Jesus, the Mother of all living

“And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.” (Gen. 3:20). “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him; and without Him was not any thing made that was made. In Him was life; and the life was the light of men.” (John 1:1-4).

God placed Adam in a garden. This was his dwelling. The blue heavens were its dome; the earth, with its delicate flowers and carpet of living green, was its floor; and the leafy branches of the goodly trees were its canopy. Its walls were hung with the most magnificent adornings--the handiwork of the great Master Artist. In the surroundings of the holy pair was a lesson for all time. Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 49.

Adam was made in the image of the Father, “God, who created all things by Jesus Christ” (Eph. 3:9). Adam and Eve were made in the image of the Godhead.

“This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made He him; male and female created He them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.” (Gen. 5:1,2). The first parents were the progenitors of the human race, as the Godhead was the progenitor of the universe.

The man, kingly, strong, a bold ruler, calm and settled, not easily disturbed, all perfectly represented God the Father. Like God, Adam’s was the final say; and, at first, the only say. Adam went about his work, mastering and organizing the garden, as God had done His universe of suns and galaxies. The glory of the garden filled Adam’s being. But, like God had been, Adam was alone, and he had an unrest about it. The garden was full of wonder and goodness; but it wasn’t good enough.

So, as the Lord God had done earlier outside the garden, He again called forth every specie of the animal kingdom, right there before Adam’s eyes. Now, animals lowed, insects creeped, and fish swished. Birds of all sizes and colors flew around him and played together. They sang millions of melodies as the hosts of heaven had done for God. Still Adam felt alone.

The Lord God knew it wasn’t right for Adam to live without another with whom he could share his deepest companionship. But, He wanted Adam to come to that realization himself. So, He gave Adam a task that would raise the Lord’s desire in Adam’s mind, the Lord’s plans “being predestinated according to the purpose of Him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will.” (Eph. 1:11).

Back in the dateless ages before the earth’s creation, a long period of singleness without companionship was what the Father had experienced before begetting His only beloved, the Lord God, the Heir, “God blessed for ever” (Rom. 9:5). Now, the Lord God, acting in His Father’s behalf, designed this circumstance with Adam and the animals in order for Adam to see his need for fellowship with like-minded company, a life-mate and a “like”-mate, as the divine Lord God had been to His Father God. In accordance with the Lord God’s plan, Adam noticed over and over that the varied male animals all had their mates. His conclusion: “Lord, can I have a mate also? My fellow creatures are beautiful and smart in many ways, but, none of them are just like me; and therefore can none satisfy this strong need I have for a creature like me.”

The Lord’s answer was already prepared. As He would later describe the paradise made new after the great controversy of sin: “before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.” (Isa. 65:24). Adam was so submissive to the Lord God, their thinking was so alike, that it was the Lord’s greatest joy to give all that Adam could ask or think.

So, the Lord sedated Adam and did same-day, outpatient surgery on him. With one of his bones, maybe the rib next to Adam’s heart, the Lord God “made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. 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. 2:22,23). She had his same shape, and his same skin—no fur or feathers, no scales or exoskeletal armor; and no walking on all fours!

Like the father of the bride, the Son of God personally introduced Eve to Adam. At first He betrothed them together and made them brother and sister for a while. Later, when they would know each other better, He would unite them in an even closer bond and relationship.

Eve was a little smaller than Adam and more deferential than he; she was quieter, but more expressive of her thoughts and emotions. She had as much energy as her brother, Adam, but not the power; yet, she happily looked up to him for counsel in everything.

Her body came with all the machinery and tools for accomplishing many miracles in the reproduction of the original human creation and its maintenance. In this way, she represented the Lord God, the Son of God, by whom everything was created. Later, Eve would be the spokesperson for Adam to the children, naturally imitating the work of her Creator, the Word of God. Like the Prince of the Godhead, her voice naturally was more comfortably within the children’s hearing range, while Adam spoke more like the sound of a roaring river or tumultuous surf, or even thunder. The woman, for her children’s sake and without even trying, had the softer body, the softer disposition, the softer heart than Adam. The man had a warm heart for his children, but not to the peculiar degree that the Lord God had put into the woman. Thus, in many ways did Eve resemble God’s dear Son, our Intercessor and everlasting Father.

The man and his betrothed wife both had a love for each other’s society, but, like the Lord God to His Father and to His creation, especially so did the mother of all living, more than the man, love to get and keep her spouse and her later children close by her. “Behold, I and the children which God hath given me.” (Heb. 2:13). And as Rebekah slowly died because she lost the love and presence of her precious Jacob, so did the Son die in His heart when He lost from His children the communion He had with them in the Garden. When they fell into sin, it was only right for God to choose the Lord God to die for the salvation of Adam’s race, since dying had already been the Lord God’s disposition after losing the especially close embrace and fellowship of His special Earth-born children.

So, temptation entered their garden home, and with that came sin. When sin comes in, so does pain and sorrow, lamentations and mourning and woe. All the pleasantness of the world was jeopardized now. Eve must endure much suffering when producing her children, and Adam must treat her more controllably than before sin came. His new fallen nature would be more impatient, more forceful, more demanding. “Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.” (Gen. 3:16).

Simultaneously, the Father required more of His Son because of sin. He would become more controlling than before, for the sake of His eternal kingdom. And the Lord God would dutifully fulfill all of His God’s demands. If They hadn’t so desired a special, new creation in Eve, with the special capabilities to uniquely manifest the love within the Godhead for the purview of the intelligent universe, then the sin crisis would not now exist. A special revelation of Themselves in the now unholy pair as much misrepresented and dishonored Them to the kingdom. Therefore, Lord God the Son must bear the heavy responsibility with the solution for His precious Earth. God the Father must make it an urgent matter to stop and destroy sin, and to salvage the human race without jeopardizing the rest of the kingdom with their rebellion.

When the Son of God designed the Earth without sin, He painlessly birthed Adam and Eve. He Himself had provided the bodies, even as Eve would produce lifeless eggs; and the Father had provided the breath of life through His Son, as Adam would provide the power to transform Eve’s dead eggs into living, multiplying zygotes.

The humans failing in temptation was anticipated by the Son of God because He knew the overwhelming intelligence of Lucifer over His new children. But, being the one who bare them in their first birth, they were so precious to the Son of God, that He could not help but risk His eternal existence to regain their original love and devotion, and their eternal safety. He would fight like a she-bear for His people if necessary to them save from the abduction of Satan.

And now that sin entered the world, Eve’s first joy and pleasure in conception would turn into pain that would wrack her whole body, mind, and soul, but would afterward give her a love and care and worry for her newborns that would never die. After that much agony, she would never forget them for a moment. And the mixed blessing of horrific agonizing and its compulsion for childrearing would legitimize her Edenic justification. “She shall be saved in childbearing.” (1 Tim. 2:15).

In every way the same for the Son of God, delivering His children from Satan in their second birth would “greatly multiply” His sorrow, under the tremendous wrath of His Father toward mankind’s sin. From Gethsemane to Golgotha, His Spirit would be without form and void while His body would be bloated and exuding blood from every pore, as the divine wrath would press out of Him all that the eternal Spirit had impressed into Him. There would be no beauty in Him that we should desire Him as He would be reborn in us today. After that infinite agony, He would never forget His born-again children of God as their Mediator before the mercy seat of God’s throne.

The only legal redemption for Adam and his race must be the Father’s infinite severity upon His Son, hardening His Son’s already infinite tenderness and never-ending intercession for them. Our redemption came out of the Father’s infinite accountability upon Christ before the Law, thus creating His infinite advocacy to the Father before the Law. In order to ratify the Father’s original provision for our salvation, infinite mercy was birthed out of infinite justice, delivered through Their infinite desperation to love us and to woo us back from destruction, infinite yearning to have and to hold us ‘til death do us part. “God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them.” (2Cor. 5:19).

“And therefore” our redemption “was imputed” to the Son “for righteousness” (Rom. 4:22) before God. “To declare, I say, at this time His righteousness: that He might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.” (Rom. 3:26).