The Bride in Genesis by Arlen L Chitwood and published by Classics.
God created man in the beginning to rule the earth. And following man’s creation, with a view to this rule, God put the man to sleep, opened his side, and took a rib from his side; and from this rib God made “an help-meet” for the man, whom He called “Woman,” because “she was taken out of Man.” The woman was bone of man’s bones, and flesh of man’s flesh; and, presented back to the man, the woman completed the man (Gen. 1:26-28; 2:21-24).
The man and the woman were to rule together (Gen. 1:26) - the man as king, and the woman as consort queen. This formed an unchangeable principle which God established in the beginning. The man could not rule alone. Rather, he must rule as a complete being. Christ, the Second Man, the Last Adam, will one day take the sceptre and rule the earth and at the time He rules the earth, must have a wife to rule with Him.
The Son though does not presently possess a wife. But that is about to change. An entire dispensation, lasting 2,000 years, has been set aside; and God has sent the Holy Spirit into the world to acquire a bride for His Son (seen typically in Gen. 24). And once the Spirit’s mission has been completed, the bride will be removed from the earth and presented to the Son. Only then can the Second Man, the Last Adam, take the sceptre and rule the earth, in complete accord with God’s original intention for man, revealed at the time of his creation.
