His life and nature so that man can be the same as God in life and nature
C. From the ground God formed every animal of the field and every bird of
heaven and brought them to Adam, "and the man gave names to all cattle and to the birds of heaven and to every animal of the field, but for Adam there was not found a helper as his counterpart"—Gen. 2:19-20. D. The wife must be the same as the husband in life, nature, and expression;
among the cattle, the birds, and the animals Adam did not find a complement for himself, one that could match him—v. 23.
‹‹ Day 5 ›› E. In order to produce a complement for Himself, God first became a man, as
typified by God's creation of Adam—John 1:14; Rom. 5:14. F. "Jehovah God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; and He
took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh in its place"—Gen. 2:21:
1. Adam's deep sleep for the producing of Eve as his wife typifies Christ's death on the cross for the producing of the church as His counterpart— Eph. 5:25-27. 2. In the Bible, sleep means death—1 Cor. 15:18; 1 Thes. 4:13-16; John 11:11-14. 3. Christ's death is the life-releasing, life-imparting, life-propagating, lifemultiplying, and life-reproducing death, which is signified by the grain of wheat falling into the ground to die and to grow up in order to produce many grains (12:24) for the making of the loaf which is the Body, the church (1 Cor. 10:17). 4. Through Christ's death the divine life within Him was released, and through His resurrection His released divine life was imparted into His believers for the constituting of the church—Luke 12:49-50; cf. Rom. 12:11; Rev. 4:5. 5. Through such a process God in Christ has been wrought into man with His life and nature so that man can be the same as God in life and nature in order to match Him as His counterpart.
‹‹ Day 6 ›› G. "And Jehovah God built the rib, which He had taken from the man, into a
woman and brought her to the man"—Gen. 2:22:
1. The rib taken from Adam's opened side typifies the unbreakable, indestructible eternal life of Christ (Heb. 7:16; John 19:32-33, 36; Exo. 12:46; Psa. 34:20), which flowed out of His pierced side (John 19:34)