If the Bride is not a woman and all believers, then who are the guests at the wedding?
2006-07-18 03:34:42 · 20 answers · asked by AgainstPrison P 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Where Is This End Time Bride?I think it will be an actual woman, who brings forth Christ to the world by the new birth.
Why does it always refer to the bride in the feminine?
2006-07-18 03:48:46 · update #1
we are the guests at the wedding. the bride has a good chance of being an actual woman. (yes, even though kings are always wed to the land they rule.)
2006-07-18 03:38:58 · answer #1 · answered by gogododo3 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
The Bride of Christ is His Church. As others have said, kings marry the 'land', which in this case is His People. So yes, we are also the guests. As to the women in Revelations, one is a picture of Israel, which gave birth to the Savior, and the other is the false end-times church that gets drunk on the blood of the saints. I'm betting we call that one Secular Humanism.
2006-07-18 04:05:31 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
The following are some reasons for postulating that the Lord may come first for the Bride of Christ and that the Body of Christ is not the same as the Bride of Christ. Godly men and women disagree on this issue so we are wise to not be dogmatic. There is a strong tendency in our Adamic nature to want to be the speaker for God, "You shall be like gods". Nevertheless, God has not given us a spirit of timidity but of power, love and discipline. There is very strong evidence indicating that the Bride will be taken out of the Body of Christ. When Christians are asked "Who is the Bride of Christ?", almost everyone answers, "The Church," or "The Body of Christ," meaning all saved people. However, nowhere in the Bible is the Church called the Bride of Christ. The Church is called His Body in Ephesians 1:22-23 but the Body and the Bride do not seem to be synonymous as has been supposed. The consequences of this, if true, are very significant, sobering and perhaps irreversible. This is a message of warning not of condemnation.
Proverbs 25:2 says "It is the glory of God to conceal a thing; but honor of kings is to search out a matter." God's glory is concealed through His Word but the believer as a king-priest should search it out. One of the richest veins of gold and silver in the Bible is the Bride of Christ. It is a mine that is rarely dug into and much priceless metal is to be found there. Gold and silver are generally not found on the surface but are found in deep mines.
Jeremiah 33:3, "Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not." We need to ask the Holy Spirit to do that.
2006-07-18 03:51:28 · answer #3 · answered by Evy 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
if Christ went through the rituals of wedding, (we don't know that ) then definitely the bride was a woman otherwise the person to whom he got married cannot be called a bride. & his believers were guests. where is the doubt here ? and believe me it doesnot matter whether christ was married or not he was a very great man who tried to reform the whole humanity.but now the so called his followers ( well i must add some of them )are spoiling his name in the name of his religion.
2006-07-18 03:44:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I love this question!
The Bride of Christ are believers of Christ, after his death on the cross and triumph over death.
That would include everyone who had read about the free gift of salvation that Jesus came to secure for us, and accepted it.
The guests at the wedding would include all righteous men(people) who followed the law and atonement rites from before Jesus. All these people are in heaven with God at this very moment and they will attend the wedding as guests.
Pretty awesome visual image.
2006-07-18 03:42:44 · answer #5 · answered by cindy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no
the bride of Christ is the redeemed people as a whole
Jesus said there is no marriage in the human physical sense in the gospels, this is more a analogy
but it is an important one
man goes form dust to glory
man starts as the lower dust and the redeemed is raised to be a place higher than the angels and titled the bride of Christ and you can bet enjoying God forever and getting to know him might be beyond our understanding now but will be the great adventure of eternity which will be inexaustible and enjoyed forever
just as there is 1 marriage in the arden there will be 1 marriage in heaven... Christ and the redeemed
2006-07-18 03:39:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. The church is the Bride of Christ. As Christians, we are individually and as a group brides of Christ. Women are part of the church
2006-07-18 03:38:59 · answer #7 · answered by wiregrassfarmer 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Nuns are called the Brides Of Christ.
The Catholic Church is the Bride Of Christ.
2006-07-18 06:12:04 · answer #8 · answered by clusium1971 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well the guests usually dont go Home with the married couple so I would say the guests are nonbelievers who get to watch the beautiful union and then go to the lake of fire to burn for eternity. Jesus loves you, dont be a guest, be part of the union, accept Christ into your heart today.
2006-07-18 03:39:54 · answer #9 · answered by cindy j 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The bride of Christ is the church - the believers.
2006-07-18 03:42:54 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋