Ray Vander Laan has an invaluable insight into the statement "This is the Cup in My Blood" spoken by the Messiah concerning Cup 3 (The Cup of Redemption) during the Passover Seder. This was MARRIAGE PROPOSAL according to the Ancient Galilean Wedding Model. Do not be mistaken. This was not an engagement. Rather, it was the earliest period of Jewish marriage, pre consummation. The disciples participating in the Seder with Him, all drank from Cup 3. Each (excluding Judas) accepted the marriage proposal and began Bride Status that Nisan 14. Bride began. Then the Bride Price was negotiated with Abba Father and the Messiah at Gethsamane on the Mount of Olives, approaching the Midnight Hour for Israel. All was resolved, complete, paid in full during the day portion of Nisan 14. All was done by the Redeemer Messiah in perfect obedience to our Father onto death, at Golgatha, in His precious blood. THE ATONEMENT.  

BEFORE The Sending of The Spirit of Truth (The Ruach ha Kodesh) began TO INDWELL Individual Believers, the Bride Class of Messiah was INSTITUTED on Nisan 14 Passover. As His Bride Group began on the final Passover of His Life, might His Bride be Complete and Resurrected on a future Nisan 14 Passover Anniversary? The night annually when adult believers can choose again to be the Messiah's Bride, in drinking from Cup 3! This is very special Communion Remembrance: Unleavened Bread and Grape Juice or Wine. The Messiah's Bride and the Spirit Indwelt Believers are 2 separate concepts. They began with 2 separate events. Do not confuse the 2. Avoid deception. Some believers will be children, not the adult Bride Group. Resurrected when? 

Will those who do not participate in the First Resurrection become part of the Messiah's Bride group later, during the 7 years shavua of the Hour of Trial? Or will they reject that great HONOR and instead become part of another lesser group, friends to the Messiah Groom and His Bride? The difference in status would be profound. Which will have dwellings in the New Jerusalem? Which will be Day Tripper Visitors? Paul is clear and emphatic about Resurrection. You want to be part of the pretribulation First Resurrection! This is before the Hour of Trial. Choices. The bride goes to the Bema Seat and is bestowed Wedding Presents called the CROWNS, of which there are 5 kinds. Prefer instead to be "earth dwellers" left in the trap, in the snare, according to the Book of Revelation? On the Torah Calendar, Passover will be 4-12 to 13, 2025. How will Passover Anniversary on Nisan 14 be significant in 2025? We shall see...

With Love and Shalom.

Jean