The Wife (Bride) of the Lamb
In the book of Revelation, the Wife (Bride) of the Lamb appears as the Savior in the last days and She invites the saints to the heavenly wedding banquet. The purpose of the Bride’s appearance in the last days is to give eternal life. Those who are invited to the wedding banquet and go to the Bride and Bridegroom will enter the kingdom of heaven and live forever.
Meaning of the Lamb
After Jesus ascended to heaven, He showed John what would be accomplished through a revelation. The book of Revelation was written by Apostle John in A.D. 96 through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.[1] In this book, there is a prophecy about the wedding banquet of the Lamb.
“Let us rejoice and be glad and give him glory! For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his bride has made herself ready. Fine linen, bright and clean, was given her to wear.” (Fine linen stands for the righteous acts of the saints.) Then the angel said to me, “Write: ‘Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb!’ “
In order to be the blessed who are invited to the wedding banquet of the Lamb, we need to know who the bridegroom and the bride. The bridegroom is the Lamb, and the bride is the Lamb’s wife. We often see one word has completely different meanings, depending on the context. In the Bible, the word lamb has three different meanings as follows.
First, it means an animal that was offered as a burnt offering.[2]
Second, it means God’s people (saints). Jesus likened Himself to a shepherd and His people to lambs.[3] Before Jesus ascended to heaven, He said to Peter, “Feed My lambs,” meaning, “Take care of My people.”[4] God referred to His people who are not yet mature spiritually and need care as lambs.
Third, it means Christ. The reality of a lamb that was sacrificed in the Old Testament times is Jesus.[5] When John the Baptist saw Jesus, he said, “The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.”[6] Apostle John wrote that Jesus is the “Lamb, looking as if it had been slain.”[7]
Among these three meanings, the Lamb of the heavenly wedding banquet refers to Jesus. Based on the verse that describes God’s people as lambs, one cannot argue that the Lamb of the wedding banquet is a saint. The Lamb, whom Apostle John saw through a revelation, was Second Coming Jesus, not Jesus who came 2,000 years ago, because the Lamb was with His wife. Through the Trinity, the Lamb, who invites the saints to the heavenly wedding banquet with His bride, is God the Father.
Meaning of the Lamb’s Wife (Bride)
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.[8][9] 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.[10]
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.[11] Also, He called His disciples the guests of the bridegroom.[12] 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:
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.
The angel told John that he would show him the bride, the wife of the Lamb, and he showed him theJerusalem coming down from heaven. The reality of Jerusalem, the wife of the Lamb, is explained in the book of Galatians.
But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother.
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 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.
Appearance of the Lamb’s Wife (Bride)
Purpose
Being invited to the heavenly wedding banquet means that the saints, who are described as guests, will receive eternal life and enter the kingdom of heaven. This is accomplished through the appearance of the Lamb and His wife. Therefore, the prophecy that the wedding banquet is celebrated as the Lamb’s wife makes herself ready means that God the Mother, who is the Lamb’s wife, will appear and give eternal life.
We can understand this meaning through Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Since it is written Adam represents the One to come,[13] Adam and Eve represent God the Father and God the Mother. The name Eve means life and she is called the “Mother of all the living.” It is because eternal life is given by God the Mother, who is represented as Eve.
Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living.
When John wrote the prophecy about the saints attending the heavenly wedding banquet and receiving eternal life after the appearance of God the Father and God the Mother, he expressed that the Spirit and the Bride give them the water of life.
The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” And let him who hears say, “Come!” Whoever is thirsty, let him come; and whoever wishes, let him take the free gift of the water of life.
Only God, the Savior, has the authority to give the water of life.[14][15] The Holy Spirit is God the Father, who is the same as God the Son. Likewise, the Bride who gives the water of life is God the Savior. This is why the Bride, who gives the water of life, cannot be a saint. In due time, God the Father, who is the Holy Spirit, and God the Mother, who is the Bride, are to appear, and They save those who are dying from spiritual thirst with the water of life.
Time
Every prophecy is fulfilled in its due time. God the Mother, too, who has been working with God the Father from the beginning, is to appear in due time.[16] Prophetically, the wife of the Lamb is to appear in the last age of the work of redemption, which is the time when Christ comes a second time.
In the history of the Creation, too, we can find a prophecy about when the Lamb’s wife will appear. On the sixth day, God created the livestock and all the animals, and finally made Adam and Eve.[17] According to the Sabbath day of the seven-day system or the Sabbath year of the seven-year system, the seventh-day Sabbath after the six-day Creation represents the eternal rest following the completion of God’s work of redemption.[18][19][20] The fact that Eve was created just before the Sabbath means that Heavenly Mother, who is represented as Eve, appears in the last days just before the eternal rest of heaven.
Testimony
God the Father comes to the earth a second time according to the prophecies of the Bible, just as He did 2,000 years ago. Afterward, God the Mother is testified by God the Father. Second Coming Christ is referred to as Elijah[21] in the last days because God the Father comes with the mission to testify about God the Mother.
I have posted watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they will never be silent day or night. You who call on the Lord, give yourselves no rest, and give him no rest till he establishes Jerusalem and makes her the praise of the earth.
Jerusalem, which becomes the praise of the earth, represents Heavenly Mother. The LORD establishes Jerusalem means God the Father testifies about God the Mother. The Wife (Bride) of the Lamb is to be testified by the Lamb (Second Coming Christ). In the past, Adam too testified about his wife, Eve.
Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh.”
Adam named his wife Eve, meaning life, and said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh.”[22] Adam named his wife life as a shadow for how Second Coming Christ will proclaim God the Mother, the reality of life. As prophesied in the Bible, Second Coming Christ Ahnsahnghong testified about Heavenly Mother, the Wife (Bride) of the Lamb, at the appointed time. Those who believe in Heavenly Father and Heavenly Mother, who appear in the last days, are the blessed who will be invited to the wedding banquet of the Lamb and enter the eternal kingdom of heaven.[23]
See also
- Heavenly Family
- Heavenly Wedding Banquet
- God the Father
- God the Mother
- The Spirit and the Bride
- Elohim
- The Water of Life
Related videos
- Sermon: The Wife of the Lamb Is Jerusalem, Our Mother
References
- ↑ "2 Peter 1:20–21".
- ↑ "Exodus 12:21".
- ↑ "John 10:16".
- ↑ "John 21:15".
- ↑ "1 Corinthians 5:7".
- ↑ "John 1:29".
- ↑ "Revelation 5:6".
- ↑ "Ephesians 5:22–23".
- ↑ "2 Corinthians 11:2".
- ↑ "1 Corinthians 6:16–17".
- ↑ "Matthew 22:1–14".
- ↑ "Mark 2:19–20".
- ↑ "Romans 5:14".
- ↑ "Jeremiah 2:13".
- ↑ "John 4:13–14".
- ↑ "Revelation 19:7".
- ↑ "Genesis 1:24–31".
- ↑ "Hebrews 4:4–6".
- ↑ "2 Peter 3:8".
- ↑ Chapter 24 The Complete and the Incomplete, THE MYSTERY OF GOD AND THE SPRING OF THE WATER OF LIFE, Ahnsahnghong, pg. 149, Melchizedek Pub. Co., Ltd
- ↑ "Malachi 4:5".
- ↑ "Genesis 3:20".
- ↑ "Revelation 19:9".