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"What Does God Mean By, 'The Two Shall Be One Flesh?'"
- Dec 25, 2025
- 7 min read
Updated: Dec 29, 2025
What Does God Mean by, "the two shall be one flesh?"
Genesis 2:18-24
Complete Jewish Bible
18 Adonai, God, said, “It isn’t good that the person should be alone. I will make for him a companion suitable for helping him.”
19 So from the ground Adonai, God, formed every wild animal and every bird that flies in the air, and he brought them to the person to see what he would call them. Whatever the person would call each living creature, that was to be its name.
20 So the person gave names to all the livestock, to the birds in the air and to every wild animal. But for Adam there was not found a companion suitable for helping him.
21 Then God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the person; and while he was sleeping, he took one of his ribs and closed up the place from which he took it with flesh.
22 The rib which Adonai, God, had taken from the person, he made a woman-person; and he brought her to the man-person.
23 The man-person said, “At last! This is bone from my bones and flesh from my flesh. She is to be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.”
24 This is why a man is to leave his father and mother and stick with his wife, and they are to be one flesh.
Ephesians 5:15-33
Complete Jewish Bible
15 Therefore, pay careful attention to how you conduct your life — live wisely, not unwisely.
16 Use your time well, for these are evil days.
17 So don’t be foolish, but try to understand what the will of the Lord is.
18 Don’t get drunk with wine, because it makes you lose control. Instead, keep on being filled with the Spirit —
19 sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs to each other; sing to the Lord and make music in your heart to him;
20 always give thanks for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah.
21 Submit to one another in fear of the Messiah.
22 Wives should submit to their husbands as they do to the Lord;
23 because the husband is head of the wife, just as the Messiah, as head of the Messianic Community, is himself the one who keeps the body safe.
24 Just as the Messianic Community submits to the Messiah, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
25 As for husbands, love your wives, just as the Messiah loved the Messianic Community, indeed, gave himself up on its behalf,
26 in order to set it apart for God, making it clean through immersion in the mikveh, so to speak,
27 in order to present the Messianic Community to himself as a bride to be proud of, without a spot, wrinkle or any such thing, but holy and without defect.
28 This is how husbands ought to love their wives — like their own bodies; for the man who loves his wife is loving himself.
29 Why, no one ever hated his own flesh! On the contrary, he feeds it well and takes care of it, just as the Messiah does the Messianic Community,
30 because we are parts of his Body.
31 “Therefore a man will leave his father and mother and remain with his wife, and the two will become one” {Genesis 2:24}
32 There is profound truth hidden here, which I say concerns the Messiah and the Messianic Community. 33 However, the text also applies to each of you individually: let each man love his wife as he does himself, and see that the wife respects her husband.
Male and Female Joined in Marriage Are One Being
The Image of God
Human beings are created in the image of God, both male and female. Marriage makes them one being. Single, they are two halves of the whole, and that wholeness, one being, is the image of God. Thus, the Lord possesses both male and female qualities. Male and female came out of Him at creation and when male and female get married in this life, they become one being; complete, whole and in the image of God, meaning that one God possesses both male and female qualities.
God is not a hermaphrodite possessing both male and female sex organs. God possesses both male and female characteristics like the two male and female humans joined as one being by marriage, are two separate and distinct persons. God possesses both male and female qualities, but not male and female sexual natures. Opposite sexual natures attract for marriage and to make babies for God.
Thus, the image of God is achieved through marriage. Not by being single. And, this is the great mystery that Paul alluded to in Ephesians 5:31, 32:
Ephesians 5:31-32
Modern English Version
31 “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh.”
32 This is a great mystery, but I am speaking about Christ and the church.
What Is the Great Mystery?
The Great Mystery Is That Two Humans Are the Image of God Through Marriage
Because They Become One Flesh
Two Spirits Become One Flesh
Two Separate and Distinct Spirit Persons Who Have Become One Flesh in the Image of God Through Marriage
Genesis 1:26-28
Modern English Version
26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
Father, Son and Holy Spirit
Three Separate and Distinct Persons Are One Godhead
God the Father Is Masculine
(scriptures showing the Father acts like a man)
God the Holy Spirit is the Feminine
The Holy Sirit is compared to water in the Bible (). A woman is also compared to waters. Water represents emotions and feelings. The Holy Spirit sounds like a woman, or a wife.
God the Man Exhibits Both Natures
The Lord Jesus, the Son, is letting out a dangerous yell when He returns. According to 1 Thessalonians 54:16, the Lord will shout something when He returns. In 2020 an angel of the Lord told me what the shout is, in a message I have on this website.
1 Thessalonians 4:16
Authorized (King James) Version
{Paraphrased}
16 For the Lord {Jesus} himself shall descend from heaven with a shout,
with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
The angel Gabriel said that when Jesus returns that He's coming back to avenge the blood of His people since the world began (2 Pt. 3/ Rev. 19/ Dt. 32:43) and His yell will be like a mother's cry for her only son dead. It's been said that "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned". God is manifesting in the feminine wrath of a mother whose only child was murdered for nothing.
This is what the angel Gabriel said,
"They are seeing the Lord Jesus in the clouds with His left hand held high,
and He eyes the church and the devil living around them with fury,
as a mother who lost her only child to death and hades".
An only child has significant Hebrew meaning in scripture (Gen. 22:2/ Lk. 7:12/ Jn. 3:16). To lose an only child is significant. To mourn for an only child because it's dead, is very significant. The Bible says in 1 Thes. 2:16 that when Jesus returns, that He will shout as He descends from heaven to earth. Not scripture. Not commentaries, but the Lord and His angels revealed to me what that shout will be ... "shout as a mother wailing for her only child dead".
"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned". For the mother who carried her only child for nine months and then to lose the only child to a murder ... the loss of a child with special and significant plans for her life ... nothing is more vicious than a mother who's lost her only child to a murder and in the day of vengeance, she will not spare ... jealousy is the rage of a man ... and to mourn for her only child dead, is the rage of a woman ... nothing makes a woman kill more and she will not rest until she kills everyone involved ... no man can face a woman in mourning for the murder of her only child ... the Lord said that,
"Women are stronger than men when it comes to their children"
... the rage of a woman avenging the murder of her only child will not be quenched until they are dead ... as you live, you will be attacked until you are killed by the wailing mother ... only the murderer's death will quench the fire of the woman's rage for the murder of her only child ... this is what the Lord taught me about the shout of the Lord Jesus when He returns ... He is hurting bad over this world killing His children ... and in the day of vengeance He will return wailing like a mother who's lost her only child to a murder ... that's how Jesus feels for you, O Christian, when you're hurt by people because you're a Christian ... the Lord Jesus will not spare in the day of vengeance ... He will wipe this world system out for killing His children ... it will be a bonfire, the recreation of the entire cosmos (2 Pt. 3/ Rev. 19). The Lord says that rage of the wailing mother is God's image in the female ... the Lord says that when He returns as that rage of the wailing mother, doesn't mean that He's a sissy ... God is explaining a rage that is stronger than a man and can't be quenched by anything but death ... it's inevitable that the Lord will kill this world for killing His children and for hurting God ... You have no idea the rage the holy angels feel for the Lord being hurt like this ...
What Does Jesus Shout When He Returns?
That is one example where the Lord manifests both masculine and feminine natures.
World without end. Amen
