Thursday | 12 June 2025
To further understand the work of the bride, the church, we can consider a woman in a family, for she is the community of the bride in the household. Instructing such women, the apostle Peter wrote, ‘Wives, likewise, be submissive to your own husbands, that even if some do not obey the word, they, without a word, may be won by the conduct of their wives, when they observe your chaste conduct accompanied by fear’. 1Pe 3:1-2.
The chaste conduct of a woman who is established in the fear of the Lord in the order of headship under Christ, is holy and clean in relation to her priesthood in the temple of Christ, and also as a wife and mother in her house. Through her obedience to the word, she is being built on Christ, her foundation Stone, as she is submitted to her husband in the fear of the Lord. 1Pe 2:7-8.
Evidently, the woman’s head is covered so that she and her family are not subject to the oppression of unclean spirits that belong to the kingdom of Satan. The apostle Paul wrote to the Corinthians, ‘Because of this, the woman ought to have authority on the head, because of the angels’. 1Co 11:10 LITV. Having no access, Satan is unable to devour her children, who are holy on account of her faith. 1Co 7:14.
The apostle John described the corporate bride of Christ in the time of the end by saying, ‘Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a garland of twelve stars.’ Rev 12:1. In principle, we could use this same imagery to describe every godly woman who belongs to the corporate bride of Christ. A godly woman’s feet are on ‘the moon’, which symbolises Christ, and, as a son of God, she is shining forth as ‘the sun’, which is the glory of the Father.
Further Study:
1 Peter 3
References:
1Pe 3:1-2
Wives, likewise, be submissive to your own husbands, that even if some do not obey the word, they, without a word, may be won by the conduct of their wives, when they observe your chaste conduct accompanied by fear.
1Pe 2:7-8
Therefore, to you who believe, He is precious; but to those who are disobedient, ‘The Stone which the builders rejected has become the Chief Cornerstone’, and ‘a Stone of stumbling and a Rock of offence’. They stumble, being disobedient to the word, to which they also were appointed.
1Co 11:10 LITV
Because of this, the woman ought to have authority on the head, because of the angels.
1Co 7:14
For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband; otherwise, your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.
Rev 12:1
Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a garland of twelve stars.