Eve - A Mate and Mother

EVE - A MATE AND MOTHER

Scriputre Reading Gen 2:18-24  Eph 5:21-23

In the record of creation (Gen 1:27) it is simply stated that "God created man." - "male and female created He then." There is complete absence of any detail as to the manner and matter of their creation. We now get the details of Eve's creation. How long Adam was in Eden before Eve was created we do not know; except to say it must have been long enough to find out that no animal could be his companion and that he was lonely man. God paraded all the animals before Adam and he named them all; but found no one that could become his wife. So God said, " I will make an help meet for him."

Let us first of all meditate upon the Physical Production (21-22). We accept this simple statement as a fact and not fiction. The creation of Eve out of Adam was a miracle. The word translated "ribs" out of Adam was literally means "side off," or "side Chambers." Someone has said: "Woman was not taken from the head of man, lest she should rule him; not from his feet lest he should trample upon her. But she was taken from his side that she might be his equal; from under his arm that he might protect her; and from near his heart that he might cherish and lover." The translation "help meet" is rather unfortunate for the word means "a helper suited for him," or "a helper as his counterpart," This is the true idea of woman's relation to man, his counterpart, his complement his companion. Whenver this is realized God's purpose is being fulfilled.

Our scripture also suggests a spiritual purpose (24) "They shall be one flesh". Paul goes back here in the O.T and uses this physical relationship of Adam and Eve as a beautiful type of the relationship of Christ and His Body of the Church. "They shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery; but I speak concerning Christ  and the church (Eph 5:31-32) There is nothing here in Ephesians five about a duality, as bride and bridegroom; but about a unity of Christ as the Head, and the Church as member of His body. So the first physical union becomes a blessed type of the highest spiritual union.