PATRIARCHAL STUDY

OLD COVENANT

 Adam: God first created Adam.  Eve was not formed until after the animals were named by Adam.  This fact of the order of creation is part of the explanation that Paul uses in the New Testament to explain the submission of women to male headship.

 Covenant: All covenants made by God in Scripture involved men i.e. Noah, Abraham, Moses and David all entered into covenants with God.   

God’s Name: God frequently calls Himself the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.  Clearly these men were heads of their households and the inheritors of the Covenant.  The women of these families were not unimportant but had roles in relationship with their husbands and not as primary leaders.

Seventy Elders: God told Moses to select seventy men to assist him.  There were no women selected, not even Miriam, the prophetess.

Priests: God only called men to His priesthood, generation after generation, in the Old Testament.  Aaron and his sons were called to this ministry.  Aaron’s daughters or the daughters of his descendants were not called to be priests. 

Scribes: Scribes were men.

Kings: Kings of Israel were men. 

Tribal Leadership: The twelve tribes of Israel took their names from the sons (not daughters) of Jacob.  These tribes and families were led by men generation after generation.

Eternal Gates: The gates of the heavenly city will eternally have the twelve male names of the twelve sons of Jacob on them.

Eternal Foundation: The foundation stones of the heavenly city will eternally have the male names of the Twelve Apostles on them.

Angels: Where angels appear in Scripture, they resemble men.

Divine Pronouns: Masculine pronouns are used in Scripture to describe Father, Son and Spirit (Neuter).

Authors of the Bible: Only male authors wrote the sixty-six books of the Bible.

NEW COVENANT

Acts 1:12-15 “Then returned they (above 500) unto Jerusalem from the mount call Olivet, which is from Jerusalem a Sabbath day’s journey. And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James.  These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.  And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples, and said, (the number of names together were about an hundred and twenty)…”

Acts 2:16-18 “But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:”

Acts 2:1-4, 17-18 “And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all (120 men and women) with one accord in one place.  And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.  And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.  And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.”

Galatians 3:26-29 “For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.  For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.  There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.  And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.”

Ephesians 2:13-14 “But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.  For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;”

I Corinthians 11:1f “Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.  For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God.”

Revelations 1:5-6 “Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, and hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.”

Apostles: The original twelve apostles are all men.  There is not a feminine version of the word apostle in Scripture.

The Seven: The original seven are all men.

Deacons: Husband of one wife.

Elders (Pastors/Bishops): Husband of one wife.

God: God has revealed Himself as Father.

The Savior: Jesus Christ is a resurrected Son of Man, the eternal Son of God and Husband of the Bride.

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