I Can't Stop Thinking about the Horrible Effect of Abandoning the Women's Head Covering

 Listening again to John MacArthur's very biblical talk on the role of women in the churches and how far feminism has encroached into them despite the clear admonition of scripture against it.  

John MacArthur | Response to the Beth Moore Comment "Go Home"| Women Preaching - YouTube

It's a very good talk that covers just about everything from scripture, and he gives some appalling statistics about just how far the churches are in violation of God's word on this subject.  Then he traces the rebellion of women back to Genesis.  This is all good teaching.

And then he blows it all to smithereens as he himself affirms what must be one of the pivotal elements of this whole sorry situation, the abandonment of the woman's head covering of 1 Corinthians 11.  Right at the very end.  After all his excellent teaching about the scriptureal standard he himself shows that he embraces at least one of the causes of it all, if not The CAUSE, AND FOR ALL i KOW IT MAY WELL BE THE CAUSE.  iT MAY BE WHERE IT ALL BEGAN.  aS i SAY, i DON'T KNOW BUT i DO KNMOW THAT IT'S VERY IMPORTANT.  i HAVE NO WORD FROM THE lORD ABOUT THIS, BUT hE HASN'T GIVEN ME ANYH REASON TO THINK IT'S WRONG EITHER THOUGH i HAVE PRAYED THAT hE WOULD IF IT IS WRONG.  

I can't stand the irony.  He spends an hour lamting and documenting the draining away of a great reservoir of biblical teaching and then at the end he holds up the plug he helped to pull that openied the drain.  

That passage is not about feminine appearance, and it's not even about women's submission to authority in any drect way as far as behavior goes.  It's strictly about the hierarchy of authority or HEADship.  I can't say it enough.  It's about the head, the literal head on the body as symbolic of tauthority.   If you cover that head you are saying you are under the authority of another, you are essentially covering up your own authoirty.  Covering your head is covering your authoirty.  It's an acknowledgment of God's creation ordinance of the hierarchy of headship.   If you uncover women's heads you are saying they have equal authority with men.   Men are exhorted in this same passage NOT to cover their heads because they have authority under CHrist in the Church.  If as MacArthur so strongly preaches, women are not to preach in the churches, you don't take away the emblem of the subordination of authority that supports that position.  When you take it away you are essentially saying they can preach the same as any man can preach. 

I wish I could get this across, and of course I wish it could be gotten across to someone like John MacArthur how has the public influence to do something about it.

Indeed the holy angels must be highly offended.

J C Ryle's Book Holds Out Some Hope for America's Degenerative State

 Ryle's book on the great Christian leaders of the eighteenth century is read in its entirety at the link I gave below.  There I thought it was only the part about the history of English just before those great men came on the scene, but it is in fact the link tot he entire book.   Still, the first chapters about the historical stituation are eyeopening.  England's Christian heritage was at its lowest posible ebb.  the churches preached empty nonsesnse, the gospel has never heard in them.  For all intents and purposes Christianity was dead and the culture was in bad shape.

The fact that God raised up strong Christian preachers after that gives me hope for America since we are about as low as it's possible to get too, probably lower than Engla nd was.  Perhaps we still have some pulpits whre the gospel is preached but far too many preach a poisonous pablum or fleshly banality and even the strongest churches are probably a lot weaker than they would be if they took care of the smaller errors that must be true evewn of them.

It may well be that we are in the last of the last days and the Lord will return today or tomorrow or next week, since the condition of the world and the churches seems to fit that prophecy only too well.  Nevertheless wehn I hear of the state of DEngland afew centuries ago and how God riseed up men who turned around their condition I thin kwe have reason to hope it's possible here too.  If the Lord comes I hope we are all ready, but meanwhile we should be hoping and praying that God would send us a similar awakening by men he can raise up out of nowhere for such a task.

Here's that link again.  It's well worth listening to:   Christian Leaders of the Eighteenth Century | J. C. Ryle | Christian Audiobook (Part 1) - YouTube

Somje Christian Books from You Tube J. C. Ryle biographies and John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress

I keep finding good Christian books at You tube that can be listened to.   A really good on e is a book by J. C. Ryle  about Christian leaders in the eighteenth century.  I've listened to the one about John Wesley and the one about Geolrge Whitfield.  

George Whitfiedl:  J. C. Ryle - George Whitefield: His Life and Ministry (Christian audio book) - YouTube

John Wesley:   John Wesley and His Ministry (biography) - J. C. Ryle / Audio Book - YouTube

Here's the first chapter of Ryle's book wghich is about the history of England leading up to the eighteenth century::    Christian Leaders of the Eighteenth Century | J. C. Ryle | Christian Audiobook (Part 1) - YouTube

And here is Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress."   I read this years ago but forgot most of it.  It's nice to heart it read:

 Pilgrim's Progress - Puritan John Bunyan / Full Classic Christian Audiobook - YouTube