Thank you Sandra Jean, this was awesome
I would hate for people to miss the rapture by not
understanding this
Eph 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved
the church and gave himself up for her 26 to
make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water
through the word, 27 and to present her to
himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or
any other blemish, but holy and blameless.
2 Cor
11:2 I am jealous for you with a godly
jealousy. I promised you to one husband, to Christ, so
that I might present you as a pure virgin to him.
Eph
5:24 Now as the church submits to
Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in
everything.
Rev 19:7 Let
us rejoice and be glad
and give him glory!
For the wedding of the Lamb has come,
and his bride has made
herself ready.
8 Fine
linen, bright and clean,
was given her to wear.”
(Fine linen stands for the righteous acts of
God’s holy people.)
9 Then
the angel said to me, “Write this: Blessed are those
who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb!”
And he added, “These are the true words of God.”
Rev 21 1 Then I saw “a new
heaven and a new earth,”[a] for the first
heaven and the first earth had passed away, and
there was no longer any sea. 2 I
saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down
out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride
beautifully dressed for her husband.
10 Then he told me,
“Do not seal up the words of the prophecy of
this scroll, because the time is near. 11 Let
the one who does wrong continue to do wrong; let
the vile person continue to be vile; let the one
who does right continue to do right; and let the
holy person continue to be holy.”
Sandra Jean (17 Aug
2013)
"Who
is the Bride of Christ?"
Question:
"What does it mean that the church is
the bride of Christ?"
Answer: The imagery and
symbolism of marriage is applied to Christ
and the body of believers known as the
church. These are those who have trusted
in Jesus Christ as their personal savior
and have received eternal life. In the New
Testament, Christ, the Bridegroom, has
sacrificially and lovingly chosen the
church to be His bride (Ephesians 5:25-27).
Just as there was a betrothal period in
biblical times during which the bride and
groom were separated until the wedding, so
is the bride of Christ separate from her
Bridegroom during the church age. Her
responsibility during the betrothal period
is to be faithful to Him (2
Corinthians 11:2; Ephesians 5:24).
At the Second Coming of Christ, the church
will be united with the Bridegroom, the
official "wedding ceremony" will take
place and, with it, the eternal union of
Christ and His bride will be actualized (Revelation
19:7-9; 21:1-2).
At that time, all believers will inhabit
the heavenly city known as New Jerusalem,
also called “the holy city” in Revelation 21:2
and 10. The New
Jerusalem is not the church, but it takes
on the church’s characteristics. In his
vision of the end of the age, the Apostle
John sees the city coming down from heaven
adorned “as a bride,” meaning that the
inhabitants of the city, the redeemed of
the Lord, will be holy and pure, wearing
white garments of holiness and
righteousness.
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Some
have misinterpreted verse 9 to mean
the holy city is the bride of Christ,
but that cannot be because Christ died
for His people, not for a city. The
city is called the bride because it
encompasses all who are the bride,
just as all the students of a school
are sometimes called “the school.”
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