The Marriage Ceremony of The Lamb of God
John The Baptist appeared as the Best Man and The Witness at Christs Wedding with The Holy Spirit as described here in John 3. 27 John said, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given to him from heaven. 28 You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but, ‘I have been sent before Him.’ 29 He who has the bride is the bridegroom; and the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears Him, rejoices greatly because of the Bridegroom’s voice. Therefore this joy of mine is fulfilled. 30 He must increase, and I must decrease. 31 He who comes from above is above all; he who is of the earth (John speaking of himself) is earthly and speaks of the earth. He who comes from Heaven is above all. 32 And what He has seen and heard, that He testifies; and no one receives His testimony. 33 He who has received His testimony has certified that God is true.
It was with Johns words here that his ministry was fulfilled, as he stepped out of the way as the last and the greatest prophet, for his replacement and the barer of The New Covenant had come.
John was the cousin friend and personal witness of the Bridegroom and appointed by God the Father to introduce The Parents of those who were to be born again, not of the flesh but borne of the Holy Spirit and by the Word of God. And for John to introduced them as “The Bride and Groom”, those are titles used AFTER the wedding event happened.
So this is how we know John was that Witness, because his words came true saying of himself “2 And what He has seen and heard, that He testifies; and no one receives His testimony.
The question is do you? For if you do, you have been born of the Spirit too.
This is a lesson of “kind begets according to kind”, and flesh and bone cannot inherit the kingdom because you have to be borne of the spirit to do so, and why “Ye must be born again”.
These are for the offspring of the New Creation in contrast with the old as having to do with Adam. That the old gets older and expires, to mean dies for that is what expire means, to breath out the last breath. So that for those of us borne of the spirit, have the spirit and the breath of God in us called The Holy Spirit.
Even as God breathed into Adam to become a living being. But because of the fall, and death. The death that happened was to become empty and unresponsive to the Holy Spirit. That happened when the female inside became portrayed outside. And why all those born of the flesh, need to be born again, re-born and re-inhabited by the Holy Spirit, to be categorized as a New Creation or newly created to that which is from the beginning before Adam had his spirit removed to become visible in the person of Eve. To mean newly recreated and reconditioned to “That which is from the beginning” before the fall from position,power and stature as Gods image because when the spirit departs from a body, something became dead. So then with Christ giving us our do-over. That “if that from the beginning abide in you”, this is your witness and testimony that you are a son or daughter of the living God because in Christ “dwells the fulness of the Godhead body, and you (who have been born again) are complete in Him who is head and above all powers and principalities in heavenly places in Christ. This is what it means to be an overcomer in a scriptural sense because “overcome” is to be over and above in a position of superiority, and why we have overcome the devil, as long as you do not re-subject yourself to Him and His by re-empowering when you dialogue with them. This is you re-energizing your enemy, with your breath being “spirit and life” too. Why would you want to go and resurrect your old foe by engaging him, when he had already been defeated?
To mean being spirit of those who have eyes of a different nature.
It was because of this Wedding having happened, that for the first time there could be those who are “born again and born from above” as members of the household of God. The born again part indicates a second birth as pertaining to being born into the family of God. This is what it means to be “in Christ” as opposed to being in and of Adam. To move from being an upside-down fallen image, to be re-spirited by the Spirit, and to be “begotten by the word of truth to be a kind of first fruits of the New Creation”. As being born of the spirit. That only those born again can see the Kingdom of God in Christ, and only those who are borne of the spirit may enter that Kingdom. For this reason John the Baptist said “and no one receives our testimony”. At least from those who only have eyes to see and hear with the flesh.
So to have all things in Common, To Commune Together, is to be joined as one and wed together one body, to be one, a habitation for God in the spirit.
This is speaking of The Bride and Groom when John the Baptists stated The Body of Christ saying “I hear the Bride Grooms voice, therefore my joy and purpose is fulfilled. They must increase (replicate) but I must decrease.”
The Mystery of Christs Wedding can be understood in the light of The Revelation of Adam. Adam was distraught seeing all the animals with their counterparts. “21 And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. 22 Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from man He made into a woman,
When God put a deep sleep on Adam, he never woke up. And therefor that IS the condition of all who are born from Adam and Eve. There are either asleep or dead to “the life of the Spirit in Christ”. This is why we need to be “born again” and “borne from above,or “raised from the dead”. Even as John 3 states that ““Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again (to have a do-over), they cannot see the kingdom of God.”
That just as Adam had his counterpart hidden inside him, his intel inside, before she was removed being called the rib, so too with Christ wed with The Holy Spirit in us, THIS is the restoration and a reversal of the fall to be raised from that kind of Adams sleep, and having the two halves of the godhead imaged wed as one, living inside of us. That “of His fullness (the Holy Spirit) we receive.
And this is why Christ is the restored image of Adam, to institute The New Creation saying. “32 And John bore witness, saying, “I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, to remain upon Him. 33 I did not know Him, but He who sent me to baptize with water said to me, ‘Upon whom you see the Spirit descending (like a dove), to remain upon Him, this is He who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’
And Paul explained it like this “20 But now Christ has risen from the dead, and became the (first) first-fruits of those who have [a]fallen asleep. 21 For since by man came death, by Man also came the resurrection (from sleep and spiritual) of the dead. 22 For as in Adam all are dead (and asleep to the things of God), even so in Christ all are made alive. 23 But each one in his own order (and time of existence): Christ the firstfruits, afterward those who are Christ’s as He comes to them (in succession. Even as Christ raised the girl from death and said “39 When He came in, He said to them, “Why make this commotion and weep? The child is not dead, but sleeping.” That also those who have “died” will also be awakened from the dead for judgment.
That “the last Adam (Christ) became a life giving spirit”. For those of us newly created, made new and “born again” and “born from above”. We have that life giving spirit. We are in the New Creation. Not so much that it is new as having never been. But that it is new in that it never fades, wears out or gets old. It is always the New Creation.
This is why Christs Bride is “Heavenly Jerusalem come down from Heaven.” As a revelation having to happen for each one of us in our own order of when we live. That “The last Adam Christ is a life giving spirit. To mean sown into the spirit of your mind and raised you in your understanding, where the fall and spiritual death came from. To put back the two halves of spirit and truth. That Christ is the way the truth and the life.” As a recognition, and understanding first as “new born babes. “17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, they are a new creation; old things having passed away; behold, all things have become new. 18 Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, 19 to wit, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not taking into consideration their trespasses, and has committed to us this word of reconciliation. 20 Now then, we are ambassadors (From The Kingdom Of God At Hand) for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God. 21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us to become (a product of) the righteousness of God in Him.
To mean that we are restored by receiving The Holy Spirit as putting back together the two halves of Adam, in the person of Gods Only Begotten of whom Adam was just a prototype and not the real thing. Prototype to mean a test version. To then wed the two halves (male and female (originally as one) made He them in His image together not just in a vow, but to literally put the Bride back inside of Christ, so that we who are truly “in Christ” see His “Bride come down from Heaven”, in the Spirit of our minds. That we having been born again, to mean born of the Spirit. It is us who see clearly who they are and who we are. So that for scripture to be true, we have to quit hypothesizing future events, as having to happen in the physical, carnally visual world , and enter into “The Kingdom of God at hand”, into the true Kingdom associated with “Spirit and Truth”. Those are two aspects that distinguish Gods eternal realm from the one Adam passed on to us from his deep sleep stage some also describe as a death.
This is the Mystery of ” The Wedding Ceremony of The Bride of Christ” where the two are made one and whole. And “The Wedding of Jesus Christ which God gave His servants of thins which must shortly (also translated immediately) take place” This is the phrase that “The Book of The Revelation of Jesus Christ” opened up with. That the Book of the Revelation describes the invisible event…
Whereas the book of Acts describes the carnally visual event took place. And it was the Disciples, who would to become Apostles that very same day. That they were endued with power from on high, as the Holy Spirit alighted upon them like a dove in the upper room, to then come down to hear the glories of God spoken saying. “ The former account I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach, 2 until the day in which He was taken up, after He through the Holy Spirit had given commandments to the apostles whom He had chosen, 3 to whom He also presented Himself alive after His suffering by many infallible proofs, being seen by them during forty days and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God.
And those from every country heard their language being spoken describing the glories of God. Where their is no longer Greek nor savage nor slave but ye are all ONE, and on equal footing. That there were to no longer be the distinction of classes among the people. That they are all ONE. To mean that even the now Old (being expired) Covenant believers had nothing to boast or to brag about as being superior for even that identification feature had become irrelevant too, as a result of the finished work of The Son of God and Christ, who has ceased from His works, to sit in repose with the Father as all the details get worked out among us His believers. For us to be seated with them, having these differences being settled in us. So that, for us to be able to be secure in our repose too, we have to recon our understanding with the truth of what has been written.
The Book of The Revelation, to mean the unvailing, the opening up to make plain and visible to the respirited mind of faith, of “things which must shortly take place”
This was The promise whom you will receive from Me. That then them being “gather together as one” and “in the upper room, Christ appeared to them in another form” and spoke of the Glories of the Father. and instructed them to go to Jerusalem and wait for the promise “that you have heard from Me”.
It was in The Book of The Acts of The Apostles, that this communion, co-union and joining together as one, to mean the Body of believers in Christ, His new body was first seen. That the disciples who saw Christ first after the cross “by many infallible proofs”, were told to go to Jerusalem and wait for the promise that you have heard from Me.” To this we testify that this is the Resurrected, and raised up Body of Christ being a body of believers, communion, a co-union, having all things in common, nothing of what they owned did they call their own. That “assembling together as one in Christ, to then have the Holy Spirit swoop down so that all who were their, were speaking in tongues. And this speaking in tongues was not unintelligible gibberish, but the visitors said that they “hear there language being spoken in the very dialect from where they were from.
In the Strongs Greek Concordance, the word “common” does not appear until the book of “The Acts of the Apostles”. Bare in mind here too that the Disciples were first called Apostles at the same time. So that it could truly be said that both the words Apostle and Common of themselves have something in “common”. And common comes from the Greek word “Koinos” and where we get the word “koinonia which means “social intercourse.
And if you remember with Peter, he saw a blanket of food set before him and God told to rise and eat. And he said not so Lord for I have never eaten anything common or unclean.”
It was here that Christ was instructing Peter on his new manners with the Gentiles as NOT BEING UNCLEAN! To “rise up and eat, inferred that Simon Peter was to associate with the Gentiles, meaning all nations, and to no longer associate with the Jews, other than maybe just as in the mix of other nations as co-equals in the sight of God, as long as they too could step outside of their old Jewish prejudices.
But here with Peters vision, was that solid demarcation line between the old and the “New and Living Way to the Father”. For even as the disciples were instructed to go to the upper room and wait for the promise that you had heard from Me. That Christ showed Himself in His new form “in their midst”. To then, having been empowered by the reception of The Holy Spirit who came a few days later (verse 5). They then had what and who they needed to proceed with the fulness of the Gospel to ALL Gentile Nations. Saying go ye therfore teaching all that I have commanded you.
And so they did, having left Jerusalem, they went to the ends of the world, teaching and preaching all that I have taught you. So that still today, The Kingdom of God is at hand as having to do with the Union of the Bride and The Bridegroom who is also the replaced of Adam from the beginning, before his female was extracted. So that the reunification to happen in us is to “,That which is from the beginning.
Amen