I have often pondered this question also.  I have some thoughts about it, but do not know for sure.  So will just wait and see.  Do you have the answer?  I really wish to know.

I believe the deep and true revelation here is that it refers to when Jesus died.

God put Jesus into that deep sleep and out of this death, He brought the woman, the Bride of Christ.

 

She is that rib.  Those three ribs in the mouth of the bear kindgom, which was Noah and his family, was  the three sons and their wives.  It means the bride who will reproduce another generation of people.

 

So the bride of Christ is to reproduce another generation of 'Christs', or Christians.

 

Jesus died that he might AWAKE the sleeping 'Lazaruses', or His true People.  It is spiritual awaking and also physical awaking, at the resurrection.

 

Is this how you see it?

very goods dar freboens551

somehows ole jons believes dis has to dos withs the old man and the new man

which as you says is Jesus.

i beleves dis is whens Jesus came out the graves.

dis is whens he brouht the New Testamenyt in.

Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new

Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;

ole jons believs dat the Woman dat waz broughts forths waz Jesus.

he waz the woman the help meet.

genius says

Ge 2:23 - And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

Jesuss also says

Lu 24:39 - Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.

i do nose dat it is referring to a helpmeet becuz it said in gen 2

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 for him.

now ole jon nots to smarts but i do nose that the rib cage in the naturrral is for protection.

Now ole jon nose dat the deep has to do with the deads becuz scripture says

Rom 10:7 Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)

Jonah 2

 1Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's belly,

 2And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.

 3For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.

 4Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.

dis is the same as genius iz showing aboot the deep.

dis here is Jesus dat waz put in the deep sleep, and he waz cast out of the site of God. He was forsakenn by God

the deep is hell

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Got this from another thread, goed good with this, John.   

 he put the Law into a deep sleep (Is. 29) and took a rib out of that dead law = Jesus in the grave- and from that he made a ‘woman�?= the Church. Jesus was part of the law; he was made under the law; he was part of the OT- the Esau- but, - God took him ‘out�?of that old way, put them into a deep sleep (Is. 29:10)- and took Jesus out of there = the resurrection.

Jesus did not ‘resurrect�?back into that old law; or the OT. No! No! No. He resurrected into a NEW DAY. He resurrected into the NT. He resurrected into GRACE not LAW.

He became the HEAD of a woman = the Church, or Eve. The MOTHER OF US ALL --the MOTHER of all LIVING. = Those with the life of the Holy Ghost.

 Tweety