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Creation to Christ

Lesson 8 - God made Eve

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REVIEW QUESTIONS:

1. Does God ever begin a thing and then not finish it? No.

2. Why doesn’t God begin things and then leave them unfinished? Because God never changes. Nothing can hinder Him from doing what He plans to do. 

3. Why did God rest on the seventh day? Because all His work of creating things was finished.

4. Did God send rain to water the plants when the earth was first created? No, God watered the plants by mist which rose up from the earth.

5. For whom did God plant the garden of Eden? For Adam.

6. Why was it right for God to put Adam in the garden even though God didn’t ask him if he wanted to live there? God created Adam, so he rightfully belonged to God.

7. To whom do all things, spirits, and people belong? To God, their Creator. 

8. Of how many trees in the garden was Adam allowed to eat the fruit? All of them except one.

9. Who put the tree of life in the garden for Adam? God.

10. What was the name of the tree, the fruit of which God did not want Adam to eat? The tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

11. What did God say would happen to Adam if he ate of the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil? Adam would die.

12. What did God mean when He said that man would die? 

a. Man would be immediately separated from God, the source of his life.

b. His body would die when his soul and spirit were separated from his body. 

c. Man’s body, soul, and spirit would be separated from God forever in the place which God prepared for Satan and his demons.  

We continually hear conversations about marriage.

- Some say that marriage is something to be tried out to see if it will work—sort of an option, depending on how you feel about it.

- Many people are even suggesting that the idea of marriage is outdated.

But what does the Bible say about marriage?

- Did you know that God instituted marriage in the beginning?

- Right here in Genesis 2 we find part of the wedding service spoken in many ceremonies even today.

Let’s take a look at the roles God gave the first man and woman.

God decided that Adam should not live alone.

- God was his Creator and knew what was best for him.

- God didn’t ask Adam what he wanted or thought best.

- God made the decision to make a wife for Adam.

God loved Adam and wanted him to be complete.

- God knew that Adam wouldn’t continue to be happy if he remained alone.

- Because God loved Adam and wanted the best for him, He decided to make a wife for him. God knows ahead of time just what our needs will be, and He also knows the best way to meet those needs.

- You will see that He didn’t create Adam’s wife at the same moment or in the same way He created Adam.

- He created her at just the right time and in just the right way to meet Adam’s needs.

God had placed Adam as master over all the animals, so God also gave Adam the responsibility of giving them all their names. God brought to Adam every creature He had made, and Adam named them all.

God created man very different from the animals.

- Man was made in God’s image so he could know, love, and obey God.

- The animals could not know, love, and obey God like man could.

- Animals are not interested in the things in which people are interested.

- They cannot do many of the things that people do. Adam needed someone to whom he could talk and who could do the same things that he could do.

- No animal could be a suitable companion for man.

- He needed someone more like himself.

Man couldn’t do anything to provide himself with a companion and wife.

- Neither the angels nor Satan, or his demons, could make a wife for Adam. 

- God alone could make a wife for Adam.

God knew that Adam would need a wife; God loved man and did not want him to be alone.

Only God could do this.

- He knows everything.

- He can do anything He wants to do.

God made the first woman as a gift for man.

- Consider:

If someone who loves you were to give you a very special gift, would you take good care of it? Of course you would! It would be valuable to you because of the care and concern and love expressed by the one who gave it to you. God gave a wife to Adam, and God expected Adam to take good care of her and to love her.

- Consider:

Even though all of the animals must have seemed very interesting (and Adam had seen them all as he named them), imagine Adam’s delight in seeing this lovely woman whom God had made for him! She, like Adam, was created by God, but God had not made her from the dust of the ground as he had made Adam. God had actually made her from part of Adam’s own body, Adam’s rib. How precious and close she must have been to Adam! And God had given her a mind and emotions and a will, so she also was able to communicate with God and with Adam.

God made woman for man so they could be married, live together, and have children.

- “...Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth...” (Genesis 1:28).

- This was God’s command to Adam.

Consider:

Because God created everything perfect, we can only imagine just how lovely this woman really was! And God had made her to be that perfect “suitable helper” (Genesis 2:20, KJV “help meet”) that Adam needed. How satisfied Adam must have been with this dear wife who was given him by God, suited perfectly for his needs, made from part of his own body, endowed with the ability to communicate with him and with God, and commanded, with Adam, to fill the earth and to rule over it. To Adam, uniting with his wife in marriage must have seemed very good indeed.

Marriage was God’s perfect plan for Adam and Eve.

- Eve was Adam’s gift from God, perfectly suited to Adam’s needs.

- Everything that God does and says is good because He is perfect. He cannot think, say, or do anything evil.

Marriage is good because God gave marriage to man.

Life was perfect for Adam and Eve.

- God had given them everything they needed.

- And He had surrounded them with beauty and abundance far beyond their physical needs.

- They were able to communicate with God and with each other.

- He had made them rulers over His creation.

- He was present with them to guide them in every decision.

- Their work wasn’t hard.

- They had no sickness.

What happened?

- We will study later about the drastic events that changed all this peace and beauty.

But God’s Word hasn’t changed.

- Thousands of years have passed since Adam and Eve became man and wife, but God has never altered what He first wrote about marriage.

- God has not changed His mind about marriage.

Next we are going to review what we have learned so far. Review gives you a good opportunity:

- To “firm up” what you have learned

- To clear up misunderstandings

- To learn things you might have missed the first time through.

QUESTIONS:

1. Who decided that Adam needed a wife as a companion?

2. Why did God decide to make a wife for Adam?

3. Was it right for God to decide to do this without asking Adam?

4. How did God make the first woman?

5. How was it possible for God to make Eve from one of Adam’s ribs?

6. Who told Adam and Eve to marry and to have children?

Suggested Daily Bible Readings:

Day 36: Exodus, Chapters 21 and 22

Day 37: Exodus, Chapters 23 and 24

Day 38: Exodus, Chapters 25 and 26

Day 39: Exodus, Chapters 27 and 28

Day 40: Exodus, Chapters 29 and 30

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