Victorious

Gen 2:24 For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.

Although we interpret this as: for this reason a man and woman shall leave their father and mother, and be joined to one another…….

That is not what scripture says. It specifically says the man should leave his parents and be joined to his wife.

Why is this important? Because when God gave the promise of the seed of the woman, it was to be traced through the female lineage. The man leaves his “tribe” and joins himself to the woman’s “tribe.”

Man turned this upside down when early in Genesis men began to take women “whomever they chose” as spoils of war and removed her from her family. As the The mother of Sisera said in Judges:

Jdg 5:30 ‘Are they not finding, are they not dividing the spoil? A maiden, two maidens for every warrior……..

But God fulfilled His plan as we see several women in the genealogy of Jesus; Rahab and Ruth and ultimately Jesus being the “seed of the woman” as prophesied by God in the garden.

That the man was originally intended to “leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife” is fulfilled in the mystery of Christ and the church.

Eph 5:32 This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church.

Jesus left His Father and came to earth (the tribe of the woman) to cleave to His bride (the church.)