Re: Kelly Herman (19 Mar 2008)
"THE CURSE OF WOMAN IS UNDONE"

 

<<How was the curse of Eve undone? What was it that caused it...DECEPTION!
The Bride of Christ must and has overcome DECEPTION, that is what separates those from The Bride Group and the rest of the world!
Ladies and Gentlemen....Curse of woman undone! The effects of which will be evident in the rapture!
 

Looking and LOVING the learning process! Kelly Herman in Dallas>>

 

Very cool Kelly. I love this learning process too, and I wanted to add something to this idea that you have presented.

Years ago I remember learning from some Bible study or other that the verse of scripture which compares our works of righteousness to be as “filthy rags”…

 

Isaiah 64: 6.  But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

 

That this was in fact saying that these rags were actually filthy “menstrual rags”. When the teacher told the class this, there was the expected and understandable reaction that this was gross. The teacher then suggested that God was trying to make the point that sin is gross etc…

 

However, years later, after God had been teaching me the same way that He is obviously teaching you, He pointed out to me that He was not merely trying to be graphic or gross with this comparison but that there was in fact a deeper significance to this comparison.

 

Satan told Eve that eating of that tree would make her like God, correct? Whatever else God is, He is righteous. He also has the ability to create life from dust of the ground and breathe into the nostrils the breath of life etc. Women’s curse (part of it) is that in child-bearing she will have her sorrow multiplied etc. Menstruation is a part of that, obviously. What is menstruation, but a pregnancy that did not happen, since the woman cannot make a baby by herself?

 

In the same way, though I am way oversimplifying it, when we try to perform righteousness by our own works, we are doing the same thing in a manner of speaking. We are trying to be like God and do what only God can do (be perfect on our own) and the result is the same as if a woman attempted to bring forth a new life all by herself. Does she get a baby by herself? No, what does she get? Happens every month…

 

In the same way any attempt to bring forth righteousness on our own produces no good work at all but is instead the equivalent of a dirty menstrual rag. What the New Testament calls dead works. You are very correct that all of this is the direct result of being deceived. Satan has been using the same deception that worked so well in the garden and it still works for him today.

 

But by faith in God and through “knowing” Him and by listening to Him, and working with Him, and waiting on Him, the life miracle is produced every time we obey and move by faith in Him and we are credited with His righteousness and the reward lasts into eternity.

 

After all, what was it Jesus said to those who are outside of the closed door? “…I never knew you…” One menstrual rag coming up!

 

Thanks be to God some of us have learned, and have overcome!

 

Barry Amundsen