Yeshua, the Bridegroom

Isaiah 62:4‭-‬5‬‬‬

It will no longer be said to you, “Forsaken,” Nor to your land will it any longer be said, “Desolate”; But you will be called, “My delight is in her,” And your land, “Married”; For the Lord delights in you, And to Him your land will be married. For as a young man marries a virgin, So your sons will marry you; And as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, So your God, Yahweh will rejoice over you.

Jerusalem and the rest of Israel was in these days empty and was changed in a wilderness. Yahweh’s nation was left alone and most of them were brought to other countries. Yahweh says to His nation: you will be no longer forsaken. You will be My bride. To the land Israel He says: You will no longer be left alone. I will marry you.

A marriage means that you are related forever. You will become one forever. If a man and woman here in this world are married they have a very intimate relationship till death. But death will not exist anymore when Yahweh marry His bride again.

So Yahweh says here: I will have a intimate relationship again with my nation that will last forever and I will also have a close relationship with Israel forever. Yahweh will delight with His nation again, because they stopped to do sins. And Yahweh will live in Israel and reign His country and His nation will live with Him in this country.

Because of Yeshua’s offer we can have a intimate relationship with Yahweh, His Father forever and we can have a very intimate relationship with Yeshua Himself. We can live in His Kingdom together with Him.

What you can discover here that as well Yahweh’s nation, as the land are compared with a bride. While Yahweh Himself and Yeshua are compared with a bridegroom.

Mark 2:18‭-‬19 ‬‬‬

John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting; and they came and said to Him, “Why do John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but Your disciples do not fast?” And Yeshua said to them, “While the bridegroom is with them, the attendants of the bridegroom cannot fast, can they? So long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.

Here you discover that Yeshua is calling Himself the bridegroom. And we His followers are His attendants. We’re guests on His wedding. Practically it means that He will become our King. And we will celebrate His day of installment as King together with Him.

John 3:27‭-‬30‬‬‬‬

John answered and said, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven. You yourselves are my witnesses that I said, ‘I am not the Messiah,’ but, ‘I have been sent ahead of Him.’ He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. So this joy of mine has been made full. He must increase, but I must decrease.

John, the baptist, proclaims that he is the friend of the bridegroom. He announces the coming of the bridegroom. So that the bride and the guests can make themselves ready for the wedding. The people under us who evangelize are also announcing the coming of the bridegroom.

Matthew 25:1‭-‬13 ‬‬‬‬

“Then the kingdom of heaven will be comparable to ten virgins, who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish, and five were prudent. For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them, but the prudent took oil in flasks along with their lamps. Now while the bridegroom was delaying, they all got drowsy and began to sleep. But at midnight there was a shout, ‘Behold, the bridegroom! Come out to meet him.’ Then all those virgins rose and trimmed their lamps. The foolish said to the prudent, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’ But the prudent answered, ‘No, there will not be enough for us and you too; go instead to the dealers and buy some for yourselves.’ And while they were going away to make the purchase, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding feast; and the door was shut. Later the other virgins also came, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open up for us.’ But he answered, ‘Truly I say to you, I do not know you.’ Be on the alert then, for you do not know the day nor the hour.

If we want to be on the wedding of Yeshua, we have to be wise like the good virgins. We must be prepared. Because there’s a day coming that Yeshua will marry His bride. And we have to do our duty. Shine our light for the bridegroom and His bride. This light accompanies the couple till they're at the home of the Father of the groom.

Olive Oil is a symbol for the Holy Spirit. That means that we must live in the Spirit continuously. Not so now and then. Because we don’t know exactly when Yeshua will come. The Word of Yahweh and the Holy Spirit will teach us how we can live in the Holy Spirit.

Revelation 21:2

And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from Yahweh, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband.

The city Jerusalem is standing here for the whole country Israel. Yeshua is the bridegroom of Israel. He is going to have a intimate relationship with Israel. And He will live in Jerusalem forever as King. He will rule His Kingdom together with His Father forever. And we will live with Yeshua and Yahweh in their Kingdom forever.