This woman We know as Eve...
Before
the fall, her identity was incorporated into man. Adam had given her
the name woman recognizing her as a part of himself Adam! Note that he
had named all the other creatures, but none of them was his perfect
fit.
Genesis 2:23-24
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.... so in essence Adam first
named her Woman and her first name was Adam! i.e. Adam-Woman and Adam
was Adam-Man.... This means that when the Lord came to fellowship with
Adam in the cool of the evening, He did not just fellowship with
Adam-Man, He fellowshipped with Adam-Man and Adam-Woman.
Then
Adam-Woman who was supposed to be Adam-Man's wife wandered away from
him and allowed herself to be tempted of the devil in the form of the
serpent, which culminated in the fall of man and bondage under the
curse.
Genesis 3:1-2
1 Now the serpent was
more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made.
And he said to the woman, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of
every tree of the garden’?”
2 And the woman said to the
serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden; 3 but of the
fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said,
‘You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.’”
After the fall, Adam separated himself from his wife when God came looking for them - Genesis 3:12
Then the man said, “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.”
Thus,
began the blame game! Because of sin, that which had been cleaved from
was now being cleaved away from, and Adam then gave her a name that
identified her no longer with himself, but with him whom she had
allowed herself to be allied to - the serpent.
So what
this shows us is that in the beginning, there was no separation or
differentiation between man and woman because they were one - They were
both called Adam! but after the fall Adam separated his own identity
from his wife... which is what sin brought - separation not only from
God but from his helper Adam-Woman and then renamed her Eve, note the
difference - In the first instance - SHE shall be called "Woman" and
in the second, he started the name-calling - Adam called his wife's
name - notice the separation: his wife...
Genesis 3:20
20 And Adam called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.
So
Eve now under grace now must go back to her first estate Adam-Man, and
Adam-man must accept her back and restore her back to HER original
estate - Adam-Woman, ending the blame game, the curse, and the
Tyrannical Lordship that was a consequence of the fall, back to the
place where 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....
I
AM WOMAN, MY NAME IS ADAM-WOMAN. That is why under grace the bible
states prophetically in the book of Isaiah speaking of God's children
said:
Isaiah 34:16
16 “Search from the book of the Lord, and read:
Not one of these shall fail;
Not one shall lack her mate.
For My mouth has commanded it, and His Spirit has gathered them.
I AM A WOMAN!
"I am She.
My name is Woman,
Female, Lady, Damsel,
All that embodies the completion of male...."
Copyright, The Voice of One Woman by Adepero Mettabel Okulaja
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