It surely is hard to kick against the pricks for those oppressors who oppose the fullness of Bible Truth. That the average woman lives 8 to 12 years longer than the average man is no coincidence. That we see that men still do eat bread in the sweat of their faces is no marvel either. We are still battling against the thorns and the pricks that God said would be there and the land is still cursed. Yet no matter how much sorrow there is in this life we find that we must still eat. It would seem therefore that much of what God has declared from the beginning still holds true today. Is it possible then, that perhaps even we, who are washed and sealed with His promise, have overlooked those things of God (which do not pertain to the ordinances of the Levitical priesthood, but are still part of OLD TESTAMENT LAW) must still be established?

Are women really the "weaker sex�? I cannot find this term in the scriptures, but if men and women are understood to be vessels, it is abundantly clear that the female vessel is the weaker of the two. Despite the fact that the lion's share (just over 69%) of North America's material wealth is owned by women and children, despite the fact that post secondary education produced a percentage of graduates that were women that was well into the nineties (while public elementary and secondary schools continued to struggle to keep male students attending classes) in 2005-2006. With respect to the fact that we are all mortal vessels, and women enjoy the "woman's prerogative" of living longer than men do, I would maintain that women are still the weaker of the two sexes.

I have been told by some pastors that although women are indeed the "weaker vessels" that women are also quite often spiritually superior to men. This was discreetly intimated once by a pastor and a staunch anti-remarriage supporter of a U.P.C. church in Alberta, Canada. Sadly, although this might well be the case in many instances, I do not think that this pastor spoke so much to the glory of God as he did to the shame of men. Ideally, the men ought to be spiritually superior, as well as physically superior, to women. God made men to be superior to women in both respects. God made Adam to be superior to Eve. Period. We need to realize that even nature teaches us that women in general will hardly ever respect those men who would assume "equality" to women and I have often observed that they would even respect those men who assume "inferiority" to women the least of all.

It is no great revelation that the proverbial "battle of the sexes" has been a social stigma and sore plague upon human kind from the beginning. I submit that we are "equal" before God as human beings, from which point, all similarities and illusions of sexual equality greatly diminish and do become increasingly coincidental. There are men who are superior to men, and there are women who are superior to women; but it must be fairly stated that women were NEVER created to be superior to men and any woman who assumes such superiority (authority) over a man of God is living contrary to the will of God. Now God will recompense; so none of this is my concern so much as encouraging the reader to receive the message in honesty. Godly men must honor women as the "weaker vessel", and also as the weaker sex (I am not going to mince words here) in a godly and respectful manner.

Neither is it any coincidence that women have surpassed men in longevity by well over a decade. The antient words, "Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee" have not been abolished by any means, but stand as true today as they ever did and that it is still the Lord's desire that we should live long on the earth. We frequently find more men are dying from prostate cancer today than women are dying from breast cancer; but until only recently, the media has been telling us a great deal more about breast cancer while suicide and depression are nearly four times higher in men today than in women and teens collectively.

The public alarm concerning this only chimes faintly when we consider this little statistic applies to men over the age of fifty. I still find that the matriarchal system has little use for a majority of their drones and practically always welcomes fresh, young, blood after having put these "older men" out to pasture on anti-depressants and secular SELF help programs. Of course, it must be conceeded that many women today (and men), living in North America, wouldn't have it any other way. It is of little concern for them to learn that from the age of thirty on up that the number of "eligible bachelors" also greatly diminishes for those women who would desire a marital companion and most of these will soon discover that they are alarmingly outnumbered by "potential competitors" desiring the same.

Perhaps it should be fair to say that these "older women" would be happier if they followed the Apostle Paul's advice and remained widowed and/or single. I would venture to say that they should abide in the calling wherein they were called (and Paul did also) but to be more accurate, I should think that many are learning that in those upper-eshilons of the so-called "women's liberation movement" that something else is occurring throughout the world very rapidly and discreetly: Lesbianism is growing increasingly prevalent year-by-year among older women in answer to that glory-call of the flesh and the women's liberation movements. So much so, in fact, that Canada and England have now made what they have most erroneously called "same-sex marriage", lawful, by federal and royal mandate. When I consider that so many of those remaining and rapidly diminishing "eligibles" prefer sodomite and catamite lifestyles, this is not surprising either. Call me an alarmist, but I think I have a rather good reading on the pulse of North American society. The job of godly men and women is to pull certain of the lost out of the fire, even with fear, and to persuade others to listen to His Word in love.