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1 | Bride and Guests at Lamb's Wedding | Revelation | JoeAnn | 199567 | ||
How can the bride of the lamb and those invited for the marriage supper be the same? What is the marriage of the lamb? Rev 19:7-9 | ||||||
2 | Bride and Guests at Lamb's Wedding | Revelation | stjohn | 199577 | ||
Hi JoeAnn, Perhaps what we are seeing here is two different groups. The marriage supper/feast is held 'after', the wedding, isn't it. Matt 25:1-10, So Jesus, The Groom, will be showing up with the Bride, "in tow" as it were. Could be, that the invited guests, is referring to Israel, and by the way, I think it is. Of course, there are differing points of view as to wether, The Church and Israel, are even two different groups! But that's a subject for a different study. Perhaps also, using the new Jerusalem to describe, The Bride, is metaphorical for indicating who dwells there. Just like when we see the term, The World, we know it often refers to those who dwell in the world, John 3:16, and not just the world geographically. And marriage too, is, a sort of metaphor, for a union, and perhaps not a wedding as we think of a wedding between a man and a woman, Matt 19:5, Marriage is often used to describe two boards of wood that have been joined together in a way that they cannot be separated without breaking the wood, we say to describe that kind of union, that they are married together. maybe that analogy isn't so good, but it does give us small brained humans a little better idea of what God is talking about when He describes that union. We will be united with Him in a way that is even more close and wonderful then it is now! I don't know just how it works but, When we see Him we will be like Him! Our stuff will be His stuff, or, something like that. just my two cents. :-) God bless John |
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