In this week’s study, I continue with Chapter 19 verses 7 and 8. Before I get into the study, I talk about Allen Dulles and how he was a traitor to America being a spy for the Nazi Germany government. He even was part of a group that tried to over throw President Roosevelt.
Chapter 19 continues and concludes the final period of events, which is called the bowl period. After the bowl introduction in chapters 12-15, the bowl events began in chapter 16, where we saw all seven bowl events described. However as explained there, chapter 16 was not the conclusion of the bowls. Rather, the description of the bowl period continued into chapters 17 and 18 where the bowl interlude was presented.
Here in chapter 19, the bowls continue with a resumption of the seventh bowl event. That is, chapter 19 picks up where we left off at the end of chapter 16. The sixth bowl event in Rev 16:12-16 described nations gathering at Armageddon to make war against Yahweh, and then the seventh bowl event began in Rev 16:17-21 with an enormous earthquake and hail storm. However, it curiously never mentioned the outcome of the war. That glaring deficiency is resolved here in chapter 19.
This chapter describes the conclusion of Yahweh’s wrath on earth, and it must be considered part of the seventh bowl because Rev 15:1 stated that Yahweh’s wrath would be finished in the bowls.
The marriage of the Lamb (Revelation 19:7)
In both Matthew 22:1-14 and Matthew 25:1-13, Yahshua Messiah compared his return to a wedding. He urged people to be ready for his return. They must not refuse Yahweh’s invitation; they must be ready, even if he comes at midnight.
In Ephesians 5:31-32, Paul discusses the real meaning of marriage. It is not just a relationship between a man and a woman - it has a much more important meaning that that. Paul called it a great mystery; he means that Yahweh will show the true meaning at the proper time.
the marriage of the Lamb is come = The full and final consummation is at Rev. 21:2-9,. Previously there must be the overthrow of the beast, etc., at the Lord’s coming, the binding of Satan, the millennial reign, the loosing of Satan and his last overthrow, and the general judgment.
The ancient Hebrew marriage consisted of two, some would say maybe three... it depends upon how you define it, stages. The first stage was the kiddushin. It is the betrothal or the engagement period. It included a contract whereby the couples were actually considered to be legally married. It often lasted at least 12 months and it was a time for them to prove their sexual fidelity, to make sure that the young lady was not pregnant and so forth and a time for a young man to go and to prepare a place for his bride.
And then, finally, you have the hupah or the marriage ceremony where the actual vows were exchanged. And then after the ceremony there would be a final meal that would take place followed by the physical consummation of the marriage, of that sacred union in the private chamber that the couple would have.
The bride of Yahshua Messiah (Revelation 19:8)
There is a previous description of the clothes of Yahweh’s people in Revelation 7:13-14. There, they have washed their clothes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. The Lamb means Yahshua Messiah; his blood is a reference to his death. The meaning is that Yahweh’s people can only serve him properly because of The Messiah’s death. They do not depend on their own efforts or their own good works to save them. Yahweh has forgiven them and he has given them a right relationship with himself because of The Messiah’s death (see Isaiah 1:18).
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