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The Hearts of Men
Are Now Ready

On the day the veil finally came off my eyes, I was reading in my study. My heart was open to the information from the Christian Leadership University class, because God had prepared me ahead of time through the Chaldee dream. Although I would never simply take someone else’s opinion as gospel, I had the anticipation that I was going to learn something brand new. I was not disappointed! As I sat there, reading my Professor Joanne Krupp’s book, WOMAN: God’s Plan Not Man’s Tradition, it was like a light was turned on in my head. In dealing with the “women shall keep silent in the church” verse, Mrs. Krupp clearly explained that Paul was quoting false Corinthian teachers. His purpose was to refute their chauvinistic position. What a revelation! This information changed everything!
If you think I’ve lost my mind, please ask the Lord for a new filter before reading on. If you are excited by what you have just read, then chances are you don’t need one.
When I first saw through my new filter, I wept. Paul quoted the chauvinistic statement “women are to keep silent in the church,” then he immediately contradicted it. This may seem like a very feminine reaction. The truth that Paul had never meant to silence women, but was in fact, contradicting that very notion, overwhelmed my emotions. How could we have not seen that before?! After I wept, I got angry with God. I screamed, “Lord, for millennia men and women alike have believed that it was Your plan for women to be secondary. We thought it was Your will for women to restrict our voice and be submissive to men. But, God! If this was NOT Your plan, then how could You allow this to happen?!”
The dark reality of where these evil notions had led hu...

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...t all of it, the class I took through Christian Leadership University was excellent. Other writings left me empty, because the authors took me from one ditch, all the way over the road of truth, into another ditch. Let me assure you, the enemy doesn’t care what ditch you are in. He doesn’t care if you are a male supremacist or a female supremacist. He doesn’t care if you know the truth, but are bitter, because he knows you will still end up in a powerless ditch.
As dark as things seem to be, there is still hope in God’s original plan. No matter what the statistics may tell us, God is still at work. He is moving to prepare the hearts of men and women for this revelation of freedom. He is making us ready for a revolution of thinking that will bring a revival of spiritual life that looks a lot like the Kingdom of God, but on earth! Will you allow Him to prepare you?

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