Wednesday | 06 August 2025
It is important to look at the first marriage between Adam and ‘the woman’ (who was later named Eve), because their marriage is a type, or picture, of the marriage of Christ and His bride, the church. For this reason, it provides us with a foundational pattern which God intends to establish in every godly marriage.
Jesus explained that in order to understand the covenant of marriage by which God joins a godly couple, we need to first understand the creation of man, or mankind, as male and female. Jesus said, ‘Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning “made them male and female”.’ Mat 19:4. Furthermore, we need to understand the season of godly courtship leading to marriage, by which a man and a woman leave their father and mother and choose one another. Mat 19:5.
The present heavens and earth were created as the context in which God’s Everlasting Covenant purpose would be accomplished. In the unfolding of Their covenant plan, Yahweh Elohim created man on the sixth day of creation. Moses summarised God’s creation of man by writing, ‘So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female [in identity] He created them’. Gen 1:27. Clearly, the creation of the first man was not complete until the woman was taken from the man and they were joined as ‘one’ in marriage. Gen 2:22‑24. Gen 5:2. The creation of mankind as male and female happened through the offering work of the Son of God. Joh 1:3. The Son created all things on behalf of God the Father, for the Father is the source of all creation. Eph 3:9.
Further Study:
Genesis 1
References:
Mat 19:4-5
And He answered and said to them, ‘Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning “made them male and female”, and said, “for this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh”?’
Gen 1:27
So, God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
Gen 2:22-24
Then the rib which the LORD God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man. And Adam said, ‘This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.’ Therefore, a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
Gen 5:2
He created them male and female and blessed them and called them Mankind in the day they were created.
Joh 1:3
All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.
Eph 3:9
And to make all see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who created all things through Jesus Christ.