The bride of Jesus

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Okay...so...

I dont know much about this topic...but what I would like to know is...

HOW DO WE KNOW WHO THE BRIDE IS OR WHAT SHE IS LIKE??

I understand the bride to be the Church....and every Christian I know, refers to themselves as Jesus' bride....but is there somewhere in the bible to find a description of the ACTUAL bride of Christ.

Is there a plan for Jesus to even be married when he gets here and maybe start a family and procreate like the rest of us on earth?

 

Be careful, because there's a lot of confused doctrines going around on this topic.

 

Rev.21

⁹ And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.

¹⁰ And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,

 

 

The Bride = "the holy Jerusalem", which is in Heaven that will come down to this earth where Jerusalem on earth is today.

 

 

Because many Christian brethren don't read all their Bible history, they totally miss the Ezekiel 16 chapter where God speaks of Jerusalem, and how He married her, and then abhorred her for committing harlotry against Him. It's one of the most important chapters in all of God's Word where our Heavenly Father shows us how He feels about Jerusalem. The 'comfort zone' churches won't teach it because of the ideas of harlotry God used there.

 

In Isaiah 54 is another part about it. But it includes the idea of His faithful waiting on Him, being careful to not fall into spiritual harlotry also. Apostle Paul pulls from Isaiah 54 when he said he wanted to present believers to Christ as "a chaste virgin" (2 Cor.11). In Jeremiah 3 God used the harlotry/adultery idea again for the ten tribes of the house of Israel falling away from Him, so He gave them a "bill of divorce" and scattered them, just like a marriage divorce decision with a spouse committing adultery in marriage. He is using this as a spiritual metaphor of course, like a parable, not in the literal marriage/divorce sense.

 

In Ezekiel 23, God used the idea of harlotry applied to the two houses of Israel falling away to false worship against Him, even calling them two sister harlots. Jesus used this harlotry metaphor also in Rev.14 in opposite to His elect that will reign with Him. So the idea is carried forward into The New Testament Books also and is very important to understand.

 

Some are trying to use the parable of the wedding feast in The Gospel, but they don't understand how virgins played a part in Israel's wedding traditions, kind of like bridesmaids or wedding guests, and not as the bride. Yet the comparison of His Church in respect to the idea of remaining Faithful waiting on Him instead of falling away to false worship is... given in the betrothed virgin sense.

 

In Isaiah 54, the ones that are called blessed are those whose wombs remain barren, without child, in the spiritual sense. It's pointing to the idea of spiritual harlotry like the many other OT Scriptures like Ezek.23 and Jer.3. The idea is, by falling away to worship another in place of Christ, that means a betrothed virgin is no chaste, but breaks her vow and marries another. And thus when Jesus comes their spiritual wombs are not found barren.

 

Because our Heavenly Father covered this harlotry/adultery idea in the spiritual sense regarding false worship against Him in so many OT Scriptures, and it appears again in the NT Scriptures, it means it's a very important parable we are to understand, especially in regards to the coming Antichrist/Pseudo-Christ in our near future.