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Are There Women Apostles Today?
out like demons, rather they must be “wrestled” with and taken down
through much prayer and intercession and patience.
But there is a DIVINE CULTURE where the Mind of Christ prevails.
While this divine culture has not yet been physically established in the
earth, it is steadily being established in the hearts of God’s people who
seek the Lord with all their heart, mind, and soul and love not their
lives even unto death (Rev. 12:10,11). This “divine culture” was the
established “pattern of thought, speech and action” in the garden of
Eden before mankind disobeyed and fell into sin. A “pure language”
(Zeph. 3:9) will be restored during the millennium, which will help in
this divine culture. 19
It was a result of mankind’s sin that women were given a subservient
role to man in marriage, and this is only in a marriage relationship, not
every woman to every man. Notice what God said would happen to
woman due to sin in Genesis 3:16- “I will greatly multiply your sorrow
and your conception, in pain you shall bring forth children. Your
desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.” But
before the fall, Adam did not “rule over” Eve because they walked in
perfect love and harmony with each other. Likewise, as this “divine
culture” becomes more and more established in the earth by the power
of the Holy Spirit, we can expect to start seeing these results of sin
reversed back to the garden paradise unity where husband and wife
walk as one.
The Scriptures call both Miriam and Deborah a “prophetess” (Exodus
15:20, Judges 4:4). The Lord spoke to Miriam, Aaron and Moses as a
threesome in the tabernacle (Numbers 12:4, Micah 6:4), and Deborah
was a judge in Israel, which is one of the functions of an apostle. So
the precedent for women in leadership roles is firmly established in the
Scriptures even within a culture where women were considered
“second class.” Also, Lydia in Acts 16 was a woman leader of her
home church, and Aquilla and Priscilla were a husband wife team that
functioned as co-leaders at their local church. (1 Cor. 16:19)
Jesus had a habit of appearing to women first, such as after His
resurrection to Mary and to the woman at the well at the beginning of
His ministry. The virgin Mary set a precedent by being a woman given
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