Yes. In Genesis 2:22, Moses tells us, “The Lord
God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought
her to the man.” God created Eve and
presented her to Adam. Then in verse 24,
we learn, “For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be
joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.” God introduced the couple. He got them together. He is the first Father to walk His daughter
down the aisle. (OK, there wasn't
an
aisle in Eden, but you get the idea.) He
then performed the first wedding. Moses
points out that because God did this with the first couple, each couple after
them will be joined together in a marriage relationship, and they “become one
flesh.”
Think this is a stretch? Then why does Jesus also make the same
connection in Matthew 19 (see also Mark 10) in the context of marriage and
divorce? All marriages since have been
based on that first wedding.
In Ephesians 5:31, Paul quotes
the Genesis text also, using marriage as a fitting picture to describe the
intimate relationship between Christ and the church.
