While sharing a visiting teaching message, I leaned that the Restoration truly wasn't complete until the women were apart of the organization of the Church. It's something I've always heard and read, but didn't really believe until I read 1 Corinthians 11:11,
"Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord."
This is true in all things. We especially learn how crucial the unity of men and women are in the Temple. Nothing is complete or whole without that partnership. It only makes sense that neither was the Restoration of Christ's Church.
I believe that Heavenly Father had always intended for the women to be a part of His organization, but was waiting for the women to ask. When they finally did petition the Lord to be an organized arm of the Church in an effor to help with the building of the Nauvoo Temple, the Prophet Joseph Smith said,
"Tell the sisters their offering is accepted of the Lord, and he has something better for them. I will organize the women under the priesthood after the pattern of the priesthood.”
A short time later, the Prophet told the newly organized Relief Society: “I now turn the key to you in the name of God, and this Society shall rejoice, and knowledge and intelligence shall flow down from this time."
This confirmed what I already felt was true, that no divine knowledge, intelligence or personal revelation is withheld from the women of the church because they are not ordained to the Priesthood.
