It's too bad the bogeyman satan didn't totally take down Apostle Malm's blog yesterday in order to stop the asinine silliness in legalistic bullshit he has been coming up with lately.
His constant harping about hats for women and men is getting ridiculous. As long as he wants to continue in this legalistic BS, I will continue to point out his silliness.
Hats for men are symbols of power and authority, hats for women are a sign you are chaste and under authority of a man (and men in general) and that you know your place in the food chain.
In a similar manner the custom in Israel of covering the heads of women was used by the apostle Paul as an allegory of spiritual things. We cannot understand the meaning of 1 Cor 11 unless we understand something of this custom in Israel.
COURTESY, MANNERS AND CUSTOM
Until very recently it was the custom for men to wear hats while outside. When the entered a home or business they removed their hats out of respect for the household or establishment and it was considered an insult for a man not to remove his hat on entering. It was also common courtesy for a gentleman to tip or lift his hat upon meeting ladies, this was also good manners and common courtesy. Gentlemen ALWAYS removed their hats while praying or in the presence of god or that considered Holy. This was done as a show of RESPECT to God and the Holy.
Ladies especially married ladies usually wore hats which would be worn both inside and outside. This was a token that they were chaste and faithful to their husbands, a token of the power [authority] of their husbands and their faithful submission to their husbands. To be properly dressed would include a modest garment including some type of hat or head covering.
These customs of proper modest dress including head wear were almost universal in the western world until about WW1 when national mores began to loosen and change. it is now at the point that such considerations have been long forgotten. I recently entered a restaurant only to see several men eating with their hats on. This is an incredably rude and uncouth, mannerless thing to do; yet these folks were quite probably just ignorant of the basics of good manners and courtesy.
Today we are living in the most wicked period in human history and we are so enured to it and the evils are so commonplace that we go about blissfully unaware of the overspreading of our abominations.
If the Apostle Malm wants to talk about abominations in the world he needs to start with the Churches of God and the evil that exists in it first! Oh wait, he is, that's why hats for men and women are a first step in obedience.
(Malm's interpretation is in black, scriptures in red)
Women should cover their heads in front of their men as a sign of submission because you are less than.
In Israel a woman who uncovers her head symbolically removes herself from the authority of her husband and is as an adulteress. For that reason a woman accused of adultery is to uncover her head at her trial of loyalty.
In Israel married women specifically covered their heads to prevent men other than their husbands from lusting after their beauty revealed in the glory of their hair. A married woman who went out with her head uncovered was considered promiscuous.
5But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven. If a woman has her head uncovered she is considered promiscuous by the custom of Israel. For having her head uncovered is a dishonour to her husband and is the same as broadcasting that she refuses the authority of her own husband; which means that she also refuses the authority of his head, even Christ and the Father.
6For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered. If a woman refuses to cover her head, then let her head be shaved or her hair cropped close. This cannot mean that the hair is the covering since if she had hair and it were the covering spoken of; why would Paul command that the hair be shaved off?
In Malm's world and in all legalistic fundamentalist cults, sects, and religions, women are relegated to the dung heap as unworthy, less than, potential wanton hussies, all the while they are bombarded by the fact that that the men are created in the glorious, majestic, powerful image of God.
7For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: the husband is a type of Christ who will become the husband of the New Covenant. but the woman is the glory of the man. The woman is to cover her head as a symbol that she is under the power or authority of her husband and of his head, Christ and the Father. For the man symbolizes Christ as the husband of spiritual Israel.
13Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered? People of Israel; whose custom is that an uncovered woman is a promiscuous person and an unfaithful wife; is it right that a woman come before God with the attire of a rebellious wife?
Apostle Malm has discovered the root of ALL the problems in the Churches of God. You rebellious fools who do not wear hats are the cause of ALL the problems in the Churches of God.
Look at the state of the church today! Why are we in such a state? Because we lack God’s spirit, and we lack God’s spirit because we do not obey him with zeal and a whole heart; instead every group leader is doing what is right in his own eyes. Why do we not obey? Because we lack that basic of love for God called
R E S P E C T. We neither love him enough to fully obey him, nor do we respect him enough to obey his Word!
I had thought that this head covering was a small thing and after more study I find that is goes to the very basics of the problem in the COGs; Personal P R I D E and a lack of respect for God!
So a word of warning to all you ladies out there. Unless you wear your hat to church for prayer and around your husband, you will turn into a wanton hussie like this:
