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INTIMACY
Genesis 2:18 “And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.” “not good” tob = not a good thing “man” adam = man “alone” bad = separation or apart “make” asah = to make; fit; finish “help” ezer = grant; assist; surround; aid; protect; succour “meet” neged = mate; part opposite; counterpart; other side
As Genesis 2:20 states, it was after Adam had named all the living creatures, that God said, “But for Adam there was not found an help (ezer) meet (neged) for him.” God spoke these words in the Garden of Eden before the fall of man when Adam and God already experienced intimate fellowship described in Genesis 3:8 as “...they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day...”. Ultimately, fellowship must first be found and experienced with God. Once this is establish, one can then have fellowship with others and have intimate relationship as husband and wife. According to Genesis 2:21-25 “And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made He a woman, and brought her unto the man.” At last Adam had a “help meet for him”, for he exclaims in Genesis 2:23, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. The account continues, “Therefore shall a man leave (azab = to leave; to loosen; commit self to) his father and his mother, and shall cleave (dabaq = to adhere; joined together; to be fast together; stick together) unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh (echad = one; united together). And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed (bush = ashamed, disappointed).” There are three
Hebrew words that best express intimacy and they are as follows:
This word is illustrated in Job 22:21, “Acquaint ( yada ) now thyself with Him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.” And again in Job 42:11 “Then came there unto him(Job)all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance ( yada ) before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earing of gold.” In Proverbs 3:6 it states, “In all thy ways acknowledge ( yada ) Him, and He shall direct thy paths.”
Also we read in Proverbs 3:32 “For the froward is abomination to the Lord: but His secret ( sod ) is with the righteous.”
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