Leaving, Cleaving and Conceiving
"Be fruitful and multiply..." Genesis 1:28
The context:
Marriage
The command:
Reproduce
The conditions:
Man needs a wombed woman and a wombed woman needs a man, which God provided, along with His blessings, that they may fulfill the command within the context He provided.
The causality:
Man and his wombed woman are deceived and fall into sin. Their offspring are now tainted in every way with their sin, rebellion, and death.
The consequence:
Man begins to fulfill the command to be fruitful and multiply but his seed, which by design can only come through a wombed woman, starts diminishing, demoralizing, distorting, minimizing, or just plain neglecting God's context, God's command, and God's conditions, that He established from the beginning.
The Consolation:
God had already answered and prepared His solution to this tragic movement toward man doing life the way it seemed best. He chose to show them grace... and more specifically redeeming grace through a promise that He would provide, redeem, rescue, and restore fallen men and women through the very context and command He provided for which we have diminished and demoralized.
How?
I want to reiterate to you, as Moses reiterated to the people in his day, when he said, "A MAN shall leave his FATHER and MOTHER and be joined to his WIFE, and the two shall become one flesh" (Genesis 2:24).
Why is this significant and fundamental to God and those who know and follow Him?
Because it takes us back to the original context, command, and conditions found in the garden that day. And because this picture of man and woman within God's context of marriage is directly related to th
