The Invitation/ God's Quest for The Bride/ Perfected

Looking For the Bride

Gen 2:18 November 20, 2015

The first promise of God for fallen man was that He would send the Christ, the ‘anointed’ seed of the woman, to crush the head of the great perpetrator destroying the power of the wicked one who had tempted Eve and cajoled Adam into unbelief and rebellion against their Maker and Father, God. In due time, the ‘anointed’ one would destroy the ‘wicked one’ and his works.

The Bible clearly states that the great mystery of all mysteries of God and Christ is about Christ and the Church. This declaration is not directly announced, however, until the Age of grace instituted immediately after the first coming of the Messiah. Summed up in Ephesians chapter five it is simply stated as Christ faithfully loving the Church and his wife being absolutely one hundred per cent submitted to Him as the head of all things. He loves her she is wholeheartedly submitted to Him. When this occurs Christ and that portion of the Church which is submissive are one flesh and are destined to be ONE living in eternal utopia secure and perfect, owning all things godly and having all peace. This is what Christ was getting at when He prayed at the Last Supper that the Father would make He and His disciples one even as He and the Father are One. Though this mystery of Christ and His Bride was not frankly stated in this manner until its mystery was fully uncovered in the New Testament epistles and finally revealed in Revelation 21, it had long been alluded to throughout the parables of Holy Scripture, both Old and New, in fact, it had been insinuated from the very beginning.

When God created the heaven and earth and all the things in it He always remarked, “it is good” Gen 1:4,10,12,18,21,25,31. He also said, “Let us create man in our own image” Gen 1:26. This was the first reference to the Godhead of the Triune God. From there on out even the Hebrews referred to God in the plural, as Elohim, not singular, Eloah. This is one of the most remarkable testimonies to God the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. God in heaven is not alone, but three in perfect oneness. This is how God can say to His people Israel that He is ONE. When the Elohim created all things they noted that it was ‘good’. The first, and only time, they cited something as not being ‘good’ was when Elohim looked upon Adam in his solitary state and said, “It is not good that man should be alone.” Gen 2:18 This turns out to be one of the most important statements ever directed at Man by God, with far reaching prophetic implications extending to the very last episode and page of the Bible.

Even though the Church has wrongly exalted the idea of being alone, as the most holy and pure of lives, such stupidity and perverse thinking runs contrary to the fluidity of the will of God to raise up a Bride perfectly compatible and fit for the Son of Man, Jesus Christ. It has done so much damage in the Church that it can hardly be calculated. (Could the pedophile plague be a judgment of this mistaken idea?) As one of the epithets which Jesus dubbed Himself, the Son of Man not only identifies Him with the ministry of the prophet Ezekiel and Ezekiel in turn as a Christ-like representative, it also shows Jesus identifying Himself with being Christ, the anointed one, which implies not just the one who provides what is needed, but the only man who could give man what he needed. The name Christ is reserved for a man. Christ must be a man and not exclusively God. Christ is a man able to identify in every way with the struggle of man. What the Christ brought and only He could deliver is rectification, a propitiation, a payment in lieu of a debt owed, a straightening out of things forever. A pure and holy God could not do this, being removed from the squalor, fear and hate. Only the Christ, the Son of Man, as Jesus so identified Himself, could face Men’s demons and defeat them without giving in to their powers. The debt owed, the wages exacted by sin, of course was death; death for sin, every transgression, any single iniquity. The Christ, the Messiah must not be only God, but Son of Man, born of the seed of the woman, and if man, man who should not be alone. This is the point. If it is not good that man should be alone, then how could it ever be good if the Son of Man remains alone. Ergo, the Bride is sought for the Son of Man’s sake. Does it not make sense that he should be joined eternally with a Bride, a wife. One who will remain a perfect spotless beautiful Bride forever, never aging, never doubting, never recanting, never wandering, never losing pure rapturous love for her champion lover – only growing with passionate infatuation like a flower in a state of endless bloom filling the air of God’s home with new beautiful fragrances every moment throughout eternity to come. He must be one with a wife – and man is to be the wife of the Son of Man, the Christ, the Messiah, the Redeemer, the one who has given His life that we might gain life.

Now we discover the purpose, the ultimate purpose of God creating Man. Both are resurrected into one in the Spirit to life immortal and incorruptible for all eternity. This is the Bride. Man is to be Bride of the Son of Man/Son of God. The Bride must be found, must be formed, must be given life, so that the Christ (a man) would not live in state of loneliness for eternity. For it is first stated: “It is not good that man should be alone”. Therefore, God took a part of His life and formed the Bride for Adam (Man). But recall He first put the Man to sleep (in the grave) and then woke Him up (resurrected Him) so he and his wife could have life together, that he not be alone, for his loneliness was not a good result of creation, the only thing which God had to do something about, and for this He had a plan all along which centered around Christ, the Son of Man who could redeem, rectify loneliness, by the giving of His life that another life could be restored.

All hinged on the power of God the Father to resurrect the sacrificed life that the life of the guilty could resurrected in purity, so they could become one, the Son of Man and Man would never be alone. Pure genius is the mystery of the Bride, Christ and His Church. Even this drama of creation, the Son of Man to pay the debt owed for Man, was a living sort of parable pointing to the ultimate and ‘great’ mystery of Christ and the Church (Bride). As Son of Man working the works of the Christ God was working His mystery of salvation, that it was to provide an eternal Bride for His Son. This plan was not declared outright from the beginning but ‘leaked’ in actions and parables as the story of man and His ultimate marriage with God unfolded through the ages. This is why it is the ‘great’ mystery. The story of the bride and Christ (the Son of Man who gave what was needed) has had its twists and turns and in the parables of the Old and New Testament the great love and romancing of Man by God are revealed, not just events but what has been in the hearts of God and Man.

In Psalms it says The heavenlies declare his glory:
One of the signs of the zodiac common to all societies and ancient peoples is the constellation Cassiopeia. She is depicted the same throughout all, whether Incan, Babylonian, Semitic, Egyptian or Hellenistic. She is the espoused one waiting for her champion, preparing herself perfectly to be His pure Bride.