More on the Mother of all living

Jesus will birth us and succor us (see Mark 1:25; Luke 4:35; Hebrews 2:18). As we earlier stated, in the great controversy we see that the Son of God is “the mother of all living” (Gen. 3:20). He created Adam kingly and with all power and authority, formed in the image of His beloved Father (see 1 Corinthians 11:3, 7), made the fullness of the Godhead bodily. And, for the final work of Earth’s creation, Christ made Eve in His own spiritual image. He created Eve to help better reveal Himself before the angelic hosts and unfallen worlds. As mothers tend to the children’s immediate needs and fathers tend to their long-range needs, likewise have the two members of the Godhead. The Father of all has dealt with Earth’s rebellion in justice with some mercy because He had the needs and safety of the whole kingdom to remember. But, since the fall of man, He permitted His Son’s focus to be on our one race, our needs and issues. Thus, our issues had the Son's undivided attention, but were also interwoven with those of the rest of the vast kingdom. For us He has dealt with justice, but also in visible grace and kindness. The law of kindness has been in His mouth. And all of His born again children will rise up and call Him blessed (see Psalm 22:30, 31; Proverbs 31:28).

In their tendency to serve and minister in exchange for love and affection, every member of the female gender has revealed the Son of God, causing much joy and inspiration to the heavenly hosts – as well as great wrath and horror among the hosts of hell. Were it not for Satan’s vehement jealousy of the Son, every woman and girl should have reigned in the earth as queens and princesses, mothers and sisters of the males. But, to efface all evidence of Christ from Earth, the devil has abused and trampled upon, subjugated and excluded from the councils of men the women’s advice as a great resource of balancing wisdom. Their counsel mimics that of Daniel’s wisdom to King Nebuchadnezzar’s harsh measures, “Break off thy sins by righteousness...by shewing mercy to the poor” (Dan. 4:27).

Thus, by Christ’s infinite wisdom and creativity for the sake of the angelic hosts and the intelligent universe, through the holy pair in Eden and their animal kingdom that stretched to the utmost bounds of the everlasting hills the Godhead and Their universe were displayed in a new and living way. As Christ is the Word of God, even so did He give women a voice closer to the frequency range of children and the special gift of communication to teach children their fathers’ will.

And, as “God…created all things by Jesus Christ” (Eph. 3:9), so Adam would painlessly generate a race through Eve. But, after sin entered the world, the outcome of that for women would mean much agonizing in childbirth. “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).

Likewise, the Son of God, the self-sacrificing “Mother of all living”, had His sorrow greatly multiplied and His strength spent. The “Man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief”, after having “borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows” (Isa. 53:3, 4), “being in an agony” (Luke 22:44) died while laboring hard to give us a second birth and life eternal. By the consumed and fainting Son we were named “son of My sorrow”, but His victorious Father changed that name to “son of My right hand” (see Genesis 35:18, margin). Through the perfect sacrifice, He could see His Son’s reconciled seed and He brought Him back from the grave. And the Father’s plan of our salvation would prosper in the hands of His faithful High Priest, Michael, “the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people” (Dan. 12:1).