[00:00:00] Welcome to Faith in Focus from the Book of Mysteries by Jonathan Cahn, The Other Through the One. The day was sunny with a cool afternoon breeze. We were walking through a garden of olive trees, the leaves of which were rustling in the wind. A mystery, said the teacher. Listen to these words written by the apostle. For as woman came from man, even so man comes through woman. What does it mean?
[00:00:30] As woman came from man, so from Adam came Eve. But after that every man comes into the world through a woman. So man comes through woman. It's a circle of love, he said, a circle of being. The one comes from the other and the other comes through the one. And yet it contains an even deeper mystery. Adam was created
[00:00:54] in the image of God, the visible reflection of the invisible realities of God. So if from Adam came Eve, if from the man came the woman, then what is this a reflection of? What then came from God? The creation came from God, I replied. So the one came from the other, said the teacher. But according to the mystery, then the other must come through the one. So if the creation came from God, then,
[00:01:23] then God must come through the creation. Yes, said the teacher. As man comes through woman who came from man, so God must come through the creation. And so God is born among us. And the circle is complete. Israel, I said, Israel also came from God. So as the man comes through the woman, so the God of Israel
[00:01:48] Israel must come through Israel must come through Israel. God must be born of Israel. He paused, looked into my eyes and said, and what else comes from God? We do, I said. We came into existence from God. The one from the other and the other from the one. So what about you? If I came into existence from God,
[00:02:10] God, then the circle can only be complete if God comes through me. You exist from him, that he might exist through you. And what is salvation? It is exactly that. It is this mystery. It is God come through you who came from him. His life now born through your life. And that is the purpose of your life,
[00:02:35] to be a vessel through which God comes. Make this your aim, that God comes through your life, his love through your love, his goodness, his nature, his presence. Let his life come through your life, the one from the other and the other through the one. And then the circle will be complete. The mission. Take part in the mystery today. Let the life, the love, the goodness,
[00:03:05] the power, and the presence of God through your life be born. Genesis 2, 21-23. 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,
[00:03:30] made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man. 1 Corinthians 11, 11-12. Nevertheless, neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man in the Lord. For as the
[00:03:57] woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman, but all things of God. Ephesians 5, 25-32. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it. That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word. That he might present it to himself a
[00:04:23] glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that it should be holy and without blemish. So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the
[00:04:47] church. For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they too shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church, male and female.
[00:05:11] Thank you for joining me on Faith in Focus. Remember, these insights are inspired by Jonathan Kahn's The Book of Mysteries. Until next time, may you find strength in the revelation of his love.