Why did Satan go to eve first? Why did he not go to Adam first?
Genesis 3:6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good (suitable, pleasant) for food and that it was delightful to look at, and a tree to be desired in order to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate; and she gave some also to her husband, and he ate.
The role of a wife or mother is such an important role and much of the Christian world do not realize how so important the role it is in the body of Christ. The role and choices of the wife may determine life or death for a family and ministry. Many Christian misinterpret the bible and think the wives should sit in the back of the pews and be silent. Many pastors assign their wives to sit in the back and be silent. Yes, perhaps, for unruly, untamed, and unbroken women such as were the many Corinthinans but God wants the women to know their identity in Christ Jesus as servants and daughters of the Most High. Whether men or women, both needs to be broken by God so they may be used properly for HIS Kingdom and Glory.
The woman was taken out from the man. God created Eve from Adam's rib. When a man leaves home, the husband and wife become one. Eve was taken from inside the man. Both are one. Yes, our personalities and characteristics are different because Eve represents the inside while the Adam represents the outside. Both are one. Eve is from the inside. She needs Adam's covering as he represents the outside. Without the covering, she cannot function properly. The covering represents authority. The covering can represent protection and such. Eve is from the inside. She can represent what is going on inside. We do not see the important role of our organs and such. We cannot see what is occuring inside our bodies. Since we do not see it, we do not realize the importance. But without what is occuring inside our bodies, we cannot function.
The traditional physical role of a women or wife is to take care of the household. She is one who prepares the food. She is the one who goes out to buy, inspecting the produce, meats, and goods to bring home and to feed her family. She prepares the food for her husband and family to eat. She must be the spiritual Proverbs 31 wife. A Proverbs 31 wife is made. She does not just become. She is made in the refining fires of God's Will. We all understand the physical role, now we must understand the spiritual role.
Proverbs 31:14-16 AMP She is like the merchant ships loaded with foodstuffs; she brings her household’s food from a far [country].15 She rises while it is yet night and gets [spiritual] food for her household and assigns her maids their tasks. 16 She considers a [new] field before she buys or accepts it [expanding prudently and not courting neglect of her present duties by assuming other duties]; with her savings [of time and strength] she plants fruitful vines in her vineyard.
One morning as my children left for school, I began my morning prayer. When my wife had return home from dropping off the kids to school, she decided to take a nap. As she was going back to sleep and as the music was loud and as she heard me pray, she saw a vision. In her vision, as she heard me pray in the spirit (tongue) she saw me eating. The revelation God taught us was that as I prayed, I was spiritually eating. As a pastor, for me to be spiritual healthy, able to discern, able to preach with the anointing, I must stay in prayer and in HIS Presence eating so that I may be strengthen and ready to serve. I must always be praying.
We see the role of the wife in Proverbs 31. In the physical sense, the job of the wife is to prepare the househould and food for the husband and children. The traditional job of the husband is to go work and make money. If the wife did not do her job, then the husband and kids would come home to a dirty house with nothing to eat. Because the role of the husband is different, he does not have the time to go buy produce and meat to take the time to cook. If he comes home to where there is no meal prepared, then there will be some problems and he will have to look elsewhere to be fed. Now, mind you, this is the traditional role and in our modern sense the roles may have changed and we may have many restaurants and fast foods but our modern century does not justify our need to fulfuill our spiritual roles.
If my wife saw in her vision of me spiritual eating during my prayer, then there must be spiritual food prepared for me to eat. How is spiritual food prepared? When the wives are doing their part praying each day whether you get up early in the morning or pray during the evenings, you are spiritual preparing spiritual food for your husbands to eat when they begin to pray. The wives are the ones feeding their husbands whether spiritually or physically. The wife is the helper. She is the preparer. She is suppose to be the advisor. She represent the wise men. She can be our counselors. She can be our influencers. Adam is the one in authority and makes the final decisions. But Kings and Presidents have counselors, wise men, advisors, and so forth who influence and feeds information so that the king or presidents can make their final decisions. The wives are our navigators as the husbands are the drivers. In the physical, women can be the most worst when it comes to directions and reading maps but when properly broken and spiritually trained, they are to be our navigators looking at the map of the Holy Spirit to advise us when to turn and give us directions/counsel. The pilot and navigator need each other. One cannot function without the other.
Many churches are filled with women. Why are there so many women and not the men? In order to bring proper order, God must use proper order to restore the families, ministries, and churches. It was Eve who sinned first and Eve must now bear the pain of child bearing to bring forth the life of Christ into their families. The wives are generally called first to persevere, endure and suffer through prayer and breaking to bring life into her family. Wives, please do not blame, resent, or get angry at your husbands for being stagnant, religious, cheating, or unbelieving. Yes, I know you want them to believe properly and have your household serve God, but in reality, God is waiting for the wives. It is not about whose fault it is. It is not the fault of husbands or wives. We do not need to discern whose fault but we need to properly sacrifice our lives fulfill our roles so that God may bring back order into our families and churches. God is waiting for the wives to die to themselves, praying as they prepare spiritual food and the spiritual household for that appointed time when HE will touch your husbands' hearts. The wives must prepare the way for the husbands calling. Just as Jesus required John the Baptist to prepare the way for HIS coming, the church must prepare the way for HIS return as it is reflected in the wives to prepare the way for their husband's work in God. Wives, if you just sit at home and complain about your husbands, then God will require you to answer to HIM for such waste of time. You can choose to be a wife that brings forth the Child or brings for death through gossip and slander.
Proverbs 21:9 It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop [on the flat oriental roof, exposed to all kinds of weather] than in a house shared with a nagging, quarrelsome, and faultfinding woman.
God will use the trails and tests in which the women may be going through with their husbands or families to break the wives. But the wives must become the Proverbs 31 wife as they are made through prayer, crushing, and breaking. From ashes to beauty, may the fragrance of the Lord come forth from the wives to bring the scent of Jesus Christ into our families. How long must the wives wait? This can depend on the soil condition or the heart of the wives. If the ground is extremely hard, then a greater impact or trail may come to break the ground. The ground must be plowed, tilled and ready for planting and then the rain. We must allow God to break us so our hearts may be plowed, tilled and broken so that when the Word of God is spoken, it is planted. But the soil conditions must be furtile and soft so when the RAIN (Holy Spirit) comes to shower, HIS Spirit will soak into the soil of our hearts. Each process has stages, seasons, and require time. We must learn to pray, allowing God to break us and persevere and endure the time for HIS personal coming for our lives, families, and churches.
The role of a wife is to feed the husband whether physically or spiritually as she prays. We have discussed the wife physically preparing food to physically feed and we have discussed the wife needing to pray to spiritually prepare spiritual food as the husband can spiritually eat as he prays. If your husband is a pastor, then he will have a difficult time preaching in the anointing and operating in the anointing if there are no spiritual food prepared for the week. Yes, he may be able to preach a good message of knowledge, but revelation and wisdom will lack as the anointing will lack. In any church services, without the anointing of the Holy Spirit/His Presence, it is but dry and physically strenuous. If one does not eat physically, one can become tired and this can affect the performace. Spiritually, this is the same. We must be in prayer whether we are the ones preparing or eating. The congregation are the spiritual children as the pastors are the spiritual father/mother. The role of the pastor's wives are the spiritual mothers to continue to prepare spiritual food for the spiritual father and spiritual children and as they pray, they are spiritually fed.
Although we live in the physical we must live spiritually and we must discern spiritually. As Christians we are to operate and live in the Spirit. Our physical actions all have spiritual consequences. In the middle realm between physical and spiritual, the wives will continue to feed their husbands. The bible says our words will bring forth life or death. In most cases, the women are the ones who speak a lot. The men generally can stay quiet. In a marriage, the women are the influencers of the husband. During the days, weeks, months, the wives are feeding good or bad food to their husbands. Through her words, the husband is getting fed. The words are spoken physically but it is being digested spiritually as he hears with his ears. If the wife constantly speaks negative things or is a bad advisors, within time, such words will have sunk into the soil of her husband which influences his decisions. There are many husbands who are collateral causalties. There has been no spiritual food for them to eat even though they wanted to spiritually go to work. Husbands, do not be harsh your wives. You must treat them with gentleness and love them as Christ loves the Church. But if the wife has been properly broken and trained, then her physical words will edify and bring forth life as the husband makes the proper decisions and choices. Proper order and authority will be restored.
Proverbs 31:10-13 AMP A capable, intelligent, and virtuous woman—who is he who can find her? She is far more precious than jewels and her value is far above rubies or pearls.11 The heart of her husband trusts in her confidently and relies on and believes in her securely, so that he has no lack of [honest] gain or need of [dishonest] spoil.12 She comforts, encourages, and does him only good as long as there is life within her.13 She seeks out wool and flax and works with willing hands [to develop it].
On the third day, on HIS Day, the Lord's Day, the spiritual day of the 4th commandment, the two Mary's went to the tomb of our Lord. The women were sent ahead of the men. They were the ones to bring back the message of HIS resurrection to the apostles. They had fed the apostles the spiritual food that the Messiah had RISEN! The assignment was given to the Mary's by God through the angel to tell the disciples and apostles that HE has RISEN! We hear from our churches our that God is a God of order and they think it has to do with a program or following a bulletin. NO, we must know the spiritual order of God to bring HIS Kingdom unto us.
Malachi 4:5-6 EXP “But I will send you Elijah the prophet before that great and terrifying day of the ·Lord’s judging [L Lord]. 6 Elijah will ·help parents love [turn the hearts of fathers/parents to] their children and ·children love [turn children to] their parents. Otherwise, I will come and ·put a curse on the land [strike the land with a curse/destruction].”
The spirit of Elijah is on many women and wives. Many husbands have the calling of ministry for God but the wives are being called to prepare the way. The wives may be waiting for the husbands to get right with God but HE is waiting for the wives to get on their knees, pray, be broken, be cleansed to prepare the way for the calling of their family. Once she chooses this proper role, God can bring proper order and then the fathers will have enough spiritual food to eat and become spiritually healthy to be restored to their children and the children to their parents. The spiritual fathers (pastors and other of God's servants) will operate in the Presence of the Holy Spirit as there will be much food to eat. The love of a wife and/or mother who had spend countless hours cooking with all her heart in love would now be serving a meal made in the fire furnces of God to bring the family back together.
Satan knew how to get to Adam and his family (generations), he needed to get to Eve since she is the one to feed them. She was the influencer or counslor to the one in authority who was Adam. Eve is not only the one to physically prepare and feed but also who spiritually prepare and feed. Satan brought poison and as scripture said, it was Eve who gave to her husband and he ate. It was Eve's function and role and in knowing spiritual authority and our roles, Satan went to Eve.
Now, God is calling on the wives and women to pray, be cleansed, be broken and assume the proper role to be your husband's helper. Yes, you will have to wait for your difficult husbands. You will share in God's suffering as God uses your husbands to bring the chiseling of your life. God does not want you to leave them nor divorce them. HE wants you to wait for them as HE as waited for you. Much of Eve's own difficulties from their husbands is because she was the one who fed him the poison. It is her own reaping. But there is Grace and Mercy now. God is calling on the daughters of the Most High to know your identity in Christ Jesus. HE is calling for prayer warriors and worship warriors. Arise and let the Glory of God rise from you. But you must be willing to sacrifice your time, your own desires and wants, and be fully surrendered to HIM. It is not your fault. It is not your husband's fault. But God will use your spouses to bring you to brokenness then HE will answer your prayers. Wives and mothers, it is time to get on your knees, repent, and pray without ceassing. May you come to the fullness of our KING and may you be filled with HIS love and Peace. May HE bring restoration to your families as HE prepares us for HIS Return.
Glory to HIM
Pastor Steve Yong Kim
with Proverbs 31 wife, Pastor Yoojin Kim
Fire of God Church
Fremont, CA USA
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