Appendix to: Who Is The Bride Of Christ?

Appendix to: Who Is The Bride Of Christ?

In case you just surfed into this Appendix, here is a Preview of Who Is The Bride Of Christ This really should not be an issue. It should be readily apparent who she is—yet few people know! You have probably been taught that the marriage supper is between “Jesus” (actually Yeshua, off site) and His “Church” (or Assembly—off site). Could Revelation 21 simply be elaborating on the same marriage that was prophesied about by the prophets of old? Are there two marriages? Is there a connection between this jubilant time and the restoration of Israel?

In case you still arent sure who the prophesied woman is—take A LOOK AT THESE prophecies having to do with “Jerusalem”, “Zion” and “her”. Unlike old English or German, the scriptures do not apply gender to myriads of inanimate objects. There are very few of the hundreds of scriptures mentioning “her” that are not in reference to things literally pertaining to actual women; making all of the references to Jerusalem and “her” all the more noteworthy. The proverbs do personify “wisdom” and “virtue” as women, as is done almost universally in prose. The sun, moon and earth are occasionally referred to as “her”, especially in reference to prophetic restoration. Other city-states and nations, almost exclusively those who have tried to destroy Israel, are personified as women—the Babylonian whore and Moab in particular. And yes, there are two references describing a ship as “her”.

Isaiah 4:4 When the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and purged the blood of Jerusalem from her midst, by the spirit of judgment and by the spirit of burning....

Isaiah 10:11 As I have done to Samaria and her idols, shall I not do also to Jerusalem and her idols?

Isaiah 37:22 ... this is the word which the LORD has spoken concerning him: the virgin, the daughter of Zion, has despised you, laughed you to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head behind your back!

Isaiah 40:2 Speak comfort to Jerusalem, and cry out to her, that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned; for she has received from the LORD’S hand double for all her sins.

Isaiah 44:26 Who confirms the word of His servant, and performs the counsel of His messengers; who says to Jerusalem, ‘You shall be inhabited,’ to the cities of Judah, ‘You shall be built,’ and I will raise up her waste places....

Isaiah 62:1 For Zion’s sake I will not hold My peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until her righteousness goes forth as brightness, and her salvation as a lamp that burns.

Isaiah 65:18 But be glad and rejoice forever in what I create; for behold, I create Jerusalem as a rejoicing, and her people a joy.

Isaiah 65:19 I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in My people; the voice of weeping shall no longer be heard in her, nor the voice of crying.

Isaiah 66:10 Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all you who love her; rejoice for joy with her, all you who mourn for her....

Jeremiah 5:1 Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem; see now and know; and seek in her open places if you can find a man, if there is anyone who executes judgment, who seeks the truth, and I will pardon her.

Jeremiah 6:6 For thus has the LORD of hosts said: cut down trees, and build a mound against Jerusalem. This is the city to be punished. She is full of oppression in her midst.

Jeremiah 14:2 Judah mourns, and her gates languish; they mourn for the land, and the cry of Jerusalem has gone up.

Jeremiah 23:14 Also I have seen a horrible thing in the prophets of Jerusalem: they commit adultery and walk in lies; they also strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one turns back from his wickedness. All of them are like Sodom to Me, and her inhabitants like Gomorrah.

Jeremiah 44:17 But we will certainly do whatever has gone out of our own mouth, to burn incense to the queen of heaven and pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food, were well off, and saw no trouble.

Lamentations 1:7 In the days of her affliction and roaming, Jerusalem remembers all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old. When her people fell into the hand of the enemy, with no one to help her, the adversaries saw her and mocked at her downfall.

Lamentations 1:8 Jerusalem has sinned gravely, therefore she has become vile. All who honored her despise her because they have seen her nakedness; yes, she sighs and turns away.

Lamentations 1:17 Zion spreads out her hands, but no one comforts her; the LORD has commanded concerning Jacob that those around him become his adversaries; Jerusalem has become an unclean thing among them.

Ezekiel 5:5 Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘this is Jerusalem; I have set her in the midst of the nations and the countries all around her.

Ezekiel 12:19 And say to the people of the land, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the land of Israel: they shall eat their bread with anxiety, and drink their water with dread, so that her land may be emptied of all who are in it, because of the violence of all those who dwell in it.

Ezekiel 13:16 ... that is, the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and who see visions of peace for her when there is no peace,’ says the Lord GOD.

Ezekiel 16:2 Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations....

Ezekiel 23:4 Their names: Oholah the elder and Oholibah her sister; they were Mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem is Oholibah.

Joel 3:17 So you shall know that I am the LORD your God, dwelling in Zion My holy mountain. Then Jerusalem shall be holy, and no aliens shall ever pass through her again.

Micah 1:9 For her wounds are incurable. For it has come to Judah; it has come to the gate of My people–to Jerusalem.

Zechariah 12:6 In that day I will make the governors of Judah like a firepan in the woodpile, and like a fiery torch in the sheaves; they shall devour all the surrounding peoples on the right hand and on the left, but Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place—Jerusalem.

Zechariah 14:10 All the land shall be turned into a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem. Jerusalem shall be raised up and inhabited in her place from Benjamin’s Gate to the place of the First Gate and the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananeel to the king’s winepresses.

Matthew 23:37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!

Luke 13:34 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you were not willing!

Galatians 4:25 for this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children–

Revelation 21:2 Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

Zion

Psalms 48:12 Walk about Zion, and go all around her. Count her towers....

Psalms 87:5 And of Zion it will be said: this one and that one were born in her; and the Most High Himself shall establish her.

Psalms 102:13 You will arise and have mercy on Zion; for the time to favor her, yes, the set time, has come.

Isaiah 1:27 Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and her penitents with righteousness.

Isaiah 4:5 ... then the LORD will create above every dwelling place of Mount Zion, and above her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day and the shining of a flaming fire by night. For over all the glory there will be a covering.

Isaiah 51:3 For the LORD will comfort Zion, He will comfort all her waste places; He will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness will be found in it, thanksgiving and the voice of melody.

Isaiah 62:1 For Zion’s sake I will not hold My peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until her righteousness goes forth as brightness, and her salvation as a lamp that burns.

Isaiah 66:8 Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things? Shall the earth be made to give birth in one day? Or shall a nation be born at once? For as soon as Zion was in labor, she gave birth to her children.

Jeremiah 4:31 For I have heard a voice as of a woman in labor, the anguish as of her who brings forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion bewailing herself; she spreads her hands, saying, ‘Woe is me now, for my soul is weary because of murderers!’

Jeremiah 8:19 Listen! The voice, the cry of the daughter of my people from a far country: is not the LORD in Zion? Is not her King in her? ‘Why have they provoked Me to anger with their carved images–with foreign idols’?

Jeremiah 30:17 For I will restore health to you and heal you of your wounds,’ says the LORD, ‘because they called you an outcast saying: this is Zion; no one seeks her.

Lamentations 1:4 The roads to Zion mourn because no one comes to the set feasts. All her gates are desolate; her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.

Lamentations 1:6 And from the daughter of Zion all her splendor has departed. Her princes have become like deer that find no pasture, that flee without strength before the pursuer.

Micah 4:11 Now also many nations have gathered against you, who say, ‘Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion’.

Zechariah 8:2 Thus says the LORD of hosts: ‘I am zealous for Zion with great zeal; with great fervor I am zealous for her.’

There are other references to Jerusalem and Zion and “she”, in addition to the “her” list.

Who Are “His People”? Has God Really Changed on This?

Notice that almost all of these references concern the end time captivity of Israel or the future restored state of Israel!

Psalms 94:14 For the LORD will not cast off His people, nor will He forsake His inheritance.

Psalms 14:7 Oh, that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When the LORD brings back the captivity of His people, let Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad.

Psalms 29:11 The LORD will give strength to His people; the LORD will bless His people with peace.

Psalms 33:12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people He has chosen as His own inheritance.

Psalms 50:4 He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that He may judge His people....

Psalms 53:6 Oh, that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When God brings back the captivity of His people, let Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad.

Psalms 68:35 O God, You are more awesome than Your holy places. The God of Israel is He who gives strength and power to His people. Blessed be God!

Psalms 78:52 But He made His own people go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock....

Psalms 78:62 He also gave His people over to the sword, and was furious with His inheritance.

Psalms 78:71 From following the ewes that had young He brought him, to shepherd Jacob His people, and Israel His inheritance.

Psalms 85:8 I will hear what God the LORD will speak, for He will speak peace to His people and to His saints; but let them not turn back to folly.

Psalms 95:7 For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, and the sheep of His hand.

Psalms 100:3 Know that the LORD, He is God; it is He who has made us, and not we ourselves; we are His people and the sheep of His pasture.

Psalms 105:24 He increased His people greatly, and made them stronger than their enemies.

Psalms 105:43 He brought out His people with joy, His chosen ones with gladness.

Psalms 106:40 Therefore the wrath of the LORD was kindled against His people, so that He abhorred His own inheritance.

Psalms 111:6 He has declared to His people the power of His works, in giving them the heritage of the nations.

Psalms 111:9 He has sent redemption to His people; He has commanded His covenant forever: Holy and awesome is His name.

Psalms 116:18 I will pay my vows to the LORD now in the presence of all His people....

Psalms 125:2 As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the LORD surrounds His people from this time forth and forever.

Psalms 135:12 And gave their land as a heritage, a heritage to Israel His people.

Psalms 135:14 For the LORD will judge His people, and He will have compassion on His servants.

Psalms 136:16 To Him who led His people through the wilderness, for His mercy endures forever....

Psalms 148:14 And He has exalted the horn of His people, the praise of all His saints—of the children of Israel, a people near to Him. Praise the LORD!

Psalms 149:4 For the LORD takes pleasure in His people; He will beautify the humble with salvation.

Psalms 135:4 For the LORD has chosen Jacob [Israel] for Himself, Israel for His special treasure. [Doesnt this sound like a bridegroom?]

Deuteronomy 7:6 For you are a holy people to the LORD your God; the LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth.

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