Did Any Prophetess
Become a Priestess?

The approximate dates the above women lived, according to my Thompson Chain Bible, are as follows: Miriam 1491 B.C.; Deborah 1296 B.C.; Huldah 641 B.C.; Noadiah 446 B.C.; Anna 5 B.C.; Phebe 57 A.D.; Philip's virgin daughters 62 A.D. We shall examine them one by one and determine if the above proposition is true.

 

Miriam

Miriam's name is identical to the modern names of Mary and Marian. Miriam was perhaps 15 to 20 years older than her brothers Moses and Aaron. She was a godly girl although she made a couple mistakes. Ancient reports indicate she was the wife of Hur, one of the stout men of Israel who helped Aaron hold up the arms of Moses during the battle against Amalek (Exo. 17:10-12). Taking into consideration the 80 years, prior to Moses being sent of God on the Divine mission to end the slavery of the Jews, Miriam must have been nearly 100 years old when she crossed the Red Sea. An aged and beautiful spirited woman, she turned her face toward the crashing surf and praised God. Moses wrote a ballad that is reported in Revelation 15:3. Miriam learned the song and gathered the women of Israel to a victory celebration.

With a timbrel she began to lead women in singing. The women soon learned one verse of the song and the first choir on earth was formed. During this spirited singing, dancing, and rattling their tambourines, Miriam was endowed with the gift of Prophecy. We do not know what sign indicated her gift of prophecy. We do know her gift came upon her only after Moses returned home from the backside of the desert. From the time of Moses' return to the forming of the new choir, was perhaps less than a year, taking into consideration the plagues and the natural time of the year they would likely have happened. Summer passed into winter, then came spring and the great Passover. Nisan or March sets the approximate time when Miriam was endowed with her first experience of God's Spirit. As all were BAPTIZED unto Moses in the sea and in the cloud (1Cor. 10:2) this is likely the timing of many in Israel being filled with the Spirit of God, and Miriam receiving the gift of prophecy:

Although Miriam was a remarkable 100 year old woman; Although she was filled with the Spirit of Messiah; Although she was called a prophetess; Yet, not one time was she ever numbered with the 70 leaders of Israel. Not one time was she numbered among the Priesthood. Not one time was she on the sacred Mount with Moses. She was not privileged to share with Aaron any equality of Ministry concerning the Tabernacle. Not one time was she permitted to enter the Tabernacle compound to act as a priestess. She was never allowed to assist Moses or Aaron at the altar of sacrifice. There were no holy garments designed or made for women priestesses. There is no record whatsoever of Miriam ever being allowed to consider herself a female priestess, by virtue of her gift of prophecy.

We do know that she was not a spokesperson for God or Moses to the people of Israel. Her gift of prophecy was strictly regulated outside of the Tabernacle, and apparently only in the presence of other women. Miriam's mouth was never used by God to preach the Law or the Ordinances: to convert, educate, instruct, or counsel any of the men of Israel. Her gift of prophecy was not an excuse to usurp authority over the Tabernacle. Consequently, in the New Testament, none of those exercising the gifts may usurp authority away from a Pastor or other member of the Five-Fold-Ministry. If one of these Ministers of the New Testament, observes a gift-user usurping authority and trying to preach, he has the authority to stop it at once, without any interference or retaliation from Heaven.

Miriam apparently sinned grievously with Aaron and the rest of Israel in the matter of the golden heifer and the sexual debauchery associated with this massive orgy. The fact that God was going to kill them all, and that Miriam raised no objections to these sins, is evident. It was no doubt because he knew his sister and brother had caved in under pressure from other powerful and influential liberal leaders, that Moses begged God to have mercy. What we are seeing today in many groups, protecting women preachers and other liberal backslidings, is a similar cave-in by Pastors seeking the approval and fellowship of the influential power-brokers, rather than standing for Truth.

Given the weight of the Old Testament Priesthood and that the Tabernacle setups were types and shadows of the New Testament Church and the Five-Fold-Ministry, it would be very simple to recognize that no woman may hold a position of authority and power as a Minister or Preacher. Therefore, what was omitted from the shadow, is of necessity omitted from the image of the Church that cast that shadow. No women priestess in the Old Testament is surely a tremendous proof of no woman preachers in the New Testament. Miriam therefore was never a priestess and she never demanded or anticipated that her gift of prophecy was automatic ordination into the Old Testament Priesthood. Using Miriam then, to support any idea or proof that a woman has a right to preach the Gospel, administer authority, and exert rule over saints of God in an Apostolic Church, is falsehood. Such are not true Apostolic Women. At best, they are Pentecostal descendants, who adopted the 1853 ordination of a woman, who helped birth the pro-lesbian movement called NOW!

 Deborah

Deborah held a civil position as Judge in Israel (Judges 4:4). This is the first incident found in the Bible where a woman found a place to use her talents outside of the Priesthood and Tabernacle. Thus, Deborah had nothing to do with any part of the Tabernacle or the Priesthood.

Deborah, like Miriam, made one recorded prophecy when she sang a victory ballad with Barak. She sat under a palm tree outside her home and sorted out people's problems and gave advice. She did not preach in her civil office as a judge. She identified her work as a "MOTHER" in Israel, not as a preacheress or priestess (Judges 5:7).

Deborah went to war with Barak and stayed on Mount Tabor as he fought with the Israelites, in the valley below, against Sisera. In the eleventh chapter of Hebrews, Deborah is completely omitted from among those identified as heroes of faith, because it appears she failed to continue to live for God and backslid. Barak is the one identified in this chapter as having the faith....not Deborah. Perhaps this is why so many women who use Deborah for one of their proofs and authority to claim ordination, backslide. If indeed Deborah backslid, she most likely reprobated herself by exalting her civil office over the authority of the Tabernacle, refusing to be governed by the male-only Priesthood. Did Deborah die lost, since her name is purposely omitted in the Hebrew faith record? According to the Scriptures, in the forty years she judged Israel after the defeat of Sisera, the nation entered and enjoyed a long time of sin, evil, and backsliding. Two things are evident. First, the voice of Deborah as judge was silent toward impending, rebuking, or stopping the backsliding. Second, she had no influence on the spirituality of Israel over her remaining term, indicating that once the war was over, she enjoyed her position as Judge to the exclusion of all else.

The use of Deborah to prove ordination of a woman, as a priestess of the Tabernacle, or into a usurped office of a New Testament Apostle, Preacher, Elder, or Bishop, is lacking common sense and Biblical honesty. Many who have caved-in to the women's rights lesbian movement, and to their demands of equality with men, have made the gift of prophecy equal to the ordination of women as priestesses, Apostles, Elders, Bishops and Preachers. When the lesbian movement gained power after their 1848 unification, they were instrumental in altering the word "prophetess" from having the meaning of a woman gifted to predict, to identifying her talent as equal to that of the calling of a Prophet. Webster's Dictionary and other reference books gave the word "Prophetess" the meaning of a "female prophet". This change had the wanted effect of making women equal to men. This political correctness has found plenty of so-called Apostolics who were ready to accept it. These Jezebel boys and girls have made Webster's Dictionary an anointed and inspired P.S. to the Word of God. Women preachers are quick to run to the Webster's Dictionary now, to remind us of how holy and true the lesbian mandated interpretation is. I guess they also think the "holy" trinity explained in Webster's, is also an anointed and inspired P.S. to the Word of God?

This is another example of how the Jezebel boys and girls always try to prove their case outside of the inspired Word of God and Biblical Revelation. They presume the gift of prophecy is automatic authority to speak for God as a Minister. They never take the time to answer why God forbade women the right to build altars and to offer sacrifices before the Law era. They never answer why God forbade women to be priestess under the Law. They never explain why God did not inspire a woman to write a single book of the Bible. They never produce a single Scripture that makes a prophetess have automatic anointing to assist in the Tabernacle. They never point out a single woman Apostle! In the entire 4,000 years of the Old Testament, there is not a single evidence of women in authority in Spiritual matters of redemption and salvation!

Deborah stands out to us more as an example of many woman who had a walk with God, were used of God, but backslid. If the account of Deborah has anything to say to women, it is to stay out of civil positions and roles of authority. These employments may lead to usurping a mental attitude of equality to Men of God, and may lead to the loss of one's soul. A second message of equal importance, is that women should seek a motherly spirit and be good at settling squabbles, instead of always being the one in the middle of a ruckus and causing unnecessary Church trouble. Third, stay near the Man of God, he is the one most likely to have his name enrolled among the heroes of faith. Encourage him, stand with him, sing with him, and support him, as he fights the enemies of God to preserve a safe haven for the people of God.

Deborah went to war with Barak, not to the Tabernacle to usurp a job as a priestess. The Old Testament is here a wonderful schoolmaster for all Apostolic Women. Seek the gift of prophecy. Be used of God. But stay out of the administration and authority of the Ministry of Jesus Messiah. In your search for the Apostolic Woman, do not admire or glory in women who have backslid and then claim to be called to preach. A true Apostolic Woman will never backslide. If trials and temptations come, she will wrap her soul around the altar, and seek for strength for another mile. She will not take up preaching to get even with women or men she perceives needs a scolding.

 

Huldah

Huldah lived approximately 655 years after Deborah. There were no recorded alleged "women priestesses" for nearly 20 generations. Could it be that a woman having the gift of prophecy was almost an unknown thing? In this case, over 20 generations and many tens of thousands, perhaps millions of people, never heard, saw, or knew of women having the gift of prophecy and claiming to be a preacher.

Huldah's gift did not automatically allow her to become a priestess in the Tabernacle. The record concerning Huldah reveals that her gift of prophecy was used outside of the Tabernacle and administrative authority of the Priesthood. In fact, she like Deborah, did not believe her gift qualified her into the Priesthood. So she, like Deborah, never went to the Tabernacle to demand assignment to duties or to receive the anointing and ordination into the Ministry.

Why is it, that those who use Huldah as an example to prove women priestesses and preachers, won't admit this? She did not go to the Tabernacle and demand acceptance and recognition as a priestess based upon her gift of prophecy. The use of this Godly woman does not prove the case for women priestesses and preachers at all. Instead of using Huldah to prove women can have the gift of prophecy, separate from the New Testament Ministry, the Jezebel boys and girls wrest the Word of God to make Huldah equal to a Priest, Apostle, Elder, Bishop, and Preacher. This is falsehood. If Huldah did not claim the ordination of Priesthood or as a Preacher, is it honest for a man or woman among our present Churches to presumptuously pretend to do it for her, 2,600 years after her death?

Many Apostolic Women have told me it is very embarrassing and condescending for a women preachers to lord over their husbands. They are confused as to how a woman with one gift can claim ordination as a preacher, while other women with different gifts of the same Spirit are not entitled to ordination as preachers? The question here is, why can one gift qualify a woman to preach, but others do not? The Jezebel boys and girls refuse to answer these questions.

Huldah prophesied one time in her life according to the Scriptures. What woman preacher who uses Huldah as a part of her credentials for ordination, is satisfied to preach one time? None of them! Fact is, Huldah prophesied, she did not preach! She did not parade up and down on a platform, or swish her skirt-tail up and down a Church isle, walking like a man behind a plow, yelling out her hatred for men who do not believe in women preachers.

I was at such a meeting. A woman got up and went through the she-ass proof of a woman's right to preach. She even suggested that the whale God used to swallowed Jonah was female. If the whale was indeed a female, perhaps she needed just as much a lesson as Jonah. She for having a big mouth, and Jonah for being rebellious. She would not have had three days of severe stomach indigestion if she had kept her mouth shut and quit looking for just any surface trash to satisfy her deep hunger. Many women have the same problem. They have big mouths. They are always looking outside the normal environment of the Church for some false thing out of the will of God to feed on. The whale a female....very funny.

Then this woman preacher said: "if God can use a rooster to preach to Peter, he can use a woman to preach to anyone." Women and men jumped up and danced in the isles, hooting, hollering, and yelling hallelujah! When it calmed down in a few seconds, I could not resist yelling out, "THANK GOD IT WASN'T A HEN!" There was a roar of laughter. An old farmer spoke up, "on the farm, we butcher the hens that try to crow." More laughter. Red-faced, angered that someone dare interrupt and put her falsehood in perspective, she really gave us what she felt was a good blistering. She used every kind of hateful put-down she could, and nearly used profanity.

You think women preachers are humble? They all use false humility. Beneath the Pentecostal hair do, the femininity, the perfume, the sweet smile, and the put-on shamefacedness, is a hidden spirit. Tell her straight out you believe she has usurped a Ministry she is not entitled to, and she will become a witch. Question her right to preach without a New Testament qualification, and you've got big trouble. Do not honor her when you honor other Ministers and Preachers and you've got an enemy for life. Do not invite her to the platform with other Pastors and Preachers, and you have a plotting Jezebel who will turn her husband against you. Preach against women preachers and you'll have a she-devil. In our search for the Apostolic Woman, we should beware of the she-devils. A woman who has no control over her spirit, to be subjective to her husband or the male only Ministry of Jesus Messiah, is not a true Apostolic Woman.

It is very likely that Paul alluded to Huldah and other Old Testament women, when he ordered that they learn some things at home. The Pastor will teach her while at Church about Spiritual matters. It is her husband's place to teach her at home about family matters. The Church is not the place for a woman to discharge her complaints and questions about matters that concern her husband. If she would learn, then let her learn these things at home.

It is quite obvious that many use Biblical individuals with the gift of prophecy as their authority to preach. But it has been my experience that women who claim to be preachers, do not have the gift of prophecy at all. Once my claim here is broadly circulated, women will take up trying to call people out and prophesying in an attempt to prove me wrong. Yet they won't be preaching! I have never met a woman who had the gift of prophecy in over 44 years in the Apostolic Church and over 24 years of my Ministry. Most use the gift of interpretation of tongues and think this will substitute. Further, I have known no woman preacher since my childhood who only prophesied. 100 percent of their preaching is not prophecy at all. So under what gift are they qualified to preach if they do not have the gift of prophecy? The claim that a woman can preach, and does not need the gift of prophecy, makes ALL their arguments fall flat to the ground. They are not prophetesses, if they do not have the gift of prophecy! So preaching, as they describe it, has no relationship to the gift of prophecy or the Calling of a New Testament Minister.

Like good Protestants and Evangelicals, many will run to a trinity preacher whose Church or denomination does not believe in the Five-Fold-Ministry, or that the Holy Ghost and gifts are still in the Church today. They will adopt the theories of these men written in books. The doctrines of these harlot daughters, claim that the gifts and Five-Fold-Ministry ceased when the last Apostle died. These non-Spirit-filled men and women, then make the gift of prophecy and the office of a prophet, the same as one of their school-trained preachers. Thence, one of their preachers is also identical to a Prophet or the gift of prophecy. The word prophecy is made to mean "forth-telling" and not "fore-telling". They deny that prophecy is a gift of God to predict a future event or happening. To judge a Prophet, one has only to see if what he predicts comes to pass (Deut 18:22):

Calling a Protestant Preacher a Prophet, who does not predict by the Calling of a Prophet or use of the gift of prophecy, is therefore a falsehood. It is a harlot daughter doctrine. It is nowhere found in the Bible. Many have fallen for a revised falsehood. They call prophecy preaching, because they do not have a Prophet or the gift of prophecy in their Churches. Pentecostals adopted this erroneous doctrine and thereby were able to claim that a woman preaching was prophesying. They reversed the interpretation, i.e., Church of Messiah: prophesying is preaching; women preacher groups: preaching is prophesying. Both are false because prophesying is predicting. If the "prediction" element is absent it can not be prophecy!

Aside from normal holiness and Apostolic criteria, there is no way to judge a prophet or prophetess except by the "come to pass" test in the Deuteronomy text. The gift of prophecy and the Calling of a Prophet, cannot be judged by examining non-prophetic words, which they call preaching. If a person never prophesies or use the gift of prophecy, we may never judge them as Prophets or having the gift of prophecy. Women preaching as prophesying is a clever falsehood.

Having made prophecy into preaching by a mischievous manipulation, this error is quickly extrapolated to the prophecy of Joel 2:28. The Jezebel boys and girls feel they now have a double-barrel shotgun to enforce women's right to preach behind the pulpit:

Does prophesy in this verse mean preach? Did the Holy Ghost make a mistake or did Joel write it wrong? Did God really say: "YOUR SONS AND YOUR DAUGHTERS SHALL PREACH?" Did Joel 2:28, the "THIS IS THAT" of Peter's Pentecost message, mean the young boys and girls were going to preach? Is this what Peter pointed to and the thousands gathered around to see and hear? Did a single female preach before or after Peter that day? If they did not, then either Joel 2:28 did not come to pass and Peter lied! Or the word prophesy in the text of Joel does not mean to preach. It means they were speaking in tongues in another language, predicting and praising God! Which is valid?

It is devious to take a false interpretation of Joel 2:28 and backward interpolate this to Huldah and other women and make their gift of prophecy preaching. Huldah did not become a priestess in the house of God and preach. Any woman who yearns for Spiritual gifts should follow the example of Huldah and stay out of the Ministry of God. The gift of prophecy has no more right to march up and down in the Church and usurp control over the Ministry than any other gift present.

Huldah did not use her gift of prophecy to belittle her husband with a domineering, masculine, or brashy loud-mouth spirit. She prophesied. She predicted. No woman who uses this Godly Sister as a proof of ordination, has a right to do so. Huldah never once went to the Tabernacle to demand of the Priest, equality of Ministry, because of her gift of prophecy.

After Huldah, it will be nearly 195 years before the Jezebel boys and girls can find another woman prophetess to use as a proof for women preachers in the New Testament. Thus far, no women has become a priestess in the Tabernacle. No woman wrote a book of the Bible. No woman built an altar. No woman offered up her own sacrifice. In our search for the Apostolic Woman, let us not look up to and respect those women claiming authority to preach, but honor and esteem those who possess the gifts of the Spirit, and use them under the direct authority of the Pastor, down out of the pulpit.

 

Noadiah

I have labeled Noadiah the dog-pile prophetess. This woman comes to us in Nehemiah 6:14:

I have heard hour long tirades of how great and holy this Noadiah was. She is praised to the high heavens by women preachers as one of their chief heroines. Her name is stamped deeply in the foreheads of these women, as if it was the seal of God. Was she a true prophetess of God? Absolutely not! Noadiah was a she-devil. She was a look-alike-holiness fibber. She was as crafty as the old serpent himself. She was a Jewess who confederated with Tobiah, Sanballet, and other false prophets. She was two-faced. With one face she appeared a friend to Nehemiah, and in secret she laughed and cohorted with Gentile devils. She was a traitor. SURPRISE GIRLS!

Nehemiah did not like Noadiah. He saw through her false humility. He discerned her to be a hypocrite (false face). He prayed that God would requite her according to the rules of Divine judgment. What he wants God to do to Tobiah and Sanballet, he prays upon Noadiah. She was a busy-body. She wanted her face and opinion to count against Nehemiah, so she joined rebels. When they ganged up on Nehemiah dog-pile style, Noadiah jumped on also. This is the typical "dog-pile" syndrome that follows women preachers. Get one man of God who dares to stand up against women preachers, and a few manicured, yapping, Pentecostal, neutered male lap-dogs, will pile on. If a woman preacher is anywhere near, she dog-piles also.

She added her weight of discouragement against this Man of God. She revealed her true spirit by obstructing him. Openly she was kind to his face, but behind his back she was his enemy. She was a collaborator with the Gentiles, Tobiah and Sanballet.

The test of Noadiah would have been her total and complete support of Nehemiah. Miriam supported Moses. Deborah supported Barak. Huldah supported Hilkiah. But this is not the case of Noadiah! She was against Nehemiah. Those who have her a prophetess of God, would have God at variance with himself on the rebuilding of Jerusalem and the Temple. Noadiah did not want the Temple rebuilt, even as many women preachers do not want the true Apostolic Church doctrine restored in their Church. The outcome is, that all falsehood is exposed, and women will have lost the opportunity to continue their deceiving through a captive audience.

Here, I link my arms with Nehemiah, and call God to remember and requite all those women preachers, who have discouraged men of God, in fighting against them, because the Men of God stood against female rebellion. I pray God deal with these brashy spirits with mercy. If they do not repent, then let the curse of Jezebel come upon their household and their children. As we search for the Apostolic Woman, be careful of woman preachers who dog-pile a Man of God, when he attempts to restore the Apostolic Faith and the authority of the New Testament Five-Fold-Ministry. They dog-pile with their false prophecies, to hide their true identity as false prophetesses. There will be no women preachers among that final group of perfected Apostolic Churches. The true Apostolic Woman will honorably support Ministers who want the glory of God upon the Apostolic Church that was designed for each man and woman in their respective places.

We will now jump approximately 442 years and 13 generations, to the next woman prophetess, that the Jezebel boys and girls use in their attempt to steal a license for women to preach.

In the box below, write the names of all women of God in the Old Testament who built an altar and sacrificed thereon. Write all the names of the God ordained women priestesses in the Old Testament. Write the names of the Old Testament books that were written by women. Write the name of every woman who shared the Priestly duties of her husband in the Tabernacle or Temple. Write the text where Miriam, Deborah, Huldah, or Noadiah received the anointing of Priesthood as an ordination equal to that of men. Write the text where the wife of a High Priest helped him perform his official Tabernacle duties. Write the text where any woman acting as a priestess dedicated children. Write the text where anyone paid tithes to a woman priestess for her service in the Tabernacle. Write the Scripture where Sarah helped Abraham at any of his altars. Write the Scripture where God abolished the curse of childbearing from women. Write the text that proves the curse of being under the rule and authority of man was abolished at Calvary. Don't forget to ask others to help you. If all the above are true, as the supporters of women preachers claim, there ought to be plenty of Scriptures.

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