One of the incredible patterns in scripture which is overlooked, is that the bride is both a prostitute AND a virgin. How can this be? Remember, it is word-play and riddle which exposes a higher truth. God does not take you and clean you up. He makes you new. ^[1]

Lets see the pattern:

Eve was the one who transgressed ^[2] yet when she bore a son, there is a hint of the virgin birth in word-play. ^[3]

Rebekah was the virgin bride of Issac. in word-play, it appears she was not so innocent. It says that the servant 'took' Rebekah.. the same word meaning 'married'. ^[4] Later it says that she covered herself when she saw Isaac... was she uncovered with the servant? ^[5]

Together Rachel and Leah play the parts, Leah that of the prostitute as she sneaks into the bedchamber. ^[6]

Sarah has married a man who was not her husband. ^[7]

Gomer, who was a prostitute, named her first son "God sows" as a hint of the virgin birth. ^[8]

Mary's name means 'rebellious' and she had the taint of a prostitute, yet she was the virgin bride.

In Christ, as we become one flesh with him through marriage, we become new creatures. ^[9]

The flesh is that which continues to insist that you are a god, as it serves you. The spirit is that which longs for her husband. We are both a sheep and a goat. ^[10] Don't feed the goat. ^[11]

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1. ↑ 2Co 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
2. ↑ 1Ti 2:14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
3. ↑ Ge 4:1 ¶ And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.
4. ↑ Ge 24:61 And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode upon the camels, and followed the man: and the servant took Rebekah, and went his way.
5. ↑ Ge 24:65 For she [had] said unto the servant, What man [is] this that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant [had] said, It [is] my master: therefore she took a vail, and covered herself.
6. ↑ Ge 29:23 And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in unto her.
7. ↑ Ge 20:13 And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father’s house, that I said unto her, This [is] thy kindness which thou shalt shew unto me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me, He [is] my brother.
8. ↑ Ho 1:4 And the LORD said unto him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little [while], and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel.
9. ↑ Ga 6:15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.
10. ↑ Mt 25:33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
11. ↑ Eph 4:22 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;