Melvyn C.K.

Dear Cheryl Schatz! I have red all. And maybe I would like to add some divine thought from a divine point of view. First of All let’s we go to the early stage of the ‘Creation’. Everything that God did create was for His own pleasure and Glory… So this is the point of view.

Everything God created was very simple yet beautiful without any complications. When God created man was also very simple with men and women. Everything in order with a very simple goal anyway, to multiplied as many. God’s will was that man and women be an intact family that worship, glorify and serve God. All creatures in a harmonious and orderly formation in the correct order and proper. (We can read all of it in the early chapters of Genesis). But after the man fell into sin everything gets messed up. If Adam and Eve didn’t fell into sin, there is no such word as ‘abusive’,
‘domestic violence’ and even ’emancipation’, etc.

In Ephesian 5:24 and 1 Peter 3:5,7,8 and other references from Bible verses, saying
that match. As a man / child of God belongs to the same position we are both men and women. All of us as God’s priests which Christ as High Priest. but in a spiritual
role in the household. the role of the priest in the household as positioned in Ephesian 5 and 1 Peter 3,5,7,8 and verse reference alike, God wanted man as the head of household and his wife as a couples who mutually filling, in which the pair will
complement one another and respond to God assured answer themselves for their actions in the context of the family.

The role of the priest in the Old Testament can not be eliminated but at fulfilled in the Christian family (The New Covenant). if the first husband to act as a priest in the family because of liability and subject women because of religious laws at the time, now it’s all based on love and sacrifices according to Jesus law. it also symbolized the sacrifice of Jesus in relation to his people to die on the cross. also as a symbol of husband who was willing to die for his wife because of love.

It is a picture of the exact relationship of husband and wife from God’s perspective.
The book ‘Songs of Solomon’ much explains it. equality in the position as a priest of
God does not mean the same position in the obligations and responsibilities. Husband
and wife had to be different so that a balance occurs. The role of Christ is always the mirror of ‘role model’ for us His children.

Jesus our bridegroom and we are His bride. We should implement it in our lives as
husband and wife.

Shalom