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His will and loved her life not unto Garden of Eden, but as God has in hope, His hope was and remains
death (Rev 12). Laws destroyed, continued to equip me, I have His Son, born of a woman outside
liberty of the Spirit revealed along come to understand that even of the law that He Himself had put
with the heart of a compassionate the great deception of the Garden in place, born into corruption in
Father. So, then, it couldn’t just be was deliberate and has its place order to bring forth incorruption
that women were dirty and filthy and purpose in the greater plan through death.
because of the flow, could it? of God to redeem mankind back
There had to be something more. to Himself (Romans 8, Genesis God matched His Son with a Bride
3). But this is not the narrative who, symbolized by woman (a
He had piqued my interest. It was that the woman has been told, not sword will pierce your soul also/
evident that I still hungered to even by her fellow women. Hers you will share in the fellowship of
learn more because His desire to has been a tale of failure, rejection, Christ’s sufferings), was trapped
lure me deeper into the fount of intimidation, humiliation and woe, in cycle upon cycle of futility
His Life and away from the fount back-breaking labour and toil, (menstrual flow/not found having
of my blood, kept me restless with slavery and oppression, not the life my own righteousness) not able to
desire to unravel the full mystery of a joint heir, made in the image produce anything but corruption,
of God, hidden in the woman’s of God. And it seems that God has sin and death through their mortal
uncleanness. coauthored her pathway to misery, bodies (fount of blood) until the
condemning her alongside all her Day of Redemption would come
God began to reveal some things other accusers. through the Promised Son (saved
that helped me understand that in child bearing + Life eternal).
the incessant monthly flow The key to all this is understanding If you like, therefore, menstrual
also represented the subjection what is really going on. God sent flows can be viewed as cycles of
of creation to futility in hope the most ‘subtile’/crafty of all His blood (death and futility) leading
(Romans 8:19-20). There are few creatures to tempt the woman, to birthing of water and blood i.e.
things that can feel more futile knowing full well that not only the Christ’s suffering and death (it
than a menstrual flow, particularly would she fall, but she would pleased the Lord to bruise Him)
on those days when you have bring her husband along with leading to Life eternal. A match
cramps, nausea and you either her and create the perfect set of made in Heaven. Woman in her
don’t have any protection or your circumstances for that which was death flow is the perfect picture
protection fails you, exposing you in His heart from the beginning. of the futility of the world and
at a time when perhaps you are You see, man was NEVER meant its systems, redeemed through
far from a location where you can to find righteousness in his own Christ’s death to gain life and be
get help. The sense of isolation, acts and ways (fount of blood), the a light (Revelations 12 woman)
shame, indignity and the feeling true sons and daughters of God to all nations. Portrayed by
abandonment and helplessness is can only ever be the righteousness women throughout the Bible and
far greater in those moments than of God in Christ Jesus. This is an throughout time embracing death
at times one can bear. eternal reality. The iniquity that (menstruation) in hope of the
was found in Satan, found its way Life (saved through childbirth) of
All of this is deliberate by God, and to corrupt creation and there was Christ. It’s beautiful. The perfect
the sooner all men and women never going to be a way for man picture of futility leading to
understand it, the sooner we can to escape it or remain Godly apart salvation.
unveil the mysteries of true liberty from Christ. Christ Jesus was
contained within the flow. always the plan. The second Adam,
who was tempted as we were in
I began by saying that of all of all ways yet remained without sin,
God’s creation, none is more who was slain from before the
suited to understand His pain and foundation of the world, yet God
plan for creation than woman is. had charted a course throughout
Not only because of her rough history to make room for Him to
handling by society, at the hands be manifested physically for His
of men and women alike, but Holy Blood to answer unrighteous,
more so because of her capacity carnal blood that was found in the
to understand and to yield to pain, woman and transferred generation
misery, filth and shame like Christ upon generation upon generation
did on that cross. It is easy to see down the line until the Christ could
that womankind still carries upon come. It was BEFORE time that
itself the grief and shame of the God had subjected man to futility

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