Uncommon Brides: Tried, Tested and True-Eve

For the last year, I haven't written on this blog because I've been focusing my free time on my latest novel, Uncommon Brides: Tested, Tried, and True. It is finally finished and in the last stages before publishing.

There are seven brides in the Old Testament, both Gentile and Jewish, who together make a picture, or a "type" of the Church. I first heard about these seven brides listening to Chuck Missler teaching through Genesis. It was a throw-a-way comment, an aside really, that there were seven Jewish women who together made a picture of the Church.

Years later, I was asked to speak at a prophecy conference in Tacoma. As I prayed for God's leading, He reminded me of that comment by Chuck. I really love to study the Bible and began to research these women with relish. I found the first three with no problem: Eve, Rebecca and Rachel. Then I was stuck. I sat at my kitchen table and sipped coffee as I turned the pages in my Bible.

I don't get it. I don't see seven Jewish women. I mean, Lord, Eve really wasn't Jewish. I shook my head. Then, the Lord answered me. "Is the Church Jewish?"

I felt like smacking my forehead, "Duh! No! It's Jewish and Gentile!" The rest of the women quickly became apparent to me. Ruth! Of course, Lord! She is highlighted in her own biography right in Your Word! Next was Abigail, then Naamah the Shulammite and lastly, Gomer.

How are these particular women a picture, or a pattern, of the Church? Let's start with Eve!

Eve is a pattern of how the Church relates to the Bridegroom. In the Garden of Eden, Eve had unfettered fellowship with the Lord. No sin marred their fellowship. Think about that. Jesus has made a way through His loving sacrifice on the cross for us to have unfettered fellowship with Him. How do we do that?

The single most important thing we can do is to be in the Word of God. The more we are in it, the more we know God. In the same way, Eve learned about God in her daily walks with Him.

Eve was deceived by Satan, and we also can be deceived. The more we study the truth in the Word of God, the more we recognize the lies our enemy throws our way.

Even though Eve had to leave the Garden, she still had a relationship with God. Like Eve, we have a sin nature yet we still have fellowship with the Lord. As the Church, we will have that perfect relationship Eve enjoyed in the Garden of Eden with God. Best of all, it will last through all eternity!

We who trust in Jesus as our Savior can enjoy the same unfettered fellowship with the Lord as Eve did. I encourage you to set aside time each day to commune with Him as Eve was able to do in the Garden. Doing so will help you put aside your anxiety and fear, because you will have assurance of the Lord's love for you. He Himself has promised, "I will never leave you, nor will I ever forsake you.