Genesis 2:18  And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be along; I will make him an help meet for him.

I read this verse in the Bible and it was astounding what it said to me.  I don’t know if people ignore what it says, or just don’t see what it says.  God makes a man on the earth and turns over control of His creation to this him.  Almost every time in the work of creation, God would do something and say, that was good.  This is the first time we have a statement that something is not good that God has done.  Before this we have had occasions to notice like on day two of creation when God did not make the statement that it was good, but now we have a direct and explicit confirmation that something wasn’t good.  What is the implied information given to us by that statement?  The implication was that the man was alone?  Did that mean spiritually as well as physically?   We know that God is a spirit, later we see in chapter 3 where God would come down and walk in the garden to talk with the man.  But apparently in the eyes of God the man was a separate being not a part of the heavenly family.  Not a part of the angels, not apart of the trinity.  Not associated with anyone or anything in heaven.  This if you did not realize it is a division or separation from God.  The creation of a being that was not in covenant relationship to God.  Of course that does not mean as I noted earlier that the man could not have a conversation with his father, God.  We will see more implications of this as we go but for now, I thought that was interesting.

 Genesis 2:21 And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof.

Genesis 2:22  And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

There is more valuable information in these two verses of scripture and you’ll see why later.  We have the fact given to us that the woman was taken out of the side of the man.  That is another reason God called both of their names Adam, because they both came from the same body.  This is so important to see.  What was the surgical operation that God performed?  God opened the flesh of his man and took a bone out of his side and creates a woman from it.  Where did Adam get his DNA, it had to be from God his Father.  Where did Eve get her DNA, it was from the man.  All of this was done for what reason?  So that the man would not be alone.   What was Adam’s response to what God had done?  He makes this statement which is absolutely critical to understand:

Genesis 2:23 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.

Did you see the statement?  Adam declares the woman’s body to be his body.  A body consists of flesh and bones.  God created her body from a part of his.  So the end results is that they are one body.  It is really a simple math problem,  If you take 1 and multiply it by 1, you get 1.  1 male x 1 female = 1 body.  Or you could say it this way, God divided 1 body into 1 male and 1 female.  1 divided by 1 is 1.  This is God’s basic math of marriage.  There is a principle stated here that will be applicable later when I talk about Jesus.  Then in verse 24, God restates what Adam has declared in the Genesis law of marriage:

Genesis 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave unto his wife and they shall be one flesh..

This is another one of those verses that I don’t think people have understood completely.  You see it has vast Biblical implications and explains many things that happen in our relationship with God, but I won’t get off track for now and attempt to explain any of that.  What we should see is the statement and how it applies to Adam since that is what we are talking about.  What we observe is God’s three step program for marriage.  First step, we can see that God says that the man will leave or separate from his family, which consists of his father and his mother.  Step two the man will marry a wife.  The term cleave is used but it means to be joined to.   Finally step 3, the two will become one flesh.  Isn’t it  absolutely amazing that God didn’t know Adam didn’t have a father and a mother.  Ok, I was being a little facetious trying to get your attention.  Of course God knew who his father and his mother were, but did you?   I think if you have been reading my blog you know that Adam’s father was God.  Now who the mother is, I will not be able to address for a while.  So what is the net results of this statement?  What we see is another stated division between man and God and a joining of the man to the woman to be one.

What normally happens when humans get married?  They usually move out of the parents house and establish a new family and household.  So while they were a part of one family, they left that one and now they are the establishment of another new family.  You do understand that God has a family in heaven?  So by creating a man on earth, we saw that already Adam had moved out of the family of God in heaven.  But God said it was not good for the man to be alone, so God creates a woman for the man and they two now create and establish a new and separate family on the earth.  The key words here are New and Separate.  A family that didn’t exist before, a family not a part of God and the beings in heaven.  In case you didn’t know it, God is working on a plan.  What does that plan involve?  Not only the creation of a new family on earth, but how does God get rid of the unwanted family members in heaven?  Some might say God is God and He is sovereign and He can do anything He wants.  When people think like that, it just shows how little they know God.  God is a covenant making God.  What is a covenant?  I probably need to spend weeks exploring all the information in the Bible about covenants.  I would suggest if you have never studied covenants that you do some research and study covenants.  What is a covenant?  How are covenants made?  Who can covenants be between?.  Briefly I will tell you that a covenant is equivalent to a marriage.  A marriage in the eyes of God as we have seen means that they are one.  I know I’ve implied a lot of new information in this blog that you have probably never considered, so I’ll stop here and let you think about it.