God created Adam in His image.
Gen 2:18 Later, the LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make for him a companion that is a suitable match for him."
And surely. . it is not good to be alone!
Gen 2:21 so the LORD God caused a deep sleep to overshadow the man. When the man was asleep, he removed one of the man's ribs and closed up the flesh where it had been.
Gen 2:22 Then the LORD God formed the rib that he had taken from the man into a woman and brought her to the man.
Gen 2:23 So the man exclaimed, "At last! This is bone from my bones and flesh from my flesh. This one will be called 'Woman,' because she was taken from Man."
So God ceated a companion for man. Someone that is his equal . . .and not his child.
In this present moment in history . . we find that God has many children . . . but no companion. And we know that true fulfilment cannot be without a family.
“And surely. . it is not good to be alone!”
And God created for Himself children. This we all know . . .but where is the companion.
Or is God destined to live only with His children. . . .living in this “not good” situation.
“And surely. . it is not good to be alone!”
But we see something else in Scripture nd surely. .
Isa 54:5 For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.
Rev 19:7 Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.
And we see the growing up of His children.
Eph 4:13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
And then? Are we then destined to be still children? And God destined to be alone?
No. Surely not. Then we are ready for the grown-up relationship! Companionship . . .because we are not children anymore . . .and the relationship can obviously not be that of children anymore!
Son 1:2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine.
Love Johan
The Mosaic and the New Covenants are all about God and Israel getting married, divorced, and remarried. At Sinai, God had saved His bride out of bondage in Egypt, declared His love for her, and proposed to her, and exchanged vows:
Ezekiel 16:8 “When I passed by you again and saw you, behold, you were at the age for love, and I spread the corner of my garment over you and covered your nakedness; I made my vow to you and entered into a covenant with you, declares the Lord God, and you became mine.
Exodus 19:5 Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine;
Deuteronomy 7:6-8 “For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. 7 It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples, 8 but it is because the Lord loves you and is keeping the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
The Book of the Covenant is in Exodus 20-23, which is a recording of the vows with prenuptial agreements for infidelity, and then in Exodus 24 Moses ratified the covenant and the people responded by essentially saying "I do":
Exodus 24:7-8 Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it in the hearing of the people. And they said, “All that the Lord has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient.” 8 And Moses took the blood and threw it on the people and said, “Behold the blood of the covenant that the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words.”
Deuteronomy 10:12-13 “And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, 13 and to keep the commandments and statutes of the Lord, which I am commanding you today for your good?
A good marriage is one where the people love each other with everything they've got. However, Israel was not faithful to her husband from the very beginning, which was equated with adultery:
Ezekiel 16:32 Adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband!
Ezekiel 16:38 And I will judge you as women who commit adultery and shed blood are judged, and bring upon you the blood of wrath and jealousy.
Jeremiah 3:20 Surely, as a treacherous wife leaves her husband, so have you been treacherous to me, O house of Israel, declares the Lord.’”
It eventually got to the point where God divided the kingdom into ten tribes of the house of Israel in north and two tribes the house of Judah in the south (1 Kings 11:29-39), where God gave a certificate of divorce to the northern house of Israel. This created a dilemma for the reconciliation of Israel because according to Deuteronomy 24:1-4, the first husband can't take back her wife after she has been with another husband, nevertheless, God continued to call for her to repent and turn back to Him:
Hosea 2:2a “Plead with your mother, plead— for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband—
Jeremiah 3:1-10 “If a man divorces his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's wife, will he return to her? Would not that land be greatly polluted? You have played the harlot with many lovers; and would you return to me? declares the Lord. 2 Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been ravished? By the waysides you have sat awaiting lovers like an Arab in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your vile whoredom. 3 Therefore the showers have been withheld, and the spring rain has not come; yet you have the forehead of a harlot; you refuse to be ashamed. 4 Have you not just now called to me, ‘My father, you are the friend of my youth— 5 will he be angry forever, will he be indignant to the end?’ Behold, you have spoken, but you have done all the evil that you could.” 6 The Lord said to me in the days of King Josiah: “Have you seen what she did, that faithless one, Israel, how she went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and there played the harlot? 7 And I thought, ‘After she has done all this she will return to me,’ but she did not return, and her treacherous sister Judah saw it. 8 She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, I had sent her away with a decree of divorce. Yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she too went and played the harlot. 9 Because she took her whoredom lightly, she polluted the land, committing adultery with stone and tree. 10 Yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah did not return to me with her whole heart, but in pretense, declares the Lord.” 11 And the Lord said to me, “Faithless Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah. 12 Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, “‘Return, faithless Israel, declares the Lord. I will not look on you in anger, for I am merciful, declares the Lord; I will not be angry forever. 13 Only acknowledge your guilt, that you rebelled against the Lord your God and scattered your favors among foreigners under every green tree, and that you have not obeyed my voice, declares the Lord. 14 Return, O faithless children, declares the Lord; for I am your master; I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.
This was a mystery because the only way for God to take the northern kingdom back was if the original marriage contract was annulled, which could only happen if the husband died. This was what Paul was trying to explain in Romans 7:1-4. So while God lives and Israel marries another man, then she will be called an adulterous, but if her husband dies, then she is released from the law of her husband and free to marry another man. So we have have also become dead to the law of our husband through the death of Christ on the cross so that we can be free to become married to him who was raised from the dead that we should bear fruit for God. Now there is a new marriage so that he can enter into marriage with his wife:
Jeremiah 31:31-32 “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, 32 not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the Lord.
