The Church Has Failed Women

Without women, there is no mission.

Without women, there is no gospel advance.

Without women the world has no beauty, glory, and order.

Without women, humanity falls.

But the church, at large, has decided that it would rather throw its women away, and as a result the world we live in is falling.

Today, the world we live in has no life.

Sure, we have advanced technologically; hunting for our food is less of a necessity, indoor plumbing has provided us with quite a degree of convenience, but we've lost something far more essential than that.

We've lost our women. And it's not because they're missing, akin to the Ents of Tolkien's stories — it's because we've thrown them away. We've sacrificed them. We've decided, as a society, that we don't need them anymore.

What We've Done to Women

Here's what I mean: we've taken women, the givers of life, the glory-producers of this world, and told them that their highest achievement is to be like men. With the grand motivation of "anything you can do, I can do better" — we push them to go out and work out of the home for someone else, to build another kingdom, and to come home at the end of the day spent. And in order for them to accomplish such a goal, we've sterilized them with chemicals to prevent pregnancy, or worse, we've allowed them to openly kill their own children in the name of equality and chasing the dream.

We have done this. America, sure, but when I say we I mean the church. The church has failed women.

Back to Genesis

But women are meant for far more than this. In Genesis, when God created man, he looked at Adam and said that it was not good for him to be alone. The only thing in his creation that he remarked in such a way about — everything else was good. And so God created woman from Adam's rib, and then he looked back and said that it was very good. But why wasn't it good? And then why was it very good?

In order to do that, you need to read the creation account closely.

God gave man a mission when he created them: be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, subdue it. A mission that is literally impossible without women. This is why it was "not good" at first. Mankind couldn't do the job God had given them to do. It wasn't possible. Man needed a helper, someone specially oriented towards the creation of life. A life-giver. And so, God created woman.

Woman was specifically designed to, with the help of the man and the miracle of God, create and sustain and nurture life. A woman grows living souls within her body, and then brings them forth into the world. She bears them, and then nurtures them from her own body. She feeds and grows and cares for and sustains humanity itself. She fulfills the mission. And so Adam named his wife Eve, because she was "the mother of all living." The life-giver.

And we, as in the American church, have decided we would rather erase a woman's femininity, and replace it with androgyny. We don't need women anymore — what we really need is just a bunch of men, then we'll really have progress.

That is insanity.

Why Satan Goes After Women

If you skip forward to Genesis chapter two, who does the devil go after? The woman. He knows with no woman, there is no mission. It cannot be fulfilled. It's not because she was an easy mark — it's because if he can get her to be on his team, he wins. He can flip the order of creation, put the woman on top of the org chart, and usurp the authority that God has laid down. If Satan can get Eve, he can get her children, and that's exactly what happens.

Eve falls, Adam falls, all of creation falls, and the curse is pronounced, but in the middle of that curse, hope.

"I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel." — Genesis 3:15

The mission was to fill the earth with human beings, to fill the earth with the image and glory of God, and it is still on. But now, even more than before, the hope of humanity is hung up in a distinctly feminine promise — that the offspring of the woman will save the world.

Do you get it? Without woman, we're done for. Without women doing what only women can do, humanity has no hope.

Saved Through Childbearing

Obviously, the Genesis 3 promise is referring to Jesus, but it's also more than that. The original mission — filling the earth with the glory and people of God — is still on, and it is a crucial piece of God's mission to save the world. He wants to fill the earth with the seed of the woman, with his people, not the seed of the serpent. And in order to do so he calls his people to raise up godly offspring (Malachi 2:15).

This is what Paul is talking about in Timothy when he says that Eve will be "saved by childbirth" (1 Tim 2:15). Don't get triggered — read closely and carefully: "She will be saved by childbearing, if they continue in faith love and holiness." How is Eve saved through childbearing, but only if they continue in faith love and holiness? Because Eve is acting as a representative in this sentence. The hope of humanity is in the promised seed of the woman — the seed of the woman that is humanity, that fights against the seed of Satan. The seed of the woman that will eventually kick in the gates of hell, because they were nurtured and raised right by their mamas.

And this is why Satan still today goes after women, because he knows he has to kill off their progeny — or sterilize them — in order to stop the mission. This is why Pharaoh killed all the Israelite baby boys. This is why Herod killed all the boys born around the time Jesus was born. This is why the Dragon in Revelation 12 is poised to devour the baby as the woman bears it. Because Satan knows what he has to do in order to win, and he's been running this play on us from the beginning.

And we have let him. In fact, we have helped him.

The Church Must Repent

We have sterilized our women. We have androgynized them. We have turned them into men — far before the transgenderism of today. We, as in Jesus's church. And this is proven in the movement in the contemporary evangelical church to ordain women as pastors. Another attempt to turn our women into men because we've bought the lie that they have no other value otherwise.

The church has failed our women, and thus we are failing the mission.

But it's not too late. Jesus wins in the end, we know this to be true. We can still repent. And so we should.

To return to a day and age based on the reality of God's creation. Not the fantasy of pagan and secularist and feminist mythologies. Men and women are different. They have specific and distinct roles. And these roles, when operated in faithfully according to scripture, bring about glory.

The fight isn't over. The day can be won. But first, we have to rescue our women from the androgynous hell-hole we've put them in. They aren't just helpful. They are essential.

They are distinctly made to be glory-makers, life-givers, and nurturers, and it's high time we allowed them to return to such a glorious work.

Humanity, literally, depends on it.