Yet unrevealed, but now will be revealed.
Micah 4:8 “Kingship will come to the daughter of Jerusalem.”
Except for Joshua, who was not a king as such, not a single king of the nation of Israel fulfilled the requirements of Kingship under the law. Deuteronomy 17:14-20 When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you and have taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say, “Let us set a king over us like all the nations around us,” be sure to appoint over you the kings the Lord your God chooses. He must be from among your own brothers. Do not place a foreigner over you, one who is not a brother Israelite. The king, moreover, must not acquire great numbers of horses for himself or make the people return to Egypt to get more of them, for the Lord has told you, “You are not to go back that way again.” He must not take many wives, or his heart will be led astray. He must not accumulate large amounts of silver or gold. When he takes the throne of his kingdom, he is to write for himself on a scroll a copy of this law, taken from that of the priests, who are Levites. It is to be with him, and he is to read it all the days of his life so that he may learn to revere the Lord his God and follow carefully all the words of this law and these decrees and not consider himself better than his brothers and turn from the law to the right and to the left.
Only Joshua is recorded as having obeyed the law of writing down a copy of the Law for himself in Joshua 8:32 There in the presence of the Israelites, Joshua copied on stones the law of Moses, which he had written.
Not one of the supposed Kings did that, and none of their reigns or dynasties lasted. Likewise, in the New Testament, the Law of God for us, “Listen to Him” —that is Jesus, was only recorded for us as having been chosen by a woman. Luke 10:39, 41-42 She [Martha] had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said… and Jesus said, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and upset about many things, but only one thing is needed. Mary has chosen what is better and it will not be taken away from her.”
Concerning the New Covenant, God said in Jeremiah 3:33 “This is the Covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time. I will put My law in their minds and write it on their hearts.”
Mary, a woman, was the first to demonstrate that the Law of God for the New Covenant— “Listen to Jesus” —was written on her heart, for she was not at the Mount of Transfiguration to hear the Law, but yet she lived the law….by sitting at the feet of Jesus…listening. She listened enough to Jesus and committed enough of Jesus words to be the only person at the dinner in Bethany in John 12 to prepare Jesus for His burial, as Jesus said – John 12:7, 8 “Leave her alone. It was intended that she should save this perfume for the day of My burial. You will always have the poor among you, but you will not always have Me.”
It was a woman who realized that Jesus’ journey to Jerusalem would result in His death. She was the first to prophetically anoint him for His death. It is a woman with whom Jesus shares the glory of the preaching of His gospel with. This same woman—Mark 14:9 “I tell you the truth, wherever the gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will be told, in memory of her.”
It was women who formed most of the disciples that did watch the crucifixion. Mark 15:40, 41 Some women were watching from a distance. Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salome. In Galilee these women had followed Him and cared for His needs. Many other women who had come up with Him to Jerusalem were also there. John lists also in John 19:25 Near the cross of Jesus stood His mother, His mother’s sister, Mary wife of Clopas and Mary Magdalene were there as well. Except for John, who we know was there because of Jesus’ utterance from the cross; there was no other male disciple. John 19:26, 27 and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby…and to the disciple, “Here is your mother.”
It is now established and well discussed it was women who went to the grave and women to first see Jesus risen from the dead, and the male disciples did not believe them. Mark 16:11 when they heard that Jesus was alive and that she had seen Him, they did not believe it. And it is to a woman that Jesus uttered two of His greatest revelations—to Martha in John 11:25, 26 “I am the Resurrection and the Life. He who believes in Me will live even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?” And to Mary Magdalene, who would witness the truth of John 11:25, 26 He said in John 20:17 “Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet returned to the Father. Go instead to My brothers and tell them, ‘I am returning to My Father and your Father, to My God and your God.’”
It was to a woman that Jesus even decreed the truth of God’s full generosity to us, making us co-heirs—equal with Jesus, because His Father is our Father, His God is now our God—
In both relationship of family status and in political status, Jesus made Mary Magdalene equal to Himself. God was also her Father, as He is His Father; and God was also her God as He is the God of Jesus—an equality that was always planned and placed there from the beginning when God first took Eve out of the side of Adam as his helper. “I will make a helper suitable for him.” Genesis 2:18 And the word “helper” carries with it the translation of being his equal—which makes him complete...that is, without Eve Adam was incomplete. Now Jesus in his glorified state in John 20:17 had declared Mary Magdalene His equal in familial relationship and in socio-political relationship to God—they had the same Father and God—in that order. That is, daughtership is more important than servanthood—as surely as Sonship is more important than servanthood.
Although Jesus was introduced in Isaiah 42:1 as “Here is My servant, whom I uphold, my chosen One in whom I delight…”, Jesus was already the Son who became the servant—not the servant who became a son. And it was to Mary that this was first declared. She was first a daughter and then a servant of God. But the men did not believe her. If they did not believe her Gospel, “I have seen the Lord!” And she told them that He had said these things to her. What things?—the things of John 20:17; then by their unbelief, they never really took up sonship first. Indeed, the Church did not start with the male disciples understand-ing that they were now sons of God, because of what Jesus had done and declared, but they had still in their hearts that they were servants of God only. And the idea of daughtership for the women was still so foreign to them, that even the Apostle Paul who was the one who understood the revelation of Sonship and the concept of being co-heirs with Christ, still wrote concerning the women in 1 Timothy 2:11 A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. Now I agree with Paul here, for Mary sat in quietness and full submission listening to Jesus. But if you were to then go on with Paul, v 12 I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man, she must be silent; - then I depart from Paul and stand with Jesus—For Jesus gave the first post-Resurrection command to a woman, and the Gospel of His Resurrection to a woman. Indeed, He gave the revelation that He is the Resurrection, the cornerstone of our faith, for if there is no resurrection as Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 15:13,14: If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is our faith.
Jesus gave this revelation to a woman, Martha, who did not believe it. But to a woman who believed it, Mary Magdalene, Jesus gave her equal status with Him; as a daughter as He is the Son and as the servant of God as He is—and by the will of God, who also gave Jesus Kingship over Israel through His natural birth line from David—gave Mary Magdalene the same spiritual and legal royalty—Kingship did come to the daughter of Jerusalem as it was written in Micah 4:8.
Just as not a single king of Israel held onto the commands of the law and write a copy of it, as was commanded in Deuteronomy 17, then neither did the Apostles and elders of Acts 15:6, who made up the Council of Jerusalem hold onto what should have been written in their hearts—the words of Jesus, in fulfillment of the Law of God to “Listen to Him”. If they did, then the Apostles present would have remembered the first great desertion of disciples in John 6, when Jesus said in John 6:53 “I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life and I will raise Him up at the last day. For My flesh is real food and My blood is real drink. Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood remains in Me and I in Him.” Which goes against what God said in Leviticus 17:14 “You must not eat the blood of any creature, because the life of every creature is its blood, any who eats it must be cut of…” That was when, as it is written in John 6:66 From this time many of His disciples turned back and no longer followed Him.
That was the teaching that caused the first great desertion, and as one of the eleven, how could you forget it? Especially when you were there at the supper where He declared: “Take and eat, this is My body…Drink from it, all of you, this is My blood of the covenant which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.” Matthew 26:27-28; and then Judas deserted to betray Him.
How could you forget all that, centered around the teaching of drinking blood which caused the great desertion and the final betrayal, and still consent in full to the proposal of James the Younger in Acts 15:19-21 telling the Gentiles to abstain from blood?
The teaching of the blood caused the first great desertion; the first drinking of His blood caused the first great betrayal. I think the sight of Jesus declaring the cup of wine to be His blood and making the disciples to drink it was the last straw for Judas, who had it is his heart to betray Jesus anyway. It was like the straw that broke the back of the camel. It is one thing to teach and see your disciples desert in droves—now, to actually do it? Judas had his own agenda. Perhaps it was always to profit from the ministry as he was helping himself to the offerings anyway, so the bigger the following the better—and now this—actually saying the wine is His blood and making them drink it?! Judas was gone.
If they had it in their heart—would they not have remembered? Now they were approving a recommendation and sending a letter that contravenes the teaching of the Lord Himself—on the drinking of blood. Did they stop to even consider that they had deserted Him again - and betrayed Him again? The fact that that recommendation was left on the letter, meant the words of Jesus was not written on their hearts. And just like the Kings of Israel—the reign of the Apostles declined—and power was lost—Holy Spirit power, and they never did the things Jesus had done fully—much less the greater things.
Now, just as there have never been any female kings anointed in Israel—so there had never been any female Apostles recognized in the books of the Acts or the Epistles. Yet we know it was a woman who was personally given the Gospel of the Resurrection—although there is no record of her having been able to minister in power with signs and wonders. So when God said, “The Lord will create a new thing on earth, a woman will surround a man.” Jeremiah 31:22, the fullness of this new thing will be and is the revelation of female Apostles, with their own personal Gospel which they have received from the Lord and not from man, with a ministry of signs and wonders, done with great perseverance—women who walk like ones condemned to the arena, who seek to come last in the procession—just like Paul—true “Paul-line” disciples – “Paulines” if you wish. Women who are not only servants of the Lord—as Apostles, but women who are co-heirs of Christ—being of same Royal blood line of the Lion of Judah by faith— Women who are female Kings of the spiritual Kingdom of Heaven— Women who have written a copy of the words of the Lord down for themselves— Women upon whose hearts are written the words of Jesus and on whose mind is that constant Law of God— “Listen to Him.” Women like yourselves who have endeavoured to do so and will do even more.
Now, as part of the process of bringing due justice to Jesus and to His words and works—God has raised up men who not only believe the message of the first female Apostle, Mary Magdalene, but men who see and understand that it will be the female Apostles and Kings of the Lord Jesus who will do the greater things.
It would be pure justice to see female Apostles raised up to destroy the work of the prophetess Jezebel who taught the Church to eat the teachings and works sacrificed to idols and to commit adultery with idols. It would be pure justice to Jesus to see female Apostles raised up to destroy the prostitute Church which has so long trodden and oppressed women and denied their full rights as daughters of God, co-heirs of Christ.
It would be pure and righteous justice, that as it was a woman who prophetically prepared the body of Jesus for burial, that women prepare the body of Christ for the return of Christ.
It is pure and righteous justice that as it were women who saw Him crucified with only one male disciple with them, that it will be mainly women, who will be left alive at the Mount of Olives to rise to greet Him in the clouds above Jerusalem at his coming.
It is pure and righteous that it will be women, more than men, who will be the female Kings of the Earth—when He returns for His Millennial Reign as King of Kings and Lord of Lords. As Israel had only male kings during the first phase—so now at the restoration, with Christ as the King of Kings, then it is justice, pure and righteous, that female kings will reign with Him with some male kings—at least in equal portions.
I see the great and new thing the lord is doing— He is bring out of the side of the body of Christ that has been slumbering—a female—an Eve—a co-heir—whose God is the God of Jesus whose Father is the Father of Jesus—a daughter, no, not just a daughter—but daughters—a multitude of them who have the law of God written in their minds and the words of Jesus upon their hearts—without compromise—in full obedient, submissive meekness to God alone—preparing this earth for Christ’s return with power no man, except for Jesus, has ever displayed or shown.
For when the child is fully grown, she is ready to be crowned. So when the children become daughters, the female kings of the King of Kings are ready to take the throne, and dispose of the self-proclaimed queen of Heaven. And so “Kingship will come to the daughter of Jerusalem”.
AMEN HOLY SPIRIT. Fulfill it in our days with the daughters of the Heavenly Jerusalem.
