I had a question from someone about the teaching of the practice of the head covering and thought it would be good to put the answer to that question here too.
1 Corinthians 11:5-7 "…5And every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, for it is just as if her head were shaved. 6 If a woman does not cover her head, she should have her hair cut off. And if it is shameful for a woman to have her hair cut or shaved off, she should cover her head. 7A man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man."
The men are to be uncovered and the women are to be covered during the gathering, not all the time. If the women were to wear the covering all the time then the men would have to be uncovered all the time. God said that a woman is to be covered when she prays and prophesies in the coming together of the gathering for worship.
There is nothing in the Scripture that says this has ever been changed and it is for the sake of the angels. The angels learn from us all the time.
If the covering was as so many people say; "for back then" a custom of the time then why all the explanation in chapter 11 about the order of man and woman. Some people have tried to explain it away by adding to scripture but with a straight reading of the Word in context, we see that it is for all believers. Some say the scripture says; "we have no such custom", this is a mistranslation, the original language says; "we have no such custom of being contentious about this, and we have no other custom than this, all the churches are doing it in obedience to God."
This is one of those things that has been done away with back in the 1960s when women began to shed all their responsibilities. The covering for a woman was a matter of obedience to show her role as under the man. The lack of covering for the man was to show his obedience under God as the leader of the home and in the church.
When I was a child all women wore either a cloth covering over their hair or a hat but most didn't know why, they thought it was respect because no one was teaching this practice. Then when the Pope decided the women didn't have to be covered anymore suddenly, almost overnight the covering went away everywhere except in some small groups.
In all the countries of the world except the western countries, meaning Europe and the United States, the women are covered. What is different? It is clear that western countries are more modern and disrespectful of the Bible.
This is not to say that the other countries of the world are doing everything right, but it does show that they are not as "fashion conscious" as the western countries and they are less "feminist oriented."
It was feminism that was the driving factor in the removal of the covering in gathering. Notice that the men still remain uncovered, although they don't know why in most cases, but the women who have rebelled against any sort of submission have chosen to uncover to be like men.
Men and women have different roles, it has nothing to do with equality in God's eyes, its just the order of things God commanded. Order does not equate to less or more equal, it is according to the job God has for each gender, one is not better than the other, just different.
The devil managed to convince women they didn't have to be under anyone, that power over others was preferable to submission. Men do not have "power" over women in God's order, they have influence and responsibility to their families, their wives and under God. Women's responsibilities carried out in God's order has influence, just in a different way.
The best way for the devil to ruin families was to remove the most powerful influence in the home, that is the woman and divide her attention from the family to that paycheck outside the home. Once the woman left the home the children began to be raised by school systems, paid babysitters, and the culture rather than their mother. The mother's influence declined within the family. It harmed the homes of those mothers who did remain the keeper of the home because now the entire culture was against the very important job she did there.
Even now, when a woman chooses to remain in the home, taking care of everything there and teaching her own children, she is mocked and diminished in the community as having less intelligence. Women's lib has destroyed the family but they could only do this because the women didn't know the Lord, didn't know the Bible and became greedy for power and money.
This article will be an affront to many women, the purpose is not to cause anger but to show God's order and perhaps those who still can return to the home will see the value of obeying God.
Homemaking is God's design for the woman, the covering is also God's design for the woman. If you are strong enough to obey God and ignore the mocking of the world, you can see the value of God's way and obey Him.
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