Jane Carole Anderson
When Jane was twenty-five years old, she had her first experience with God teaching her as she read from His Word. A few years later, a Christian leader, in concert with other Christian leaders in her church, openly denounced her, pronouncing that a woman could not get “revelation” from the Bible. According to them, if she, as a woman, believed that God would speak to her through His Word, she was deceived. The only way she could avoid such deception was by hearing God speaking to her through them and their Bible teaching. At that time, she strongly believed that these male Christian leaders had “God-given” authority over her. She had been taught this all her life, and she believed it was according to the Bible. She was full of fear and in extreme mental distress after she was publicly shamed, as described in The Thread of Gold:
After that event, Jane stopped reading her Bible. It was over a decade before Jesus was able to heal the deep wounds that these zealous leaders had inflicted on her heart; but, at long last, she was able to pick up her Bible and begin once again to spend time sitting at the feet of Jesus. The words from the following stanza of a hymn best describe her experience in the years that followed:
We limit not the truth of God
To our poor reach of mind,
By notions of our day and sect,
Crude, partial and confined.
Now let a new and better hope
Within our hearts be stirred:
The Lord hath yet more light and truth
To break forth from His word.
— George Rawson (1807–1889)
In 2007, much to her surprise, God began to show her the truth about woman hidden in His Word, in plain sight, as she often says now. Eight years later, her journey of learning led to the writing of A Woman of Chayil: Far Above Rubies (in 2015) and, then to the birth of this website (in 2017).
The following is an excerpt from A Woman of Chayil that tells more about how God opened her eyes:
Recently, while working on the website’s Storehouse page, Jane discovered on the Internet a number of other people who in recent decades had been led on similar woman-truth-discovery paths as hers. She rejoiced to see that the Spirit of God was on mission for our times. He was moving on a broad scale to uncover the truth about women in the Bible—something which had been concealed far too long. Wrong beliefs and practices about slavery remained in place for thousands of years after Christ until God, in recent centuries, used men and women to end the long-term sanction of it by the church and greatly reduce the practice of it in society. In the same way, Jane became convinced that such a breakthrough was on the horizon for the last stronghold against women: the church. Jane has no doubt that God will finish His good work of revelation concerning women. She also has no doubt that just as in the battle against slavery, Christian women’s chains will not be broken without a fight of epic proportions.
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