Huh? Weird little Bible passage?

Question

Question about Revelations 19:7-8. I wanna know: who is this Bride that is spoken of?

"Let us rejoice and exult and give him the glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come and his Bride has made herself ready; it was granted her to be clothed with fine linen, bright and pure."

Answer 1

The church. Jesus is the Lamb and the bridegroom, the church is the bride.

Answer 2

This happens after armageddon and after the great tribulation. The 'bride' is the church. Throughout history what causes undying faith is persecution and martyrdom and that is going to happen to professing Christians.

Many will fall (read, be murdered) or fight back knowing we'll be outnumbered and killed or taken to concentration camps or..we can pledge allegiance to the beast and its army.

But, that is before the marriage. Apparently, those who are martyred and / or remain faithful will be a very large number and ..."have washed their robes"...pure and white, during the tribulation; therefore, are prepared.

A great mystery is: how does this actually play out. Will multiple consciousnesses be melded into a 'one'? Is it purely symbolic, which a strongly doubt; as the word usually means both concrete and symbolic - bearing in mind that some of the images were (and still are) almost impossible to describe. Which simply means that God is very, very smart.

It may be that some of the 'elect' can volunteer to be a new creature - the bride. There is Paul's teaching of everyone can't be an eye or an ear or a tongue; but all are a part of the body.

It will be interesting to see how it unfolds. But the mystery is in the mind of God.

Maranantha

Answer 3

The Bride is symbolic for God's Church. The true believers. Them being clothed in fine pure linen is symbolizing the purification of the believers through Jesus Christ.

Answer 4

The secondary seed mentioned in Galatians. This seed is composed of all the Saints who have a heavenly resurrection.

This seed is also mentioned in chapter 12 of Rev.

If you study the scriptures, the faithful Christians are divided in two groups, the little flock and the other sheep. In Rev 5:8-10 it is shown that the Saints who make up the joint-heirs of Christ shall also rule with him over the earth, a righteous earth filled with other sheep eventually.

Answer 5

The bride is Jesus's Church. Which church? The church Jesus established and gave to Peter to lead. It is a visable church that Jesus established

The True Church is ONE, HOLY, CATHOLIC and APOSTOLIC.

Only the Roman Catholic Church can validly claim all four marks. It is the Roman Catholic Church which has always been and continues to be that Church which Jesus Himself established almost 2000 years ago.

If we wish to locate the Church founded by Jesus, we need to locate the one that has the four chief marks or qualities of his Church. The Church we seek must be one, holy, catholic, and apostolic.

The Church Is One (Rom. 12:5, 1 Cor. 10:17, 12:13, )
Jesus established only one Church, not a collection of differing churches (Lutheran, Baptist, Anglican, and so on). The Bible says the Church is the bride of Christ (Eph. 5:23–32). Jesus can have but one spouse, and his spouse is the Catholic Church.

His Church also teaches just one set of doctrines, which must be the same as those taught by the apostles (Jude 3). This is the unity of belief to which Scripture calls us (Phil. 1:27, 2:2).

Although some Catholics dissent from officially-taught doctrines, the Church’s official teachers—the pope and the bishops united with him—have never changed any doctrine. Over the centuries, as doctrines are examined more fully, the Church comes to understand them more deeply (John 16:12–13), but it never understands them to mean the opposite of what they once meant.

The Church Is Holy (Eph. 5:25–27, Rev. 19:7–8, )
By his grace Jesus makes the Church holy, just as he is holy. This doesn’t mean that each member is always holy. Jesus said there would be both good and bad members in the Church (John 6:70), and not all the members would go to heaven (Matt. 7:21–23).

But the Church itself is holy because it is the source of holiness and is the guardian of the special means of grace Jesus established, the sacraments (cf. Eph. 5:26).

The Church Is Catholic (Matt. 28:19–20, Rev. 5:9–10, )
Jesus’ Church is called catholic ("universal" in Greek) because it is his gift to all people. He told his apostles to go throughout the world and make disciples of "all nations" (Matt. 28:19–20).

For 2,000 years the Catholic Church has carried out this mission, preaching the good news that Christ died for all men and that he wants all of us to be members of his universal family (Gal. 3:28).

Nowadays the Catholic Church is found in every country of the world and is still sending out missionaries to "make disciples of all nations" (Matt. 28:19).

The Church Jesus established was known by its most common title, "the Catholic Church," at least as early as the year 107, when Ignatius of Antioch used that title to describe the one Church Jesus founded.

Answer 6

What a beautiful image of the coming of Christ! What was formerly a sacrificial lamb is now a groom waiting for his bride, those who believe, wearing the finest wedding attire. He is waiting at the altar for us to appear with Him in heaven.

Answer 7

Jesus is the Lamb of God.
Jesus is the bridegroom.
The church is the Bride.

2 Corinthians 11:2
For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy. For I have betrothed you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

Romans 7:4
Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another—to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God.

Answer 8

It was custom for a man after engagement to leave his soon-to-be wife and prepare a house for them to live in. The bible uses the metaphor of Jesus being the groom of the church for he's preparing a place for us in heaven. Jesus is also referred to as 'the Lamb of God'. This passage is referring to the end when Jesus has finished preparing our places in heaven and comes to receive us.

Answer 9

The Bride is the Church.

Answer 10

for my section, i'm a super fan of Thessalonians 2, verse 12 -- it is not anti-gay or something like that, yet talks approximately condemning human beings, so it is cool. This states that human beings who have self assurance lies are going to Hell. So... the checklist of those going to Hell occurs to incorporate the folk who informed me to envision the Bible in the 1st place. candy, candy irony...