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  • Writer: Ray Powell
    Ray Powell
  • Dec 20, 2023
  • 3 min read

Updated: Jan 16, 2024

One of the keys that the revelation about Husband/Wife being a prophetic picture of Spirit/Soul is in what the Apostle Paul wrote here.

1 Corinthians 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.

And if they will learn anything, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.

 

When the Lord gave me the vision about the 3 persons coming together to Worship God, that we are to come before God "IN THE SPIRIT",  that is, thru our position of who we are "IN CHRIST". Both Men and Women have a spirit, a soul and a body. Regardless if we are a man or a woman, we are to minister from OUR SPIRIT, which is of Christ.

The opposite is true, do not minister from our SOULISH UNDERSTANDING (Woman).

Men or women who minister or preach from the "Soul" (worldly understanding) instead of "In the spirit", then it is the "WIFE OR WOMAN" who is SPEAKING.

When we minister "In the spirit" it is our husband JESUS speaking thru us. Again, this rule applies to men AND WOMEN IN THE CHURCH.

 

With this insight I read new meaning in Ephesians 5:22-28

 

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. [23] For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the savior of the body.

[24] Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. [25] Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; [26] That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, [27] That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. [28] So ought men to love their wives AS THEIR OWN BODIES. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

 

 

The revelation that our spirit and soul is a prophetic picture of husband and wife dramatically changed many scriptures for me. Ephesians 5:29-32

 

[29] For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: [30] For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. [31] For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

[32] This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. [33] Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

 

This teaching of Paul ties directly to the accounts of Creation. Genesis 2:23-24

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. [24] Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

 

Some things to consider also: God's Word may seem bias towards men and women in the natural. But remember that the Kingdom of Heaven is unique , to say least! Remember we will be as the Angels, neither male nor female.

When we WORSHIP God, we GIVE praise and thanksgiving.

 

IT IS THE NATURE OF MAN (MALE) TO GIVE.

IT IS THE NATURE OF A WOMAN TO RECEIVE.

 

When we RECEIVE anything from God, or men, it is our SOUL that increases.

When we GIVE, it is the SPIRIT part of us that is manifested.

 

In God's eyes, whether we are born as a man, or woman, if we are born-again, we are ALL SONS OF GOD. EQUAL IN EVERY WAY. It is amazing to consider that the same revelation of the story of Adam and Eve, is the story of the first MAN AND WOMAN, it is also the story of who each of us is as a PERSON, and it is the story of the JEWS AND GENTILES, THE CHURCH.

 

 

NEXT- click here THE THIRD DAY

 

 

 

 

 

  • Writer: Ray Powell
    Ray Powell
  • Dec 19, 2023
  • 2 min read

Updated: Jan 16, 2024

I  have heard and noted that there are two accounts of the creation of Adam, one in  the first chapter and then again in this one. Prophetically I "SEE" two completely different interpretations.

 

To summarize the first chapter of Creation, I would describe it as a prophetic looking BACK into what was BEFORE creation, and then the laying down of the foundations and the bringing forth of creation, which I would surprisingly describe it as being "Birthed".

 

The first chapter and account is shorter in detail than this one and I feel that the second one is far more easier to relate to and understand based on what we have already seen in the bible, the Word of God. So I will begin here and I believe this will further help lay the foundation for "IN THE BEGINNING".

 

The beginning of Chapter 2 begins with God having completed Creation and resting on the Seventh day from all His works. I will begin with Genesis 2:4-6

 

This is the history of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, before any plant of the field was in the earth and before any herb of the field had grown. For the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the ground; but a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground.

 

I have highlighted and underlined an important keys that will help discern what this is about. What's interesting about this wording is that these references point to the MORNING OF THE THIRD DAY OF CREATION.

 

Study and consider this carefully, because as you continue you will see that this, chapter two on day three is talking about the Creation of "ADAM".

In chapter one God reveals that He creates Man on the 6th day. So how can both accounts be true? What we have seen so far proves the need for further searching and explanation.

 

Keep in the back of your mind what was said in the last part of Genesis 2:5 For the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the ground;

 

NEXT- clip here TILLER OF THE GROUND

 
 
 
  • Writer: Ray Powell
    Ray Powell
  • Dec 18, 2023
  • 4 min read

Updated: Jan 16, 2024

CONTINUING FROM THE THIRD DAY

 

So if man was made on the 6th day of creation, what is the meaning of the creation of ADAM in the morning on the third day in Genesis 2:7

And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

 

God formed man of "*THE DUST OF THE GROUND".

* As I consider the meaning of "Ground", I  "SEE" that another term we could use for Ground is "EARTH". Not planet Earth as we know it, but "EARTHLY" as in physical. All who are born, are born of this Earthly realm, in the natural realm. Not the spirit realm. Dust refers to an innumerable number.

 

 The "Dust of the ground" refers to the Gentiles. Beginning with the Promise that God made to Abraham in Genesis 13:16

And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.

 

God began with Abraham and made covenant with him. Abraham and those before him were Gentiles and were "AS THE DUST OF THE EARTH" (Without number). God also promised that his descendants would inherit the Land, which was called "The PROMISED LAND".

Genesis 15:18

On the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying: "To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates-

 

Beginning with Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph (Patriarchs), God planted a Garden and called it Eden. (The Garden is in the EARTH)

Genesis 2:8

The LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed.

Beginning with Abraham of the Gentiles, God chose him to make His covenant (BREATHED INTO MAN). God sent Abram away from his home with a promise of a new land. Where Abram went, God went with Him. The inhabitants of the land discovered that his God went with him.

 

We know Jesus is the Tree of Life, but there are many "Trees" in the Garden that God caused to come forth from the "Ground". Trees that would bring forth their Fruit in due season. These were the Prophets of Old, men and women who were Chosen of God to speak and reveal His Word. Genesis 2:9

And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food;

Abraham was from the "Dust of the Ground, the Gentiles", from Abraham and his offspring would eventually come Israel, Gods firstborn son.

Noah, Abraham and the lives of those written in the bible "ARE SPIRITUAL TREES OF LEARNING AND FOOD". Their lives were captured in the WORD of God to reveal Him and His son.

 

With the Patriarchs who were given the promise of a land they did not possess, they lived in Tents and traveled throughout the land  and revealed to the inhabitants, the Gentiles, the might and power of their God, a God the inhabitants of the land did not know. Their testimony of God nourished the land.

Genesis 2:10

And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah*, where there is gold; And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.

*(Havilah- Means "CIRCLE" This is CIRCUMCISION).

 

These four "Rivers" are the patriarchs, the first is Abraham (Gold represents FAITH), his two sons Isaac and Ishmael are like "Light and Dark" and the last is Joseph.

And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia. And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.

I believe Joseph is Euphrates= "Fruitful" which is in Jacobs prophecy over Joseph in

Genesis 49:22

"Joseph is a fruitful bough, A fruitful bough by a well; His branches run over the wall.

 


 

Keep in the back of your mind what was said in the last part of Genesis 2:5 

For the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the ground;"

 

God gave Israel the "LAW", the Ten commandments. It is literally written into their DNA as Jews. The LAW brings conviction of sin, which would eventually lead to repentance and then the coming of the Messiah Jesus, "THE FORMER AND LATER RAIN".

James 5:7-8

Therefore be patient, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, waiting patiently for it until it receives the early and latter rain. You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

 

Israel was exiled into all the Earth, and the Ten Commandments went with them wherever they went. THE LAW TILLS THE HEARTS OF MANKIND, TO PREPARE FOR THE SEED. ISRAEL IS THE MAN WHO TILLS THE GROUND.

 

So the "Third Day" begins with Abraham BEFORE ISRAEL WAS FORMED.

 

NEXT- click here ADAMS RIB

 
 
 
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