Does The Bible Say
Your Daughters Shall Preach?

#4) "Prophecy means exhorting and preaching. When Joel 2:28 was fulfilled on the Day of Pentecost, all women (daughters) took turns and preached that day."

Is the above claim true? Can it be backed up by the Word of God? Do the witnesses present on the day of Pentecost verify that women preached? Did Mary the mother of Jesus preach on the Day of Pentecost? The only truthful answer is NO!

The fulfillment of Joel's prophecy does not support the doctrine of woman preachers:

The previous verses do not support women preachers in any shape or fashion. When Peter said: "THIS IS THAT", as he pointed to about 119 men and women, were any of them preaching? The answer is no! This is positive proof that Peter never intended that the word "Prophesy" in the Joel prophecy he just quoted, meant preaching. Did the spectators gathered around beholding this noisy group believe them to be preaching? The answer is no! Surely these thousands knew the difference between preaching and drinking? Did the multitude of Jews from every nation, mock and make fun of the men and women preaching, or were they mocking because they actually thought they might have been drinking new wine? Peter was preaching and there is a remarkable difference between his actions and those of the other 119. The attempt to have women preaching during Peter's delay in coming out from under the exuberance of the Holy Ghost, is falsehood. An effort to have women taking turns preaching after Peter concluded his preaching is another falsehood. The question arises, that if the word "Prophesy" in Joel's prophecy means to preach, when did the sons and daughters preach on the Day of Pentecost?

When the Holy Ghost fell upon the 120, they began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit of God gave them the utterance. This is the initial evidence that they received salvation. We know it was the salvation experience, because Peter invites the multitude to duplicate it in order to be saved. If it was the salvation experience to them who would believe, then it was the salvation experience to the 120. Speaking in other tongues as the Spirit gives the utterance, is what Peter identified as "THIS IS THAT." If speaking in tongues is the only thing the sons and daughters did at the same time, in fulfillment of Joel's prophecy, then speaking in tongues must be the interpretation of the word "prophesy" as meant by Joel.

Another question arises, were these 120 preaching in other tongues and giving altar calls, or were they just magnifying and praising God in these foreign languages? Again, the multitudes from the various nations offer us some insight here. They reported that they understood in their own tongues what the 120 were speaking. They did not report that they were preaching. They certainly didn't tell Peter, "we already heard what you're saying from those over there speaking in tongues." There is no hint that the unbelieving Jews considered those speaking in tongues doing some kind of preaching. What the unbelieving Jews said was: "how hear we every MAN speaking in our tongues the wonderful works of God." There can be no mistake here. They were not preaching or Peter did not preach first and open up the door of the Kingdom with the keys.

We may conclude, by attesting to the fact that the word "prophesy" as used by Joel meant to speak in other tongues. We must also acknowledge that while speaking in tongues, the sons and daughters had to be predicting Spiritual events in order for it to qualify as prophecy. This refutes the arguments made by the Jezebel boys and girls that prophecy means to preach. Since when have you ever heard a woman get up and speak in tongues for two hours and sit down and call this preaching? If prophesy as meant in the Joel passage was fulfilled in speaking in tongues on the day of Pentecost, then it stands to reason, a woman preaching claiming this verse as ordination, will only speak in tongues while she is preaching.

Fact is, Peter is the only one who preached on the Day of Pentecost. Therefore, NO other man or woman, speaking in tongues preached. Therefore, speaking in tongues and the word prophesy do not describe preaching. As Peter was preaching, the other eleven Apostles were the only Preachers present. Not one of them corrected Peter. Not one of them was a woman. Matthew did not correct him about water baptism in the Name of Jesus Messiah. And Peter's reference to sons and daughters prophesying, did not mean they were preaching.

About 3,120 were baptized with the Holy Ghost that day and spoke in tongues. Not one of them who might have been a woman, believed this experience was a license to preach. If so, the Apostles and Elders did not recognize them in the sacred record for the first one hundred years of the Church. Surely, something as profound as thousands of women preachers, could not have been so easily missed and ignored. Even if they were missed by the writers of the New Testament, other men whose writings come down to us would not have missed such facts. If women preachers were so numerous and plentiful, it would hardly have been thought so outrageous for Montanus to ordain the two women preachers who created quite a stir of resentment among the orthodox Apostolics who remained in that hour.

If the fulfillment of Joel's "prophesy" is a woman's license to preach, then everyone who receives the gift of the Holy Ghost in fulfillment of Joel's prophecy are also equally called to preach. This not only includes women, as you may well see. It includes everyone regardless of their past, their sex, their age, and their mental capacity. Until I see Pastors who believe that Joel's prophecy means to preach, allow everyone in their Church who has the Holy Ghost equal freedom to preach, I will refuse to accept their use of Joel 2:28 as being truthful and honest.

Paul did not believe that everyone who received the Holy Ghost according to Joel 2:28 was a Preacher. Down in all of their hearts, neither do the Jezebel boys and girls. They will still teach and preach that the New Testament Ministry of an Elder or Bishop, is a Calling, not the fulfillment of Joel's prophecy.

Every woman preacher I have ever met or heard, all claimed God CALLED them to preach. I have never met a woman preacher who reported that she received the gift of prophecy to preach. All of them without exception have claimed the right to preach by turning the word "prophesy" in the Joel and Acts texts into preaching. Consider the weight of the following three conclusions of this false doctrine:

No where can it be found that God ever called a woman to have the high honor of being an ordained Preacher:

Three things are evident in this verse. First, that women are excluded the HONOR of being CALLED. Second, the CALLING was specifically to MEN. Third, "HE" that is called of God "AS" was Aaron, could never identify a female. Thus, no females were ever a part of the Aaronic or priesthood of Jesus Messiah.

Three things are evident here also: first, there were no women called of God as priestess or high priestess in the days of Melchisdec. Second, the CALLING of all priest is into an ORDER. No female was ever recognized as called into one of these ORDERS. Third, the only recognized ORDERS in the Old Testament are those of the Melchisedec and the Levitical. There were no females in either.

Jesus Messiah came after the ORDER of Melchisdec. This is the ONLY New Testament ORDER! Hence, all New Testament Ministers who are CALLED of GOD as Ministers of Jesus Messiah, are IN THE MELCHISDEC PRIESTHOOD OF JESUS Messiah. The three ORDERS in sequence are: The original Melchisdec Order; the Levitical Order; and the Melchisdec Order of Jesus Messiah. There are no females in any of the three Orders.

In our search for the Apostolic Woman, you will not find her in the Order of Melchisdec, the Levitical Order, or the Melchisdec Order of Jesus Messiah. You will find her loving and ministering to her husband and children. You will find a profile of a beautiful Apostolic Woman in her unrelenting labor of love, well documented in Proverbs 31:10-31. The virtuous Apostolic women bears no relationship to a woman preacher or priestess. The least of Apostolic Women are greater than any woman who calls herself a preacher.

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