Right!!! Let’s get this wrapped up and move on. THE ARCHBISHOP WAS NOT WRONG?!! The verse he quotes was out of context and this is a rather worrying example of quoting passage to suite a message. The verse is actually the “turnaround” verse in a passage that starts from Isaiah 3:16 to Isaiah 4:6. The first part of the passage is a prophesy about the dark times and the impact these will have on the women in particular. The women are placed in the predicament of fighting over men not because the Lord set this out to be a permanent situation but rather because the men have been lost in battle as stated in Isaiah 3:25-26 and Isaiah 4:1 Your men will fall by the sword, your warriors in battle. The gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground. In that day seven women will take hold of one man and say, “We will eat our own food and provide our own clothes; only let us be called by your name. Take away our disgrace!” But that “turnaround” verse is the lowest point of decline that the Lord will let his people sink to because that is an unnatural and ungodly level of existence for women that the Lord will not allow. At that very point, in that very day when this shall become the situation and seven women will chase after one man, the bible says in the very next verses Isaiah verse 4:2-6 say that: In that day the Branch of the Lord will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the pride and glory of the survivors in Israel. Those who are left in Zion, who remain in Jerusalem, will be called holy, all who are recorded among the living in Jerusalem. The Lord will wash away the filth of the women of Zion; he will cleanse the bloodstains from Jerusalem by a spirit[a] of judgement and a spirit[b] of fire. Then the Lord will create over all of Mount Zion and over those who assemble there a cloud of smoke by day and a glow of flaming fire by night; over everything the glory[c] will be a canopy. It will be a shelter and shade from the heat of the day, and a refuge and hiding place from the storm and rain. The context of the verses clearly indicates that this is not a status quo that will exist or is divinely ordained to be a situation in which men should dominate women or expect women to think they are lucky just to be married. In fact it is the Lord who will “wash away the filth of the women” and reinstate them not man or marriage. For in that very same day that a woman or group of woman will utter those words in Isaiah 4:1, in that very day will begin the redemption from the Lord and the restoration of his people. The Archbishop set the scripture out without its proper context but as to his message, that is up to you to make of it what you would.
Posted on: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 09:43:47 +0000
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