Soon
there will be a wedding (union) of the Lamb with the purified part
of His Church here on earth!! It is NO wedding in heaven in these
last days, neither is it a taking up into heaven prior to the Great
Tribulation. We shall see,
that this is unscriptural, even if the majority of believing Christians
expect this. There will be a REMOVAL of the Bride (the Church),
after she has been used as an instrument by the Lord's Spirit, in
order to restore the Church, for the universal and last worldwide
revival.
Jesus
return to the earth as the Bridegroom and the following Wedding
festival has a purpose, consisting of four parts:
the
restoration of the Church fallen into a sin-filled sleep
the
conducting of the last, world-wide revival, besides
the
restoration of the "House of David";
God's
judgements leading to destruction of the (godless) world.
In
this study we shall especially deal with the first two goals.
The
new Jerusalem.
When
the old heaven and the old earth are passed away, God will let come
down the new Jerusalem, the
perfect Bride of God’s Lamb, out of heaven on the new earth,
which He then already has created. The Bride of God’s Lamb
then already has achieved her divine perfection. This descending
of the new Jerusalem is not a temporarily happening, but a continual
and eternal one. She will then be a spiritual ladder, which descends
from God’s throne dawn to the new earth, which Jacob saw in
his dream. Then the new Jerusalem, the perfect Bride of God’s
Lamb, created out of the old mankind, shall rule as kings and priests
of God over this new mankind, who then will live on this new earth.
They
not only have to rule over them in divine righteousness and love,
but also lead them into their eternal destination in God
(see
Isa. 65:17-25).
The new
Jerusalem, as the perfect Bride of God’s Lamb, is God’s
instrument to rule in divine righteousness over the coming creation,
a new mankind, on the new earth, and to lead that new mankind to
God’s eternal goal.
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