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150:1.2 [[Jesus]] [[authorized]] these [[women]] to [[effect]] their own [[organization]] and directed [[Judas Iscariot|Judas]] to provide [[funds]] for their equipment and for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pack_animal pack animals]. The ten elected Susanna as their chief and Joanna as their treasurer. From this time on they furnished their own [[funds]]; never again did they draw upon [[Judas Iscariot|Judas]] for [[support]].

150:1.2 [[Jesus]] [[authorized]] these [[women]] to [[effect]] their own [[organization]] and directed [[Judas Iscariot|Judas]] to provide [[funds]] for their equipment and for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pack_animal pack animals]. The ten elected Susanna as their chief and Joanna as their treasurer. From this time on they furnished their own [[funds]]; never again did they draw upon [[Judas Iscariot|Judas]] for [[support]].

150:1.3 It was most astounding in that day, when [[women]] were not even allowed on the main floor of the [[synagogue]] (being confined to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_temple#The_Court_of_the_Women women's gallery]), to behold them being [[recognized]] as [[authorized]] [[teachers]] of the new [[gospel]] of [[the kingdom]]. The charge which [[Jesus]] gave these [[ten]] [[women]] as he set them apart for [[gospel]] teaching and [[ministry]] was the [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Emancipation_Proclamation emancipation proclamation] which set [[free]] all [[women]] and for all time; no more was man to look upon [[woman]] as his [[spiritual]] inferior. This was a decided [[shock]] to even the [[twelve apostles]]. Notwithstanding they had many times heard [[the Master]] say that " in [[the kingdom]] of heaven there is neither [[rich]] nor [[poor]], [[free]] nor [[Slave|bond]], [[male]] nor [[female]], all are equally the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:5._MORTALS_OF_TIME_AND_SPACE sons and daughters of God], " they were [[literally]] stunned when he [[proposed]] [[formally]] to commission these [[ten]] [[women]] as [[religious]] [[teachers]] and even to [[permit]] their [[traveling]] about with them. The whole country was stirred up by this proceeding, the enemies of [[Jesus]] making great [[capital]] out of this move, but everywhere the [[women]] believers in the good news stood stanchly behind their chosen sisters and [[voiced]] no uncertain approval of this tardy acknowledgment of [[woman]]'s place in [[religious]] [[work]]. And this [[liberation]] of [[women]], giving them due [[recognition]], was [[practiced]] by [[the apostles]] [[immediately]] after [[the Master]]'s departure, albeit they fell back to the olden [[customs]] in subsequent [[generations]]. Throughout the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Christianity early days of the Christian church] [[women]] [[teachers]] and ministers were called deaconesses and were accorded general [[recognition]]. But [[Paul, the Apostle|Paul]], despite the [[fact]] that he conceded all this in [[theory]], never really incorporated it into his own [[attitude]] and [[personally]] found it [[difficult]] to carry out in [[practice]].

150:1.3 It was most astounding in that day, when [[women]] were not even allowed on the main floor of the [[synagogue]] (being confined to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_temple#The_Court_of_the_Women women's gallery]), to behold them being [[recognized]] as [[authorized]] [[teachers]] of the new [[gospel]] of [[the kingdom]]. The charge which [[Jesus]] gave these [[ten]] [[women]] as he set them apart for [[gospel]] teaching and [[ministry]] was the [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Emancipation_Proclamation emancipation proclamation] which set [[free]] all [[women]] and for all time; no more was man to look upon [[woman]] as his [[spiritual]] inferior. This was a decided [[shock]] to even the [[twelve apostles]]. Notwithstanding they had many times heard [[the Master]] say that " in [[the kingdom]] of heaven there is neither [[rich]] nor [[poor]], [[free]] nor [[Slave|bond]], [[male]] nor [[female]], all are equally the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:5._MORTALS_OF_TIME_AND_SPACE sons and daughters of God], " they were [[literally]] stunned when he [[proposed]] [[formally]] to commission these [[ten]] [[women]] as [[religious]] [[teachers]] and even to [[permit]] their [[traveling]] about with them. The whole country was stirred up by this proceeding, the enemies of [[Jesus]] making great [[capital]] out of this move, but everywhere the [[women]] believers in the good news stood stanchly behind their chosen sisters and [[voiced]] no uncertain approval of this tardy acknowledgment of [[woman]]'s place in [[religious]] [[work]]. And this [[liberation]] of [[women]], giving them due [[recognition]], was [[practiced]] by [[the apostles]] [[immediately]] after [[the Master]]'s departure, albeit they fell back to the olden [[customs]] in subsequent [[generations]]. Throughout the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Christianity early days of the Christian church] [[women]] [[teachers]] and ministers were called deaconesses and were accorded general [[recognition]]. But [[Paul, the Apostle|Paul]], despite the [[fact]] that he conceded all this in [[theory]], never really incorporated it into his own [[attitude]] and [[personally]] found it [[difficult]] to carry out in [[practice]].

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[[Category:Paper 150 - The Third Preaching Tour]]

[[Category:Paper 150 - The Third Preaching Tour]]

[[Category: Gender]]

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