Miriam the Prophetess
Passage: Exodus 15:19-21
Women have always played an important role in the Bible. This is true in the OT, in the life and ministry of Jesus, in the history of the early church in Acts, and to the present day. More than any other religion, women have been elevated and honored in the Christian faith from the beginning.
For the month of November we will spend our Sunday evenings considering the four named good prophetesses in Scripture. There are three in the OT and one in the NT.
The four named prophetesses we will consider are Miriam, the older sister of Moses; Deborah, the prophetess and judge when Israel was ruled by judges; Huldah, the prophetess in the time of the monarchy during the reign of King Josiah; and finally Anna the NT prophetess in the temple at the time of Jesus’ birth.
Let me begin by reminding you again when we are studying the people in the Bible, the Bible is not a history of what people did for God, but what God did through people.
There are no perfectly righteous people in Scripture. Many of them are deeply flawed and broken.
I Corinthians 1:26-31 For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. 27 But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; 28 God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, 29 so that no human being might boast in the presence of God. … 31 so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”