THE MESSIAH & THE JEWISH WEDDING

I could not download the file on The Jewish Bride & Groom and how it relates to The Lord's Supper and the words of proposal from Jesus to His Bride before leaving to make preparations for the Wedding.  However, I did go back and found a couple of websites where I gathered some of the information.  Do check them out.  I do hope that you will see a clearer meaning of Jesus presenting the new covenant of love and remembering Him through the bread and wine, and as you eat the bread and drink the wine it is saying "Yes, Lord, I'm Yours and I'm eagerly waiting for Your coming for me."

The Groom makes a covenant or contract promise. The Ketubah is a document that is used for the purpose of assuring a bride will be provided for. Once this document was signed and witnessed by two people then it was binding and the couple was considered married. Kiddush~It is here that the groom-to-be offers the wine to the prospect bride and if she drinks it, that is her “Yes” to the proposal and seals the covenant.  

(Jesus gave a new covenant and offered the wine...)

http://www.yeshuatyisrael.com/messiah_wedding%201.htm

http://www.hebroots.org/hebrootsarchive/0002/000223_i.html

The Virgin's Lamp filled with oil and burning.

Matthew 24:42-51

     I hope that as you read some of my sharing that you will get as excited as I am about looking back at this important time in history when those who had a personal relationship with Jesus and watched him leave them into the heavens were told to wait in Jerusalem for the gift the Father promised...They were waiting for The Holy Spirit that He gives as our Engagement Ring to keep us reminded and faithful, watching for His return.

     As we look at the Scriptures and relate them to how these waiting are remembering what Jesus said and how they interacted with Him, we can envision the many emotions that they are encountering. I pray that our understanding will become clearer and our eyes and heart opened to receive what we haven't see before...

     In our waiting, may we not grow weary or tired and fall asleep without having prepared for His coming. Take another look at Matthew 24:36-51; Matthew 25:4-13 and Matthew 26:36-46.

      Why do we not see recorded that there was weariness, doubt, discouragement or sleeping taking place in that group gathered there waiting for the Promise of The Holy Spirit?

      Let Scripture speak: "Then returned they unto Jerusalem...And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James. These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren. And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples, and said, (the number of names together were about an hundred and twenty,) Men and brethren, this scripture must needs have been fulfilled..."

     They were together in every way! They had purpose; they were united; they prayed; they read and discussed Scripture. There was no room for negative in a positive atmosphere!

The Shofar

1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 - For the Lord Himself will descend from

heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, 

and with the Shofar, trumpet of God.

Next :  Study Acts chapter 1