awaking from a deep sleep to find Eve, through Satan’s seduction of Eve at the tree of knowledge, through Jesus awaking from death to see the women come to the garden tomb, to the final revelation of the bride at the end of all things, the bride-city that surrounds her Husband and is filled with His glory. As Jonathan Edwards put it, the Father created a world so that His Spirit could prepare a bride for His Son. Marriage is the alpha and omega of human history. Even pagans have some sense of this,