lovely... Eve Was the First Woman to Live Upon the Earth The product of a divine creation, Eve appeared as a complete, perfect woman. She was never a child, or a daughter or a maiden. The first female born into the world was Eve’s first daughter (Genesis 5:4). How many daughters were born to Adam and Eve we are not told. If Eve lived as long as her husband—930 years (Genesis 5:5)—there would likely be many sons and daughters in earth’s first family. Eve, then, was not born. She was created out of Adam. Having existed in God’s thought, she appeared upon the earth. Modernists, evolutionists, and secular writers may mock that “rib of Adam” out of which Eve was made. Adam was directly created by God out of the dust of the earth, but Eve was fashioned out of a bone taken from Adam’s side. George Herbert comments, “The man was dust refined, but the woman was dust double refined.” Says Secker, “The rib was taken from under his arm. As the use of the arm is to keep off blows from the body, so the office of the husband is to ward off blows from his wife.” There is a spiritual application of the bride God created for Adam. It speaks of the sacred mystery, the bride of the Lamb, who owes her existence to His wounded side (John 19:36), and who, even more than Eve, has a place near to the Bridegroom’s heart (Jeremiah 31:3), and who is destined to enjoy His companionship in a sinless paradise (Revelation 2:7; 21:9). The marriage of the Lamb, like that of Eve’s, is made in heaven. Eve Was the First Woman to Be Called a Wife Fashioned out of man, she became man’s counterpart and companion. God saw that although Adam was in a state of perfect innocency, it was not good for him to be alone. It would be good for him, spiritually, intellectually and socially to have a wife. He needed someone to love and bear his children since the command had gone forth “to multiply and replenish the earth.” And so with Adam— The world was sad, the garden was a wild, And man the hermit sighed till woman smiled. God spoke of the woman He was to provide for Adam as his “helpmeet”—a help meet or adapted to him—a term giving woman her true position in the world. It is only where the Bible exists and Christianity is practiced that she attains to such a position as the helper, or equal of man. In lands where darkness reigns, woman is the slave, the chattel of man. Thus Eve was given to Adam and their two hearts beat as one in love for each other and for God. Eve was formed while Adam slept. He knew no pain during the operation for as yet there was no sin in the world. How true it is that God is continually working while men sleep! He often imparts real blessings to His own as they sleep (Psalm 127:2). When I wake from sleep, Despair has fled, and hope is near; The sky seems blue, and visions clear Have banished all my dread and fear. bible gateway
Posted on: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 13:05:20 +0000
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