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Secrets of Heaven #138

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138. Genesis 2:18. And Jehovah God said, "It is not good for the human to be alone. Let me make him an aid that seems to be his."

Being alone symbolizes being discontent with the Lord's leading and desiring to be led by oneself and the world. An aid that seems to be his symbolizes a sense of autonomy, later referred to as the rib from which the woman was built [Genesis 2:22].

  
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Genesis 2:18

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18 And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.