Earthly and heavenly marriages

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In terms of typology, Genesis 2 describes an earthly type of marriage:

24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

Revelation 19 expresses a spiritual reality:

7 Let us rejoice and exult
and give him the glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come,
and his Bride has made herself ready;

This is the true heavenly type.

Both show intimacy and oneness as explained by Jesus in John 17:

21that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— 23I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity.

When God created Adam and Eve and the covenant of marriage between the two, did He already have the marriage between Christ and the Church in mind?

Yes, since the mind of God transcends time. Marriage was created as a type of heavenly oneness. The marriage relationship, from its inception, was designed to be a living metaphor for the profound spiritual intimacy between Christ and His people.