Children their oppressors and women rule over

Ezekiel 13:17: [17] Likewise, thou son of man, set thy face against the daughters of thy people, which prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy thou against them,

They're doing exactly the same as the male prophets, but now you've got some prophetesses; women preachers. They're going to practice witchcraft, the enchantment arts, all the conjuring and so forth involved there, explains Richard Jordan.

It says they "prophesy out of their own heart." All these things that are happening in the first cycle of the Fifth Course repeat themselves in the last cycle, which is the tribulation.

Revelation 2:20: [20] Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.

Notice, it's the woman Jezebel. Ahab and Jezebel were the couple that made Baal worship the official religion of the northern kingdom. Her dad was the priest of Baal. She's not a prophetess but she calls herself one.

In the Bible there is no order of prophetesses. There is an order of prophets. There's a school of prophets. Now, there were some women prophets; when the men weren't doing their job God would raise up a woman, but God raised them up.

Like with Jezebel, there are women claiming to be prophetesses; claiming a position God didn't give them. It isn't something that God put on their heart to do. It's something they decided they were going to do because of the satanic program they're propagating.

We've seen these ladies before in Ezekiel 8. The nation had so degenerated.

Ezekiel 8: [13] He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations that they do.

[14] Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD's house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.

You have these women praying, weeping, worshipping in that temple and there's no provision for that at all but they've put themselves in that. It's the thinking of their own heart. So when they're preaching, they are out of place and don't have a message from God.

There's a fascinating passage in Isaiah 3:

[16] Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:
[17] Therefore the LORD will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts.
[18] In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon,
[19] The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
[20] The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,
[21] The rings, and nose jewels,
[22] The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins,
[23] The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.
[24] And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.
[25] Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.
[26] And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.

I'll let you decide what all that is in verse 16. In my mind, when I read those words images come up. When it says they're haughty, walking with stretched forth necks, that means they're strutting their stuff and they're dressed to do it.

Isaiah 3:11-13: [11] Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

[12] As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
[13] The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people.

Their leaders are destroying the nation but it's the children that are ruling and women who are leading. The issue there is not just that they are women; it's that they're haughty: 'We know what God's doing.'

Verse 17: [17] Therefore the LORD will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts.

Now, Deuteronomy 28 says one of the things He's going to do in punishing Israel when they do these things is strike them with baldness. It's going to be the scab on the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion.

You see there's a whole list of specifics that they're involved in because what they're doing has so penetrated and is engrossing to them right down to all their attire.

Everything about them is being caught up in it. That's not just a description of a fashion show; that's a description of the dressings they have in their false worship and false prophecy.