A Virgin for His Son
The Eternal purpose of God is a virgin bride for His Son, a.k.a. “the Church”.
God’s Son can only marry a woman who is of the same “nature”, the same “type of being”, the same “species” as God Himself is, if I can put it like that.
That is why we must become like Christ. Christ will not marry another species. He cannot and will not join Himself to angels, animals or to sons of Adam.
The Acceptance of Christ
Christ became a man and He took our fallen nature so that by taking us, “in Him” to the “cross and resurrection” we now can become sons of God, brothers to Jesus, and of God’s kind.
12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: 13 who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
” (John 1:12–13, NKJV)
The process involves us first being born sons of Adam. The sons of Adam are “by nature children of wrath”. These sons of Adam are in reality also the “Children of the Devil”. They are clearly identified by their love and continuation in sin.
See 1 John 3 below
Salvation
By being baptized in Christ’s “Death and Resurrection” (Rom 6:3-7) we die to Adamic nature and are resurrected into Christ.
God’s Forge
This death and resurrection is God’s Eternal Purpose and why Gods allowing the death pain and suffering on Earth. Earth is God’s forge. It’s where he begets and grows Sons of God. Inside a forge it is hard, but the end purpose is glorious beyond comparison.
And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the SONS OF DISOBEDIENCE,3. among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were BY NATURE CHILDREN OF WRATH, just as the others.4. But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,5. even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),6. and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
Ephesians 2:1-6
Children of God
Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called CHILDREN OF GOD! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.2. Beloved, now we are CHILDREN OF GOD; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.3. And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.
Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.5. And you know that He was manifested to take away our sins, and in Him there is no sin.6. WHOEVER ABIDES IN HIM DOES NOT SIN. Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him.7. Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous.8. He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil.9. Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.
In this the CHILDREN OF GOD and the CHILDREN OF THE DEVIL are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother.11. For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another,12. not as Cain who was of the wicked one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his works were evil and his brother’s righteous.13. Do not marvel, my brethren, if the world hates you.14. We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love his brother abides in death.15. Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
1 John 3
For us who believe and are baptized into Christ Jesus
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, 4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, 5 having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, 6 to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved. ” (Ephesians 1:3–6, NKJV)