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    God's Gift to Women: The Glory of the Scarlet Thread
    God's Gift to Women: The Glory of the Scarlet Thread
    God's Gift to Women: The Glory of the Scarlet Thread
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    God's Gift to Women: The Glory of the Scarlet Thread

    By Willodine Hopkins

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    Part 1

    The blood symbolism is traced from Genesis to The Cross.

    After Eve became the first sinner, she then tempted her husband Adam to sin also. God killed animals and gave the couple the animal skins to cover their bodies. Symbolically the animals blood pointed to Jesus shedding his blood in His death to cover the sins of all mankind.

    Chapters include research connecting that blood in childbirth, blood in the first Passover, blood in the menstrual cycle all are symbols pointing to the blood of Jesus shed on the cross.

    Gods people are commanded not to eat blood. A survey was made of the countries that use animal blood in preparing food. Also, an investigation was made into the way animals are killed in the USA, and how their blood was drained from their carcasses, making meat comply with Gods law.

    Bible women Rahab and Tamar are studied and their connection with the symbolism of the redeeming blood of Jesus. Christians take communion symbolically remembering Jesus shed His blood for our sins today.

    Part 2

    Short life stories of women whose lives inspire us and who help make this world a better place.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateApr 28, 2011
    ISBN9781456729707
    God's Gift to Women: The Glory of the Scarlet Thread
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    Willodine Hopkins

    Willodine Hopkins, a widow with four grown children, was born and lived many years of her life in Northeast Arkansas. She holds a Bachelor's Degree and a Master's Degree in Biology in Education from Arkansas State University. While living in Arkansas, she taught in the Clover Bend and Tuckerman public school districts several years. She then made a career change and began to teach in Christian educational institutions, Crowley's Ridge Academy for two years, Crowley's Ridge College for five years. While on the faculty of Crowley's Ridge College, she was the Woman's Coordinator for their Comprehensive Evangelism Program, organizing and sending "Campaigns for Christ" groups to New England, Panama, Canada and China. On weekends she organized and conducted nearly one-hundred "1,000 for Christ" Ladies' Rallies. In each rally, a thousand persons were taught the Gospel using Bible correspondence courses. She also coordinated "Target-A-Nation" evangelism workshops in which missionaries, campaign workers and interested Christians assembled to learn the peoples and cultures of the nations and how to plan to reach each nation with the Gospel. She then relocated to Southern California, continued her education by taking courses from California State University and the University of California at various campuses in the evening and on Saturdays, while she taught in Normandie Christian School in Los Angeles and later for Los Angeles Unified School District. When she retired from teaching, she pursued her dream of becoming a writer. Also, after her retirement she became heavily involved in Friendspeak, a part of Let's Start Talking program, teaching the Gospel to international students using Friendspeak materials. She taught students from China, South Korea, Mongolia, Turkey, and Thailand. As a teacher of Biblical women and women's role in evangelism, she has taught at Retreats, Special Luncheons, Creative Writing Seminars, and Soul Winning Workshops at Crowley's Ridge College, Biola University, Pepperdine University, and was the Keynote speaker at various women's conventions and conferences in many U.S. states and Canada. Chronological Listing of Published Works Periodicals: Once a month articles: The Way of Truth, a periodical published in Rampachodavaram, India (1982-1983) Article: Church Growth, a quarterly report publication: The Most Successful Teacher About Jesus: A Pattern For Soul Winning, (4th Quarter, 2004) A booklet of poems on Cherokee Folklore, Private publication: Growing Up Noiskleta (2004) Article: Christian Woman magazine, Evangelizing the World at Home (November-December 2007) Books: A History of the Influence of Women, (5-4-2004) Learning to Integrate the Attributes of God Into Our Own Personality Volume I, (2-21-2005) In His Presence My Heart Is Made Strong, (12-7-2005) Learning To Integrate The Attributes Of God Into Our Own Personality Volume II, (2-7-2007) The Valiant Christian Woman, Volume I, with Mary Ulmet (3-15, 2007) Solomon's Legacy for Women (1-23-2008) Women's Voices In The Church Today, with Rynn Cooper (7-22- 2008) Significant Women In the Signs Of God with Nita Brinkley Smith (January 2010) God's Gift To Women: The Glory Of The Scarlet Thread Work in Progress How Can Women Pray And Be Sure God Will Answer? (available December 2011)

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      God's Gift to Women - Willodine Hopkins

      © 2011 Willodine Hopkins. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      First published by AuthorHouse 04/25/2011

      ISBN: 978-1-4567-2969-1 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4567-2970-7 (e)

      Printed in the United States of America

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models,

      and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      Grateful acknowledgements to Roy Seay for proof-reading this book.

      A special Thanks to Shannon Seay and Jeffrey Seay for technical assistance.

      Cover design by Roy Seay – Photograph Sears

      This book is dedicated to my brothers because of their service to this country when in the military:

      Ralph Franklin Hopkins, career U.S. Navy- three Viet Nam tours

      Douglas Lloyd Hopkins, U. S. Army – Korean War

      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1. Symbolism Of First Animal Blood

      Chapter 2. Blood In Childbirth

      Chapter 3. Blood In Monthly Menstrual Cycle

      Chapter 4. God’s Blood Covenant With Abraham

      Chapter 5. An Angel, A Knife And A Blood Sacrifice

      Chapter 6. Egyptian Water Turned Into Blood

      Chapter 7. Blood In The First Passover

      Chapter 8. God’s People Forbidden To Eat Blood

      Chapter 9. Blood Proof Of Virginity

      Chapter 10. The Scarlet Thread Tamar In The Bloodline Of Jesus

      Chapter 11. Symbolic Blood Sign: Rahab And The Scarlet Cord

      Chapter 12. The Sacrificial Blood Of Jesus

      Chapter 13. Thelma Pat McCutcheon Jagmin

      Chapter 14. Celia Ann Jones Ruddick

      Chapter 15. Regina Louise Jones Thomas

      Chapter 16. Joyce Curtis Bennett

      Chapter 17. Kristy Karen Alexander Brown

      Chapter 18. Martha Loreen Yeargan Massie

      Chapter 19. Mackie Doreen Reed Chesnutt

      Chapter 20. Marlene Phillips Sands

      Chapter 21. Peggy Jean Anderson Hammond

      Chapter 22. Myfanwy Miffy Thomas

      Chapter 23. Charlene Lee Balcom

      Chapter 24. Terri Ann Rowden Allen

      Chapter 25. Brenda Sue Lumpkin Smith

      Chapter 26. Glenda Louise Bensch Buschman

      Chapter 27. Joyce Spencer Royal

      Chapter 28. Jo Ann Adamson Jones

      Chapter 29. Jewell Ann Harrell Towles

      Chapter 30. Rebecca Heffner Hedges

      Chapter 1

      Symbolism Of First Animal Blood

      (10 minutes)

      The LORD made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them. And the LORD said, Now that man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat and live forever.

      Genesis 3:21-22

      Eve was the first one to sin, but God held Adam accountable because Eve was made from his body. He was the head of his house and did not make any attempt to restrain Eve, but willingly ate of the forbidden fruit when she gave it to them.

      God’s Shekinah glory, (God’s magnificent light) faded from their bodies. Adam and Eve saw their own nakedness and realized that God had left them. After God talked with them and told them the consequences for their sin; He killed animals, the first shedding of animal’s blood, and made them clothing with which to cover their naked bodies. Their covering (clothing) was symbolic. In the future Jesus’ blood would cover their sins.

      Scarlet Thread Connection

      This is my judgment; therefore, we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God. Instead we should write them; telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood

      Acts 15:19-20.

      Today many cultures, including China and Scotland, use blood in their cooking. Write and tell how important it is for you to obey God rather than man, when invited to eat something that has blood as an ingredient, even though it is accepted as being ‘culturally correct?’

      The Miracle Of Jesus’ Conception

      (20 minutes)

      In the sixth month (of John the Baptist’s mother’s pregnancy) God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to a virgin pledged to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. The angel went to her and said, Greetings, you are highly favored! The LORD is with you.

      Mary was greatly troubled at his words and wondered what kind of greeting this might be. But the angel said to her, Do not be afraid, Mary you have found favor with God. You will be with child and give birth to a son, and you are to name him Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever; his kingdom will never end.

      How can this be, Mary asked the angel, since I am a virgin?

      The angel answered, "The Holy Spirit will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God. Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be barren is in her sixth month. For nothing is impossible with God."

      I am the Lord’s servant, Mary answered. May it be as you have said." Then the angel left her.

      Luke 1:26-38

      Jesus is a descendant of David through Mary, his mother. She was a descendant of David’s and Bathsheba’s son Nathan.

      (I Chronicles 3:5). Jesus’ kingdom is a spiritual kingdom, HIS church. It cannot be abolished; even the gates of hell cannot destroy it.

      Also, David is the ancestor of a physical kingdom through his son Solomon, another son of David by Bathsheba. As God promised that the kingdom Jesus built cannot ever pass away; David was promised that his royal lineage on earth would last forever. Jeremiah 33:19-26

      History shows that the prophet Jeremiah took the daughters of Zedekiah, the last king of Judah from Egypt to Ireland after the temple was destroyed and the Jews were taken into Babylonian captivity in 586 B.C. One daughter Tea Tephi married the king of Ireland. Queen Elizabeth of England traces her genealogy to Solomon and David through this marriage.

      Mary became the person God used to fulfill the promise to David of a spiritual kingdom. Jeremiah and Tea Tephi became the ones to fulfill the physical kingdom promise. From a Christian perspective Mary had the greater honor. When one studies women in the Bible and in secular history, there is no woman who has received the honor that Mary received when God chose her to be the mother of Jesus.

      There is no command to worship Mary in the Bible. Mary can be honored as the mother of Jesus, but never worshipped as deity. She was a chaste, pure-hearted woman, but not deity. Jesus always honored His mother, but never worshipped her as God. He always did the will of His father, God.

      There has never been another baby conceived as Jesus was conceived. He is the Son of God, the Savior of the world. Those who write, preach and teach that Mary was not a virgin; Joseph was really Jesus’ father either have not studied the Bible carefully or they lie for their own advantage.

      In the Old Testament Isaiah 7:14 states, Behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call His name Emanuel. Emanuel means God with us. No other son in all of history has been conceived without the sexual union of a man and woman. Jesus is unique. His conception was caused because God loves lost humanity. Jesus was fully God and fully human.

      Many believe Mary suffered because some knew that she was pregnant before she actually married Joseph. Everyone who knew her counted Jesus as Joseph’s son. She kept her secret and never told that God was the real father of Jesus until after He arose from the dead.

      Key Concept Personal Application

      (5 minutes)

      It has been said that The birth of every baby changes the world.

      Write your opinion whether this is a true statement or not.

      Notes

      Chapter 1

      Key Concepts Small Groups Discussion

      Break into small groups.

      Each group will discuss one study question.

      One spokesperson will report to the class the group’s discussion of the

      key concept question assigned to them.

      (5 minutes group discussion and 10 minutes to report)

      1. Share and discuss your paragraphs on: The birth of every baby changes the world. Do not criticize each other’s paragraphs, but enjoy the richness of the diversity of answers.

      2. Discuss the meaning of the word miracle. Talk about some miracles done in the Old Testament.

      3. If you were Mary’s mother, how would you handle the fact that your daughter was pregnant? Remember back in those times women were stoned for not being a virgin when they married.

      4. God always keeps His promises. Discuss God’s promise to David his kingdom would never end.

      5. Mary had other children by Joseph after Jesus was born. How do you think she kept herself from being partial to Jesus?

      6. …God who created all things through Jesus Christ. (Ephesians 3:9b). Jesus knew from creation that He was to be the Savior of the world and that He would shed His blood and die a criminal’s death and this was God’s will. What does this tell about Jesus’ loving heart and willingness to obey God?

      Chapter 2

      Blood In Childbirth

      (10 minutes)

      To the woman he said, I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children.

      Genesis 3:16a

      One of the most infallible proofs that the Bible is the Word of God is the fact that women suffer bearing children. Evolutionists may come up with other reasons why this is so, but a woman’s experience of having a child still proves this is true.

      No baby is born without the mother shedding blood. Women need the best-trained persons possible to help them when they are in labor and giving birth. Too much medication is not good for the mother or the baby. Sometimes there is a flood of bleeding and even the most skillful obstetrician has problems stopping its flow.

      Women unable to deliver a baby on their own or for some other reason have their baby by Caesarian section. This practice goes back to the time of Caesar. Then the woman always died and most times the baby lived. Today C-sections are safer and there are few deaths of the mother. Blood is always shed during a C-section.

      Scarlet Thread Connection

      God said, "The life of a creature is in their blood (Leviticus 17:11). Write what it means to you that a mother sheds blood giving life to a new baby and Jesus shed His blood to give spiritual life

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