The following study section covers some significant verses on the subject of the two basic Scriptural matrimonies, that of our dear Lord’s forthcoming marriage feast of the Lamb, and that of the human population commissioned by the Lord to multiply and fill the earth. Let us be deeply mindful of these two aspects of the same thing.

What do I mean? The Lord’s Bride is composed of the divine Son become flesh, plus men of flesh among the general population who have believed in Christ and have received His redemptive, imparted, sanctifying, divine life. It is the mingling of His divine life and nature in and with the spirit and daily life of the believers that will compose the holy Bride of Christ, who will in her perfected state be without either spot (soiled, defilement, sin) or wrinkle (age due to the sting of death). This is a fantastic revelation in the Word of God, that we can learn to practice taking Him as our life in our daily chores and circumstances. It is through hearts yielded to an unconditional love relationship with Him that He is preparing the willing and obedient members of His body to be in such a condition for His coming. It will be in such a time and place the wedding feast will celebrate the divine consummation deposited into and expressed through humanity on the earth.
Our marriages and our homes, are but practice centers, laboratories to experience divine truths and divine principles together in our humanity as a readiness preparation for the age to come. I hope and pray these thoughts and these following verses may enlighten us and enable us to see marriage from our Lord’s point of view in the Bible. May we see what He saw and provided on our behalf, and enter into it; today, and in the days to come.

I. The divine obsession, finding a Bride for the Father’s son
A. A redeeming Son as a Bridegroom
1. Gen. 3:21-4:5 …did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them…
and Abel was a feeder of sheep…and Abel brought of the firstlings of his
flock…and the Lord God looked upon Abel and his offering…but Cain…
2. I Peter 1:18-21 …ye…were redeemed…with the precious blood of Christ
as of a Lamb without blemish and without spot: Who…was foreordained
before the foundation of the world…
3. Ephesians 1:4-7 …He hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the
world…holy…without blame before Him in love…predestinated us unto
sonship through Jesus Christ to Himself…He…made us accepted in the
Beloved in whom we have redemption through His blood…
4. Rev. 13:8 …names in the book of life of the Lamb, slain from the foundation of the world…
5. Rev. 19:7-9 Let us rejoice and be exceedingly glad and give glory to Him:
for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and His wife hath made herself ready…
she…arrayed in fine line, bright and pure…blessed are they which are called
unto the marriage supper of the Lamb…
6. Rev. 22:3-4 …the throne of God and of the Lamb…and they shall see His
face; and His name shall be in their foreheads…
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B. A matching Bride for His Son
1. Gen. 2:22 …He builded a woman and brought her unto the man…(Adam) said this is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh…
2. Matt. 9:15 …Jesus said…the days will come when the Bridegroom shall be
taken from them, and they shall fast…
3. John 3:29 …he that hath the bride is the bridegroom…
4. Ephesians 5:21-33 …as the church…unto Christ, so…the wives…to their
own husbands…Christ…loved the church and gave himself for her…(to)
sanctify and purify her…to present to Himself a glorious church, not having
spot or wrinkle or any such thing…holy…without blemish…we are members
of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones…two shall be one flesh…a great
mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church…
5. Rev. 19:7-9 …for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and His wife hath made herself ready…she…(is) arrayed in fine line, bright and pure…blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb…

C. God’s people as His beloved, and He their husband
1. Jerem. 31:31-34 …I was an Husband unto them…I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts, and will be their God, and they shall be my people…all shall know me…for I will forgive…and I will remember their sin no more.
2. Is. 54:5-10 …for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth…and thy widowhood…For thy Maker is thine Husband; the Lord of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; the God of the whole earth shall he be called. For the Lord hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth…
3. Hosea 2:7, 19-20 …and I (Israel) will return to my first Husband…and I (God) will betroth thee…in faithfulness, and thou shalt know the Lord…and I will sow her unto Me in the earth…My people, and they shall say Thou art my God…forsook for awhile, Moses, Israel, I will never leave nor forsake you…
4. Song of Songs 2:3, 4, 16 …I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste. He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love…my beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies…4:9-12, 15...Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister,
my spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes…how fair is
thy love…how much better is thy love than wine!...a garden enclosed…a
fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams…

D. Bible women as types of the Bride, the Church
1. Gen. 2:18-25; 5:2; Eve, presented as Adam’s spotless, sinless bride
2. Gen. 24:58-67 Rebecca, presented to the bridegroom
3. Gen. 41:45, 50; 46:20; Asenath, chosen from among the Gentiles
4. Ex. 2:21; 4:25; 18:2; Zipporah, passing through the wilderness
5. Josh. 15:16-20; I Chron. 2:42-55 Achsah, received her inheritance in the land
6. Ruth 1-4; altogether dependent upon her kinsman redeemer
7. I Samuel 25; Abigail, militant for her lord

II. The human commission, providing offspring, “raw material” who may be gained for the Bride
A. A couple in God’s image and with His authority for the earth
1. Gen. 1:25-28 …let Us make man in Our image, after our likeness, and let
them have dominion…over all the earth…so God created man in His own
image…male and female created He them…and God said, be fruitful and
multiply and replenish the earth, and conquer it…
2. Gen. 12:3; 13:16; 17:20-22; 21:12 …Abram (with Sarai)…in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed…and I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth...in Isaac shall thy seed be called…(and Abram with Hagar)…Ishmael… I have blessed him and will make him fruitful…multiply him exceedingly…a great nation…
3. Ruth 4:11-12 The Lord make the woman (Ruth) that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which did build the house of Israel…
4. Matthew 1:1-17; Luke 3:23-38 …begat…begat…begat

B. The relationship: the natural producing opportunity for the spiritual
1. Gen. 2:18-25; 2:3, 24-25 …the Lord God said…not good for a man to be alone; I will make an help meet for him…and God…rested from all His work which He had created and made…man…leave…cleave unto his wife…and
they shall be one flesh…naked…not ashamed…
2. Gen. 5:2 …male and female…blessed…and called their name Adam…
3. Matthew 19:4-12 …He…made them at the beginning male and female…
leave…cleave…be one flesh…no more two, but one flesh…what therefore
God hath joined together, let not man put asunder…
4. Prov. 31:10-31 …a virtuous woman…the heart of her husband doth safely
trust in her…her husband is known in the gates when he sitteth among the
elders of the land…her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also,
and he praiseth her…beauty is vain, but a woman that feareth the Lord, she
shall be praised…let her own works praise her in the gates.
5. Col. 3:12-21 …put on (these things, and)….forbearing…forgiving…love…
peace…do all in the name of the Lord Jesus…wives…husbands…children…
6. Eph. 5:18-33 …husbands, love…wife…respect her husband…
7. Rom. 16:3 …greet Aquila and Priscilla, my helpers in Christ…

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