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to self, that the life of Christ might be released in him.

A woman is called to have man as her head. She does not have Christ directly as her
head. Man stands in the position of head for woman. This goes back to the order of
creation. Man was created for God, but woman was created for man. This is a
difficult thing to get people in our generation to understand. It does not mean that
women cannot enjoy a personal relationship with Christ. Indeed they can. It is quite
arguable that there was no one around Yahshua that had a more intimate and
rewarding relationship with Him than Mary Magdalene. She always chose the better
portion, and the Lord said it would not be taken from her.

In Yahweh’s order of creation, however, He has set man to be the head of woman,
and as we have seen in scripture, the godly woman will reverence her husband as her
lord. In the law of God a woman was not permitted to walk out her relationship to
God without considering her relationship to man first. For example, a woman could
not make an oath to Yahweh, or bind herself to some type of commitment to Him
unless her father or husband agreed. We find this expressed in the following
scripture.

Numbers 30:2-16
"If a man makes a vow to Yawheh, or takes an oath to bind himself with
a binding obligation, he shall not violate his word; he shall do according
to all that proceeds out of his mouth. Also if a woman makes a vow to
Yahweh, and binds herself by an obligation in her father's house in her
youth, and her father hears her vow and her obligation by which she has
bound herself, and her father says nothing to her, then all her vows
shall stand and every obligation by which she has bound herself shall
stand. "But if her father should forbid her on the day he hears of it, none
of her vows or her obligations by which she has bound herself shall
stand; and Yahweh will forgive her because her father had forbidden
her. However, if she should marry while under her vows or the rash
statement of her lips by which she has bound herself, and her husband
hears of it and says nothing to her on the day he hears it, then her vows
shall stand and her obligations by which she has bound herself shall
stand. But if on the day her husband hears of it, he forbids her, then he
shall annul her vow which she is under and the rash statement of her
lips by which she has bound herself; and Yahweh will forgive her. But
the vow of a widow or of a divorced woman, everything by which she
has bound herself, shall stand against her. However, if she vowed in her
husband's house, or bound herself by an obligation with an oath, and
her husband heard it, but said nothing to her and did not forbid her,
then all her vows shall stand and every obligation by which she bound
herself shall stand. But if her husband indeed annuls them on the day