Answer:
I CORINTHIANS 14:34 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.
SPEAK: laleo {lal-eh'-o} Preach, to use words in order to declare one's mind and
disclose one's thoughts; to speak.
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.
I TIMOTHY 2:11 Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. 12 But I
suffer not a woman to
*TEACH, nor to
usurp authority over the man, but
to be in silence.
TEACH: didasko {did-as'-ko} to hold discourse with others in order to
instruct them, deliver didactic discourses, to discharge the office of a
teacher, conduct one's self as a teacher, to impart instruction, instill
doctrine into one, the thing taught, to explain or expound a thing, to teach one
something.
“Brother Branham, is it not Scriptural that women should not speak in the
church? He's got two questions here. That's true. That--that is true. It's not
right for women to be ministers and--and speak in the church. That is right: I
Corinthians the 14th chapter. Of course all of the church here, you all know
this. And this may be a stranger in here this morning; I don't know. But it's
not right for--for women to--to be a--to minister. That--that is true. I'll just
read it to you here, and you--you can find out. And then you'll--you'll know: I
Corinthians the 14th chapter I believe. I'll get it just in a minute, if I can
find it. Yeah, here it is. Let your women keep silent 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. (Now, the law didn't permit women priest and so forth
back in them days. See?) And if they will learn any thing, let their ask their
husbands at home: for it's a shame for a woman to speak in the church.”
[Questions And Answers Jeff. IN, Cod 61-1015m]
“Now, if you'll notice Corinth here... Many of these Corinthian Christians and
many of... The great goddess of the world in that day was Diana, which was a
Roman goddess. And she was a goddess of Ephesus. And she was worshipped
throughout all the world. And now, her ministers... Of course, her being a
woman, then that made her ministers women. And when they were converted into
Christianity by Paul... Now, Paul was in prison when he wrote these letters, of
course, at Rome. Now, they wrote him letters (You see?), after they'd begin to
speaking with tongues and got great gifts working among them. Well, these women
thought they should continue on their ministry.” [Questions And Answers Jeff.
IN, Cod 61-1015m]
“Now, if you'll notice, you that's reading your Bible, the 36th verse he said.
What? came the word of God... from you? and came it from you only? If any man
think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things
that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord. But if... he be
ignorant, just let him be ignorant. Now, in otherwise, the women... Now, if
you'll take the history to this letter (See?), of the church, these women
thought that they were... continue on with their ministry just as they was a--of
the priest to the goddess Diana. God is not a woman; God is a Man. And there's
only really one, and that is a man. A woman is a by-product from a man. Man was
not made for woman, but woman was made for man. See? If you'd just open up your
spiritual understanding. You, see? See?” [Questions And Answers Jeff. IN, Cod
61-1015m]
“Man--when man first come on earth, he was both male and female, feminish and
masculine before he become sex. See? A feminish spirit, the lower spirit, it's
the one that's timid... And then there's also masculine man. But when He made
and put him into different... In order to reproduce the world, He brought the
feminish spirit off of him and put from him a rib from his side and made a
female. She was not to be ruler. When she first started that, she caused the
whole human downfall. See? Oh, and even it was a... She was the cause of the
fall. And then God taken her up and brought life back into the world through
Christ by the woman. But nowhere was a woman ever permitted to--to be a minister
in the church.” [Questions And Answers Jeff. IN, Cod 61-1015m]
“On over in II Timothy the 3rd chapter, he said, "I suffer not a woman to teach
or to usurp authority over man, but to be in silence." You see? And it isn't
right for the woman to preach; that is true. Now, I know I've seen some women
that were real preachers (They could preach too.) like Aimie McPherson and many
of those women there. But just put your hand on them just for a little while.
See? It's not... I know people who could speak with tongues this morning setting
right in this church. If there was no interpreter, they'd be daresn't to do so.
See? You got to remember; them women was borned under a certain line, that when
they are... Your birth has a lot to do with it. It's your name, your--all about
you (You see?) has a make up to it, no matter what it is.” [Questions And
Answers Jeff. IN, Cod 61-1015m]
(We truly appreciate the help of Brother Donny Reagan
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