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Excerpt: Woman’s place in nature illustrates her place in grace, or her relation as a Christian woman to God. The manner of woman’s creation was unique. Adam is put into a deep sleep — a type of the death of Christ. From his side a rib is taken, a woman made, and presented to him. She was to be a help meet for him (help mate, or counterpart, his like, JND translation). This is typical of the church — the result of the death of Christ — which will be presented to Him as His bride.
The very fact that woman was “taken out of man” proves her equality. She is not an inferior but an equal, a help meet for him. Between man and man there is a similarity, an identity. Between man and woman there is equality but with it diversity. “Doth not even nature itself teach you?” (1 Cor. 11:14) is capable of a wide application. God in His wisdom put great differences in the physical, mental and emotional makeup of man and woman. He has most evidently marked them to be distinct, yet complementary.
The woman, “taken out of man,” proclaims the headship God has given man. Her privilege is to accord man the place God has given him. Man and woman are equal morally, but man is the head positionally. Scripture says, “The man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man. Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man. . . . Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord. For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God” (1 Cor. 11:8,9,11,12).
This is all perfectly designed to illustrate the relationship between Christ and the church. In Ephesians 5 the relationship between husband and wife is unfolded. The wife is to submit to the husband, for “the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church” (vs. 23). The husband is to love his wife “as Christ also loved the church, and gave Himself for it” (vs. 25). The man is told to leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife and they two shall be one flesh (vs. 31). “This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church” (vs. 32).
Let christian women rise from their study of Scripture determined, by God's grace, to carry out its instruction as to their relationship to man; to illustrate by their conduct the wonderful truth of Christ and the church.