God can do and occasionally does, totally unexpected things.  Even things that turn our understanding of some Bible passages upside-down and inside-out.

That is what God did with circumcision in the NT era.

And today we need to allow for the possibility that God will do something unexpected again.

Our understanding of the Bible may constrain us but it does not constrain God.

And I am wondering where in Paul's strictures against women, Brother William finds a "prophetess exemption"?  If you read Paul as absolutely as some here seem to advocate, Ellen broke a lot of Paul's rules.

Or perhaps Paul intended for some of these rules to be applied to the specific circumstances of time and place?