarly, He declined to act before the Father´s timing in His own mission or reveal the precise time the Kingdom would be restored to Israel (John 7:1-9; Acts 1:6-7). The apostle Paul admonished regarding passing final judgment even upon ourselves, "Therefore, judge nothing before the time…," (1 Corinthians 4:5a, NKJV). Also, though the mystery of lawlessness is already at work, Paul says the coming of Antichrist is restrained until he is "revealed in his own time," (2 Thessalonians 2:6-8, NKJV).
We see in the foregoing examples awareness and respect for the Father´s proper timing by wicked demons, the Lord Jesus and the apostle Paul. So, why in these last days are so many professed Christian women (the number grows daily) who claim to love God and be called of Him with rebel male support, seeking to act in the role of men as rulers in God´s house before the time? That crafty serpent has done it again! He and his demon cohorts have openly deceived and enticed the willing to rebel against God (Genesis 3:1-13; 1 Timothy 4:1; James 1:12-18; Hebrews 3:7-19)!
The devil has no choice but to respect God´s timing. But that has not stopped him from tempting believers to get ahead of God in unbelief and impatience; to act before His time! This is especially grievous to God since part of the reason we have had the Bible is to warn us against making the same mistakes others have made (1 Corinthians 10:1-13). But those professed Christian women and men who walk in the rebellious mindset of this world system in general and the secular feminist ideology in particular, have been caught in the devil´s trap.
Satan knows as fact what the many ambitious and power smitten professed Christian women will not wait for as their destiny by faith plainly taught in God´s Word. We shall reign with Christ on the earth when He returns (Revelation 1:4-6, 5:9-10)! Who is this "we"? "The "we" are the saints who have faithfully trusted in God from all generations (Daniel 7:27)! His purposes cannot be thwarted. He created man in His own image and likeness to rule just as He does (Genesis 1:26; Psalm 8:3-8)!
The saints are also those who will have faithfully served the Lord on the earth in the specially designed and temporary roles He assigned man from the beginning as males and females. His purpose for these temporary role assignments is as He spoke at creation and affirmed to Noah after the flood: the multiplication of humanity through procreation (Genesis 1:27-28, 9:1). This purpose of God was to be orderly fulfilled as men and women formally paired off in lifelong marriage (Genesis 2:18-25).
The entry of sin and death into the world did not crush any of God´s temporal or eternal purposes for man. They did however, add pain and sorrow to man´s earthly and eternal experiences (Genesis 3:14-19; Revelation 20:11-15). Ruling over all the works of His hands was still man´s irrevocable, spiritual destiny, but in God´s timing! First, in the fullness of time Christ had to come as a second Adam to rescue those who put their faith in Him (Genesis 3:20-24; Romans 5:6-21; Hebrews 2:5-18, 10:5-10).
In the next phase of God´s plan, the righteous will be raised from the dead to eternal life by Christ (John 5:24-29, 11:25-26; 1 Corinthians 15:20-23). The Lord teaches that in that day and eternally, the saints will not marry. They will exist, as do the angels (Luke 20:27-36)! If God´s design of male and female roles in marriage was to facilitate procreation in this age, it stands to reason that if marriage no longer exists, neither will the roles or even the bodily reproductive equipment to procreate in the next. Indeed, the Spirit reveals incredible changes related to immortal existence await the saints (1 Corinthians 2:6-16, 15:35-55)!
Interestingly, angels appear in the Bible only in male form. Christ risen from the dead is still a Man. Clearly, all that Adam was before Eve was separated out from him (I Corinthians 11:7-9) and what Christ gloriously now is, perfectly fulfills God´s design of what man is. If Christian women now try to act like men in their ruling role before the time, why should it offend when at the proper time, the final metamorphosis makes the faithful like the Man in form (Philippians 3:20-21; 1 John 3:1-3)? To the women then, who will please God: imitate the Bible´s godly women and fully accept your present role assignment (1 Timothy 2:8-15; Titus 2:1-5).
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