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And what I am saying, in my heart and mind I don’t believe that Adam tilled the garden and took care of the garden, and how big was it? 1000 acres? I don’t know how big it was, he took care of all that and then he named all the animals and everything in a few hours before sunset. I just don’t believe that. I believe it took certainly months, if not years.
And if God was just going to create Adam and say ok, now one of your jobs in the future is going to be to keep the garden, no. Now He was saying it to him then, you might say ok some of it you and your wife going to do together later, no then.
He gave it to him now, and by the way, when you and your wife are taking care of the garden I want you to name the animals. He had to name them then and after he named all 6000 species, guess what? There was no one for Adam, there was no one for him. Can’t you see the longing here, over a long period of time? I think it was at least years. He didn’t have a mate, he looked for one and even God admitted that it was not good for man to continue forever without a mate. I’ll make him one, but not today. Now, then He says but there was none found for him.
Gen 2:21 So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh.
v. 22 And the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man.
So we’re told God took a rib and closed it back up and made a woman out of the rib. Now He then said, wake up Adam I’ve got something for you. He wakes up Adam and He brings him to the woman Eve.
Gen 2:23 Then the man said, "This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man."
Is that what he said? Would you like to know what the Hebrew says?
You know, I knew this for I don’t know how long, 10-15 years I learned this.
And so when I was doing this study I thought, well I’ll get the exact wording from the Concordance and see how they say it, because the Concordance is the only one that got this right. And I looked in my Concordance and it wasn’t in there. The Concordance didn’t even get it right. The Concordance of the Old Testament doesn’t have it right.
But I got 5 other translations that got it right. Why you never read them is because you just passed over them and didn’t see it.
Adam didn’t say, "This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man." That is not what he said. He was longing for a mate, God acknowledged it was not good for the man to be alone, and said I’ll make him a mate. Now we read over here where did the woman come from? The woman is in the image of God. God didn’t make man and then make woman out of the side or image of man. No, it plainly says;
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.”
Female is created in the image of God. There is female in God. God is female just as much as God is male. Where did He get the idea of femininity? It’s in Him, it’s a part of Him. Adam is longing for this part of him that is missing. Maybe he didn’t fully understand what testosterone was, but he was feeling the effects of it and not only that, he had nobody to talk to. He talked to God. But He was on a little higher level there, you know. Adam might say, what did you do today God? Well I don’t know, what did you do Adam? Well, pulled some weeds. And I noticed all those animals I named, they all have a partner. I was wondering why it is I don’t have a partner God, why is that?
So we read over here that the female came out from God. That’s where it originated, God is female just as much as He is male and now He creates the man, and the man has no female counterpart. The animals do, he doesn’t. But he longed for it and God admits he shouldn’t be alone like this. I’ve got to make him a mate, but not today. I’m saying it was years later.
So He takes something out of Adam (notice He didn’t make the woman out of the dust of the ground), He took something out of Adam to make the female. We’re told it was a rib. I think we’re told wrong.
So God finally makes Adam a woman and He brings her to him and he says, “This is bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh…” How did he know that? How could he look at the woman and say, hmm, let me see here, there is one missing, Lord there is one missing, did you take my rib and make that woman for me? Do you think that’s what happened?
He looked at her and instantly knew? But that’s not what he said, he didn’t say, “This is bone of my bone,” Here is what he said, I’ll give you the translation from James Moffet. He looked at her and said, “this AT LAST is bone of my bone!” Why did he say at last? Did he say I’ve been dieing to have a mate for over a hour? That is nonsense. Adam went for years without a mate, he was tilling the garden, he was taking care of the garden and he was naming all the animals, and who knows what else he was doing. But now he said “At last,” where it says, “this is now,” that word ‘now’ means “at last,” finally someone for me.
The New World Translation say, “This is at last bone of my bone.”
The New American Version says, “This one at last is bone of my bone.”
The New Revised Standard Version says, “This at last is bone of my bone.”
The Living Bible say and I like this one, “This is it!” she is part of my own bones and flesh, this is it, Adam exclaimed.
So first of all he was excited. I mean what a beauty, I mean come on, all for me. But it was at least, you know he waited a long time, finally after all these years, finally someone for me, ok.
How did he know it was bone of his bone? How could he look at Eve and say, you came out of me? What did he see? God didn’t say, Adam I know your going to wonder where this woman came from. I put you to sleep and I took a rib, I made her. No, he could tell, he looked and saw and he said that’s me, you come from me. How did he know that? He looked, he had something before he went to sleep, he had something and when he woke up and God brought him to the woman, he didn’t have it anymore. She had it! What do you suppose that was? He, just like God, was male and female. God is male and female, Adam was male and female. God took the female part and made a woman out of it. Adam saw that what he had was now gone, it’s over there. She came from me, that’s bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh, she came out of me.
Now can you see any spiritual connection in all this? How God is longing for a compliment, a counterpart, someone to compliment someone. It says a counterpart in the Greek, a compliment, or a help meet. A counter part for Adam that was not found, now he has a compliment, a counterpart to him, to make him complete.
That’s what God is longing for. Where is it going to come from? Out of Him. He has one Son, Jesus Christ, we are sons in the making. So where did Christ come from?
In the Hebrew the word is no. 6763 - tsela, and it can be translated ‘rib,’ and door, side and chamber. In Ezekiel 10 times this same word translated rib is translated chamber. A chamber-maid is usually some one who tends to the house, but specially the bedroom. If you look up chamber, the definition is a private room. The bedroom is your most private room. Our sexual anatomy is called our private parts. Can you put it together? This is not a rib. He took the femininity from him and made a woman. First He put it in the man, and then He took it from the man and made a woman out of it.
Now interesting thing. It says in Tim. 2:14, that when Eve took the forbidden fruit she was deceived, the serpent had deceived her. But Adam was not deceived. Well if she was deceived, and she ate the fruit. Why did Adam eat it? He wasn’t deceived, so why did he eat it? Why didn’t he say you dumb female, you stupid wife of mine. How could you do such a dumb thing. No, no he did not. She gave him some and he ate it too.
Why, would he do that? He knew. Because God told him first, and He told him specifically. And we know Eve knew because she said to the serpent, “God has said.” But first He said it to Adam before he created the Eve. You can eat of every tree but of this tree you can not and the day you eat there of you will DIE. (Gen. 2:16-17)
In the Hebrew, ‘to die you shall be dying.” You will begin to die, you will be mortal and just die. You will be mortal and come to old age and die. So he knew that, he knew that when Eve ate it she was going to die. He longed for that woman so long and now she is going to die. He loved her so much, he said if she is going to die, I’m going to die with her, and he ate the fruit. He knew full well he would die, and he said I’m going with her. I’m not going to let her go alone, you see. So he was willing to die for that woman.
You see any spiritual connections?
Eph 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for it [He died],
v. 26 that He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the Word,
v. 27 that He might present it to Himself as the glorious church, without spot or wrinkle or any such things, but that it should be holy and without blemish.
v. 28 So men ought to love their wives as their own bodies.
The first woman came from the body of man.
v. 28 “He who loves his wife loves himself.
v. 29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord loves the church.
v. 30 For we are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones.”
Adam said to the woman, she is flesh of my flesh, bone of my bone, she came out of me.
So we are members of His body, flesh of his flesh and it says;
Gen 2:24 For this cause, will a man leave his father and his mother, and cleave unto his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
When a man and a woman are united in sexual intercourse their bodies are inside of each other. I mean that’s a pretty good connection, that’s not just a hand shake. Your bodies literally inside of each other (I hope I’m not too gross, but there are no children). They are one flesh, in that relationship, you see. And that is why you’re not suppose to fornicate with prostitutes. Because when you’re joined to a prostitute you’re one flesh too, and that’s an abomination. You cling to your wife, not your wife and your girl friend and the local whore. Your wife, because your one flesh, you see.
This is a great mystery it says. But I’m speaking concerning Christ and His church. The relationship of Christ with the church, it typified by the relationship of a loving husband and a loving wife in sexual intercourse. When they are so emotionally intertwined with one another, that they are literally one flesh. This is the relationship we’re going to have with God. Christ refers to the church as the Bride of Christ.
The bride is going to be all decorated, by that we mean, made spotless and sure and clean, character wise. A fitting Bride for the creator of the universe.
Paul taught the church in Ephesians, this mystery of a man and a woman coming together. You know after a man longs for a woman for so long, and I’m saying years.
If I’m a heretic, then I’m a heretic, but that’s what I believe.
But for years and finally he, “at last” there you are. There you are, the one I’ve been dreaming of. This was a big deal.
They don’t make it a big deal out of it in the King James. Because Adam says, “This is flesh of my flesh.” NO, exclamation point, “at last!” finally! This is it! Yes! My woman!
Emphatically the emotion is expressed in that word ‘now.’
Seven other translations got it right.
Doesn’t that convey something of joy in the heart of God.
When Paul comes along and says this very thing we’re talking about, he’s talking about Christ and the church.
You see it’s a great spiritual lesson, this union of a husband and a wife, what it should be. How a husband should love a wife and how a wife should love a husband. I mean really love each other dearly.
This is how Christ loves the church, and died for it.
Just as the husband and wife become one flesh, God wants to be that intimate with humanity, like one flesh.
John 10:30 “I and the Father are one!”
They’re not the same person, but ‘one,’ there’s a difference.
But one, same spirit, same mind, same attitude, same character, same power, same strength, same wisdom, same purpose, they are one.
And that’s what God wants us to be with Him, that close, one.
It’s a spiritual thing He’s making here. We think that it’s a physical thing, we have physical life, and die a physical death, and then it’s all over. No.
This creation represents a spiritual creation. It’s not finished yet, and when we die it’s not finished.
If it were, we could just pack up our books and go home. No purpose in me sitting up here trying to teach something, just go home and watch a football game.
Now He doesn’t want this just for the elect, though He calls out the elect first, but it’s for everyone.
1Tim 2:3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,
v. 4 who WILL [Gk. Thelo- ‘to determine, wish, desire, intend, have rather, will, willing, willingly’] have all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
The Theologians of the church say that He wishes or desires that and that He doesn’t get His desires. Sorry I know you want it, but you can’t have it God. Sorry Adam I know you want the woman, and to be one flesh and intimate and loving, I’m sorry you don’t get her. That what the Theologians say to God.
Oh You want humanity to be at one with You, nice try, it’ll never happen God.
They say that the Greek word ‘thelo’ for ‘will,’ in verse 4, is a weak wish, a desire.
Already 2 lies.
1) Anything that God desires He gets.
It’s not such a thing as a blasphemous weak wish with God. I mean come on, God doesn’t have weak wishes. Strong wishes that come about, mediocre ones that sometimes do, and weak ones that never get done.
I mean this was not a weak wish with God. It was not a weak wish that Adam have a woman, that he could hug and love and be at one with. It was not a weak wish, it was very strong and when it happened it was like, WOW thank you Lord.
So when she did the wrong thing, he said I’m going with her. I’m not going to leave that woman behind, where she goes I’m going, that’s my baby.
He’s not leaving her behind. Oh, you sinned, your on your own, go to hell. What? Is that what Adam said? Did Adam say, Eve you stupid female, you sinned so go to hell? No, he said I’ll go with you, I’ll die with you, I love you.
Can you see why somebody dies for somebody else. He proved his love for Eve, when he said I’ll eat it too. He wasn’t deceived, he knew what it would do, he knew. He did it anyway, that’s how much he loved her.
That’s how much Christ loves the church and everyone. His will is that everyone be saved. And they said that the word ‘thelo’ means wish or desire. So I wanted to knock that in the head.
So 1 was if it’s a wish, God gets all His wishes. God said, “I will do all My pleasure.” (Isa. 46:10) It’s not like when God wants something He can’t get it. What does He think He is, God? Yes, He gets whatever He wants. That’s why He is God.
2) Thelo does mean will, an absolute must happen.
1. Matt. 15:32 “… And I will [Gk. Thelo] not send them away fasting…”
Remember they were following Christ and they were famished, ready to fall by the wayside. Christ said we need to eat, they said we have nothing to eat Lord, send them home. He said, “I will not.” the word is thelo, do you really believe Jesus Christ said I desire not to send them away fasting, but maybe I will? That’s blasphemy. The church blasphemies the Word of God up one side and down the other.
When He said, “I will not send them away fasting.” He had no intention in any way, shape, or form, that He would let those people go back to the city without anything to eat.
2. Matt. 20:31 “…I will [Gk. Thelo] give unto this last….”
That’s as absolute promise there. That will happen. But it’s the word thelo there. The Theologians say is a weak wish.
3. Acts 7:30 “…our fathers would [Gk. Thelo] not obey…”
They just wished not to obey? Is that what that’s telling us? That the Israelites, the father of old, they wished not to obey? But actually then they wished to obey, but wouldn’t. That’s absolute.
4. 1 Cor. 16:7 “For I will [Gk. Thelo] not see you now.
Is Paul telling these people that he loves them so dearly, but I don’t want to see you, I don’t wish to see you now? Can in your wildest imagination believe he was telling them, that I don’t wish to see you now? I don’t have a desire to see you now?
The word is thelo, “I will not see you now.” But that was not a good thing, it was a sad thing. But it was a fact that he wouldn’t see them, now. It wasn’t his desire not to see them, that’s stupid. His desire was to see them. But the word is thelo, it’s not a weak wish.
5. Phil. 2:13 “…to will [Gk. Thelo] and to do…”
He works in you both to wish and to do, but it’s a weak wish, that maybe it won’t come about? There is no “to do.”
6. 11 Thes. 3:10 “…if any would [Gk. Thelo] not work
Now listen to this, is Paul saying if somebody doesn’t desire to work he shouldn’t eat? Is that what he’s saying? How many people desire to work? No one. No one should eat then, nobody wants to get up on Monday morning and go to work. No, he will not eat, if any would not work. I mean absolutely would not work, then he should not eat either. It doesn’t say if he wishes not to work he couldn’t eat, because nobody would eat.
7. 11 Tim. 2:12 “if we suffer…will [Gk. Thelo] deny us.”
He wishes to deny us? He desires to deny us? No, He will. The word is thelo, what Theologians say is a weak wish only. No, it’s a fact.
I just showed you 7 scriptures, where it can be nothing but an absolute fact. So thelo was not a weak, and even if it were a desire, if it’s God’s desire it would happen any way.
They lie, God will save all humanity.