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Originally Posted by aron
Great topic. That there's currently a disjointed approach can be seen in women such as Ruth Lee and Peace Wang, among many others, who are held to be "lionesses of the early recovery", but none of them could exist for a minute in the current regime.
It's as if they were commodities, to be used up and discarded when no longer helpful to the Cause. And the fact that we typically can't even raise such issues, shows how fractured the Cause really is.
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Aron, I think the following from Jesse Penn-Lewis is a God's-eye explanation for what you observed. God cursed the serpent and put enmity between the woman and the Serpent. The cursed Serpent would meet his end through the seed of the woman he had deceived. The Serpent began to, in your words, to hopefully use up and discard the woman whose seed would one day crush his head.
"Henceforth it is also war by Satan upon the womanhood of the world, in malignant revenge for the verdict of the garden. War by the trampling down of women in all lands where the deceiver reigns. War upon women in Christian lands, by the continuance of his Eden method of misinterpreting the Word of God; insinuating into men's minds throughout all succeeding ages, that God pronounced a "curse" upon the woman, when in truth she was pardoned and blessed; and instigating men of the fallen race to carry out the supposed curse, which was in truth a curse upon the deceiver, and not the deceived one (Gen. 3: 14).
"I will put enmity between thee and the woman," said God, as well as between "thy seed and her seed," and this vindictive enmity of the hierarchy of evil to woman, and to believers, has not lessened in its intensity from that day. "
Jesse Penn-Lewis, War on the Saints
To me, the disaster of world history, up to today, can be viewed in this context, and it makes perfect sense. That is, to the serpent the message is "the woman you deceived will one day END you." The serpent is fighting with every breath to carry out its evil revenge against the woman whose seed will crush his head.
The result is the relational sin between Christian Women and Christian Men who are both used by the Serpent in an effort to save his sorry skin from his certain end.
Nell