53. We Marry the Bride
As a young man marries a virgin, so shall your sons marry you (Isaiah 62:5). – I begot you in Christ (1 Corinthians 4 – Paul). One who does not know well the Father and His meanings would see this idea as twisted and off. But when we know the Father and the meaning of His Word sent into us, then we know that we love, God through us, and we impart life, speaking Christ into others.
Jesus is already inside of you, your life, but you don’t fully know what that means. Yet LIFE is knowing Jesus and the Father. I give you life by enabling you to know Him.
Caring For. And I heard what was like the voice of a great multitude, like the sound of many waters, and like the sound of mighty thundering, saying: “Hallelujah! For the Lord our God, the All-Carrying One, has reigned. We should rejoice and be filled with joy, and give glory to Him, because the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His bride has prepared herself. And it was given to her that she should be clothed in fine linen, bright shining and pure. For the fine linen is the just innocence of the devoted ones.
What do I mean when I say, “We marry the Bride?” I mean that we together care for the gathering of believers in the same way that a husband cares for his wife, that is, Jesus through us, a care that includes an equality of regard.
Unfolding through Time. This love relationship between Christ through us, Zion, and the Church, Jerusalem, is an experience that unfolds over time, even for centuries. It is the primary dynamic taking place in human society through the Age of Tabernacles.
Read through the lesson titled “27.3 All Things” in Symmorphy IV: Covenant to get a glimpse of an aspect of that ongoing relationship of Love. Yet this unfolding through time comes only out from the substance of reality, already true and absolute, that Jesus has already come into union with each one.
Already Married. Tomorrow is not the Day of Salvation, but today. And so, whatever appearance might follow after, substance always comes first. Jesus has already married us; we already carry His Life. Yet this Life of Jesus inside of us then falls in Love with the Church, the gathering together of our Christian brethren.
We have come to understand the book of Revelation as a love story, similar to the Song of Solomon. The difference is that Revelation is mostly a depiction of the preparation of the ministry of Christ and their great love for the Church whereas the Song of Solomon is mostly from the point of view of the bride.
Jesus Through Us. At the beginning of this love story, Jesus marries us. At the end of this love story, we marry the Church. In-between this beginning and this completion, then, is a whole process that is first Jesus towards us, second Jesus turning us around, and third, Jesus showing us what it is to be like Him, Jesus through us towards others. Revelation is primarily about the last part of this in-between process, Jesus through us towards others.
And so in John’s vision, we see three primary actors only, first the Ministry of Christ, second the gathering of the Church as the Bride, and third, that which opposes.
Our Page. Our Jesus Secret page, then, will have three primary things. First will be a box titled “Jesus Marries Us.” I will need little introduction for this box because it is what I teach. The final box will be titled “We Marry the Bride.” I will position this view of our love for the Church towards life in the soon-coming Age of Tabernacles, that is, the New Jerusalem upon the earth.
Revelation is not really concerned with Jesus towards us or Jesus turning us around. It’s primary focus is on Christ through us towards our Christian brethren. Thus the middle box will be “The Costliness of Love,” and will include a review of John’s vision depicting that costliness.
Jesus Alone. In every instance and manner, Jesus is the initiator of our salvation. Jesus, alone and first, comes into union with us. Our part is to receive Him through confident expectation, to see Him alone, and to acknowledge His all-Salvation.
It is easy to identify a fake, drunk on the mixture of self. When pressed, it’s all about “me.” Consider the “humble” Christian, “I am unworthy.” It’s all about “me, me, me.” God alone removes sin. The one who hides in “me” does so only to keep sin for self, “safe” from God. God has proven to me over a life time that when pressed, which is often, I hide myself in Jesus, assured utterly of His goodness, having given myself utterly to Him.
A Blood Covenant. But marriage union with Jesus is a Blood Covenant, which means it goes both ways absolutely. Just as I, freely and truly, receive a Jesus who comes into union with me, with all that I am, so Jesus, freely and truly, receives me into union with Himself in all that He is. And just as I receive a Jesus who joins me utterly with the Father, so I know that the Father receives me and joins Himself utterly with me, joined through Blood.
Jesus and Father make me their Home; Their names are written upon me; Their purpose fills my heart and soul. I love the Word, Jesus; therefore I also love the Church.
Our Speaking of Christ. We call forth the Salvation, the Glory, and the power of our God. All that is false is cast down; all that lies is silenced forever. We speak, "Let it be so; it is so." We give God glory for the marriage of the Bride is come, the entrance of full union with Christ, revealed now through us. We are blessed, for we partake of the marriage supper of the Lamb, eating and drinking Christ together with all who belong to Jesus. The New Jerusalem now steps forth upon the earth, Christian Community in every place, our bride, our love, our glory and our joy.
Jesus Marries Us. Jesus has already married us, for it is Jesus who comes first into union with us, that we might know Him, that we might become His Word and bring forth His life, the knowledge of God in every place. Yet our covenant marriage with Jesus is a Blood Covenant. Jesus receives all that we are as His own, and He gives us all that He is as our own. And with Jesus comes the Father. Jesus takes us into the Father, through Blood, that we might live inside of Him, and He brings the Father into us,, that we might know a shared life with God forever. Then this same Jesus loves His Church through us, heart and soul.
In the Same Way. Receive one another in just the same way that Jesus has received you (Romans 15:7). You see how it works. We receive our brethren in the same way and out from Jesus having already received us. We love our brothers and sisters in the same way and out from Jesus loving us. This is Grace; this is how we live together with God.
Every part of the “costliness” of this Love is nothing more than giving to others what God has freely given to us. Yes, there is a costliness to us in giving, but it is a cost already given by Jesus and now shared with us.
And We Also. Yet this is another verse that grows and grows in its scope, a close companion to 1 John 3:16. Just exactly as Jesus receives me – so I receive you. The implications are staggering – impossible, if we did not believe in God.
Yet the action of Jesus that saved me is a simple one. In His moment of greatest agony, in His time of greatest jeopardy, He required of God, “I receive Daniel into My Soul; I want Daniel with Me inside of You.” AND WE ALSO – are committed to doing THE SAME for our brothers and sisters.
A Prostitute. But let’s be real. Let’s be very, very real. Our brothers and sisters, Christians everywhere, the Church of Jesus Christ, is a Babylonian prostitute, mixing in her mental grasp of ‘God,’ good and evil, Jesus and Satan, Christ and sin, defining God and the universe by anti-Christ.
Our fellow Christians give their allegiance to the beast and their strength to the head that was wounded, but now boasts its wrath against God. They give their bodies to the serums of a lying image, marking them for connection to the world-wide-web and to the flow of AI being readied for them. They are to us as Eve to Adam, as the children of Israel, as the Pharisees and disciples, worthy of all contempt.
If – Then. Yet this Jesus who has come into union with us, says to us, “Receive them in just the same way that I receive you. Love them as I love you. Set forth your soul for them, for their sakes, in just the same way that I set forth My soul for you.”
– By this we have known Love, in that He set forth His soul for us, for our sakes, AND WE ALSO are committed to setting forth our souls for the sake of our brothers and sisters (1 John 3:16). IF – 1 John 3:16 is in our Bibles – THEN – the completion of God in the unveiling of Jesus Christ CANNOT BE anything other than the complete fulfillment of these words inside of human history and through us.
Jesus Carried Me. I shared with you a few months ago that I saw a door opened in my heavens and Jesus pointing me towards entering through that door, but I could not. Then, a few days later, I saw the door again, and Jesus again indicating that I should step through it. Knowing that I was unable still, I said to Him, “Jesus, You must carry me through.” Several hours later, I saw the same door, now closed – AND behind me, for Jesus had carried me into His Life. Yet I still could see nothing in this place, for I remained blind.
Through the months since, my eyes have begun to open, and I catch glimpses of this vast place where I now dwell.
An Exit as Well. Now I know what that door was, 1 John 3:16. It was not just an entrance; it was also an exit. Here is that same picture in the Bible. – “Come out of her, My people.” – “Come out from a wicked mind that exalts self, finds fault with God and perceives everything in terms of good versus evil.”
I now dwell in a universe that is only LIFE, and I perceive only the All-Salvation of God in which all dwell. Yet God does not allow me to “idealize” a glorious Church that I don’t presently know. I shared in my life story all the many people who were difficult for me, continuing to the present day and including some who have read my letters.
Like Jesus Felt. Let me be blunt. I certainly have felt, and feel sometimes even now, like Adam felt and like Jesus felt when He cried, “Dogs have surrounded Me, the bulls of Bashan have ripped me apart.” My human sensibility wants to hold them in contempt.
There are the bullies, false fire that consumes only and gives no warmth in return. There are pretenders, slippery as an eel in water, close one moment, gone the next. Some love sin, having turned their earth into a cesspool, “No Jesus here – this is the ‘real’ fake me.” Some are self-right condemners, sending judgment at me through the air.
And Jesus in me says, “Love them as I love you.”
These Are the Ones. And I see these words in my Bible – Receive one another in just the same way that Jesus receives you. – And I see the vast extent of God now given to me, that I am just like the Lord Jesus Christ, that I can say to the Father, “God, I would have these with me inside of You forever.”
Yet in this place of Life, the only place there is, I see my Christian brethren all across the earth and I realize that they are insane in their minds, captives of a demonic spell, given to an imagination of good versus evil that simply does not exist, and doing so for no reason whatever. I think again of all the wonderful Christian people I have known – yet these are the ones who lied to me about God!
Marriage Union. The Salvation of God is utterly personal. It is personal to God, personal to us, and personal through us towards each one whom we call into LIFE. It can be no other way.
Eating and drinking of Christ IS eating and drinking with His Church, all our fellow Christians, the marriage supper of the Lamb. We receive Jesus as every Word God speaks planted in our hearts, that we might bring forth His LIFE. We then turn and give that same LIFE to one another. This is marriage union, the marriage of the Lamb, loving one another with pure hearts fervently, living our lives in daily commitment together. It is the only way to live.
Life Together. I am becoming very angry with the fake way of life we live in this world, isolated, arm’s length, no commitment. It is WRONG!!!
Christ life is life together; it has always been life together; and it will always be life together. Life together as the Church is our only Home forever, the dwelling place and revelation of the Father. Life together as the Church is the only Home I want, the only marriage I will know, the only supper I will eat. And everything found in John’s vision is about winning such a life for the Father, for our fellow believers, and for ourselves.
A Recounting of Love. The seven overcomings are NOT about our “achievement”; they are about our winning this marriage, life together, not just for ourselves, but for all who belong to Jesus. Removing the seven seals is NOT about sending awful things upon the world, it’s about setting our brethren free to know the Jesus who already fills them full.
The trumpets do not call evil upon mankind, rather, in the midst of all evil, they call God into His Church. The two witnesses are a ministry of Love to the Church. The overcomers see a Church on fire, free from all Satanic influence. The age-unfolding gospel is a gospel of LIFE!
The Unveiling of Jesus Christ. Yet we are weak; just as Jesus was weak upon the cross. And our fellow Christians are as polluted as Eve was polluted. I know in every practical way that to say to the Father, here in this awful place, “Father, I give myself to You; be God through me to these whom I love,” is the cost of everything. There is nothing left for “me.”
This is not a human “cost.” It is a God-cost. It is the Being and the Doing of our Father. It is the Unveiling of Jesus Christ. It is what the whole world will see when the cover is removed, a LOVE that is real, a Love beyond anything they have ever known.
The Costliness of Love. The Jesus who dwells in our hearts gives Himself to the Father for the sake of His Bride, all those whom the Father has given to Jesus throughout all the heavens and the earth. Jesus welcomes us to share that same giving of Himself with Him to the measure of which God designed each of us. This is a costly love, for it requires us to turn from ourselves to the Father for the sake of others when we are pressed beyond all measure. It is, to the human soul, the loss of all things.
We receive our fellow believers in the same way that Jesus receives us, into our hearts, into our very souls, that they might be joined together with the Father inside of Love. Even those whom we would naturally despise, it makes no matter, we believe in Jesus that they will be with us inside of God, our best friends forever.
This is love. This is the book of Revelation, the Unveiling of Jesus Christ, that all creation would see the wondrous glory of the Love that is God revealed in the midst of all weakness. Every ability of Jesus given to us as overcomers, is for this Love, for the sake of the Church. We set her free, we call God into her knowing, even in the midst of all evil. We love her; we give our lives to God for her sake. We speak Christ into her. In this way we know the Father, for Love is His Being and Doing.
The New Jerusalem. The primary purpose of John’s vision and of the Completion of God is the establishment for real of the New Jerusalem, out from the heavens and upon the earth. I am speaking of Christian Communities among the peoples and in every land on earth, Christian Communities that know and live out from the full Gospel of God.
How good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity… For there the Lord commanded blessing – Life forevermore (Psalm 133). Christian Community is the revelation of Jesus Christ, the light of the world, the salt of the earth, the tithe belonging to God, the gathering together unto Him.
Ask of Me. I heard recently the words again in power, “Ask of Me, and I will give you.” In that moment, my thought was towards my own children, and so I wanted to ask God in certainty for their sakes. Nonetheless, I paused. The fairy tales have taught us well the importance of asking for the right thing.
And so I asked God for Christian brothers and sisters to stop in their tracks, to HEAR the wondrous gospel flowing through me, and to run, with all their hearts and souls, into Christian Community together with me. I asked God for thousands of them, for millions of them, my own children included, right now upon the earth.
It Is Time. It is time for the river of death to be cut off, even by a River of Life out from our bellies taking its place. It is time for thousands of firstfruits to take their place in the flow of a Pure Spirit Word out from God into the Church. It is time for millions of believers in Jesus to be clothed with the Lord Jesus Christ, clothed with Fire. It is time for the spell to be broken. It is time for the Victory now come.
I see these things, just in glimpses, with my eyes opened just a bit, and I know that they are True and that they are real. A Church without blemish or spot, the revelation of God.
Marriage. To marry the Bride is to CARE for the gathering together of believers in Jesus, to CARE with anxious fervor, to watch over, to shepherd, to show by example. To marry the Bride is life laid down and love poured out, daily, in all practical circumstances, forever. It is a commitment of devotion, forsaking all others, for you, my dear one; for you alone.
Just as Jesus left the Father, in picture, that He might marry us, His dearly beloved Bride, so we leave all else, that we might be married to the gathering together of the Church, our dearest Love, our greatest Joy, the singing of the Father out from our hearts.
Our Glory and Our Joy. But we were gentle in the midst of you, as a nursing mother would cherish her own children. So, yearning over you, we were well-pleased to have imparted to you not only the gospel of God, but also our own souls, because you had become beloved to us. – You are witnesses, along with God, how devotedly and justly and blamelessly we were toward you who are believing; just as you are aware how we were encouraging you and comforting and testifying into each one of you, as a father does his children… – Who, then, is our hope, or joy, or crown of boasting and exultation? Is it not even you, in the face of our Lord Jesus, inside of His presence? For you are our glory and our joy (Paul’s first letter).
We Marry the Bride. Although we have come out of the Church, her sons, we love her as our Bride, Jesus through us, our nurture and care forever, the gathering of believers inside of life together. Our focus is not on the ending of human folly, but on the Bride even now coming forth upon the earth, out from the heavens, the Church, the New Jerusalem. The old vanishes because she appears. We call forth thousands of Christian communities in every land on earth, every local Church filled with the knowledge of the Father, loving one another with pure hearts fervently.
The comfort and care of this Church is our life, the devotion of our hearts, the commitment of our souls in marriage union forever, Jesus through us. Jesus shares all with us; we share all with our brothers and sisters. In so doing, the Age of Tabernacles begins upon the earth in spite of any darkness, the tithe to God, the light of the world.
God’s Spell. God has placed His Word into our mouths and given us the authority to break the spell of darkness that has been cast upon the minds of our Christian brethren. We speak God’s Spell instead into all the heavens, and though we are little, the God who calls through us is not. We don’t produce Love. God is Love. And God did not make us capable of being God; He made us capable of being filled with Himself.
The English tongue is lazy, so we no longer say “God’s Spell.” Today it is simply the gospel, the age-unfolding gospel now flowing out from us into all.
Reading for Next Time. The next lesson is titled “We Are the Word of God.” For this lesson, read Revelation 19:11-21 a couple of times in the JSV. Go carefully over verses 11-16, phrase by phrase. – And His name is called, “The Word of God.”
Now that we live in Life, we realize that everything is the word of God, for through Him all things become. There is no other word. Anti-Christ is nothing other then twisting God’s words just a bit and singing them with a self-centered tune. Yet we are speaking here of much more than the good words of creation; we are speaking of Father made known.
Let’s Pray Together. “Father, we look upon our brothers and sisters all across the earth, and especially those whom we know and who are close to us. We know that they have sinned against You, causing You so much pain for no reason whatever.
“Father, we understand what You have done, for our brethren are the same to us as Eve to Adam, as Israel to Moses, as the Pharisees and disciples to Jesus, that we might reject Adam’s choice, that we might share the singing of Moses and of the Lamb, for their sake, even now. Father, in whatever awfulness our brethren our caught, whether giving their bodies and strength to the beast slandering God, we Love them, You through us.
“Father, together with Jesus inside of His Blood, we require our brethren of You, millions of believers in Jesus all across the earth. We receive each one of them into our souls, regardless of the loss we perceive, that each might be with us inside of You forever.
“Father, we desire, with Jesus inside of His Blood, that You would give to us a living Church, without spot or wrinkle, a hundred million or more believers in Jesus hearing a Pure Living Gospel Word, turning around, and rushing into all the fulness of Christ now upon the earth.
“Father, we ask of You Christ Communities in every land, and especially the local gathering You have crafted for each of us, that we might know our brethren in committed life together. Father, come HOME!”