Women's Weekly Bible Challenge

Hello and welcome to the Women’s Weekly Bible Challenge! I’m Lisa Ann.  Today’s Bible study will be Part 1 of a 2-Part series on Barrenness .    I chose this topic as it pertains to women.   ‘Barren’ is a term not applied to men in scripture, although I did find one reference to the words ‘barren’ and ‘male’ in Deuteronomy 7, which we will look at in this study. Men are usually referred to as childless , not barren ; however, we do not find any man mentioned in the Bible that is permanently childless.   Abraham called himself ‘childless’ in Genesis 15:2, but he was only childless for a season.   God told Jeremiah to write down King Jehoiakim as childless, not because he had no children, but, because none of his sons would ever sit on the throne of David (Jeremiah 22:30; 36:30). The word ‘barren’  is found in 23 verses in the King James Bible, plus one reference to 'barrenness' .   Most often it refers to a woman, but it is also used to des...

Hello and welcome to the Women’s Weekly Bible Challenge!   I’m Lisa Ann Spencer.  Thank you for stopping by.  This is part 5 and the conclusion of the series titled, THY KINSWOMAN .  If you are a first time visitor, click here to access part 1 . A quick Review of what we have covered thus far: We have seen in this study that there are only two ways in Scripture beginning in the book of Genesis all the way through Revelation : God’s way Satan’s way These two ways are portrayed in the book of Proverbs as two women: WISDOM and UNDERSTANDING called ‘thy sister, thy kinswoman’ THE STRANGE WOMAN, or the harlot We learned last week that we can know these women by their WORDS. We proved from scripture that the GODHEAD – Father, Son and Holy Ghost -  is male.  If anyone says that God, or the Godhead, is female or gender neutral, that would be a lie. Now we get to The BIG QUESTION :  Why would WISDOM be represented as a female? How is i...