From Mr. Camping's Open Forum:

"You must remember that while ordinarily the men were the priests, the men were the Levites, the men did all the temple service, the men were the apostles, the men were the Pharisees.

It was always men, and ordinarily it was the men who were the judges and the kings.

Now, there was three or four notable exceptions."

McCann's comments below:

Why did God allow for the exceptions when it came to a woman's role in teaching or prophesying? Well, we can safely say first of all it was done to paint spiritual pictures. For example, the name Deborah is the feminine form of the Hebrew word dabar, which is often translated as "Word".

But also God allowed a few exceptions for the purpose of setting traps for the end time "Christians" who would run after the idea that women were to teach or be a pastor/elder/deacon as much as men. God allowed this in a similar manner as tongues. The Lord played tongues up big in 1 Corinthians 14. Knowing full well that people would go run after it. As we all have witnessed.

Yet overwhelmingly Biblical history reveals it is men that God used to teach. And it is men that God used to declare His Word as prophets.

Even in the case of Deborah, the Lord moved her to say to Barak:

Judges 4:9 And she said, I will surely go with thee: notwithstanding the journey that thou takest shall not be for thine honour; for the LORD shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman.

Certainly this was God revealing to us that having a woman prophetess was not the ideal at all.

This verse definitely implies that it is not a good thing for women to "rule" over the people of God.

Isaiah 3:12 As for my people, children are their oppressors, and WOMEN RULE OVER THEM. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.