The Wife (Bride) of the Lamb: Difference between revisions
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==Meaning of the Lamb’s Wife (Bride)== | ==Meaning of the Lamb’s Wife (Bride)== | ||
Just as the word ''lamb'' has | Just as the word ''lamb'' has different meanings, the wife (bride) of the Lamb can have more than one meaning. | ||
First, it means the church (saints). Apostle Paul likened the relationship between [[Christ]] and the [[church]] to the relationship of husband and wife.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.studylight.org/study-desk.html?q1=Ephesians+5%3A22-23&q2=&ss=0&t1=eng_n84&t2=eng_kjv&t3=eng_nas&ns=0&sr=1&ot=bhs&nt=wh&hv1=1&b=verse&d=3 |title=Ephesians 5:22–23 |publisher= |quote= }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.studylight.org/study-desk.html?q1=2+Corinthians+11%3A2+&q2=&ss=0&t1=eng_n84&t2=eng_kjv&t3=eng_nas&ns=0&sr=1&ot=bhs&nt=wh&hv1=1&b=verse&d=3 |title=2 Corinthians 11:2 |publisher= |quote= }}</ref> God made Eve from the ribs of Adam, making the couple one body, in order to show His will concerning the love between Christ and the saints.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.studylight.org/study-desk.html?q1=1+Corinthians+6%3A16-17&q2=&ss=0&t1=eng_n84&t2=eng_kjv&t3=eng_nas&ns=0&sr=1&ot=bhs&nt=wh&hv1=1&b=verse&d=3 |title=1 Corinthians 6:16–17 |publisher= |quote= }}</ref><br>However, the bride, who appears in the heavenly wedding banquet in Revelation 19, cannot be the church or the saints. The bride invites the guests, and the guests receive the invitation. The bride and the guests must be different. It is clear that the guests, who are invited to the heavenly wedding banquet, are the saints. In the parable of the wedding banquet, Jesus described the saints as guests, not as the bride.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.studylight.org/study-desk.html?q1=Matthew+22%3A1-14&q2=&ss=0&t1=eng_n84&t2=eng_kjv&t3=eng_nas&ns=0&sr=1&ot=bhs&nt=wh&hv1=1&b=verse&d=3 |title=Matthew 22:1–14 |publisher= |quote= }}</ref> Also, He called His disciples the guests of the bridegroom.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.studylight.org/study-desk.html?q1=Mark+2%3A19-20&q2=&ss=0&t1=eng_n84&t2=eng_kjv&t3=eng_nas&ns=0&sr=1&ot=bhs&nt=wh&hv1=1&b=verse&d=3 |title=Mark 2:19–20 |publisher= |quote= }}</ref> If the bride refers to the saints, there is no way to explain who the guests, who are invited, refer to. Therefore, the guests are the saints who will be blessed by participating in the heavenly wedding banquet, and the wife (bride) of the Lamb is the Savior who invites the saints to give them blessings. When John saw the Lamb’s wife, he wrote: | |||
{{quote5 |내용=One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.” And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God. |출처= [https://www.studylight.org/study-desk.html?q1=Revelation+21%3A9-10&q2=&ss=0&t1=eng_n84&t2=eng_kjv&t3=eng_nas&ns=0&sr=1&ot=bhs&nt=wh&hv1=1&b=verse&d=3 Revelation 21:9–10]}} | {{quote5 |내용=One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.” And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God. |출처= [https://www.studylight.org/study-desk.html?q1=Revelation+21%3A9-10&q2=&ss=0&t1=eng_n84&t2=eng_kjv&t3=eng_nas&ns=0&sr=1&ot=bhs&nt=wh&hv1=1&b=verse&d=3 Revelation 21:9–10]}} | ||
The angel told John that he would show him the bride, the wife of the Lamb, and he | The angel told John that he would show him the bride, the wife of the Lamb, and he showed him the[[New Jerusalem|Jerusalem coming down from heaven]]. The reality of Jerusalem, the wife of the Lamb, is explained in the [[book of Galatians]]. | ||
{{quote5 |내용= But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother. |출처= [https://www.studylight.org/study-desk.html?q1=Galatians+4%3A26&q2=&ss=0&t1=eng_n84&t2=eng_kjv&t3=eng_nas&ns=0&sr=1&ot=bhs&nt=wh&hv1=1&b=verse&d=3 Galatians 4:26]}} | {{quote5 |내용= But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother. |출처= [https://www.studylight.org/study-desk.html?q1=Galatians+4%3A26&q2=&ss=0&t1=eng_n84&t2=eng_kjv&t3=eng_nas&ns=0&sr=1&ot=bhs&nt=wh&hv1=1&b=verse&d=3 Galatians 4:26]}} | ||
The word | The word “our” refers to the saints who will be saved, and heavenly Jerusalem is the “Mother” of the saints. The Lamb’s wife (bride) is '''God the Mother'''. | ||
Just as | Just as one cannot insist that the Lamb, in the wedding banquet, means the saints by using the verse which describes the lambs as saints, one cannot insist that the bride, in the wedding banquet, means the saints by using the verse which describes the saints as the wife of Christ. In the heavenly wedding banquet, the bridegroom is [[God the Father]], and the bride is [[God the Mother]]. God the Father (Second Coming Jesus) and God the Mother (Bride) are to appear and invite Their people to the heavenly wedding banquet. | ||
==Appearing of the Lamb’s Wife (Bride)== | ==Appearing of the Lamb’s Wife (Bride)== | ||