The truth is, the Father is the Father. He is not the Wife of the Lamb. Jesus Christ is the Lamb of God, He is not the Father. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God. He is not the Lamb and He did not die for our sins. We have made the relatively simple, biblical Father and Son relationship one inscrutable Person to whom we cannot possibly relate, except as a dog relates to his master—certainly not as a son to his father.

Now, Christian teaching stresses the oneness of God to the point that it truly can be accused of "oneness" teaching, that is, that Jesus and the Holy Spirit are two other manifestations of the Father. This is not true. It is not even orthodox, as far as I know. Yet this error appears to be prevalent in Christian thinking.

That which is born of God is of God in the truest sense of the Word. Properly nourished it will develop into a genuine brother of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is to this family relationship with our Father, with God, through the Lord Jesus Christ, that we have been called.

The Bride of the Lamb

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her (Ephesians 5:25—NIV)

After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church— (Ephesians 5:29—NIV)

No aspect of the Kingdom of God is more important than the marriage of the Lamb. The Word of God, the Christ, the Anointed Lord, has never before had a complement, a helper suited to Him.

The story of Adam and Eve is an allegory. It is telling us that God has determined His Son will no longer be alone but will have someone with whom He can communicate and who will reveal His Glory in the creation of God.

The account of Adam and Eve tells us much about the relationship of the Lamb and His Wife. We often refer to the "Bride of Christ." But the Scripture refers to the "Bride of the Lamb." This is because we eat the Lamb. We are made one with the Lamb by eating Him.

Christ is the Passover Lamb. The important aspect of the exodus of the Jews from Egypt was not that of the escape of human beings from physical slavery. The Centerpiece of the exodus is the Passover Lamb. The Jews left the slavery of Egypt and put on the chains of slavery to demons. But whoever eats the Passover Lamb and lives by Him is forever free from slavery.

The only free individual is the one who is the slave of Jesus Christ, as the Icelandic poet, Halgrímur Pétursson, maintained.

"He called their name Adam." So it is true that marriage to the Lamb is such total union with the Lamb that their name is the Lamb, so to speak. Those who live by the body and blood of the Lamb are totally, eternally one in Christ in God.

To be continued.