Women in Biblical History

John J Onyeka

• Publisher: Trilogy Christian Publishing
• Year: 2020
• eBook ISBN: 9781647736354
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Religion

Discover the influence and the phenomenal contributions of women in Biblical history.

From the time I was a young boy I have watched the mistreatment of women in various cultures, and in ministry, based on gender bias. The misconceptions of the role of women in the home, society, and Christendom today planted the seed for me in writing Women in Biblical History. In this book, I will be talking about:

• The equality of women
• Women in ministry
• Women as entrepreneurs
• Women as warriors and political leaders
• Women who influenced and changed the course of history
• Women of great faith and courage
• And more...

You are beautiful!

Women

in Biblical History

John J. Onyeka

Table of Contents

CHAPTER ONE

“EQUALITY” 11

CHAPTER TWO

“WOMEN IN MINISTRY” 53

CHAPTER THREE

“WOMEN WARRIORS AND NATIONAL HEROES” 77

CHAPTER FOUR

“WOMEN WHO INFLUENCED AND CHANGED THE COURSE OF HISTORY” 89

CHAPTER FIVE

“WOMEN WHO BROUGHT THE DOWNFALL OF GREAT AND POWERFUL MEN AND THE VIRTUOUS WOMEN OF GREAT FAITH AND COURAGE” 147

CHAPTER SIX

“A BIBLICAL VIEW ON THE HOUSE RESPONSIBILITIES” 169

Scriptural Index 185

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY 187

DEDICATION

I could not have been able to write and complete this book without the help, love, support, and encouragement from the most beautiful and wonderful woman on earth, my wife Ginger. And my precious children Trevor, Kara, Mihaela, and Grace. I would also like to specifically thank my wonderful sister in Christ, Karen Herrera for her love, encouragement, and help with the editing of this book. I would love to use this opportunity to dedicate this book to many virtuous women around the globe. Also, to my late lovely mother, whom I am forever grateful to, for her love and selfless commitment in raising thirteen children by herself without giving up. Through the hard work which she had incorporated into us from childhood, we were able to be where we are today. She was the foundation and the anchor that held us all together. To God, be the glory for giving me and my siblings such a great and wonderful mother. We will always remember her.

INTRODUCTION

As I grew older in life, I saw how countless women were being abused and mistreated in our world and Christendom today. Since November of 1998, I have had the opportunity to travel to many countries, and I discovered the way men treat women was all similar around the world. Even in the church today, many have twisted the Scripture and perpetuated many lies against women to subdue them into gender inequality. In doing so, they diminish, downgrade and limit many women from reaching their God given potential or from fulfilling the purpose in which they were created in life (Gen. 1:27). The misconceptions and general views on the role of women in homes, society, and in Christendom today were what planted the seed for me to write Women in Biblical History.

The Bible is the book of the Holy Spirit, which is written by holy men. It is given to us by the inspiration of God. It is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, so that we may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works (2 Tim. 3:16-17, KJV). No one can read, understand, and interpret the Scripture without the help of the Holy Spirit, who is the author. It is a divine book that gives us direction, teachings, and guidance to all truth.

“For the letter killeth, and the spirit giveth life.” (John 16:13; 1 Cor. 2:10; 2 Cor. 3:6; 2 Pet. 1:21, KJV). Over the years, I have prayed and sought God’s wisdom and guidance on this particular issue, as it is a controversial and sensitive topic. As the years went by, I was inspired by the Holy Spirit to write this book. The Scripture tells us that, “The Lord has secrets known to no one. We are not accountable for them.’’ He is the only one who can reveal Himself to us and remain a mystery. However, “Our children and we are only accountable for all He has revealed to us, so that we may obey all the terms of these instructions” (Deut. 29:29, NLT).

In Chapter One of this book, I will be talking about women’s equality, purpose, and family. Chapter Two goes in-depth on women’s ministries throughout the Bible. Chapter Three is a detailed study on women warriors and national heroes, and women political leaders, and queens throughout the Biblical timeline. Chapter Four is regarding the women who greatly influenced their husbands and changed the course of history and the destiny of many. Chapter Five is about women who brought the downfall of great and powerful men, and the virtuous women of great faith and courage. Chapter Six covers the Biblical view on the responsibilities in the home and how to know the right person for you.

CHAPTER ONE

“EQUALITY”

“I will give thanks and praise to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; wonderful are your works, and my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being formed in secret, and intricately and skillfully formed (as if embroidered with many colors) in the depths of the earth. Your eyes have seen my unformed substance; And in Your book were all written the days that were appointed for me, when as yet there was not one of them (even taking shape). How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How vast is the sum of them! If I could count them, they would outnumber the sand. When I awake, I am still with you.”

Psalms 139:14-18 (AMP)

I want to talk about why God created women before we look into the ministries, influences, and also, the roles women played throughout Biblical history. God created the heavens as His domain and the earth and all things that existed thereof (Gen. 1:1-25). After the Lord had created all things, He saw that there was a need to make someone like Himself, a “human being,” who was to take over and manage the earth as his domains. He said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over-all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth” (Gen. 1:26, KJV). Looking into this scripture, God said, let us (plural noun) make man (singular noun) in our image and likeness. His next statement was, let them (plural noun) have dominion over the earth and all there is.

I want us to take note that it didn’t say, let him (man) have control over, but said let them (man and woman) have dominion over the earth. Before God created man, He already saw both man and woman as His finished product before they were both created. He had finished His works from the foundation of the world before they ever existed (Heb. 4:3; Ps. 139:14-16, KJV). The Lord is the master architect, the one who perfectly designed and planned before executing. “What He does is forever, and no one can add to it, nor take away from it; that which is, has already been, and what is to be, has already been” (Eccl. 3:14-15, NKJV). For, “The Lord takes pleasure in all he has made.” (Ps. 104:31, NLT) Not only were Adam and Eve in His pre-ordained plan, we that descended from them were also in His pre-ordained plan before the foundation of the world. Our heavenly Father, the master planner, was not taken by surprise in any of His creations. He had prepared and saw the end before they came to be. He had foreseen Adam, Eve, and all their offspring that are now living on this planet before they ever existed. “God speaks of the nonexistent things that (He has foretold and promised) as if they (already) existed.” “He called those things which are not as though they were” (Rom. 4:17, AMPC/KJV).

The Lord told Jeremiah, “I knew you before I formed you in your mother’s womb. Before you were born, I set you apart and appointed you as my prophet to the nations” (Jer. 1:5, NLT). God knew us before we became an embryo or before our conception, “He knows our frame” (Ps. 103:14). Even the very hairs in our heads are all numbered by Him (Matt. 10:30; Luke 12:7). We were created, built, and made complete in Christ before the world began (Col. 2:10, AMP). “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them” (Eph. 2:10, 22; Rom. 8:29-30, ESV). Not only did God predestine us before our existence, but He also knew that we were going to fall away from His grace one day. He then prepared Christ for our ramson and salvation before the foundation of the earth, even before He created Adam and Eve, and before they ever sinned. All of us, including our redemption, were included in His master plans and package before they manifested in a natural realm at the appointed time (Rev.13:8; 5:9, 12; John 1:1-5; Gal. 4:4; Rom. 5:6). “He made everything beautiful in its time. He has planted eternity in men’s hearts and minds (a divinely implanted sense of a purpose working through the ages which nothing under the sun but God alone can satisfy), yet so that men cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end” (Eccl. 3:11, AMPC). In the New Living Translation, it said, “Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end” (Eccl. 3:11 NLT).

God beautifully created male and female in his image, in His own time, and planted eternity in their hearts. He blessed them, and said to them; be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the fowl of the air, and every living thing that moveth upon the earth” (Gen 1:27-28, KJV). After the creation of Adam and his wife Eve, the Lord called both of them Adam, on the day He created them” (Gen. 5:2, KJV/ NLT/AMPC). Please take note that after the creator created male and female that He named both of them “Adam.” In the New Living Translation, it says, He called them “human,” while in the Amplified Bible, Classic Edition, it says, “He named them (both) Adam (Man) from the time He created them. In the New International Version, He called them “mankind” and in English Standard Version, He called them man when they were created. Meaning that Eve was the same as Adam, and both of them were the same species just like their creator (Gen. 5:2, NIV/ESV). Eve was the byproduct or the name brand of Adam, and Adam was the byproduct, the name brand of God, (the son of God) (Ps. 82:6; John 10:34-35; Luke 3:38, KJV/ NLT). The woman was already existing inside the man, waiting to be manifested, which was the reason after she was created, “Adam said ‘this is now (present tense) the bone of my bones, and the flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman because she was taken out of man” (Gen. 2:23, KJV).

The Lord brought forth the man first through the clay, and then later, at the appointed time, He brought forth the woman from the man. He made them both an EQUAL PARTNER or JOINT-HEIR in the gift of life and the union to have complete authority to subjugate, rule, dominate, to have power to multiply and to be fruitful on earth (Gen. 1:26-31; 2:7, 18, 21-22; 1 Pet. 3:7). The word dominion or dominant is to have sovereignty, control, and rulership. God did not instruct the man alone to have sovereignty, dominate and replenish the earth; He also told the woman to do the same as multiplication involves two people and not one person. The woman was part of the deal, part of God’s original plan and package. She was brought forth out of the man to help him reign in life. The man carries the seed (sperm) that produces the nations (children). At the same time, the woman’s egg gives life to the seed, which is planted in her. They are both equally important as they were both created to depend on each other. No tree can exist without the seed, and no seed can grow into a tree without the field or soil, giving it life through nutrients.

Neither can the field yield anything if there is no seed planted in it. Adam carries the seed, while Eve’s womb was the incubating field that gives life to and births the seed. Eve was the mother of all the living (Gen. 3:20, AMP/KJV). Her name means to breathe, to live, and to give life. The Amplified Bible calls her (life-spring, life-giver). (Gen. 3:20, AMP/AMPC). The Common English Version calls her the mother of everyone who lives (CEB). From Eve came all the human beings who exist or who had ever existed. The Lord gave her the ability to birth, to reproduce and repopulate other human beings (men and women). From one blood, one common origin, one source, God created all nations of people throughout t...

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