For the sake of understanding what Paul was trying to teach, insert the word "spirit" (in Eph. 5:21,23) everywhere Paul mentions "the man" (put in the word "spirit" where ever Paul used the word man or male tense, he -or him in this chapter) and in place of the word "husband" insert the word "Spirit" (indicating the Spirit of the Lord, as our Husband) in place of the word "husband" in the text where applicable concerning Christ as the Husband of our souls -in Eph. 5:21-33.

Likewise, -for the sake of understanding this mystery of which Paul is teaching, use the word "soul" (mind or self) everywhere Paul mentions the word "woman' in the same text. Then read and understand the teaching as it was intended.

Go before the Lord and ask the Lord what He meant when the Spirit of God says: "...I suffer not a woman to teach". Ask the Lord to show you, against what was the Spirit of God really warning when Paul wrote (lCor.14:34) "Let your women keep silence in the churches...and...why should the woman ask her husband at home ?

Let the woman ask her husband at home,means i.e., we are to confer with the Spirit of the Lord via our reborn spirit-man within our own tabernacle, in the privacy of our own home, in prayer, preferably in our prayer closet -alone with the Father!

Ask the LORD to show you what He means by what He has said by His Spirit in His Word! Ask the Lord to also show you (1 Tim.2:15 KJV) how the "woman is saved in childbearing" (which in original manuscripts reads: in the * "bearing of The Child")

* Women being saved in childbearing does not mean that women are saved by having children -if so, most of the women in the world would have been saved by now! Women saved "in childbearing" concerns the saving of our souls by the "bearing of The Child" (that Holy Child Jesus) by Christ being "formed in us".

Our souls are saved by receiving Jesus Christ, the good Seed, the engrafted word which is able to "save your soul". And the Lord, who is the Shepherd and Bishop of Souls, the Author and Finisher of our Faith will keep that which we have committed unto Him; He that has begun a good work in you will continue to perform it until that day ...till Christ (That Holy Child) be formed in us.

Ask the LORD to show you how this is a type also is a type of the soul referred to as the woman. Ask the Lord to show you by His Spirit what He is speaking concerning the soul being saved by receiving the Seed of the Engrafted Word which is able to save our souls --and how women are saved in "the bearing of The Child" -meaning the "souls of men" are saved by the "bearing of The Child" -our souls are saved by the bearing of Christ in us, the Hope of glory. By grace through the faith of Jesus, the soul is saved by the bearing of The Child, Christ formed in us!

In the Book of the Revelation of the Lord, re-read the Letters which Jesus Himself dictated to the Apostle John by His Spirit. (Re-read the letters sent by the Spirit of God which He Himself said were written to the churches).

Go to the Lord, find out from Him what the Spirit of God is saying to the Churches when He testifies against her that "she" herself has usurped the authority of her Spiritual Head, she has usurped the authority of God's Spirit' i.e., she allows that woman Jezebel (a type of all false religion) to teach and seduce His servants.

Ask the Lord to show you what is meant by the woman, she represents the deceived souls of men who "claim to be a prophetess" -she represents the harlotry of the souls of men who claim to teach by the Spirit of God but who are in fact, teaching out of their own minds, their own will that which seems right in their own sight according to that which seems like wisdom in the sight of men yet these deceived souls are teaching harlotry, seducing God's servants to commit fornication and to eat things sacrificed unto idols (seeking power from that which man devices -idols, the work of men's hands).

Ask the Lord to make known how the apostate Church claims that "she" is speaking and teaching "by the Spirit of God" but is deceived and is deceiving many. She has been "beguiled as Eve was beguiled" by twisted understanding of scripture, by mental manipulation, through ungodly logic, reasonings of man's own carnal-minded understanding of the written word of God.

Having thus departed from the Spirit of the Word, -in her harlotry, "she" seduces the "souls of men" (with seductive false teachings). All False Religion is the Great Harlot, mother of harlots and abominations in the earth. She is in effect, the end product of the fall or seduction of Eve, the "mother of all living". Like her mother, she (false religion and false teaching of men) gives birth to deceived souls.

Christianity is being seduced, because many are following their own mind and are not deferring to the Lord for the counsel His Spirit. Without our heads covered we are like "silly women" foolish souls which have substituted our knowledge of what God said, and the perception of what is right in our own sight, -for discernment by the Spirit of God.

Not seeking God's Face for to be taught of God, millions have been easily lead astray... and worst of all, in her pride in what she thinks she knows ...she is unrepentant Rev.2:21 and has hardened her heart against what the Spirit saith unto the Churches!

Like her mother: the Mother of Harlots, mystery Babylon, i.e., "ALL false religion" --- she repents not... (just keep putting in the words "souls or carnal minds of men" in place of she or woman -as you read this, It is carnal-mindedness, it is the soul usurping the authority of the Spirit, it is the teachings of man in place of (under the guise of) the teachings of God by His Spirit by which "she" (the apostate Church) opposes the Spirit of God.

(If you are having a problem with understanding this, just keep asking the Lord, and you'll soon get the picture...)

Soon you will see how and why Jesus Christ is standing outside of the Churches and He is still knocking at the door of the churches after nearly 2,000 years of Church history.

Because of the teachings and doctrines of men, -Jesus Himself has been forsaken in the Churches as the Fountain of Living Water. He has been forsaken as our Counselor, -as men prefer the broken cisterns of man's own understanding of the written word, preferring their own ways and their own teachings, to "thus saith the Lord."

Jesus stands at the door of the Churches, knocking on the hardened hearts of God's own people calling all the churches to repent. Jesus is calling to our stubborn minds, to our rebellious souls -but many will not hear and refuse to see what He is saying to the Churches.

When the Spirit of the Lord commands His people to repent of our wicked ways, it includes the call to repent of man's own way of thinking! We are to repent of our own perception, the perception of man versus that which is of and by His Spirit, repent of leaning unto our own understanding in the idolatry (stubbornness of our own minds).

We are to repent of working our own dead works for the Lord in His Name (let Jesus work the works instead) -repent of our carnal-minded reasoning, and repent of our competitive theological jockeying for spiritual positions.

The Lord is calling the churches to repentance and rest = let Me hide you in Me, come learn of Me and ye shall find REST for your souls... as it is written, "in repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength".

Our rest is in returning to Him to be hidden by Him by grace through the faith of Him, resting in the obedience of Christ, asking Jesus Christ to Himself be our all in all, asking Jesus Himself to be our repentance, our restoration, our right counsel and our understanding, and our rest -that He might be our all, and in all on behalf of all who have received Him!)

The Churches need to repent of our man centered gospel! It is not who we are in Christ, but who He is in us. The Church has been beguiled as Eve was beguiled, and by the same lies. She has been seduced by the temptation to become like God, to become like Jesus..."Ye shall be as God" -instead of surrendering to Him and humbling ourselves to be hid in the likeness of Him who is God!

Much of what is being taught in the churches is an apostate form of Christianity, which could best be described as a form of Christianized humanism! The perfecting of man in Christ, -instead of man resting in Jesus Christ, who has Himself become our Perfection in our place, as we put on Christ Himself as our covering of Perfection, and as He hides us (imperfect man) in Himself!

Mankind, (we, us -man) Adam is not called to be like God! Although man was made in the image and likeness of God, -that man, the first Adam fell and was judged. Now we are called to be changed by exchange, to put off the old-man by putting on Christ, who is Himself the Spiritual New Man.

We are not the New Man, Jesus Himself is! (1 Cor. 15:46-47) "the Spiritual [i.e., the New] Man is the Lord from heaven." We "become new" in the sense that we become members of His body by the Spirit of Adoption whereby we cry, Abba, Father! But we are not Him, Nor do we ourselves become like Him.

We do not become "like the Most High God," we are called to "put on Christ" and be "clothed with Christ".

We ourselves do not become like Him but are called to be "conformed to His likeness" -how? by becoming hid in the likeness of Him (Jesus) who is Himself -the express image of the Father!

We do not become the New Man, we are called to become members of the body of Him who is the New Man, -Jesus Christ, in whom and by whom we are to be both slain and hid. We are not called to be like the Most High God, we are not called to be like Jesus, we are called to reckon ourselves as dead in Christ and simply ask "Jesus to be Jesus" for us, in our place.

Be advised that I did not receive this teaching from my own mind nor from men, but from the Lord Himself. And you are sadly mistaken if you choose to think that the differences being pointed out and discussed here are just a matter of semantics -it is not a matter of semantics any more than the serpent's twisting of the word of truth in the Garden of Eden was just a matter "of semantics".

Satan has beguiled the churches with the same lie, he has thoroughly leavened the gospel of Jesus Christ and has made it "another gospel" of which the Apostle Paul warned!

We are to earnestly contend for the Truth, and these articles are written concerning the truth versus Satan's lies. These articles involve much more than what you may prefer to see as my personal interpretation, opinion or perception; and the solution to the apostasy of Christianity is not just a matter of adjusting or shifting our focus!

The difference is between two gospels, the gospel of Jesus Christ versus the gospel of man (Christianized form of Humanism disguised as the gospel of Christ.)

A little leaven leavens the entire lump. The difference between the two gospels is monumental and it goes far beyond who is the "operative person" -I am not just asking "is it you, or is it Jesus Christ" who does the works -it concerns false conversions through a false gospel, and it concerns the salvation of souls!

We are not called to become "little Christs" nor are we (man) called to become counterfeits Christs in our own Christ-like-ness; we are called to "put on Christ" and be conformed to Him, -to be hidden "in the likeness of Him" who is Himself the express image of the Father.

It is a burden too heavy to be borne for us (man) to be like God, or even like Jesus.

Instead of us striving to be like Jesus, and instead of us asking God to make us like Jesus, we ought to repent of all that and just ask "Jesus to be Jesus" for us, in our place! That is the rest into which His people are called; we are called to "rest in Him" as our "all, and in all" -on behalf of all, who have received Him.

And we need to stop treating the word of God like a what instead of a who! God's word is not a what but a Who! The Lord told me once, It is not what we do with what God gave us, but rather it is what God has done and what He will do with who He gave us! ...and that is according to His purposes that no flesh will glory in His presence!

The LORD God is calling His people to repent of a teaching a false gospel (the gospel of man. The Lord is calling the churches to repent of teaching Christianized humanism. He is calling us to repent and be hid together with Christ in God. We are to repent of our infatuation with man's own self image. We are being called to repent of our focus upon ourselves and who we think we are, to get our eyes off ourselves and fix our eyes on Jesus Christ, and Him alone!

We are being called to repent of our vainglorying in the flesh, of rejoicing in the gifts. And we are being called to repent of our dead works, we are being called to repent of worshiping the doctrines of men, the work of our own hands. We are being called to repent of worshiping the so-called works of our great faith (which faith is not really our own but the faith of Christ) and we are called to repent of trying to be like God to rest in Him who is God...