Genders Not Equal
Genders Not Equal deals with the fact that God has throughout the scriptures distinguished the male from the female in many ways. The same theme is seen constantly throughout both the Old and New Testaments and serves as a constant confirmation that God wants the genders to remain distinct.
This biblical principle however is in direct contrast to the ways of the world which has sought to promote gender-equality and change all society to force them to accept that which is perversion in the sight of God.
It is the purpose of this lesson to emphasize that genders are not created equal but instead God has created the male and female to become one-complete person in marriage rather than remaining as two distinct individuals.
Gender Distinction in Childbirth
Leviticus 12:1-5 (NIV)
1 The LORD said to Moses,
2 "Say to the Israelites: 'A woman who becomes pregnant and gives birth to a son will be ceremonially unclean for seven days, just as she is unclean during her monthly period.
3 On the eighth day the boy is to be circumcised.
4 Then the woman must wait thirty-three days to be purified from her bleeding. She must not touch anything sacred or go to the sanctuary until the days of her purification are over.
5 If she gives birth to a daughter, for two weeks the woman will be unclean, as during her period. Then she must wait sixty-six days to be purified from her bleeding.
It should be noted here that the period for Jewish purification for a woman giving birth to a girl is exactly doubled from that for giving birth to a boy. The uncleanness for giving birth to a boy was 7-days with a 33-day required purification time while the girl caused uncleanness for 14-days and required a 66-day purification so this reflects "double" the purification time for childbirth involving girls.
This speaks of the fact that a boy does not have a menstrual cycle so the purification process is only for the mother and her flow of blood resulting from giving birth. But with the childbirth involving a girl there is a double-purification required because both mother and daughter are females and so naturally both have monthly menstrual cycle discharges (even if an infant girl does not have menstrual until after the age of puberty). Therefore, the purification required for the mother was 7-days and for the daughter another 7-days for a total of 14-days and the purification of 33-days for the mother for her blood-flow of childbirth and another 33-days for the female child for a total of 66-days for both.
Dead Fluids Outside the Body
Exodus 19:14-15 (NIV)
14 After Moses had gone down the mountain to the people, he consecrated them, and they washed their clothes.
15 Then he said to the people, "Prepare yourselves for the third day. Abstain from sexual relations."
Moses was commanded by God that when the people prepared to meet God at Mount Horeb (also known as Sinai) that the married couples were to abstain from sexual relations. This was not because sexual relations in marriage was sinful but rather it was a regulation that deals with uncleanness. Male semen for example contains billions of living sperm cells but when these sperm cells are emitted outside of the body then they die. It is this "death" which is considered unclean.
Leviticus 15:18 (NIV)
18 When a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen, both must bathe with water, and they will be unclean till evening.
When a married couple has sexual relations then typically semen will continue to ooze from the male organ as well as from the female organ afterward. This was one of the reasons that the people had to wash their clothing in preparation to meet with God. As soon as the semen leaves the body then the living sperm cells die and this death produces uncleanness. It was for this reason the married couples were to abstain from sexual relations the night before their scheduled meeting with God on Mount Horeb (Sinai) and everyone was also required to wash their clothing as well. Part of the reason for washing clothing can relate to the dried semen that was upon the undergarments of either married men or women after sexual relations.
Leviticus 15:17 (NIV)
17 Any clothing or leather that has semen on it must be washed with water, and it will be unclean till evening.
Anything that had semen upon it was to be washed because the living semen dies outside of the body and creates the uncleanness of death.
Uncleanness of Human Blood
Leviticus 15:19-24 (NIV)
19 "'When a woman has her regular flow of blood, the impurity of her monthly period will last seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean till evening.
20 "'Anything she lies on during her period will be unclean, and anything she sits on will be unclean.
21 Whoever touches her bed must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean till evening.
22 Whoever touches anything she sits on must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean till evening.
23 Whether it is the bed or anything she was sitting on, when anyone touches it, he will be unclean till evening.
24 "'If a man lies with her and her monthly flow touches him, he will be unclean for seven days; any bed he lies on will be unclean.
When human blood leaves the body then it also dies and produces death and uncleanness. This is the case for a woman's blood-flow after childbirth as well as her blood-flow during a menstrual cycle. Anything that has human blood upon it was to be washed and considered unclean because blood outside of the human body dies and this death produces uncleanness.
Smell of Death from Livestock Blood
We once entered a butcher shop near our home in Korea where the Korean business owner hired foreign workers who came from a nation which did not have a Judaeo/Christian culture. As such they had no comprehension about the principle of uncleanness of blood. It seemed that when they were cleaning, they must have slopped diluted blood under the freezers while mopping the blood from the floor. This blood therefore remained under the freezer (which had only a few centimeters of clearance off the floor). When we entered the shop, we immediately could smell the rotten bad odor of something that smelled like a dead animal carcass. This bad odor of death came from the unclean livestock blood that flowed under the freezers and remained there and spoiled without being cleaned. We were able to obtain the phone number of the owner and contacted him and explained that these foreigners had unsanitary conditions in his butcher-shop and there was decaying blood under the freezers which was giving off bad odor that smelled like a dead-animal. The next time we came by that place we noticed that shop had been closed down (possibly by health and sanitation officials).
This illustrates the fact that any type of blood from humans or livestock or fish or poultry or any type of animal wild or domestic all will cause uncleanness once that blood has been drained outside of their bodies. Blood dies as soon as it comes out of the body and the same is also true of body fluids like semen. It is for this reason that body fluids outside of a body were considered unclean. It is the Jewish laws that provide a foundation of our sanitary regulations in advanced and progressive nations (like the United States and South Korea) which both follow the Jewish Torah principles of clean and unclean based on the laws given by God to Moses on Mount Sinai.
See the link "Touch Not Laws" for more details.
Exodus 7:20-21 (NASB)
20 So Moses and Aaron did even as the LORD had commanded. And he lifted up the staff and struck the water that was in the Nile, in the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants, and all the water that was in the Nile was turned to blood.
21 The fish that were in the Nile died, and the Nile became foul, so that the Egyptians could not drink water from the Nile. And the blood was through all the land of Egypt.
The godless Egyptians in the time of Moses worshiped the Nile river as a god and considered it the source of all life! Therefore, when God judged the "gods" of Egypt he turned the water of the Nile into blood. This caused the fish to die and rot and the water of that river even became spoiled and reeked like the blood of a dead man! So, everything in their river (considered their god) was now a foul-smelling river of stench and death!
End Times Rivers of Blood
Revelation 16:3-7 (NIV)
3 The second angel poured out his bowl on the sea, and it turned into blood like that of a dead man, and every living thing in the sea died.
4 The third angel poured out his bowl on the rivers and springs of water, and they became blood.
5 Then I heard the angel in charge of the waters say: "You are just in these judgments, you who are and who were, the Holy One, because you have so judged;
6 for they have shed the blood of your saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink as they deserve."
7 And I heard the altar respond: "Yes, Lord God Almighty, true and just are your judgments."
In the end-times, events that will transpire on earth when God will again bring judgment upon wicked and rebellious humans who killed the innocent (who worship and love God) and shed their blood on the ground like water. As a punishment God will not only turn their rivers to blood but also the entire sea! When the entire earth is covered with oceans of blood and all of the rivers and springs of underground water all turn to blood then humans will be sitting on an entire earth that reeks like the bad stench of the blood of a dead man! These wicked men shed the blood of those who love God to rid the earth of them but then God will punish them by giving them blood to drink for their water. But this blood will smell rotten and horrid and will be a terrible judgment that will make the entire world reek with a foul and unbearable odor of death!
Animal that died of Itself
Deuteronomy 14:21 (NASB)
21 "You shall not eat anything which dies of itself. You may give it to the alien who is in your town, so that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner, for you are a holy people to the LORD your God . . .
The Jewish people were required to drain the blood from the animals that they killed for food. The heart had to still be beating when the throat was cut so that the blood would be pumped out of the body because they were not permitted to eat meat with the blood still in it.
Once an animal expires (which has not been bled properly) then immediately the blood remaining in the veins of the animal will begin to decompose. Therefore, the blood is to be drained out while the heart was still beating. If an animal died of itself that means it did not have the throat cut while the heart was still beating and the blood had not been purged from it. God's people had a higher standard of living required of them and they were not permitted to eat unclean things like meat that had not been bled properly.
Leviticus 19:26 (NIV)
26 "'Do not eat any meat with the blood still in it . . .
God's people were not permitted to eat any meat that still had blood in it because dead animal blood produces the uncleanness of death just as a rotten corpse also produces death.
Rotten Corpses Produce Toxins
It was said that the Nazis of Germany killed so many Jews that the rotten corpses in the mass graves poisoned the ground water to make the nearby wells toxic. They had to dig up the rotten bodies and burn them to keep from poisoning the nearby ground water. This is an example of how something dead can produce uncleanness and toxins.
Principle of Dead Body Fluids
The principle to be seen here is that any type of body fluids including semen or blood that is outside of the body will die and this death produces uncleanness and is unsanitary. The spiritual principle behind this also speaks of uncleanness as something that is a weakness.
1 Peter 3:7 (NIV)
7 Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers.
The woman is a weaker vessel and this weakness was created in her so that she would naturally submit to and become a part of the stronger man. The men are stronger physically and emotionally and logically than are women. The monthly menstrual flow in the woman speaks of uncleanness or "weakness" but in fact the weakness of the female gender was engineered by God so that it would be natural for them to submit to their own male authority. Men are to recognize that women are not equal with men and women must be given some consideration by men as being the female weaker vessel.
Women are emotional creatures which is also a form of weakness. But they are sensitive and can provide the love needed by children to develop into normal humans. Women see the details of the family needs and can make the household into a place of comfort and beauty where a family can live in peace.
Men are created to be headliners and see the big picture and they make masculine decisions that are for the best long-term benefit of their families. Women see the details and make present things comfortable and beautiful. So together the men and women make a home for their family with men making long-term leadership decisions based upon masculine logic and the women caring for the details for the present time frame using their feminine thinking.
Distinguishing Male and Female
Leviticus 12:1-7 (NIV)
1 The LORD said to Moses,
2 "Say to the Israelites: 'A woman who becomes pregnant and gives birth to a son will be ceremonially unclean for seven days, just as she is unclean during her monthly period.
3 On the eighth day the boy is to be circumcised.
4 Then the woman must wait thirty-three days to be purified from her bleeding. She must not touch anything sacred or go to the sanctuary until the days of her purification are over.
5 If she gives birth to a daughter, for two weeks the woman will be unclean, as during her period. Then she must wait sixty-six days to be purified from her bleeding.
6 "'When the days of her purification for a son or daughter are over, she is to bring to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting a year-old lamb for a burnt offering and a young pigeon or a dove for a sin offering.
7 He shall offer them before the LORD to make atonement for her, and then she will be ceremonially clean from her flow of blood. "'These are the regulations for the woman who gives birth to a boy or a girl.
Again, the regulations given by God to Moses regarding childbirth of a male or female baby distinguish the two genders and show that God sees the males and females as different and therefore "not equal" and this principle is reflected in the different purification requirements for boys and girls.
Men can grow whiskers and women have menstrual cycles and these are just a few differences which reflect the fact that men and women are not the same physically at all. Even skeletal remains can be distinguished as being male or female because the genders are different in every bone of their bodies.
And so, the differences in purification times for the birth of a son or the birth of a daughter reflect the differences that God created within the two genders.
Genders Kept Distinct
Deuteronomy 22:5 (NASB)
5 "A woman shall not wear man's clothing, nor shall a man put on a woman's clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD your God.
This same principle is clarified that a woman is never to wear a man’s clothing nor a man wear female clothing. Women are to dress feminine and look demure or submissive and pretty but men are to be masculine and dominate in appearance like a commander-type of look. This is because the men are to be leaders and the women are to submit to male authority so the quality about being feminine is to look weak and submissive and demure in appearance (not aggressive and assertive and dominant). But the man is opposite who is supposed to be a leader and dressing to look aggressive and assertive and dominant is keeping with his masculine role of being a leader.
God has not left himself without a witness and the scriptures all say the same thing witnessing to the fact that males and females are to remain distinct as separate genders and that the woman is the weaker vessel. Even when they are born it takes double the time for purification if a mother gives birth to a girl. That testifies that they are the weaker vessel even with a monthly menstrual flow that shows they are unclean because of their blood-flow (and the weakness of emotional surges caused by hormonal imbalances). This all speaks of created weakness engineered by God in women to make them naturally submit to their stronger male authorities.
Acts 14:16-17 (NKJV)
16 who in bygone generations allowed all nations to walk in their own ways.
17 Nevertheless He did not leave Himself without witness, in that He did good, gave us rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness."
God did not leave himself without a witness as he provides good things for humanity and this goodness of God shows humans his reality. But this same scripture can also be applied to the fact that God has not left himself a witness in the scriptures because it is a repeated theme throughout the scriptures that genders are to remain distinct and they are not to be muddled together with "gender-equality" that seeks to erase all differences in male and female.
1 Corinthians 11:6-12 (NIV)
6 If a woman does not cover her head, she should have her hair cut off; and if it is a disgrace for a woman to have her hair cut or shaved off, she should cover her head.
7 A man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man.
8 For man did not come from woman, but woman from man;
9 neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.
10 For this reason, and because of the angels, the woman ought to have a sign of authority on her head.
11 In the Lord, however, woman is not independent of man, nor is man independent of woman.
12 For as woman came from man, so also man is born of woman. But everything comes from God.
There is a repeated theme here that God has not left himself without many witnesses in the scriptures which all speak of the distinction of the two genders. It is a shame for a woman to have her head shaved because her hair is a covering and represents submission to her male authority by coming under his covering of protection.
See the link "Head Covering and Submission" for more details.
The woman is not independent of a man and the man is not independent of a woman because they are made for each other and become one-person in marriage. But prior marriage both genders are incomplete and barren but in marriage they are both complete and fruitful. But in the marriage, they are to have the man as the head and the woman to submit because they are not to be two heads in the same home.
1 Corinthians 11:14-15 (NIV)
14 Does not the very nature of things teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace to him,
15 but that if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For long hair is given to her as a covering.
The nature of things speaks of that fact that it is only natural for men to be leaders and providers and protectors. But for men to have long hair is a disgrace because it speaks of the man coming under the covering or leadership of his wife as if he is submitted to her.
1 Corinthians 14:35 (NKJV)
35 And if they want to learn something, let them ask their own husbands at home; for it is shameful for women to speak in church.
It is also shameful that a woman should speak in the church because they open their mouth and introduce "feminine-thinking" and portray the feminine idea that "God is love" to the exclusion of ignoring the masculine side of God which brings judgment for sin. They remove the fear of the Lord and comfort the spiritual babies and keep these people as babies even after they should have long ago been mature already and have developed a fear of God. Apostles and Prophets are masculine gifts that rebuke disorder and sin and create a fear of the Lord. This is in great contrast to the carnal church run by women and feminine-thinking.
See the link "Apostles Abolish Disorder" for more details.
Apostles and Prophets are masculine gifts which rebuke disorder and sin in the church but women typically scold them for not walking in love. Never are women to be leaders and this is perversion and shameful for them to open their mouth to give their opinions and judge an Apostle for not being like a "woman" and “walking in love” but in fact real manly love is to rebuke to save people from hell. Feminine comfort only sends them to hell as they will soon find out.
John 5:39 (NIV)
39 You diligently study the Scriptures because you think that by them you possess eternal life. These are the Scriptures that testify about me,
The scriptures testify about Jesus and the same scriptures also testify about the difference in genders and the roles of men verses the roles of women and never should the two be confused together.
Men and Women Created Differently
Genesis 2:7 (NIV)
7 the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
God created the man Adam out of the dust of the earth and it is interesting that the human body contains the same elements as soil.
Genesis 2:21-24 (NIV)
21 So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man's ribs and closed up the place with flesh.
22 Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
23 The man said, "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called 'woman,' for she was taken out of man."
24 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
God did not create the woman Eve out of the dust of the earth the same way that he created the man Adam. Instead God removed flesh and bones from Adam and created Eve from the parts that came from the man.
Even the way that humans were created testifies that men and women are created in distinct manner. If God created the woman out of dust also then they would have been two distinct individuals. Rather God created Eve out of the parts that came from the man. Everything that was feminine was also removed from Adam and placed into his wife Eve. This is why men still have nipples as traces of that which was once "feminine: within them. The creation of Eve signifies that a single man and a single woman are both incomplete until they are joined together in marriage. A married couple becomes one-complete person in God's sight so that all that is missing when the man is restored to completion by his wife and the wife is also made complete by marriage to her husband. Therefore, God does not believe in "gender-equality" which is a doctrine of demons promoted by the world's system and has been carried over into the carnal church. God does not believe in "gender-equality" but rather "oneness" as the two genders become "one-flesh" or "one-complete" person together in marriage with nothing missing in either one of them.
The creation of humans by God testifies that they are totally different creatures but at the same time made for each other so that they become one-complete person in marriage. Therefore it is only natural that men and women should marry and that the weaker woman should submit to her stronger husband as her head.
Natural Relations Equal Heterosexual
Romans 1:26-27 (NIV)
26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.
27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
Women exchanged natural relations with a man for unnatural ones by engaging in same-sex relations. But two women together cannot procreate because they both have all the same body parts and both are barren within a same-sex relationship.
The men also are barren in a same-sex relationship because they have all of the same body parts and do not supply what is missing in the other. Therefore, this is unnatural and this is why God calls same-sex relations as a perversion.
Men were not created for men and women were not created for women so all same-sex marriage is perversion (even if godless liberals want to honor that which is vile in the sight of God by pushing this perversion upon all society)!
Romans 1:26 (KJV)
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
The KJV says that these perverts were given over to “vile-affections" meaning it is "vile" or "wicked" to have sexual relations with those of the same gender.
Psalm 12:8 (NIV2011)
8 who freely strut about when what is vile is honored by the human race.
What is vile is same-sex relations because it is a perversion against nature. It is only natural for men and women to fulfill each other in marriage to become one-complete person together. When society honors gay marriage that is a sign of satanic perversion and this is pushed by women leaders who want equality for all (including equality for those who are vile in God’s sight). They celebrate homosexual freedoms as if it is a great achievement for all humanity! This is all a result permitting women’s leadership within society which promotes equality for all!
So, the bottom line here is that the scriptures about purification after the birth of a boy and a girl speaks of the difference between genders. The fact that it takes twice as long for purification for women who give birth to girls than boys shows that they genders are clearly distinct and different (not equal). The longer purification time for girls also speaks of created weakness just as girls are born with the potential to menstruate. They are a weaker vessel in every way physically and emotionally and logically and even with this additional weakness of being unclean for menstruation. Weakness is created in women so it will be normal for them to submit to a man who is stronger in every way. Never should that which is weaker be lord over that which is stronger so this created-weakness is meant to cause it to be only natural for women to submit to their own husbands as heads of the household.
Women in political and social leadership positions have to work hard to change society to embrace "gender-equality" because it totally goes against everything that is natural. It is unnatural for men to follow and serve women like Ahab followed Jezebel as she ran the country using his usurped authority. God always judges the man for passivity as Moses was judged for being manipulated by a woman to disobey God. Ahab died first then afterward his wicked wife was destroyed and trampled by horses and fed to the dogs. The man is judged first because God holds the man responsible and it does not matter if the whole world says that men are to serve women. God never changes and men are still the leaders and will be judged by God if they drop their leadership and permit the women lead by default. Feminine equality cannot change God even if they seem to have swept the whole world with their insanity.
See the link "Sin Nature of Eve" for more details
So, this thing about difference in purification time for giving birth to boys or girls is another witness of scripture that the genders are not the same. The uncleanness of girls speaks of weakness created in them so it will be natural for them to be submissive to their own male authority.