Mysterious Narrative of Adam & Eve

As we address the events transpiring between Adam and Eve, we have beautiful treasures hidden within this little story, one that involves the Christ and His beautiful Bride.

Imagine Adam as a prefiguring of Jesus Christ, and Eve to be a typology of Christ’s Bride. If we go back, reexamining this story we’ll find where we fit into this story, and be able to apply this to a spiritual aspect of our lives. In unfolding some of the dynamics of the Word of God, we hope that the Holy Spirit will reveal to the hearts the true value of God’s impeccable wording and illustrations given, in order that His Love for us might be gleaned by us, His Bride.

Let us once again journey back to the garden and envision ourselves as His Bride and not as mere Christian believers. Let’s see our Christ not only as our God and Savior, but as the knight in shining armor, sent to sweep His Bride off of her feet, (this is not just to women, but men and women alike).

Adam was created from the dirt of the earth, as we have read in Genesis 2. Christ was God, coming to earth in the likeness of flesh like every human being before Him (John 1:14). One could describe the incarnated Christ as God’s Spirit of Life robed in flesh, for God is a Spirit (John 4:24). If there were ever a face to put on God, it would be Jesus, who is Love revealed and published openly for all to see.

In Genesis 2:21, God caused Adam to fall into a deep sleep, so also was Christ after what transpired on the Cross (His death could be seen as a "deep sleep"). He was buried in a tomb for 3 days before He was raised in resurrection power. Here is one great portrayal of Christ that’s been hidden in this series of events.

When we look at how God created Eve , she is built from Adam’s rib, and in the original Hebrew the word “rib” actually means: rib or side. If we look at Christ upon the Cross of Calvary, the Apostle John tells us that one of the soldiers used a spear to pierce Christ’s side and out poured blood and water. In seeking the answer as to why the Holy Spirit mentioned this particular occurrence, the Lord showed us that just as man is born by blood and water from his mother’s womb, Christ’s bride was born from his side. For it is through His Sacrifice that we are “born of the water and of the Spirit.” For it is through our faith in this sacrifice on our behalf that we are cleansed from our sins while continuing to drink of Him. Only through the shedding of His Precious blood do we have the right to receive His Spirit of Life, (John 19:34,J Jn 3:5, 1 Jn 5:3-8). Christ actually is the Living water for us to drink of, and the Life, as Leviticus 17:11 informs us that the “life of the flesh is in the blood,” in reference to Christ’s Life giving blood. If we have believed on Him that God has sent and received Him into our hearts, then we are officially made His Bride.

With further examination, we can see that our sin made us aware of our nakedness before God, that’s why Adam hid in the garden after he ate of the forbidden tree (Gen 3:7). The Bible stated in Genesis 2:25 that they were both (Adam and Eve) naked and unashamed, why would God put that there? God wanted us to see that Christ took the shame of our nakedness upon the Cross. Christ was stripped naked for the whole world to see (Mt 27:35), and took that shame for us instead (Heb 12:2). At the very moment that one believes on this Jesus that died at Calvary, they are united with Christ, becoming one with Him. In becoming one with Christ, our hearts like all things, are naked and exposed to Him. However, in the presence of our Beloved Groom, they are covered because of the nakedness that He bore on our behalf, our sins being washed away forever. And walking in God’s Grace, we will continue to remain naked before our Savior, but we will always be unashamed. Instead of hiding like Adam did, it is a pleasure to bear our lives and hearts like an opened book before the Lover or our Soul.

Now let’s look at Eve: we’ve already established that she was birthed (born again) from her husband’s side, (Through the sacrifice on Golgotha’s Hill). She came from the man’s side (Christ’s Sacrifice), and by no other way. Anyone that says that they are going to Heaven but has not put their faith in Christ’s sacrificial death for them on the Cross, is no Bride of Christ’s. The Bible describes Christ as the one that must first be partaker of the fruits he labors for (2 Tim 2:6), it’s no coincidence that the Lord is referred to in this verse as the “Husbandman,” but more on that later. Just as Adam was Eve’s leader, so Christ is the Head of the Church, because Christ was made first (1 Cor 15:23, 1 Tim 2:13, Eph 5:23, Col 1:18).

Next, we can see that since Christ had to die for us before we could live spiritually, 1 Tim 2:14 tells us that it was not Adam that was deceived, but rather it was Eve that was “in the transgression.” Women generally dislike these scriptures that we are mentioning, (the ones that mention that the man is the head of the woman as Christ is the Head of the Church, and it was the woman that was in the transgression and not the man), and the truth is, the reason that we get offended at this, is because we do not truly understand the part that the Cross plays in our marriages and relationships. If we could seek God to know more about Him and His sacrifice for us, as we gain revelation of this Lost Message in our own lives and we will find that every relationship will work and flow smoothly. We also should note that the aforementioned scripture clearly states that Adam was not deceived, why is this important? If Adam is a type of Christ, then we can see that Christ was not in sin, nor had He ever sinned in His life of thirty-three and a half years, but rather, He took upon Himself all of our sin. The reason that Adam took of the forbidden fruit was two-fold: first of all, he and his bride were “one flesh”, if she partook of it then he was obligated to take part as well. Secondly, he ate the fruit because he couldn’t leave his bride alone, he loved her so much that he couldn’t bare to be separated from her. See, if Adam (Christ) had never eaten of it, Eve (We) would have been cast forth into eternal darkness and he (Christ) would have lived forever without his bride (us). Sin cannot exist where God and His Holiness abode. Adam (Christ) suffered with his wife (us), taking the punishment upon himself, because of the deep love that he had for her. (2 Cor 5:21)