The Book of Isaiah

Chapter 1 V.1 Part 3.3 Asherah 6

Now let me pull this into modern times and the church today. This queen mother or goddess theology in all of its various forms is a variant of the following. (This information is related greatly to information I got from Gary. He did a series of posts on the subject of Ish, which got me studying in Genesis as well. That is where I need to take you…where this all starts. I touched upon it here.

I do suggest that you click on those links and follow Gary’s posts on Ish so you will know who I’m making reference to here. In following and subsequently studying his posts on the matter, I believe Ish and Ishshah to be the clay forms of Adam and Eve. In other words, their earthly beings, made of the flesh. Adam and Adamah then, would be the spirit beings that make up Adam and Eve.

When the serpent entered the garden look who he spoke to.

Gen 3:1   Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”

Now note please…it does not say that the serpent spoke to Eve, but to “the woman.” There’s a difference in the wording here and a reason for that. Let’s look back a little more.

Gen 2:23   The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.”

Gen 2:24   For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

Gen 2:25   The man and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.

All three of the above references to woman or wife have the Hebrew word Ishshah referenced to them. This is the same reference we see in Gen. 3:1.

So it was the “wife” the serpent spoke to. It wasn’t Eve’s spirit being Adamah. It wasn’t Eve the mother of nations. It was her role of “wife” that he addressed because he sought to plant seeds of division between men and women…and he succeeded. This helped him to usher in false deities such as Asherah and her successors in other cultures.

First, God gave a command to the man, Adam.

Gen 2:16   And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden;

Gen 2:17   but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die.”

Gen 2:18   The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”

So Eve was formed after this command was given, (having been created in spirit at the same time as Adam, but not awakened in her clay form until this point in time…see my study on “In the Beginning”) and clearly, whatever knowledge she had of this command came by and through her husband, although scripture does not specify what he told her, nor how much.

But let me show you something else:

Gen 3:6   When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.

Now, he was right there…apparently the whole time the serpent was rolling out this temptation to her, because there’s nothing that says that she went looking for him, or searching through the garden to bring the apple to him. Adam acquiesced, and submitted to his wife in taking the apple and eating it. This act of his was in direct contradiction or violation of God’s command, which had been given directly to him; and in essence was a willing relinquishing of his role over to her. {I mean, let’s face it ladies…most guys don’t know what to do, right? It takes them a while to catch on. } But look…

Gen 3:8   Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden.

Gen 3:9   But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”

God called to the responsible party. He addressed the responsible party first…the one given the command directly.

And here’s the point of division/accusation:

Gen 3:11   And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”

Gen 3:12   The man said, “The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”

So when God started giving out disciplinary actions, He went in the reverse order in which He had first challenged and/or addressed the matter. He went after the serpent first, then the woman, and finally the man. Between the woman and the man, the greater disciplinary action/punishment (the heavier burden) was given to the man.

Gen 3:16   To the woman he said, “I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

Here, God informs Eve of the order of things, because apparently, it was unknown to both of them. He also addressed the matter to Adam.

Gen 3:17   To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat of it,’  “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it

all the days of your life.

Note that God did not say that childbearing was cursed for the woman; she did not disobey God’s direct command. He did say the ground would be cursed because of the man and he gave the reason…the man disobeyed a direct command. The woman has painful toil in childbirth, and the man has painful toil with the ground for provision, but only the ground was cursed, not the woman.

Gen 3:18   It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.

Gen 3:19   By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are

and to dust you will return.”

God took away His provision. That was the curse. It now had to be earned, as opposed to just being a given…this under the law…the Old Testament/covenant. This curse was broken by Christ.

Yet after all of this, there is still a division of the church that wants to lay the total responsibility for the “fall” on women. Isn’t that just a control mechanism?