GENESIS 2:21

[NKJV]
And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.

[ICB]
So the Lord God caused the man to sleep very deeply. While the man was asleep, God took one of the ribs from the man’s body. Then God closed the man’s skin at the place where he took the rib.


*1* Have you ever experienced situation wherein you slept without any wound, but when you awoke you discovered a slight cut on your skin as if someone used razor or blade to tear your skin while you slept? Some people described such painful slight cut on one's skin as activities of witches or demonic blood sucking agents that operate on people's body while they sleep. However, I am not here to discuss about them, but show you from the Bible verse above that God was the first Person who began to create cut on a sleeping man and extracted or harvested a part or portion of the inwards of the sleeping man's body. So it's not only witches or demonic beings that create cuts on sleeping man's body, but even God did it and Doctors still do so in anesthesia during operations or procedures, and it could also be caused by insects. However, it's expected that God's cut on the sleeping man's body should not be left open but closedup and healed.


*2* Metaphorical representation of the Bible verse above using medical terminology, such as Anesthesia, Caesarean Section, Procedure and Incubation:

** "The Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam": — This can be understood as the induction of anesthesia, where Adam was placed in a deep state of unconsciousness.

** "He slept": This refers to Adam being in a state of anesthesia, unaware of his surroundings and temporarily devoid of sensation.

** "He took one of his ribs": — This like a surgical procedure, similar to a Caesarean section CS, where a surgical incision is made to extract a specific anatomical structure.

** "Closed up the flesh in its place": — After removing a rib (considering a literal interpretation), the surgical site is closed up by suturing or using other methods to close the incision and restore the integrity of the surrounding tissues.

** Incubation,: — typically refers to the process of providing a controlled environment, such as an incubator, to support the growth and development of premature infants or the cultivation of microorganisms in a laboratory setting. Well, here it was the rib bone that was to be developed and transformed into Woman.

But I am not here to talk Medical things, but far more greater things that are spiritual things and eternal realities. Therefore, unlike the Anesthesia that meant the induced man is unaware, I will show how Adam was both in deep sleep and yet he's aware.


*3* The Sleep in the Bible verse above was the very first sleep all mankind slept, seeing all mankind were inside Adam when he slept, but all mankind were not inside Adam when he awoke from that sleep: some part of mankind continued sleeping inside the woman being made, even after those in Adam awoke. He was just the man when he slept, but when he awoke there was a man and there was another of him, a woman (taken out of man).

*4* It was a "Deep Sleep of Adam" bodily, but not a "Slumber of Adam" spiritually. That deep sleep God caused only knocked off the body sensation of Adam, but not his consciousness. This implies, though Adam was in a deep sleep, Adam was still aware.


*5* To understand point *5* better, I will separate three kinds of literal or bodily sleepness that God causes/induces men to fall in.

¹—A— Repose — This is Sleep of Rest, Sleep of Refreshing or Healing Sleep. For examples,

[Ecclesiastes 5:12 NKJV] — The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, Whether he eats little or much; But the abundance of the rich will not permit him to sleep.

[Psalms 127:2 ICB] — It is no use for you to get up early and stay up late, working for a living. The Lord gives sleep to those He loves.

²—B— Slumber (Stupor) — Whenever Sleep is associated with Slumber in the Bible, that sleep is not wise. As you can see, the first sleep I mentioned as repose is good or sweet, but when there's slumber then that sleep associated with slumber becomes a problem. The reason is because "Slumber" means "Closed or Blindfolded Eyes or Mind." A man sleeping is expected to close eyes to sleep, but when closing his eyes goes deeper into closing his mind or spiritual eyes (visions), that becomes "Slumber." E.g.

[Psalms 132:4] — I will not give sleep to my eyes Or slumber to my eyelids,

[Proverbs 6:4] — Give no sleep to your eyes, Nor slumber to your eyelids.

[Proverbs 6:10-11] — Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: So shall your poverty come as one that travels, and your want as an armed man.

[Isaiah 56:10-11] — "His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. Yes, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are pastors that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his headquarter."

[Nahum 3:18] — Your pastors slumber, O king of Assyria: your nobles shall dwell in the dust: your people are scattered on the mountains, and no man gathers them.

[Romans 11:8] — According as it is written, 'God has given them the spirit of slumber (stupor), eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;' to this day.

³—C— Trance — This is the Sleep that's opposite of Slumber, because it surprisingly opens eyes of the sleeping man better rather than shutting his eyes, or it makes the sleeping man see or have vision better instead of making him blinder. Infact, Trance is more Visions or Consciousness of a sleeping man/woman. When a sleeping man or woman is even more aware and more sensitive while he/she is in a deep sleep like Adam in the top Bible verse above. Well not all Trance involves Sleeping, but some Trance do.

Is that not a paradox, when a man that's deeply sleeping is even more awake and more aware than another man who is not sleeping in the same environment? How can that be? It's like a man who is blind physically but sees through the Spirit of God; a reality wherein a blind man is more sensitive, sharper and more aware than a man who walks by physical sightings. Examples:

Adam was in deep sleep bodily, but he was very aware and awake as he beheld bone of his bones and flesh of his flesh taken out of him. We cannot say Adam was in "Repose" because his body was not resting in the sleep, for his body was suffering and losing the parts that became woman for him. And we cannot say Adam was in "Slumber" because he knew where the Woman was taken from and how one of his bones where taken, though was in deep sleep.

Abraham too experienced "Trance of Deep Sleep:" for Abraham was in a deep sleep bodily, but God began talking to the sleeping man and he was both hearing God, Hearing the Land Covenant and seeing the Fire that passed through the meat he kept beside him while he was in deep sleep [Genesis 15:12-21]

This woman too experienced "Trance of Sleep:" for though she was in sleep, her heart was awake, aware and sensitive to her Lover's voice knocking on her door in an out of sleep reality:

[Song of Songs 5:2 ICB] — I sleep, but my heart is awake. I hear my lover knocking. “Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my perfect one. My head is wet with dew. And my hair is wet with the dampness of the night.”

Daniel too experienced "Trance of Deep Sleep:" for Daniel was in a deep sleep bodily, but Angel kept talking to the sleeping man and he was hearing all the angel was saying though he was asleep

[Daniel 8:18] — "Now as he was speaking with me, I was in a deep sleep on my face toward the ground: but he touched me, and set me upright."

Saints who have died and are buried in their graves are basically in "Trance of Deep Sleep;" for though they are dead they are sleeping and actively conscious in Trance or Entrance of realities/ consciousness: So are they until resurrection of their dead bodies.


*6* Essentially, the man failed to find a suitable helper for him among all the living creatures that came from outside him, but here was the time for the man to stop searching outside him but to search inside him, not with the eyes of flesh but by God in the spiritual.

*7* The Helper Suitable for the Man was already a helper inside the Man; the Companion for the Man was already a Component of the Man. She was not a new comer or stranger in the business of being with the man, helping the man or being companion of him. She had been doing those things for him and with him as "One of His Ribs (One of His Helpers-Ribs) protecting his heart. She was only taken out of the man and transformed to continue in greater scales and other dimensions what she's been doing inside him since the day the man came into being a living soul. Therefore, she as the suitable helper for the man has actually been one of the sisters (rib bones) of the man before she became his wife.

I am not saying you marry your sister (close kin), but saying you should be able to call whom you marry "My Sister" as Abraham could call Sarah or as Isaac could call Rebekah, or as Adam could call Eve, "Bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh."

Did you see "Sisterhood" in her, or you just saw a girlfriend or girl you want to marry in her?

[Proverbs 7:4-5] — "Say to wisdom, You are my sister; and call understanding your kinswoman: That they may keep you from the strange woman, from the stranger which flatters with her words."

*8* There are four titles of truth you should be able to call a woman before you as a man should marry her as "Suitable Wife or Helper." These titles are 'My Sister' (She's Supportive and Protective as a Rib Bone), 'My Love' (my Darling or my Soulmate), 'My Dove' (She's harmless and gentle), and 'My Undefiled' (still a Virgin). Of all these four, is she ¼, ¾ or she completes the "4"?

[Song of Solomon 5:2] — I sleep, but my heart is awake; It is the voice of my beloved! He knocks, saying, “Open for me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; For my head is covered with dew, My locks with the drops of the night.”


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