Scripture: Revelation 19 v 6 - 9: "And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.
7 Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.8 And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
9 And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God."
John 3 v 29: "He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled."
John 1 v 11: "He came unto his own, but his own received him not."
Somewhere along the way someone decided that the Church was the Bride of Christ. It may have followed the fact that the Nuns of the Roman Catholic Church insist that they are the Brides of Christ, which just confuses it further. However the teaching is strong throughout the Church, and it was a huge stumbling block to me when the Holy Spirit was trying to reveal the true Bride to me.
Revelation 21 v 9 - 12: "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,
11 Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal;
12 And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:"
Our God has an everlasting covenant with Israel. She strayed from the path, was kidnapped by Archangel Lucifer in Heaven on her wedding day, and taken hostage to his new domain near Planet Earth. The Son of God offered Himself as Ransom for her, left Heaven to be exchanged for her, except Lucifer now known as Satan, had shattered her into millions of fragments. He had God's Son at His mercy and shattered Him also into billions of fragments.
Zechariah 3 v 1 - 4: " And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him.
2 And the LORD said unto Satan, The LORD rebuke thee, O Satan; even the LORD that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?
3 Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel.
4 And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment."
Joshua = Yeshua = Jesus. This was when Jesus became the Ransom for His Bride. He took on her sin (filthy garments). God rebuked Satan because He had chosen Jerusalem and plucked her out of the fire of Hell. The filthy garments were removed from Jesus when He was crucified naked and became sin. That is sin was fully manifested in Him which brought about death for Him and salvation for Israel.
His overthrow of Satan in Abraham's Bosom where all the Jewish saints were kept in a compartment of Hell, fulfilled God's rebuke. His resurrection, and bringing the saints of old out of Paradise, to be seen by many in Jerusalem, brought salvation to Christians.
So when the Bride is granted permission to wear white garments reflecting purity on her marriage, it was because of her infidelity with Lucifer on her wedding day, and now forgiven and her purity restored.
I finally understood the real meaning of Romans 7 v 2 - 3: "For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man."
She committed adultery with Lucifer on her wedding day in Heaven and thereby was married to him. In old Jewish tradition once you were betrothed you were counted as married. Therefore the only way Jesus could release Israel from death was to die Himself so she would be free of the law. That's when Jesus cried on the Cross "It is finished!" The bondage was broken.
Israel was separated from other nations in the Bible. They were not allowed to marry outsiders, strangers, Gentiles or anyone but Jews. They were given their own land by God. No other nation had that gift. They were "The Chosen" - The chosen Bride. Israel is still the Apple of His Eye.
The Bible starts with the marriage of Adam and Eve. It went wrong when Satan enticed Eve into sexual intercourse, and she persuaded Adam to do the same. The forbidden fruit. The origin of homosexuality on Earth. God tried to stamp it out when Sodom and Gomorrah were nuked. Eventually He was sorry He had made man. Had to drown all but 8 who were saved on the Ark.
The first miracle Jesus did was at a wedding, reluctantly! He change water into wine. He was the Creator of everything. The last page of the Bible has the Bride saying "Come, Lord Jesus". Words He wanted to hear for thousands of years since she was kidnapped by Satan.
Satan hates the Bride. He has tried multiple times to destroy her. The world hates Israel. His world still plans her utter destruction at Armageddon. Why? Because if she lives, he loses his whole plan. To rule this universe by overcoming God Almighty.
The Bride betrayed God's Son in Heaven, in Eden, in Jerusalem, and will again when she signs a 7 year peace treaty, with all the Arab Nations, with the Antichrist present as co-signatory. It's only after the Temple is rebuilt that her eyes will be opened to the truth. Satan has conned her all this time.
Ephesians 1 v 20 - 23: "Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,
21 Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:
22 And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,
23 Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all."
Jesus is the Head, the church is His body, made up of the fragments of the Body of Christ. He also holds within Him the fragmented Body of the Bride. That happened in Satan's domain before time existed. The mystery that will be concluded when time ends.
Only after the Rapture, after Armageddon, after the final plagues and vials and woes, does the Bride say in Revelation 22, the last page of the Bible, Come, Lord Jesus!
The church is still convinced its the Bride, some even going back to the Jewish Law, keeping all the feasts, Sabbaths and jubilees to make themselves relevant. They are believing in a delusion and need to find the truth and believe it before its too late.
Time is running out and Jesus is coming soon. He loves His Body, Christians, and nourishes us with every blessing. He loves His Bride too, and when the Rapture comes, His Body will be joined to His Head and the Bridegroom will be made whole as the Seven Day ancient wedding feast proceeds. He will then be ready to respond to His Bride and rescue her from Earth. Nutshell version of this prophetic vision.
At the time of the Rapture, the church, the actual Body of Jesus Christ, will join Jesus who is Head of the Body back to His Body. Colossians 1 v 18: "And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence."
1 Thessalonians 4 v 16 - 17: "For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord."
I read up on ancient Jewish weddings as I believed that they would have relevance to this subject. I discovered that they lasted for approximately seven days. The groom would make a contract of marriage, or an engagement, which would be counted as a binding marriage contract.
After he had built her a home the marriage feast would begin. At some time during this feast the groom would leave to find his bride waiting in her family home, with a lamp lit in the window. She would be in her wedding garments with her bags packed ready to leave. He would take her to his father's house where the marriage would be consummated. They would rejoin the feast for another few days of celebration.
In the revelation the Holy Spirit showed me, which took five years to complete, the marriage in Heaven, between Jesus and His Bride was about to begin. The marriage feast began with Him and His friends in Heaven, which included the archangels Gabriel, Michael and Lucifer.
At a certain point Lucifer told Jesus he needed to run an errand. Be quick said Jesus. Lucifer went to the bride and took her for himself, as he wanted to rule Heaven. The blood of her lost virginity stained the whole of Heaven.
War broke out and the Devil, formerly known as Lucifer, and all his fallen angels, were thrown out of Heaven. They took the weeping broken bride with them.
The Father called a council together which included some who would later be called "sent ones", and He asked who is going to be the ransom for the bride, as Lucifer demanded an exchange for her of one of equal or greater value? Jesus answered, I Am. All these events happened before the foundation of the world.
The bloodstain in Heaven was covered year by year by the blood of bulls and lambs on the Day of Atonement. When Jesus died His blood covered that stain and blotted out every sin forever for those who believe.
The marriage feast in Heaven was interrupted when Lucifer left the party, it will continue where it stopped after Armageddon, when the completed Bridegroom rescues His Bride. The Last Supper was a enactment of what happened in Heaven. When Judas left to betray Him, He said, What you are doing, do quickly. Every moment after that was agony for Jesus as His memories were very vivid.
This revelation changed my life totally. I have been privileged to see it in its entirety from 1979 when it began till now. This is the nutshell version. It contains so much more but space is limited. I hope you catch a glimpse or more of all that Jesus did for His Bride, Israel, and why His Body (us) should love her like He does.
Prayer: Heavenly Father, what a journey in Spirit this has been with You and Jesus and the Holy Spirit. Please open the eyes and give understanding to all who read this testimony. This is the very beginning of the gospel of Jesus and tells how we came to be separated from You and our home. You have done everything possible to restore us back to You. It's up to us to bring in the harvest of souls before time is up. We ask for revival in Jesus' name. Amen.