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    On Women, Submission and Head Coverings...

    Posted by Deborah Peterson on June 5, 2009 at 9:01am
    in Forum

    Shalom All :) Yah has been speaking to my heart a bit in the last couple of weeks about the significance of the symbol of head covering that Yah called women to wear through the Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 11:2-16, and how it connects to the principle of spiritual covering. While talking to a loved one, they suggested that I post up what I have been feeling Yah has been showing me for thoughts and discussion :)

    (If there are anyone who would like to read a bit more about head covering, and a scriptural view of if a woman is still called to wear one, a great resource can be found at http://www.homeschoolhowtos.com/static/Headcovering.pdf
    It not only takes a very good scriptural look at head coverings, but also gives some of the testimonies of women who started to experience differences in their spiritual lives as they started to submit to Elohim in this principle :) )

    The verses are from 1 Corinthians 11:2-16
    “ Now I praise you, brethren, that you remember me in all things and keep the traditions just as I have delivered them to you. But I want you to know that the head of every man is Messiah, and the head of woman is man, and the head of Messiah is Elohim.

    Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonours his head. But every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonours her head, for that is one and the same as if her head were shaved. For if a woman is not covered [with a shawl or head covering], let her be also shorn. But if it is shameful for a woman to be shorn or shaved, let her be covered [with a head covering].
    For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of Elohim, but woman is the glory of man. For man is not from woman, but woman from man. Not was man created for the woman, but the woman for the man.
    For this reason the woman should have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels.

    Nevertheless, neither is man independent from woman, nor woman from man, in the Lord. For as woman came from man, even so man also comes through woman; but all things are from Elohim.

    Judge among yourselves. Is it proper for a woman to pray to Elohim with her head uncovered? Does not even nature itself teach that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonour to him? But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her; for her hair is given to her for a covering.

    If anyone is contentious about this, we have no other practice – nor do the churches of Elohim."


    Something important for us to know as we read these verses is that two different words are used in verse both translated “covering” in our English bibles... The first being katakalupto , which means “to cover down”, pointing to a cloth or shawl as it covers a woman’s head as it hangs down, and the second being peribolaion, which is pointing to that which covers around, namely the woman’s natural hair that is around her head.

    Why does Yahweh want a woman to ‘cover’ her ‘covering’?

    It connects back to the pattern that Paul spoken about earlier... that Yah’shua is the head of the husband, and the husband is the head of the wife.

    Within the spiritual realm, a husband acts as a protective covering for his wife, while Yah’shua and His blood acts as a protective covering for him. No man can be a covering without Yah’shua and His atoning blood. We can step out from under covering when we sin against our heads by leaving the protective boundary of Torah, yet when we have repented and have been forgiven are brought back under covering.

    What I’ve felt Yah has been showing me is that the head covering is a symbol of Yah’shua, and a woman’s hair is a symbol of her husband... Of her ‘covering’ being ‘Covered’, and her being submitted to her husband (and Messiah)...

    As women, we are commanded to submit to our husbands as to Messiah, for they are out head as Messiah is head of the church, as we are told in Ephesians 5:22-23.

    Something Yah showed me is that a wife cannot “honour Elohim and dishonour her husband” at the same time... her actions will either honour both Elohim and her husband, or dishonour both of them.

    Even if she must disagree with him in some point because she feels the Ruach leading her that what her husband is unscriptural, if she disagrees in love and humility ~ truly because she is wants him to be saved and put on the right path, and not simply because she wants her way or to rule over him, she is honouring her husband...

    Because to honour your head is to love them, and love “does not rejoice in inequity, but rejoices in the truth” (1 Cor 13:6) but will always walk in Elohim’s ways... meaning that even if she disagrees, she will respect her husband (Ephesians 6:33).

    When a woman wilfully rebels against her husband, she also wilfully rebelling against Elohim who gave her the commandment to submit to him as to Messiah And this means any area of wilful rebellion will not only move out from under the covering of her husband, but also Yah’shua’s blood ~ and that woman is open and unprotected against the attacks of the enemy.



    This would explain why Paul said a woman must either keep her hair and be covered, or be uncovered and shorn... because as women, we are either under the covering of both our head *and* Messiah, or neither.

    These are some of the things Yah has been showing and working about this... Would love to hear thoughts and questions :)
    Blessings in Messiah!
    Deb :)


    Dear Brother,
    My heart goes out to the young man you described... I sense a lot of pain in his story...

    As far as to what this man is called to do, he is called to do that which is impossible... to love that woman, like Yah'shua loved us...
    Because in truth, *everyone of us* did what she has done to this man to Yah'shua ~ claimed something that wasn't ours for ourselves, namely our own lives, and tried to manipulate and force Him to do things our way...But He responded by loving us to the point that He gave His life for us on the cross for our sins.

    Does Elohim care about how the man is suffering and being oppressed? More intimately than we will ever know...

    But what He wants to do is to use this to shape that son into the glorious image of His Son... to teach that son how love with grace and unconditional love. The kind of love that would forgive someone who had didn't deserve it at all...Because how can we learn to love unconditionally if the people in our life meet all the conditions?

    Its the kind of love that would pray for this woman's salvation... pray for her to be freed to be *able* to submit.

    As a sister in Messiah, there have been times where I had been in bonds hindering me to submit because of hurts and darkness in my own heart... and I could never have freed myself from that. Never. I could never have come to a place of sincere surrender because of love except for what Yah'shua has (and continues) to do in my life...

    And its often the people who deserve it the least that need Love the most.

    May Yah help this man... not to deny he has been wronged, or injustice comitted...
    But to forgive as Messiah forgave us. And to love her, like Messiah has loved Him...

    Blessings in Yah'shua...
    Deb


    Shalom Jason

    I am not sure what this has to do with the original post which is about the principle of covering and the relationship between long hair and a cloth headscarf. Your situation is truly heart-wrenching and I know many people who are in similar situations. There is a solution to your situation and it will surely come as you complete your own overcoming and display the love and power of Elohim in your life.

    For your son it is particularly important that he see both this overcoming and radiant love - waiting for the various women to 'submit' will not, I suggest, be the primary movement of change in your situation. We rarely get justice in this world but we can get an endowment of Yah'shua that shines all around which itself becomes the instrument of change. This is not to say that in many relationships today men are not being subjected to horrendous pressures - however, the challenge is to rise up as men in Messiah and effect change Yah'shua's way. More than anything else your son needs to see this in you.

    To put things into perspective, let us imagine that you are in prison for preaching the Gospel. Complaining about the government's lack of justice and prison system abuses will likely get you nowhere. What will count is how you become an instrument of love and grace in the situation you find yourself in, as Josph did in his Egyptian prison. Yahweh had a greater purpose for Joseph than griping about his unjust imprisonment and the conditions of that prison - Yahweh used him first to reveal his glory where he was and THEN propelled him onto the national stage to have an exponentially greater influence on many things, more than he could ever have dreamed of. Joseph focused on doing his best and setting a godly example where he was. That is what, I suggest, you too must do, brother.


    Shalom Jason,

    What you describe is a very painful situation for sure, and we don't and can't always understand why Yahweh allows pain and sadness to touch our lives. But one thing I have come to understand over the years is that He IS good and He can be trusted and He always has our best interest at heart.

    I know for myself, being the control freak that I was and certainly could still be, that guarding myself against hurt and rejection only keeps out the very thing my heart so very much wanted, which was love and belonging. We never will, nor are we supposed to be in control of our lives, and definitely we cannot control others. We have to trust Yahweh, even when it makes no sense, even when it feels like we will die inside, because He has promised to see us through, to deliver us, to heal us and to bring us to new life in Him, and He will, we have His word on it.

    There are so many reasons a woman refuses to submit, fear certainly was on the top of my list, I was certain no one could take better care of me than I could myself, what a lie from the pit. For the Creator of the Universe who made me and knows the very number of hairs of my head can certainly protect, lead and guide me much better than I could begin to. However it does come down to choice and trust. Will we trust Yahweh? Will we trust Him to untangle all the mess? Will we let go and allow Him to work and not try to force things our self? Will we submit? To Him and as women to our husbands whom He has given us to? It's hard for everyone and pain and heartache push us to be angry and bitter and to take the throne of our lives, thus pushing Yahweh out of the picture and not allowing Him to work.

    You said - "When given a choice the women always choose the ways of the world and satan because they don't want to submit and are taught that they are equal and control is something to strive for."

    Indeed there are many who loathe the thought of submission, being taught from early on that it is a cruel, humiliating and limiting thing, however there are as well, many, many women who love Yahweh and find joy and safety in submission to their husband.

    Yahweh bless you my brother


    Jason said:
    Ok I like how you have explained this but now lets expand upon this simple order and look at how the enemy finds loopholes to make our lives as men miserable.
    Here's an example:
    A young man 36 years of age is a third generation farmer in North America. He has a 10 year old son. The boys Mother has been put away and the relationship was common law and outside of marriage. She is a drug addict and whore who now has children from another man so there is no hope of reconcilliation because that would be an abomination for the man to go back into a dirty woman. The man has had the boy since he was 2 years of age. The man has to work so the only option was for him to have the bay stay with his parents and have them raise him. The man also has to work away from home because the farm will not provide enough income to provide for his family. Meanwhile his father has past on 6 years ago so he is also left to work the land. The mother receaves a big pile of money and she has control of 25% of the land that contains the house and yardsight. The other 75% of land is owned by the man which he had to work for and buy back from the banks because his father was an alchoholic and mismanaged the land. The mother is in her late 50's.
    This drove the man to drinking and drug abuse and almost lost everything. There was the pressure of having to provide and run a buisiness away from home plus work the farm. On top of this He did not know Christ and was always having to strive with his mother because she would not allow him to run things and farm the land without her interferance and constant nagging. Instead of being a quiet keeper of the home, the money changed her and when she got control of part of the land she constantly used this control mechanism to threaten her son and get her way with kicking him out of the home and keeping the little boy when she wanted her way.
    Then the Lord looked down and had mercy on the young man and saw all that was against him. The Lord came to him and let the young man know that He was real and that He cared. The young man accepted the Lord and began to grow in Truth and Grace. As the light grew in him he learned more about Yahweh and how things were supposed to be and how because of all the rebellion of women in the world and church, it had shaped the hell he was living in and how the things the women were doing were opposite of what Yahweh had commanded them. This especially bothered him as he went from church to church and found the same problems with women in each church.
    Now just because his eyes have been opened he is still living in hell because of his wicked mother. She claims to be a christian but continues to fight against him in the spirit because she wants control and is very stubborn. She does not read the bible but likes to argue and she is backed up by other women of the local church communities and they believe the young man has to be obedient to her and them and they want to rule over all the young men even to the point of pretending to be obedient to their husbands but only to manipulate and get their way.
    So what is the solution? The young man cannot be a constant care giver for his son, because he has to work, and the boy is very attached to his grandmother. Yet the grandmother is not honoring Yahweh and biblically she should now submit to her son as he is the eldest and the land remaining that she has upsurped control of is his rightful innheritance. She also has a boyfreind who has moved in and they both do not like the young man there, because he is born again and they are fornicators, but he has to be able to spend time with his son. The little boy has now developed a dislike for his dad because he can feel the tension between him and his grandmother. The grandmother lets the little boy do whatever he wants but the father is a bit stricter and does most of the diciplining.
    This is a typical example of Yahweh verses the world. When given a choice the women always choose the ways of the world and satan because they don't want to submit and are taught that they are equal and control is something to strive for. In this case the young man has to continue to stand and beleive in Faith that Yahweh will not renege on his promises especially not causing the rightious to be moved. As he looks around at the area he sees how Yahweh has not stood up for his people and wonders how many more Naboth's will have to die before Yahweh wakes up and pays attention. He sees that many small farm families who stood on Gods Word have been forced out of their homes and off the land by big farmers and bankers. But he remembers the scripture that a house divided will not stand and it all comes back to the women not standing in her position of protection in the family unit and standing behind the men to support them.
    So what does Yahweh do? Does He violate the free will of the grandmother as He did to Jonah? and cause her to change and submit? She continues to try to exercise control using the verse that children are to obey their parents, even though the young man is not a child and she is not living a biblical life in other regards. Or does He ignore all the promises made to the young man through His word and let the demons coming through the grandmother and the church continue to torment and keep him bound in this situation. We know from the life of Yeshua that His mother became submissive to Him even though she tried to get her way and manipulate because of her relationship to Him. The responsibilty is now in Yahwehs hands and He must make this right. The young man is standing in faith and cannot move. The sad part is that the longer Yahweh takes the worse it is for the little boy. All because of the rebellion of 1 woman.


    Advice is cheap, brother, but reality deferred or missed results in far, far more pain and suffering than reality confronted. My words are not said lightly but come from one who has been through parallel situations more than once. For I would not dare to counsel you on something I did not myself intimately understand or which was not indelibly marked in my own experience. And remember that once the medicine has been ministered, you often feel worse before you get better :) You are loved in Him.

    Jason said:
    Thank You Deborah and Avah for your council and words. To Lev I would say that your statements leave a person feeling worse than when they first started. It is biblical to seek out councel and to present a situation not complaining just laying it out so others see the veiw.


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