“Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.”
– Job 2:9
August 16, 2002 - It is noteworthy that when Satan seeks permission to afflict Job, he says unto God:
“put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.” (Job 2:5)
Satan announces his gameplan: Get Job to curse God. As Job lay covered with boils from head to toe, Satan comes to him in the form of his wife, who encourages him to violate his conscience and the revealed will of God, by cursing God so that he might die. Satan proposes, through the woman, that the death of the carnal flesh, or the relative comfort thereof, is preferable to patiently accepting God’s afflictions and chastisements which are designed for our eternal good. Satan always desires that we use our senses to determine what is good and bad, rather than the Word of God.
Note what the righteous Job says to his wife: “Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” (Verse 10)
It is revealed to us throughout scripture that it is always the desire of the woman to bear rule and authority over men (Gen. 3:16), and just as the ground still brings forth the thistle and the through the curse of toil and labor the ground is caused to bring forth the herb, and just as enmity remains between the seed of the serpent and the seed of the woman, so will the enemy of God constantly and unyieldingly utilize his power over the woman in his attempts to get God’s people to curse their Father by forsaking his ways, eschewing his ordained authority structure, and subscribing to the ways of the world. I am constantly bombarded by letters from women who bemoan the fact that either they do not have a man to submit to, or that their husbands will not assume the reins of authority. Although in a few cases this might be true, it is usually not. Very rarely is the lack of “headship” a Cross that a woman must bear, but most often it is a CROP that they have sown. I am not amused when I see a woman lead her husband about by the nose, and then tell me how “submissive” she is as she whines about her husband’s spinelessness. I would caution those women who will be inclined to write me and tell me how truly submissive they are, and that they have no such desire to rule over and manipulate their men. If you say such things, you declare God a liar, who has stated that this is the PERPETUAL reality of every woman, that her desire is to (rule over) her husband.
SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION
I will, in future articles, expound more on the current reigning false doctrine of “spiritual evolution”, that idea that somehow we have progressed in our spirituality as we have moved away, through the centuries, from the Cross of Jesus Christ. For now I will only lightly touch on the topic. The current consensus holds that “knowledge” has increased, and the false prelates of the current religious order have taken this to mean that we are more spiritual, and more knowledgeable about the ways of God than those who have gone before. Why, they will even declare that our BIBLES are better and more complete now that they have gone through hundreds of “revisions” in the last 400 years. This concept of spiritual evolution is a far bigger lie than biological evolution ever was. Yet it is the lie that supports and emboldens the modern Arminian and Charismatic juggernaut on the planet. Suffice it to say that the modern apostate religious position is that we have “evolved” into a more enlightened and spiritual view of the woman, and that the curse upon her must no longer apply to these advanced days in which we live.
Behold what the great reformer John Knox called “The Monstrous Regiment of Women”. Although we have passed from the age of Queens bearing rule, we have entered a more corrupt and horrible age where millions of personal and corporate Queens, obnoxiously flying the flag of the Christian religion, have sought to overthrow God and his solemn decrees. Knox foresaw the hideous arrangement that burdens our corrupt and evil society, and prophesied the fear that would grip all those who propose to speak against it:
“I am assured that God has revealed to some in this our age, that it is more than a monster in nature that a woman shall reign and have empire above man. And yet, with us all there is such silence, as if God therewith were nothing offended. I know the natural man, enemy to God, shall find many causes why no such doctrine ought to be published in these our dangerous days: first, for that it may seem to tend to sedition; secondarily, it shall be dangerous, not only to the writer or publisher, but also to all such as shall read the writings, or favour this truth spoken; and last, it shall not amend the chief offenders, partly because it shall never come to their ears, and partly because they will not be admonished in such cases.” (Knox, The first blast)
The very fear that strikes the heart of men when this topic arises is evidence of the fountainhead from which the modern doctrine flows. Only Satan can have motivated all of society to stand uniformly against the mere mention that God’s prohibition against women in authority is still binding on all Christians everywhere, regardless of their personal opinions on the subject.
Do you not know that I recognize that by merely broaching the topic I am sure to be made less popular and not more highly regarded? What, then, can be my motive? Do I desire to be reviled and scorned?
I MUST SPEAK what God has motivated me to speak. I am an eyewitness to the hideous product of the current doctrinal “wisdom”.
As I have traveled the country, meeting with HUNDREDS of home fellowships, cell churches and Bible study groups - I can tell you that I have NEVER, EVER seen one destroyed that was not destroyed by a woman or group of women bent on manipulation and rule. One hundred percent of the attacks on the Underground Church movement, and the home ministries come in the form of women who propose to teach, and if not to teach, then to manipulate the group emotionally.
Although I have met hundreds of wonderful and Godly women, I have also met hundreds of manipulative religious spirits, disguised as women who are motivated by a love of the truth. God’s prohibition against women in authority was designed not just to protect us from the wiles of the enemy (because we are not ignorant of his methods), but to engender peace and the ability to serve one another without manipulation and covetousness. The scriptures are clear that this peace cannot be found while we are yet being cursed for our disobedience.
THE ARMY OF FALSE DEBORAH’S
On each occasion, when this topic is discussed, inevitably some woman asks about Deborah, as if singular exceptions ought to be considered the rule. But God has worked through exceptions many times. He is God. It is his right. He spoke to a prophet through an ass one time. I would not suggest, as a rule, that you seek prophecy from asses (although most modern Christians do). We should not ever accept the exception as the rule. There is a horrendous army of women teachers out there, blatantly violating Gods solemn decrees, flaunting their disobedience and rebellion - and every one of them thinks they are "Deborah".
When we head down the road to disobedience, we must recognize that the human, carnal mind is capable of rationalizing anything. Jesus has declared that the sin of adultery is sealed when lust enters the heart. Eve's sin was sealed NOT when she ate of the fruit, but when she began to covet that which was clearly and evidently banned by our Sovereign God. The forbidden fruit was not forbidden because of the qualities of the fruit. It was evidently pleasant to look at and good for making one wise. BUT... God forbade it, just as he has forbidden women to teach. When we leave off obeying the rule, in order to seek out exceptions (exceptions which God has kept for Himself) we covet against God and his decrees. We begin to believe that our carnal minds are able to discern what is good and bad, not based on scripture, but based on the qualities of the thing studied.
The Jesuits and the Charismatic movement have locked arms in the promotion of the idea of women preachers and Bible teachers. It is no coincidence that the Third Wave Charismatic movement broke at about the same time the Third Wave feminist movement did. The Jesuits were behind both.
Although the “official” position of the Catholic Church has been against the ordination of women, you must realize that the papacy often pushes poison on Protestantism that they will not imbibe for themselves. The Catholic Church is the perfect “foil” for radical feminists in and out of the Church, while in reality they are behind every single radical women’s movement that plagues the earth.
For example, a Catholic (short-robe) Priest named John Wijngaards operates a website at
www.womenpriests.org. Wijngaards has officially “resigned” from the active priestly ministry in order to push upon Protestants the rebellious concept of women preachers and Bible teachers. Wijngaards, who spouts the Jesuit position almost word for word, is still an active Roman Catholic and still operates at the behest of the Roman Catholic Church.
Wijngaards poisonous positions, including his attacks on the great Reformer John Knox (who wrote the definitive work against women in authority), are parroted by both Jesuitical agents in the Charismatic movement, and by the Jesuits themselves in their most recent General Congregation (The 34th General Congregation [GC34] of the Society of Jesus).
At GC34, decree 14 advocated attacking the concept of "the dominance of men in their relationship with women", and advocated “support for liberation movements which oppose the exploitation of women and encourage their entry into political and social life.”
Although these “pro-women” movements may seem innocuous at first, we must realize that they are all part of the plan to attack and control Protestantism from the inside. Why are the Catholics pushing radical feminism, the women’s ministry and even abortion rights upon the non-Catholic world, while eschewing these concepts for themselves?
The Jesuits have coddled and supported a group called “The Center of Concern” (COC), a UN Non-governmental organization (NGO) that is operated by the Society of Jesus and a Jesuit named “Father” Jim Hug.
The COC openly and avidly supports radical feminist movements, including those pro-abortion, pro-goddess movements that are at eternal warfare with orthodox Christianity.
In an article about the COC entitled “The Center of Concern-Another Bernardin Legacy”, Mary Ann Budnik wrote this:
"COC works quietly in the background using its weighty influence at the UN and with the U.S. bishops to advance the New World Order, here and abroad. Its material is shrewdly written from a socialist slant. Documents are sprinkled with references to encyclicals when a "Catholic" flavor is needed. This powerful "Catholic" think tank is humanistic by intent."
The COC works closely with the United Nations Women’s Caucus, which is pushed through the UN World Summit for Social Development. Regarding the founding of the COC, Budnik writes:
“An article COC sent from The National Catholic Reporter (not dated) explains how Fr. Pedro Arrupe, then superior general of the Society of Jesus, asked a Canadian Jesuit, Fr. Bill Ryan, codirector of the Social Action Department of the Canadian Catholic Conference, to move to Washington, D.C., to ‘assist in the establishment of an international center to study issues relating to development, justice, and peace from a Christian perspective.
‘The proposed center, a joint initiative of the United States Catholic Conference and the Society of Jesus, was to be established as an independent organization.
‘On May 4th, 1971, the center was formally announced by Arrupe and then-Bishop Joseph Bernardin, who was general secretary of the USCC, at a meeting with United Nations Secretary-General U Thant in his New York office. The UN setting was strategic: From its inception, the Center of Concern would have a global perspective....
‘Its work focused on the United Nations agenda, which included the call for a new international economic order and a series of world conferences that addressed global issues such as population, environment, poverty, habitat, science and technology, and women. The center would participate in these.’”
As the Jesuits engaged in the fight for feminism along the political front, they were also in full-fledged combat for radical feminism in the theological arena. A Wesleyan Theologian from Canada named Victor Shepherd admits in his (pro-women preacher) article entitled “Women Preachers in Early-Day Methodism” that,
“Following his own spiritual awakening in 1738, Wesley set about organising the Methodist ‘Societies’, a society composing all Christians of Methodist persuasion in any one town or city. The ‘class’ consisted of the same folk, now divided into groups of twelve according to geographic proximity. The ‘band’ was smaller still, only four or five people eager to be transformed utterly by God's work of sanctification or holiness. Women quickly arose as the ‘sparkplugs’ of all three. When Elizabeth Fox, a leader in the Oxford Society, was about to move to another town, Wesley implored her to stay, since ‘…the enemy [could not] devise so likely a means of destroying the work which is just beginning among them as the taking away of their head.’”
Although early in his ministry John Wesley was hesitant to ordain women preachers, it is clear that as time passed, he lost any such inhibition:
“Years earlier, when Wesley had been challenged about ‘field preaching’ and his deployment of lay preachers, he had pleaded an ‘extraordinary call.’ Soon he was describing the revival itself as ‘extraordinary’, a novum calling for ‘extraordinary means’ of many sorts. His understanding of ‘extraordinary’ came to include women preachers. At this point he abandoned all earlier inhibitions, counselling them to go all the way and preach as he advised them to ‘take a text.’ If their natural reticence or lack of confidence found them hesitating, he urged them, ‘Speak, therefore, as you can, and by-and-by you shall speak as you would.’" (ibid., Shepherd)
The modern Jesuitical Charismatic movement has taken Wesley’s position and marched forward with the banner boldly. Edward Irving, the charismatic father of much of the modern pop-prophecy movement, was also one of the first to promote women as church leaders and embrace the concept of women preachers. This ultra-liberal concept is now most vociferously defended by those in the Charismatic movement. One Charismatic preacher even declared that,
“There is not one Scripture in the Bible that forbids women from preaching, but on the contrary, there are many verses that encourage both men and women to preach the Gospel.” (Pastor Keith A. Smith, What does the Bible say about Women Preachers?, Broadway Assembly Church, Lorain, OH.)
The fact is, “Pastor” Smith is ignorant of the fact that the New Testament does not even count women when it numbers the “converted”. This does not mean that women do not count, but that the verses that Smith quotes to promote the idea of women preachers were not directed to women, nor were they inclusive of women.
In his excellent article on Women Preachers entitled Women Pastors, Biblical or Beguiled?, Dr. Ken Matto answers:
“Women are commanded by God to be in subject unto their husbands (Gen. 3:16, 1 Corinthians 11:3, Ephesians 5:22, 33, Colossians 3:18, Titus 2:4-5, 1 Pet. 3:1-6). Even though these passages are unambiguous in their meanings, there are many who attempt to ‘alternately translate them.’ The different roles of both men and women are not strictly for the home only. The biblical distinctions must be adhered to in the visible church as well. The Bible, especially in 1 Corinthians 14, addresses many congregational problems at Corinth. One was Tongues and another was the role of women in the church. 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 states: (1 Cor 14:34-35 KJV) Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law. {35} And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.”
Most of these Charismatic sects admit (although weakly) to total depravity caused by the fall, but then absurdly claim that Jesus has since removed the CURSE! I’m not kidding you. Even with the evidence that Christians still die and that Christian women have pain in childbirth, and that we still must toil in order to produce the means to survive…
One Charismatic proponent, in defense of women preachers said this:
“Obviously a consistent application of these verses as the unalterable will of God is absurd. They are the results of the Fall. Our God is a God of grace, and since the Fall He has been progressively working to nullify these results.”
So Charismatics (whose doctrines were created and planted by Jesuit/Arminians, as I show in my new book) believe that the curse of the fall has been cured and nullified. I am still left wondering why death plagues all that are ever born. The Bible says that death came upon all men as a result of the fall, and still it is “appointed upon men once to die”.
Although there are entire books that can be written on this topic alone, let’s sum up by pointing out some of the more important issues regarding women preachers:
1. The concept of women in authority is being pushed by the Jesuits as part of their overall plan to extirpate and poison Protestantism.
2. It is the “usual suspects” who are the fathers of the “women’s ministry” movement, and who promote it worldwide. The Jesuits, the United Nations, the radical feminists, and the Charismatic movement are the primary proponents of women preachers.
John Calvin commented on the topic as well:
“If the woman is under subjection, she is, consequently, prohibited from authority to teach in public. And unquestionably, whenever even natural propriety has been maintained, women have in all ages been excluded from the public management of affairs. It is the dictate of common sense, that female government is improper and unseemly.” (Calvin, Comments on 1 Cor. 14:34.)
We are left with most of apostate Christianity CHOOSING to add to the obvious woes of our day a curse that also bedevils us in the realm of civil government:
“Children are our oppressors and women rule over us” (Isaiah 3:12).
God forbid that TRUE men of God ever succumb to such witchcraft. I have met maybe 50 powerful, mighty, awesome men of God who could have been used mightily in God's army, but they could not function because of rebellious, prideful and manipulative wives. I spend much of my ministry beating up men, but I will be holding my tongue on this plague of monstrous women no longer.
I am your servant in Christ Jesus,
Michael Bunker
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