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I cried because I am a woman. *sob sob* I read the Bible as it talked about women. There’s a lot of tears on my neck and cheeks. I felt touched and feel that God wants me to talk to you about women issues in the bible- Women that follow Jesus. *sob sob* The Bible talks about women, *oh, sob sob* I’m crying because I was born a female. You, women,  cry with me.

The Bible says women are valued far above than rubies.

*picture of rubies*

Ruby is a beautiful stone and the value of a woman exceeds the value of rubies.

I am expensive.

I am valuable.

“Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.”-Proverbs 31:10

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I am not talking about liberal women who hate men or about women pride where they grab ahold of their breasts. I’m talking about the heart of a woman. Female. Those who are born a female. Woman.

Adam was created in a perfect world–utopia–waterfalls and all the animals roaming about. He wrestled and played with them–talked to them (hey, Eve talked to the snake so yeah, they could talk to the animals back then).Yet, God saw that it was not good enough. He created a woman, then it was good.

Likewise, if you’re married, God instructed husbands to love their wives like Jesus loved the church. How did Jesus love the Church? He DIED! My husband will die for me. This is how far God wants a man to go for his woman. Love her. Protect her. Love her to death.

“Husbands, love your wives just as Christ also loved the Church and gave Himself for her.” -Ephesians 5:25

In the perfect world, Adam and Eve walked equally together but as they both disobeyed God, they had to reap the consequences. They were no longer equal. But with Christ coming in the picture, man and woman are now equal.

The story: Satan came as a disguse of a snake and spoke to Eve decieving her to take the forbidden fruit. Eve told Adam and he gulliably ate the forbidden fruit. They both faced their misery and God was upset. God went to the source of this whole thing. The snake. God punished the snake by removing its arms and legs. Now, the woman, she will have to deal with childbirth. The man, he will deal with weeds and so forth. The equality was broken off. Now, through Jesus, He brings the equality back together.

“There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ.” -Galatians 3:28.

99% of you probably thought I was crying because I am SAD that I am a woman. This is normal. We automatically on the back of our head think negative thoughts. Our mind reacts negatively when someone says, “I am crying because I am a woman”. We say, “Goodness, she is so sad that she is a woman.” We think negatively at first in our minds then we ask the person, “Why?”

I am not sad. I am crying because I’m thrilled! These are tears of JOY!

This concept can be applied when we read the Bible and read only one verse and take it out of context, then create an issue out of one verse and it becomes very severely twisted. “The Bible degrades women!”, “The bible does not make sense and it has contradictions.”, “God is cruel and hates women!”. Our minds automatically thinks negatively. We must read the Bible in its entire context and see it in God’s views not human’s because humans’ minds react negatively automatically. *sob sob*

Rubies are expensive. Men, die for your wife- love her to death. God said that even in the perfect world, it was still not good enough without woman. This is God’s love for women.

I am a woman.

With God’s view of a woman in mind, we have to keep it with everything else in the Bible. Blend it in. Blend this concept in all the issues related to women. A woman is expensive–especially what kind of woman she is.

God has said for us love ourselves, love our body, love others as yourself. Respect yourself.

I saw a vlog bashing Leviticus 12;1-8. This chapter talks about women during their menstration and childbirth. For this topic, a lot of people do say, “Look at this! God degrades women!”, “Really God–yadda yadda yadda yadda.”

 “The Lord said to Moses, “Say to theIsraelites: “A woman who becomes pregnant and gives birth to a son will be ceremonially unclean for seven days, just as she is unclean during her monthly period. On the eighth day the boy is to be circumcised. Then the woman must wait thirty-three days to be purified from her bleeding. She must not touch anything sacred or go to the sanctuary until the days of her purification are over. If she gives birth to a daughter, for two weeks the woman will be unclean, as during her period. Then she must wait sixty-six days to be purified from her bleeding. When the days of her puriciation for a son or daughter are over, she is to bring to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting a year-old lamb for a burnt offering and a young pigeon or a dove for a sin offering.” -Leviticus 12:1-6

The bible does say that a blood is dangerous to drink or touch. Blood to blood. During that time, people bak in these days did not bathe often–if you’re lucky, maybe once a year. Perhaps many of them have never even taken a bath, I guess. They did not santize anything. No latex gloves back then! Today, we know many things and we improve by santizing many things–wear latex gloves– YET we have AIDS and staph! And you think God is stupid? Wake up.

Menstration is a time of cleansing the woman’s body. WHy did the bible use the word ‘unclean’? It is because the body is going through a cleansing process and at that point it is not clean. Does this mean that the woman is dirty and that everyone ought to flee away from her? No! Did God make a woman in the Garden of Eden just to have people look down on her when she gets her period? No! The Bible also says to honor your mother. Did God make mothers so that her children will flee away and say, “ewww!” and dishonor their mother? No! This does not make sense. God encourages us in the Bible to be fruitful and multiply, and then when a woman delivers her child, God tells us to look at her as a wicked person and to condemn her? No! Oh, God says in the Bible that children are a GIFT from God…and when a woman has a baby son, He says it is a shame, with a boy you stay separated and unclean for 33 days and with a daughter, double it to 66 days? No!

Degrading and degrading women….

This perspective only happens because the person DOES NOT KNOW GOD AND HIS UNCONDITIONAL LOVE. They read one thing and in the back of their mind builds up a negative thought and concept.

*sob sob sob*

I am a woman.

This is a red tissue I am using. It is red like the rubies. Red just like blood. Blood is also very expensive. “My flesh and blood…” Jesus had to die. His blood was shed for us so that we can have a relationship with God.

Back to Leviticus, what is the purpose of menstration? It allows a fresh egg to enter the womb to be fertilized. The bleeding is of old eggs and lining in the womb. Women is to stay away from society because of her blood. Her blood could touch other people. Why circumcision on the 8th day? Your body develops Vitamin K on the 8th day. Google it and you will see. God knows. His timing is perfect. Why does the mother of a daughter have to stay away from people for 66 days? Bonding time with daughter. The daughter is going to be a woman. She will carry the seed and a woman will deliver a son–the son of God. God knows and God encourages the mother to develop a bond with their babies. There is no punishment or degration in this. It is all about bonding! Today, many women take maternity leave– they last for 6 weeks. That’s 48 days and often mothers say that it isn’t enough. They want more time. God knows! He gave us women 66 days to rest and enjoy our time with our babies.

We see that this chapter talks about making a sacrifice. A mother at the end of her purification will need to sacrifice a lamb (or pigeon if she cannot afford a lamb). This is a typeshadow of Jesus as the lamb. Jesus was born of a woman, he grew up to be a man and died for us once and for all. He loves the Church.

This ceremonial law is fulfilled. Christ nailed it to the cross. Today, there is no need to do this.

Yeah, people will try to find ugly things in the Bible and take it out of context and blast it out. Why do they do this? It is because they, themselves, have no love. They are angry and have issues. So when they find things that appear in their mind as negative, they view it very negatively and cannot understand it the way God views it.

This is exactly how you thought when you read the title of this vlog, “I am crying because I am a woman.” You automatically assumed that I was very sad at the fact that I am a woman.

No, I’m crying because I’m thrilled.

Love, TRUE Love cannot fail.

I’m a woman. A phenominal woman. You, women who follow Jesus, cry with me. You have no pricetag on you. You are VERY expensive in God’s eyes. God loves you. And for you other women who have heard and read about this topic–that the Bible degrades women–these are LIES from BOTH women and men blabbing what they think is right according to their own mind. Don’t feel discouraged. Come to me, and let me hug you and tell you God’s unconditional love for you through the Bible. You are a woman.

*sob sob*

I am a woman.

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