Ellen,
Thanks for mentioning what truth resides in The Bride in Genesis that I had posted. The magnificient way the author allows the scriptures to intrepret scripture is astounding, and it is so easy to see how the Christ and His Church are represented throughout the Old Testament. To mention that the eBook is 120 pages long may have been the reason why many did not jump into it, but many of those pages are blank, plus the font is BIG. As an example I have cut and pasted below what accounts for 2 pages. It really does not take long to read, no more than many long articles that we all read everyday. I encourage those who have not read this work to do so. The book also covers the aspects of the Bride in types of Isaac and Rebekah, Jacob and Rachel, and Joseph and Asenath (3 chapters/types of Christ--(1) beloved of the father, (2) hated by his brethern, & (3) exaulted over all Egypt). Here is the "Foreward" of the book; emphasis is mine. These 6 short paragraphs constitute 2 whole pages in the book, so it goes quickly. ~~Kay
FOREWARD
Man was created for a specific purpose,
revealed at the time of his creation. Immediately following the restoration of the ruined earth (Gen. 1:2b-25) — a ruin resulting from Satan’s previous aspirations to “be like the most High” (Isa. 14:12-17; Ezek. 28:14-19) — God created man to rule the restored domain, in the stead of Satan (vv. 26-28). And man was not to rule this restored domain alone. The woman — made from a part of the man and given back to the man for “an helpmeet,” in order that the man might be complete — was to rule alongside the man as consort queen, with the man ruling as king (v. 26).God, prior to creating man, reflecting on the purpose for man’s creation, made the statement: “…let them [the man and the woman together] have dominion” (Gen. 1:26). If man was to rule, then the woman had to rule with him. Both had to rule together,
else there could be no rule. This is a principle which God, not man, established at the time God created man; and the principle cannot be violated.Thus, the first man, Adam, could occupy the position for which he had been created through one means alone.
He could occupy this position only as a complete being. And for Adam to rule in this manner, Eve — who was bone of his bones, and flesh of his flesh (Gen. 2:23)— had to rule with him. Eve, because she was a part of Adam’s very being, completed Adam; and the two of them ruling together — the king, with his consort queen — was the only way Adam could rule the earth and remain within the guidelines which God had established.Understanding this principle will shed light upon numerous things seen in the opening three chapters of Genesis. Why did Adam, though not deceived, partake of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil following Eve partaking of this tree? The answer is the same as the reason why Christ, who knew no sin, was made “sin for us” when He found His bride in the same condition in which Adam found Eve (Gen.3:6; II Cor. 5:21; I Tim. 2:14).
Adam could not rule apart from Eve; and Eve, following the time when she had eaten of the forbidden fruit, was no longer in a position to rule with Adam. Thus, Adam could not have fulfilled the purpose for his creation had he not acted exactly as he did. Adam acted with a view to Eve’s redemption, in order that he, as a complete being (Adam, with Eve), might one day fulfill the purpose for man’s creation. Nor can the Second Man, the Last Adam, rule apart from a wife. He, as the first Adam, found His bride in a fallen state. And He acted in complete accord with the established type, with a view to exactly the same thing seen in the type. He Who knew no sin was made “sin for us,” with a view to both He and a redeemed wife one day taking the sceptre and ascending the throne together.
This book, THE BRIDE IN GENESIS, deals with the various ramifications of this whole overall thought, drawn from different parts of the Book of Genesis. And if man would properly understand that which God has revealed on the subject, he must begin where God began and view the matter after the manner in which God set it forth in His Word.