Genesis 2
God forms Adam from dust and breathes life into him, placing him in the Garden of Eden to tend it. God creates Eve from Adam's rib as a suitable helper, establishing the first marriage and the one-flesh union.
Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.
And by the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on that day He rested from all His work.
On the seventh day God rested from all his works
For somewhere He has spoken about the seventh day in this manner: “And on the seventh day God rested from all His works.”
Read Hebrews 4 ›God rested on the seventh day — a Sabbath rest remains for the people of God
There remains, then, a Sabbath rest for the people of God.
Read Hebrews 4 ›Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on that day He rested from all the work of creation that He had accomplished.
This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made them.
Now no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth, nor had any plant of the field sprouted, for the LORD God had not yet sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.
But springs welled up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.
Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
The first man Adam became a living being — last Adam a life-giving spirit
So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam a life-giving spirit.
Read 1 Corinthians 15 ›The gift is not like the trespass — Adam vs Christ
But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many!
Read Romans 5 ›And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, where He placed the man He had formed.
Out of the ground the LORD God gave growth to every tree that is pleasing to the eye and good for food. And in the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Tree of life in the garden — to the one who is victorious, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who overcomes, I will grant the right to eat from the tree of life in the Paradise of God.
Read Revelation 2 ›Tree of life in Eden — tree of life with twelve crops of fruit, leaves for healing
down the middle of the main street of the city. On either side of the river stood a tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit and yielding a fresh crop for each month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.
Read Revelation 22 ›Now a river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it branched into four headwaters:
The name of the first river is the Pishon; it winds through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.
And the gold of that land is pure, and bdellium and onyx are found there.
The name of the second river is the Gihon; it winds through the whole land of Cush.
The name of the third river is the Tigris; it runs along the east side of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
Then the LORD God took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.
And the LORD God commanded him, “You may eat freely from every tree of the garden,
but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”
The LORD God also said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make for him a suitable helper.”
And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and He brought them to the man to see what he would name each one. And whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.
The man gave names to all the livestock, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam no suitable helper was found.
So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he slept, He took one of the man’s ribs and closed up the area with flesh.
Adam's bride Eve, formed from his side while he slept. Paul reveals the deeper story: 'This mystery refers to Christ and the church.' The first marriage was a portrait of the last one.
“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”
Read Ephesians 5 ›And from the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man, He made a woman and brought her to him.
And the man said: “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for out of man she was taken.”
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
A man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife
and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?
Read Matthew 19 ›For this reason a man will leave father and mother — Mark's account
‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,
Read Mark 10 ›For this reason a man will leave — Paul on marriage and Christ
“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”
Read Ephesians 5 ›The two will become one flesh
Or don’t you know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.”
Read 1 Corinthians 6 ›'A man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife.' Jesus quotes Genesis to show marriage was designed from the very beginning.
and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?
Read Matthew 19 ›And the man and his wife were both naked, and they were not ashamed.
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