ACCESSORIZING & JEWELRY

 

 Jewellery in Ancient Times and Now

 

Throughout the scriptures we can find a multitude of passages concerning jewelery and ordimantation. There are many passages that teach how distateful it is to God. There are also a few scriptures that are all for jewelry.  This is my personal quest  and journey for truth in these matters  concerning the heart of God/YHWH on how it pleases him! My approach is not from a legalistic point of view but from a position of the heart, willing to lay aside everything to follow my master, even if it means my ego and how I have presented myself to the world for the last 50 years. 

 

A few years ago I began to hear the whispers of my heavenly father in my ear...."do not seek to beautify yourself." My quest began, what did the pharse "beautify"  mean? What would this mean for me and also how I would train up my young daughter as well as other women? My position on Jewelery  has now become conservative after I have reviewed and studied the orgins of jewelery and ordimentation as well as

 

The scriptures and early church fathers believed that

among the  that the use of make-up and jewellery was of demonic origin. In  the Ethophiopic Book of Enoch states:

8:1 And Azazel taught men to make swords, and daggers, and shields and breastplates. And he showed them the things after these (2v, a5) and the art of making them: bracelets, and ornaments, and the art of making up eyes and of beautifying the eyelids, and the most precious and choice stones, and all (kinds of) coloured dyes. And the world was changed. 8.2 And there was great impiety and much fornication, and they went astray, and all their ways became corrupt (2v, a10). 8.3 Amezarack taught all those who cast spells and cut roots, Amaros the release of spells, and Baraqiel astrologers, and Kokabel portents, and Tamiel taught astrology, and Asradel taught (2v, a15) the path of the moon. 8.4 And at the destruction of men they cried out, and their voice reached heaven