Jesus, Jesus And The Bridegroom Of Jesus

From the original Jewish wedding practices, we can see that like a bridegroom of ancient times; Jesus came to the home of His bride, which is the Earth, for a betrothal. He made a covenant with His bride, sealed the covenant with a cup of wine, paid the bride price with His life, and gave His bride gifts of the Holy Spirit. We, the betrothed church, currently await the return of our Bridegroom to take us to the wedding chamber at the Rapture; where we will spend seven years with Him, while the Great Tribulation is occurring on the Earth. Remember, I told you that years, weeks, and days are used interchangeably in the Bible with the number 7. God likes the number 7! I need you to hang on to that thought. The ancient Jewish honeymoon period was

The arrangement was usually at the request of a groom 's father. However, in the Bible there are several passages that tell us that marriage could have also been arranged by a mother (Genesis 21:21), or by a representative at the request of a father (Genesis 24:4). In the Old Testament, God is regarded as the Bridegroom of Israel, and Jesus is seen as the Bridegroom of the church in the New Testament. We see Israel being referred to as a wife in Isaiah 54:5-6 NIV, "For your Maker is your husband, the Lord Almighty is His name, the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; He is called the God of all the Earth. The Lord will call you back as if you were a wife deserted and distressed in spirit, a wife who married young, only to be rejected, says your God." In Mark 2:19-20 NASB, Jesus discloses His position as the Bridegroom to the church, "While the bridegroom is with them, the attendants of the bride do not fast, do they? So long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast. The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day." In Ephesians 5:23 KJV, we see Jesus again represented as a Bridegroom, "for the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, He Himself being the Savior of the

The ancient Hebrew word for a marriage contract is ketubah. The ketubah was a legally binding document, which would have been presented to a young woman and her father at their home. The contract would have indicated a young man 's willingness to provide for a young woman, and it would have described the terms of how he would care for her, and what her rights would be. The most important part of the contract would have been the bride price, that is to say the price that the young man was willing to pay to marry the young woman. The payment would have been made to the young woman 's father in exchange for her. The price of an ancient Jewish bride was usually very high. She would have brought her own value to the table. Praise God! The ketubah was not just an invoice, or a simple bill of sale. It would have also restated all of the fundamental conditions from the Torah that were imposed on a bridegroom for the taking care of his bride. Glory to