Engaging the Doctrine of Marriage. Matthew Levering

Engaging the Doctrine of Marriage - Matthew Levering


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center of all Scripture: the desire of the Bridegroom Creator God for spiritual union with his covenantal people Israel.

      Earlier in the Gospel of John, John the Baptist identifies Jesus as the “Lamb of God” (John 1:36). Along these lines, as noted above, the book of Revelation teaches that the consummated Israel, the Bride prepared for her Bridegroom, is “the wife of the Lamb” (Rev 21:9), the wife of Jesus Christ. When the Seer is given a vision of the new creation, he reports the following: “And I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband; and I heard a great voice from the throne saying, ‘Behold, the dwelling of God is with men. He will dwell with them, and they shall be his people’” (Rev 21:2–3). The great promises of the Old Testament prophecies are echoed here and fulfilled by God.

      In a vision near the beginning of the book of Revelation, the Seer identifies Jesus as a “Lamb standing, as though it had been slain” (Rev 5:6). He is worthy of worship, which attests to his divine identity (see Rev 5:13). Thus, Jesus is the divine Bridegroom who accomplishes what God has promised to do for Israel in his covenants and prophecies. Jesus extends the marriage of God and Israel to include the nations in covenantal Israel, now reconfigured around the Messiah.


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