While walking in the woods and listening to the bible aloud in the book of John, the word ‘helper’ jumped out at me in a way I had never fully realized before. Jesus was preparing His disciples for His departure from this world, his death and crucifixion, but was teaching them the concept of the Holy Spirit, the Helper, and how this Spirit would not come until He left:
“The HELPER whom I will send to you from the Father will come. This HELPER, the Spirit of Truth who comes from the Father, will declare the truth about me. You will declare the truth, too, because you have been with me from the beginning.” ~John 15:26-27
Helper in the Greek is ‘parakletos’ and it means, “summoned, called to one’s side, especially called to one’s aid; one who pleads another’s cause before a judge, a pleader, counsel for defense, legal assistant, an advocate. In the next line, the Helper/The Spirit of Truth is translated from the Greek word ‘aletheia’ and it means, “what is true in any matter under consideration”. Parakletos is known to mean Holy Spirit in the New Testament.
Putting these two concepts together shows us that Jesus sends us an aid, a helper, who also helps us to understand truth in all contexts.
But Yahweh (Jesus) ALHYM (the Father) also introduces us to the concept of ‘helper’ in the beginning of scripture when They say:
“The Lord GOD said, ‘It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a HELPER comparable to him’……And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet (HELPER) for him.” ~Genesis 2:18, 20
Helper and help meet is represented by the Hebrew word ‘ezer’ which means to “help, succour”. God and His Son Yahweh made man and in the very beginning of man’s walk with God, God created a helper and brought (sent) her to the man so that he would not be alone.
I have shared that I believe the Holy Spirit is the feminine wife of Alhym created by Him as he hovered over the waters in the very beginning of time, and Yahweh, the Spirit of Christ, the Son of God, was begat from this otherworldly union. I believe that the word “HELPER” being used for wife in Hebrew and for Holy Spirit in Greek is not a mere coincidence. I do believe that Jesus understood this mystery and in His usual way, taught this mystery indirectly for those with eyes to see and ears to hear. Because He used the same conceptual word that had been from the beginning> Helper, to align Holy Spirit with the concept of wife.
Is that why it is not good for man to be alone? Because alone he will not have the divine assistance and truth that comes from having a wife created just for him by God?
The full implication of this is not that hard to grasp. A man is better with a wife who is his helper, aid, who gives the Spirit of Truth and succors him. Does a wife not bring this? Women are known for being bearers of truth more than men, as well as soothers and nurturers. These are Holy Spirit attributes. Godly men as husbands bring Christ-like values such as loyalty and protection, but men are not really known for being Truth bearers, if you think about it.
I am not saying that a man will not know the Holy Spirit if he is not married, and I don’t believe Jesus is implying that either. I do think that God has a divine plan and if we follow His plan, we are more blessed than if we do not follow His plan. If we understand that God made us in His image, then it also makes sense that He made family in the same conceptual model.
How can He have a Son without also having a Wife? If God has a wife (the Holy Spirit), then He will also want a man to have a wife and for them to procreate as given to us in the first pages of scripture. If a chosen man of God–a saved or born-again man–has Christ-like attributes, then why would a wife not also have Holy Spirit attributes?
~Song of Mary~ 