What Is The Spiritual Significance Of Eve Being Made From Adam's Rib?

Mike,

Greetings! Do you think there is any significance in the fact that Eve, who was
Adam's bride, came out of his side while he slept? Just as while Jesus slept, blood
and water came out of his side after he was pierced? Do you think that this
symbolizes that Christ's true bride must ''come out'' of His body also? That is,
''coming out'' of the religious church world.

What do you think?

God bless,

J____

Hi J____

Of course I believe that we are to come out of Babylon..."come out of her my

people." But God taking a rib of Adam and making woman symbolizes Eve's origins.
It typifies her oneness with and submission to Adam. This, according to 1
Corinthians 11 and Romans 1, tells us that Christ is "of God" and is therefore
submissive to His Father. What Paul, speaking the mind of God, draws from Eve
coming out of Adam is this:
1 Cor 11:8 For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.
1 Cor 11:9 Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the
man.

That comes close to being the exact opposite of thinking of Eve's creation as
coming out of and separating and not touching the unclean thing:

2 Cor 6:17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the
Lord, and touch not the unclean [thing]; and I will receive you,

It adds not one word to what Paul is saying to say that 'the man is not out of the
woman, but the woman is out of the man.' What are we told to draw from this fact
spiritually? Should we draw from this that Eve is separated from Adam, that she now
doesn't need to be subject to Adam because she is now "out of Adam?" If that is
what we draw from the story of Eve's creation as an analogy, then we have just
taken what the holy spirit uses as a type of two being made one and in agreement,
and we have perverted this type of Christ and His father being made one into one
being made exact spiritual opposites. We have taken being made one and turned it
into being made two and Christ and His Father being separated and opposed to
each other. Eve was made of Adam's rib to show us that they are "one flesh." The
two were to come together and make one, and this was to be accomplished by Eve
being submissive to and subject to Adam, just as we, as Christ's bride, are to be
subject unto Him:

Eph 5:20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of
our Lord Jesus Christ;
Eph 5:21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

Eph 5:22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Eph 5:23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head
of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
Eph 5:24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to
their own husbands in every thing.

I have written a 70 page paper on this subject entitled The Head of Christ Is God.
It is loaded with scriptures dealing with this very subject.

You cannot take verse 21, addressed to the entire church as the bride of Christ, and
use it to contradict verse 22, addressed to wives, typifying the bride of Christ. Verse
22 agrees with and demonstrates how verse 21 is to be understood. The church, as
Christ's united body, works together to please him, just as He seeks to please
His Father.
When we use the story of Eve's creation to typify our coming out of Babylon, we
have turned what was intended to show us how Adam and Eve are one as a married
couple and we have perverted it into a divorce, a separation and a making of two
separates and equals.

This is what those who use...

Gal 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is
neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

...to nullify all of the verses in God's word concerning the role of women in the body
of Christ. To these people Paul's statement...:

1 Cor 11:3 But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and
the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

...amounts to nothing less than blasphemy. To these people; and that means
generally the orthodox Christian church, to say that "the head of the woman is the
man," instead of demonstrating Christ's submission to His Father, this verse
demonstrates the husband as an obstacle between women and Christ. And the
result of this foul spirit is what we have today where supposedly Christian women
despise what the Word of God says about the role of women in God's church:
So what is the Truth in this matter? What are the clear commandments of our Lord
as regards the role of women in His church? What would a truly spiritual, true
prophet of Christ have to say on this subject?

1 Cor 14:31 For ye [men] may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all
may be comforted.
1 Cor 14:32 And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.
1 Cor 14:33 For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all
churches of the saints.
1 Cor 14:34 Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not
permitted unto them to speak; but [they are commanded] to be under
obedience, as also saith the law.
1 Cor 14:35 And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home:
for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.
1 Cor 14:36 What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you only?
1 Cor 14:37 If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him
acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments
of the Lord .

I am fully aware that Paul said that women ought not to prophecy with their heads
uncovered or shaven. Read the paper The Head of Christ is God to understand how
Paul can say all the things he and Peter say about women being subject to their
husbands and being quiet and not being teachers in the church, and still say that
women can "prophecy with their heads covered."

1 Cor 11:4 Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered,
dishonoureth his head.
1 Cor 11:5 But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with [her] head uncovered
dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven.

How, pray tell, do these words in any way agree with:

Gal 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is
neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

They are in complete agreement when you understand that God made women with
a nature that is "against their husbands" (Genesis 3:16 - 'unto' in this verse should
be 'against'). But He made her that way for the same reason that He made the first
Adam to be 'against' the mind of his creator. "Sin lies at the door and against you
shall its desire be." Just as we are to overcome our natural inclination to oppose our
head, our wives must all resist their natural inclination to be against their husbands
who are given to them to be their head. The fact that most men are not fit to be the
head does not change this Truth.
I hope this gives you a better perspective of what is the significance of taking a rib
from Adam means. A much more Biblical type of coming out of Babylon to be
Christ's bride would be Cain hating Abel, Abraham coming out of Ur of the Chaldeas,
Abraham separating from Lot, Isaac being separated from Ishmael, Jacob from Esau,
Joseph being separated from his brothers, David from King Saul, etc. There are
many Old Testament types of God's divorce from physical Israel or our coming out of
Babylon. But the creation of Eve from Adam's rib is the exact opposite of coming out
of Babylon. Instead of typifying divorce and separation, it typifies how two become
one.

Gen 2:21 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;
Gen 2:22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman,
and brought her unto the man.
Gen 2:23 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.
Gen 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave
unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

Yes, it does say "flesh." But even flesh is a figure of Christ in this verse:

Rom 5:14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that
had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of
him that was to come.

Mike