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11-3-2019 Weekly Messages

Meditation of the week: Psalms 45:1-17

Text: Revelation 19:1-10

Message title: Who are invited to the marriage of the Lamb?

          You may need to listen at least five times to understand this week’s sermons. Since all the spiritual words of God are neither physical nor mental, only those who have the Spirit of God can understand them. Those who do not understand should first pray whether they are born again by the Holy Spirit. When Jesus was in the earth, he fed people with something physical food, and then most of them left him the apostles when he preached spiritual words. Of those who do not understand the spiritual word, the Bible says:

“Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish….Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.”(Psalms 49:12, 20)

            In order to realize that you are invited to the marriage of the Lamb, you’d better study the words of God searching throughout the Bible. First, let’s look at the first book of  Genesis. On the sixth day after God created all things on the  earth:

” And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

27So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. “(Genesis 1: 26-27)

           God created Adam first, then made Adam sleep deeply (killing for a moment) and took out one of his ribs to make Eve to make the helper for him (Genesis 2: 21-22). Adam and Eve were two individuals, but they were actually one body, because Eve was a part of Adam’s body.  God made Adam as God’s helper to subdue the earth. But God had allowed Lucifer come down to the earth, and allowed Adam sin so that he would no longer be God’s helper since then, but rather he became Lucifer’s helper.

         God made Adam into a deep sleep to make Eve with one of his ribs, so that in the future God would become a man and die for a while, three days to take away all the sins that Adam and his descendants would commit. God previewed that  the believers in the Lord Jesus are baptized into his body to restore  the children of Adam. He also previewed  that they are no longer the helpers of  Satan but are recovering as God’s helpers. Realizing this truth, Apostle Paul testified to the Corinthian Saints:

” And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. 46Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. 47The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.

48As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. 49And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.

50Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.”(1 Corinthians 15: 45-50).

          Therefore, as Adam ruled the things of the earth as the helper of God, Jesus who came as the last Adam, put his spirit in those who believe in him through his death and resurrection for the sins of all Adam’s descendants born on the earth. And they are born again to be chosen as the eternal helpers of God as the bride Christ Jesus in his kingdom. Christ  is also calling the congregation of spiritual Eves as his body that is the church of God. So long ago, the psalmist David  witnessed in  the Holy Spirit about the church of God which would appear on the earth through his death and resurrection:

” I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.… A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation. 31They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this. “(Psalm 22: 22,30,31).

         That’s right. Jesus, the only-begotten Son of God, who was with God as the Word in the beginning came to the earth to seek his helper who will help him forever and ever to help him to fill all in all(Eph. 1:23). As if he had Adam fallen asleep deeply to make  Eve with one of his ribs, he gave his spirit to them who believe in him, so that he might dwell in one his body in the church  on earth for a while, and then he  will come again when the time is fulfilled. Then he will take the bride to heaven to get  married with her. So the physical marriage on the earth is the shadow of the spiritual marriage between Christ and the church of God. Apostle Paul testified of the marriage between Christ and the church of God:

” For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. 31For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. 32This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. “(Ephesians 5: 30-32).

         Apostle Paul also testified of Christ, the Head of the Church as  her husband, and of what He will do in the universe and how it relates to the Church:

” And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,

23Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.” (Ephesians 1: 22-23).

         Therefore, when the marriage of Christ with the bride of Christ, sooner or later ends his wedding ceremony, he will comes down to the  earth with his church to do the work of judging the world, and then honors his church on the earth where they had suffered for a thousand years.  he will have a honeymoon reigning  together with her. After that, as the helping spouse of Christ for the tremendous work that fills the entire universe in all forever more.

          Of the millions who were born and lived in the last six thousand years of human history, only the church of God, born of the Holy Spirit, is chosen to be blessed as his bride. Apostle Paul testified of this tremendous blessing:

” Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.

2For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ..” (2 Corinthians 11: 1-2)

         Near the end of the Great Tribulation on the earth, God will finally judge the whore Babylon the Great:

” And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God:2For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.

3And again they said, Alleluia. And her smoke rose up for ever and ever.“(Re 19: 1-3)

           At last, the marriage of the Lamb long awaited by the saints will be done  gloriously in heaven:

” Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. 8And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.

9And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God. ”(Revelation 19: 7-9)

          Those who are invited to the marriage of the Lamb are those who  celebrate the wedding where the Lamb of Christ and the Church of God are married. Those that are invited to the wedding of the Lamb are blessed Then how much blessing for the bride of Christ shall be? . Apostle Paul testified unto the saints in Rome under severe persecution of the blessing for them as the bride of the Lamb in the future saying, “For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.“ (Romans 8:18).

          At this time, multitudes of people shall be invited. Saved saints of all generations shall be invited, including friends of the bridegroom, such as John the Baptist, and the bridesmaids. The psalmist who sang the song of love testified of the invited ones:

” Kings’ daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.….  the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.

15With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king’s palace. “(Psalm 45: 9,14,15)

Amen! Hallelujah