There are no Jews, no Greeks, etc.. Part 33

There are many allusions to Israel by using women. The likeness to the horrendous treatment of women to sorrows that overtake Israel is shown again in Lamentations 5:11. This is a good example of what the Old Testament does for us and how we are to note the example and either follow that example or be warned of what will happen if we do follow that example. The likeness really demonstrates just how pitiful things had gotten in Israel and Judah. The scriptures also say that Israel needs protection, much as women in Ruth 3:11. This shows God’s desire to protect His people and to preserve the line to Jesus. (Matthew 1,Luke 1) Then again the image of women was not always as those that are pure and need protection. In Isaiah 32:9-11, women are shown to have been carefree and not obedient to God for so long that God is no longer so protective of them. In Jeremiah, Israel is being likened to a forgetful maid in forgetting God and thus their duties to the Father. In Ecclesiastes 7:26, Solomon describes seductive, entrapping women and finds them worse than death because they lead to death and make one forget about God. How does one escape such? By pleasing God. And this is by focusing on God away from seductresses. Women are also used to describe how bad influences corrupt, much as Israel was corrupted by outside, ungodly influences. All the way back to Genesis 3:6, women could be bad influences, and Israel is warned to stay firm and keep focused on what it knows is the truth. Another example is Jezebel in 1 Kings 21:25. Jezebel stirred up trouble much as those women that gossip against one another and people in general. Women are shown to be idol worshippers, and leading their children to be so. (Jeremiah 7:18). And in Nehemiah 13:26, men are warned against women that would cause them to sin, even a man such as Solomon. Women in Isaiah 3:12 are shown to be among the poor leaders and those leaders that take God’s people astray and in utter confusion, due to pride and selfishness. Indeed women are shown in Romans 1:26 to be given to unnatural desires and sinful natures, and God lets them, because this is what they wanted. Because God wants all to come to Him of free will, not because they are supposed to, not because that is what is expected of them, but that is what they wish to do. He wants His people to want to please Him. And women are compared to Israel in Ezekiel 16:32 to being adulterous because of how easily they fall in with those who do not do as God wants. Hosea 4:13,14, also use women to describe the unfaithfulness of Israel. Paul speaks of silly women in 2 Timothy 3:6. Further women are shown as being disobedient, as in Genesis 19:26 and Luke 17:32 and jealous as in Genesis 30:1. And the ultimate disobedience, Eve, in Genesis 3:1 and revisited in 1 Timothy 2:14.