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There’s a big push on at the moment to have more women in leadership. Politicians and the chattering classes seem totally convinced that 50% of all political jobs, directorships and managerial positions should be held by women.
What does the Bible say about it? Well, firstly, women and men are equal before the Lord in terms of sin and our common need for salvation. We can equally be children of the most high.
God’s Default Position
But it seems just as clear from scripture that God’s default position is that men lead. The Lord said to the woman in the Garden of Eden, in Genesis chapter three:
Gen 3:16b … thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
The Apostle Paul, in chapter two of his first letter to Timothy, reminded him that male leadership is a creation ordinance:
1Tim 2:12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. 13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
Given all that, there is one great Biblical example of a woman in leadership. Deborah, a prophetess, became a judge in Israel when Jabin king of Canaan was oppressing the Israelites.
Deborah’s Complaint
But before you wheel Deborah out as some sort of proto- feminist, hold on a minute.
Firstly, look closely at Deborah’s complaint in her song in Judges chapter five. She says:
Judges 5:6b … the highways were unoccupied and the travellers walked through byways.
Judges 5:7 The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.
I think she is objecting to the fact that she had to do it, that a woman, a mother, had to stand up and lead Israel at such a challenging time apparently because no man would.
Deborah’s Command
Secondly, if you object to that anaylsis, look at this in Judges chapter four and verse six:
Judges 4:6 And she (that’s Deborah) sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh-naphtali, and said unto him, Hath not the LORD God of Israel commanded, saying, Go and draw toward mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun? 7 And I will draw unto thee to the river Kishon Sisera, the captain of Jabin’s army, with his chariots and his multitude; and I will deliver him into thine hand. 8 And Barak said unto her, If thou wilt go with me, then I will go: but if thou wilt not go with me, then I will not go.
Deborah’s Judgment
Here’s what Deborah replied:
Judges 4:9 … I will surely go with thee: notwithstanding the journey that thou takest shall not be for thine honour; for the LORD shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.
This is the clincher. Because Barak, despite being a hero of the faith in the book of Hebrews (Heb 11:32), wouldn’t embrace his God-appointed position as a man, Deborah cursed him.
Taking the spoils in battle and the life of your enemy was a very big deal in those days. And he lost all that. Barak had the edge in the battle, Sisera fled on foot, and turned up at the tent of Jael. She was the wife of a local chieftain called Heber.
Deborah’s Curse Comes True
Let’s pick up the story in verse eighteen.
Judges 4:18 And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said unto him, Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; fear not. And when he had turned in unto her into the tent, she covered him with a mantle.
Jael even gave him something to drink, and agreed to act as his lookout. She waited quietly for Sisera to fall asleep.
Judges 4:21 Then Jael Heber’s wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.
Deborah’s Example
It turned out just as Deborah said. Barak lost the honour of killing Sisera to a woman because he would not lead his men into battle without Deborah holding his hand. I find the Lord saying that if men will not or cannot take charge, that a Godly woman may step up to the mark.
But our best example of a Godly woman doing just that confirms God’s default position that men lead, provide, fight where necessary, and take the responsibility of leadership upon them.
SCRIPT ENDS – POSTSCRIPT:
Today, in much of the West, including in the United Kingdom, the elites simply assume the unbliblical ideology of feminism, forcing girls into ‘STEM’ subjects, and trying to impose 50% women quotas onto parliaments in the developing world. This is a spiritual conflict zone.
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