The Hatred

The Hatred

There's been a saying "It's a Man's World" But American women today say "You've Come A Long Way Baby!"
There's been the feminist movement, campaigning for the liberation of women. And many women who were not comfortable with all the efforts and means used in the feminist movement, may still have sympathized with part, if not much of what they were trying to accomplish.
Women have gained the right to vote and many other things.
Women stepped out and tried the waters, in the ocean of man. And look where we are today!
There are those who have rethought the issue, and decided to go home; that maybe it wasn't so bad back there after all. But in America it is a choice a woman can make.
American women now, have many more choices than in days gone by
In India, there was a time when, if a woman's husband died, she was put beside him and burned alive.
You may have heard of cultures and/or religions in which girls are circumcised, where a woman who is raped is considered no longer of value and where a man may serve a short jail sentence for killing a wife.
It is said that in the Middle East, girls are married and the marriage consummated with girls as young as eight years old.
And then there are the religions that require women to be covered from head to toe, except for their eyes, when in public.
And many other oppressions have been put upon women.
Have you ever wondered how all of the abuse and suppression of women began?
If you had any ideas that somehow it is all rooted in a male desire to possess and control, I have some news for you!
If you say, emphatically "It is the Devil!" I certainly will agree. But why women in particular?
Where did this malicious hatred of women come from? How did it begin?

Let me tell you a story that comes from the Word of God. You have heard the story at least in part. But today you may find more to the story.
It started back in a very beautiful setting. It started way back, when everything was new; when the man and the woman were living in the glorious garden, God had created for them and all their needs were provided for.
Now God's enemy did not like what he was seeing going on, on planet earth.
He had been upon the holy mountain of God. He had been beautiful and wise and had walked up and down the midst the stones of fire (Eze. 28: 12-19)
He had decided to ascend into heaven and exalt his own throne above the stars of God and to be like the most High. (Isa. 14:12-14)
His plans had failed, (though he may yet think he will find a way to get around the doom that is his sentence from God.)
Surely he was not pleased, to see God create a reflection of himself on earth and to hand dominion of the earth over to his man! No work on their part, just by God's design and free gift, after all Satan had done to gain a high position for himself and had been brought down !
So Satan set about to bring God's man down and take his position of dominance on the earth. We have heard and read the story of how he deceived the woman in the garden of Eden.
It looked as though Satan's plan was working. He knew he would not be able to get Eve to disobey God nor rebel against him knowingly and willingly, so set out to deceive her. This plan had worked.
When he was able to get her to 'see' things as he wanted her to, then he gained a victory.

Gen. 3:6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

When the woman 'saw', that is, when she perceived the thing to be as Satan was presenting it to her, she believed Satan's lies. She could see, before this, that the fruit looked good, but there was plenty of attractive fruits for her to eat of freely, that God had given for her health and enjoyment. But somehow she got the picture, with Satan's help, that this fruit would make a person wise. I wonder if she saw the serpent eating it and seeming to have a lot of wisdom and understanding about things. For whatever reason, she bought the idea that this fruit would make her wise, as well as being a tasty food. She listened to the voice of the enemy and sinned.
Surely this must have been very satisfying to Satan. He must have felt quite victorious, in having stolen from God's man so soon after his creation.
But then came the moment when God came along, walking in the garden and called for them. He discovered that his man now was aware of his nakedness. This had not been important before.

Gen. 2:25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
But now there was a change.

Now the man and woman had sinned in their bodies and they felt ashamed, as though this sin could actually be seen if God looked at their naked body.

Ro 7:5 - For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

members (Strong's Concordance) 3196 = melos; a limb or part of the body:-member

2Co 4:10 - Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.

Ro 6:12 - Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

Ro 7:24 - O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

Ro 8:23 - And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

So God found those he had created in His own image and to be a reflection of himself, with sin in their body and no longer representing the pureness and holiness of God.
When God addressed Adam about what had happened, he admitted to having ate of the forbidden fruit when the woman gave it to him. This was a confession of both eating the fruit and also of not having done what he had been put in the garden to do, that is, -

Gen. 2:15 And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

  keep = (Strong's Concordance) - shamar; to hedge about (as with thorns), that is, guard; gen. to protect, ...

Adam had failed to protect the garden and his wife in that garden, from the devises of the enemy.

But look at what happened when God questioned the woman. I believe this is very significant and should not be overlooked.

Gen. 2:13 ... and the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.

Adam could not have said that anyone had deceived him. He had acted with his eyes open, knowing what he was doing and not protecting his wife from it.

1Ti 2:14 - And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.

The woman transgressed, while deceived, whereas the man did it without being deceived.

Some have said the man and woman blamed one another for the sin that had occurred. But I see them both as being very honest. It seems that both told exactly what happened.
Eve alone, however, revealed Satan's part in the matter. Yes she was deceived. This is not merely an excuse, but a fact.
However, Eve revealed that Satan had been at work in attempting to thwart God's plan. She had uncovered his devise.
The very one, he had used and deceived to bring about the downfall of man, was now turning the tables on him. She told what he had done and now he would have to pay the ultimate price for his sin!
Notice that God did not question Satan about what had happened. He did not ask him if it was true. God knew it was and He knew Satan's motivation.
Now look closely at what God told the serpent, for here we may well find the key to much of what has happened to women over the years.

Gen. 3: 14+15 And the Lord God aid unto the serpent .... 15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; and it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

God put hatred between the serpent (Satan) and the woman!

Enmity, is - (Strong's) eybah; hostility:-enmity, hatred.

bruise = (Strong's) shuwph; to gape, that is, snap at; fig. to overwhelm:- break, bruise, cover.

The seed of the woman (Jesus Christ), would one day break Satan's head and Satan would break his heel. Indeed Satan tempted our Lord and set out to cause his physical death. (Though he stirred up those who beat Him and hung Him on the cross, yet Jesus gave His own life, they did not take it from Him.) But our Lord defeated Satan completely and his destruction is permanent.
It would be through the woman, who had told on Satan, that the Savior would come that was going to defeat and destroy him. It would be the woman who would carry the seed of God in her womb, nurture, provide and protect it, then give birth to the Son of God and Son of man, who would break the powers of darkness. And Satan has a specific hatred for the woman!!
Certainly Satan doesn't care for any of God's children, but there is a special hatred between him and the woman.
Perhaps we can see the need as well as the blessing of God in providing the woman with a protective covering in the man. While it is true that Adam was supposed to guard and protect the garden of Eden, and failed, in the new Testament we are told -

1Ti 5:8 - But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
and -
Eph 5:25 - Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

Men still have a mandate from God to provide for and protect those God has given him.

Woman being created with the mothering instinct; with the instinct to guard and protect her offspring with her life, is going to hate the one who would try to destroy it. Above all others, that is Satan.

We should not be surprised then, by all the afflictions Satan has put upon women over the centuries, when we understand the hatred he has had for them since the day Eve was first deceived by him in the garden of Eden.
When we understand the motivation behind a thing and the devises used, we can then ready ourselves for victory!
Every child that is born to a woman of God, is another potential threat to the kingdom of darkness. Man has the power to give seed, but there will not be another life unless the woman conceives it. There is a power of life and death within the woman.
A mother has tremendous influence on every human being she gives birth to. She has the ability to instill the truth of God into her child as he is nurtured at her breast and throughout his most formative years. From her he receives his comfort, security, food, and love. She is an example to him of the constant and powerful love of God. And she has the ability to whisper into his ears the truth of his value to God while those tiny ears are tuned into her voice and moved by the depth of her love. Yes, woman is a constant danger to the god of this world who wants to keep every man from God.

Joh 10:10 - The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

Whatever he can do to lower a woman's self worth so that she never knows her full potential in the kingdom of God, Satan will do.
If he can blind woman to the value she is to the men God created; how much they need her to fulfill God's plan for their lives, and the powerful influence she is to them and the entire human race, he will do it. Satan knows, too, that young girls look to their mothers to learn what true womanhood is to be. Women are teachers to the human race from the moment they hold their babe in their arms, and Satan hates them!
Satan is the thief who does not want more children to enter the kingdom of God. He does not want more children of the cross to be born and raised up to do war against him. He wants to steal the fruit of the womb, before it has a chance to mature and become a power house of the Holy Spirit against him. He hates the women who can bring such saints into the world.
The Word of God has said -
Ps. 127:3-5- Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
4 - As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.
5 - Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.
But Satan has caused both male and female to scoff at this and to deny what God says is a blessing. He has offered many so-called logical reasons to disagree with God on this matter and sadly his influence has done it's work.
The heritage of the Lord; his reward, comes through the woman and SATAN HATES HER!
There is a power in the woman that Satan wants to destroy. If he can bring enough stress on her, so that she will miscarry; if he can convince her that children are a burden; if he can convince her that it would be worse for the child in her womb to be born; whatever he can do to reduce the power of the woman and steal from her, and ultimately from God, he will do it. And if he can cause women to devalue and/or not recognize their greatest gift, her ability to influence the world, he certainly will do it!

SATAN IS AFRAID OF WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO HIM THROUGH THE WOMAN!

Man needs woman. It is not just to satisfy his sex drive. Woman completes the man, by God's design. She is what he is to lay down his life for; his reason to work and conquer the elements and succeed for. As the Father and the Son are always part of each other, so it is to be with the husband and wife.

Eph 5:25 - Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

Tit 2:14 - Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

Christ requires men to love their wives in the same way that He loved the church, His people and willingly gave His life to restore them to the Father and to cleanse them from all sin. Man is to love his wife to the point that he will put himself on the line to help her become what God would have her to be.
But without the woman how can he serve this purpose? How can he be the man he was created to be, without the woman? His purpose is connected to the woman. Every person that a minister reaches out to bring the message of salvation to, is a person who was born of and influenced by - a woman.
Therefore if Satan can destroy the woman, he takes from the man, what he is to lay himself down for, love and fight for and the source of his support and edification.
If Satan can destroy the woman or take her from her God given purpose, he takes the heart from the man. He deflates him and oppresses him.
If he can destroy the heart of the woman he can rejoice in having tortured that which he hates and in turn bring pain to the heart of the God who loves her!
If he can destroy the woman, he removes the power she has for good on the earth and the power she has to hurt his kingdom!
If he can destroy the woman, he can lessen the number of souls born to glorify God and to be used by God for his defeat!

YES SATAN HATES THE WOMAN!

He has told her that to be equal to the man she must be able to do what the man does.

IT IS A LIE!

And it is a lie from the father of lies! Speaking of Satan, the Bible says this -

John 8:44 - ... He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

He has rejoiced in seeing the woman go out and try to prove she can function as men do. No man can do what a woman can do. He is not wired as she is. He was not created to be his own help. And his helpmate is sensitively and delicately wired to do a powerful job that only she can do. Her full beauty, her power and her potential are in her being as she was created to be - WOMAN - 100% woman.
Satan has mocked and belittled the masculinity of the man, to weaken him and make a sissy of him, to incapacitate him and make him unable to function as God made him to do. He has brought discontent in the woman's mind and spirit because her husband did not feel and think as she did. And he has used this against the man and the woman. He has blinded men and women to the beauty and power in their counterpart, so as to use what was meant for their good to aide in their destruction!

WOMAN your liberation is not in being free to function like men! Your liberation is in being set free by the truth that is in God your creator and Savior. It is in being at peace in being what only you can be - WOMAN!
Never think you can delegate the job you were created to do, to the man and the end result be just as good. You cannot reverse the will and design of God and do just as well. Let us not think more highly of ourselves than we ought to think. We are not God and cannot improve on His ways!
Be free in Christ, by all means! That freedom comes 'in' and 'through' Him and obedience to Him and His will. When you are walking 'in' Him, guided by 'His' Spirit, fully submitted to Him, you then can resist the enemy, with his lies, and he will flee. Woman of God, you have power in the name of Jesus over Satan and his works.
Do not listen to his lies!
Do not let him deceive you as he did Eve.
Do not let him convince you, you have need of being more than what God created you to be!
Do not let him steal from you, kill you, and destroy you and yours!
Do not let him convince you that you have to put aside your greatest ministry in order to run out and do some other so-called work for God.

Call upon God, search his Word, and learn to live in the beauty and power he has put in you, through Jesus Christ our Lord!

In closing let me clarify a few things. I am not saying, in all of this, that every woman must have the same personality, confine herself only to certain activities and hobbies such as were assigned to the title of 'lady' in the days of finishing school. If you like to climb trees, ride horses, hike, drive eight wheeler trucks, be an expert marksman or even hunt, and if your personality is more outgoing than the poised 'lady' of days gone by, so be it. But whatever you do, it must never usurp the position of your husband, take preeminence over the career God has called you to as a helpmate to your husband and a mother to God's heritage. It should never step outside of the protective covering assigned you by God. Your choices in life should never be self-centered to the point that you are unwilling to take up your cross daily and follow the Lord - which means - dying to self that others might live and obeying God rather than fleshly, selfish desires.
There is beauty and power in the woman. Will it be used for the glory of God in your life, or used to your own detriment, sorrow and downfall? Jesus is the answer. The one who made you loves you most!

Do you want to be free from the bondages, abuses, and oppressions of the enemy?
You truly can be! The way to this freedom is through Jesus Christ.!

For a daughter of the King of kings, it cannot be, "I'll do it my way" or I'll choose what pleases me first and all others will have to arrange their lives around me. It must always be "Have thine own way Lord, have thine own way! Thou art the potter, I am the clay! Mold me and make me after thy will, while I am waiting, yielded and still!