From The Tent Door  

        For many years my husband, Pastor D. A. Waite, Th.D., Ph.D.,  edited the Bible For Today Newsreport.  It was a monthly periodical where he spoke of current events, ecclesiastical problems, as well as Scriptural exegeses.  

        It was in this  BFT Newsreport that Pastor Waite began to instruct his readers about the Textual issues which underlie the KING JAMES BIBLE and  Bibles based in other languages also based  on the  Masorretic Hebrew  and  Aramaic Text for the Old Testament, and the Textus Receptus Greek Text for the New Testament.

    For many years, it was in this  Newsreport that I had the opportunity to pen my own articles.  That page in the BFT Newsreport was entitled "From the Tent Door."  Many of you were readers of the column.  The phrase, "From the Tent Door," was taken from Genesis 18:9-10 where Abraham declared, when asked by his holy guests, "Where is Sarah thy wife?"  His immediate and knowing answer was, "Behold, in the tent."  

        It was behind that "tent door" that Sarah heard the startling news that she, as a woman past child-bearing age, was to become a mother.  It is my personal conviction that Abraham seated his guests in such a way that his wife could watch and listen to their conversation.  He knew she would be in the tent, her home.  He knew she would be listening.  He knew she would want to know all that was being said.  

         It is my  conviction that a  married woman's place of greatest service for the Lord is in her home--a place where her husband knows she will be safe and satisfied.  A wife's "tent" or home should  be a place of caring for herself,  her husband, her  chlldren, and  tending to the matters of her household.  A wife should not consider herself a prisoner in her own home for it is from that home that a wife can reach out for other activities in her life, in her church, and in service to others.  

            There is an order given by God in the Scriptures.  There is one formula for all marriages.  To put it simply, it is the following:  It is up to the husband to make his wife feel like his queen (Ephesians 5:23, 25), to love her for she is the feminine, weaker partner in the marriage (I Peter 3:7); and it is up to the wife to love him and submit to him as her head (Ephesians 5:22-23).  Sarah learned this attitude as our example in this matter (I Peter 3:6).  We should always remember that marriage is patterned after the Lord Jesus Christ and His Bride, the Church  (Ephesians 5:24).

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Your caring friend,

Yvonne S. Waite (Mrs. D.A.)

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