Post by Jo Smith on Nov 24, 2008 20:08:43 GMT -5
~ The Importance of a Woman’s Hair ~
Ezekiel 16: 1. Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
2. Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,
3. And say, Thus saith the Lord God unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.
4. And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.
5. None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the lothing of thy person, in the day that thou wast born.
6. And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live; yea, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live.
7. I have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field, and thou hast increased and waxen great and thou art come to excellent ornaments: thy breasts are fashioned, and thine hair is grown, whereas thou wast naked and bare. (See without grown hair, she was naked and bare.)
Now in verse 7 God is telling Jerusalem, who is likened to a comely and delicate WOMAN, that by his causing them to ‘live’ and blessing them, their HAIR IS GROWN.
See before he found her and blessed her, her HAIR WAS NOT GROWN. Then the long or grown hair was and is a sign of His Blessing upon a woman or Church or Nation.
8. Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord God, and thou becamest mine.
9. Then washed I thee with water; yea, I throughly washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil.
This is showing the blessing God gave Jerusalem (the true Church) at Pentecost --- he washed them and made them clean; gave them life; caused their hair to grow out; anointed them with the oil of the Holy Ghost; and beautified them with salvation.
That is what all these verses are showing. It is figurative language showing the true Spiritual condition after Pentecost. So by this, for a woman to cut off her hair is showing that they have turned away back from the Pentecost blessing and salvation. Don’t be deceived; this is of more importance than any of us realize!
10. I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers' skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk.
11. I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck.
12. And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head.
13. Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil: and thou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a kingdom.
14. And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee saith the Lord God.
15. But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was.
16. And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so.
17. Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of men, and didst commit sleeperdom with them,
18. And tookest thy broidered garments and coveredst them: and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them.
1Tim. 2: 9. In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;
10. But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.
1 Peter 3: 1. Likewise, ye wives be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
2. While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
3. Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
4. But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
Now in the above Scriptures we have both Peter and Paul, the two main Apostles agreeing as the two witnesses needed to confirm this teaching, that women must not plait or broid their hair. Why? This would be doing away with the ‘covering’. See that in verse 4 he spoke of these things as ‘ornaments’? This is showing same thing Eze. Is speaking of, that they took the blessings God gave them and made them into idols and offered them is worship of idols.
People this is staggering in its true meaning: it is saying they took the Holy Ghost, the oil, and the grown hair and turned them into idols. They did this by making dead church services instead of the life of the H.G. They took their grown hair and cut it off and curled and plated it up and balled it up on their heads to make themselves sexy and lustful. They (the church) took the gifts of the Holy Ghost which he had anointed them with and refused them, turning instead to doctors and such. They denied the things of God and turned to the worldly things He had rescued them from!
This is an abomination to the Living God and a spit in his face. It causing shame to be upon his blessing.
1 Corinthians 11:1. Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
2. Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.
3. But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.
4. Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered dishonoureth his head.
5. But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven.
6. For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.
Look up ‘shorn’. It is the past tense of cut. So this is saying if she wears her hair in such a way as to not be covering her, then she just may as well cut it off; for that is the same thing as if she cut it or shaved her head. So women who do not cut their hair but still pin it up on top of her head, is the same thing to God as if she shaved her head. This is powerful stuff. This is declaring that it is a shame for a woman to pray or prophecy without having long hair covering her. Yes it does mean hanging down, for if she be not covered let her cut it off. It she is not covered with it, it is the same thing as shaving her head.
7. For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch, as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.
8. For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.
9. Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.
10. For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels.
11. Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.
12. For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God.
13. Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered?
14. Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?
15. But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.
16. But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.
It certainly does have a spiritual meaning; it is showing that she is ‘covered’ with His Spirit and washed from her sins. Yet, IF SHE BE NOT COVERED THIS WAY, in the natural then it is showing that she is not covered in the Spirit. The invisible things of God are clearly SEEN by the things which DO APPEAR. In other words, the visible things show the invisible; so if she is not covered by her hair, which God gave her for a ‘covering’ then she (the Church) is not covered with His Spirit and are yet in their sins and blood.
The Word was not speaking of what is physically beautiful. It is speaking of what is lovely to GOD -- NOT MAN. God said it is not even comely for a woman to pray to God with her head UNCOVERED. He said that not me. He also is saying that if any man wants to settle these things by arguing, things are not done this way in the church. Things are settled by the Word of God given by His Apostles. Paul had plainly told them to go by His Word in the Churches.
Look up comely - it means (and I am quoting my dictionary)-- pleasurably conforming to notions of good appearance, suitability, or proportion. 2. Having a pleasing appearance: not homely or plain.
See than, that this is saying to God long hair on the woman is what is pleasing to him. It said in ‘appearance’. Now this means what you look like on the outside! It also has to do with the inside - for it shows that one is willing to do what pleases God and not themselves.
This is saying women who are willing to live their lives to please God, will joyfully wear the long hair which God said is her power and glory and her covering. He said she ought to have POWER ON HER HEAD BECAUSE OF THE ANGELS.
Now there is no power when the hair is cut or pinned up on top of the head. Evil angels can get in to do harm to all of us because of this covering not being there. Why do you think so much evil crime is done against little girls and women? Just because they cut off the covering which protected them.
The good angels will not protect when one is in rebellion to God. I know this from the Word and from personal experience.
Now for an O.T. Scripture to show this in the types and shadows which we must look to for the pure proof:
Ex. 26: 7. And thou shalt make curtains of goats' hair to be a covering upon the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make.
Now in the making of their tabernacle there are full types of the New Testament Church. It is just beautiful. I hope soon to do a study on this. But right now I will only use this one verse. After they had made the beautiful tabernacle they were told to make these curtains of goats’ hair to be a covering upon the tabernacle. Now this tabernacle is shown by the woman - the Church- the New Jerusalem.
So see that it had to have a covering of hair? Why would God cause them to go to the trouble to make 11 Curtains of goats’ hair to cover this gorgeous tabernacle? Because it is the type of His true Church, of which the woman is the true type in the N.T. Therefore should the woman have this hair covering for she shows the glory of her head. Her head is her husband; his head is Christ; his head is God. So it goes all the way up to the top of the authority head, which is God. So to cut off her hair is to dishonor herself (the Church), her head all the way up through Christ to God.
You think this is UNIMPORTANT? ---- WELL THEN READ THIS:
Jer. 7: 27. Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee.
28. But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the Lord their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
29. Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the Lord hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
30. For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the Lord: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it.
God said even when we speak all these words they will not obey them. This nation obeys not the voice of the Lord their God, nor receives correction. TRUTH IS PERISHED, and is cut off from their mouth. (Modern day churches and America)
V29. God likened nations to women. So what fits them fits us. Cut of thine hair --- and cast it away ---.... For the Lord hath rejected and forsaken this generation.
Now, if it is not important, why did he tell her to cut off her hair and cast it away? This proves that when the hair is cut of and cast away they are exactly where this Jerusalem was at that time, - disobeying God enough to cause him to reject and forsake them ----
See the angels will no longer encamp around this person and PROTECT THEM.
May you open your blinded eyes and HEAR THE WORD OF THE LORD.
This reverses what God had done for them in Eze. 16. There at her birth, He washed her, gave her many ‘gifts’ and caused her HAIR TO BE GROWN.
This was her GLORY. But now she is polluted in idol worship, rebelling against all that God loved and commanded, and her glory is departed; so He told her to cut off her hair and cast it away from her for her glory had departed from her.
And you say this is trivial and unimportant? My, such darkness!
Don’t tell me this is UNIMPORTANT! This proves you have nothing but a darkened, carnal mind. You see not as God sees. You cannot speak for him. It is dangerous to speak from your own mind.
When I was going to the dances a few years back and not living for God as I used to, I was in a bad wreck in which one woman was killed. It took me a whole year to get over the pain in my body.
Now before that, I had been in lots of very near wrecks which I know only God could have prevented. So I knew when this one happened, God was warning me I had better get my live back in line with Him, OR ELSE.
I did not need another 'chastising'. One was always enough for me. I know my God let me know I had better repent or His protection would no longer be with me. I do not want to live in this earth without His protection.
I have seen plenty of proof since then that His protection is back with me.
That is my only reason for this cry in the darkness, Women let your hair grow out and leave it down as a covering --- wear only holy godly garments - don't drive the Spirit of God out of your life.
But without the Holy Ghost, none of this will avail you anything. Receive ye the Holy Ghost.
By: Jo Smith
April 10, 2003
Ezekiel 16: 1. Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
2. Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,
3. And say, Thus saith the Lord God unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.
4. And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.
5. None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the lothing of thy person, in the day that thou wast born.
6. And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live; yea, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live.
7. I have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field, and thou hast increased and waxen great and thou art come to excellent ornaments: thy breasts are fashioned, and thine hair is grown, whereas thou wast naked and bare. (See without grown hair, she was naked and bare.)
Now in verse 7 God is telling Jerusalem, who is likened to a comely and delicate WOMAN, that by his causing them to ‘live’ and blessing them, their HAIR IS GROWN.
See before he found her and blessed her, her HAIR WAS NOT GROWN. Then the long or grown hair was and is a sign of His Blessing upon a woman or Church or Nation.
8. Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord God, and thou becamest mine.
9. Then washed I thee with water; yea, I throughly washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil.
This is showing the blessing God gave Jerusalem (the true Church) at Pentecost --- he washed them and made them clean; gave them life; caused their hair to grow out; anointed them with the oil of the Holy Ghost; and beautified them with salvation.
That is what all these verses are showing. It is figurative language showing the true Spiritual condition after Pentecost. So by this, for a woman to cut off her hair is showing that they have turned away back from the Pentecost blessing and salvation. Don’t be deceived; this is of more importance than any of us realize!
10. I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers' skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk.
11. I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck.
12. And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head.
13. Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil: and thou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a kingdom.
14. And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee saith the Lord God.
15. But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was.
16. And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so.
17. Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of men, and didst commit sleeperdom with them,
18. And tookest thy broidered garments and coveredst them: and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them.
1Tim. 2: 9. In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;
10. But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.
1 Peter 3: 1. Likewise, ye wives be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
2. While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
3. Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
4. But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
Now in the above Scriptures we have both Peter and Paul, the two main Apostles agreeing as the two witnesses needed to confirm this teaching, that women must not plait or broid their hair. Why? This would be doing away with the ‘covering’. See that in verse 4 he spoke of these things as ‘ornaments’? This is showing same thing Eze. Is speaking of, that they took the blessings God gave them and made them into idols and offered them is worship of idols.
People this is staggering in its true meaning: it is saying they took the Holy Ghost, the oil, and the grown hair and turned them into idols. They did this by making dead church services instead of the life of the H.G. They took their grown hair and cut it off and curled and plated it up and balled it up on their heads to make themselves sexy and lustful. They (the church) took the gifts of the Holy Ghost which he had anointed them with and refused them, turning instead to doctors and such. They denied the things of God and turned to the worldly things He had rescued them from!
This is an abomination to the Living God and a spit in his face. It causing shame to be upon his blessing.
1 Corinthians 11:1. Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
2. Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.
3. But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.
4. Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered dishonoureth his head.
5. But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven.
6. For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.
Look up ‘shorn’. It is the past tense of cut. So this is saying if she wears her hair in such a way as to not be covering her, then she just may as well cut it off; for that is the same thing as if she cut it or shaved her head. So women who do not cut their hair but still pin it up on top of her head, is the same thing to God as if she shaved her head. This is powerful stuff. This is declaring that it is a shame for a woman to pray or prophecy without having long hair covering her. Yes it does mean hanging down, for if she be not covered let her cut it off. It she is not covered with it, it is the same thing as shaving her head.
7. For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch, as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.
8. For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.
9. Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.
10. For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels.
11. Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.
12. For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God.
13. Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered?
14. Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?
15. But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.
16. But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.
It certainly does have a spiritual meaning; it is showing that she is ‘covered’ with His Spirit and washed from her sins. Yet, IF SHE BE NOT COVERED THIS WAY, in the natural then it is showing that she is not covered in the Spirit. The invisible things of God are clearly SEEN by the things which DO APPEAR. In other words, the visible things show the invisible; so if she is not covered by her hair, which God gave her for a ‘covering’ then she (the Church) is not covered with His Spirit and are yet in their sins and blood.
The Word was not speaking of what is physically beautiful. It is speaking of what is lovely to GOD -- NOT MAN. God said it is not even comely for a woman to pray to God with her head UNCOVERED. He said that not me. He also is saying that if any man wants to settle these things by arguing, things are not done this way in the church. Things are settled by the Word of God given by His Apostles. Paul had plainly told them to go by His Word in the Churches.
Look up comely - it means (and I am quoting my dictionary)-- pleasurably conforming to notions of good appearance, suitability, or proportion. 2. Having a pleasing appearance: not homely or plain.
See than, that this is saying to God long hair on the woman is what is pleasing to him. It said in ‘appearance’. Now this means what you look like on the outside! It also has to do with the inside - for it shows that one is willing to do what pleases God and not themselves.
This is saying women who are willing to live their lives to please God, will joyfully wear the long hair which God said is her power and glory and her covering. He said she ought to have POWER ON HER HEAD BECAUSE OF THE ANGELS.
Now there is no power when the hair is cut or pinned up on top of the head. Evil angels can get in to do harm to all of us because of this covering not being there. Why do you think so much evil crime is done against little girls and women? Just because they cut off the covering which protected them.
The good angels will not protect when one is in rebellion to God. I know this from the Word and from personal experience.
Now for an O.T. Scripture to show this in the types and shadows which we must look to for the pure proof:
Ex. 26: 7. And thou shalt make curtains of goats' hair to be a covering upon the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make.
Now in the making of their tabernacle there are full types of the New Testament Church. It is just beautiful. I hope soon to do a study on this. But right now I will only use this one verse. After they had made the beautiful tabernacle they were told to make these curtains of goats’ hair to be a covering upon the tabernacle. Now this tabernacle is shown by the woman - the Church- the New Jerusalem.
So see that it had to have a covering of hair? Why would God cause them to go to the trouble to make 11 Curtains of goats’ hair to cover this gorgeous tabernacle? Because it is the type of His true Church, of which the woman is the true type in the N.T. Therefore should the woman have this hair covering for she shows the glory of her head. Her head is her husband; his head is Christ; his head is God. So it goes all the way up to the top of the authority head, which is God. So to cut off her hair is to dishonor herself (the Church), her head all the way up through Christ to God.
You think this is UNIMPORTANT? ---- WELL THEN READ THIS:
Jer. 7: 27. Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee.
28. But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the Lord their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
29. Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the Lord hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
30. For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the Lord: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it.
God said even when we speak all these words they will not obey them. This nation obeys not the voice of the Lord their God, nor receives correction. TRUTH IS PERISHED, and is cut off from their mouth. (Modern day churches and America)
V29. God likened nations to women. So what fits them fits us. Cut of thine hair --- and cast it away ---.... For the Lord hath rejected and forsaken this generation.
Now, if it is not important, why did he tell her to cut off her hair and cast it away? This proves that when the hair is cut of and cast away they are exactly where this Jerusalem was at that time, - disobeying God enough to cause him to reject and forsake them ----
See the angels will no longer encamp around this person and PROTECT THEM.
May you open your blinded eyes and HEAR THE WORD OF THE LORD.
This reverses what God had done for them in Eze. 16. There at her birth, He washed her, gave her many ‘gifts’ and caused her HAIR TO BE GROWN.
This was her GLORY. But now she is polluted in idol worship, rebelling against all that God loved and commanded, and her glory is departed; so He told her to cut off her hair and cast it away from her for her glory had departed from her.
And you say this is trivial and unimportant? My, such darkness!
Don’t tell me this is UNIMPORTANT! This proves you have nothing but a darkened, carnal mind. You see not as God sees. You cannot speak for him. It is dangerous to speak from your own mind.
When I was going to the dances a few years back and not living for God as I used to, I was in a bad wreck in which one woman was killed. It took me a whole year to get over the pain in my body.
Now before that, I had been in lots of very near wrecks which I know only God could have prevented. So I knew when this one happened, God was warning me I had better get my live back in line with Him, OR ELSE.
I did not need another 'chastising'. One was always enough for me. I know my God let me know I had better repent or His protection would no longer be with me. I do not want to live in this earth without His protection.
I have seen plenty of proof since then that His protection is back with me.
That is my only reason for this cry in the darkness, Women let your hair grow out and leave it down as a covering --- wear only holy godly garments - don't drive the Spirit of God out of your life.
But without the Holy Ghost, none of this will avail you anything. Receive ye the Holy Ghost.
By: Jo Smith
April 10, 2003