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"THAT HE MIGHT PRESENT TO HIMSELF THE CHURCH IN ALL HER GLORY, HAVING NO SPOT OR WRINKLE OR ANY SUCH THING; BUT THAT SHE WOULD BE HOLY AND BLAMELESS" EPH 5:27

"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." REV 19:7

"THE SPIRIT AND THE BRIDE SAY, 'COME!' AND LET HIM WHO HEARS SAY, 'COME!' WHOEVER IS THIRSTY, LET HIM COME; AND WHOEVER WISHES, LET HIM TAKE THE FREE GIFT OF THE WATER OF LIFE." REV 22:17


AS WE ENTER THE END TIMES, THE BELIEVERS IN YESHUA, JESUS, THE CHURCH, HAVE A DEEP UNDERSTANDING THAT THEY ARE THE BRIDE OF THE MESSIAH, YESHUA. THE WEDDING IS APPROACHING AND THE BRIDE MUST GET READY! THE BOOK OF REVELATION IS GIVEN TO THE CHURCH SO AS TO KNOW HOW TO PREPARE. IN THE END TIMES, THE WORLD WILL GROW DARKER AND MANY IN THE NAMED CHURCH WILL BE DECEIVED AND FALL AWAY.  BUT A REMNANTT BRIDE WILL BECOME MORE PURE, RIGHTEOUS AND SPIRIT FILLED. THE SPIRIT AND THE BRIDE SPEAK TOGETHER AS ONE; THEY SAY "COME!". THEY WILL BE MORE UNIFIED THAN EVER BEFORE!  THE APOSTLE PAUL SPEAKS ABOUT THIS FUTURE TIME WHERE WE WILL COMPLETELY FILL THE SHOES OF YESHUA, JESUS.  HE SAYS:

"...SO THAT THE BODY OF CHRIST MAY BE BUILT UP UNTIL WE ALL REACH UNITY IN THE FAITH AND IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE SON OF GOD AND BECOME MATURE ATTAINING TO THE WHOLE MEASURE OF THE FULLNESS OF CHRIST."  EPHESIANS 4:12

HOW DO WE BECOME THE BRIDE?

WE BECOME THE BRIDE OF YESHUA, JESUS  WHEN WE REPENT AND TELL HIM THAT WE ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WE ARE DEAD BECAUSE OF OUR SINFULNESS BEFORE A HOLY AND JUST GOD. WE SAY THAT WE KNOW THAT SUCH A HOLY AND RIGHTEOUS GOD CAN NEVER LIVE WITH SIN AND  UNRIGHTEOUSNESS.  WE ADMIT THAT WE ARE SORRY FOR GOING OUR OWN WAY AND THAT WE  ACCEPT THAT YESHUA, JESUS, BEING FULLY MAN AND FULLY GOD, DIED IN OUR PLACE. WE THEN INVITE HIM INTO OUR HEARTS TO LIVE AND RULE OVER US AND BE OUR SAVIOR. YESHUA IS THE HEBREW NAME FOR JESUS AND IT MEANS "SALVATION". YESHUA, JESUS, THEN GIVES US THE GIFT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT BY CIRCUMCISING OUR HEARTS.  THE APOSTLE PAULS SAYS:

"THIS RIGHTEOUSNESS FROM GOD COMES THROUGH FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST TO ALL WHO BELIEVE.  THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE, FOR ALL HAVE SINNED AND FALL SHORT OF THE GLORY OF GOD, AND ARE JUSTIFIED FREELY BY HIS GRACE THROUGH THE REDEMPTION THAT CAME BY CHRIST JESUS. GOD PRESENTED HIM AS A SACRIFICE OF ATONEMENT, THROUGH FAITH IN HIS BLOOD...SO AS TO BE JUST AND THE ONE WHO JUSTIFIES THOSE WHO HAVE FAITH IN JESUS." ROM 3:23

"FOR GOD WAS PLEASED TO HAVE ALL HIS FULLNESS DWELL IN HIM, AND THROUGH HIM TO RECONCILE TO HIMSELF ALL THINGS, WHETHER THINGS ON EARTH OR THINGS IN HEAVEN, BY MAKING PEACE THROUGH HIS BLOOD, SHED ON THE CROSS."  COL 1:19


 WE ARE THEN BETROTHED TO YESHUA, JESUS. THERE ARE TWO STAGES TO THE BIBLICAL MARRIAGE.  THE FIRST STAGE IS BETROTHAL OR "ERUSIN" IN HEBREW.  DURING BETROTHAL YOU ARE LEGALLY MARRIED TO YOUR SPOUSE BUT DO NOT PHYSICALLY DWELL WITH HIM YET.

THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT GOD BETROTHED HIMSELF TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL AT MOUNT SINAI WITH A COVENANT HE MADE WITH THEM. THIS COVENANT WAS CONSIDERED A MARRIAGE CONTRACT WHEREBY ISRAEL, THE WIFE HAD AGREED TO SUBMIT TO GOD AND OBEY HIS LAWS.

"...THE COVENANT THAT I MADE WITH THEIR FATHERS IN THE DAY THAT I TOOK THEM BY THE HAND TO BRING THEM OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT WHICH MY COVENANT THEY BROKE ALTHOUGH I WAS A HUSBAND TO THEM SAYS THE LORD." JER 31:32

BECAUSE OF THEIR DISOBEDIENCE, ISRAEL BROKE THE COVENANT OR MARRIAGE CONTRACT WITH GOD AND GOD ACCUSES THEM OF ADULTERY:

THE LORD SAYS: "REBUKE YOUR MOTHER, REBUKE HER, FOR SHE IS NOT MY WIFE, AND I AM NOT HER HUSBAND" HOSEA 2:2

THE LORD SAYS: "I GAVE FAITHLESS ISRAEL HER CERTIFICATE OF DIVORCE AND SENT HER AWAY BECAUSE OF ALL HER ADULTERIES. YET I SAW THAT HER UNFAITHFUL SISTER JUDAH HAD NO FEAR; SHE ALSO WENT OUT AND COMMITTED ADULTERY." JEREMIAH 3:3

ISAIAH SAYS THAT THE LORD DIVORCES AND HIDES HIMSELF FROM ISRAEL AND SENT HER AWAY BECAUSE OF THEIR REJECTION OF YESHUA, JESUS AS MESSIAH:

"WHERE IS YOUR MOTHER'S CERTIFICATE OF DIVORCE WITH WHICH I SENT HER AWAY? OR TO WHICH OF MY CREDITORS DID I SELL YOU? BECAUSE OF YOUR SINS YOU WERE SOLD; BECAUSE OF YOUR TRANSGRESSIONS YOUR MOTHER WAS SENT AWAY.  WHEN I CAME, WHY WAS THERE NO ONE? WHEN I CALLED, WHY WAS THERE NO ONE TO ANSWER? WAS MY ARM TOO SHORT TO RAMSOM YOU? DO I LACK THE STRENGTH TO RESCUE YOU? BY A MERE REBUKE I DRY UP THE SEA, I TURN RIVERS INTO A DESERT;" ISAIAH 50: 1

THE LORD PROPHECIES THROUGH JEREMIAH THAT THE LORD WILL MAKE A NEW COVENANT WITH THE HOUSE OF JUDAH AND WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL:

"THE TIME IS COMING," DECLARES THE LORD, 'WHEN I WILL MAKE A NEW COVENANT WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL AND WITH THE HOUSE OF JUDAH. IT WILL NOT BE LIKE THE COVENANT I MADE WITH THEIR FOREFATHERS....DECLARES THE LORD. 'THIS IS THE COVENANT I WILL MAKE WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL AFTER THAT TIME...I WILL PUT MY LAW IN THEIR MINDS AND WRITE IT ON THEIR HEARTS. I WILL BE THEIR GOD, AND THEY WILL BE MY PEOPLE." JEREMIAH 31:31

THIS IS THE COVENANT OR MARRIAGE CONTRACT THAT YESHUA, JESUS MADE WITH THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN HIM BY HIS DEATH ON THE CROSS:

"...AFTER THE SUPPER HE TOOK THE CUP, SAYING, 'THIS CUP IS THE NEW COVENANT IN MY BLOOD, WHICH IS POURED OUT FOR YOU." LUKE 22:20

THE WRITER IN THE BOOK OF HEBREWS SAYS:

"BECAUSE OF THIS OATH, JESUS HAS BECOME THE GUARANTOR OF A BETTER COVENANT."

THIS NEW COVENANT OR MARRIAGE CONTRACT WAS MADE BETWEEN GOD AND THE HOUSES OF JUDAH AND ISRAEL. YESHUA, JESUS WAS BROUGHT UP UNDER MOSAIC LAW, AND WAS JEWISH. ALL OF HIS FIRST FOLLOWERS WERE JEWISH. THE COVENANT WAS ANNOUNCED AT THE PASSOVER SUPPER WITH ALL OF HIS JEWISH DISCIPLES. MOST OF ISRAEL AND ALMOST ALL OF THE LEADERSHIP REJECTED HIS OFFER OF THIS NEW AND BETTER COVENANT AND THIS IS WHY THE LORD IS SAID TO DIVORCE ISRAEL, BUT THERE WAS A TINY JEWISH REMNANT THAT ACCEPTED THE COVENANT AND BECAME THE BRIDE. IT IS NOT UNTIL THE CONVERSION OF THE ROMAN SOLDIER CORNELIUS THAT A GENTILE (NON- JEWISH PERSON) WAS ABLE TO PARTAKE OF THE NEW COVENANT. AFTER THIS EVENT, IT WAS MADE CLEAR TO THE JEWISH DISCIPLES THAT GENTILES COULD BECOME A PART OF THE COVENANT AND COULD BE GRAFTED IN SPIRITUALLY INTO ISRAEL.

AFTER THAT, ALL THAT AGREE WITH THE  COVENANT OF THE CROSS BECOME BETROTHED TO GOD.

PAULS SAYS, "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." 2 COR 11:2