[Vision2020] Women in Authority and Leadership!

[Andreas Schou]

> Deborah told Barak that the enemy would be defeated at the hand of a
> woman. This would have been a humiliation to them and part of their
> judgment. The victory would come to Israel by a woman's hand. That hand
> was not Deborah's but Jael (the wife of Heber). The part I like about
> this story is the way that Jael dispatched Sisera with a tent peg right
> in the ear "and it went through into the ground." How cool is that!
>
> There was no military leadership on Deborah's part. She did not ride
> first into battle with sword in hand and yodeling like Zena, warrior
> princess. The leadership was all God's. The Lord went "out before"
> them. She went along as an observer and a singer. The men carried out
> the clean up warfare and carried all the weapons.

Doug --

It is truly a miraculous God who can ordain the defeat of a people at
the hands of a woman who did not even participate in the battle in
question.

-- ACS