The Wedding Feast/Marriage Supper

[stunnedbygrace]

got a Scripture for that? i ask bc i always heard "prepared bride" which seemed to infer being tested first

Oh no! You of all people?? Haha!
Well hey, Bbyrd, maybe you will have the good fortune of dying before the trib so you don't have any testing...cause its all about later, right...??

Laughing with you bro, not at you.

 

[mjrhealth]

I have been looking online at some writings and even when the author is of a different end times view as mine, while they are refuting the different views, none of them presents this supper as possibly taking place during the time of testing coming on the world. They only refute that it can't be occurring during the millennium. Surely the view that it is the bride who is found worthy to escape the time of testing is a view held by quite a few, isn't it...?

All I know, is I know of one who was caught up in the Spirit and was taken to the Lords wedding, I also know someone who was called to go out with the final invitations, I also about 3 years or so ago, had 2 visions, the first a limousine pulled up with a bunch of bridesmaids on the way to the wedding, the second not long after, another limousine pulled up, door thrown open, driver says very hastily, get in we have to go, my foolish reply, Im not ready,

Thats is the day we are living in, and more and more can see it.

Remember what Jesus said, as it was in the day of Noah.. Noah called to the people to prepare and get into the arc but they mocked and laughed at Him, than when the rain came. God shut the door, and all that where left out perished.

What happens at the supper

Luk 14:16 Then said he unto him, A certain man made a great supper, and bade many:
Luk 14:17 And sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready.
Luk 14:18 And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused.
Luk 14:19 And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused.
Luk 14:20 And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.
Luk 14:21 So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.
Luk 14:22 And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room.
Luk 14:23 And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.
Luk 14:24 For I say unto you, That none of those men which were bidden shall taste of my supper.

and again

Luk 13:24 Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
Luk 13:25 When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are:

I left out teh foolish virgins, dont ommit them.
Sorry for long post

God bless

 

[stunnedbygrace]

got a Scripture for that? i ask bc i always heard "prepared bride" which seemed to infer being tested first

The 5 virgins who are prepared and ready, will they be arbitrarily tested some more? (Keep in mind my pretrib gathering together mindframe.)

 

[stunnedbygrace]

the second not long after, another limousine pulled up, door thrown open, driver says very hastily, get in we have to go, my foolish reply, Im not ready,

Thats is the day we are living in, and more and more can see it.

All it takes is for us to stop being so unbelieving and mistrustful. I say let's go take the land!

 

[mjrhealth]

All it takes is for us to stop being so unbelieving and mistrustful. I say let's go take the land!

That time is coming... So few will be ready, unwiling to go to the one who is the truth.. How can you know someone you never talk to or spend time with.. such foolishness..

 

[bbyrd009]

The 5 virgins who are prepared and ready, will they be arbitrarily tested some more? (Keep in mind my pretrib gathering together mindframe.)

wadr your mindframe prevents hearing prolly that they are not really people, and what five reps, so im not sure what to say here. Oil is obv representative in the parable, right? Representative of what though. Anyway if those five are the smart hand so to speak, and arbitrarily is ignored for its um kinda impertinence? yes, imo they will certainly be tested more, if that even applies not really imo, dunno

 

[stunnedbygrace]

wadr your mindframe prevents hearing prolly that they are not really people, and what five reps, so im not sure what to say here.

Wadr, you did not present what you think the 5 virgins are, so you don't know if I would agree or not. And btw, are you absolutely sure you are the one hearing and I am not? Are you absolutely sure your mindframe is good and mine causes hearing loss?

 

[stunnedbygrace]

wadr your mindframe prevents hearing prolly that they are not really people, and what five reps, so im not sure what to say here. Oil is obv representative in the parable, right? Representative of what though. Anyway if those five are the smart hand so to speak, and arbitrarily is ignored for its um kinda impertinence? yes, imo they will certainly be tested more, if that even applies not really imo, dunno

Those 5 in the parable were accepted. They were allowed in. What in the parable tells you they were impertinent? Or maybe we shouldn't even discuss it since you don't want to say what you think the parable means, Idk.

 

[Davy]

I have been looking online at some writings and even when the author is of a different end times view as mine, while they are refuting the different views, none of them presents this supper as possibly taking place during the time of testing coming on the world. They only refute that it can't be occurring during the millennium. Surely the view that it is the bride who is found worthy to escape the time of testing is a view held by quite a few, isn't it...?

Is that what you believe, that the bride (used as a symbol for Christ's Church) will 'physically' escape the time of testing (i.e., the great tribulation for the end)? If you do, then that would mean you believe on the Pre-trib Rapture theory that came out of 1830s Great Britain, that teaches the Church is raptured out of this world prior to the great tribulation. That doctrine is not written in God's Word. It instead is a belief choice by those who seek to escape the tribulation.

The mindset those in Christ are to have for the tribulation is not physical escape up in the clouds. It instead is about making a 'stand' for Jesus, and being prepared to give a Testimony for Him against the beast (Mark 13:9-13; Ephesians 6:13-18). We are to endure it by escaping ... physically? No! We are to endure it by escaping... the 'temptation'! What temptation? This one...

Rev 13:11-14
11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
KJV

2 Thess 2:3-4
3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
KJV

2 Thess 2:9-11
9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
KJV

 

[Davy]

This is about the future time of the marriage of Rev.19...

Isa 25:5-9
5 Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.

6 And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.

7 And He will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations.

8 He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of His people shall He take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it.

9 And it shall be said in that day, 'Lo, This is our God; we have waited for Him, and He will save us: This is the LORD; we have waited for Him, we will be glad and rejoice in His salvation.'
KJV

 

[Enoch111]

They only refute that it can't be occurring during the millennium. Surely the view that it is the bride who is found worthy to escape the time of testing is a view held by quite a few, isn't it...?

One simply has to study Revelation 19 and 20 to see the sequence of events. The Marriage of the Lamb takes place in Heaven just before the Second Coming of Christ with His saints and angels for the battle of Armageddon. Which is then followed by the Millennium.

In order for that to happen the saints must already be in Heaven while the Tribulation and the Great Tribulation (the seven trumpet judgments of Revelation) are taking place on earth. Those judgments are for the wicked, the unbelieving and the ungodly. Not for the saints of God.

 

[charity]

'And I saw a new heaven and a new earth:
for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away;
and there was no more sea.
And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem,
coming down from God out of heaven,
prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.'
(Revelation 21:1-2)

'And there came unto me one of the seven angels
which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues,
and talked with me, saying,
"Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife."
And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain,
and shewed me that great city,
the holy Jerusalem,
descending out of heaven from God,
(Revelation 21:9-10)

 

[CharismaticLady]

You seem very sure of all that, considering futurism is all about prediction, as opposed to the way Jesus told us how to determine whether prophecy is being fulfilled...

KJV John 13
19 Now I tell you before it come, that, when it is come to pass, ye may believe that I am he.

We are told me that it is after fulfillment, not before, that we can be assured of being firm in our faith. Being so sure and determined about what is to come is surely folly. Sure, we can obtain reasonably accurate ideas as to what is to come because we can learn from history... And history repeats.

I've studied what all the apostles have to say, and what I believe is what fits all their teachings.

 

[CharismaticLady]

So your saying Gods seed enters us outside of marriage?
That seems out of place.

Have you checked your heart lately? You heart seems a little perverse.

But to answer your question, God is my husband. Isaiah 54:5

 

[charity]

Have you checked your heart lately? You heart seems a little perverse.
But to answer your question, God is my husband. Isaiah 54:5

'Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion;
put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city:
for henceforth there shall no more come into thee
the uncircumcised and the unclean.'
(Isaiah 52:1)

'For thy Maker (Jerusalem) is thine Husband;
the LORD of hosts is His name;
and Thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel;
The God of the whole earth shall He be called.
(Isaiah 54:5)

Hello @CharismaticLady,

It is to Jerusalem that the verse you quote (Isaiah 54:5) is referring. 'The New Jerusalem'. She is the bride, the Lamb's wife. Who is The Maker of Heaven and Earth

* To us God is - 'The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ', and our Father too, 'in Him'.

Praise His Name!

In Christ Jesus
Chris

 

[Waiting on him]

Have you checked your heart lately? You heart seems a little perverse.

But to answer your question, God is my husband. Isaiah 54:5

Seems as if your saying God marries His children?
Is God not our Father?

 

[Waiting on him]

'Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion;
put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city:
for henceforth there shall no more come into thee
the uncircumcised and the unclean.'
(Isaiah 52:1)

Hello @CharismaticLady,

It is to Jerusalem that the verse you quote (Isaiah 54:5) is referring. 'The New Jerusalem'. She is the bride, the Lamb's wife.

* To us God is - 'The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ', and our Father too, 'in Him'.

Praise His Name!

In Christ Jesus
Chris

Sorry Chris, I was hasty and posted prior to seeing you had answered.

 

[Waiting on him]

'Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion;
put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city:
for henceforth there shall no more come into thee
the uncircumcised and the unclean.'
(Isaiah 52:1)

Hello @CharismaticLady,

It is to Jerusalem that the verse you quote (Isaiah 54:5) is referring. 'The New Jerusalem'. She is the bride, the Lamb's wife.

* To us God is - 'The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ', and our Father too, 'in Him'.

Praise His Name!

In Christ Jesus
Chris

She’s free and the mother of us all.

 

[charity]

She’s free and the mother of us all.

'But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
For it is written,
'Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not;
break forth and cry, thou that travailest not:
for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.'
(Galatians 4:26-27)

Hello @Waiting on him,

Verse 27 (above) is also quoted from Isaiah 54, so we have come full circle.

It goes on to say in Galatians 4:28,
'Now we, brethren, as Isaac was,
are the children of promise.
but as then he that was born after the flesh
persecuted him that was born after the Spirit,
even so it is now.'

Thank you for taking me there,
In Christ Jesus
Chris

 

[charity]

The Wedding Feast/The Marriage Supper
(Ref: replies #1,#3,#4,#5,#6,#21,#23,#24,#27,#28)

Watch ye therefore, and pray always,
that ye may be accounted worthy
to escape all these things that shall come to pass,
and to stand before the Son of man.'
(Luke 21:36)

Hello @stunnedbygrace,

You refer, in reply #4, to Luke 21:36 (above), as the verse you had in mind when you started this thread which comes within the context of the coming of the Son of Man. Whereas, the subject heading, 'The Wedding Feast/The Marriage Supper', took my mind to 'the Bride, the Lamb's Wife', because there cannot be a wedding feast without a bride. Which led me to quote the verses from Revelation about the coming of the bride of the Lamb from heaven to the new earth (#32). Forgive me if this has not been helpful. Looking through your entries I still do not have a proper understanding of what you want from this thread, would you explain again, please?

Thank you
In Christ Jesus
Chris