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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 | Val | 199810 | ||
Revelation 19:7 (1) Let us rejoice and be glad and give the glory to Him, (2) for the marriage of the Lamb has come and (3) His bride has made herself ready." 1. Let us rejoice and be glad and give the glory to Him; begins the second reason for exaltation. These three actions are warranted in light of God the Father’s next agenda item. 2. For the marriage of the Lamb has come; is the reason for the call to rejoice, be glad and the giving of glory. The wedding of the Lamb is announced. This, of course, is metaphorical. There will be no literal wedding. 3. His bride (wife) has made herself ready; completes the metaphor of a wedding. One would expect the text to refer to a bride (numpha) at this point, but the Greek uses the term guna (wife). "Wife" suggests the wedding is completed. However, in Jewish marriage customs, the betrothed virgin was bond to her husband. The marriage ceremony was a consummation of the legal process begun months and sometime years before. The apostle Paul on two separate occasions spoke of a church relationship to Christ in terms of the bridegroom/bride metaphor. 2 Corinthians 11:2 and Ephesians 5:25-32 both develops different aspects of this concept. It is clear in the Old Testament that Israel is the bride of God (Hos 2:19-20; Ezek 16:8-14; Isa 54:1-6). The emphasis here is on the collective whole—the nation of Israel. One is a part of the bride of God by physical birth—the physical seed of Abraham. However, the bride of Christ is formed by faith—the spiritual seed of Abraham. Contributors - Rev. Charles Cooper, Rev. Bill Lee-Warner, Robert Van Kampen, Gary Vaterlaus Revelationcommentary.org |
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