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On Women, Submission and Head Coverings...
Posted by Deborah Peterson on June 5, 2009 at 9:01am in Forum
Shalom All :) Yah has been speaking to my heart a bit in the last
couple of weeks about the significance of the symbol of head covering
that Yah called women to wear through the Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians
11:2-16, and how it connects to the principle of spiritual covering.
While talking to a loved one, they suggested that I post up what I have
been feeling Yah has been showing me for thoughts and discussion :)
(If there are anyone who would like to read a bit more about head
covering, and a scriptural view of if a woman is still called to wear
one, a great resource can be found at http://www.homeschoolhowtos.com/static/Headcovering.pdf
It not only takes a very good scriptural look at head coverings, but
also gives some of the testimonies of women who started to experience
differences in their spiritual lives as they started to submit to
Elohim in this principle :) )
The verses are from 1 Corinthians 11:2-16
“ Now I praise you, brethren, that you remember me in all things and
keep the traditions just as I have delivered them to you. But I want
you to know that the head of every man is Messiah, and the head of
woman is man, and the head of Messiah is Elohim.
Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonours
his head. But every woman who prays or prophesies with her head
uncovered dishonours her head, for that is one and the same as if her
head were shaved. For if a woman is not covered [with a shawl or head
covering], let her be also shorn. But if it is shameful for a woman to
be shorn or shaved, let her be covered [with a head covering].
For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and
glory of Elohim, but woman is the glory of man. For man is not from
woman, but woman from man. Not was man created for the woman, but the
woman for the man.
For this reason the woman should have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels.
Nevertheless, neither is man independent from woman, nor woman from
man, in the Lord. For as woman came from man, even so man also comes
through woman; but all things are from Elohim.
Judge among yourselves. Is it proper for a woman to pray to Elohim with
her head uncovered? Does not even nature itself teach that if a man has
long hair, it is a dishonour to him? But if a woman has long hair, it
is a glory to her; for her hair is given to her for a covering.
If anyone is contentious about this, we have no other practice – nor do the churches of Elohim."
Something important for us to know as we read these verses is that two
different words are used in verse both translated “covering” in our
English bibles... The first being katakalupto , which means “to cover
down”, pointing to a cloth or shawl as it covers a woman’s head as it
hangs down, and the second being peribolaion, which is pointing to that
which covers around, namely the woman’s natural hair that is around her
head.
Why does Yahweh want a woman to ‘cover’ her ‘covering’?
It connects back to the pattern that Paul spoken about earlier... that
Yah’shua is the head of the husband, and the husband is the head of the
wife.
Within the spiritual realm, a husband acts as a protective covering for
his wife, while Yah’shua and His blood acts as a protective covering
for him. No man can be a covering without Yah’shua and His atoning
blood. We can step out from under covering when we sin against our
heads by leaving the protective boundary of Torah, yet when we have
repented and have been forgiven are brought back under covering.
What I’ve felt Yah has been showing me is that the head covering is a
symbol of Yah’shua, and a woman’s hair is a symbol of her husband... Of
her ‘covering’ being ‘Covered’, and her being submitted to her husband
(and Messiah)...
As women, we are commanded to submit to our husbands as to Messiah, for
they are out head as Messiah is head of the church, as we are told in
Ephesians 5:22-23.
Something Yah showed me is that a wife cannot “honour Elohim and
dishonour her husband” at the same time... her actions will either
honour both Elohim and her husband, or dishonour both of them.
Even if she must disagree with him in some point because she feels the
Ruach leading her that what her husband is unscriptural, if she
disagrees in love and humility ~ truly because she is wants him to be
saved and put on the right path, and not simply because she wants her
way or to rule over him, she is honouring her husband...
Because to honour your head is to love them, and love “does not rejoice
in inequity, but rejoices in the truth” (1 Cor 13:6) but will always
walk in Elohim’s ways... meaning that even if she disagrees, she will
respect her husband (Ephesians 6:33).
When a woman wilfully rebels against her husband, she also wilfully
rebelling against Elohim who gave her the commandment to submit to him
as to Messiah And this means any area of wilful rebellion will not only
move out from under the covering of her husband, but also Yah’shua’s
blood ~ and that woman is open and unprotected against the attacks of
the enemy.


This would explain why Paul said a woman must either keep her hair and
be covered, or be uncovered and shorn... because as women, we are
either under the covering of both our head *and* Messiah, or neither.
These are some of the things Yah has been showing and working about this... Would love to hear thoughts and questions :)
Blessings in Messiah!
Deb :)
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Reply by Deborah Peterson on June 6, 2009 at 8:17am
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Reply by Lev/Christopher on June 6, 2009 at 8:23am
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Reply by Avah on June 6, 2009 at 8:36am
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Reply by Lev/Christopher on June 6, 2009 at 12:15pm
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