What is supposed to Cover the Head?
Because of this, the debt of the wife is to have authorization from her husband on her head, on account of those watching. (1 Corinthians 11:10 Decoded)
It is the Man's job to provide. So if the woman is to seek offerings from the church, she should have her husband's permission. First off because the husband should be the one asking the guys. When he gives her what she needs it is "His Glory" so if she can get what she needs without him "What Glory does he receive?" Since women have little faith, and it takes so much for the women to even believe that their husbands still love them. Taking away the visible proof that he loves her is like shaving a woman's head. He no longer is able to look awesome to her. For the very need that is supposed to come through him. She can go herself and get. Ask yourself if a woman should have her husband's permission.
How does this apply?
The context starting at '1 Corinthians 10' readies us for the discussion about communion. Then @ 10:6 Paul explains that the reason that "God was not pleased" was because they "lusted after evil things". Then @ 10:7 Paul explains about sexual immorality then continues about temptations and complaining. How all those that did these things were punished by God and they all died. Then @ 10:13 Paul warns about temptations.
So the directives for communion begin with a warning about things that displease God. Then Paul's direction changes because his discussion about food was an answer to a question about eating food sacrificed to idols. Yet his discussion still remained focused on the topic of eating.
Then begins Chapter 11 and we learn of the head coverings, and right after that we have our well know passage delivered to the masses during communion. Now the focus is on this:
Why is the teaching about head coverings placed right in the middle of a teaching concerning food?
Well, part of the answer comes from even earlier:
Do we have no right to eat and drink? 5 Do we have no right to take along a believing wife, as do also the other apostles, the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas? (1 Cor 9:4-5 NKJV)
As you can see Paul is trying to point out that a need really is existing for food. Also right there along with this thinking of food, is Paul's defense about their right to have a wife.
The point is delivered again:
Do you not know that those who minister the holy things eat of the things of the temple, and those who serve at the altar partake of the offerings of the altar? (1 Corinthians 9:13 NKJV)
The reason is this: after they receive communion they would pray and prophesy
Pursue love, and desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy. (1 Corinthians 14:1 NKJV)
But if anything is revealed to another who sits by, let the first keep silent. 31 For you can all prophesy one by one, that all may learn and all may be encouraged. (1 Corinthians 14:30-31 NKJV)
And the women were expected to remain silent
Let your women keep silent in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak; but they are to be submissive, as the law also says. (1 Corinthians 14:34 NKJV)
So the Men would speak for the wives
And if they want to learn something, let them ask their own husbands at home; for it is shameful for women to speak in church. (1 Corinthians 14:35 NKJV)
This teaching comes from some old laws
Then Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes concerning the children of Israel, saying, “This is the thing which the Lord has commanded: (Numbers 30:1 NKJV)
When a Man prays/prophecies
If a man makes a vow to the Lord, or swears an oath to bind himself by some agreement, he shall not break his word; he shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth. (Numbers 30:2 NKJV)
Note: Here we see how important it is that what the man says should happen.
Here a woman prays/prophecies without her head covered
Or if a woman makes a vow to the Lord, and binds herself by some agreement while in her father’s house in her youth, and her father hears her vow and the agreement by which she has bound herself, and her father holds his peace, then all her vows shall stand, and every agreement with which she has bound herself shall stand. (Numbers 30:3-4 NKJV)
Note: The agreement is now bound to her. The agreement now has the authority to afflict her soul. If the agreement fails the disgrace falls to the woman.
The Father prays/prophecies against the word.
But if her father overrules her on the day that he hears, then none of her vows nor her agreements by which she has bound herself shall stand; and the Lord will release her, because her father overruled her. (Numbers 30:5 NKJV)
Note: In this scenario, the woman is saved from disgrace, but disgrace is given to the father because he prays/prophecies against the word. The shame is similar to that of a woman who is forced to get her head shaved. {Numbers 30:15, 1 Cor 11:5}
Here a woman has a current binding when taking a husband
“If indeed she takes a husband, while bound by her vows or by a rash utterance from her lips by which she bound herself, and her husband hears it, and makes no response to her on the day that he hears, then her vows shall stand, and her agreements by which she bound herself shall stand. (Numbers 30:6-7 NKJV)
Note: Here the new husband may void a verbal binding, yet with silence it can still afflict her soul.
Here the new husband voids the woman's binding
But if her husband overrules her on the day that he hears it, he shall make void her vow which she took and what she uttered with her lips, by which she bound herself, and the Lord will release her. (Numbers 30:8 NKJV)
Note: In this scenario, the woman is saved from disgrace, but disgrace is given to the father because he prays/prophecies against the word. The shame is similar to that of a woman who is forced to get her head shaved. {Numbers 30:15, 1 Cor 11:5}
Here a woman prays/prophecies without her head covered
Also any vow of a widow or a divorced woman, by which she has bound herself, shall stand against her. (Numbers 30:9 NKJV)
Note: The agreement is now bound to her. The agreement now has the authority to afflict her soul. If the agreement fails the disgrace falls to the woman.
Here a woman prays/prophecies without her head covered
“If she vowed in her husband’s house, or bound herself by an agreement with an oath, and her husband heard it, and made no response to her and did not overrule her, then all her vows shall stand, and every agreement by which she bound herself shall stand. (Numbers 30:10-11 NKJV)
Note: The agreement is now bound to her. The agreement now has the authority to afflict her soul. If the agreement fails the disgrace falls to the woman.
Here the husband voids the woman's binding
But if her husband truly made them void on the day he heard them, then whatever proceeded from her lips concerning her vows or concerning the agreement binding her, it shall not stand; her husband has made them void, and the Lord will release her. (Numbers 30:12 NKJV)
Note: In this scenario, the woman is saved from disgrace, but disgrace is given to the father because he prays/prophecies against the word. The shame is similar to that of a woman who is forced to get her head shaved. {Numbers 30:15, 1 Cor 11:5}
Dishonor and Bearing Guilt
Every vow and every binding oath to afflict her soul, her husband may confirm it, or her husband may make it void. Now if her husband makes no response whatever to her from day to day, then he confirms all her vows or all the agreements that bind her; he confirms them because he made no response to her on the day that he heard them. But if he does make them void after he has heard them, then he shall bear her guilt.” (Numbers 30:13-15 NKJV)
Every man who prays or prophesies against the word dishonors his head. (1 Corinthians 11:4 Decoded)
Note: After making void an agreement the man has heard means that he shall bear her guilt. The shame is similar to that of a woman who is forced to get her head shaved. {Numbers 30:15, 1 Cor 11:5}
As Commanded by the Lord
These are the statutes which the Lord commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, and between a father and his daughter in her youth in her father’s house. (Numbers 30:16)
What is this head covering referring to?
It means to be in agreement with the man before the prayer or prophecy. His OK means she is covered. That way he does not need to dishonor himself by making it void causing himself so much dishonor. A shame that is similar to that of a woman who is forced to get her head shaved. {Numbers 30:15, 1 Cor 11:5}
If it is disgraceful for a man to pray with something on his head. Then why were Aaron and his sons given a head covering? Why was Adam not told, "Do not eat the fruits of the knowledge of good and evil and also never wear a hat when you talk to me?" Why would God design contrary to Aaron and his son's Honor?
I hope you can see how authority is the covering. If I say "We are going out to eat." then this is the prophecy. If he does not do what he has said then he has broken his word. However, if a woman states to the church "We are going to Walmart to buy some clothes." Then it is disgraceful to the man to say "No we are not." it is similar to a woman having her head shaved because the man no longer looks attractive to the woman. So she should make sure that her man is in agreement. This is what a loving woman will do for her man.
Here is the other end to see why this is necessary. Let us say that we place ourselves in a room full of men, and your wife comes in and tells the guys "My Hubby is going to get me a $3,000 necklace!" What are you going to do? Buy her the necklace or shame yourself in front of the guys? But if you keep your silence. You better believe that you are going to have to follow through. Otherwise, it is going to shame her, and do you really want to deal with that?
Here is another example, picture again yourself standing in front of the guys and your wife coming in and praying "God we need a new car! Can someone buy us a new car?" Now I tell you what. How would you feel? If we need a new car, I better be the one asking the guys for help. Otherwise, I look shameful because I do not take care of my wife.!
