This study is all about headcoverings. That’s right, we’re taking it back. If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you know that I posted a newbie’s study/talk about headcoverings, right after I myself began covering. Since then, I’ve seen a lot, I’ve heard a lot, and I’ve learned a lot. If you’re wondering, I still stand firm for the practice of women covering and men uncovering—as in accordance with Scripture. As for this post, I want to leave you with a solid study for you to go and prove by Scripture on your own, whether it be true or untrue. Keep following for some future posts on closely related topics. Let us open up Scripture. Question: What is head covering/uncovering?
Answer: Head uncovering is when a man keeps his head uncovered during prayer/teaching/worship to God, and contrastingly head covering is when a woman keeps her head covered during prayer/teaching/worship to God. The English terms "praying" and "prophesying" are defined by the original Greek text. Looking up the words in Strong's (numbers G4336 and G4395) we find that they denote prayer, supplication, worship, or speaking under divine inspiration. Basically, "praying" and "prophesying" represent times of set-apart activity. Question: Are we instructed to follow this practice of covering/uncovering?
Answer: We are instructed to follow this practice of covering and uncovering during set-apart (holy) activity. Let's look at how we can deduce this. Paul told his brethren in Corinth to copy him and added that they should do so in the same way as he copied Messiah. That's a serious imitation. It also shows that in all of Paul's practices set forth scripturally under inspiration of Yah, Christ is our example Whom we are to ultimately follow/imitate. The "but" Paul inserts at the beginning of verse 3 shows that they were following all that he would have them follow except for what he's about mention, which ends up being head uncovering/covering. Thus explaining why he goes into such detail about this one exception in what the Corinthians are doing right. Question: Why should men uncover and women cover their heads during set-apart activities?
Answer: Verse 6 is restated in verse 15 in the explanation of a woman’s long, womanly hair being a naturally-instituted reason by her Creator Himself that her head is the head to be covered during set-apart activities. It’s shameful feeling and naturally unbecoming for a woman to be shaven, and should be equally shameful and naturally unbecoming for a woman to involve herself in set-apart activity uncovered. Her head should feel bare and naked as it would feel if it were shorn. Verse 13 states this plainly through a rhetoric question. After all that he has said and taught under Divine Inspiration on this topic in the last ten verses, can you really believe that it could be comely for a woman to be in set-apart worship to the Most High uncovered? Judge in yourselves! Thus, because of the command to cover our heads in set-apart activities, we are given our longer, womanly hair, and when we see our hair and look upon our womanliness, we are to remember that the covering command is unto us. Paul is boiling it down to the fact that long, womanly hair on a female’s head is a tell-tale sign of her need to cover. Men, on the other hand, represent the glory of the One True God: man came first, begat the woman, and the woman was created for man. This is just like the Father and His begotten Son. And man, not having long hair by reason of his manliness—for it would be a shame to him—absolutely should not cover during set-apart activity, because by doing so he disfigures/misrepresents his Head. Q: How should a woman cover?
Answer: According to the explanations within Paul’s teaching on the subject, we need to cover the head in the most plain, simple, and straightforward sense. Scripture does not specify or limit to one type of covering piece or material, nor does it do so in regards to style. Many believe the hair to be fully concealed or barely visible. But Scripture plainly says to cover the head, not the hair, and even the Greek text supports this. In fact, seeing the hair underneath the covering is only a testimony to an onlooker that the woman in view understands that her long hair and covering it during worshipful acts were created to go together. Many things will cover a head: hats, wide scarves, veils, turbans, etc. The beauty is that in every culture there can be found feminine accessories to cover with. Now, I say accessories because a head covering is an accessory, it is not your own self/hair. I do not use “accessory” in a fashion sense; a head covering should be the opposite of a look-at-me, fashionable accessory. This is not to say that we cannot wear head coverings which we think are beautiful, but the headcovering, like everything else on a daughter of Yah, should be the very picture of modesty and humility, our true beauty coming from the ornament of a meek and quiet Spirit and the hidden Man of the heart. Praying this is a blessing and as always, drop a comment down below! Shalom ❤︎ Erica
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