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Yes, Deborah correctly acknowledged the results of a fallen, sexist, sinful world when she predicted that cries of "neener, neener, neener, you got beat by a girl!" (I'm paraphrasing here) would result from her leadership. Kind of in the same way God predicted that, as a result of the Fall, men would rule over women.<br><br>Descriptive. Prescriptive. Good Bible scholars try to understand the difference. (And they generally agree that Jael's victory was a complement to and not separate from Deborah's. But I think I'd better stop here. All this serious thinking and stuff is making my pretty little head hurt.)<br><br>keely<br><br><span style="font-style: italic;">"And these women that you spit on as they try to change their worlds/</span><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Are immune to your consultations . . . they're quite aware of what they're going through"</span><br>(With apologies to David Bowie)<br><br><br>> Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:04:51 -0700<br>> From: ophite@gmail.com<br>> To: heirdoug@netscape.net<br>> CC: vision2020@moscow.com<br>> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Women in Authority and Leadership!<br>> <br>> > Deborah told Barak that the enemy would be defeated at the hand of a<br>> > woman. This would have been a humiliation to them and part of their<br>> > judgment. The victory would come to Israel by a woman's hand. That hand<br>> > was not Deborah's but Jael (the wife of Heber). The part I like about<br>> > this story is the way that Jael dispatched Sisera with a tent peg right<br>> > in the ear "and it went through into the ground." How cool is that!<br>> ><br>> > There was no military leadership on Deborah's part. She did not ride<br>> > first into battle with sword in hand and yodeling like Zena, warrior<br>> > princess. The leadership was all God's. The Lord went "out before"<br>> > them. She went along as an observer and a singer. The men carried out<br>> > the clean up warfare and carried all the weapons.<br>> <br>> Doug --<br>> <br>> It is truly a miraculous God who can ordain the defeat of a people at<br>> the hands of a woman who did not even participate in the battle in<br>> question.<br>> <br>> -- ACS<br>> <br>> =======================================================<br>> List services made available by First Step Internet, <br>> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <br>> http://www.fsr.net <br>> mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com<br>> =======================================================<br><br /><hr />Local listings, incredible imagery, and driving directions - all in one place! <a href='http://maps.live.com/?wip=69&FORM=MGAC01' target='_new'>Find it!</a></body>
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