Yes, I had come across this article a while
back. We tend not to respond to articles that are condescending,
sarcastic and cynical as this one as I do not believe that those
operating under such a spirit are very inspired.
I don't propose to go into a detailed rebuttal
of this article mostly for want of time other than to point out some
basic truths about Gender that are hard for anyone to refute:
1. There is a distinction between literal gender
and metaphor - of course - and we highlight this difference in, for
example, how a man can adopt 'female' positioning spiritually by
submitting to Yah'shua as part of the metaphorical bride which is
obviously not literally female since it is composed of men and women;
2. No one disputes that Yah'shua was all-male
(organs and all) and that He was in the image of His Father (not an
hermaphrodite Parent). Nevertheless He adopted a 'female' positioning
to His father as a submissive son. Nevertheless the Father also
'nourishes' and is likened to a mother hen. Father's nourish too. That
have female qualities, as would be expected, since they have both a
male X and a female Y chromosome, and the Ruach was made from the
Father.
3. The Ruach (Spirit) is a female personage. The
Pershitta makes it clear that "SHE (the Female Perssonage), the Ruach
gives testimony" (Rom.8:16). Ruach is female gender always in Hebrew
and Aramaic.
4. The critics of our view of Hochmah (Wisdom)
claim that Wisdom always points back to Yah'shua. Well of course
ultimately that is true - indeed, ultimately-ultimately all points back
to the Father. The Ruach bears witness of the Son, as She is supposed
to, and the Son points back to the Father.
5. The real agenda of Tektonics is the
defence of a preconceived, Catholic-inspired all-male Trinity doctrine
which compells them (to defend it) to reduce all the feminine to
metaphor only. What else can they do? The spirit that drives them is, I
thing, a chauvanistic one.
6. And what about the 'spirit of fear', even the
'spirit of chauvanism' (were that to be biblical)? The ruach (spirit)
of something is a breath of something, the life of something, and the
life or breath behind fear, lust, etc., is demonic - demonic entities
or personages. So what of godly 'spirits' or 'ruachs'? They are clearly
from another kind of Breath or Ruach, namely THE Ruach - the Ruach
haQodesh, our Heavenly Mother.
7. Finally, I make no apology for having seen
Her, nor will I apologise for others who have seen Her too. The fact
that the cynical intellectuals of Tektonics don't seem to have
theophanies and are forced to hide behind Catholic-inspired problems
does not make me envious of them, but rather to feel sorry for them.
The intellectuals, devoid of real Ruach, will always appear to be
'wise' and reinterpret scripture to fit into their pre-conceived (and
Babylonian-derived - as Heslop demontsrates) doctrines. So I will not
lose any sleep over people demonstrating spirits or rucahs of darkness
- they have simply proved to me that they are driven by what they know
not.