Bible Questions Answered:
“Pastor thank you for your Bible
page. I was wondering if you could tell me why it is that Adam was
taken from the soil, while Eve was taken from a rib? Thank you.”
Nicholas/ New York, New York U.S.A.
Bible Answer:
The answer is the foreknowledge of God.
This is of course is what prophecy is made
of.
God's Foreknowledge:
Isaiah 42:9 KJV
Behold, the former things are come
to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell
you of them.
Isaiah 46:10 KJV
Declaring the end from the
beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done,
saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure:
The Creation Of
Adam:
Genesis 2:7 KJV
And The Lord God formed man of the
dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of
life; and man became a living soul.
Adam was created first.
God gave him his name. He, in the
garden of Eden, was to …
Genesis 2:15 NLT
The Lord God placed the man in the
Garden of Eden to tend and watch over it.
How long Adam was in existence before
Eve was created....we do not know.
The Creation Of Eve:
Genesis 2:21-23 KJV
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;
22 And the rib, which The Lord God
had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
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.
I Timothy 2:13 KJV
For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
Adam, named his wife, Eve, saying....
Genesis 3:20
And Adam called his wife's name Eve;
because she was the mother of all living.
Now, we must look at this verse and
ask, when did Adam say it, and with what knowledge did he possess?
First of all, Adam said it after the
fall.
Second, he did not say it with perfect
knowledge, for if he had it, he would have realized that …, someone
was created before Eve!
Adam was first created.
Adam, was created from the soil.
Genesis 2:7 KJV
And The Lord God formed man of the
dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of
life; and man became a living soul.
Adam, is the first life giver!
Adam, is the first one to give birth to
another, sorry, no, it was “not,” Eve.
Eve, was birthed from the side of Adam.
Friends if you think this is nonsense,
or trivial pursuit, think again, and again, for it is not!+
The Lord Jesus Christ is called “The
Last or Second Adam.”
I Corinthians 15:45 NLT
The Scriptures tell us, “The first
man, Adam, became a living person.” But the last Adam—that is,
Christ—is a life-giving Spirit.
Eve's birth from the side of Adam, was a prophetic look into the
bride of Christ's creation!
Our blessed and
most precious Savior, birthed the church from His side!
John 19:34 KJV
But one of the soldiers with a spear
pierced His side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.
I John 5:6 KJV
This is He that came by water and
blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood.
And it is The Spirit that beareth witness, because The Spirit is
Truth.
I Corinthians
15:22 KJV
For as in Adam all die, even so
in Christ shall all be made alive.
The church, was
born from the water and blood of the second Adam, Jesus Christ.
He gave her birth!
She owes her
existence, to Him!
I Corinthians
12:12-27 KJV (The Body Of Christ.)
12 For as the body is one, and hath
many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are
one body: so also is Christ.
13 For by one Spirit are we all
baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be
bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
14 For the body is not one member,
but many.
15 If the foot shall say, Because I
am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the
body?
16 And if the ear shall say, Because
I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the
body?
17 If the whole body were an eye,
where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the
smelling?
18 But now hath God set the members
every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased Him.
19 And if they were all one member,
where were the body?
20 But now are they many members,
yet but one body.
21 And the eye cannot say unto the
hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have
no need of you.
22 Nay, much more those members of
the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:
23 And those members of the body,
which we think to be less honorable, upon these we bestow more
abundant honor; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.
24 For our comely parts have no
need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more
abundant honor to that part which lacked.
25 That there should be no schism in
the body; but that the members should have the same care one for
another.
26 And whether one member suffer,
all the members suffer with it; or one member be honored, all the
members rejoice with it.
27 Now ye are the body of Christ,
and members in particular.
Adam ...
Genesis 2:23 KJV
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.
Of the Second Adam, Paul said...
Ephesians 5:30
KJV
For we are members of His body, of
His flesh, and of His bones.
Acts 20:28 KJV
Take heed therefore unto yourselves,
and to all the flock, over the which The Holy Ghost hath made you
overseers, to feed the church of God, which He hath purchased with
His own blood.
Romans 12:4,5
KJV
4 For as we have many members in one
body, and all members have not the same office:
5 So we, being many, are one body in
Christ, and every one members one of another.
Ephesians
1:22,23 KJV
22 And hath put all things under His
feet, and gave Him to be the head over all things to the church,
23 Which is His body, the fulness of
Him that filleth all in all.
Ephesians 5:23
KJV
For the husband is the head of the
wife, even as Christ is The Head Of The church: and He is The Savior
of the body.
Colossians 1:18
KJV
And He is The Head Of the body, The
Church: who is the beginning, The Firstborn From The Dead; that in
all things He might have the preeminence.
Colossians 2:19
NLT
"...Christ, The Head Of The
Body. For He holds the whole body together with its joints and
ligaments, and it grows as God nourishes it.
The Body of
Christ/ The Bride of Christ:
John 3:29 KJV
He that hath the bride is The
Bridegroom..."
For I am jealous over you with godly
jealousy: for I have espoused you to one Husband, that I may present
you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
Revelation 19:7
KJV
Let us be glad and rejoice, and give
honor to Him: for the marriage of The Lamb is come, and His wife hath
made herself ready.
Revelation 21:2
KJV
And I John saw the holy city, new
Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride
adorned for her Husband.
Eve's call was to
be one with her husband and....
Genesis 1:28 KJV
(Adam and Eve's call.)
And God blessed them, and God said
unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and
subdue it: and have dominion..."
Today, the church
of The Lord Jesus Christ is spiritual Eve.
The Lord Jesus has
given us life from His very side, in death.
Our calling like
Eve's of old is to “Be fruitful, and multiply.”
Spiritually bringing life into the kingdom of God!
Romans 7:4 KJV
Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are
become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be
married to another, even to Him who is raised from the dead, that we
should bring forth fruit unto God.
Mark 16:15,16
KJV
15 And He said unto them, Go ye into
all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
16 He that believeth and is baptized
shall be saved (born-again);
but he that believeth not shall be damned.
